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Samsung Fixing Image Glitch on Blu-Ray Player

NEW YORK – Samsung Electronics Co. moved Thursday to address image-quality concerns noted by some reviewers of its high-definition Blu-ray disc player, the first on the market, saying it would make production changes. A review in this month’s issue of Sound & Vision magazine noted that movies played back on …

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Envoy: Iran-EU Talks on Nuclear Defiance Postponed

VIENNA, Austria – A senior Iranian envoy abruptly announced Wednesday that last-ditch talks on his country’s disputed nuclear program were postponed, moving Tehran a step closer to U.N. sanctions after it defied a deadline to freeze uranium enrichment. The talks had been tentatively set for Wednesday in Vienna as a …

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Jordan Sentences Eight Militants for Plot to Kill U.S. Soldiers, Israelis

AMMAN, Jordan – A Jordanian military court convicted eight militants Wednesday of plotting to kill U.S. troops in Iraq and Americans and Israelis in Jordan. The court handed down sentences of between two and 10 years’ imprisonment. The alleged mastermind of the plot, Ahmad Shabaneh, 37, a Jordanian of Palestinian …

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