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RIM's new woes seen speeding loss of BlackBerry users
Research In Motion's appointment of bankers to advise on drastic options, including an outright sale of the BlackBerry maker, may only hasten moves by major customers to offer their employees smartphones produced by rivals. An increasing number of top companies and government departments that were once devoted to the BlackBerry are instead now giving some staff the option of using Apple Inc's iPhone

Defining a Palestinian refugee a US complication

A simple congressional request for the United States to distinguish between Palestinians displaced by the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict and millions of their descendants poses a high-stakes

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Israeli reporter accused of leaking army documents
A reporter working for Israeli daily Haaretz has been charged with leaking classified army documents related to assassination of Palestinian militant leaders, a media report said.

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Yemen: Airstrike, shelling kills 20 militants
Yemeni warplanes and artillery strikes killed 20 al-Qaida-linked militants in heavy shelling and clashes on Wednesday in the country's south, according to Defense Ministry and military officials.

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U.S. says drone strikes "lawful and precise"

U.S. Department of Defense spokesperson George Little has said the unmanned drones and its missile strikes operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) are "lawful and precise" and that they

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For-profit schools jump to enroll military spouses

"Unleash the dog trainer inside you," urges an ad for the online Animal Behavior College, which makes no bones about whom it's trying to recruit. In television and online ads, it speaks directly

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