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Joby Warrick and Glenn Kessler report in The Washington Post that Iran is experiencing setbacks in its uranium enrichment efforts.Excerpt follows from Technical setbacks cause Iran to falter in push to enrich uranium, report says:
Iran is experiencing surprising setbacks in its efforts to enrich uranium, according to new assessments that suggest that equipment failures and [...]
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"Whenever we encounter blocks in our services we try to resolve them as quickly as possible because we strongly believe that people everywhere should have the ability to communicate freely online," Google said in its statement about Iran. "Sadly, sometimes it is not within our control."
According to Cecilia Kang of the Washington Post's Tech Blog, [...]
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Laura Rozen reports on Politico.com:
In what was being reported as a potentially significant shift, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Iranian State Television today that Iran is ready to send its uranium abroad.
"We have no problem sending our enriched uranium abroad," Ahmadinejad told state television, according to Reuters.
"We say: we will give you our 3.5 percent enriched [...]
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Google announced that it believes that China is responsible for cyber attacks on Google China. Google is now unwilling to censor search results in China (The Guardian).
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, about to begin a tour of Asia, said "We have been briefed by Google on these allegations, which raise very serious concerns and questions. [...]
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From the Miami Herald:
U.S. steps up pressure on Iran over missing ex-FBI agent, by Lesley Clark of the McClatchy Newspapers:
WASHINGTON — The White House and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton upped the pressure Thursday on Iran to divulge any information it has about Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent [...]
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Via WikiNews:Iran and Britain expel diplomats after Iranian presidential election.We note that while attacks from President Obama's political right have urged him to be more aggressive, in the UK David Cameron has reminded the P.M. that the "Iranian elections [are] an internal Iranian conflict, between Iranians and other Iranians." If this ends with a full [...]
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Politicians help family of man kidnapped in MexicoSen. Bill Nelson and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen met with the family of Felix Batista -- a Miami local who was kidnapped six months ago in Mexico -- to discuss how the government can help bring Batista back home.BY PERRY STEINpstein@MiamiHerald.comThe family of an American kidnapped in Mexico has [...]
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UPDATE, 11/27/07: we've determined - much to our embarassment - that we were suckered by trackback spam into concluding this was a new report. In fact, it linked, eventually, to a May 2007 post on abcnews.com This is one of the more insidious permutations of spam - polluting the stream of information about critical issues. Our [...]
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