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Republican-led House passes bill restricting abortion

Jun 19 2013

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Tuesday passed legislation severely restricting abortions, a move that could alienate women from the conservative party.

WikiLeaks' Assange fears U.S., says will stay in London embassy

Jun 19 2013

LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will not leave the sanctuary of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London even if Sweden stops pursuing sexual assault claims against him because he fears arrest on the order of the United States.

NSA head, lawmakers defend surveillance programs

Jun 19 2013

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the National Security Agency said U.S. surveillance programs had helped disrupt more than 50 possible attacks since September 11, 2001, as sympathetic members of Congress also defended the use of the top-secret spying operations.

Moves to limit contractor access to secrets meets resistance

Jun 19 2013

(Reuters) - Industry executives and some corners of the U.S. intelligence community are pushing back against possible legislative moves to curb contractors' access to classified information.

U.S. says surveillance thwarted NYSE attack, Somali funding

Jun 19 2013

(Reuters) WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday identified two of the more than 50 classified cases in which they say National Security Agency eavesdropping helped thwart terrorist plots including a planned attack on the New York Stock Exchange.

United States to meet Taliban to seek Afghan peace

Jun 19 2013

WASHINGTON/KABUL (Reuters) - The United States and the Taliban raised hopes on Tuesday for a negotiated peace in Afghanistan with commitments to meet this week after 12 years of bloody and costly war between American-led forces and the insurgents.

G8 urges Syria peace talks as fighting flares in north

Jun 19 2013

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Differences between Russia and the West mean an international peace conference on Syria is now unlikely before August, a source at a meeting of Group of Eight leaders said on Tuesday as surging government forces brought heavy fighting to Aleppo.

NSA head, lawmakers defend surveillance programs

Jun 18 2013

Republican-led House passes bill restricting abortion

Jun 18 2013

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed legislation that would ban late-term abortions, a move that could alienate women from the conservative party.

Italian court says Knox murder acquittal had inconsistencies

Jun 18 2013

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's top court said on Tuesday it had ordered a retrial of American Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend in the murder of British student Meredith Kercher because their acquittals contained "shortcomings, contradictions and inconsistencies."

Basic Troubleshooting Steps for Your Computer

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Waking up in the morning with tons of work to do, you’ve found that your computer isn’t working once again. Maybe this is becoming quite a problem. How…

7 Things to Consider When Building a Game Developer Team

Saturday, June 8, 2013

When developing games, a number of things must be done. These include thinking up of a story, devising gameplay, putting together graphics and assembling a team of developers….