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By KATIE SILVER Daily Mail UK Europe is developing an asteroid shield… but it won’t be in time Scientists are trying to find a way to protect Earth from the giant rocks which travel around the Milky Way. Run out of Berlin with funds from the EU, the NEOShield project, which will look for a way to protect earth from the space rocks, is expected to take three years to complete.

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By CHARLIE SAVAGE NY Times The Department of Homeland Security paid a contractor in 2009 to monitor social networking sites — like Facebook, blogs and reader comments on a news article — to see how the residents of Standish, Mich., were reacting to a proposal to move detainees from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to a local prison there, according to newly disclosed documents.

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By Josh Rogin Foreignpolicy President Barack Obama’s administration has been delaying its planned $53 million arms sale to Bahrain due to human rights concerns and congressional opposition, but this week administration officials told several congressional offices that they will move forward with a new and different package of arms sales — without any formal notification to the public.

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