August 10, 2004

Sudan massacres are not genocide, says EU Guardian - The EU said yesterday there was widespread violence in the Darfur region of Sudan but the killings were not genocidal, a potentially crucial distinction which underlined its reluctance to intervene. "We are not in the situation of genocide there," Pieter Feith, an adviser to the EU's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, said in Brussels after returning from a fact-finding visit to Sudan. "But it is clear there is widespread, silent and slow killing and village burning of a fairly large scale. There are considerable doubts as to the willingness of Sudan's government to assume its duty to protect its civilian population against attacks."  10:24:09 AM

Latest Bagle variant bites back VNUNet.com - Security experts have increased the risk assessment on the recently discovered W32/Bagle.aq @ MM virus, also known as Bagle.aq, after finding that the infection is spreading more quickly than originally thought. 7:02:05 AM