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SURFnet Demonstration of 100G DWDM Solution Between Amsterdam and Geneva ...
Reuters
Processed and transmitted by Thomson Reuters ONE. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. Ultra Long Haul Solution Offers Up to 3000 Km Distance Without Regeneration UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS--(Marketwire - March 9, ...
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Oldest film based on Dickens found in Britain
Reuters
By Mike Collett-White | LONDON (Reuters) - An archivist at the British Film Institute has stumbled across a 1901 movie just one minute long which turns out to be the earliest surviving film featuring a character from the works of Charles Dickens.
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Analysis: More than just talk: Philippines eyes broader outsourcing role
Reuters
By Karen Lema | MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines is the world's call-centre capital, but will need more graduates and better trained professionals if it's to be a major force in the broader outsourcing market, where growth is in providing research ...
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Campaign against Ugandan warlord sweeps Internet
Reuters India
By Gerry Shih | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A video calling for the arrest of Joseph Kony, the fugitive leader of the Lord's Resistance Army militia group in Uganda, swept across the Internet this week, attracting a wave of support on Twitter and ...
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Video: Greece averts immediate default with bond success
Canada.com
By George Georgiopoulos and Lefteris Papadimas, Reuters March 9, 2012 11:33 AM Greece has averted the immediate risk of an uncontrolled default by winning strong acceptance from its private creditors for a bond swap deal which will eat into its ...
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Pakistan charges Osama bin Laden's widows for staying illegally
msnbc.com
Ohio men may need second opinion When the Internet and school violence fears collide Cops, amateur sleuths find relatives of reclusive twins Reuters An Egyptian career woman? Soon it could be rare The three have been in detention in Pakistan since May ...
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Kony baloney
Reuters UK (blog)
Kony 2012, this week's viral video sensation on YouTube and Vimeo, reaches for the heart-melting, minor-chord music about 16 seconds into its 30-minute run, efficiently alerting me to its emotional scheme. Produced by the non-profit group Invisible ...
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Reuters UK (blog)
UN prepares food stocks for 1.5 million Syrians
msnbc.com
Syria's deputy oil minister defects from Assad regime in YouTube video The UN World Food Program (WFP) said it had distributed some food supplies in Syria through local aid agencies, but had not reached people in the areas worst hit by the violence.
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Syrian official's video message seems to show he has defected
Boston Globe
Western officials who have sought to isolate Assad, one of the Arab world's most resilient autocrats, considered the defection a significant event, if true. In Washington, Victoria Nuland, the State Department spokeswoman, told reporters she could not ...
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Boston Globe
Stop Kony campaign sweeps internet
MyBroadband
Reuters is a news agency headquartered in New York City. Until 2008 the Reuters news agency formed part of a British independent company, Reuters Group... A video calling for the arrest of Joseph Kony, the fugitive leader of the Lord's Resistance Army ...
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MyBroadband
Kony 2012: can social media stop a killer?
Canada.com
By Sharon Waxman, Reuters March 9, 2012 12:05 PM The leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kony answers journalists' questions 12 November at Ri-Kwamba in Southern Sudan following a meeting with the UN's humanitarian chief.
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Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy get Walk of Fame stars: The five best ...
Washington Post (blog)
(Gus Ruelas/Reuters) Acting super couple Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy received their own stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday. As Jen Chaney previously noted, the married duo stole the show at the Golden Globes this year as they ...
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Four more generals defect from Syrian army-rebels
Stabroek News
By Stabroek staff | 0 Comments | World News | Friday, March 9, 2012 BEIRUT/PARIS, (Reuters) - Four more high-ranking officers have defected from the Syrian armed forces and joined the year-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's rule, ...
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David Michael Lamb looks at YouTube activism
CBC.ca
(Reuters) Bussmann did it at significant personal risk and out of a conviction that the world needed to know what was going on. Many other journalists have done the same. There is simply no doubt the story of Kony has been well documented.
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CBC.ca
Google denies app store payment policies have changed
BBC News
This follows a Reuters report that Google threatened to remove developers' software from its store unless they accepted payments exclusively using its own payment service. Google told the BBC its app distribution agreement had always made developers ...
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BBC News
Forbes' 2012 billionaires list revealed: video
Edmonton Journal
... world's richest list Wednesday, holding the edge over Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates who continued to give away billions of his fortune to charity. But 25 Canadians also made the list, lead by Thomson Reuters chairman David Thomson and family, ...
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Annan urges end to Syria violence, official defects
Jerusalem Post
By Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters Kofi Annan, the UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, said on Thursday he would urge President Bashar Assad and his foes to stop fighting and seek a political solution, drawing angry rebukes from dissidents. As world pressure on ...
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Boots, beer and buzz at Austin's SXSW
msnbc.com
Don't miss these Travel stories NBC News New mark set for bikini parades In Panama City Beach, Fla., 450 women donned two-piece swimsuits, took to the beach and set a new Guinness World Record for the world's largest bikini parade.
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Forbes' 2012 billionaires list revealed: video
Ottawa Citizen
... world's richest list Wednesday, holding the edge over Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates who continued to give away billions of his fortune to charity. But 25 Canadians also made the list, lead by Thomson Reuters chairman David Thomson and family, ...
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Syria: 4 generals defect to opposition as desertions gather pace
GlobalPost
(-/AFP/Getty Images) With the outside world unable to act, perhaps the most likely source for an end to the violence in Syria is within the country itself. After yesterday's apparent high-level defection by Deputy Oil Minister Abdo Hussameddin, Reuters ...
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Debunking Kirk Cameron's Christianity
Washington Post (blog)
REUTERS/Fred Prouser (FRED PROUSER - REUTERS) Hence, I find myself mystified that Piers Morgan would not treat Cameron as though he were a credible and newsworthy guest but also feign surprise when Cameron proclaimed that “homosexuality” is “unnatural, ...
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Syria's deputy oil minister defects from Assad regime in YouTube video
msnbc.com (blog)
Reuters, NBC News and msnbc.com staff contributed to this report. I hope the best for the people of Syria. My only worry is who will end up in charge if they finally force out their leadership. But i think most people can agree that something needs to ...
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msnbc.com (blog)
Annan urges end to Syria violence, political talks
Arab News
(Reuters) By OLIVER HOLMES | REUTERS BEIRUT: Kofi Annan, the UN-Arab League special envoy on Syria, said yesterday he would urge President Bashar Assad and his foes to stop fighting and seek a political solution to end a year of conflict.
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Arab News
Netflix: Another Day, Another Business Model
Seeking Alpha
Reuters reported yesterday that Hastings was looking to bundle his service with pay-TV operators, and to deliver movies and TV shows through cable providers' set-top boxes. But people familiar with his thinking tell me the Apple TV model is a more ...
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Kony video sweeps Internet, but how credible are its makers?
Firstpost
However there has also been a skeptical backlash against Invisible Children, the little-known team of filmmakers based in San Diego who released the video. The video's premise is that people in America — and the world beyond — have the power to stop ...
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Firstpost
Scooter Libby v. Bradley Manning
CounterPunch
THE DIOXIN WARS — Decade after decade Dow Chemical battles any meaningful safety standard for one of the world's most lethal toxins. Peter Lee reports from the battlefield. From India Marina Forti reports on the bloody pillage by terror gangs of ...
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Demolitions reignite Jeju Island protests
Aljazeera.com
REUTERS/Lee Myung-ik A battle between national security interests and environmental preservation is currently taking centre stage on the small island of Jeju, located off the southern coast of South Korea. Residents there staged another round of ...
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Football: Is Messi the best ever?
Otago Daily Times
REUTERS/Gustau Nacarino Two months ago, Pele was asked the same question many people are asking again now: Is Lionel Messi better than you were? "Difficult to say," the great man replied. "When Messi has scored 1283 goals like me, when he has won three ...
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Otago Daily Times
comments Kony baloney - Reuters
By Jack Shafer
... that viewers sharing a video with other viewers will change the world; for selling “yesterday's papers” and calling it news; for portraying Africans as helpless victims in need of saving by Westerners; for oversimplifying the central-east African ...
Jack Shafer
World News - Rebels: Four more generals defect from Syrian army
By Reuters
By Reuters. Four more high-ranking officers have defected from the Syrian armed forces and joined the year-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's rule, two rebel groups said on Thursday. The men fled over the past three days to a ...
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Euro zone first default gives few reasons to cheer - Analysis ...
By Neil Unmack
The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. ... The good news is that enough bondholders agreed to the Greek plan to allow Athens to force losses on the recalcitrant private creditors through collective action clauses. Some owners of securities ... More broadly, the euro zone must now cope with a world where sovereign creditworthiness has been impaired, affecting borrowing costs across the region. Even for Greece, the restructuring isn't ...
Breakingviews
Russia rejects "unbalanced" Syria draft; EU plays down military ...
By Antoun
... to discuss Syria crisis (Reuters) | 10:42; Saudi crown prince in US for medical tests: Saudi TV (Reuters) | 10:40; Syrian rebels reject Annan's call for dialogue (Reuters) | 10:39; World powers urge Iran to open site to nuclear inspectors (Reuters) | 10:37; Syrian pound ... "Its main problem is the absence of a simultaneous call on all sides to take practical steps in the context of ceasing fire," Gatilov told the Interfax news agency. ... Lebanese domestic worker violent abuse caught on video ...
Al Akhbar English
Four more generals defect from Syrian army-rebels - Stabroek News ...
By Stabroek staff
BEIRUT/PARIS, (Reuters) - Four more high-ranking officers have defected from the Syrian armed forces and joined the year-old uprising against President Bashar.
Stabroek News
Zoellick supports US candidate for World Bank | Video | Reuters.com
25 - Outgoing World Bank president says U.S. should lead some global bodies.... Reuters TV breaks ground creating informative news and financial videos.
www.reuters.com/.../zoellick-supports-us-candidate-for-world?...
China heading for soft landing : World Bank President ... -Reuters
Video: Video Gallery. China heading for "soft landing":World Bank President (2: 49 ...
www.reuters.com/.../china-heading-for-soft-landing-world-ba...
Tim's wacky world | Video | Reuters.com
Wacky, weird, wonderful world of Tim Burton on display in Paris. ... and analysis, Reuters TV ...
www.reuters.com/video/2012/03/06/tims-wacky-world?...
Campaign against Ugandan warlord sweeps Internet | World | Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A video calling for the arrest of Joseph Kony, the fugitive leader of the Lord's ... You are here: Home > News > World > Article ...
af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFBRE82806120120309
Clooney: I like a world where Brad Pitt has an Academy ... - Reuters
26 - Actor George Clooney tells Reuters ''I like a world where Brad Pitt has an... Reuters TV breaks ground creating informative news and financial videos.
www.reuters.com/.../clooney-i-like-a-world-where-brad-pitt-h...
Women of the world | Reuters.com
Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia newsagency, ... stock market, and mutual funds information available onReuters.com, video, ...
www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId...
BRICS to look at bid for top World Bank job | Reuters
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The world's major emerging economies on Saturday rejected the tradition that an American automatically is selected to head the World ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-g20-worldbank-idUSTRE81O0SJ2012...
World Bank chief says U.S. should lead some global bodies | Reuters
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A solid U.S. candidate to head the World Bank would be good for the United States and the bank because the world's largest economy ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-worldbank-succession-idUSTRE81O0...
James Murdoch gives up News International role | Reuters
(Reuters) - James Murdoch resigned as executive chairman of NewsInternational on Wednesday, ... Apple lifts lid on 4G iPad, keeps prices | Video... of several journalists at that paper in addition to those of the now-defunctNews of the World.
www.reuters.com/.../us-newscorp-idUSTRE81S14P20120229
Two killed in blaze at Brazil Antarctica base | Reuters
BRASILIA (Reuters) - A fire broke out at Brazil's research station in Antarctica on Saturday, killing two ... Apple lifts lid on 4G iPad, keeps prices | Video ....Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia newsagency, providing ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-antarctica-brazil-barge-idUSTRE81O0...
Libya urges neighbors to hand over Gaddafi supporters | Reuters
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya urged its neighbors to hand over supporters of toppled leader Muammar ... Wall Street marks first big loss of 2012 | Video ....Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia newsagency, providing ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-libya-neighbors-idUSTRE81O0KQ201...
Sixteen killed in train crash in Poland | Reuters
SZCZEKOCINY, Poland (Reuters) - The death toll from Poland's worst rail crash in two decades rose to 16 ... Former top Microsoft exec says world is over the PC ...
uk.reuters.com/.../uk-poland-crash-idUKTRE8220S12012030...
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