UK police: Russian oligarch Berezovsky found dead

FILE - A Wednesday, July 18, 2007 photo from files showing Russian exile Boris Berezovsky, a close friend of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned by Polonium 2-10, speaking to the media in a news conference in London. United Kingdom police have said that Berezovsky has been found dead Saturday March 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)

FILE - A Wednesday, July 18, 2007 photo from files showing Russian exile Boris Berezovsky, a close friend of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned by Polonium 2-10, speaking to the media in a news conference in London. United Kingdom police have said that Berezovsky has been found dead Saturday March 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)

FILE - A Sunday, April 18, 1999 photo from files showing Boris Berezovsky as he arrives at Moscow's Sheremetiyevo-I international airport. United Kingdom police have said that Berezovsky has been found dead Saturday March 23, 2013.(AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, File)

FILE - A Monday, April 28, 2008 photo from files showing Boris Berezovsky as he arrives at the Royal Courts of Justice in London for his hearing against Roman Abramovich. United Kingdom police have said that Berezovsky has been found dead Saturday March 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)

LONDON (AP) ? Boris Berezovsky, a self-exiled and outspoken former Russian oligarch who had a bitter falling out with Russian President Vladimir Putin, has been found dead in southeast England, police said Saturday. He was 67.

Thames Valley police said his death was being treated as unexplained. They would not directly identify him, but when asked about him by name they read a statement saying they were investigating the death of a 67-year-old man at a property in Ascot, a town 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of London.

A mathematician-turned-Mercedes dealer, Berezovsky amassed his wealth during Russia's chaotic privatization of state assets in the early 1990s. In return for backing former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, he gained political clout and opportunities to buy state assets at knockdown prices.

But the one-time Kremlin powerbroker fell out with Putin and sought political asylum in Britain in the early 2000s. He has lived in the U.K. ever since.

Last year, the exiled businessman was ordered to pay 35 million pounds ($53.3 million) in legal costs to fellow Russian Roman Abramovich after losing a multimillion-dollar legal battle against the billionaire owner of Chelsea Football Club.

Berezovsky had claimed that Abramovich cheated him out of his stakes in the oil group Sibneft, arguing that he blackmailed him into selling the stakes vastly beneath their true worth after he lost Putin's good graces. But a judge threw out the case in August, ruling that Berezovsky was a dishonest and unreliable witness.

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Recipe: Sweet Potato Salad | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Here's a perfect potato salad for those who don't care for the standard mayonnaise-based recipes.

Fri, Mar 22 2013 at 5:43 PM

Photo: Kelly Rossiter

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What a happy thing when you find a food that is not only really good for you, but is something that pretty much everyone loves. My husband eats the kale and lentils I put in front of him because he knows they are good for him, but he doesn't really love them. Sweet potatoes are another matter. Although there must be someone out there who doesn't like sweet potatoes, I've never met them.

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So it's a doubly happy thing to make a sweet potato recipe that is as easy and delicious as this is. My daughter makes a fantastic vegan potato salad that has become a buffet and potluck staple for us, but this recipe will give it a run for it's money. It's a perfect potato salad for those people who don't care for the standard mayonnaise-based recipes. It is very garlicky and the lemon juice gives it a pleasant tartness, and I pretty much love anything that has cumin in it. If the raw garlic is too strong-sounding for you, you could always roast some along with the sweet potato and use that. I totally forgot to put the almonds in, so I guess that means I'm going to have to make this again!

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This recipe is from the cookbook "Roots" by Diane Morgan.

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Prep time: 10 minutes ?

Total time: 30 minutes ?

Yield: 6 servings

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Moroccan Sweet Potato Salad

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1 inch cubes
• 1/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 3/4 teaspoons kosher or fine sea salt
• 2 garlic cloves, finely minced
• 1 teaspoons ground cumin
• 1 teaspoons sweet paprika
• 1/8 teaspoons cayenne pepper
• 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 1/3 cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
• 1/3 cup chopped fresh cilantro

Cooking directions

1. Position a rack in the centre of the oven and preheat to 425 degrees F.
2. In a large bowl, toss the sweet potatoes with the 2 tbsp oil and 1/4 tsp of the salt. Transfer the sweet potatoes to a larged rimmed baking sheet and spread them out in an even layer. (Set the bowl aside to use for tossing the cooked potatoes.) Roast the potatoes, stirring once at the midpoint of roasting, until they are tender when pierced with a fork, but still hold their shape, 15 to 20 minutes.
3. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, mix together the garlic, cumin, paprika, cayenne, lemon juice, and the remaining 1/2 tsp salt. Whisk in the remaining 1/3 cup olive oil. Add the parsley and the cilantro and stir to combine.
4. When the potatoes are ready, return them to the large bowl. Add the vinaigrette and toss gently. Add the almonds if you are planning to serve the salad within a few hours; otherwise, toss them in just before so they stay crisp. Serve at room temperature. The salad can be made up to two days in advance, covered and refrigerated. Remove from the refrigerator 2 hours before serving.

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"Yeah, okay. 'Audiophile' and 'Bluetooth' don't go together, but I'd really like a good pair of Bluetooth cans to use with my iPhone. Naturally, we're talking about headphones / cans rather than earbuds, ideally with track control buttons, a microphone and noise canceling -- but what I'm after is clean, beautifully reproduced audio above anything else. What can you suggest for less than £300 ($455)?"

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Louie Anderson suffers rib injury on 'Splash'

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Louie Anderson has suffered an injury while training for ABC?s ?Splash.?

The comedian, who made his debut on the reality TV diving competition this week, suffered a mishap on Thursday, Access Hollywood has exclusively learned.

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?Louie Anderson bruised his ribs at practice yesterday,? his rep told Access Hollywood. ?He is resting and will continue in the competition in spite of the injury.?

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SKorea misidentifies China as cyberattack origin

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? In an embarrassing twist to a coordinated cyberattack on six major South Korean companies this week, investigators said Friday they wrongly identified a Chinese Internet Protocol address as the source.

A joint team of government and private experts still maintains that hackers abroad were likely to blame, and many analysts suspect North Korea. But the error raises questions about investigators' ability to track down the source of an attack that shut down 32,000 computers Wednesday and exposed big Internet security holes in one of the world's most wired, tech-savvy countries.

South Korean investigators said Thursday that a malicious code that spread through the server of one of the hackers' targets, Nonghyup Bank, was traced to an IP address in China. Even then it was clear that the attack could have originated elsewhere because hackers can easily manipulate such data.

But the state-run Korea Communications Commission said Friday that the IP address actually belonged to a computer at the bank. The IP address was used only for the company's internal network and happened to be identical to a public Chinese address.

"We were careless in our efforts to double-check and triple-check," KCC official Lee Seung-won told reporters. He blamed the error on investigators' rush to give the public details on the search for a culprit.

Yonhap news agency, in an analysis Friday, called the blunder "ridiculous" and said the announcement is certain to undermine government credibility.

Yonhap criticized officials for failing to dispel public anxiety in a country where people's lives are closely interwoven with services provided by media and financial institutions.

An initial assumption that the attack came from abroad may have made investigators jump to conclusions, said Lee Kyung-ho, a cybersecurity expert at Seoul's Korea University.

"They rushed," he said. "They should've investigated by checking the facts step by step."

The investigation will take weeks. Investigators have said the attacks appeared to come from "a single organization" and suspect the hackers were from outside the country. Lee Seung-won, the KCC official, discounted the possibility that the attack could have come from within South Korea, but he didn't elaborate.

Lee Kyung-ho and many other South Korean experts suspect North Korea is behind the attack on broadcasters YTN, MBC and KBS, as well as Nonghyup and two other banks.

While there are many possible explanations, he said, including a homegrown hacker, the culprits are most likely to be North Koreans angry over ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills. Lee said Pyongyang is well aware that an attack on financial institutions and media companies would create lots of publicity and turmoil in South Korea's vibrantly capitalistic society.

North Korea has issued many threats against the South and the U.S. in recent days, but by Friday it had yet to mention the South Korean computer crashes in state-run media.

South Korean officials say they have no proof of Pyongyang's involvement. The country is preparing to deal with more possible attacks, presidential spokesman Yoon Chang-jung told reporters earlier Friday. He didn't elaborate.

Determining who's behind a digital attack is often difficult, but North Korea is a leading suspect for several reasons.

It has unleashed a torrent of threats against Seoul and Washington since punishing U.N. sanctions were imposed for Pyongyang's Feb. 12 nuclear test. It calls ongoing routine U.S.-South Korean military drills a threat to its existence. Pyongyang also threatened revenge after blaming Seoul and Washington for a separate Internet shutdown that disrupted its own network last week.

Seoul alleges six previous cyberattacks by North Korea on South Korean targets since 2009.

Wednesday's cyberattack did not affect South Korea's government, military or infrastructure, and there were no initial reports that customers' bank records were compromised. But it disabled cash machines and disrupted commerce.

All three of the banks that were hit were back online and operating regularly Friday. It could be next week before the broadcasters' systems have fully recovered, though they said their programming was never affected.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/skorea-misidentifies-china-cyberattack-origin-071506659.html

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