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Mexican drug cartels appear to have adopted a new technique to avoid military raids and police checkpoints: using Facebook and Twitter. And so now the Mexican government is trying to crack down ... on the use of Facebook and Twitter.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Battle Cartels, Mexico Weighs Twitter Crackdown | 4/14/2010 | See Source »

But any alliance with the Islamist party may be as likely to handicap ElBaradei's movement as it would boost it. For one thing, it could hasten repression by the state: since 2005, the regime has cracked down hard on the organization, extracting a heavy price for its participation in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt's Opposition: Will the Islamists Join ElBaradei? | 4/14/2010 | See Source »

The bill is partly modeled on a Spanish bill that would allow that government to close down websites that facilitate the breaking of copyright and other laws. Both the Spanish and Mexican bills are controversial. Mexican Twitter users reacted with laughter and scorn when they heard about the bill, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Battle Cartels, Mexico Weighs Twitter Crackdown | 4/14/2010 | See Source »

Police in Tennessee haven't decided yet whether to file criminal charges against Hansen, whose attorney says she won't talk to investigators unless formally charged with a crime. Artyom's adoptive grandmother, who placed the boy on the flight to Russia, told the Associated Press he was violent and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russian Adoption: What Happens When a Parent Gives Up? | 4/14/2010 | See Source »

...Major riposted that Blair had chickened out, and the Conservatives sent a man dressed as a chicken in pursuit of Blair for the rest of the campaign. But Blair won the election. "Labour didn't really want this debate to take place," Lance Price, who worked for Blair in Downing Street, recently told the BBC. "Tony Blair was streets ahead in the opinion polls, and when you're out in front, why take the risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain's Election: Raiding the Obama Playbook | 4/14/2010 | See Source »

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