Monday, May 13, 2013

Voice of America: AP News Agency Says US Seized Phone Records

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AP News Agency Says US Seized Phone Records
May 13th 2013, 23:46

The Associated Press news agency says the U.S. government has seized two months of telephone records for many of its reporters and editors. The organization's chief executive, Gary Pruitt, called the action a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into AP's newsgathering operations. Pruitt said Monday that the AP learned from the Justice Department on Friday that the government agency gathered phone records for more than 20 separate phone lines of AP offices and ...

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Voice of America: AP News Agency Says US Seized Phone Records

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Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries
AP News Agency Says US Seized Phone Records
May 13th 2013, 23:46

The Associated Press news agency says the U.S. government has seized two months of telephone records for many of its reporters and editors. The organization's chief executive, Gary Pruitt, called the action a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into AP's newsgathering operations. Pruitt said Monday that the AP learned from the Justice Department on Friday that the government agency gathered phone records for more than 20 separate phone lines of AP offices and ...

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Voice of America: American Psychologist Joyce Brothers Dies at 85

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American Psychologist Joyce Brothers Dies at 85
May 13th 2013, 23:46

American psychologist and pop-culture figure Joyce Brothers, who parlayed her 1950s game show celebrity into a six-decade media career, died Monday. She was 85. Her long-time publicist said she died in New York City of natural causes. Brothers, who once taught at Columbia University, first gained fame on the 1950s game show "The $64,000 Question" for her encyclopedic knowledge of boxing. She became the only woman to win the show's top prize, and by 1958 NBC television had ...

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Voice of America: Burma Evacuating Camps Ahead of Cyclone

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Burma Evacuating Camps Ahead of Cyclone
May 13th 2013, 23:10

Officials in Burma say they are evacuating thousands of residents from camps for displaced people ahead of a cyclone expected later this week. The officials say they are moving people from low-lying camps in the west of the country, where communal violence broke out last year between Buddhists and Muslims. Hundreds died in that violence and tens of thousands of others were left homeless, mostly ethnic Rohingya Muslims. Weather forecasters predict that Cyclone Mahasen will hit land in ...

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Voice of America: Supreme Court Upholds Patents on Monsanto Biotech Seeds

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Supreme Court Upholds Patents on Monsanto Biotech Seeds
May 13th 2013, 22:14

The seeds of patented plants are patented, too, and replanting them violates intellectual property law. That's the ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court. The court decided a case that pitted the seed company Monsanto against a farmer who saved the offspring of plants grown from the company's genetically modified seeds. Intellectual property rights supporters call it a victory.   Several years ago, Indiana farmer Vernon Hugh Bowman needed seed for a risky late planting of his soybean ...

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Voice of America: Burma Evacuating Camps Ahead of Cyclone

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Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries
Burma Evacuating Camps Ahead of Cyclone
May 13th 2013, 23:10

Officials in Burma say they are evacuating thousands of residents from camps for displaced people ahead of a cyclone expected later this week. The officials say they are moving people from low-lying camps in the west of the country, where communal violence broke out last year between Buddhists and Muslims. Hundreds died in that violence and tens of thousands of others were left homeless, mostly ethnic Rohingya Muslims. Weather forecasters predict that Cyclone Mahasen will hit land in ...

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Voice of America: Supreme Court Upholds Patents on Monsanto Biotech Seeds

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Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries
Supreme Court Upholds Patents on Monsanto Biotech Seeds
May 13th 2013, 22:14

The seeds of patented plants are patented, too, and replanting them violates intellectual property law. That's the ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court. The court decided a case that pitted the seed company Monsanto against a farmer who saved the offspring of plants grown from the company's genetically modified seeds. Intellectual property rights supporters call it a victory.   Several years ago, Indiana farmer Vernon Hugh Bowman needed seed for a risky late planting of his soybean ...

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Voice of America: UN Links Terrorism in Africa to Organized Crime

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UN Links Terrorism in Africa to Organized Crime
May 13th 2013, 21:46

The United Nations Security Council pointed Monday to the connection between terrorism in Africa and organized crime, and called for a strengthened global response.  The 15-member Security Council unanimously adopted a statement declaring its deep concern for what it calls the increasing violence perpetrated by armed groups, the number of which, it said, are growing in several regions and sub-regions of Africa.  The council approved the statement during a discussion of the fight ...

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Voice of America: Supreme Court Upholds Patents on Monsanto Biotech Seeds

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Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries
Supreme Court Upholds Patents on Monsanto Biotech Seeds
May 13th 2013, 22:14

The seeds of patented plants are patented, too, and replanting them violates intellectual property law. That's the ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court. The court decided a case that pitted the seed company Monsanto against a farmer who saved the offspring of plants grown from the company's genetically modified seeds. Intellectual property rights supporters call it a victory.   Several years ago, Indiana farmer Vernon Hugh Bowman needed seed for a risky late planting of his soybean ...

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Sunday, May 12, 2013

Voice of America: Singapore Investigates Death of American Researcher

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Singapore Investigates Death of American Researcher
May 13th 2013, 01:23

Singapore opens an official inquest Monday into the death of an American engineer whose family suspects he was murdered over a project involving the illegal transfer of sensitive technology to China. Authorities are seeking to establish whether scientist Shane Todd committed suicide in June 2012 as police contend, or whether he was the victim of foul play. An autopsy concluded Todd died by hanging, after his body was found suspended from a door in his Singapore apartment, two days after he ...

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