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Fadel Shana, a 24-year-old Palestinian, was killed on April 16, along with eight bystanders aged from 12 to 20, by darts known as flechettes that burst from a tank bomb in mid-air. Shana was filming about 1.5 km (a mile) from two Israeli tanks.

The London-based news agency has commissioned an independent advertise into the incident that found in that place was no fighting or militant activity in the immediate area where Shana was working in view of the tanks, about 100 meters (yards) from a busy thoroughfare.

No other casualty in the attack, in which a cistern fired brace flechette shells, was armed. Shana, whose car and body amour bore "Press" markings, filmed from a tripod for some minutes before his camera recorded the destructive shell being fired.

The Israeli army has yet to overture an tale but has said its soldiers followed their orders and did nothing bad. While cautioning journalists that they work in conflict zones at their own risk, the legions said it aims to avoid killing journalists.

Reuters has written to the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) to ask how, in that case, the troops failed to identify Shana as a cameraman — nor other victims as children and other civilians.

"We have a what one ought to do to our employees and their families to determine exactly what happened on that day, both to establish the exact cause of Fadel's death and to identify any action we be possible to have recourse to to improve the security of Reuters News staff onward assignment in hostile environments," Reuters Middle East Managing Editor Mark Thompson wrote be unconsumed week.

"The IDF has had plenty of time to deportment a thorough investigation into the killing of Shana," Thompson wrote.

Among questions Reuters has asked the IDF's senior form officer was what particular information led the soldiers to dismiss the possibility that Shana was a television cameraman.

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Army spokeswoman Major Avital Leibovich said: "We are in the step of checking a few added distinct parts in order to complete the picture. As shortly as we have the conclusions we will experience them."

The delay in clarifying Shana's death has made it difficult for media groups to set guidelines for staff in Gaza on how to avoid a repeat, creating problems in occasion for coverage of troops mode of action in the Palestinian enclave. On Monday, Gaza journalists plan to demonstrate in protest at the lack of an explanation.

Media groups operating in the Palestinian enclave have been urging the Israeli military to improve troops' awareness of the presence of journalists and to coordinate where possible.

Rejecting a request that IDF officers reinforcement information to field commanders from journalists about their movements in Gaza to avoid media crews being inadvertently targeted, the body of troops said in a specification last month: "There will be nay coordination of press movement and activity in the areas of IDF operations."

The report commissioned through Reuters originate that Shana observed safety guidelines and took all reasonable precautions.

(Editing by Ralph Boulton)

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Black opposed to change conference show host Armstrong Williams has never voted for a Democrat because president. That could change this year through Barack Obama viewed like the Democratic Party’s nominee.

“I don’t necessarily allied his policies; I don’t like much that he advocates, but for the first time in my life, history thrusts me to indeed in earnest think about it,” Williams said. “I can honestly need for granted I have no creative who I’m going to pull that lever toward the sake of in November. And to me, that’s incredible.”

Just as Obama has touched black Democratic voters, he has engendered conflicting emotions among black Republicans. They revel over the possibility of a black president but strive with the thought that the Illinois senator doesn’t sit beside them ideologically.

“Among black conservatives,” Williams said, “they tell me privately, it would have being very hard to vote against him in November.”

Perhaps sensing the possibility of such a shift, Republican presidential candidate John McCain has made some efforts to allurement black voters. He recently told Essence magazine that he would attend the NAACP’s annual assembly next month, and he noted that he recently traveled to Selma, Ala., exhibition of seminal voting rights protests in the 1960s, and “talked about the need to include ‘forgotten Americans.’”

Still, the Arizona senator has a tall order in winning black votes, no doubt made taller by running contrary to a lowering enemy. In 2004, blacks chose Democrat John Kerry over President Bush by an 88 percent to 11 percent margin, according to exit polls.

J.C. Watts, a former Oklahoma congressman who once was part of the GOP House primacy, uttered he’s thinking of voting against Obama. Watts declared he’s still a Republican, but he criticizes his party for neglecting the black community. Black Republicans, he said, have to concede that while they might not agree with Democrats on issues, at least that party reaches out to them.

“And Obama highlights that even more,” Watts said, adding that he expects Obama to take onward issues such as poverty and urban policy. “Republicans often seem indifferent to those things.”

Likewise, secluded Gen. Colin Powell, who became the political division’s foremost black secretary of state under President George W. Bush, said both candidates are qualified and that he inclination not necessarily promised for the Republican.

“I will vote for the individual I think that brings the best set of tools to the problems of 21st-century America and the 21st-century cosmos regardless of party, regardless of anything else other than the most qualified candidate,” Powell said Thursday in Vancouver in comments reported by The Globe and Mail in Toronto.

Writer and actor Joseph C. Phillips got so excited on the eve Obama earlier this year that he started calling himself an “Obamacan” - Obama Republican. Phillips, who appeared on “The Cosby Show” in the manner that Denise Huxtable’s husband, Navy Lt. Martin Kendall, said he has wavered since, but he is still thinking about voting for Obama.

“I am wondering if this is the duration where we get over the hump, whither an Obama victory will eventually, at long-winded last, move us beyond some of the practised conversations about generation,” Phillips said. “That it may be, just mayhap, this great country can finally be forgiven for its original sin, or find some absolution.”

PRISTINA (AFP) - Kosovo's constitution entered into force Sunday, four months subsequent to it split from Serbia, opening the way for majority Albanians take over from a nine-year-old UN mission under European lead.

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Deciding how to redevelop Kirkland’s Parkplace shopping center won’t be easy.

More than 60 people signed up Thursday evening to voice their views on plans in opposition to the incorporated town’s main downtown shopping area. Spilling into hallways at City Hall, they waited to address the city Planning Commission.

People offered in a primary manner adverse views: that the development proposals, including structures of eight to 11 stories, would irrevocably raze the city’s character; and that the city’s what is yet to be hinges on whether it embraces such change.

Seattle’s Touchstone Corp. is offering two proposals for the exhibition at Sixth Street and Central Way.

One would deduct buildings of up to eight stories, with a 1.8 million-square-foot mix of office, retail and restaurant space. Approval would necessitate changes to the incorporated town’s comprehensive map, and the city would be under the necessity to grant a variance to build higher than its five-story height limit.

The other proposal stays within Kirkland’s existing guidelines; it would embody buildings up to five stories and 1.5 million square feet, most of it for office space.

The Planning Commission has suggested a third alternative: some lower buildings of two or three stories and some up to 11 stories, said Angela Ruggeri, city senior planner.

“There will be more study,” she said, largely for environmental reasons, granting that the taller concept progresses.

Douglas Howe, Touchstone president, said the proposals were “the result of 1

More than 20 speakers agreed with Howe’s ideas, citing reasons such in the same proportion that a stronger requisition base for the incorporated town and expanded shopping destinations.

“I love the common,” said Sam Adams, who lives in the Juanita area and supports plans for mixed-use development. He spoke about seizing his kids to T.G.I. Friday’s restaurant and Parkplace movies, businesses that occupy the tide Parkplace center.

“For this to be each function complex, I think it would be a big mistake,” he said.

LONDON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush urged British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday not to set a timetable for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq.

Equities rallied on Friday as investors put inflation fears put on the back burner

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U.S. stocks ended the week forward a note of strength, extending Thursday’s gains as investors seemed willing to set aside a pickup in the pace of headline inflation and take comfort in the steady rate of core inflation, that excludes food and energy prices.

Oil prices cooperated by retreating another time, enabling the markets to believe the Fed won’t feel compelled to raise rates to control inflation expectations any time soon.

On Friday, the Dow Jones industrial average finished 165.77 points, or 1.37%, higher at 12,307.35. The broader Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index rose 20.16 points, or 1.50%, to close the session at 1,360.03.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index was the best performer among the major market benchmarks, rising 50.15 points, or 2.09%, to 2,454.50.

On the New York Stock Exchange, 23 shares gained ground for every eight that were lower, though on the Nasdaq the ratio was 21-8 positive.

The dollar characteristic was up but faltering as the G8 monetary theory ministers meet in Osaka, Japan to discuss the weak dollar, relating to housekeeping progress, higher oil prices and inflation, S&P MarketScope said.

Shares of Lehman Brothers Holdings (LEH), badly battered in the past time week by concerns over its earnings warning and need to raise capital and the ouster Thursday of its chief pecuniary and operating officers, gained back some ground on Friday. Bloomberg News reported that Blackrock President Robert Kapito before-mentioned Blackrock bought Lehman shares in its secondary offering this week. “We be the subject of self-reliance in the firm, in the leadership,” Kapito said. Lehman’s second-quarter results are slated to come out on June 16.

Just hours after announcing that somewhat hopes of a takeover deal with Microsoft (MSFT) were dead in the water on Thursday, Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) related it had signed an agreement with Google (GOOG) that will help make better its results in the Internet examination advertising market. Yahoo said the arrangement could boost its annual receipts by $800 million, but that didn’t stop investors from selling shares, eyeing possible antitrust issues and still angry that Yahoo didn’t accept Microsoft’s initial offer.

In a will to how bulky energy companies’ capitalizations gain grown with the near-doubling of oil prices over the past year, Standard & Poor’s Index Services announced that Cabot Oil & Gas (COG) and Massey Energy Co. (MEE) will be added to the S&P 500 index since of June 20, replacing Brunswick Corp. (BC) and OfficeMax (OMX), respectively.

Capping this week’s household data, the U.S. consumer price index rose 0.6% in May, more than anticipated, driven by a 4.4% rise in energy prices, with elastic fluid prices surging 5.7% after a 2.0% decline in April. The essence pointer, which excludes food and might prices, climbed 0.2%, in line with expectations, but restrained by a 0.3% drop in apparel prices. Consumer prices are now growing at a headline pace of 4.2% from a year since, vs. a 3.9% pace in April, while the core pace remained at 2.3% for a fourth month in a row, Action Economics said.

The University of Michigan consumer sentiment index came in lower than expected, falling to 56.7 in June, below the anticipated 59.0 level, and significantly look black than the 59.8 reading in May.

Oil prices lost mist once more despite mounting concerns over supply disruption with a strike by dint of. Chevron workers in Nigeria possibly starting in the same proportion that in season considered in the state of June 18 and Pemex announcing it was cancelling some of its contracts due to supply shortages. Refiners are besides speech they are paying a premium for physical indigested, which shows how tight supplies are, according to CNBC Business News.

WTI crude oil futures for July pronunciation orderly $1.88 lower at $134.86 a barrel.

In honor of Father’s Day, notable entrepreneurs share memories of their fathers that have helped shape their careers

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Entrepreneurs often get a helping index from their parents. In honor of Father’s Day, we asked successful business owners how their fathers helped them succeed in business. The responses contain nuggets of wisdom any entrepreneur can learn from.

Anne Beiler, founder of Auntie Anne’s, inherited an ethic of hard work and risk-taking by watching her dad produce up eight kids without ceasing the group of genera farm. Black Enterprise founder Earl Graves learned to dress sharply to win respect in the business world. And Travelocity CEO Michelle Peluso’s father taught her that building a lasting enterprise is other of moment than turnery a quick profit.

Jim Koch, founder and presiding officer of Samuel Adams, built a craft beer empire on the line of ancestors lager recipe his father retrieved from his dusty pure. Koch’s father supported his son’s venture although he thought it was foolish for him to leave a corporate career (BusinessWeek, 3/15/07) and try to break into a beer industry dominated by mass-market brewers. The elder Koch had abandoned brewing three decades earlier and believed his son’s craft degree and lucrative consulting job would provide a better life than making beer.

"My father was very supercilious of that and thought that acquirement away from the thicker settlements into small-scale brewing was just certainly stupid," Koch says. But the family prescription became a hit. Now Koch’s ascribe to a father sits on the board of the $341 million Boston Beer Co. (SAM).

A dad’s entrepreneurial spirit can rub off on children similar to well. Ivanka Trump still has a faculty in the family veritable position supremacy, goal final year she launched her own jewelry line and retail store. Her magnate dad guided her without getting in the street. "My father allowed me to learn by doing while always vigilance and make himself available should I need advice or counsel," says Trump.

Of succession, most entrepreneurs learned lessons from Mom as well, and we paid tribute to the mothers behind successful companies (BusinessWeek.com, 5/8/08) last month. To celebrate the fathers who helped entrepreneurs get ahead, take a look at the lessons they handed down to their children.

Even gung-ho newspaper executives are acquirement gloomy about the hereafter

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By this time next year, in that place’s a good chance that you won’t recognize your local big-city newspaper.

In early June, Jim Romenesko’s well-known journalism site posted a memo from Dave Butler, executive editor of the MediaNews Group’s San Jose Mercury News. In it, he discussed the prospect of significantly shrinking his bank-notes’s print editions on Mondays and Tuesdays, which are typically the mostly ad-starved days of the week. The Mercury News is not the only major daily nearing such a move, say newspaper executives elsewhere with firsthand knowledge of such deliberations. They say big metros also are discussing a wide range of other radical notions. Among them: making home deliveries merely without ceasing certain days of the week, shrinking additional weekday print editions, and even cutting out paid papers entirely on certain days of the week in favor of a smaller and free product. (The executives ground their Web sites will pick up the slack on days when the print impression is skimpier.)

These changes even exceed those mentioned by Randy Michaels, Tribune’s (TXA) principal operating functionary, who touched off a minor media uproar on June 5 when he said his group’s nine papers will lose around 500 news pages a week. Astonishing developments, totally. But then these are astonishing times. In a late report, Deutsche Bank (DB) algebraist Paul Ginocchio predicted that whole gazette income this year will drop 11.2%, on top of a 9.4% fall in ‘07. He also suggested that newspapers’ pricing power on certain classified ads is eroding—fallout, presumably, from the emergence of online players similar as craigslist. Meanwhile, costs are gruesome. Newsprint prices, the biggest expense for a gazette, could be as much as $200 per 240 pounds higher this overthrow than they were a year ago. The price of gas, too, has serious implications by reason of each industry that still distributes its fruits by the palletful (hence the proposed cuts in home delivery). In an address to the World Newspaper Congress on June 2, Dean Singleton, MediaNews’ chief charged with execution functionary, said that, in his estimation, 19 of the top 50 U.S. newspapers are loss money. And, he warned, “that number will continue to grow.”

“It’s reality,” a matter-of-fact Singleton subsequently told me. “You can’t dispose to the other side of the river unless you visage reality.”

This is for what cause I’m hearing things from senior gazette executives that I’ve never heard before. In making the matter of inquiry for compressing some print editions, one executive says: “We are putting out, in many cases, more journalism than anyone can consume in a given day.” This, he says, “procure[s] on a bit of a guilt factor” among readers who don’t acquire duration of one’s life for a long, leisurely morning read. Well, maybe, but I have power to’t imagine readers will feel they’re getting much bang for the buck if their daily papers shrink to the 10 pages they most care about.

There isn’t much maneuverability for the American city daily, that has taken the shock of the industry’s dislocations. As crazy as this formerly sounded, I’m now convinced one or more major American markets will lose their daily newspaper within 18 months. (Singleton and Rupert Murdoch, who perceive more from one place to another this than I do, agree conceptually, if not on the time frame.)

So it goes for the newspaper business. What, then, happens to news?

The optimistic case in point is raise in music. The universal predicament and availability of rock and pop are mushrooming for consumers even in the same manner through life gets worse for the traditive businesses at the center of the equation: major record labels.

But this metaphor isn’t extendable to news. While you can witness and distribute an album cheaply, more forms of journalism still take serious chunks of time, manpower, and resources to create. Now, I refuse to average newsroom cutbacks with the decease of news. For one thing, city media ecosystems have proven to have being vibrant things that constantly spawn new local and niche blogs. The best—not ever underestimate the voltage one potent reporter have power to generate—match or even outdo their orally transmitted rivals in frequent respects. But not all of them. Newspapers still do some things that can’t be replaced. Unfortunately, we’re about to find out exactly what those things are.