News tagged with war
Chinese environmental crusaders win 'Asia's Nobel'
Three Chinese environmental campaigners were on Monday named among the winners of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Awards, regarded as Asia's version of the Nobel prize.
Aug 02, 2010 |
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Mysterious 'insurance file' posted on WikiLeaks
Whistleblower website WikiLeaks has posted a mysterious encrypted "insurance file," touching off speculation about what it contains.
Aug 01, 2010 |
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Conservators restore valuable maritime logbook
Experts have painstakingly restored the logbook from a celebrated warship from the era of the Napoleonic Wars which Nelson himself sailed upon.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 30, 2010 |
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Hoover fellow: New revelations in Afghanistan are same old, same old
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Soviet-born political analyst says that revelations of treachery and double-dealing in Afghanistan are an old story - and that the U.S.S.R.'s war in the region has lessons to teach us still. ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 27, 2010 |
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Wikileaks case puts focus on digital security challenges
The massive release of secret Pentagon documents by Wikileaks highlights the security challenges of the digital age, when gigabytes of stolen data can be shared in one click, analysts said Monday.
Jul 26, 2010 |
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Wikileaks founder defends release of Afghan war files
The founder of a website which published tens of thousands of leaked military files about the war in Afghanistan said Monday they showed that the "course of the war needs to change".
Jul 26, 2010 |
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Internet warriors hone skills at Black Hat - DefCon
Internet warriors are gathering this week to explore chinks in the armors of computers, bank teller machines, mobile phones, power grids, and other "smart" devices intrinsic to modern life.
Jul 26, 2010 |
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Documents show vast cleanup of Plum Island land
(AP) -- Government documents obtained by The Associated Press show extensive efforts since 2000 to remove vast amounts of waste and contaminants from Plum Island, site of top-secret Army germ warfare research ...
Jun 27, 2010 |
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Rape in war 'a deliberate military strategy' argue researchers
Since the second world war, the use of rape as a weapon of war has assumed strategic importance, and is now a deliberate military strategy, argue researchers in an editorial published in the British Medical Journal today.
Jun 24, 2010 |
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Study finds echoes of the Holocaust in Russia's economy, politics
Russian cities and regions whose Jewish populations bore the brunt of the Holocaust have seen lower economic growth and wages ever since, according to a detailed new analysis of seven decades of Soviet and Russian data. These ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jun 17, 2010 |
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$300 mln to cope with Agent Orange in Vietnam
(AP) -- Thirty-five years after the Vietnam War, a $300 million price tag has been placed on the most contentious legacy still tainting U.S.-Vietnam relations: Agent Orange.
Jun 16, 2010 |
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The Growing Market for 'War Porn' -- What's Going On?
(PhysOrg.com) -- "War porn" -- videos viewed for entertainment that feature gruesome footage of dead American soldiers or the killing of soldiers and civilians in the Middle East wars -- are growing in numbers online, in ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 17, 2010 |
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India's 3G licence auction sees stellar price rise
Bids for nationwide licences in India's sale of spectrum for superfast 3G mobile services have hit 2.65 billion dollars, a government website said Saturday.
May 08, 2010 |
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Study reveals fundamental flaws to 2007 estimate of one million Iraqis killed
In September 2007, a British polling company named ORB released an alarming estimate of "more than 1,000,000 Iraqis murdered" in the Iraq war. ORB’s poll-based estimate has been cited approvingly in much of ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 07, 2010 |
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Academic finds evidence of data fabrication in Iraqi death toll report
Research by Professor Michael Spagat of the Department of Economics at Royal Holloway, University of London, examining the Iraq war death toll, is published in the latest issue of ‘Defense and Peace Economics′.
Apr 26, 2010 |
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