Senate votes to renew Patriot Act
JAKE SHERMAN POLITICO Thursday, February 25th, 2010 The Senate Wednesday evening passed a one-year extension to the Patriot Act, a Bush-era homeland security law that has been much maligned by Democrats but described by Republicans as key to the war on terror. Several key components of the law are set to expire Sunday, including wire-tapping, surveillance and seizure provisions.
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Reuters Monday, February 22nd, 2010 A makeshift assistance should be enough to rescue Greece but bigger problems facing Europe would leave the future of the euro currency in question, billionaire investor George Soros said.
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Climate scientists withdraw journal claims of rising sea levels
David Adam London Guardian Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Scientists have been forced to withdraw a study on projected sea level rise due to global warming after finding mistakes that undermined the findings. The study, published in 2009 in Nature Geoscience , one of the top journals in its field, confirmed the conclusions of the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) . It used data over the last 22,000 years to predict that sea level would rise by between 7cm and 82cm by the end of the century
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Operation Moshtarak: three more civilians killed in Afghanistan
Hannah Devlin London Telegraph Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 Nato troops and their Afghan colleagues involved in Operation Moshtarak have suffered another blow after three more civilians were killed in the campaign against the Taliban. The deaths – in three separate incidents – come after two US missiles struck a house on the outskirts of the town of Marjah on Sunday, killing 12 people, half of them children. Three others killed in the house were identified as Taliban fighters by local authorities.
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Taliban commander held in Pakistan: U.S. officials
Reuters Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 The Taliban’s top military commander was captured in Pakistan, U.S. and Pakistani officials said on Tuesday, but the move may not deal a decisive blow to a group putting up fierce resistance to a NATO offensive. The Afghan Taliban denied that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was captured in a joint raid by Pakistani and U.S
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