Jack Angelides was about to board a flight out of Israel's international airport when he was given a curious choice that baffles him to this day. Traveling with a laptop and a stack of printed reading material, he was told to part with one or the other, due to unspecified security concerns.
The Israel-based British-Cypriot businessman says he negotiated a compromise in which he kept the computer and several pages, checking in the rest of the documents.
"It was a very unpleasant, very uncomfortable" experience, said Angelides, the general manager of the Israeli soccer team Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Stern Israeli airport security measures questioned
Julian Assange tells SXSW audience: ‘NSA has grown to be a rogue agency’
The Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on Saturday told an audience in Texas that people power is the key to rolling back the power of the National Security Agency and other surveillance agencies.
“We have to do something about it. All of us have to do something about it,” he said, in an interview at the SXSW conference in Austin. “How can individuals do something about it? Well, we’ve got no choice.”
2 on missing Malaysian plane had stolen passports
Two passengers on the flight manifest for the Malaysian jetliner that vanished with 239 on board weren't on board the plane, foreign ministry officials in Italy and Austria said Saturday.
Italian news agency ANSA reported that the Italian citizen whose name is on the passenger manifest, Louis Maraldi, 37, from Cesena, was not aboard the plane and had phoned his parents to say that he is well. He had reported his passport stolen Aug. 1 in Thailand. The Italian Foreign Ministry has confirmed that the Italian was not on board the aircraft.
Hillary Clinton Kicks Off International Women’s Day At United Nations
Hilary Clinton said before the United Nations on Friday that women’s rights should be a central part of a global development agenda, as women and women’s groups around the world prepared to demonstrate for gender equality as part of International Women’s Day.
Equality for women “remains the great unfinished business of the 21st century,” Clinton said in her headline speech at the UN commemoration of International Women’s Day, which is Saturday. “No country in the world, including my own, has achieved full participation.”
Gay couples sue Indiana for nuptials
Four gay couples from southern Indiana sued the state Friday, seeking to force Indiana to recognize same-sex marriages from out of state and issue licenses to same-sex couples.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in New Albany, Ind., asks a federal judge to overturn Indiana’s Defense of Marriage Act, which declares same-sex marriages void even if another state recognizes the union.
“How long do you wait before you decide ‘I think I’d like to stand up for myself,’ ” said 66-year-old Lane Stumler of New Albany, who wants to marry his longtime partner Michael Drury. “How long do you wait to say that?”
Wyoming Governor Takes Major Stand Against Modern Science
Wyoming took an unprecedented step this week when the governor approved a budget that would prevent the state from reviewing or funding a new set of science standards that treat climate change as fact.
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are a new set of education initiatives that have been adopted in 10 states and, like the Common Core State Standards, are designed to make sure students across the country are being held to the same benchmarks. They were developed with input from 26 states; Wyoming does not number among them.
Drought declared in nearly 80 percent of Queensland, Australia
Nearly 80 percent of Australia's Queensland state has been declared drought-stricken -- the largest area the state has ever that parched, officials said.
Thirty-eight of the state's shires have full drought conditions, including large sections of the Queensland coast, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported Friday.
"It's really only that coastal strip of Queensland of roughly Rockhampton through to Cape that is not in drought, bar[ing] some other small locations around the state, so that does confirm that this is a more significant drought event than Queensland has ever seen before," said Queensland Agriculture Minister John McVeigh.
Boeing freezes pension benefits for 68,000 non-union employees
Boeing announced the freezing of traditional defined-benefit pensions for all non-unionized employees, including management and executives, to be replaced by a 401(k)-style defined-contribution retirement-savings plan come 2016.
Boeing called the change an effort to edge “unsustainable growth” of their long-term pension liability.
Snowden: I raised NSA concerns internally over 10 times before going rogue
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said he repeatedly tried to go through official channels to raise concerns about government snooping programs but that his warnings fell on the deaf ears. In testimony to the European Parliament released Friday morning,
Snowden wrote that he reported policy or legal issues related to spying programs to more than 10 officials, but as a contractor he had no legal avenue to pursue further whistleblowing.
Asked specifically if he felt like he had exhausted all other avenues before deciding to leak classified information to the public, Snowden responded:
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