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...Indeed, far from loosening up, Beijing is intensifying its scrutiny of the Web. Last week, the State Council released even more stringent regulations?aimed at online forums, blogs and wireless SMS messaging?that bar postings of news that goes against "national security and the public interest." The latest clampdown continues a campaign that started almost 10 years ago when China began building its own version of the World Wide Web. It was relatively simple to keep tabs, with authorities quickly learning to program off-the-shelf network routers?the switches that zip data around the Internet?to block offending...
...case that broke open last week was only the first chapter in an extensive clampdown on drug dealing in the financial community. Authorities initially picked up the trail in Brooklyn, where they took notice of a mink- coated brunet named Theresa Masi. A known consort of drug dealers with Mafia connections, Masi made regular rounds of Wall Street executive suites. Authorities learned that Masi was delivering cocaine weekly to five top-level * managers. Under a law-enforcement policy to charge dealers only, those users were never prosecuted, but their descriptions of drug consumption on Wall Street inspired the U.S. Drug...
...killed 58 foreigners in a 1997 attack at an ancient temple in Luxor. That was the last assault in a five-year onslaught by Egyptian extremist factions such as Islamic Jihad and Gemaat Islamiyah, whose leaders declared a truce after being crushed by the Mubarak government's harsh security clampdown...
...candidate for Minister for European Integration after failing to identify the governing body of the E.U. during questioning in parliament. Opposition politicians predicted early elections. Terror Resurgent SAUDI ARABIA Despite government assurances that al-Qaeda sympathizers in the kingdom have been greatly weakened by a 19-month clampdown, two suspected suicide bombings targeting the Interior Ministry and a special forces base injured more than a dozen. Police investigating the attacks later killed 10 alleged al-Qaeda militants, including two of the kingdom's most wanted terrorists. A Fresh Start AFGHANISTAN The Cabinet of President Hamid Karzai met for the first...
...killings, rape, burning of villages have taken place," Pronk told a press conference in Khartoum last week. Some human-rights advocates are concerned that if the U.S. fails to intervene after Powell characterized the conflict as genocide, the significance of the convention will be undermined. That and Sudan's clampdown on aid provision in retaliation for the declaration could make it a major diplomatic mistake on Powell's part, the advocates fear. "If that's the case, then we come out of this with the worst of all worlds," says a U.S. Agency for International Development official...