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For that reason,the Defense Ministry department responsible for exports,known by its Hebrew acronym SIBAT,has been searching over the past two years to create new partnerships across the globe with a particular emphasis on South America and Asia.In 2011,for example,SIBAT opened new offices in Mexico and Canada and it is actively working with a number of Israeli companies to establish joint ventures with companies in India and South Korea.What will happen with Turkey is still unclear,though. While prime ministers Benjamin Netanyahu and Recep Tayyip Erdogan have agreed to put the 2010 Mavi Marmara flotilla incident behind them,the countries have yet to restore full diplomatic ties.
We cannot afford to lose this vital law enforcement tool. But currently online communication by criminals can't always be tracked.That's why the Government is proposing to help the police stay one step ahead of the criminals.There are no plans for any big Government database. No one is going to be looking through ordinary people's emails or Facebook posts.Only suspected terrorists, paedophiles or serious criminals will be investigated. ? Richard Evans in the Daily Telegraph says George Osborne's "granny tax" breaks a promise he made to pensioners in last year's budget.In the 2012 Budget last month George Osborne froze pensioners' tax-free allowance. But last year the Government promised that the age-related personal allowance would be increased in line with the retail prices index until at least 2015, campaigners have discovered.
The high court was particularly hard on the team of independent forensic examiners,who they say erred during the appellate process. The high court called into question not only their methods in attempting to prove that evidence was contaminated,but their seeming alliance with the defense teams against the state’s prosecutor and Kercher’s own lawyers. Rumors around Perugia,
ytcgzx.net,where the appeal took place,have long suggested that the team was working for the defense,
cnnhkids.com,possibly even for monetary gain. Those allegations may soon become part of a separate judicial inquiry to be filed by the family of Meredith Kercher,bolstered by the high-court ruling. "The theory ‘anything is possible’ in genetic testing is not valid," wrote the judges.
On the positive side of the ledger,there was a great feel-good Wall Street Journal op-ed on Saturday about how students using the new upgrade can turn their smartphones into microscopes.The best stories out of the weekend came from the crazy Apple store lines.In Southern California,homeless people were hired to wait overnight and buy iPhones for a businessman. He reportedly paid each $20-40 per device. Predictably,when things did not go according to plan with a few of the homeless hires (their tickets were not accepted in the Apple store),a scuffle ensued and the businessman was taken away by police. According to the Los Angeles Times,many of the homeless were left stranded and uncompensated after he left.
" But we shouldn't be so credulous. To appreciate the full weirdness of Bennett's move,remember that Israel's entire governmental and judiciary apparatus had been churning away for months in an effort to resolve the Western Wall dispute. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had tasked Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky with devising a proposal that would satisfy both the women's group and the ultra-Orthodox rabbis who govern the holy site. Sharansky's proposal for a separate egalitarian prayer space won broad support from non-Orthodox Israeli and American Jews,but its relevance was soon undermined by a Jerusalem District Court ruling that affirmed women's right to pray according to their custom at the site itself.
Rallies and detentions occurred all across the country,
www.cnnhkids.com,from Moscow to Vladivostok. By 9.30 p.m. yesterday police had detained around 100 in Moscow and St. Petersburg. But arrests do not surprise anybody here; authorities have ordered arrests of political opponents throughout the entire 12-year era of Vladimir Putin. But for the first time,the opposition lost a major leader,a man who had a chance to play a serious role in Russian politics. Yesterday Navalny had received an official paper that said he was a registered candidate for Moscow mayoral elections—and today he was convicted.A group of young friends in the crowd were smiling happily as they watched more rows of police and soldiers line up along both sides of Tverskaya Avenue.
"It is time Ofqual put an end to the myth that mathematics and media studies are 'equivalent'" ...Figures obtained by Miss Truss show the proportion of pupils taking A-level subjects in each type of school and college in 2010.Some 9.9 per cent of comprehensive school pupils sat a media studies A-level, rising to 14.6 per cent in secondary moderns and 12.2 per cent in further education colleges. But just 1.5 per cent of teenagers in the fee-paying sector took courses in the subject, while it was sat by only four per cent of students from state grammar schools. ? Andrew Grice in the Independent says Ed Balls has rejected calls from Ed Miliband's camp to admit that Labour spent too much when it was in power.
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