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"We're so enamoured with the robot-attack story line that it can skew the way real robot-safety issues are discussed," journalist Torie Bosch wrote in Slate. But with robots becoming increasingly advanced, is there a line where an error could become a ...

"This is Lebanese territory which is under Israeli occupation," says Randa Slim from the centre-left New America Foundation. Supporters of Israel, such as Richard Baehr, counter that the occupation of half a village hardly justifies Hezbollah having ...

Jonathan Guyer discusses the implications for US-Yemen relations of Anwar al-Awlaki's death by way of a US predator drone. As the beleaguered Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, confronts political conflict in Sana'a, Awlaki's death can be viewed as Saleh's effort to shore up counter-terror cooperation with Washington.

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Sascha Meinrath, who leads the 'internet in a suitcase' project at the Open Technology Initiative at the New America Foundation explains his hopes for the technology. Plus: an introduction to one Western practice that is still pretty new in China: ...

... predictable information cocoon, so online campaigner Eli Pariser argues in his new book The Filter Bubble. Along with Evgeny Morozov, author of The Net Delusion, Eli Pariser joins Gareth Mitchell to debate the pros and cons of web personalisation.

At a conference on Tuesday organised by a think tank, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Mr Bernanke said any delay in the US government making payments could cause chaos on global financial markets. It could also damage the dollar's ...

During the tough-fought Democratic presidential primary between then-senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, at a wry moment during a televised debate, Clinton called Obama "very likeable" and he responded with the sterile retort, "you're likeable enough".

"The reality of Shia populations across the GCC [Gulf Co-operation Council] states is that they are not fifth columnists for Iran," says Afshin Molavi, a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation. "They should be treated for what they are ...

Justin Rowlatt interviews Parag Khanna who believes we are entering what he calls a "neo-medieval world". In his book "How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance" he argues that the parallels between the world now and a thousand ...

It is estimated by the New America Foundation that between 2004 and 2010 they may have been responsible for around 25% of those killed. Human rights lawyers on both sides of the Atlantic have grown increasingly concerned about the US government ...