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Wikileaks faces fire after exposing sensitive US sources
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Google’s Eric Schmidt bashes Britain
Addressing the annual Edinburgh International Television Festival, Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google, lambasted the United Kingdom for allowing itself to throw “away your great…
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