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...ousted President's brother admitted on Monday that he had ordered snipers to shoot at armed rioters near the presidential palace last week - a confession unlikely to win the family popularity points. "I ordered my men to open fire only on those who carried weapons. My conscience is clear," he told RIA Novosti. Many of the protesters were able to snatch weapons, including shoulder-mounted grenade launchers, after overpowering and beating riot police on the streets of the capital, Bishkek, and several other cities around the country. They then used the weapons to storm and loot government buildings...
...Clinton that the new Kyrgyz government would abide by previous agreements to let Manas operate. But the Russian government has lobbied hard to force Kyrgyzstan to evict it, with a senior Russian official telling reporters on April 8 that "in Kyrgyzstan, there should be only one base - Russian." Since last Wednesday's upheaval, operations at the U.S. base have twice been shut down for two days amid deep concerns over security, and troops stationed there have been forbidden from leaving the base...
...charismatic leader and "is not speaking with one voice." The more hard-line elements in their ranks are calling for harsh methods to gain full control of the country and put Bakiyev on trial. "I very much hope the regime is not going to move against him. The last thing a very fledgling and inchoate regime needs is to start relying on shooters," Quinn-Judge said by phone from Bishkek. Whether the opposing forces turn to violence or not, Kyrgyzstan is still far from a return to stability, and that will leave the future of U.S. supply lines to Afghanistan...
...What could turn a self-confessed social-networking addict so virulently against Facebook? Last month, the website announced a planned test to start sharing users' personal details with handpicked third-party websites to help those sites better personalize their services to people. Aigner complains that Facebook users won't necessarily be notified when this happens and the onus will be on them to use the opt-out function to stop their personal details from being passed on. And that, she says, leaves many people, especially youngsters, in a vulnerable position, since they may not be aware that their personal data...
...public letter and by threatening to cancel her Facebook account," Clemens Riedl, chief executive of VZ-Networks, tells TIME. "By doing this, she demonstrates that the German government has no legal means to control U.S. Internet companies operating in Germany." As if acknowledging this itself, the ministry pointed out last week that rival German Internet companies could sue Facebook for unfair competition but didn't elaborate on what measures the German government would take. (See "Rage Against Simon Cowell? A British Pop Charts Upset...