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Govt mulls action against Indians fishing in Lankan waters
The government is planning “deterrent” action against Indian fishermen violating international waters with Sri Lanka.
indiatimes.com (6 hours ago)
Deterrent action for Indians found fishing in Lankan waters
The government is planning "deterrent" action against Indian fishermen violating international waters with Sri Lanka, finding that trawlers and ships from this side are the biggest source of confrontation with the Emerald isle.
indiatimes.com (1 day ago)
Advocates call for legal protections for copyright consumers
The U.S. Congress should consider a "safe harbor" from legal action for consumers using works protected by copyright as it launches a long-term effort to revamp copyright law, some advocates said Thursday. Consumers should be protected from lawsuits when they use digital works they've legally purchased, Jule Sigall,...
pcworld.com (2 days ago)
Israel to approve four unauthorised West Bank settler outposts
The Israeli government is to retroactively legalise four unauthorised settler outposts in the West Bank in a move likely to exasperate the US secretary of state, John Kerry, before his fourth visit to Jerusalem next week in a drive to restart peace talks. The measure comes amid a heightened spate of attacks on...
guardian.co.uk (2 days ago)
Atomic Weapons Establishment admits safety breach over 2010 fire
The Atomic Weapons Establishment, which makes and maintains warheads for the UK's Trident nuclear deterrent, has admitted putting employees at risk. Failings in safety procedures led to one member of staff being injured in a fire at AWE's complex in Aldermaston, Berkshire, on 3 August 2010, it admitted. On Thursday,...
guardian.co.uk (2 days ago)
Atomic Weapons Establishment admits safety failing after Aldermaston fire
The Atomic Weapons Establishment, which makes and maintains warheads for the UK's Trident nuclear deterrent, today admitted putting employees at risk.
independent.co.uk (2 days ago)
Netflix CEO: Download Caps ‘A Deterrent To Canadian Society'
Netflix Canada’s booming subscription rates are driving Canada’s cable providers into the online video market in an attempt to remain relevant to viewers who are increasingly cutting their cords, the company’s CEO told a Toronto digital media conference Tuesday. Reed Hastings believes cable companies such as Rogers...
huffingtonpost.com (3 days ago)
Enter the water cannon: Two years on from the riots that scarred Britain, hundreds of police are...
Dozens of Met officers have been travelling to Longmoor base, near Petersfield, every day over the past fortnight to be trained to use the new water cannon.
dailymail.co.uk (4 days ago)
Top U.S. admiral puts cyber security on Navy's radar
SINGAPORE - Cyber security and warfare are on par with a credible nuclear deterrent in the defense priorities of the United States, the U.S.Navy's top admiral said Monday, after the Pentagon accused China of trying to hack into its computer networks.
news-herald.com (5 days ago)
Top U.S. admiral puts cyber security on the Navy's radar
By John O'Callaghan SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Cyber security and warfare are on par with a credible nuclear deterrent in the defense priorities of the United States, the U.S. Navy's top admiral said on Monday, after the Pentagon accused China of trying to hack into its computer networks. Admiral Jonathan Greenert, the...
yahoo.com (5 days ago)
Top U.S. admiral puts cyber security on the Navy's radar
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Cyber security and warfare are on par with a credible nuclear deterrent in the defense priorities of the United States, the U.S. Navy's top admiral said on Monday, after the Pentagon accused China of trying to hack into its computer networks.
reuters.com (5 days ago)
FDA Allows Generic Form of Painkiller
The FDA ruled that a new version of the powerful painkiller Opana ER doesn't thwart drug abuse significantly better than earlier versions that aren't abuse-deterrent.
wsj.com (8 days ago)
Former FBI Director Louis Freeh paints dark picture of corruption at Miami ethics conference
Former FBI Director Louis Freeh said that efforts to fight corruption in America haven’t had “any deterrent effect.”
miamiherald.com (8 days ago)
FDA Allows Generic Form of Powerful Painkiller Opana
The FDA ruled that a new version of the powerful painkiller Opana ER doesn't thwart drug abuse significantly better than earlier versions that aren't abuse-deterrent, a decision that could make it more difficult for pharmaceutical companies to develop and market safer painkilling drugs.
wsj.com (8 days ago)
Lord Ashcroft poll: Most Scots back nuclear deterrent
More than half of Scots want Britain to retain a nuclear deterrent after Trident is decommissioned, according to an opinion poll published today that undermines a key plank of Alex Salmond's case for independence.
telegraph.co.uk (8 days ago)
Poll: Most Scots Support Nuclear Deterrent
A new opinion poll contradicts the view that Scotland is generally opposed to having nuclear weapons based in the country.
sky.com (9 days ago)
Poll reveals support for Trident replacement
More than half of Scots think the Trident nuclear deterrent should be replaced rather than scrapped, according to a new...
thetimes.co.uk (9 days ago)
Obama to Pyongyang: No concessions
May 7 - The United States and South Korea agree on maintaining a deterrent posture towards North Korea and on not rewarding that provocative behavior from Pyongyang, President Barack Obama said. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
reuters.com (11 days ago)
U.S., South Korea, vow to maintain North Korea deterrent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and South Korea agree on maintaining a deterrent posture towards North Korea and on not rewarding that provocative behavior from Pyongyang, President Barack Obama said.
reuters.com (11 days ago)
U.S., South Korea, vow to maintain North Korea deterrent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and South Korea agree on maintaining a deterrent posture towards North Korea and on not rewarding that provocative behavior from Pyongyang, President Barack Obama said. "President Park and myself very much share the view that we are going to maintain a strong deterrent, we're...
yahoo.com (11 days ago)
PG&E Slapped With Harsh Punishment For San Bruno Explosion
SAN FRANCISCO — California regulators recommended Monday that Pacific Gas & Electric Co. pay a record $2.25 billion fine for decades of negligence that led to a deadly gas pipeline explosion that leveled a San Francisco Bay Area neighborhood. The penalty would be the largest ever imposed on a utility company by...
huffingtonpost.com (12 days ago)
Rx for parking woes eludes town's busiest medical practice
An unkempt plot of land immediately next door to the practice of Drs. James Brunetti and Francis Walsh at 31 River Road in Cos Cob seemed like an obvious candidate for an overflow parking lot. [...] last year, came a break-through. The state Department of Transportation revisited the decision and finally agreed to a...
newstimes.com (12 days ago)
Rabbi Hayim Herring, Ph.D.: 'Never Again' Depends On How You Define 'Never Again'
A few weeks ago, in Israel and other Jewish communities around the world, some Jews and a smaller number of Christians observed Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah). For more than two years, we've been global witnesses to the Assad regime's systematic killing of segments of its own population. In the shadow of...
huffingtonpost.com (12 days ago)
Nasa chief Bolden says agency can go where no man has gone before: Mars
Sequester cuts and 'technology gaps' cannot quell agency's confidence and interest from aspiring astronautsIf the prospect of spending a thousand days up to 140 million miles away from the Earth was not enough of a deterrent, killer radiation levels and enforced radio silence would surely deter most volunteers from...
guardian.co.uk (12 days ago)
NYC's tax war on cigarettes undercut by low fines for black-market sales
New York officials say the penalty for getting caught selling cigarettes brought in from low-tax states is often viewed as the cost of doing business as opposed to a real deterrent.
nj.com (13 days ago)
Cocaine flows through Sahara as al-Qaida cashes in on lawlessness
Young Malians risk their lives to earn big money transporting drugs across desertAs the daily power cut struck Timbuktu, the town and surrounding desert were plunged into a sandy, grey darkness. Mohamed – a 31-year-old native of the town dressed in rich, deep blue cloth that engulfed his head in the traditional...
guardian.co.uk (16 days ago)
France’s defence review: Of ships and sealing wax
THE defence review ordered by François Hollande was the first under a Socialist president for nearly 20 years. It took place under a party hostile to France rejoining NATO’s military command four years ago. And it came when budget constraints are forcing all countries to spend less on defence. Much lobbying ensued...
economist.com (16 days ago)
An Entire Country's Rhino Population May Be Gone
JOHANNESBURG -- Mozambique's rhinoceros population was wiped out more than a century ago by big game hunters. Reconstituted several years ago, it has again been driven to extinction, or to the brink of extinction, by poachers seeking their horns for sale in Asia. A leading rhino expert told The Associated Press that...
huffingtonpost.com (16 days ago)
Referees to get more power as Fifa launches new fight against racism
• Referees could lead players from pitch and points be deducted• New anti-racism and discrimination task force to act quicklyReferees could be given the power to lead players from the pitch and points could be deducted from offending teams under new Fifa anti-racism proposals.England's top referee, Howard Webb, and...
guardian.co.uk (17 days ago)
Nothing to suggest death penalty is a deterrent: UN official
Amid demands for death for rape in India, a top UN official on Wednesday disfavoured it saying there is "nothing to suggest that death penalty is a deterrent".
india.com (17 days ago)
