Flaggorna i Nederländerna vajade på halv stång när planen med de första kropparna efter flygkraschen i östra Ukraina landade. Nu väntar ett långsamt och svårt identifieringsarbete.

Advocatus Diaboli sends this report: The Obama administration has quietly approved a substantial expansion of the terrorist watchlist system, authorizing a secret process that requires neither "concrete facts" nor "irrefutable evidence" to designate an American or foreigner as a terrorist, according to a key government document obtained by The Intercept. ...The heart of the document revolves around the rules for placing individuals on a watchlist. "All executive departments and agencies," the document says, are responsible for collecting and sharing information on terrorist suspects with the National Counterterrorism Center. It sets a low standard—"reasonable suspicion"—for placing names on the watchlists, and offers a multitude of vague, confusing, or contradictory instructions for gauging it. In the chapter on "Minimum Substantive Derogatory Criteria"—even the title is hard to digest—the key sentence on reasonable suspicion offers little clarity.

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Den danska diplomaten Ellen Margrethe Løj utnämndes på onsdagen till FN:s särskilda sändebud till världens yngsta nation Sydsudan, av världsorganisationens generalsekreterare Ban Ki-Moon.

Den danska diplomaten Ellen Margrethe Løj utnämndes på onsdagen till FN:s särskilda sändebud till världens yngsta nation Sydsudan, av världsorganisationens generalsekreterare Ban Ki-Moon.

Forskningsanläggningen Max IV i Lund kan bli dyrare än väntat att hålla igång om den byggs ut i sin fulla omfattning, har SvD rapporterat om. Satsningen riskerar att tränga undan annan forskning på Lunds universitet. Men de ansvariga för projektet tillbakavisar kritiken.

Forskningsanläggningen Max IV i Lund kan bli dyrare än väntat att hålla igång om den byggs ut i sin fulla omfattning, har SvD rapporterat om. Satsningen riskerar att tränga undan annan forskning på Lunds universitet. Men de ansvariga för projektet tillbakavisar kritiken.

Al Jazeera complains to Israeli prime minister after shots are fired at its bureau in Gaza City.

En person avled och en skadades allvarligt vid en trafikolycka på länsväg 740 på Orust norr om Göteborg på onsdagen. Enligt uppgift körde bilen ned i ett dike i hög fart och voltade ut i terrängen. När räddningstjänsten anlände satt en av de två män som färdades i bilen fastklämd medan den andra hade slungats ur fordonet. Den omkomne var sent på onsdagskvällen ännu inte identifierad.

An anonymous reader writes: Andrew Binstock has an article about the ever-increasing complexity required to write code. He says, "I got into programming because I like creating stuff. Not just any stuff, but stuff other people find useful. I like the constant problem solving, the use of abstractions that exist for long periods nowhere but in my imagination, and I like seeing the transformation into a living presence. ... The simple programs of a few hundred lines of C++ long ago disappeared from my experience. What was the experience of riding a bicycle has become the equivalent of traveling by jumbo jet; replete with the delays, inspections, limitations on personal choices, and sudden, unexplained cancellations — all at a significantly higher cost. ... Project overhead, even for simple projects, is so heavy that it's a wonder anyone can find the time to code, much less derive joy from it. Software development has become a mostly operational activity, rather than a creative one. The fundamental problem here is not the complexity of apps, but the complexity of tools. Tools have gone rather haywire during the last decade chasing shibboleths of scalability, comprehensiveness, performance. Everything except simplicity."

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A crew of sailors is embarking on a pioneering citizen science expedition through the Northwest Passage between Canada and Greenland.

A crew of sailors is embarking on a pioneering citizen science expedition through the Northwest Passage between Canada and Greenland.

Representatives of Muslim-majority Seleka sign agreement with Christian groups that aims to end months of violence.

Representatives of Muslim-majority Seleka sign agreement with Christian groups that aims to end months of violence.