Troops patrolling northern border detect elderly woman tangled in barbed wire fence on Lebanese side near mine field, safely return her to Lebanon in coordination with UNIFIL forces
Continue reading …Verizon happy to offer Windows 7 devices ‘as soon as Microsoft has ‘em ready’
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It’s not easy to tell whether Verizon is talking about Windows Phone 7 handsets or Windows 7 tablets given the ambiguous wording of this tweet. Still, the underlying message is clear: Ball’s in your court, Microsoft. There are no CDMA-ready smartphones or tablets running Microsoft’s latest operating systems (save the late-blooming HTC 7 Pro for Sprint) and Verizon doesn’t intend to take any of the blame for that. [Thanks, Daniel R.] Verizon happy to offer Windows 7 devices ‘as soon as Microsoft has ‘em ready’ originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Tweet – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will probably win narrow approval from his coalition government for a US proposal to extend a freeze on West Bank settlement building, Israeli political sources said on Sunday. The Palestinians halted peace talks after the 10-month Israeli moratorium on settlement construction expired in September. The Obama administration has offered Israel diplomatic and defence perks to renew the freeze for 90 days. Netanyahu, who visited the United States last week, convened his Cabinet to outline the proposal, which he…
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DUBLIN/BERLIN: Ireland said on Sunday that it neither needed nor was discussing EU financial aid and denied reports that the European Union was pressing it to accept emergency funding. EU sources over the past two days said that talks on possible aid were under way and that Ireland was unlikely to hold out without assistance. The European Union is keen for Ireland to accept aid, sources have said, to avert a Greek-style scenario where budget problems in one country plunge the entire euro zone into crisis. Irish minister of enterprise, trade and innovation Batt O’Keeffe told national broadcaster RTE that…
Continue reading …PC World stops selling the Toshiba Folio 100, we go hands-on to find out why (video)
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8:21 AM Monday Nov 15, 2010 Share Email Print Expand Shrink A British couple kidnapped off their private yacht by Somali pirates more than a year ago have finally been set free, after a ransom was paid. Their release ended one of the most drawn-out and dramatic hostage situations since the rash of piracy began off East Africa. Paul and Rachel Chandler looked relaxed and smiled through a small ceremony held in the Somali town of Adado after their morning release. The fact that the Chandlers couldn’t pay a big ransom helped stretch out their ordeal for 388 agonising days – until today, when they were released thin and exhausted, but smiling. The Chandlers were welcomed by the Somali community…
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Britain’s highest military officer, Sir David Richards, has offered some sage advice: Al-Qaeda can never be completely defeated. The admission, which comes almost 10 years into the ambiguously named “war on terror”, puts military focus on containing fighters and not all-out annihilation. —JCL Al-Jazeera English: Britain’s most senior officer has been quoted as saying that al-Qaeda can never be completely defeated. David Richards, chief of the defence staff, said on Sunday that outright victory is “unnecessary” as long as governments are able to contain the fighters. “First of all, you have to ask: ‘Do we need to defeat it (al-Qaeda) in the sense of a clear cut victory?’” Richards told British newspaper the Sunday Telegraph. Read more Related Entries November 12, 2010 Court Allows ‘DADT’ Policy for Now November 11, 2010 Dishonoring Pat Tillman
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US president commends Netanyahu for 3-month freeze plan while settlement leaders call on PM to ‘come back to values of Likud’, likening freeze to 1939 White Paper. Leaders say forum of Likud ministers to be established in order to oppose move
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In our inevitable Utopian future (assuming we make it past this 2012 noise ), we’ll all use one frequency for our high-speed wireless broadband across the globe. Actually, we’ll probably just beam information directly between our brains and brain-like supercomputers at speeds so fast they can’t be measured, and we won’t need smartphones at all because they’ll be installed in our bodies at birth, complete with eyeballs capable of 1080p video capture. Until then, though, we’ve got companies like Nokia showing some hustle to put pentaband 3G radios on the market, and the trend continues with the upcoming E7 . Of course, we already knew it was going to be pentaband — Nokia had said as much — but seeing it in the cold, hard graphs and tables of an FCC filing is still music to our ears. Won’t be long now, folks . Nokia E7 hits FCC with as much 3G support as you can handle originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 14 Nov 2010 15:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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The pending START treaty, signed by Barack Obama but not yet approved by the Senate, is being reheated by the president after his trip to Asia and is set to be a top priority of both the White House and the Democrat-controlled Congress before newly elected Republican lawmakers arrive in January. —JCL Los Angeles Times: President Obama made one departing promise as he wrapped up his meeting with world leaders here Sunday, telling his Russian counterpart that he will make approval of their nuclear agreement a top priority in the final days of the Democratic Congress. In what one official called a “full-court press” on Capitol Hill, the administration is arguing that the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty is critical to the future of U.S.- Russia relations, and that dragging things out could do irreparable damage. “The president has made it very clear publicly that this is his highest priority in terms of foreign policy pieces of business to get done in the lame duck session,” a senior administration official said here Sunday. “And if the president says that, then the rest of us are doing everything we can to make that happen.” Read more Related Entries November 12, 2010 Court Allows ‘DADT’ Policy for Now November 11, 2010 Dishonoring Pat Tillman
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