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Adam Mynott is dazed by an extraordinary few days as Sonia Gandhi wins the election but refuses to become prime minister. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] 'I ponder on how a woman almost single-handedly led her party to victory in the world's largest democracy, saying all along that she had no desire to be prime minister.
She apparently came within a whisker of taking the job, and then decided not to.
The real reasons for that decision will probably only be known when Sonia Gandhi writes her autobiography.
But out of this chaos and crisis her enemies have been humbled and scattered, and she has emerged the unchallenged champion of all India - a true Gandhi.' .< 3:04:36 PM  >Putin U-turn could rescue Kyoto The Russian president says he will move towards ratification, in return for a deal on WTO entry. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] .< 2:32:56 AM >New Abuse Images Pile Pressure on U.S. in Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - Fresh images, including graphic video of U.S. soldiers beating and humiliating Iraqis, rocked the U.S. mission in Iraq again Friday, days before President Bush lays out his plan to hand back power to Iraqis. [Reuters: World] .< 2:32:24 AM >U.S. Seeks UN Exemption from New International Court UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States is pushing for a U.N. exemption for its peacekeepers from prosecution by a global criminal court, an action human rights groups said on Friday was unjustified so soon after the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. [Reuters: World] .< 1:50:42 AM >Mac OS X Security Update A Mac OS X update addresses a theoretical vulnerability in the Help Viewer application that could have been exposed when browsing the web. The update is available automatically to all users through Apple’s free Software Update service. [May 21] [Apple Hot News] Do it now folks. This one's potentially nasty. .< 1:35:28 AM >Every Mac Owner: Update Now to Fix Security Flaw Apple just released the patches that fix the security exploit discovered this last week that allows a Web page to execute an AppleScript of any kind on your system if it's running Mac OS X 10.2 or 10.3. You can run Software Update, or download the 10.3.3 (Panther) or 10.2.8 (Jaguar) updaters.... [GlennLog] .< 12:35:56 AM >eWeek : "The technology at the heart... eWeek: "The technology at the heart of one of the most popular Web-logging tools is about to go open source." [Scripting News] |
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