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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F.D.A. Unveils Proposed Graphic Warning Labels for Cigarette Packs
Federal drug regulators on Wednesday unveiled 36 proposed warning labels for cigarette packages, including one showing a toe tag on a corpse and another in which a mother blows smoke on her baby. Designed to cover half the surface area of a pack or carton of cigarettes, and a fifth of any advertisements for them, the labels are intended to spur smokers to quit by providing graphic reminders of tobacco’s dangers…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/11/health/policy/11tobacco.html

Netanyahu Agrees to Push for Freeze in Settlements
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has agreed to push his cabinet to freeze most construction on settlements in the West Bank for 90 days to break an impasse in peace negotiations with the Palestinians, an official briefed on talks between the United States and Israel said Saturday evening. In return, the Obama administration has offered Israel a package of security incentives and fighter jets worth $3 billion…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/world/middleeast/14mideast.html

Burmese Dissident Tells Crowd Not to Give Up Hope
One day after being freed from house arrest, Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, addressed a wildly cheering crowd of thousands of supporters Sunday, saying she was listening to their needs and telling them not to give up hope. “The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech,” she said in remarks reported by news agencies. Her freedom and her immediate return to her political struggle set her on…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/world/asia/15myanmar.html

Cuba frees political prisoner who refused exile deal
The Cuban government has freed one of 13 dissidents who have been refusing a government deal to go into exile in exchange for their freedom. The prisoner, Arnaldo Ramos Lauzurique, will remain in the country on parole. In July Cuban President Raul Castro agreed to release 52 prisoners under a deal brokered by the Roman Catholic Church and the Spanish government. Thirty-nine of them were freed and sent into exile in…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11752157

Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S., Report Says
In 1980, prosecutors filed a motion that “misstated the facts” in asserting that checks of C.I.A. and F.B.I. records revealed no information on the Nazi past of Tscherim Soobzokov, a former Waffen SS soldier. In fact, the report said, the Justice Department “knew that Soobzokov had advised the C.I.A. of his SS connection after he arrived in the United States.” (After the case was dismissed, radical Jewish groups urged violence against…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/us/14nazis.html

Cholera Deaths Up in Haiti, With Worst to Come
The death toll in Haiti’s cholera epidemic has reached more than 900, the government reported Sunday, as aid groups rushed soap and clean water to a disaster-wracked population to fight the disease. The Ministry of Health reported that as of Friday, there had been 917 deaths and more than 14,600 were hospitalized with cholera-like symptoms. That is up from the 724 deaths and 11,125 hospitalizations reported a few days before…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/world/americas/15cholera.html

‘I’m not free until the people are free’ – Suu Kyi
As overjoyed crowds celebrated the release of Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday, their leader gave a message that tempered their jubilation with a call to action. For the woman who has made so many personal sacrifices for the sake of her country, the message was unchanged: until democracy comes to Burma, her work is unfinished. “If the people are not free, I am not free,” she simply said. Despite the continuing risks of taking on the junta…
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/im-not-free-until-the-
people-are-free–suu-kyi-2134187.html

Bill Clinton’s ‘Hangover’ Cameo: President Spotted On Movie Set In Thailand
Mel Gibson is out, and Bill Clinton is in! TMZ reports that the former president shot a cameo for ‘The Hangover 2’ in Thailand on Saturday. The web site posted photos of Clinton on set and reported that extra security was brought in for the shoot. Before filming the cameo, Clinton spoke to Thai government officials and encouraged them to work towards policies that would cut the country’s greenhouse gas emissions…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/14/bill-clintons-hangover-cameo-
_n_783334.html

Facebook expected to launch ‘Gmail rival’
Facebook is expected to launch a new messaging system seen as a challenge to Google’s Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail. The giant social network – which boasts more than 500 million users worldwide – will host a special event in San Francisco on Monday. Unconfirmed reports suggest Facebook could announce its own e-mail address – @facebook.com – or even a fully-fledged web-based e-mail system. Google-Facebook rivalry has…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11743524

As Euro Zone Faces Strain, Some Question Its Future
Ireland’s debt and banking crisis has again raised a worst-case outcome that few expect, but many fear: the possibility that the euro’s design flaws could cause one or more members to bolt the currency union. Though only a small minority of economists predict a splintering of the euro area, a much larger group sees it as a risk — one that has contributed to volatility on bond markets in recent days and helped push the currency down…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/business/global/18zone.html

Antimatter atom trapped for first time, say scientists
Antimatter atoms have been trapped for the first time, scientists say. Researchers at Cern, home of the Large Hadron Collider, have held 38 antihydrogen atoms in place, each for a fraction of a second. Antihydrogen has been produced before but it was instantly destroyed when it encountered normal matter. The team, reporting in Nature, says the ability to study such antimatter atoms will allow previously impossible tests…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11773791

Chinese Twitter sentence: a year in a labor camp for a retweet
A retweeted joke has landed a Chinese woman in a labor camp for a year, Amnesty International reported Wednesday. On the day of her wedding, Oct. 27, Chinese online activist Cheng Jianping disappeared. Only this week did her whereabouts surface: She had been detained and sentenced by police to a year of “re-education through labor” for retweeting a suggestion that Chinese youth attack the Japanese Pavilion at the…
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/blog-post/2010/11/chinese_twitter_
sentence_a_yea.html

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi unveils her vision for her homeland
It was stifling hot inside the small, stark headquarters of the National League for Democracy, the party led by freed pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi. Suu Kyi wore her trademark shirt and a Burmese sarong known as a lyongi, her hair adorned with the flowers that have come to symbolize defiance in her homeland that has been under tyrannical military rule since 1962. On this day, she also wore a red AIDS ribbon…
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/11/18/myanmar.suu.kyi.interview
/index.html

Ruby Bridges on how she helped change America
Fifty years ago, six-year-old Ruby Bridges walked into a Louisiana school and made history as the first African-American to attend an all-white elementary school in the American South. Ruby endured screaming crowds and demeaning threats, but her experience paved the way for generations to come and inspired a famous painting by Norman Rockwell. In this First Person account, Ruby returned to her former school in New Orleans and…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/9201723.stm