(click image for slideshow) Jolla finally got around to announcing its first smartphone today, months behind schedule. The company had expected to deliver its first device to the market by the end of the second quarter of the year. Though Jolla announced the new device today, it isn’t expected to ship until the end of [...]
Here’s the PlayStation 4, Sort Of
20/05/2013 By
With Microsoft’s big unveiling of the next generation of Xbox set for tomorrow morning, Sony has decided this would be a good time to remind everyone about the competing next-generation console it announced three months ago and promptly went radio silent on. One of the biggest complaints about Sony’s much-ballyhooed “unveiling” of the PlayStation 4 [...]
US says Korea tensions relatively low, despite missile tests
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WASHINGTON | Mon May 20, 2013 2:20pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon on Monday appeared to play down North Korea’s six short-range missile launches over the past three days, describing tensions on the Korean peninsula as relatively low. Pyongyang has defended its short-range missile launches as legitimate military drills. The North frequently fires short-range [...]
Gay marriage: would legalising straight civil partnerships really cost £4bn?
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It was the big number in Monday’s front-page stories: Downing Street’s warning that the bill to legalise gay marriage could cost an extra £4bn. This, it was claimed, is how much a Tory backbench amendment would cost which would allow straight couples to enter into civil partnerships, thereby equalising treatment between the two groups. Labour [...]
Ugandan Police Shut Down Newspaper Offices – VOA
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— Police in Uganda’s capital have closed down the offices of the Daily Monitor. According to the Daily Monitor’s senior correspondent, police have declared the premises of their publication a crime scene and are doing a thorough search of the building. Earlier this month, the Daily Monitor published a series of stories about Uganda’s coordinator [...]
Dagestan bombs kill 4, 2 dead in shootout near Moscow
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MAKHACHKALA, Russia | Mon May 20, 2013 3:01pm EDT MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) – Two car bombs killed at least four people and wounded dozens of others on Monday in one of the bloodiest attacks this year in Dagestan, a turbulent province in Russia’s North Caucasus region where armed groups are waging an Islamist insurgency. Car [...]
India, China to fast-track border talks
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countries also signed eight pacts — on trade, culture and water resources — after Chinese premier Li Keqiang, making his first foreign visit since taking office in March, met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the second time in less than 24 hours after arriving in the Capital on Sunday afternoon. Saying that New Delhi saw [...]
Gunman Kills Four in a Bank in Southern Israel
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An unemployed former security guard shot and killed four people in a bank in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on Monday hours after the bank had refused his request for financial assistance, the police said. The gunman committed suicide after holing up in the bathroom of the bank with a female hostage for about [...]
Musharraf Granted Bail in Bhutto Assassination Case
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An antiterrorism court in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, granted Mr. Musharraf bail on charges relating to the death of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated in 2007 while Mr. Musharraf was in power. His lawyer, Salman Safdar, said bail, which was set close to $20,000, represented Mr. Musharraf’s “first legal relief” since his dramatic return [...]
William Hague: Syria facing disintegration
20/05/2013 By
He said: “One of two scenarios lies ahead for Syria: on the one hand an evermore savage conflict and military stalemate, producing an even bigger humanitarian disaster, greater radicalisation and deeper sectarian divisions, further massacres, and even the collapse of the Syrian state and disintegration of its territory. “Or on the other hand, and what [...]