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...Afghan elections were supposed to help fix that perception. Instead, they have been marred by allegations of massive ballot-stuffing, mainly (but not exclusively) by Karzai's supporters. Afghanistan's Electoral Complaints Commission has ordered a partial recount, citing "clear and convincing evidence of fraud." Still, whether Karzai wins outright or faces a runoff with his rival, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, he will almost certainly be re-elected...
...moment, the regime is being a bit more selective about its targets. According to a report by the reformist website Peykiran, officials have focused on politically troublesome university students in Tehran, Tabriz and Shiraz, whom they are banning from living in campus dormitories, subjecting to disciplinary hearings or outright suspending or expelling. Advar News, a student news agency, claimed that 50 students at University of Tehran - which was the epicenter of not only this summer's protests but also demonstrations that led to the fall of the Shah 30 years ago - were recently forced to defend themselves for hours...
...against the agreement, from rival companies, publishers, advocacy groups and even foreign governments, including Germany's (which opposes the agreement). Should Judge Denny Chin find against the settlement, the class action originally launched by the AAP and the Authors Guild would, in theory, continue. He could also decide against outright approval but still sketch out other possible solutions. (See a video on this year's summer reading...
Certainly, opening HealthMap to user-based reports could introduce an element of chaos, and even outright panic, into disease surveillance - ordinary people aren't trained epidemiologists. Global health officials already struggle to separate the noise from the truth; for every actual outbreak of a new disease, there are countless false or overstated reports. But in an interconnected age, when both information and disease can spread in an instant, having an imperfect network is better than none at all. "This is an alert tool that is not trying to raise fear but awareness instead," says Brownstein. "We want to encourage good...
...demand the Swedish government condemn this groundless article. This is an outright blood libel.' DANIEL AYALON, Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister, on an article published in a Swedish newspaper that accused Israeli soldiers of harvesting organs from dead Palestinians...