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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Radiation From Japan Detected In Florida, North And South Carolina
Utilities in North and South Carolina are adding to the list of states in the U.S. reporting trace amounts of radiation from a nuclear reactor in Japan that was damaged by an earthquake and tsunami. Progress Energy and Duke Energy in North Carolina and South Carolina Electric and Gas Co. all operate nuclear plants and say they’ve detected trace amounts of radiation. Nuclear experts and health officials say there’s no…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/28/radiation-florida-north-south
-carolina_n_841443.html

Government: Libyan woman who alleged rape to journalists released
A Libyan woman who stormed into a Tripoli hotel Saturday, telling foreign reporters that she had been raped by government troops, has been released, and her case is being investigated, government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said Sunday. The matter is “a criminal case against four individuals” who have an attorney, he said. Among those accused by Eman al-Obeidy is the son of a high-ranking official, he said. The general attorney…
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/03/27/libya.beaten.woman/index.html

China ‘to overtake US on science’ in two years
China is on course to overtake the US in scientific output possibly as soon as 2013 – far earlier than expected. That is the conclusion of a major new study by the Royal Society, the UK’s national science academy. The country that invented the compass, gunpowder, paper and printing is set for a globally important comeback. An analysis of published research – one of the key measures of scientific effort – reveals an…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12885271

France and U.S. to help Japan in nuclear crisis
France and the United States are to help Japan in its battle to contain radiation from a crippled nuclear complex where plutonium finds have raised public alarm over the world’s worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl in 1986. The high-stakes operation at the Fukushima plant has added to Japan’s unprecedented humanitarian disaster with 27,500 people dead or missing from a March 11 earthquake and tsunami. French President Nicolas…
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/29/us-japan-quake-idUSTRE72
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Only 14, Bangladeshi girl charged with adultery was lashed to death
Hena Akhter’s last words to her mother proclaimed her innocence. But it was too late to save the 14-year-old girl. Her fellow villagers in Bangladesh’s Shariatpur district had already passed harsh judgment on her. Guilty, they said, of having an affair with a married man. The imam from the local mosque ordered the fatwa, or religious ruling, and the punishment: 101 lashes delivered swiftly, deliberately in public…
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/29/bangladesh.lashing.
death/index.html

Washington in Fierce Debate on Arming Libyan Rebels
The Obama administration is engaged in a fierce debate over whether to supply weapons to the rebels in Libya, senior officials said on Tuesday, with some fearful that providing arms would deepen American involvement in a civil war and that some fighters may have links to Al Qaeda. The debate has drawn in the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon, these officials said, and has prompted an urgent call for intelligence…
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/30/world/africa/30diplo.html

Low levels of radiation found in US milk
Very low levels of radiation turned up in a sample of milk from Washington state, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday, but federal officials assured consumers not to worry. The FDA said such findings were to be expected in the coming days because of the nuclear crisis in Japan, and that the levels were expected to drop relatively quickly. Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi…
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_JAPAN_EARTHQUAKE_US_MILK?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-03-30-18-31-46