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World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee delivers a speech at the Bilbao Web Summit in the Palacio Euskalduna, on May 17, 2011. (Reuters/Vincent West)


Opinion: Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s Online Magna Carta

Opinion: Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s Online Magna Carta

In addition to the sheer magnitude of the tragedy and the sorrow at the fate of the passengers of the missing Malaysian Airlines plane, a significant part of what has puzzled the world regarding this mystery for over a week now is that no one can believe that in this...
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US soldier Bradley Manning is escorted into court to receive his sentence at Fort Meade in Maryland August 21, 2013. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)


Manning sentenced to 35 years in WikiLeaks case

Manning sentenced to 35 years in WikiLeaks case

Fort Meade, AP—US soldier Bradley Manning was sentenced Wednesday to 35 years in prison for giving hundreds of thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, the largest such leak in the country’s history. The...
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Private First Class Bradley Manning is escorted out of court after testifying in the sentencing phase of his military trial at Fort Meade, Maryland August 14, 2013. (REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan)


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A man exits the Terminal E of Sheremetyevo aiport, outside Moscow, Russia, 01 August 2013. Russia granted Edward Snowden temporary asylum and let the US whistleblower leave the Moscow airport where he had been staying for almost five weeks. (EPA/Maxim Shipenkov)


Snowden leaves airport after Russia grants asylum

Snowden leaves airport after Russia grants asylum

Moscow, AP—National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden left the transit zone of a Moscow airport and officially entered Russia after authorities granted him asylum for a year, his lawyer said Thursday, a move that suggests the Kremlin isn’t shying away from...
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In this July 30, 2013 photo, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted out of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)


Bradley Manning: WikiLeaks case turns to sentencing

Bradley Manning: WikiLeaks case turns to sentencing

United States, AP—Acquitted of the most serious charge against him, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning still faces up to 136 years in prison for leaking government secrets to the website WikiLeaks, and his fate rests with a judge who will begin hearing arguments Wednesday in...