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How to hide your data from the NSA
>Editor's note: Doug Gross covers consumer technology and the Web for CNN.com. Follow his updates on Twitter or add him to your Circles on Google+.(CNN) -- Let's face it: Most of us don't e-mail, tweet, text or post anything worthy of clandestine scrutiny. But having concerns about NSA cybersnooping doesn't mean we must surrender all privacy -- what's left of it -- in our day-to-day online ...
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Czech Police Arrest Alleged Georgian Crime Boss
Czech police have arrested an alleged high-ranking member of a Georgian organized criminal group. Czech police officials say the 46-year-old man detained in Prague on June 18 by its organized crime unit is considered a member of the Kutaisi criminal group from Georgia. His name was not released. The suspect's arrest was part of an operation against so-called ...
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Report French military training Syrian rebels
French military officials are training rebels fighting to bring down the Assad regime in the current Syrian conflict, according to a report by Army Radio.The army-run radio station reported that French officers stationed in Jordan and Turkey are currently training the rebels in warfare tactics and weapons usage. Army Radio quoted "experts with access to the information" in their ...
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Fukushima groundwater contains toxin
An aerial view shows the Tokyo Electric Power Company's tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture in this March 11, 2013, file ...
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Alleged sex offender tracked to resort
This 2011 photograph provided by the FBI shows Walter Lee Williams, one of the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives. He has been arrested in the resort city of Playa del Carmen, ...
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UK spying a wake-up call - CDP
Johannesburg - The reported surveillance of South African and Turkish delegations during the G20 summit in Britain should serve as a wake-up call to government, the Christian Democratic Party said on ...
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Fathers grief at train suicide of 18-year-old son Mert Karaoglan and school friend 15
The father of a teenage boy who died after stepping in front of a high-speed train with his girlfriend in an apparent suicide pact has spoken of his ...
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BREAKING NEWS Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans arrested on suspicion of three further offences of indecent assault
The 55-year-old was answering bail today at Preston police station in Lancashire following his arrest in May on suspicion of rape and sexual assault, when he was told that he faces the additional ...
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Victory for families of soldiers killed in Iraq in unprotected snatch Land Rovers to sue Government the government for damages under human rights laws
Families of British soldiers killed fighting in Iraq secured a major victory in their fight to secure damages from the Government for sending troops into battle without proper ...
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Boris Johnson is a rock and roll star Music fans help boost Tory poll rating if London mayor was leader
Boris Johnson could boost support for the Tory party if he became leader by reaching out to rock fans of Nirvana, Jimi Hendrix and Muse, new research ...
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Drunk robber who held up petrol station wearing a SEE-THROUGH plastic bag over his head jailed for two years
Is this Britain's stupidest crook? Drunk robber who held up petrol station wearing a SEE-THROUGH plastic bag over his head is jailed for two ...
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Men dont stand a chance with women if under 6ft Bad luck for Tom Cruise Daniel Radcliffe Jack Black and Seth Green
Tom Cruise, Daniel Radcliffe, Jack Black, Seth Green and Macauley Culkin should probably visit their nearest Cuban heel outlet the next time they're interested in wooing a lady ...
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Rick Stein two rival fish and chip shops and a bitter battle of the signs that has left behind a very bad taste
Row: Celebrated chef Rick Stein is at the centre of a row after two Scottish restaurants claimed they produced the best fish and chips he had ever ...
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Incredible video shows how to fold a t-shirt in just TWO SECONDS
But master this trick and it could be taken care of in seconds - literally. An incredible tutorial, posted on YouTube, shows how to fold a t-shirt or short-sleeved shirt in less than two ...
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UK weather Hottest day of the year with temperatures set to top 27C
The sunshine struggled to break through the cloud yesterday, and the highest temperature recorded was 24C in Manchester - slightly below the high of the year which was 25C on June 6 in Lee-On-Solent, ...
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Ian Brady Moors murderer 75 hatched plot to escape secure hospital by seducing woman visitor
Killer: Brady, sketched at the tribunal yesterday taking notes, is not allowed a pen while in the secure hospital in Merseyside, after he carried it as a ...
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Danny MacAskill Daredevil stunts made to look like childs play as trial rider releases stunning new video inspired by his old toys
Somersaulting over a Formula One car on a BMX, bunny hopping over train tracks and using a giant Dandy comic as an over-sized cycle ramp, a stunning new stunt video could easily have been conceived in the mind of an over imaginative ...
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Catholic cleric to call for dads to be given more recognition for the role they play in shaping society
The head of the Catholic church in England and Wales will call for fathers to be given more recognition for the important role they play in holding society together at a religious summit ...
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World Bank warns Poorest will feel brunt of climate change
In a report released today, the international lending institution warned that heat waves, rising seas, more severe storms and other impacts of climate change will trap millions in poverty."Urgent action is needed to not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but also to help countries prepare for aworldof dramatic climate change and weather extremes,"WorldBankPresident Jim Yong Kim said ...
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In pictures Brazil protests continue for another night
Cities across Brazil were rocked by another day of protests against public services, police violence and government corruption. There were clashes between police and ...
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Obama to revive push for nuclear weapons cuts
U.S. President Barack Obama waves next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel outside the Chancellery in Berlin, June 19, 2013. (REUTERS/Thomas Peter) BERLIN – U.S. President Barack Obama will use a speech on Wednesday to revive proposals for a world without nuclear arms by targeting cuts in deployed nuclear weapons of up to a third below levels achieved in a 2010 treaty with Russia, a senior ...
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The Executioner under microscope in Bulger trial
James "Whitey" Bulger holds John Martorano's youngest son, John Jr., during his Christening ceremony in this undated handout photo provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Massachusetts. Prosecutors showed the photograph to the jury June 18, 2013 as Martorano took the stand in the trial of accused mob boss Bulger, and has implicated him in a dozen killings over the course of ...
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Extending a hand abroad Barack Obama often finds a cold shoulder
Washington: Over porterhouse steak and cherry pie at a desert estate in California earlier this month, President Barack Obama delivered a stern lecture to President Xi Jinping about China's disputes with its neighbors. If it is going to be a rising power, he scolded, it needs to behave like one.The next morning, Xi punched back, accusing the United States of the same computer hacking ...
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Suicide bomber gunmen attack U.N. office in Somalia
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide bomber and several gunmen attacked a United Nations compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police and witnesses said, in a strike that bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda-linked ...
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Afghan government irked over U.S. talks with Taliban
1 of 6. Muhammad Naeem (R), a spokesman for the Office of the Taliban of Afghanistan speaks during the opening of the Taliban Afghanistan Political Office in Doha June 18, ...
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Tuscaloosa bypass remains contentious
The $250 million interstate bypass to the east of Tuscaloosa is moving ahead with infinite lethargy and recently became bogged down in further delays, which were made necessary in part by the fact that the project had become delayed and certain aspects of it were out of date.
It was decided by the city of Tuscaloosa in 1989 that they needed a bypass to the east to relieve some of the traffic on U.S. Highway 43 and U.S. Highway 82, both of which were reaching their carrying capacity and creating massive backlogs and congestion on Woolsey Finnell Bridge, which crosses the Black Warrior River. Read more
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