This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive.

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Fuel Maker for Reactors Has China as Investor
A company here that is partly owned by the Chinese government has quietly purchased a 5.1 percent stake in the only American-owned provider of enriched uranium for use in civilian nuclear reactors. The company that bought the stake, the Noble Group, is the world’s second-largest commodities trading and logistics company after Cargill…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/19/business/global/19nuke.html

Paintball Attacks On Chechen Women Prompt Outrage
Women in Russia’s volatile Chechnya region say that police have targeted them with paintball pellets for not wearing head scarves, outraging rights activists. The attacks highlight tension over efforts by Chechnya’s firebrand Moscow-backed leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, to enforce Muslim-inspired rules that in some cases violate Russia’s constitution…
http://www.rferl.org/content/Paintball_Attacks_On_Chechen_Women_
Prompt_Outrage/2076078.html

Aung San Suu Kyi’s desperate plea to the world
As Aung San Suu Kyi prepares to celebrate her 65th birthday tomorrow, confined in the house in which she has spent most of the past two decades, a confidante of the Burmese opposition leader has made a simple but passionate appeal to those in the West to use their freedom to help his country achieve the same. In a hand-written…
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/aung-san-suu-kyis-
desperate-plea-to-the-world-2003669.html

Aung San Suu Kyi’s Supporters Mark Her 65th Birthday
Supporters of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi around the world celebrated her 65th birthday, amid renewed calls for her release from house arrest. About 400 of her supporters gathered at one of their houses in Burma’s main city of Rangoon Saturday.  They symbolically freed caged birds and lit a birthday cake…
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Obama-Activists-Mark-
Aung-San-Suu-Kyis-Birthday-96715869.html

Kimberley Process: Halt Zimbabwe Diamond Trade
The government of Zimbabwe has broken its promises under the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) work plan to improve abusive practices in its diamond fields and should formally be suspended from the Kimberley Process, Human Rights Watch said in a 16-page report released today. Participants in the Kimberley…
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/06/20/kimberley-process-halt-
zimbabwe-diamond-trade

Hunt on for missing mining chiefs
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says Australian authorities will leave “no stone unturned” in their efforts to find six Australian mining executives whose plane has gone missing in dense jungle in West Africa. The six men, including billionaire magnate Ken Talbot, were among 11 people on board the plane chartered by Perth firm…
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/21/2932227.htm

Russia Cuts Gas Deliveries to Belarus
Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev on Monday ordered Gazprom to cut deliveries of natural gas deliveries to Belarus over unpaid debts, a step which could jeopardize supplies to Poland and other European countries. At a morning meeting with Mr. Medvedev, Aleksei Miller, the chief executive of Gazprom, said Belarus was willing to pay…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/world/europe/22belarus.html

Three peacekeepers serving with UN-African force killed in ambush in Darfur
The African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force in Darfur vowed today that it would not be intimidated from carrying out its work after three blue helmets were killed and a fourth was seriously wounded in an ambush in a remote part of the war-wracked Sudanese region…
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=35082&Cr=darfur&Cr1=

Gay Workers Will Get Time to Care for Partner’s Sick Child
President Obama will soon expand the rights of gay workers by allowing them to take family and medical leave to care for sick or newborn children of same-sex partners, administration officials said Monday. The policy will be set forth in a ruling to be issued Wednesday by the Labor Department’s wage and hour division, the officials said…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/us/politics/22rights.html

Man throws acid on wife to show ‘ghairat’
A man threw acid on his wife on suspicion of her having an affair in a bid to ‘preserve’ his ‘honour’. Irshad, son of Mushtaq, was arrested by the Shah Faisal police with the help of a non-governmental organisation, Madadgaar, after an FIR (363/2010) was lodged against him. Sultana, 35, married Irshad out of her own will. After their marriage…
http://tribune.com.pk/story/22869/man-throws-acid-on-wife-to-
show-‘ghairat’/

Could Mark Zuckerberg Face A Pakistan Death Sentence?
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg could be in hot water over a “Draw Muhammad” contest hosted on the site last month. He is being investigated by Pakistani authorities under a section of the penal code that makes blasphemy against Muhammad punishable by death. The contest, called “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day,”…
http://www.allfacebook.com/2010/06/could-mark-zuckerberg-face-
a-pakistan-death-sentence/

Millions of Bangladeshis poisoned by arsenic-laced water
A fifth of all deaths in Bangladesh are linked to drinking water contaminated by arsenic, while up to 77 million people – half the population – have been chronically exposed to the poisonous metalloid, according to a new study published in the Lancet medical journal. Researchers tracked 12,000 people over a period of 10 years…
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=89615