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A painter paints a caricature of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in Benghazi

Is China looking for a profit by dealing with the Libyan rebels?

On June 4 China made its first confirmed contact with the Libyan rebels. The meeting was held in Qatar between a Chinese diplomat and the leader of the rebel National Transitional Council and follows a spate of defections by high-profile figures of the Gaddafi regime, including senior oil official and former Prime Minister Shokri Ghanem.In Beijing, a Chinese Foreign Ministry statement said Beijing's ambassador to Qatar, Zhang Zhiliang, had met and "exchanged views on developments in Li...
Broken glass are pictured on a blood-stained bed in Tripoli

Libya: Gaddafi regime's absurd attempts to trick the media

New allegations that the Gaddafi regime is trying to play with the general public's empathy for the civilian victims of the conflict re-surfaced yesterday after a group of journalists who were taken to see 'bomb victims' in a Libyan hospital found out the child they were introduced to had in fact been hurt in road accident.
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PBS Web Site hacked By Lulz Security

Post-PSN Sony hack: kicking a man when he's down?

With Sony only just having gotten its PSN and PlayStation Store fully functioning, the hacker group LulzSec have released a statement claiming to have once again bypassed Sony's online security -- this time on one of its websites -- but, unlike the first PSN breach, it appears that a significant proportion of the general public have reacted with pity or even sympathy rather than anger.
Ratko Mladic

Ratko Mladic and the ICTY: A kangeroo court or not?

"Can a criminal tribunal for Yugoslavia which ignores pervasive violence by the U.S. and diverts public awareness from United States conduct and legitimatizes by silent acceptance aerial and missile assaults on civilians and illegal weapons use against one country after another, making its repetition expected before it occurs, contribute to the hope for the rule of law, justice or peace?"
Libya Conflict

Libya: The Transitional Regime, oil, Israel and Gaddafi's old friends

Libya's official opposition movement, the Transitional National Council (TNC), was formed rapidly as it was officially established only a week after the initial uprising began in Benghazi. The group is headed by Mustafa Abdul Jalil. The council was created to provide a structural and organised base for the rebel movement on the ground. However most of its most important positions are filled with regime defectors, not by people from the opposition.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Libyan rebels seek diplomatic ties with Israel says French writer

As the news that 270 people went missing after a fishing boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy broke down just off the Tunisian coast came , French writer Bernard Henri Levy announced he delivered a message on Thursday from Libyan rebel leaders to Israel's premier saying they would seek diplomatic ties with Israel if they came to power.
Former US President George W. Bush

Gaddafi VS George W. Bush: The best quotes part 2

As we continue on the quest to find Gaddafi's best contender when it comes to explaining international, political, social, and economic or security issues, former US President George W. Bush naturally took the top position.As he is the man who is known for sharing with the worlds his most interesting and profound thoughts, also known as "Bushism" let us understand why he still remains undefeated.
Libyan leader Gaddafi looks on during his debate on democracy with Western scholars in Sebha

Gaddafi VS George W. Bush: The best quotes part 1

As we continue on the quest to find any one who can challenge Gaddafi's exceptional ability of explaining international, political, social, and economic or security issues, we take a look at former US President George W. Bush, who perhaps has the best chance of outwitting the King of Kings of Africa.Perhaps with his "Bushisms" the former President is the man best placed to defeat the man once described as a "Mad Dog".
Numerous Gmail Accounts Hijacked via Spear Phishing

Cyber threat: China deny involvement in Gmail attack

Since Google revealed that the latest cyber attack against its Gmail service once again stemmed from China, representatives for the Chinese Government has spoken out and officially denied the country's involvement.
Syrian children carry pictures of Syrian boy Hamza al-Khatib and hold candles during a protest in front of the United Nations building in Beirut

Syria: Human Right Watch warns "We've never seen such horror"

The protests in Syria initially started after a group of 15 young boys, all under 18, were arrested in the city of Daraa, located in the southern part of Syria, after they were accused of writing graffiti slogans against the government on a wall. On March 18, on Friday prayer, thousands of protesters marched the streets demanding the release of the children, calling for greater political freedom and accusing the government and its institutions of corruption. The security forces originally respo...
Google

Cyber threat: Google hacked company blames China

Just days after the U.K. and U.S. governments indicated a new zero-tolerance policy to cyber attacks, the search-giant Google has confirmed that it recently suffered yet another attempted cyber raid on its email service.
A rebel fighter and a medic assists an injured rebel fighter at a field hospital near Misrata's western front line

Libya conflict: Are NATO ground forces inevitable?

Following the failure of the African Union Road Map proposal presented by South African leader Jacob Zuma to broker a ceasefire between Gaddafi and the rebels, NATO powers are upping their intervention in Libya in a bid to break the deadlock, which has seen the Libyan leader hold on to power defiantly despite weeks of air strikes and a rebel uprising.
File photo of detainees sitting at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay

The campaign against torture, when will Guantanamo Bay finally close?

Amnesty International has been fighting torture and illegal imprisonment from its beginning. Since 1962 the group has denounced countries throughout the world where people are being detained and imprisoned arbitrarily without a fair trial, thus facing torture or other forms of ill-treatment while many are held in conditions that are so poor that these amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights no-one may be subjected to arbitrary ...
The US will treat cyber threats as any other threat to the country

U.K. and U.S.A. develop cyber weapon programmes

Since Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey yesterday revealed the U.K. Government's sponsored development of cyber weapons, a report from the Washington post has revealed that the U.S.A. also has a similar sponsorship programme currently under way.
Amnesty International activists hold candles during protest against death penalty in front of US embassy in Rome

Amnesty International 50th anniversary: Key dates and achievments

British lawyer Peter Benson began the movement that led to the establishment of Amnesty International in May 1961 by issuing an "appeal for amnesty" on behalf of two Portuguese students who had been imprisoned for raising their glasses in a "toast to freedom".
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai

Tsvangirai opposes early elections in Zimbabwe but Mugabe wants to press forward

As Zimbabwe's next elections, originally planned for 2011, are now called into question, the media in the West as well as in Africa announce that "divisions are re-surfacing in Zimbabwe's constitutional-revision process as the ZANU-PF party of President Robert Mugabe has accused the Movement for Democratic Change of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of dragging out the process to postpone elections."
Rebel guards suspected mercenaries and forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi inside a prison in Benghazi

Are Libyan rebels violating basic human rights?

South African President Jacob Zuma yesterday confirmed that with the Libyan rebels and NATO setting Gaddafi's departure as the main condition for a ceasefire and with Gaddafi still refusing to leave, the talks initiated by the African Union did not lead to any breakthrough.
Microsoft

Microsoft chip in on cybersecurity debate

In the wake of Sony's recent PSN disaster and the U.K. Government's increasing emphasis on the topic, Microsoft took the opportunity to add its two-cents on the question of cyber attacks at this year's Global Cybersecurity Summit.
Libya is a democracy!

The world according to Gaddafi - quotes

Colonel Gaddafi has, since he took over power in Libya more than 40 years ago, been known for being a bit of an eccentric character and as guide of the revolution has provided his people and the world with many words of wisdom. Between insisting on having female bodyguards, to trying to set up his tent in Central Park while he visited the United Nations headquarters, he has throughout the years never ceased to amaze us. In an attempt to understand the world according to the King of Kings of Afri...
Egyptian soldiers stand in front of women at Tahrir Square in Cairo

"Virginity checks" forced on Egyptian protesters by Army after fall of Mubarak

A senior Egyptian general has admitted that "virginity checks" were performed on women arrested during the demonstrations of the Arab Spring in Egypt. The confirmation of the allegations, that were first brought up by Amnesty International, comes after the military authorities had repeatedly and firmly denied such claims.
Is Twiiter compromising too much on private details?

Twitter user tweets updated list of super-injunction names

After Twitter recently announced its willingness to hand over user information, the ongoing injunction and super-injunction debate has seen another dramatic turn, as yet another Twitter user has published information regarding 14 privacy injunctions.
Pickups belonging to Libyan rebel fighters are seen under trees while they are on standby at Misrata's eastern front line

The two faces of the Libyan Rebels, which is the real one?

After UN Resolution 1973 was passed, coalition leaders promised "better days ahead for Libya" and pledged to "continue to act to help protect the Libyan people from the brutality of Gaddafi's regime" as well as to " support and stand by them as they seek to take control of their own destiny."