Employment increased by 43,000 in January, all in part time, pushing the unemployment rate down 0.1 percentage points to 8.3%. January marks the fourth employment gain in six months.
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According to Maj. Gen. Yadlin of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), cyberwarfare is divided into three areas: intelligence gathering, defense and attack. "Anyone who is able to hack (personal computers, cell phones and internet) ends up knowing quite a lot. If you catch my drift," warns the Military Intelligence chief.
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Canadian hoteliers' business outlook for the traveller accommodation industries was less pessimistic for the first quarter than it had been in the previous four quarters.
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The pirate "mothership" to which the sea-jacked vehicle carrier ASIAN GLORY was commandeered to during recent days has been identified as the MSV FAIZ OSAMANI (aka MSV FAIZE E OSMANI), an Indian-flagged cargo vessel, which had been captured by five Somali pirates 150 nm east of Socotra Island as we reported on January 28, 2010.
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"The last pirate left at around 22h00 local time (19h00 UTC) and the vessel is supposed to sail free," one of ECOTERRA's marine observers reported a short while ago.
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BEIJING - China on Saturday decided to suspend scheduled visits between the Chinese and U.S. armed forces, in response to Washington's plan to sell a package of arms worth about 6.4 billion U.S. dollars to Taiwan.
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McMinnville, Ore. - Evergreen’s long history of providing humanitarian relief continued this week with its donated missions to survey rural orphanages in Haiti employing Elbit Systems' Skylark® I LE Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
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Ottawa (Canada) — The Index of Consumer Confidence rose 13.8 percentage points in January to a 23-month high, according to the Conference Board of Canada.
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Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika has succeeded Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi as the new chairman of the African Union (AU).
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Somali pirates have commandeered the sea-jacked vehicle carrier VC Asian Glory from the holding area off Hobyo towards the Seychelles in order to refuel one of the pirate mother-ships, which has run out of fuel.
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