Agrichemical giant Syngenta faults EU bee plans

The EU decided that the use of certain bee killing pesticides should be restricted. The producers of these pesticides are now screaming bloody murder and want these new rules out.
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Canada Student Loans borrowers in giant data breach — 583,000 records gone.

Interestingly, the missing data is historical, from the years 2000 to 2006. In other words, even those students who have already repaid their loans and probably no longer consider themselves customers of HRSDC, and therefore imagine themselves at no risk from an HRSDC data breach, have been affected
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UK: Arms giant and credit firm sign up to No 10 online identity scheme

The initial partner organisations selected by the Department for Work & Pensions includes: Post Office; Experian, the credit reference company; Cassidian, the defence and security division of the pan-European aerospace giant EADS; and the American global telecommunications giant Verizon.
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Is The US Scheming To Kill Giant Iraqi-Russian Weapons Deal?

Kommersant’s sources said that there could be complications in the contract, but that they would come from a third party. “The United States has spent significant effort to disrupt the deal,” said one source close to the Russian government. “I would not be surprised if they tried to break it up or complicate it after it’s done.”
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