UN, Argentina has just become a temporary member of the Security Council.

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Now Germany, which became a (temporary) member of the Security Council on January 1st, has to decide what position to adopt if a second resolution is put forward.

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Reuters is reporting that the HP board may oust CEO Leo Apotheker, who has been on the job for less than a year, and replace him on a temporary basis with board member and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman.

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Facebook suffered a temporary outage last night after a staff member accidentally leaked internal product prototypes.

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"However, I have always been conscious of the fact that, as a member of staff, I was always just a temporary custodian of this marvelous institution, " added Gill, who will remain a director at the club.

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The better answer would be to insist that any member afraid of the free movement of labour should fix temporary rules for its own territory alone, leaving the others to be more liberal if they wished.

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Although few details are known about the sacked postman, he was in fact a full-time member of staff and not one of around 6, 000 temporary seasonal workers.

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Sarah Riding, cabinet member for education and schools, said the six had been replaced with temporary members of staff and parents had been informed.

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