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Diplomacy: National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden seems to have taken Venezuela's asylum offer, an odd choice for a man supposedly motivated by a desire for transparency. He should prepare for life as a pawn. U.S. surveillance is "not something I am willing to live under," Snowden told the U.K. Guardian's Glenn Greenwald, in a story published Monday, condemning yet again the NSA, whose operations, he claims, motivated him to hack into its computers, steal U.S. secrets, leak them to the press, and then flee a $100,000-a-year job and a pole-dancing girlfriend on the island paradise of Hawaii for a...

Next GOP Debate Will Be Tonight Published: 1:17 AM, 11/12/2011 Last updated: 1:22 AM, 11/12/2011 Source: The Greeneville Sun The latest in the series of televised debates among the candidates for the Republican nomination for President is scheduled for tonight. The debate is taking place at Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., and will focus on national security and foreign policy. The debate is being hosted by CBS News and the National Jo urnal, and will begin at 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on the CBS Television Network.

Tibetan monks, Xinjiang Muslims, but also non violent dissidents, farmers and members of underground religious communities are among those arrested. Youth crime climbs by 19.1 per cent.Beijing (AsiaNews/SCMP) – China’s courts were not idle in 2004. More than 800,000 people were arrested last year for endangering state security or for being involved in activities regarded as separatist, terrorist or extremist. In total, 811,102 people were held, an 8.3 per cent increase from 2003. The courts last year prosecuted 867,186 people in connection with those crimes. In his annual report to the National People’s Congress (NPC), Jia Chunwang, head of the...