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• Ukraine crisis: Justice minister threatens state of emergency - FT.com

  "Ukraine’s justice minister has threatened a state of emergency if anti-government protesters who occupied her ministry on Sunday do not leave, as the country’s political crisis continues to escalate. Olena Lukash told Ukrainian media she would ask the security and defence council to introduce the measures and also ask for negotiations between President Viktor Yanukovich and the opposition to end the two-month political stand-off to be halted."

  tags: ukraine revolution protest europe russia balanceofpower

• Report: Kim Jong Un executed his uncle’s entire family, including children | Death and Taxes

  "Following Kim Jong Un’s historic December purge in which he executed his uncle—the high-ranking government official Jang Song-thaek—as well as Jang’s government allies, South Korea’s state news agency Yonhap reported this weekend that Kim has also ordered the execution of Jang’s entire family, including children. "

  tags: northkorea tyranny dictatorship family asia

• Google buys UK artificial intelligence start-up - FT.com

  "Google has made its largest European acquisition yet with the purchase of DeepMind, an artificial intelligence start-up based in London. DeepMind, which counted Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and Li Ka-shing's Horizons Ventures among its backers, was operating in a secretive "stealth mode" before it had launched its first products when Google swooped to snap up its team and sophisticated "machine learning" technology, through which computers can teach themselves new capabilities without human input."

  tags: google acquisition unitedkingdom ai

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