Archive for March 12th, 2008
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
My how times have changed. Just a few years ago, carriers rarely acknowledged small-time cellphone developers even existed because cellphones had few mobile application and operators were concentrating on delivering calls.
But now th ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Tokyo stocks closed sharply higher Wednesday.
The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average rose 202.85 points, or 1.60 percent, from Tuesday to 12,861.13.
The broader Topix index of all First Section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Israeli troops on Wednesday killed an Islamic Jihad (Holy War) commander during an operation near the West Bank town of Tulkarem, the movement said.
In a press statement, Jihad said that Saleh Karkour, a 22-year-old activist, was ki ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
An American soldier was killed by a roadside bomb attack near the city of Diwaniya, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
The soldier died of wounds sustained by the blast which hit his combat patrol on Tuesday near the predominantly ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
A suicide attacker blew himself up near the convoy of Canadian troops Wednesday morning in southern Afghan city of Kandahar, killing one civilian and wounding three others, officials said.
Fraser Clark, the spokesman of Canadian Pro ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
The Cambodian Supreme Court decided Wednesday to maintain the verdict for three men charged with attempted murders of western diplomats.
Haji Chiming Abdulazi, 42, and Muhammady Alaludim Mading, 46, both from Thailand, as well as C ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
At least eight people were killed in a tractor accident along the Karnali Highway in mid-western Nepal Tuesday evening, the National News Agency RSS reported Wednesday.
The tractor was bound for Surkhet from Jumla, some 380 km west ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
The Boeing Company on Tuesday submitted a formal protest to the Government Accountability Office(GAO) against a 35-billion-dollar Air Force tanker contract it lost, citing unfair competition and flawed evaluation of bids.
The contra ...
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