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...Wednesday The European Commission agreed with Intel's opponents as it fined the chipmaking giant a record $1.45 billion for skewing the market. The Commission - the European Union's antitrust authority - said Intel tried to squeeze out competition by paying PC makers and retailers not to use rival chips. The Commission's 542-page ruling also contained a cease-and-desist order, requiring the Santa Clara-based company to change its business practices in Europe. (See pictures of the financial crisis in London...
...play by Iranian hard-liners to insert themselves into the debate over diplomatic engagement, giving anti-détente forces a tool to retard diplomatic progress because the U.S. would have to limit its engagement with Tehran as long as Saberi was held captive. "They can use her to sabotage any opening," said Suzanne Maloney, an Iran expert at the Brookings Institution. (See pictures of the health-care system in Tehran...
...company spokesperson Chris Payne says the company is unaware of a "disproportionate number of car thefts in the Honolulu area." The "happens quite often" remark by the Thrifty employee was made out of sympathy alone, Payne says. He also pointed out that Thrifty - like many rental companies - does not use company bumper stickers on rentals, so as to make them more difficult for thieves to identify. (Thrifty cars do, however, have bar-coded stickers on the windshield, which makes the omission of a bumper sticker moot...
...called safe zone. Over the weekend, the Army announced that it had re-demarcated the safe zone, chopping it down to just 2.5 km long. The Army did not specify how it informed civilians that their safe area had been shrunk; in the past, it would use loudspeakers positioned on the front line...
...LTTE, meanwhile, continues to use the remaining civilians as human shields, according to the Army and human rights groups. Military sources say that the Tigers have moved the civilians away from the perimeter of the war zone, where they could escape as soon as the Army advanced, into the area's middle where the Mullivaikal hospital is located. On April 20, an estimated 100,000 civilians fled the zone within 72 hours when the Army breached a major Tiger fortification. Sri Lankan troops advanced a further 300 meters into Tiger territory on Tuesday. "We still believe that thousands of people...