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AP – The U.S. and the Afghan governments are considering pushing through a long-delayed partnership agreement by moving the contentious issues of night raids and control over detainees to separate negotiations, officials from both countries said.

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[unable to retrieve full-text content]AP – Britain has announced a shake-up of its border agency after admitting that security checks at ports and airports have been suspended or applied inconsistently for the past five years.

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AP – Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s business offers valuable insight into how Americans are reacting in the slow economic recovery: they will spend, but only if they believe they’re getting the lowest prices.

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AP – The Obama administration’s consideration of severe cuts in nuclear weapons generated a flurry of GOP criticism — “reckless lunacy” in the words of Arizona Rep. Trent Franks. But the historical record shows that in the two decades since the Cold War ended, Republicans have been the boldest cutters of the nuclear arsenal.

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[unable to retrieve full-text content]The Week – SEE MORE: Is Sarah Palin still a threat to Obama?

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Twitter on Thursday announced it would invoke the ability to censor some tweets on a country-by-country basis. Cue the global backlash.?

Twitter yesterday announced that it would invoke the right to censor messages on a country-by-country basis. In a blog post, Twitter reps said the move was necessary to abide by the laws of?”countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression.” In the past, Twitter was forced to strike clean objectionable tweets on a “global” scale ? the offending message, in other words, would disappear across the board.?

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With the new technology, Twitter can preserve content in some countries, while preventing it from being seen in others.?”We have also built in a way to communicate transparently to users when content is withheld, and why,” Twitter reps wrote. “We haven?t yet used this ability, but if and when we are required to withhold a Tweet in a specific country, we will attempt to let the user know, and we will clearly mark when the content has been withheld.”

Perhaps inevitably, the announcement has been met with tremendous push-back from certain corners of the Web, where thousands of Twitter users have banded together to rage against the new policy. For most of the day, #TwitterBlackout has dipped on and off the trending topics list on Twitter ? a reference to a grassroots protest planned for Saturday, January 28.?

Up in arms over Twitter censorship? Join the blackout, and stay away from Twitter for 24 hours.?

Of course, as some users have noted, 24 hours may not be enough to get the message across. “Why boycott it just for 1 day If you really think it’s wrong?” one hardliner asked, in a tweet captured by the Guardian. “[T]alk about a week or a month & I shall take you seriously.” Another added, coyly: “Surprised there’s not more outrage about?#twittercensorship?? although maybe there is and the tweets are being blocked.”

So are the new Twitter policies actually that objectionable? Well, yes and no, Jillian C. York notes in an admirably clearheaded assessment over at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

“Let?s be clear:?This?is?censorship,” York writes. “There?s no way around that. But alas,?Twitter is not above the law. Just about every company hosting user-generated content has, at one point or another, gotten an order or government request to take down content. Google lays out its orders in its?Transparency Report. Other companies are less forthright. In any case, Twitter has two options in the event of a request: Fail to comply, and risk being blocked by the government in question, or comply (read: censor).? And if they have ‘boots on the ground,’ so to speak, in the country in question? No choice.”?

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