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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Ivory Coast’s justice minister admits both sides have ‘blood on their hands’
Jeannot Ahoussou told The Daily Telegraph that while most atrocities had been committed in the economic capital by fighters loyal to ousted President Gbagbo, the new Ivory Coast president’s forces had been involved in the killing of up to 70 people in Duekoue, a Gbagbo stronghold in the west. The United Nations said 330 had been killed when Ouattara’s forces moved south through the town, but added that 100…

Libyan Rebels Say They’re Being Sent Weapons
Libyan rebels say they have begun receiving arms shipments from abroad, although there has been no independent confirmation of that. The rebel military leader, Gen. Abdel Fattah Younes, on Saturday said in an interview with Al Arabiya, a satellite news channel, that his forces had already received weapons supplies from unnamed nations that support their uprising. A spokesman for the rebels’ National…

Damaged reactors at nuclear plant could take 9 months to shut down
Engineers will need up to nine months to fully shut down the damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the scene of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, its owners announced Sunday. It would take three months to bring down radiation levels and restore normal cooling systems at the plant, Tsunehisa Katsumata, the chairman of the Tokyo Electric Power Co., told reporters…

Abrupt Turn as Facebook Battles Suit
Aaron Sorkin may want to take notice. The script for a prequel to his hit movie “The Social Network” almost writes itself. Before the cinematic Winklevoss twins battled with Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, and before the company’s co-founder Eduardo Saverin became estranged from his friend Mr. Zuckerberg, there was Paul Ceglia. In one of the strangest tales to hit Silicon Valley in years…

Victims break chains of slavery
Buenos Aires – Maria Velasquez was in need of work. She had no prospects in her hometown of La Paz, Bolivia, so when she was offered a bus ticket to Argentina and assured of steady work and a home there, she jumped at the chance. It was a trip that would take her to the depths of the garment industry’s slave labor trade only to emerge as a member of a cooperative credited with raising awareness about….

BP Marks Gulf Oil Spill Anniversary With Campaign Contributions
A year after BP’s catastrophic Gulf oil spill, the petroleum giant is easing its way back into the political money race — and the stain of shame candidates originally felt about accepting the company’s contributions appears to have evaporated. The gas and oil giant’s North America Political Action Committee filed its latest report with the Federal Election Commission Tuesday, which revealed $29,000…

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Chinese Hackers Attack Change.org Platform in Reaction to Ai Weiwei Campaign
Attackers use distributed denial of service attack to bring down the world’s fastest growing social action platform after more than 90,000 people in 175 countries call for release of Chinese dissident artist. Chinese hackers temporarily brought down the world’s fastest-growing social action platform after more than 90,000 people in 175 countries endorsed an online call for the release of internationally…

Internet ‘Right to be Forgotten’ debate hits Spain
Their ranks include a plastic surgeon, a prison guard and a high school principal. All are Spanish, but have little else in common except this: They want old Internet references about them that pop up in Google searches wiped away. In a case that Google Inc. and privacy experts call a first of its kind, Spain’s Data Protection Agency has ordered the search engine giant to remove links to material on about…

Japan bans entry into Fukushima evacuation zone
Japan has made it illegal to enter a 20km (12-mile) evacuation zone around the stricken Fukushima nuclear reactor. People were urged to leave the area shortly after the 11 March earthquake and tsunami crippled the plant, but the order was not enforced by law. Cooling systems were knocked out by the twin disasters and radiation has been leaking from the plant…

Two photographers killed in Libya
Oscar nominee Tim Hetherington and acclaimed photojournalist Chris Hondros died Wednesday while chronicling the gritty violence in the war-torn city of Misrata in Libya, their agencies said. Two other photojournalists were hurt in the incident, according to news reports. “The only thing we know is that he (Hetherington) was hit by an RPG with the other guys,” said Cathy Saypol of Cathy Saypol Public Relations, Inc….

Samsung sues Apple after accusations of ‘copying’
Samsung Electronics is suing Apple, claiming its rival violated its patent rights, days after Apple accused Samsung of “slavishly” copying designs of its iPad and iPhone. The patent lawsuits, filed in South Korea, Japan and Germany, involve infringement of up to five patents, Samsung said in a statement. Apple filed a lawsuit against Samsung last Friday for violating its patents. It is the latest patent…