Google changes China access after Beijing objects
BEIJING, China – Google Inc. said Tuesday it will stop automatically routing users in China to its Hong Kong site after Beijing threatened the company with the loss of its Internet licence in their latest skirmish over censorhip.
Israeli FM: No Palestinian state by 2012
JERUSALEM – Israel’s hard-line foreign minister said Tuesday that there was “no chance” a Palestinian state would be established by 2012 — a message that threatened to cloud the latest visit by President Barack Obama’s Mideast envoy.
UN: human traffickers make $3 bn a year in Europe
MADRID – Traffickers who subject women and children to prostitution and forced labour are engaged in one of Europe’s most lucrative crimes — a €2.5 billion a year, modern-day slave trade whose victims are growing by 50 per cent annually, a United Nations agency said Tuesday.

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