RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinians can’t resume negotiations with Israel under current conditions and will pursue their bid to win U.N. recognition, a top Palestinian official said Thursday, after President Mahmoud Abbas and senior officialsreviewed the latest appeal from Mideast mediators to restart talks and reach a deal within a year. Last week, Abbas asked the U.N. to grant [...]
Earlier in the week, Barack Obama visited the Silicon Valley headquarters of business-orientated social network LinkedIn, which hosted a town hall-style meeting to promote the president’s new jobs bill. The irony of talking about how to find jobs at a company that helps people find jobs was not lost on Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show.” [...]
– With a box full of carrots and a hankering for something vaguely exotic, Mary-Claire van Leunen turned to her computer for a recipe. “I looked for `Turkish carrots’ and I found it easily, in fact I found half a dozen,” said the retired Seattle software researcher. Everyone’s done it, fired up a search engine [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — It isn’t a pretty picture at Yahoo Inc. right now, but that’s not stopping the beleaguered Internet company from touching up its popular photo-sharing service, Flickr. Yahoo made that clear Wednesday with the introduction of a new way for friends in different locations to simultaneously browse through pictures. The company also unveiled [...]
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese police in Shanghai have arrested five people for making and selling fake versions of Apple Inc’s iPhone, a local newspaper reported on Thursday. Police said those arrested were part of an organized gang that bought components for the phones from Guangdong in southern China and assembled them in rented apartments in [...]
BERLIN (AP) — Germany kept alive hopes that the 17-nation euro currency can survive the sprawling debt crisis when lawmakers in Europe’s largest economy voted overwhelmingly on Thursday in favor of expanding the powers of the eurozone’s bailout fund. The vote strengthened Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right coalition, which had struggled to win support from a bloc of rebellious [...]
HELSINKI — Nokia Corp. on Thursday announced a further 3,500 job cuts by 2012 as it strives to save costs and restructure while its global market share falls due to stiff competition in the smartphone sector. The Finnish cellphone maker said it will close a manufacturing plant in Cluj, Romania, by the end of 2011 [...]
BEIJING — China launched an experimental module to lay the groundwork for a future space station on Thursday, underscoring its ambitions to become a major space power over the coming decade. The box car-sized Tiangong-1 module was shot into space from the Jiuquan launch center on the edge of the Gobi Desert aboard a Long [...]
T-Mobile USA has become the latest mobile provider opposing Apple’s bid to stop Samsung Electronics Co from selling some Galaxy products in the United States, according to a court filing. The move by T-Mobile on Wednesday follows a similar position taken last week by Verizon Wireless. T-Mobile, which cited 2011 holiday sales as one of [...]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Kenya’s deputy prime minister testified at an International Criminal Court preliminary hearing Thursday to defend himself against charges of fomenting violence after his country’s disputed 2007 presidential election. Uhuru Kenyatta’s testimony is crucial to his attempt to have crimes against humanity charges — including murder and rape — dismissed before they go to trial. Kenyatta— the [...]
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