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...Iran, Hizballah appears to be in a hurry to make good on its promises. The party has set up what amount to claim centers in school buildings throughout the areas that have been heavily damaged - south Beirut, southern Lebanon, the Bekkaa Valley. And officials say there are going to begin handing out cash within 48 hours...
...question of Yasukuni - and possibly ending Japan's virtual diplomatic isolation in Asia - will fall to Koizumi's likely successor, the hawkish Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe. Both China and South Korea have signaled their willingness to give Abe a chance once he takes power, to allow him to begin to repair the immense damage that Koizumi has done to Japan's Asian relations. But with national pride is surging in Japan - on Wednesday the government reacted furiously after a Russian patrol boat opened fire on a Japanese fishing boat sailing in disputed waters, killing a fisherman - Abe would need...
...partly by the swift political measures to dispatch Lebanese troops to the south and arrange for the arrival of the first of some additional 13,000 reinforcements for the U.N. peacekeeping force in south Lebanon. As theU.N. and Lebanese troops move into the south, the Israelis are expected to begin withdrawing, possibly as soon as by the end of the week, a move that will further mitigate tensions here. But perhaps the most important contribution to maintaining stability is the returning hordes of refugees whose presence here speaks more of rebuilding and looking to the future than returning...
...settled later, probably in negotiations between Israel and the Lebanese government on behalf of Hizballah, and the resultant deal will inevitably involve some kind of prisoner exchange. The soldiers' fate appears unlikely, however, to hold up the cease-fire. Within days, Lebanese Army troops (eventually numbering 15,000) will begin moving into southern Lebanon, later supported by a beefed-up U.N. peacekeeping force (which will also number 15,000), as Israel vacates the area. Hizballah has agreed to the truce in which it ends attacks on Israel and refrains from bearing arms south of the Litani River. Issues ranging from...
...analyst with IDC in Framingham, Massachusetts. "Some of the weak vendors below 8% market share will have to reconsider their place." The big picture is one of a shrinking market: IDC predicts that global growth will soon vanish as sales flatten in 2009 at 111.1 million cameras, and then begin to sink in 2010. Things look even soggier through the revenue lens. Retail prices will plummet as they always have, especially as consumer-electronics powerhouses like Samsung, Panasonic and BenQ flex their distribution muscles to grab at market share from the other vendors ahead of them - Sony, Kodak, Olympus, Nikon...