Lei Jun, the chief executive of Xiaomi, introduces the features of the Xiaomi Phone 4 during its launch in Beijing in July. Jason Lee / Reuters
Lei Jun, the chief executive of Xiaomi, introduces the features of the Xiaomi Phone 4 during its launch in Beijing in July. Jason Lee / Reuters
Lei Jun, the chief executive of Xiaomi, introduces the features of the Xiaomi Phone 4 during its launch in Beijing in July. Jason Lee / Reuters
Lei Jun, the chief executive of Xiaomi, introduces the features of the Xiaomi Phone 4 during its launch in Beijing in July. Jason Lee / Reuters

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Top smartphone vendors, Q3 2014 — graphic

Smartphone vendors shipped 327.6 million devices in Q3 2014, a 25.2 per cent growth from 261.7m units shipped in drign the same period a year earlier. China’s Xiaomi is now the world’s third largest smartphone maker, due in large part to the success of its high-end Mi4, breaking into the list of the top 5 smartphone makers in the world for the first time.

Hussain Al Moosawi

January 11, 2015

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Smartphone vendors shipped 327.6 million devices in Q3 2014, a 25.2 per cent growth from 261.7m units shipped in drign the same period a year earlier. China’s Xiaomi is now the world’s third largest smartphone maker, due in large part to the success of its high-end Mi4, breaking into the list of the top 5 smartphone makers in the world for the first time.

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Men: Hamad Nawad and Khalid Al Balushi (56kg), Omar Al Fadhli and Saeed Al Mazroui (62kg), Taleb Al Kirbi and Humaid Al Kaabi (69kg), Mohammed Al Qubaisi and Saud Al Hammadi (70kg), Khalfan Belhol and Mohammad Haitham Radhi (85kg), Faisal Al Ketbi and Zayed Al Kaabi (94kg)

Women: Wadima Al Yafei and Mahra Al Hanaei (49kg), Bashayer Al Matrooshi and Hessa Al Shamsi (62kg)

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  • Fireworks/ flares
  • Radios or power banks
  • Laser pointers
  • Glass
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  • Sharp objects
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Unresolved crisis

Russia and Ukraine have been locked in a bitter conflict since 2014, when Ukraine’s Kremlin-friendly president was ousted, Moscow annexed Crimea and then backed a separatist insurgency in the east.

Fighting between the Russia-backed rebels and Ukrainian forces has killed more than 14,000 people. In 2015, France and Germany helped broker a peace deal, known as the Minsk agreements, that ended large-scale hostilities but failed to bring a political settlement of the conflict.

The Kremlin has repeatedly accused Kiev of sabotaging the deal, and Ukrainian officials in recent weeks said that implementing it in full would hurt Ukraine.

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