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...This heist, though illicit, made an impression on us because this was happening in real life, and we're only used to seeing this sort of sophisticated plot in movies," says Jérémie Le Roy-Férault, founder of the Tony Musulin site. "The context of the financial crisis has also fostered sympathy toward this type of enterprise...
After a temporary easing up during the 2008 Olympics, China's system of online controls has grown noticeably stricter in recent months, and social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook are now blocked. The decision to block Twitter followed the Iranian use of the social networking site in June, says Xiao Qiang, the director of the China Internet Project at the University of California, Berkeley. Websites discussing sensitive topics like Tibet, the Tiananmen crackdown and the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement are also routinely blocked, and in the Xinjiang region, which experienced bloody ethnic riots in July, people are barred...
Japan and the U.S. agreed in 2006 to relocate Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to a site farther north on Okinawa in the city of Nago, but Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has put the deal on hold and indicated the relocation site could be changed...
...Reality differed from Humphreys' expectations. His arrival in Bindoon, a small town in Western Australia, marked the end of his formal education. By 14, he was driving a truck to collect rocks and sand for a construction site where he and other child-migrant laborers were working. They were under the control of the Christian Brothers, an international Catholic congregation who are today notorious for their record of physically and sexually abusing orphans. "[The Brothers] were not afraid to use a belt. They wore these black robes that had a pocket on the inside - like a holster," remembers Humphreys...
...West "will fulfill their commitments" in the nuclear talks and that "Iran is right to distrust them." Another member argued that the "media commotion" in the West was wrong in reporting that "Iran has submitted to the idea of ending uranium enrichment." A commentary in the conservative online news site Qods challenged President Ahmadinejad's interpretation of events: "To what extent has each of the two sides, especially Iran, benefited from that 'win-win' game? Has this 'win' been at the level of 50%, or has Iran's share of that win been 10% and the other side...