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WORLD SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 2013
Reddit co-founder commits suicide
WASHINGTON: Aaron Swartz,
an Internet genius who helped deliver new Web content to users by co-developing Reddit and RSS before becoming a digital activist, has committed suicide. He was 26. Ellen Borakove, spokeswoman for New York's chief medical examiner, told AFP that Swartz had hanged himself and was pronounced dead late Friday in the city's Brooklyn borough. At the time of his death, Swartz, who had gone on to press for free public access to Web content, was just weeks away from being put on trial on accusations of stealing millions of scientific and literary journal
Paris braces for anti-gay protest PARIS: Tens of thousands are set to march in Paris on Sunday to denounce government plans to legalise same-sex marriage and adoption which have angered many Catholics and Muslims, France's two main faiths.
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AARON WAS WEEKS AWAY FROM BEING TRIED FOR ACCUSATIONS OF STEALING MILLIONS OF SCIENTIFIC AND LITERARY JOURNAL ARTICLES FROM THE SUBSCRIPTION-ONLY JSTOR SERVICE. articles from the subscriptiononly JSTOR service. He faced decades in prison and $1 million in fines if convicted. Following the activist's 2011 arrest in Boston, his anti-censorship group Demand Progress said the
British army makes Falkland plans
Israel evicts Palestines from sites for settlement
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ritish defence officials have prepared plans for dealing with aggressive action by Argentina towards the disputed Falkland Islands, the Sunday Telegraph reported. Military chiefs have drawn up proposals for the deployment of extra troops, another warship and additional RAF Typhoon jets ahead of the March vote on the islands' future, according to the report. A senior defence source told the paper: "Britain needs to be in a situation to respond very quickly to a whole series of threats -- that is why we have contingency plans. Our posture has not changed but neither are we complacent."
ZAIM: Israeli police early Sunday evicted Palestinian protesters from a hilltop camp they set up in a West Bank area slated for Jewish settlement, police and witnesses said. "Israel forces have entered the camp," one of the protest organisers, Abir Copty confirmed to AFP. About 200 Palestinian activists set up the camp, named Bab al-Shams (Gate of the Sun in Arabic), on Friday in the controversial E1 area between Israeli annexed east Jerusalem and the settlement of Maaleh Adumim. The protesters had defied Israeli orders to leave until police backed by bulldozers moved in at around 0030 GMT.
Mallory Hagan is Miss America
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WASHINGTON: The Obama administration on Saturday ruled out calls for minting a $1 trillion platinum coin to avert a crisis over the US debt ceiling amid partisan bickering. The US Treasury officially killed the idea, leaving Congress with the responsibility to increase the government's borrowing limit. "Neither the Treasury Department nor the Federal Reserve believes that the law can or should be used to facilitate the production of platinum coins for the purpose of avoiding an increase in the debt limit," Treasury spokesman Anthony Coley said in a statement. The notion had already been put forward during the
prosecution "makes no sense." "It's like trying to put someone in jail for allegedly checking too many books out of the library," the group's executive director David Segar said then. The hacktivist's family and friends placed some of the blame for his suicide on prosecutors and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Swartz made the JSTOR download using a laptop he placed in a utility closet. "Aaron's death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach," they said in a public AFP statement.
$1trillion coin won’t be happening
A line of teddy bears with US President Barack Obama sashes sit on a shelf at the opening of the Official Inaugural Store in Washington. AFP
2011 debt ceiling debacle, and was revived this year amid fears Congress will not clinch a deal and thus risk causing the United States to default on its bills and financial obligations.
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration on Saturday ruled out calls for minting a $1 trillion platinum coin to avert a crisis over the US debt ceiling amid partisan bickering. The US Treasury officially killed the idea, leaving Congress with the responsibility to increase the government's borrowing limit. The United States hit its $16.4 trillion debt ceiling on December 31. AFP
iss New York Mallory Hytes Hagan, a 23-yearold native of Brooklyn, was crowned Miss America late Saturday, beating rivals from all 50 US states. Hagan appeared to have won over the jury when asked if armed guards should be place in schools in the wake of last month's deadly shooting spree in Newtown, Connecticut. Violence should not be fought with violence, she replied. Twenty elementary school students and six teachers were killed in Newtown when a gunman opened fire inside a local school. As Miss America, Hagan will receive a $50,000 scholarship and will spend a year speaking and raising money for the Children's Miracle Network, the pageant's official charity.
Tibetan immolation in Western China
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Tibetan has died after setting himself on fire to protest at China's rule of the Himalayan region in the first self-immolation this year, a rights group and overseas media said. The man burned himself to death on Saturday, said Londonbased pressure group Free Tibet and US-based Radio Free Asia (RFA), in what is thought to be the first such act since December 9. The incident happened in Xiahe in western China's Gansu province, known as Sangchu in Tibetan. The body of the man, named Tsebe or Tseba, was carried back to his home village following a protest.