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Global stocks mostly higher in thin pre-Christmas tradeExpert Outlook: Agilent Technologies Through The Eyes Of 4 AnalystsHuawei launched the , which marks a major departure from US-based hardware and software dependencies. Members of the lineup include the Mate 70, Mate 70 Pro, Mate 70 Pro+, and Mate 70 RS, all built to run without relying on US-centric technology, such as Android apps. These phones are not available in the US but find a healthy market in China, where Huawei has posted double-digit sales growth despite years of sanctions. Innovative Design with Quad-Curved Displays The Mate 70 series packs in sleek designs, which are slightly different on each of the different models. writes that a basic Mate 70 is characterized by a flat frame and screen, whereas the Pro and Pro+ carry quad-curved OLED displays, not so common in 2024. A large circular camera island adds to their bold aesthetics and gives the series its unique edge. The Pro variants also come with triple front-facing sensors to enable advanced biometric unlocking and gesture-based navigation. They come in striking colors: Spruce Green, Hyacinth Purple, Snow White, and Obsidian Black. That should appeal to every whim. It's built tough, with IP69 water and dust resistance, meaning it will easily withstand rough conditions. Powerful Hardware and Specs reports that Huawei equips the Mate 70 series with top-notch hardware. The Pro models feature 6.9-inch OLED displays with 1–120Hz adaptive refresh rates and impressive brightness levels reaching up to 2,500 nits. While the smartphone maker hasn't disclosed specifics about its processors, the phones likely run on the Kirin 9100 chip, developed in-house using a 6nm process. Battery life is impressive, with the Mate 70 arriving with 5,300mAh capacity and 66W wired/50W wireless charging. Pro models boast 5,500mAh batteries, supporting two extremely fast 100W wired and 80W wireless charging. Memory configuration includes 12 to 16GB of RAM and up to 1TB of storage. Visionary Camera Capabilities The Mate 70 Pro and Pro+ support advanced triple-camera setups, the former having a 50MP main lens with variable aperture for further photography. The Pro model uses an RGB sensor, and the Pro+ comes with an innovative RYYB sensor, offering better low-light performance and natural skin tones. Other highlights include a 48MP telephoto camera with 4X optical zoom and a 40MP ultrawide sensor. Both models also introduce Huawei's XMage spectral imaging sensor, designed for unparalleled color accuracy. HarmonyOS NEXT Steers Away From Usual Android OS A milestone in terms of the Mate 70 series is made with , which completely throws Android to the wind. The operating system exploits a proprietary microkernel which runs the apps in its unique APP format. The app ecosystem at present is limited to 15,000 applications, but the capabilities are steadily increasing with Huawei. The pre-installed HarmonyOS 4.3 from Huawei closes the gap by supporting both HarmonyOS NEXT and standard Android APKs for now, which offers users flexibility in this transitionary period. How Much is Huawei Mate 70? The Mate 70 series is exclusive to China. It starts from around $760 for the Mate 70, while the Pro model is at $895, and the Pro+ model sits at an astonishing $1,171. The expensive RS variant goes for a whole $1,653. Global availability remains uncertain, but Huawei's latest offerings signify a significant evolution in smartphone technology. The fact that it breaks free from its is already a big move in the making.
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Texans get visit from longtime foe Derrick Henry when the Ravens visit on Christmas DayAustralians are rejoicing, reflecting and remembering on Christmas Day as the holiday kickstarts summer celebrations for some and bookends a difficult year for others. Login or signup to continue reading Almost the entire country is set to bask in a sunny day, with warm northerly winds lifting temperatures above 30C in several capitals. Few blemishes are expected elsewhere with showers in Western Australia's southwest and storms in the Top End. Millions of Australians will mark the day with present giving and lunches with family and friends. But it won't be all festive cheer, particularly for those remembering those missing around the table. That includes the 70 Palestinian Christian families marking Christmas in Australia, including a 28-year-old refugee whose wife and two daughters were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a church in 2023. He's among those granted refugee status in Australia after Israel invaded Gaza as retaliation to the October 7 Hamas attack. "There's so much trauma, the families are suffering the trauma from the war because it is ongoing and a lot of their families are still in Gaza," Palestinian Christians Association President Suzan Wahhab told AAP. "I would say it's bittersweet." Still, Ms Wahhab said the group is working hard to ensure the day can still bring joy, by throwing gift drives and church services across the country. "But the shadow of the war, the shadow of losing loved ones and thinking about them during this time is overpowering," she said. The war and the ripple effect of hatred have also cast a shadow over the Jewish Festival of Lights, which begins on Christmas Day for only the fourth time since 1900. But the leader of Sydney's Great Synagogue said the message for Hannukah was one of community strength and unity after a spate of anti-Semitic attacks across the country. "It's always better when any community - Jews or otherwise - think about their own traditions and celebrations and what they enjoy about their culture," Rabbi Benjamin Elton told AAP. "That is more sustaining than thinking about attitudes of hostile outsiders." He noted a resurgence of Jewish community spirit and interest in Jewish practices in the past year. "When there is such a sense of external aggression and hostility by a very unpleasant minority, then people come to re-examine why they value their traditions and their community," he said. Christmas Day will also be a time of reflection for Australia's northern capital as it marks 50 years since Cyclone Tracey tore Darwin to shreds, killing at least 66 people. "This will be a difficult period where people will remember lost loved ones and remember as well the traumatic experience that they had," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters in Darwin. 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Signaling shift in internet policy, Iran lifts ban on WhatsApp and Google PlayThat game had everything. Underdog Boise State took a 28-10 lead over one of college football's blue bloods that was followed by a 25-point Sooners run capped by what could have been a back-breaking interception return for a touchdown with 1:02 left. Then the Broncos used three trick plays that remain sensations to not only force overtime but win 43-42. And then there was the marriage proposal by Boise State running back Ian Johnson — shortly after scoring the winning two-point play — to cheerleader Chrissy Popadics that was accepted on national TV. That game put Broncos football on the national map for most fans, but looking back 18 years later, Petersen sees it differently. “Everybody wants to talk about that Oklahoma Fiesta Bowl game, which is great how it all worked out and all those things,” Petersen said. “But we go back to play TCU (three years later) again on the big stage. It's not as flashy a game, but to me, that was an even better win.” Going back to the Fiesta Bowl and winning, Petersen reasoned, showed the Broncos weren't a splash soon to fade away, that there was something longer lasting and more substantive happening on the famed blue turf. The winning has continued with few interruptions. No. 8 and third-seeded Boise State is preparing for another trip to the Fiesta Bowl, this time in a playoff quarterfinal against No. 5 and sixth-seeded Penn State on New Year's Eve. That success has continued through a series of coaches, though with a lot more of a common thread than readily apparent. Dirk Koetter was hired from Oregon, where Petersen was the wide receivers coach. Not only did Koetter bring Petersen with him to Oregon, Petersen introduced him to Dan Hawkins, who also was hired for the staff. So the transition from Koetter to Hawkins to Petersen ensured at least some level of consistency. Koetter and Hawkins engineered double-digit victory seasons five times over a six-year span that led to power-conference jobs. Koetter went to Arizona State after three seasons and Hawkins to Colorado after five. Then when Petersen became the coach after the 2005 season, he led Boise State to double-digit wins his first seven seasons and made bowls all eight years. He resisted the temptation to leave for a power-conference program until Washington lured him away toward the end of the 2013 season. Then former Boise State quarterback and offensive coordinator Bryan Harsin took over and posted five double-digit victory seasons over his first six years. After going 5-2 during the COVID-shortened 2020 season, he left for Auburn. “They just needed consistency of leadership,” said Koetter, who is back as Boise State's offensive coordinator. “This program had always won at the junior-college level, the Division II level, the I-AA (now FCS) level.” But Koetter referred to “an unfortunate chain of events” that made Boise State a reclamation project when he took over in 1998. Coach Pokey Allen led Boise State to the Division I-AA national championship game in 1994, but was diagnosed with cancer two days later. He died on Dec. 30, 1996, at 53. Allen coached the final two games that season, Boise State's first in Division I-A (now FBS). Houston Nutt became the coach in 1997, went 4-7 and headed to Arkansas. Then Koetter took over. “One coach dies and the other wasn't the right fit for this program,” Koetter said. “Was a really good coach, did a lot of good things, but just wasn't a good fit for here.” But because of Boise State's success at the lower levels, Koetter said the program was set up for success. “As Boise State has risen up the conference food chain, they’ve pretty much always been at the top from a player talent standpoint,” Koetter said. “So it was fairly clear if we got things headed in the right direction and did a good job recruiting, we would be able to win within our conference for sure.” Success didn't take long. He went 6-5 in 1998 and then won 10 games each of the following two seasons. Hawkins built on that winning and Petersen took it to another level. But there is one season, really one game, no really one half that still bugs Petersen. He thought his best team was in 2010, one that entered that late-November game at Nevada ranked No. 3 and had a legitimate chance to play for the national championship. The Colin Kaepernick-led Wolf Pack won 34-31. “I think the best team that I might've been a part of as the head coach was the team that lost one game to Nevada,” Petersen said. "That team, to me, played one poor half of football on offense the entire season. We were winning by a bunch at half (24-7) and we came out and did nothing on offense in the second half and still had a chance to win. “That team would've done some damage.” There aren't any what-ifs with this season's Boise State team. The Broncos are in the field of the first 12-team playoff, representing the Group of Five as its highest-ranked conference champion. That got Boise State a bye into the quarterfinals. Spencer Danielson has restored the championship-level play after taking over as the interim coach late last season during a rare downturn that led to Andy Avalos' dismissal . Danielson received the job full time after leading Boise State to the Mountain West championship . Now the Broncos are 12-1 with their only defeat to top-ranked and No. 1 seed Oregon on a last-second field goal . Running back Ashton Jeanty also was the runner-up to the Heisman Trophy . “Boise State has been built on the backs of years and years of success way before I got here,” Danielson said. "So even this season is not because of me. It’s because the group of young men wanted to leave a legacy, be different. We haven’t been to the Fiesta Bowl in a decade. They said in January, ‘We’re going to get that done.’ They went to work.” As was the case with Danielson, Petersen and Koetter said attracting top talent is the primary reason Boise State has succeeded all these years. Winning, obviously, is the driving force, and with more entry points to the playoffs, the Broncos could make opportunities to keep returning to the postseason a selling point. But there's also something about the blue carpet. Petersen said he didn't get what it was about when he arrived as an assistant coach, and there was some talk about replacing it with more conventional green grass. A poll in the Idaho Statesman was completely against that idea, and Petersen has come to appreciate what that field means to the program. “It's a cumulative period of time where young kids see big-time games when they're in seventh and eighth and ninth and 10th grade and go, ‘Oh, I know that blue turf. I want to go there,’” Petersen said. Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-football
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Khrystyna and her husband had just renovated their house by the lake. They had a tradition of taking their three young children into the forest for adventures over the weekends. And the family business was doing well. The couple was about to expand their market stalls in town selling kids' clothing. Then, from one day to the next, everything changed. Khrystyna's town of Kupiansk was one of the first Ukrainian territories to face Russian occupation at the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022. And immediately, the "Russification" began. Authorities handed out Russian passports, forcibly imposing citizenship on Ukrainian residents. And schools were made to teach a Russian curriculum of propaganda. Any resistance was met with threats and violence, Khrystyna said. The 25-year-old, who is going by her first name only for security reasons, was threatened for speaking Ukrainian. "I heard and saw several times people being struck in the street, or how someone had a bag put over their head and was then taken in an unknown direction," she told the ABC. The town in the Kharkiv region was transformed into what Moscow deemed "little Russia", before being retaken by Ukraine in a September 2022 counteroffensive. Some Ukrainians managed to evacuate, some stuck it out, others disappeared. "My friends' relatives were taken prisoner and detained for five days," Khrystyna said. "Another friend's son was also taken into civilian captivity and he is still missing." After more than 1,000 days of war, about 1.5 million Ukrainians are still living under Russian occupation, according to the United Nations. And Donald Trump's return to the White House is sparking fears about what their future may hold. Analysts and insider reports have widely speculated that the president-elect's promised plans for immediate peace involve Ukraine ceding territory to Russia or freezing the conflict. For civilians in occupied areas, both of those could be "relatively bad outcomes". Russia holds one-fifth of Ukraine Russia still occupies more than 110,000 square kilometres — about 20 per cent — of Ukraine's territory. That is a chunk of land larger than South Australia. It includes Crimea, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014. About 80 per cent of Donbas is under Russian control, and more than 70 per cent of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions. [MAP] Khrystyna's experiences have been echoed across Ukraine's occupied regions. There are numerous reports and documented testimonies from civilians who have lived in Russian-held territory. Human rights organisations, Ukrainian prosecutors and government officials have found evidence of arbitrary or unlawful killings, disappearances, torture, rape, sexual violence, re-education, and children being sent to live in Russia. Moscow has repeatedly denied accusations its forces have committed human rights violations during the invasion. The International Criminal Court last year issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin on war crimes charges. The Kremlin slammed the allegations as "outrageous and unacceptable". Jessica Genauer, senior lecturer in international relations at Flinders University, said the outlook for Ukrainians in occupied territories was "bleak". "I don't see any outcome at this stage where Russian occupying forces are entirely evicted from Ukrainian territory," she told the ABC. What ceding territory would look like During his election campaign, Trump repeatedly said he could end the war between Russia and Ukraine "in a day", but never gave further details. Last month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented a "victory plan" that included a refusal to cede Ukraine's territories and sovereignty. Under Russia's terms, Mr Putin has stated Kyiv must drop its NATO ambitions and withdraw its troops from territory in the four Ukrainian regions currently controlled by Russia. Dr Genauer said Trump would likely pressure Ukraine to "formally" cede some territory. A formal agreement would mean that the sovereign borders would shift, and the occupied territory would officially be recognised as Russia. "So Russia expands and Ukraine shrinks," she said. Ukrainians living in those regions would need to gain Russian citizenship or be treated like foreigners in Russia. Under formal arrangements, Ukrainians would likely be given the opportunity to leave before the territory was handed over, Dr Genauer said. About 59 per cent of Ukrainians now support entering peace negotiations with Russia, according to a study by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) published in August. Based on about 2,500 nationwide interviews, 60 per cent were unwilling to cede Crimea or any parts of eastern Ukraine. Seventy-seven per cent said negotiations based on the current territorial status quo were unacceptable. So, formally handing over territory would be difficult for Mr Zelenskyy, Dr Genauer said. "I don't think Zelenskyy will be able to agree to such a political settlement without his population's consent," she said. What she instead believes could happen is an unofficial freezing of the conflict along the front lines, allowing Russia to maintain control of Ukrainian territory. "That's probably, in some ways, the best-case scenario that President Zelenskyy can expect under a Trump presidency," she said. But from a Ukrainian perspective, they would both be "relatively bad outcomes". Life under a frozen conflict Freezing the conflict would mean both sides agree to pause the fighting. It would likely put residents living in occupation territories in a grey zone, Dr Genauer said. "They are going to be in a very difficult and quite compromised position." Their political and citizenship status would be in limbo, and Russian forces would remain present. And it would be difficult to protect Ukrainian citizens from possible human rights abuses. "There will be no way to guarantee without a formal agreement that international human rights law will be respected, and that human rights abuses will not be perpetrated," Dr Genauer said. "So it would either be up to people to escape back into Ukrainian territory, and that in itself can be a dangerous journey, or to try to manage within those Russian-occupied spaces." Getting out a 'lottery' Sofiia Gedzenko volunteers with Helping to Leave, an organisation that assists Ukrainians in Russian-occupied territories to evacuate and settle into new homes. The 31-year-old from Odesa said the stories coming out of occupied regions were "truly devastating". She described the conditions in many towns as a humanitarian disaster. "Especially in the regions closer to the front line, often there is no running water, there is no electricity, there is no heating, and the winter is coming," she told the ABC. Ms Gedzenko has been helping people with evacuations for more than two years, and said there was never a guarantee they could get them out. Aid organisations are not allowed inside so it comes down to what happens at the checkpoints. "It's always like a lottery for people if they will be allowed to leave or not," Ms Gedzenko said. "We cannot guarantee anything, especially if it's younger people. There's always a danger. "People have been abducted there, and there are cases when they were abducted and they're kept in some places and they're tortured. Sometimes they let them out afterwards, sometimes not." She said the organisation tried to prepare people and advised them what to delete from their phones. Anyone under 60 years old could be considered a military threat and treated that way, she said. Ms Gedzenko said freezing the conflict and handing territories to Russia would be "inhumane". "Territories are people. We are not just talking about the piece of land," she said. "We're talking about people who have a right to live in their country and not be occupied." Where European allies stand Support for negotiations on a ceasefire has been growing in the West. But NATO members and European allies are yet to articulate what it may look like. At the recent European Political Community summit in Budapest, leaders called for stronger action to defend their continent and support Ukraine. But there has still been no clear-cut path for Ukraine to join NATO, which analysts say is crucial to avoid further Russian aggression. Mr Zelenskyy's push for membership is part of a long-term goal for Ukraine to gain security from Russia. But NATO has said Ukraine cannot join while it is at war because it would draw the alliance directly into conflict with Russia. The Washington Post spoke to several current and former European and NATO diplomats after the summit who said there was also a quiet but growing shift towards allies considering trading land for peace. Yuliya Bidenko, visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) Europe, said Western allies were avoiding NATO plans and lacking unity on alternative options. "In some European capitals, the discussions have gone from either security guarantees or attempts to regain territories to neither of those," she said. "The inability to recover the territories occupied by Russia is the most sensitive and problematic issue for Ukrainian society and will be a challenge for the international order." With her home destroyed in the fighting, Khrystyna finally left Kupiansk and settled in Kharkiv where there were better options for her children. She now helps others evacuate occupied territories and offers any support she can. Khrystyna says many people "think that their lives are over" but she does not want them to lose hope. "Giving up territories is not the answer," she said. "Our country needs peace and safety." ABC
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