But a U.S. government official said the information in the cable offered nothing specific and was just one of hundreds of such reports that the center evaluates daily.

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At the time, prosecutors allege, Mrs Heidrun was sitting in her study in front of a wireless transmitter that was receiving encoded messages on a shortwave frequency and was hooked up by cable to a computer, reports the German news website Spiegel Online.

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After excitable newspaper reports about Vince Cable walking out of the government if reform wasn't implemented quickly, the business secretary and the chancellor were as one on the timetable for reform.

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Newspaper reports suggested that Mr Clegg and Business Secretary Vince Cable may be preparing to abstain in the vote - due before Christmas - in order to hold the parliamentary party together.

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An underwater fiber cable linking Cuba and Venezuela has given the island a hard connection to the internet since 2011, but reports have said that only government bodies from both countries have used the line.

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