News - Written by Bart on Friday, February 1, 2008 8:04 - 0 Comments

Web cable to be fixed ‘within week’

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(CNN) — Repair ships are going to the site of two undersea cables which were damaged this week, snarling Internet and phone traffic across the Middle East and parts of Asia, the cables’ owner said Friday.

FLAG Telecom said a ship was en route to the first cable, which was cut off Alexandria, Egypt, on Wednesday. It said the ship would arrive by Tuesday and would complete its work within a week.

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“I neither will aspire to, nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief,” he told the newspaper, Granma.

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About half the 800 superdelegates — elected officials, party leaders, and others — have committed to either Clinton or Obama, though they can change their minds until the convention.

Obama’s political action committee has doled out more than $694,000 to superdelegates since 2005, the study found, and of the 81 who had announced their support for Obama, 34 had received donations totaling $228,000.

Clinton’s political action committee has distributed about $195,000 to superdelegates, and only 13 of the 109 who had announced for her have received money, totaling about $95,000.

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