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Prosecutor seeks Sudan genocide charges
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, July 14 (UPI) -- Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir was accused of genocide and crimes against humanity Monday by the International Criminal Court prosecutor.
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Prosecutor charges Sudan president with genocide
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court filed genocide charges Monday against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, accusing him of masterminding attempts to wipe out African tribes in Darfur with a campaign of murder, rape and deportation.The filing marked the first time prosecutors at the world's first permanent, global war crimes court have issued charges against a sitting head of state, but al-Bashir is unlikely to be sent to The Hague any time soon. Sudan rejects the court's jurisdiction, and senior Sudanese officials said the prosecutor was politically motivated to file the charges.read more
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Charges against Sudanese president
Associated Press - July 14, 2008 7:43 AM ET THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has filed genocide charges against Sudan's president.
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Ex-commander links Khartoum to massacres
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, July 13 (UPI) -- Prosecutors say a former Janjaweed militiaman is readying testimony placing responsibility for mass killings in Darfur on the Sudanese government.
United Press International  –  Jul 13, 2008 5:09 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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High-stakes fundraiser dons diplomat's hat
Jim Culbertson is spending these days packing for his new job as U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands -- a diplomatic plum he never thought he would take.
The News & Observer  –  Jul 13, 2008 05:30 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Wooed by Netherlands, a Swimmer Stays for the Challenge
At the Olympics, each country is limited to two swimmers in the 100 backstroke and Matt Grevers’s road to Beijing was all uphill. Still, he could not bring himself to go Dutch.
New York Times  –  Jul 12, 2008 7:06 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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World Brief | Europe: The Netherlands: African Viruskills Tourist After Her Return
A Dutch woman has died from Marburg hemorrhagic fever, a rare Ebola-like virus she is thought to have caught from bats while touring caves in Uganda.
New York Times  –  Jul 12, 2008 03:16 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Dork Talk: Giles Foden reviews Motorola's two-way radios
1978, Blantyre, Malawi. Beneath a bough of bougainvillea, a 10 year old is talking about a revolution. Crouched by a wire fence, I'm using a large spoon and my mother's Grundig Music Boy to liaise with President Nyerere's troops across the border in Tanzania. Our joint mission: to overthrow the dictatorship of Hastings Kamuzu Banda, the Malawian leader. Soon after, I'm in serious trouble, having snapped the Grundig's telescopic antenna. Of this I am certain: had I had my father's much larger Eddystone Marine short-wave set, with its own wire aerial that drapes from tree to tree, President Nyerere would have replied. 1980, Tarbert, Kerry. At the back of the stables, a big Bakelite radio is unearthed. It works! I wheel the creaking dial back through Helsinki, Luxembourg, Athlone ... I decide I'm going to dismantle it, in order to make a transmitter. I remove valves from their sockets, lift the cable from tuning wheel, unwind transformers. In the midst of it all, wax is discovered, slathering chunky capacitors, covering insect-like resistors. Nothing comes of the dissection. No transmission is ever heard again, never mind sent. It is fantasy. These radios are just receivers. When in the depot of my boarding school's army cadet corps, I glimpse from under my beret a big British Army wireless (complete with microphone and headset), I set my heart on genuine transmission. Seeing the vast array of equipment of a blind great-uncle who is a radio amateur whets my appetite further. 1982, Malvern, Worcestershire. Beginning with a Radio Shack breadboard, I assemble according to instructions a morse code transmitter. It makes dots and dashes appear on nearby television screens. Later, I graduate to an illegal CB radio set, complete with whippy aerial. I stash the transceiver in my study bedroom, running coaxial cable up to a roof parapet where the antenna can stand. I achieve some success with my "one four for a copy" bids for contact. For a brief period, CB becomes a means of meeting girls in town. And there they end, my radio days. The desperate need to communicate is diverted into relationships - and that other world of joy and pain, writing. As the years go by, CB goes legit. Mobile phones arrive, the internet comes on stream. On a vast scale, the desperate need is fulfilled; yet at the same time, curiously, it's denied all the more. Meanwhile the radio amateur, like his shed-bound confrère the practical engineer, is edged further to the fringes of society. What use, then, the Motorola Tlkr T5s, a pair of stylish two-way radios (£59.99, from amazon.co.uk, or Currys stores nationwide)? They're certainly not much cop in the city - obstructions affect the range of transmission - but the baby monitor function is useful. The T5s come into their own during outdoor adventures. I achieved good results testing ours on Exmoor, in a spot where mobile phone reception was not available. There are five call tones, so a number of T5s could effectively be used as a mini phone net. After mobiles, it's hard getting used to the stop-start effect of send and receive. My Motorolas come under the PMR 446 (Personal Mobile Radio, 446 Mhz) licence exemption of the European Union. This exemption is for consumer-grade walkie-talkies to be used anywhere in Europe. PMRs give an average range of four miles, depending on terrain. But radio waves can do strange things. The long-distance record for PMR 446 is more than 300 miles, from Blyth in Northumberland to Almere in the Netherlands. There are eight standard channels and any PMR 446 radio from any brand should be compatible with any other PMR 446 radio. The Motorolas also have 121 subchannels, which gets round the problem of too many other people using them. Then again, I didn't hear another soul apart from my young son squawking "over, over". His radio days are just beginning. They may involve these kinds of radios; all over Europe, people are using a combination of the internet and PMRs to set up outfits such as the Free Radio Network (freeradionetwork.nl) as a way of sidestepping mobile phone operators. So the revolution continues.
The Guardian  –  Jul 11, 2008 11:01 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Boots on the ground in Nijmegen, Netherlands
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ETC Simulation Receives New ADMS Contract From Netherlands Institute for Safety
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PR Newswire  –  Jul 10, 2008 12:07 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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