AP - Israel’s fight with Hamas in Gaza, like the war with Hezbollah in Lebanon two years ago, is not just a struggle over the Palestinian issue but a broader proxy battle between Western allies and Iran for the very future of the Middle East.
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AP - The Grand Canyon, Mount Everest and Loch Ness will vie with more than 200 other spectacular places in the next phase of the global competition for the New 7 Wonders of Nature, organizers said Wednesday.
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AP - The wife of billionaire Chinese appliance retailer Wong Kwong-yu has been detained as police investigate Wong for possible financial offenses, according to news reports.
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Steve Ballmer is due to speak at the Consumer Electronics Show in less than 24 hours and the buzz is building.
He will definitely unveil Windows 7, that’s for sure. A replacement for the much derided Windows Vista was long overdue. Anything less than a fully fledged, simple, virus-free operating system and Ballmer will be booed off the stage.
But the key question is whether he will give it away for free. It would be the biggest PR coup of the year. “Yes, we knew you d…
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AP - Gunmen have opened fire and tossed a grenade at a Mexican television station as it aired its nightly newscast, leaving behind a message warning the station about its coverage of drug gangs.
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AFP - Marks & Spencer is set to axe more than 1,000 jobs, reports said, bringing further gloom to the high street as it struggles under the weight of the downturn.
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AFP - Successful prosecutions of violent extremists have reduced the risk of an immediate attack in Britain, the head of MI5 said in a series of interviews Wednesday.
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AP - China’s most popular search engine Baidu apologized Wednesday for hosting links to pornographic content after it was criticized by the government, saying it was sorry for the negative impact on society.
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AP - Radical conservationists who have been chasing Japanese whalers in the Antarctic Ocean said Wednesday they were heading to Australia to refuel their ship, a day after Japan argued they were pirates who should be barred from refueling.
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AFP - Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling said in an interview Wednesday that “we are far from through” the economic downturn, a sign that he will revise his forecast that recovery will begin in mid-2009.
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