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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Two years ago, Apple threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from its app store over concerns about the platform being used as a tool to trade and sell maids in the Mideast. After publicly promising to crack down, Facebook acknowledged in internal documents obtained by The Associated Press that it was “under-enforcing on confirmed abusive activity” that saw Filipina maids complaining on the social media site of being abused. Apple relented and Facebook and Instagram remained in the app store. But Facebook’s crackdown seems to have had a limited effect. Even today, a quick...

If Israel should have learned ONE lesson during the "Second War in Lebanon" it was YOU CANNOT win a war by bombing alone. Yet after a Week of bombing this seems the strategy of the Olmert Government AGAIN. Will Israeli succumb to the growing pressure from the EU and the UN and a NEW president of the US who is NOT pro-Israel ? It seems that way. hey are seriously considering a cease-fire that brings thing back to the status quo of early December, Israel's hands will be tied, Hamas will be free to fire rockets. This will leave Hamas...

Dec 31, 2008 23:54 | Updated Jan 1, 2009 4:07 Olmert, Barak and Livni say politics isn't influencing Gaza operation By GIL HOFFMAN Political considerations are not influencing the decision-making about the future of Operation Cast Lead, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak claimed Wednesday. Though the February 10 general election is only 40 days away, Olmert and spokesmen for Livni and Barak said they were not considering the impact of military moves on the race. None of them denied that they disagreed about tactics for continuing the war, but they said the...