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Traumatized woman, Bosnian Muslim rape victim. | Photo Anthony LLoyd, war correspondent and former British Army officer. UK to deploy rape investigation squad to war zones http://www.asafeworldforwomen.org/conflict/cp-global/2545-war-rape-investigation-squad.html Source: Guardian UK | Julian Borger The UK is setting up a special rapid deployment unit to collect evidence on mass  rape  used as a weapon during global conflicts, as part of a broader initiative to be launched on Tuesday to combat sexual  war crimes  of the kind seen in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, central Africa, and now in Syria. The team of experts being created by the Foreign Office will be drawn from a pool of British police, forensic experts, doctors, psychologists and lawyers and is expected to be in action by the end of this year, ready to be sent to war zones at short notice wherever there are signs of sexual abuse on a large scale. One of their first destinations could well be ...

Flame: world's most complex computer virus exposed http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9295938/Flame-worlds-most-complex-computer-virus-exposed.html The world's most complex computer virus, possessing a range of complex espionage capabilities, including the ability to secretly record conversations, has been exposed. An Iranian technician works at the Uranium Conversion Facility near Isfahan. Stuxnet attacked Iran's nuclear programme in 2010 Photo: AP By  Damien McElroy , Christopher Williams 7:06PM BST 28 May 2012 191 Comments Middle Eastern states were targeted and  Iran  ordered an emergency review of official computer installations after the discovery of a new virus, known as Flame. Experts said the massive malicious software was 20 times more powerful than other known cyber warfare programmes including the Stuxnet virus and could only have been created by a state. I...

Casseroles: pots and pans protest video from Montreal goes viral http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/casseroles-pots-pans-protest-video-quebec-goes-viral-164926816.html By  Alina Seagal  |  Daily Brew  –  Sat, 26 May, 2012 Striking Quebecers are getting creative. Protesters — dubbed 'casseroles' — took to the streets with pots and pans in Montreal and other Quebec cities this week. But loud noise wasn't the only thing they've created. Take a look at this beautiful black-and-white video going viral at the moment. Doesn't it sound like a hymn to the protesters? Thousands of Facebook and Twitter references have been made to the short film since it went live on Vimeo 24 hours ago. It had more than 100,000 views since then. The pots and pans movement came from Chile, where it has been used as a loud but peaceful way to express discontent  since the '70 s. In Canada, Montreal police declared the event illegal on ...

Manning backers oppose ‘outrageous secrecy’ of trial http://rt.com/usa/news/manning-trial-secrecy-petition-208/ Get short URL   email story to a friend   print version Published: 25 May, 2012, 15:15 Army Pfc. Bradley Manning leaves the courthouse after his motion hearing at Fort Meade in Maryland (REUTERS/Jose Luis Magaua) TAGS:  Crime ,  Protest ,  Politics ,  USA ,  WikiLeaks Supporters of WikiLeaks informer Bradley Manning say he is being tried amid far more secrecy than any terrorist in Guantanamo. They want prosecution motions, transcripts of proceeding and other material to be released to the public. Led by the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, a specially formed coalition supporting Manning calls unconstitutional the military trial of the man, who allegedly handed over thousands of US secret papers to the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. Manning is facing 22 charges related to ...

$10 million a year: the average salary of an American CEO http://rt.com/usa/news/million-year-average-ceo-232/ © Autonomous Nonprofit Organization “TV-Novosti”, 2005–2012. All rights reserved. Get short URL   email story to a friend   print version Published: 25 May, 2012, 19:53 Image from mobilmusic.ru TAGS:  USA ,  Economy ,  Finance If you weren’t sold on the whole Occupy Wall Street thing before, then listen up — despite the United States still in the process of picking itself out of a major recession, the average corporate CEO raked in nearly $10 million apiece in 2011. The results of a study published on Friday by the Associated Press reveal that, on average, the chief executive officers at public companies raked in around $9.6 million each last year. But how does that rack up when compared to the average American? The median pay for a worker in the US in 2011 was clocked in at o...

Family http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see  Family (disambiguation) . Relationships Types [show] Activities [show] Ending of [show] Emotions [show] Human practices [show] Abuse [show] v   t   e In  human   context , a family (from  Latin : familia) is a  group  of  people  affiliated by  consanguinity ,  affinity , or co-residence. In most societies it is the principal institution for the socialization of children. Anthropologists most generally classify family organization as  matrilocal  (a mother and her children); conjugal (a wife, husband, and children, also called  nuclear family ); and  consanguinal  (also called an extended family) in which parents and children co-reside with o...