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BEIRUT, Lebanon – The Israeli army began handing over positions to the U.N. early Thursday, stepping up its withdrawal from southern Lebanon after the Lebanese government agreed to deploy troops near Israel’s border for the first time in nearly 40 years. The Lebanese Cabinet decision fell short of agreement on …

NEW YORK – Crude oil prices slipped Tuesday after Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said extra supplies can replace oil lost from the shutdown of a major Alaskan pipeline owned by BP PLC (BP). The Energy Information Administration, the government’s energy statistics arm, said in its short-term energy outlook earlier in …

A new report from Symantec (SYMC) security researchers contends that Microsoft’s (MSFT) much-awaited Vista operating system could harbor a range of vulnerabilities that would make it less secure than previous iterations of Windows. According to research published July 18 by Symantec, in Cupertino, Calif., a number of Vista’s software components, …