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Meanwhile, the Internet revolutionaries have been busy too. On Thursday, hackers laid siege to a number of sites connected to the plaintiffs, and temporarily sent IFPI.se - the home of an international recording artists' association - off line. Arriving home from the trial, Sunde issued an appeal for his supporters to chill. "Our case is going quite well as most of you have noticed," he wrote on his blog Copy Me Happy. "In the light of that it feels very bad that people are hacking web sites which actually puts us in a worse light than we need to be in. ... Please...
...first meeting between President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, which happened Thursday in Ottawa, covered a wide range of common interests, such as a revival of the North American economy, reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions, and the war in Afghanistan. But the unscripted moments of the President's first foreign visit since being elected to the White House - including a declaration of love for Canada and an impromptu visit to an Ottawa farmers' market for a beaver-tail pastry - overshadowed the official agenda...
...still unformed by soon-to-be Prime Minister Netanyahu, Mitchell is not going to have a lot of business to transact in Jerusalem. But he is already signaling a shift in the U.S. approach to the divided Palestinian leadership. In a 45-minute telephone conversation with U.S. Jewish leaders Thursday, Mitchell reportedly expressed support for a unity government involving both the impotent Palestinian Authority and Hamas. Though the U.S. will adhere to the four conditions for talking to Hamas that Clinton laid out in her confirmation hearing, the move allows European and Arab diplomats to try and bridge the divide...
...Congress largely hailed President Barack Obama's decision Tuesday to send 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan. But another legislative body, this one 6,500 miles from Capitol Hill, dealt Obama a blow Thursday when it voted to shut down an airbase vital to supplying troops and materiel to U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The action by the Kyrgyzstan parliament is yet another bruising reminder for the fledgling Obama Administration - like economic indicators or nominees' unpaid taxes - that outside events can derail the most carefully developed White House initiatives. (See photos of soldiers in Afghanistan...
Washington believes Moscow - despite its firm denials - is behind the order evicting the U.S. from its last airbase in Central Asia. "The Russians are trying to have it both ways with respect to Afghanistan in terms of Manas," Gates said Thursday. "On one hand you're making positive noises about working with us in Afghanistan, and on the other hand you're working against us in terms of that airfield which is clearly important to us." About 15,000 U.S. personnel and 500 tons of cargo flow through Manas each month, primarily to support U.S. efforts in Afghanistan...