Cuban court rejects appeal by U.S. contractor: "Alan P. Gross of Potomac has been held since December 2009 for distributing satellite communications equipment to Cuba’s Jewish community. He was sentenced in March for his activities, which Cuban authorities claimed were aimed at undermining the island’s Communist government. ... At the time of his arrest, Gross was working for a Bethesda firm, Development Alternatives, which had won a $6 million contract from the U.S. Agency for International Development [выделено мной - вс] to promote democracy in Cuba. His work included the distribution of satellite phone equipment and computer gear." ... как трогательно. а Haaretz для пущей трогательности размещает фото и добавляет ключевое слово в заголовок: Cuba upholds 15-year sentence for American-Jewish contractor Alan Gross.
Poland's former deputy prime minister Andrzej Lepper was found dead in his apartment in the capital, Warsaw, on Thursday, his party said in a statement. - сообщает CNN. при этом почему-то не сообщает, что The news agency PAP said it learned that Lepper had hanged himself. наверное PAP держит это от CNN в секрете, как и то, что Andrzej Lepper, a pig farmer-turned-firebrand populist who was briefly deputy prime minister in a shaky government and who was later disgraced by bribery and sex scandals. зачем расстраивать население, действительно. пусть этим Forbes занимается.
31 Americans Killed as Taliban Shoot Down a Copter - says nyt, but this news item is absent [conspicuously] from the Google World News page, even though it was there a couple hrs ago. Guardian in their coverage of this event says that Classified military reports released by WikiLeaks last year showed that the US military covered up a reported surface-to-air missile strike that downed a Chinook helicopter over Helmand, killing seven soldiers.
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