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Israel kommer inte att öppna en brottsutredning om flyganfallet mot ett hus i Gaza i november, då tolv civila palestinier dödades.

Tchads president Idriss Deby står fast vid att terroristledaren Mokhtar Belmokhtar är död och säger sig ha bevis för att denne sprängde sig själv.

Totalt 17 personer som blivit fast i stormoväder i Jämtlandsfjällen fick i dag hjälp av fjällräddningen som skjutsade dem i säkerhet med skoter.

En man i 25-årsåldern avled under kvällen i en trafikolycka på E4:an i Örnsköldsvik.

badger.foo writes "When you publicly assert that somebody sent spam, you need to ensure that your data is accurate. Your process needs to be simple and verifiable, and to compensate for any errors, you want your process to be transparent to the public with clear points of contact and line of responsibility. Here are some pointers from the operator of the bsdly.net greytrap-based blacklist."

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Thousands rally on 82nd anniversary of last democratically-elected republic, as monarchy is marred by corruption.

”Ett exempel på hur S skjuter sig i foten”.

An anonymous reader writes "Facebook on Friday released its Android launcher called Home. The company also updated its Facebook app, adding in new permissions to allow it to collect data about the apps you are running. Facebook has set up Home to interface with the main Facebook app on Android to do all the work. In fact, the main Facebook app features all the required permissions letting the Home app meekly state: 'THIS APPLICATION REQUIRES NO SPECIAL PERMISSIONS TO RUN.' As such, it’s the Facebook app that’s doing all the information collecting. It’s unclear, however, if it will do so even if Facebook Home is not installed. Facebook may simply be declaring all the permissions the Home launcher requires, meaning the app only starts collecting data if Home asks it to."

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Patch CPAN modules using Git

A base class providing config, locking, logging, and l10n

client for tarantool's queue

easy DBI helper (perl inside SQL and blessed results)

At least 16 die, including children, in Kurdish village in Hassaka as regime jets pound rebel areas, activists say.

hypnosec writes "The majority of $35 Raspberry Pi production was shifted to a factory in Wales from China and the Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced this week that the factory in Wales has produced its half millionth unit in just over six months. The weekly production has shot up to 40,000 units in the UK factory and that number is 'set to climb further.' The Foundation is optimistic about the Welsh factory and said there will be 'more Made in the U.K. Pis in the world than their Made in China cousins.' The Foundation didn't reveal anything else apart from this but, we already know that it sold the millionth Pi back in January."