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...Netherlands, Portugal, Italy and France - will coordinate with U.S. intelligence officers, and plan to begin surveillance flights over the Atlantic in July. They will also coordinate military and police patrols at sea to try to intercept Latin American drug vessels before they reach Africa or Europe. "Whichever warship is nearest will take the vessel and the drugs to Portugal," says Edwards, of the European Commission's drug unit...
...According to Hitwise, for the four weeks ending June 2, 2007, Google accounted for 64.8% of all executed searches in the U.S., triple that of its nearest competitor Yahoo! Search, which achieved 21.7% of all searches in that same time period. Tech pundits (this author included) have long theorized that there must be a saturation point for Google's role in our quest to find information on the Internet. We just don't have a clue as to where that point may be. We've pondered the possibility of slips in dominance with the release of a new competitive offering...
...Azhour went to collect her husband's body from Baghdad's central morgue, only her father and brother volunteered to go with her. They put Amer's body in a simple wooden coffin, strapped it onto the roof of the car and drove as quickly as possible to the nearest Sunni graveyard. "I was terrified that [Shi'ite militias] would see the coffin and stop us," she recalls. "And once they found out that we were Sunni, they would kill us as well...
...cost next to nothing to build. So, the town makes do with a basic early warning system involving a surveillance balloon moored on its outskirts providing a view over Gaza, and alarms that sound when there is a rocket launch. This gives residents about 15 seconds to take the nearest available cover. The city opened its bomb shelters on Tuesday for the first time since the 1967 war, 40 years ago. And the city school system canceled classes, and began moving to send children to other schools around the country. Moyal Eli, the town mayor, said that militants time their...
...were shuttled between the two stations by bus. Service was resumed around noon after technicians detonated the backpack, according to Pesaturo. Pesaturo, who said that terror threats were “very rare” in the T, urged all customers to report anything suspicious they see to the nearest MBTA authority. “The T is concerned about all individuals who act in an erratic fashion,” said Pesaturo. “This threat turned out to be harmless and we got things under control very quickly, but hopefully, anyone else who wants to make stupid...