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...last days of December, Russian officials were playing hardball with Ukraine over natural gas prices, even as they were finalizing a deal with Belarus to take control of the pipeline that crosses its territory into Western Europe. The tough negotiations with Ukraine are widely seen as an attempt to weaken the party of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko in advance of March's parliamentary elections. In an echo of Soviet-era threats, on Russian television last week industry officials enthusiastically demonstrated how they would cut off all gas supplies to Ukraine if it refused to agree to the new price...
...jihadist group that aims to drive India out of Kashmir, is a prime suspect, but Bangladesh-based terror outfits are also considered potential culprits. India's security experts have been warning for months that it was only a matter of time before terrorists attacked Bangalore in a bid to weaken the country's booming technology sector. In March this year, Indian authorities announced that plans seized from militants belonging to a Lashkar-e-Toiba cell in New Delhi showed that the terrorists had planned to strike at software companies in Bangalore...
...Even the most benign spyware isn't healthy for a PC. It tends to conflict with other applications and otherwise weaken performance. Here's how to protect yourself...
...collective bargaining rights, and healthcare reform, Brown reaffirmed his support of “working families” and “regular people.” He decried the current administration and Congress as undoing much of this progress by enacting policies that aim to “weaken environmental laws, cut back social services, and fail to engage the world on poverty and disease.” Brown also said he strongly opposes trade pacts such as the Central American Free Trade Agreement, and while in office, he has pushed for a renewed focus in economic policy...
...Cold War. But in Na?m's version of the story, these changes?which in Friedman's telling are supposed to usher in a new, more enlightened global order?have become accessories to vice. In the 1990s, "Not only did the hold of governments on borders weaken," writes Na?m, "but [economic] reforms amplified the rewards awaiting those who were prepared to break the rules." And it turned out that everyone from gangsters to generals to regular businesspeople could hardly wait to grab the spoils...