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"We have not arrested Karadzic. The operation is over," police spokesman Dragomir Peric told AFP.
Nato-led S-For troops said its soldiers had a small role in the operation.
Mr Karadzic is wanted by the war crimes tribunal in The Hague to face genocide charges stemming from the Bosnian war in the 1990s.
S-For has been making increasing efforts to find Mr Karadzic and his supporters before it hands over its mission to a European Union force by the end of this year.
In less than two years, it has carried out four operations to arrest him. All of them have failed.
Bosnian Serb police chief Radomir Njegus told local media that his forces had been conducting an operation in the area of Bratunac, near the border with Serbia.
He said special forces had surrounded the region.
They had received information that Mr Karadzic was planning to cross the border, he added.
Witnesses told AFP news agency that S-For troops had been observing the border from hills outside the town.
Correspondents say the Bosnian Serb Republic, which along with the Muslim-Croat federation makes up post-war Bosnia, has never arrested a war crimes suspect.
But the entity is under intense pressure to capture Mr Karadzic, as Bosnia seeks closer ties with Nato and the EU.
"In less than two years, only four operations have been launched to arrest Karadzic"
Where are Karadzic and Mladic?
The government today said it has received representations from trade bodies alleging irregularities in various aspects of the proposed acquisition of Flipkart by Walmart and that have been sent to concerned agencies for necessary action.
The deal values the 11-year old Indian e-commerce firm at USD 20.8 billion.
The government today said it has received representations from trade bodies alleging irregularities in various aspects of the proposed acquisition of Flipkart by Walmart and that have been sent to concerned agencies for necessary action. “Yes,” Minister of State for Commerce and Industry C R Chaudhary said on a questio...
“The representations received have alleged irregularities in various aspects of the proposed acquisition of shares of Flipkart by Walmart. These representations have been sent to the concerned bodies of the government for necessary action,” he said.
In May, the US-based retailer Walmart Inc announced acquisition of 77 per cent stake in Flipkart in its biggest takeover till date. The deal values the 11-year old Indian e-commerce firm at USD 20.8 billion. Replying to a separate question, the minister said during the last three years (from July 2015 onwards), in matt...
“Three cases were referred by STC to CBI. FIR has been lodged in one case with local police. In addition, STC has initiated disciplinary proceedings in four cases,” he said. The corporation has recorded Rs 38 crore profit after tax in 2017-18 as against a loss of Rs 166 crore in 2016-17.
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alen Lecque may have recently left North Carolina, but he'll be back soon.
Jalen Lecque may have recently left North Carolina, but he'll be back soon.
The former Christ School standout, who transferred to Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, N.H for his senior year, announced on Tuesday the he will play basketball at N.C. State next season.
Lecque is ranked as the No. 4 combo guard in the nation, according to 247Sports, and was one of the top players in North Carolina before leaving the state. He's currently ranked as the No. 1 player in New Hampshire.
During his one season in Arden, Lecque averaged nearly a triple-double while leading the Greenies to a 23-13 record and a second-round appearance in the NCISAA playoffs.
Lecque had recently narrowed his choices to seven schools, picking the Wolfpack over Louisville, Oregon, UCLA, TCU, Texas Tech and Tennessee.
Thirteen-year-old Motswari was a member of an eight-vulture cadre, spirited off to the US to breed chicks in a race against encroaching doom.
Motswari was around eight months old when she smashed into a power line in South Africa, sending her into a violent spiral toward the ground.
She survived, but the injury robbed her from the key trait for vultures to eat and to live. Motswari's cream, black-tipped wing was shattered. She could no longer fly.
But as a member of a long-dwindling population of Cape vultures, an important link in the ecosystem now endangered by human activity, Motswari was still vital. Perhaps even existentially important to what's left of her species.
Motswari was a member of an eight-vulture cadre spirited off to the United States to breed chicks in a race against encroaching doom, said Kerri Wolter, the chief executive and founder of VulPro, a South Africa-based conservation group that helped get Motswari and others to the country.
She settled at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colorado becoming an icon for awareness and fundraising for the often maligned and vastly misunderstood birds, Wolter told The Washington Post.
On Monday, the skies over the zoo were choked with softball-sized hail. It raked enclosures and struck guests, staffers and animals alike. One visitor's video shows hail plunging into the water at a bear enclosure and violently churning the water like a wave thrashing a rocky shore.
At least fourteen people and a number of animals were injured, and hundreds of cars were damaged. The guests and staff were evacuated. A 4-year-old Muscovy duck named Daisy was killed.
Motswari, too, lay dead. She was 13.
Every dead Cape vulture impacts the species, which has declined as much as 94 percent in three generations, Wolter's group said last year.
But there are fewer than 20 in the United States, where conservationists focus on breeding in an effort to release more in the wild, Wolter said. Their work demands genetically pure birds - hatched at the glacial pace of one egg per year - to avoid specimens weakened by inbreeding.
Their offspring heading back to Africa need to be tough. Mostwari was as tough as they came, a mother in her breeding prime.
"It's a massive loss," Wolter said of her death.
Cape vultures crisscross southern Africa in a vast network, stretching from Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho and others. One tagged vulture visited eight countries in eight days, soaring high to scan the ground for dead animals to scavenge.
The vultures can eye potential meals from up to nearly four miles away, Wolter said.
And they signal each other using movement; one vulture finds a carcass and begins circling, and responding birds in the area form a direct flight path, like the churning arms of a galaxy.
Their colonies, perched on ledges judged from high mountains, can include hundreds of birds. They are communal and friendly. "The more the merrier" in the colonies, Wolter said.
Yet the popular conception of vultures as filthy, aggressive birds choking down rotten meat have stained the image of vultures, which can blunt conservation or awareness efforts, Wolter said. People tend to envision the Looney Tunes version - divebombing, mean-spirited animals.
Or, their mind reaches for perhaps the most prominent image of the bird: Kevin Carter's 1993 photo of a vulture leering over a starving child in Sudan. The Pulitzer-winning photo shocked the world and spurred calls for humanitarian intervention.
But the photo was widely misinterpreted, Wolter said, and people thought of the bird as a feathered Grim Reaper. Vultures eat things that are dead but not decomposed. It was likely around to eat scraps, and some even eat human waste. So it was probably keeping the area clean.
It would not eat a child alive, or even recently dead. It's not strong enough, Wolter said.
"That did a lot of good for Africa," Wolter said of the photo, "but a lot of bad for vultures."
Around 4,200 breeding pairs remain, she said, and Africa would benefit from a reversal in their fortunes. If they can get to carcasses first, their iron stomachs help protect them from diseases that ravage people and animals, blunting diseases like Anthrax, tuberculosis and rabies, Wolter said.
That also helps reduce places where vectors like blowflies can pick up and transmit bacteria. Losing vultures, then, could prove "disastrous" for people and livestock, she said.
Wolter arrived at vulture conservancy by accident, she said, but found them captivating. They're survivors, overcoming gangrene, broken wings and harsh conditions. They eat poison in carcasses that farmers leave to kill predators, and some are electrocuted on power lines veined across southern Africa.
Others, like Motswari, smash into them, leaving the birds dead or injured. Poachers will also kill them so they do not alert authorities to illegal hunting.
And yet, they persevere. "Once you spend a bit of time with them, and get to understand their intricacies and personalities, a person is never the same," Wolter said.
It is unclear what the circumstances were that led to Motswari's death. The zoo did not respond to a request for comment. In its statement, the zoo said it was closed Tuesday so officials could clear debris and survey the "significant damage" to determine its reopening date.
The zoo described the storm as expected but the hail as "out of the blue."
It also unclear if the zoo had confirmed all animals were alive apart from Motswari and Daisy, or how many other Cape vultures the zoo now has, if any.
What is clear is the loss Motswari represents. Captive breeding remains a cornerstone of their survival.
There are dim prospects for the installation of bird-friendly power lines, or bannning poison used by ranchers. Cape vultures transcend borders and laws.
But Wolter thinks transnational policies can be enacted with the right kind of advocacy.
"Unless we do that," she said, "they won't stand a chance."
Sensing an opportunity to invade a new market, Sun plans to announce new products and services for the telecom business Tuesday.
Sensing an opportunity to invade a new market, Sun Microsystems plans to announce new products and services for the telecommunications business Tuesday.
Among Sun's new lines will be a high-reliability server that the Palo Alto, California, company plans to sell to well-known and upstart telecommunications companies, sources said.
"It's an auspicious time to enter the market," because two primary competitors, Tandem and Digital Equipment, are focused more on their integration with Compaq Computer than on the telecommunications business itself, one source said. Sun, however, is a relative newcomer to the telecom market compared with Digital and o...
The new Sun server will comply with the international Signaling System 7 (SS7) telecommunications standard, sources said.
High-capacity, high-reliability computers are a vital part of the telecommunications infrastructure. "The telecommunications market is very dependent on highly reliable equipment because customers have been conditioned by the old Bell and AT&T system to expect communications services that don't fail," one source said.
In addition, robust equipment is essential for higher-profit services such as voicemail, custom calling, and "unified messaging," which is the combination of communications methods such as email, pagers, and telephones. Providing such services is one way that upstart companies are targeting industry stalwarts.
"Sun is trying to get down into the bowels of the telephone networks," where 99.999 percent reliability is required, a source said. In other words, servers must run around the clock all but 5 minutes a year. In the long term, Sun probably believes that it can benefit from the convergence of telephone networks and the I...
Sun wants to be a key player in the long-range vision of "making the Internet just as reliable and consistent as the telephone network is now," this source said.
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The “E’s” have it…Energy and Earnings, that is. Both topics dominated the news this week and, unfortunately, pessimism returned to the marketplace.
Let’s look at the first “E” – Energy.
While many analysts had predicted oil to fall as the summer driving and hurricane seasons came to a close, traders instead kept pushing prices higher (and higher and higher). The latest culprit: An untimely skirmish between Turkey and the Kurds.
Last month, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) agreed to boost production (though ever so slightly) and this week’s inventory levels revealed higher crude supplies than had been expected (both good signs). Still, investors (or, rather, speculators) last week focused on the geopolitical turmoil and...
Some “experts” claim that the current levels of supply and demand do not justify the skyrocketing prices and feel that sheer speculation is responsible for much of the recent activity. What’s more, the weak dollar prompted some hedging activity as investors moved into commodities. While the domestic inflation picture s...
And now for the other “E” – Earnings. Earnings season ahead last week with less than stellar results. Through Thursday, about 60 S&P 500 companies had reported and much of the investor attention had been on financials. Of the nation’s top four banks, only JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) (+2%) posted positive earnings growth...
In other financial earnings news, Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC), KeyCorp (KEY), Washington Mutual Inc. (WM), and E-Trade were among the other related companies that struggled during the past three months. Not all earnings news was completely negative last quarter as the techs revealed some favorable showings. Intel Corp. (IN...
The equity markets tumbled throughout the week as the one-two punch of “energy and earnings” sent investors running for cover (that it, for the safe-haven of treasuries). Stocks moved lower each day as, one by one, financial companies (except one) reported dismal results (thanks JPMorgan). The major indexes all plummet...
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Two of the nation’s top economists were busy chattering up a storm again this week and investors did not take too kindly to their views. U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke revealed that the credit crisis was nowhere near finished and said that the ongoing struggles of the U.S. housing industry would “probabl...
With oil prices hovering around $90 a barrel, inflation is once again showing up on everyone’s radar screen. The September Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 0.3%, as rising food and energy costs led the way. So far this year, retail inflation has climbed at an annual rate of 3.6%, well ahead of the 2.5% pace for ...
Last January, Fred Armisen appeared on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, during which he told his former Saturday Night Live castmate about traveling to Japan to learn more about his paternal grandfather, the dancer and choreographer Masami Kuni. The Portlandia star mentioned that he was inspired to learn more about ...
As seen in this exclusive clip, Finding Your Roots uncovered a 1944 report from the U.S. Office of War Information that suggests Kuni moonlighted as a spy for Japan while employed in Nazi Germany during the ’30s and ’40s. It’s not exactly Larry David learning that he’s related to Bernie Sanders, but it’s worth it to se...
Armisen’s episode of Finding Your Roots also features Christopher Walken and Carly Simon, and it debuts tomorrow, October 10 at 8 p.m. on PBS member stations.
May made the announcement after the EU’s chief negotiator warned that a disruptive and costly Brexit was likely unless Britain broke the impasse that has paralyzed the government and Parliament.
Following the defeat of the government’s plan and a range of lawmaker-written alternatives, May said Britain would need a further delay to its EU departure, currently scheduled for April 12. She offered to hold talks with opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in an attempt to find a compromise solution.
“This debate, this division, cannot drag on much longer,” May said in a televised statement from 10 Downing St. after an all-day Cabinet meeting.
The leaders of the EU’s 27 remaining countries have given the U.K. until April 12 to leave the bloc or to come up with a new plan, after British lawmakers thrice rejected an agreement struck between the bloc and May late last year.
May’s statement came after a seven-hour meeting of her fractious Cabinet, which is split between supporters of a “soft Brexit” that keeps close economic ties with the EU, and Brexiteers who believe a no-deal exit is better than compromising.
May’s words seemed to indicate that she was veering away from the possibility of a no-deal Brexit — but also that she has not given up on her own unloved withdrawal agreement.
Her plan is to seek approval for the legally binding agreement — which sets out in detail the terms of Britain’s departure from the EU — after securing cross-party political support for a vision of future ties between the U.K. and the bloc.
Edwin Morgan, interim director general of business group the Institute of Directors, said May’s statement was “a welcome step towards compromise,” though there remained obstacles ahead.
“We urge the leader of the opposition to work with the prime minister to find a solution,” he said.
Britain’s political paralysis — and May’s failure to get Parliament’s approval for the withdrawal agreement she negotiated — have exasperated EU leaders.
“We cannot avoid failure for them,” Macron said before a meeting in Paris with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar.
But Varadkar stressed “there’s still time” for May to come to the April 10 summit with “credible” proposals.
Saudi Arabia has committed to conducting a complete investigation into the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday before departing the kingdom for Turkey.
Earlier, President Donald Trump gave Saudi Arabia the benefit of the doubt in Khashoggi's disappearance, while US lawmakers pointed the finger at the Saudi leadership and Western pressure mounted on Riyadh to provide answers.
"In each of those meetings I stressed the importance of them conducting a complete investigation into the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi. They made a commitment to do that," he told reporters travelling with him after boarding the plane for Ankara.
Turkish officials have said they believe Khashoggi was murdered and his body removed, which the Saudis have strongly denied. Khashoggi was a US resident who wrote columns for the Washington Post and he was critical of the Saudi government, calling for reforms.

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