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Haiti`s Devastation

The world’s natural concern for others has been noticed and is worthy of admiration, especially in Haiti, where people exist more as a happening than as a government for and of the people.

(PASO ROBLES, Calif.) - The devastation in Haiti and the nature of the people is such that - without a workable government of their own - chaos appears to me to be the order of the day for the foreseeable future.

The question is, how best can individuals help?

Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton Remark on Developments in Haiti

Remarks were made from the White House Rose Garden this morning.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good morning, everybody. In times of great challenge in our country and around the world, Americans have always come together to lend a hand and to serve others and to do what's right.

That's what the American people have been doing in recent days with their extraordinary generosity and contributions to the Haitian people.

State Dept. Launches Person-Finder Tool to Locate the Missing in Haiti

Secretary Clinton Announces Launch of State.Gov Person Finder Tool for Those Missing in Haiti

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced today the launch of a new tool on state.gov, the “Person Finder,” to allow people to find and share information on missing loved ones in Haiti.

People around the world are turning to the Internet to search for information on friends and family in Haiti: however, accurate information is fragmented and difficult to locate.

Secretary-General to Travel to Haiti in Show of Solidarity

The UN launched a flash appeal for some $550 million this afternoon.

(NEW YORK) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will travel to Haiti to show solidarity with the people of the impoverished nation.

UN emergency teams on the ground estimate that as many of half of the buildings in the worst-hit areas of the capital have been damaged or destroyed.

Operation `Aurora` Hit Google, Others

The current bumper crop of malware is very sophisticated, highly targeted, and designed to infect, conceal access, siphon data or, even worse, modify data without detection.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - McAfee Labs has been working around the clock, diving deep into the attack we are now calling Aurora that hit multiple companies and was publicly disclosed by Google on Tuesday.

We are working with multiple organizations that were impacted by this attack as well as the government and law enforcement.

Venezuela Intercepts Two U.S. Drug Trafficking Planes

So far in 2010 some 1,400 pounds of illegal drugs have been seized by Venezuelan authorities in various anti-drug operations.

(CARACAS) - At dawn on Monday a U.S. registered plane used for drug trafficking was intercepted and seized, said the Minister of People's Power for Interior and Justice Tareck El Aissami.

The minister noted that the plane, which had come from Central America, illegally entered Venezuelan airspace and refused to communicate with Venezuelan air traffic controllers. It was immediately intercepted and forced to land, he explained.

Repercussions Expected Over Google`s China Operations

Cyber-attacks directed against Google draw a response from the company and questions from U.S. officials.

(HONG KONG) - Google's announcement this week that it will quit filtering its Web-based searches in China and may leave the country altogether may affect the operations of other foreign firms in China, sources said.

“Google has posed a tremendous challenge to the Chinese government,” Internet research expert Isaac Mao said on Twitter.

Google Rebels Against China`s Internet Censors

China, which is on the list of countries identified by Reporters Without Borders as “Enemies of the Internet,” with the world’s biggest prison for netizens, with a total of 69 bloggers and cyberdissidents detained.

(BEIJING) - Reporters Without Borders hails US Internet giant Google’s announcement yesterday that it will stop censoring the Chinese version of its search engine, Google.cn – a move that could lead to Google.cn’s closure and Google’s withdrawal from the Chinese market.

The company said it took the decision following sophisticated cyber-attacks on Gmail accounts coming from China.

Amnesty International Says China`s Censorship of the Internet Must Stop

"...censorship measures adopted in China are not in the best interests of their customers and do not help promote freedom of expression or the right to information" -Roseann Rife, Amnesty International

(BEIJING) - Amnesty International has again urged the Chinese authorities to end censorship of the internet.

The matter hit the news after online firm Google raised concern about the hacking of human rights activists’ email accounts.

Israeli Military Demolitions Further Threaten al-Bweireh Neighborhood

Israeli settlers often attack this Palestinian neighborhood while the men of are away during the day, and women are heard screaming.

(HEBRON, West Bank) - On the morning of 31 December 2009, the Israeli military, using a small Bobcat bulldozer, destroyed buildings belonging to the Sultan and al-Za'atari families in the Hebron neighborhood of al-Bweireh.

At the al-Za'atari house, the military destroyed a dovecote and the stables where the family kept their goats and horse.