Word: britishism
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...European publishers] were not party to the original discussions [about the settlement], so feel doubly disgruntled," Philip Jones, managing editor of the British trade magazine The Bookseller, tells TIME. He points out that Google's recent overtures are in fact clarifications rather than concessions: "Google is merely agreeing to respect international copyright law." (See the top 10 fiction books...
...Indian government has also announced a range of policy initiatives - a $22 billion solar-energy program, $2.5 billion forestation fund and a national energy-efficiency mission, among others - that won kudos from visiting British Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband. "I think India wants to be a dealmaker - not a deal breaker - in Copenhagen," Miliband said during a visit to New Delhi on Sept. 2. Both the nonprofit sector and industry have also been organizing seminars and workshops with aims ranging from enhancing the Indian carbon market to supporting India's negotiating stance in three months. (See pictures of the elephants...
...unclear whether Munadi was shot by his British rescuers or by the Taliban. Locals tell TIME that a woman and child in the house were killed along with a Taliban commander named...
...Times' Kabul bureau had asked the British embassy there - Farrell holds Irish and British passports - to use a military rescue mission only as a last resort, since negotiations were under way to free the two reporters and any rescue attempt would imperil them. But according to the source close to the negotiations, a decision was made "at ministerial levels" in London to mount the operation. Neither the Times nor Farrell's family were warned of the impending raid. The British are partners of the U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan and have 8,000 troops in the country. (See pictures...
...British SAS team, which had one commando killed during the firefight, according to NATO officials in Kabul, flew off in a helicopter with Farrell but left Munadi's body behind. The translator's grieving relatives made the dangerous journey from Kabul to Kunduz to pick up the body. Munadi had returned briefly to Kabul during a break from graduate school in Germany and was working part-time for the Times, accompanying journalists on their increasingly dangerous forays out of the capital. (Read about roadside bombs in Afghanistan...