Tomas has reached hurricane strength in the Caribbean as it heads toward earthquake-ravaged Haiti. (Nov. 5)
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KATHY GANNON Associated Press= KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Scribbled notes from Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar have surfaced in mosques all over Afghanistan’s ethnic Pashtun heartland, threatening death to anyone who takes up a government offer to negotiate for peace, according to a longtime Taliban member. Trying to quash rumors of a break in their ranks, the Taliban also have vehemently denied reports — including one by The Associated Press — that representatives of the militant group were involved in negotiations with the Afghan government. The leadership could be worried that commanders might strike separate deals that would threaten to undermine the insurgency and cripple the morale…
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Hate preacher Abu Hamza has won his appeal against the Government’s attempts to strip him of his British passport, a special tribunal ruled today. The radical cleric argued that such a move would render him “stateless” as he had already been stripped of his Egyptian citizenship. Delivering its 12-page ruling today, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) allowed his appeal. In his ruling, Mr Justice Mitting said: “We are satisfied on balance of probabilities that if a deprivation order were to be made, the appellant (Hamza) would be made stateless. “The conclusions which we have reached in the closed judgment supplement, but do not contradict, that conclusion. “Accordingly, this…
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Tbilisi: Georgia said on Friday it had dismantled a Russian spy ring, arresting four Russian citizens and nine Georgians two years after the ex-Soviet neighbors fought a brief war. The Georgian Interior Ministry said in a press release that a major counter-intelligence operation had uncovered “several dozen” people working for the main intelligence department of the Russian Defence Ministry, known as GRU. It said Georgia’s intelligence services had planted a former Soviet army officer in GRU, “who gained the trust of Russian military intelligence and started working for this agency as a liaison officer.” The announcement has echoes of a 2006 spy saga between the two countries, when Georgia…
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The DPRK’s not exactly the world’s healthiest economy. So it’s with some surprise that we’re now presenting you with North Korea’s newest (only?) touchscreen slab. Apparently, it’s available “in all the computer shops” and is being touted locally as something of a big deal by a Russian blog operating within Pyongyang. Unfortunately, it’s void of any radios of any kind — no GPS, no WiFi, no cellular, no Bluetooth. So really, it’s just an old school Windows CE (judging by the icons) PDA with an electronic dictionary, map of the country, games, media player, and word processor. It also features a handy stylus for poking about the resistive touchscreen and to identify enemies of the state in a crowded room. The high-end 8GB model with microSD slot is said to cost $140 in a country where the average worker is estimated to earn about $1 per month. And here we thought that our gadget addiction was bad. North Korea gets a PDA befitting its Dear Leader originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 05 Nov 2010 05:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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A state airliner filled with Cubans and travelers from Europe and Latin America crashed and burst into flames in a mountainous area after declaring an emergency and losing contact with air traffic controllers. (Nov. 5)
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Our armed forces were made to fight in conventional wars and cannot meet the real threats to modern Britain. So why must we pay £45bn for something that’s so obsolete? A British army Challanger 2 tank near Basra in Iraq. Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Six months ago I proposed in the Guardian that if Britain was short of money it should cut defence. I did not mean reduce defence, or trim defence. I meant cut it altogether. We are desperately short of money and absolutely no one is threatening to attack us now or in the foreseeable, indeed conceivable, future. Besides, as we have seen this past week, other ways of ensuring security make more pressing claims on us. We just do not need…
Continue reading …Samsung Galaxy Tab can be made to run all apps in full screen, here’s how (video)
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You might have noticed in our Galaxy Tab review that a number of pretty significant Android apps failed to scale to fully utilize its real estate, leaving an unpleasant black border surrounding their content. Well, you can now take that issue off your list of cons for this otherwise delectable tablet as our buddy JKK has figured out a way to overcome the scaling problemo. Using Spare Parts, a free app available in the Android Market, and a couple of reboots, he was able to convince the Engadget app to run in full screen on the Tab. He’s right in guessing that we’d be happy about that, though we imagine owners of Samsung’s slate will be the ones with the biggest grins on their faces right now. See the how-to video after the break. [Thanks, Mani] Continue reading Samsung Galaxy Tab can be made to run all apps in full screen, here’s how (video) Samsung Galaxy Tab can be made to run all apps in full screen, here’s how (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …![Matt Hughes Storm Chaser Death [Watch Video]](http://newsbreakingonline.com/wp-content/themes/transcript/timthumb.php?src=%3Cimg+src%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fnewsbreakingonline.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F11%2F4bc4bfc67e2.jpg.jpg%22+%2F%3E&q=90&w=190&h=100&zc=1 "Matt Hughes Storm Chaser Death [Watch Video]")
Visit videoliners.com to watch it all. Storm Chasers star and meteorologist Matt Hughes was revealed to be dead on last night’s show. The network only said that he died “due to an injury unrelated to his chasing activities,” leaving many people wondering how did Matt Hughes die? “The cause of death was hanging,” Amanda Matthews, spokeswoman for Cedgwick County Forensic Science Center, according to E! Online.
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