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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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By delivering the migrants there, the masters of the Maltese vessels, and perhaps the European rescue authorities involved, may have violated the international law of the sea, which requires ship masters to return people they rescue to a safe port. billion) a year internally on managing migration, not counting national-level spending.

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Volkswagen Group invested €11.5B (US$12.9B) in R&D in 2014; ongoing focus on electromobility and digitalization of vehicles

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Speaking on the eve of the Geneva International Motor Show, Prof. It may come as a surprise for you, but I highly welcome the interest of Apple, Google and others in the automobile. Oil will not be as cheap as it is at the moment for ever. This means the Group is already well below the legal limit for 2015. —Prof.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. IBM has its own claim to the invention of an aspect of the device, based on a year-2000 confidential internal report written by one of its employees, Shimon Shmueli. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995.

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

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Create cheap clean energy, new badly needed green jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Video CTIA 2009 Preview Digital Media YouTubes legal end-run irks Korean officials Google has provoked the wrath of government officials through its resistance to a law prohibiting anonymous YouTube uploads and comments.

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