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Web plays politics but doesn't take lead

Predictions from only a year ago that the Web would supplant television this election season didn't pan out, but the Internet was still in the party. more »

Gates defends PC in Comdex speech

With no major software debuts imminent, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates used his state-of-the-computing-world address more »

Unchanged position

RUSSIAN SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARY RULES OUT POSSIBILITY OF NEGOTIATIONS WITH TALEBAN - MOSCOW more »

Georgia Threatens To Leave CIS

Georgia is ready to leave the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a grouping of 12 ex-Soviet nations (all former Soviet republics minus the three Baltic States). more »

Netscape 6 goes live to the world

Open-source browser is first for brand under AOL more »

Only one proposed domain — “geo” — won praise

Internet’s technical manager Icann narrows field of address suffixes more »

Dutch raid World Online

Amsterdam prosecutors probe Net firm amid allegations of insider trading. more »

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search.lt presents newest links more »

Russia hijacking ends peacefully

Airliner with 58 aboard landed at military base in southern Israel. more »

Joining the Union

Finland supports Latvia's goal of joining the European Union in the first wave of the enlargement. more »

Star power in cyberspace

Internet has produced a bumper crop of box-office flops of late, particularly on the entertainment front. more »

Illegal decision

Polish Right-Wing Party Protests Withdrawal Of Books From Frankfurt Book Fair. more »

Japan passes info-tech law to create e-nation

Japan has moved a step closer to Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's goal of creating an e-nation when parliament approved a bill adopting the Information Technology (IT) revolution as a national goal. more »

Madonna Show Has Webbed Seats

Most of Madonna's New York fans couldn't squeeze into her one-night-only mini-concert Sunday at Roseland, and then came more bad news. more »

Bush hangs on, AP says, but other wildcards cloud forecast

George W. Bush met with advisers Friday to plan for a new White House administration and called for a quick resolution to the Florida voting dispute that left the nation more »

Clear watershed

The European Commission's progress reports on applicants for European Union membership released in Brussels on Wednesday pointed out very clearly that Lithuania and Latvia need to do much more than they have already done. more »

LATVIA'S POPULATION DROPS BY MORE THAN 10 PERCENT

Preliminary census data released by the Central Statistics Office on 7 November indicate that the country's population on 31 March 2000 was 2.375 million. more »

COUNCIL OF EUROPE SETS CONDITIONS FOR ADMISSION OF ARMENIA, AZER

Following a heated two-day discussion, representatives of the Council of Europe Foreign Ministers voted late on 8 November to admit both Armenia and Azerbaijan to that body. more »

Tokyo Stocks Plunge

Tokyo stocks plunged Thursday morning on weakness on Wall Street. The dollar rose slightly against the Japanese yen. more »

Florida recounts votes county by county as candidates wait

Florida on Wednesday began a judicious process of recounting every presidential ballot cast statewide. more »