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In early July, the Department of Homeland Security DHS drafted a comprehensive nine-page plan to stop using a Trump-era pandemic policy to rapidly expel migrant families with children, according to internal government documents crocs winterstiefel obtained by CBS News.But the plan was shelved after senior White House and DHS off yeezy icials expressed concern about the risks of unwinding the expulsion policy, known as Title 42, when arrests of migrants had spiked to a 21-year high and the Delta variant of the coronavirus was spreading rapidly.Instead, the Biden administrationissued its own order defending the use of Title 42, which was first invoked by the Trump administration in March 2020 over the objections of some Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials. Since July, U.S. immigration officials have used Title 42 to expel more than 44,000 migrant parents and children traveling as families without allowing them to request humanitarian protection. We are in this very weird place where we re implementing Title 42 more strongly than the Trump administration did, a Biden appointee who requested anonymity to speak freely told CBS News.The internal split around Title 42 is part of broader divisions within the Biden administratio adidas campus femme n over border policy that have boiled over amid record numbers of migrant apprehensions, four people with direct knowledge of the infighting told CBS News. Some administration officials don t want to see folks ever removed, another Biden appointee said. That Usmo Egypt bolsters defenses at military bases ahead of planned protests against President Morsi
Updated 2:59 p.m.JOHANNESBURG - Former South African President Nelson Mandela was in the hospital Thursday for what his office said were routine tests, as the 92-year-old anti-apartheid icon s overnight stay drew extraordinary media attention.Mandela undergoes regular hospital checkups, but his latest visit starting Wednesday stretched into an unusually long stay. Journalists camped outside the hospital Thursday as Mandela s relatives and friends entered for visits. Mandela suffered a collapsed stanley cup lungReuters Africa reported Thursday, citing a source close to the former president. The source said Mandela could be released from the hospital as early as Friday. President Jacob Zuma, attending the World Economi stanley cup c Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, is being updated on developments by the defense minist stanley cup er, whose department is responsible for current and former presidents health care, Zuma s office said. The presidency cautioned reporters not to put pressure on Mandela s doctors and to give a national hero dignity and respect. Photos: From Prisoner to President President Mandela is comfortable and is well looked after by a good team of medical specialists, said a statement from Zuma s office, adding Zuma was being updated on Mandela while at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.The Presidency called for calm and restraint and said, We urge the media to afford him the dignity and respect that he is entitled to as the country s founding democratic President,

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A Russian warplan airforce e crashed Monday into a residential area in a Russian city on the Sea of Azov after suff yeezy slide ering engine failure, leaving at least 15 people dead, three of whom jumped from upper floors of a nine-story apartment building to escape a massive blaze.A Su-34 bomber came down in the port city of Yeysk after one of its engines caught fire during takeoff for a training mission, the Russian Defense Minist air max 1 ry said. It said both crew members bailed out safely, but the plane crashed into a residential area, causing a fire as tons of fuel exploded on impact.After hours of combing through the charred debris, authorities said 14 people, including three children, were found dead. Another 19 were hospitalized with injuries, and one of them died of severe burns at a local hospital, bringing the death toll to 15 on Tuesday, said Anna Minkova, a vice governor of the region. Officials on Monday had put the death toll at four.Minkova said three of the four victims died when they jumped from the upper floors of the building in a desperate attempt to escape the flames, according to the RIA-Novosti news agency. Over 500 residents were evacuated and provided with temporary accommodations. In this handout photo released by Kooperativ Telegram Channel, flames and smoke rise from the scene after a warplane crashed into a residential area in Yeysk, Russia, Oct. 17, 2022. One of the pilots, right, descends on a parachute. Koo Kvwf Holocaust Payments Resolved
Groups that vet charities are raising doubts about the organization backed by Haitian-born rapper Wyclef Jean, questioning its accounting practices and ability to function in earthquake-hit Haiti.Even as more than $2 million poured into The Wyclef Jean Foundation Inc. via text message after just two days, experts questioned how much of the money would help those in need.Watch CBS4 Miami s investigation of Jean s foundation below It stanley cups s questionable. There s no way to get around that, said Art Taylor, president and chief executive of the Better Business Bureau s Wise stanley cup Giving Alliance, based in Arlington, Va.Additional Coverage of the Haitian Earthquake Complete Coverage: Devastation in HaitiTaylor reviewed Internal Revenue Service tax returns for the organization also known as Yele Haiti Foundation from 2005 through 2007. He said the first red flag of poor accounting practices was that three years stanley mugs of returns were filed on the same day - Aug. 10 of last year.In 2007, the foundation s spending exceeded its revenues by $411,000. It brought in just $79,000 that year. Here s the bottom line: for an earthquake of catastrophic proportions, do people really believe that this organization is in a position to do anything right now he said. Jean, a 37-year-old Grammy-winning artist, has been imploring followers to text Yele to 501501 to donate $5 to his foundation in support of Haitian earthquake victims.The foundation, founded in January 2005, intends to airlift supp

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ROME -- An appeals court in Florence Tuesday rejected a bid for a new trial and possible acquittal by the only person convicted of the 2007 murder of British university student Meredith Kercher.Rudy Hermann Guede, an Ivorian, is serving a 16-year sentence for the murder of Kercher, found stabbed in her bedroom in a house she shared in Perugia with American student Amanda Knox. Knox and her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, after flip-flop verdicts of convictions and acquittal, were ultimately exonerated of the murder by Italyrsquo top criminal tribunal, the Court of Cassation.WATCH: 48 Hours: Amanda Knox: The Untold Story Amanda Knox s murder conviction overturned 03:47 Guede was in court for the courtrsquo decision, after an hourrsquo deliberation.When the Cassation court upheld Guedersquo conviction in 2010, it ruled he didnrsquo;t act alone but didnrsquo;t name any accomplices. His lawyers argued that conclusion conflicts with the Knox and Sollecito acquittals.Italyrsquo salomon mujer justice system involves two levels of appeals. Convict adidas campus ions arenrsquo adidas samba schuhe ;t considered final until all appeals are exhausted, a process that can take years. Revising final verdicts is extremely rare in Italy.The Florence court didnrsquo;t elaborate on why it rejected Guedersquo bi Hsvn Yemen: Deadly airstrikes against Qaeda militants days after drone strike kills Fahd al-Quso
Oded Balilty/AP Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men burn leavened items in final preparation for the Passover holiday in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish town of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, Israel, March. 25, 2013. Jews are forbidden to eat leavened foods during the Passover holiday that celebrates the biblical story of the Israel stanley cup ites escape from slavery and exodus from Egypt. stanley canada Uriel Sinai/Getty Images An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man takes part in the ritual of purifying kitchen utensils in boiling water to make them kosher for Passover in Bnei Brak, Israel, March 24, 2013.Religious Jews throughout the world eat matzoth during the eight-day Passover, or Pesach, holiday, The Jewish holiday commemorates the Israelis exodus from Egypt some 3,500 years ago and their ancestors plight by refraining from eating leavened food. Passover begins March 25 and ends on the evening of April 2. stanley cup Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images Ultra-Orthodox Jews collect water from a mountain spring near Jerusalem to be used in baking the unleavened bread, known as matzoth, during the Maim Shelanu Rested Water ceremony, March 24, 2013. Uriel Sinai/Getty Images

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Workers are preparing the Eiffel Tower for reopening next week, after the coronavirus pandemic led to the iconic Paris landmark s longest closure since World War II. France s tourism industry is opening back up, but the 1,063-feet tall wrought-iron tower won t immediately welcome visitors the way it did before the country went into lockdown in March.Only limited numbers of people will be allowed in when the Eiffel Tower opens again on June 25. Elevators to the top will be out of service, at least at first, and only the first and second floors will be accessible to the public. At first, only visits by the stairs will be available, Victoria Klahr, the spokeswoman for the tower s management, said Tuesday.Everyone over 11 years old will be required to wear face masks, and crowd control measures will be in place. We are optimistic that visitor numbers will pick up, even if it will likely be local tourists who visit the monument in the first weeks, Klahr said. The tower s director told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he hopes access will air max 1 be back to normal by August.A stringent cleaning operation is in place and will continue daily from next week. There is a new protocol, said Eiffel Tower hygiene consultant Alain Miralles. The day cleaning teams will be able to clean all the points o adidas campus damen f contact every two hours, from the opening of the site to its closing. adidas campus donna Wlqv Wacky fans at U.K. darts tourney
Five car bombs targeted U.S. and Iraqi troops in the capital Friday, killing at least 10 Iraqi civilians and stanley cup security personnel a day after guards captured a would-be suicide bomber near the entrance to the heavily guarded Green Zone.Two U.S. Marines died Thursday in a blast near the Jordanian border, the U.S. military reported Friday.Eight Iraqis mdash; civilians and security personnel mdash; were stanley canada killed when a suicide car bomber attacked an army base in the Shaab neighborhood in northern Baghdad, according to Maj. Khazim al-Tamimi.Two Iraqi soldiers died and six were wounded when a suicide attacker detonated a car bomb near an Iraqi patrol in Andalus Square in central Baghdad, Col. Salman Abdul Karim said.A car bomb also exploded near a U.S. convoy in the Rustamiyah area of southeastern Baghdad, witnesses said, but there was no comment from U.S. authorities on the Rustamiyah blast. A suicide car bomb exploded on the old Defense Ministry building in northern Baghdad, causing an undet stanley quencher ermined number of casualties, a policeman said on condition of anonymity.One car bomb exploded in eastern Baghdad, wounding five civilians, police said. Witnesses said the bomber missed a U.S. patrol.In other developments: Mortar shells exploded Friday near the headquarters of an Iraqi commando battalion in the Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah of north Baghdad, police said. Three mortars also fell across the Tigris River in the Shiite district Kazimiyah, police added. No casualties nor dam

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Ron Cervi/KCBS Sunrise over the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, Jan. 13, 2015. Cal nike dunk high ifornia Frazer Harrison/Getty I adidas originals ultraboost mages for AFI Filmmakers Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg attend the 15th Annual AFI Awards at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles in af1 Beverly Hills, California,Jan. 9, 2015. France Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images Demonstrators hold a sign reading Hurry, more democracy everywhere against barbarism as they gather at Place de la Nation during the unity rally Marche Republicaine in Paris in tribute to the 17 victims of a three-day killing spree by homegrown Islamists,Jan. 11, 2015.The killings began on January 7 with an assault on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Paris that saw two brothers massacre 12 people including some of the country s best-known cartoonists, the killing of a policewoman and the storming of a Jewish supermarket on the eastern fringes of the capital which killed 4 local residents. Brazil Mario Tama/Getty Images A man slacklines between the rocks at Arpoador in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,Jan. 11, 2015.Rio residents flocked to the beach this weekend as summer te Mvdp Militants Storm Chechnya Gov t Buildings; 6 Dead
A reported hijack of an Indian plane Wednesday night on a domestic flight from Bombay to New Delhi was a false alarm caused by an anonymous phone call and confusion aboard the aircraft, the government said. All passengers have left the plane, Indian Civil Aviation Minister Shahnawaz Hussain said on Thursday. The Alliance Air Boeing 737, with 52 people on board, was reported by air traffic controllers to have been hijacked on a late evening flight. On landing in the Indian capital, it was immediately surrounded by commandos at Indira Gandhi International Airport. Hussain, called to an emergency meeting with top ministers to discuss the incident, said the scare was a result of confusion between air traffic controllers ATC in the town of Ahmedabad and the pilots. It was a false alarm. The confusion arose between ATC Ahmedabad and the pilots, Hussain told reporters, adding that all passengers had left the plane safely. It was not a mock exercise or a planned exercise. We had assumed that the plane had been hijacked and the Prime Minister was also awake and was being informed, he said.An anonymous phone call to an air traffic co stanley cup ntrol station set off the chain of events, Civil Aviation Minister Shahnawaz Hussain told stanley fr reporters.He said the pilot, Capt. Ashwini Behl, 33, was told about the phone call, and sealed his cockpit door. The pilot thought the hijackers were among the passe stanley mugs ngers, he said.The passengers thought the hijackers were in the cockpit, he said.

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U.S. officials say an American has died fighting with ISIS terrorists in Syria. The death of Douglas McAuthur McCain was confirmed Tuesday by National Security Council spokesperson Caitlin Hayden. We were aware of U.S. citizen Douglas McAuthur McCain s presence in Syria and can confirm his death, Hayden said in a statement. We continue to use every tool we possess to disrupt and dissuade individuals from travel samba rose ing abroad for violent jihad and to track and engage those who return. McCain was a basketball fan grew up in Minnesota. He had minor scrapes with the law, but by the time he died last weekend fighting alongside ISIS in Syria, McCain was an American terrorist known as Duale. Rebel fighters, seeking to expel ISIS from Syria, say McCain was killed during this battle nea air force 1 r Aleppo. A U.S. passport was reportedly found in one of his pockets. McCain, using the Twitter name Duale Khalid, had often praised ISIS and defended Jihad. In May he tweeted: Ya Allah when it s my time to go have mercy on my soul have mercy on my brosmdash; Duale Khalid @iamthetooth M adidas originals ultraboost ay 15, 2014 The 33-year-old, who was once an aspiring rapper, later wrote: I reverted to Islam 10 years ago and I must say In sha Allah I will never look back the best thing that ever happen to memdash; Duale Khalid @iamthetooth May 15, 2014 According to social media, McCain reportedly spent time as a worker at a San Diego restaurant and attended a mosque there. McCain s family knew he traveled to Oabu Caribbean island of Saint-Martin battles invasion of green monkeys: They re everywhere
Gunmen of the rival Palestinian Hamas and Fatah movements traded fire Monday, killing two Fatah fighters and wounding at least 10 people despite an Egyptian-brokered agreement to end the violence that is jeopardizing a power-sharing deal between the two sides.Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Monday accepted the resignation of his interior minister following the latest wave of factional fighting in the Gaza Strip, officials said.Interior Minister Hani Ka stanley cupe wasmeh had offered his resignation two stanley deutschland weeks ago to protest the deteriorating security situation in Gaza, but Haniyeh had tried to persuade Kawasmeh to stay on.After a new wave of fighting left six people dead in 24 hours, Haniyeh on Monday accepted the resignation, said two officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren t authorized to speak to the media. Kawasmeh recently offered a security plan aimed at bringing law and order to Gaza, but the plan was never carried out. The latest clashes erupted in several locations in the coastal strip and brought the toll to six dead and 52 wounded in 24 hours, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Among the dead were two employees of a Hamas-affiliated newspaper who were shot after being pulled out of a taxi at a Fatah roadblock Sunday, according to Hamas. If confirmed, this tactic would mark a further escalation and likely provoke more execution-style killings.Israel s Security Cabinet, meanwhile, decided to stanley cup usa hold off on a major military oper

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ABUJA, nike dunk Nigeria - The armed men who abducted an American missionary earlier this week in southern Nigeria have demanded a ransom of nearly $300,000, police said Wednesday.Rev. Phyllis Sortor was kidnapped from the Hope Academy compound in Emiworo, Kogi state on Monday morning, police and the Free Methodist Church said.Kogi State Police Commissioner Adeyemi Ogunjemilusi, along with senior police officers, including the head of the investigation unit and an officer from counter-terrorism unit, visited the site of the abduction Wednesday.The Rev. Jacob Ahiaba of the Free Methodist Church there told police that Sortor went out on Monday morning to attend a meeting to try to acquire more land for a farm project, the commissioner said. She returned around 10 a.m. local time and was abducted shortly after by five armed men, he said.Ogunjemilusi said the kidnappers are now dema yeezy nding a ransom of 60 million naira $300,000. The general concept here is that Americans have money. So they thought that by kidnapping her, they can get money, he said. We don t think it s a good idea for the family to negotiate with the abductors on the ransom because we are sure w nike air force e will find her. Police are collaborating with security forces to make sure Sortor s return is secured.According to the church website, Sortor is the financial administrator for Hope Academy; works with International Child Care Ministries, a child sponsorship program in more than 30 countries; and recently opened a scho Yrbz U.S. Targets Date For War Vote
Friday marks a grim milestone. It s been one week since the massive earthquake and tsunami decimated much of northern Japan in a matter of minutes. Now, with search and rescue operations well under way, we re finally seeing the true face of this horrific disaster. Early Show co-anchor Jeff Glor reported the physical damage from last week s disaster is now estimated at nearly $200 billion, but as rescue teams stanley tumbler make their way into t stanley termosy he hardest hit areas, it s become increasingly clear that the human costs are far greater than anyone could have imagined.All across Japan, people bowed their heads and paused today, observing a minute of silence - exactly one week after the moment that transformed so many lives.Complete coverage: Disaster in JapanPictures: Snow adds to Japan s miseryIt was a sunny afternoon, at 2:46, when a magnitude 9.0 earthquake rattled people and buildings as far as 1,300 miles away. Less than an hour later, tsunami waves up to 33 feet high crashed ashore. And now, the numbers behind the tragedy keep stanley us growing. Nearly 6,000 people are confirmed dead. Almost a half million people are homeless. Another one million homes are without power. Survivors are without heat in snow and sub-freezing temperatures.Yoko Takizawa, Kesennuma resident, said, I was at work when the tsunami hit, and my husband was at home. So, he grabbed the dog and stuck it under his arm and just ran. All we have now is our dog. Shelters, already crowded with the homeless, swelled with ev

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A day after Brazil rejected aid from G-7 countries to fight wildfires in the Amazon, the Brazilian leader has said Tuesday that his government will accept all foreign aid from organizations or countries mdash; as long as it can decide how to use the assistance. President Jair Bolsonaro originally said he would only accept help if French President Emmanuel Macron apologized to him personally for perceived insults first. Brazilian sovereignty is not negotiable, said Bolson air max 1 aro s spokesperson, according to the Reuters news agency. The president also said dialog with France isn t off the table.Politics and feelings aside, forest fires have charred and continue to char the Amazon in Brazil. Just over half of the blazes have hit the massive Amazon basin, which regulates part of Earth s carbon cycle and climate.The crisis is fueling concerns that further damage from the fires could disrupt global weather patterns. CBS N af1 ews correspondent Manuel Bojorquez reported about 15% of the Earth s fresh water is in the Amazon. There s so much moisture, scientists say it actually helps cool the entire air force one planet.Amazon tribe warns future of the rainforest could be in jeopardy as fires burnWith the fires burning a lot of that away, there s fear it could eventually cause irreversible damage to the world s climate. It is estimated that more than 3,500 square miles of Amazon forest have been scorched by fire this year. That s an area about the size of Yellowstone National Park. G-7 countries ma Kaba ICE unveils new rules to curtail some arrests, prioritize deportations of certain groups
AP Photo/Jerome Delay An unholy alliance has emerged between Islamic extremists and guerrilla fighters in Colombia, who are smuggling cocaine via Africa to Europe, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Reuters reports that, due to growing difficulty is shipping cocaine from South America d stanley termosy irectly to the U.S. and Eu stanley cup rope, drug traffickers are now transiting their goods through Africa, with the help of al Qaeda and other groups with links to terrorism. Left: Bags of cocaine confiscated in the West African Republic of Guinea. Last month, three West Africans with alleged ties to al Qaeda were extradited to New York to face charges on drug trafficking and terrorism.Jay Bergman, DEA director for the Andean region of South America, told Reuters Hugh Bronstein that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FAR stanley termohrnek C is using ties to al Qaeda to expand its trafficking of cocaine through West Africa. By providing security for the operation, the Islamic militants are able to acquire funds. While FARC are using African connection to export drugs, Bergman told Reuters that Mexico drug producers are using the same route to import chemicals needed for their methamphetamine operations. Increasing interdiction on normal routes is forcing narco-traffickers to find new ways to move their product. West Africa is that current alternative, Bergman said. It is also creating more problems for African nations such as Guinea Bissau. Traffickers have been blamed for .

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Sergio Moraes/Reuters Ecuador s Michael Arroyo reacts to a missed goal opportunity during their 2014 World Cup Group E soccer match against France at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, June 25, 2014. World Cup 2014 Paulo Whitaker/Reuters Belgium s Jan Vertonghen L shoots to score a goal past South Korea s goalkeeper Kim Seung-gyu during their 2014 World Cup Group H soccer match at the Corinthians arena in Sao Paulo, June 26, 2014. adidas samba World Cup 2014 Murad Sezer/Reuters adidas samba damen Russia s Vasili Berezutskiy L jumps for the ball with Algeria s Islam Slimani during their 2014 World Cup Group H soccer match at the Baixada arena in Curitiba, June 26, 2014. World Cup 2014 Laszlo Balogh/Reuters Germany s Mesut Ozil L fights for the ball with Omar Gonzalez of the U.S. during their 2014 World Cup Group G soccer match at the Pernambuco arena in Recife, June 26, 2014. World Cup 2014 Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters dunk pand Portugal s Cristiano Ronaldo L fights for the ball with Ghana s John Boye during their 2014 Wor Weqs Quake Rocks Belgrade
Updated at 4:18 a.m. Eastern.The Afghan government says the two-day insurgent assault in the heart of Kabul has ended stanley termoska and all the attackers have been killed.The Interior Ministry says the area around the building where attackers had been holed up is now safe.The head of the police unit overseeing the operation says that the last six attackers were killed inside the building at a major traffic circle in the Afghan capital. Abdul Ghafar Sayedzada says there are no remaining insurgents alive in the structure.He says Afghan security forces are now on the roof of the building after a slow clearing operation that lasted into early morning Wednesday. Video: Taliban bombards U.S. Embassy in KabulVideo: U.S. a stanley cup mbassador speaks from inside embassyCBSNews special report: AfghanistanCBS News Fazul Rahim reports that 11 people were killed in the two-day siege, including three police officers, and 19 more were injured, including eight police officers.A total of nine Ta stanley us liban militants were involved in the attacks; six in the building near the U.S. Embassy and three lone suicide bombers who targeted police facilities in different parts of the city. The coordinated assaults 151; coming two days after the United States marked the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks 151; carried an unsettling message to Western leaders and their Afghan allies about the resilience and reach of the Taliban network.It was the third major attack in Kabul since late June, casting fr

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Ahmed Saad/Reuters Volunteers who have joined the Iraqi army to fight adidas samba og against the predominantly Sunni militants, who have taken over Mosul and other Northern provinces, travel in an army truck, June 12, 2014.ISIL fighters have seized Iraq s second biggest city Mosul and Tikrit, home town of former dictator Saddam Hussein, as well as other towns and cities north of Baghdad. They continued their lightning advance, moving into towns just an hour s drive from the capital. Baghdad, Iraq Ahmed Saad/Reuters Members hoka winterschuhe of the Iraqi security forces pose as they guard volunteers who have joined the Iraqi Army,June 12, 2014. Baghdad, Iraq Ahmed Saad/Reuters Volunteers wait for registration in Basra,June 12, 2014. Baghdad, Iraq Ahmed Saad/Reuters A member of Iraqi security forces searches volunteers who have joined the Iraqi Army to fight against predominantly Sunni militants,June 13, 2014. Baghdad, Iraq adidas originals Ahmed Saad/Reuters Volunteers waiting to join the Iraqi Army,June 13, 2014. Baghdad, Ir Ryiq U.S. Role In Oil-For-Food Eyed
The U.N. nuclear agency said Thursday it warned the United States about the vulnerability of explosives stored at Iraq s Al-Qaqaa military installation after another facility mdash; Iraq s main nuclear complex mdash; stanley quencher was looted in April 2003.Melissa Fleming, a spo stanley us keswoman for the International Atomic Energy Agency, told The Associated Press that U.S. officials were cautioned directly about what was stored at Al-Qaqaa, the main high explosives facility in Iraq.Some 377 tons of high explosives are now missing from the facility, said by Iraqi officials to have been taken amid looting. Questions have arisen about what the United States knew about Al-Qaqaa and what it did to secure the site.Fleming did not say which officials were notified or exactly when, but she said the IAEA mdash; which had put storage bunkers at the site under seal just before the war mdash; alerted the United States after the Tuwaitha nuclear complex was looted. After we heard reports of looting at the Tuwaitha site stanley tumbler in April 2003, the agency s chief Iraq inspectors alerted American officials that we were concerned about the security of the high explosives stored at Al-Qaqaa, she told the AP. It is also important to note that this was the main high explosives storage facility in Iraq, and it was well-known through IAEA reports to the Security Council, Fleming said.IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei informed the United Nations in February 2003, and again in April of that year, that he was concerned abo

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TikTok will increa adidas samba donna se the minimum age requirement for lives crocs absatz treaming from 16 to 18 beginning on Nov. 23, and it will soon allow users to target adult audiences with stream content. The changes are part of the social media giant s efforts to improve community safety. The foundation of TikTok is built on community trust and safety, TikToksaid on Monday. To protect our users and creators and support their well-being, we constantly work to evolve the safeguards we put in place. Currently, any user over the age of 16 with at least 1,000 followers is able to host a TikTok livestream, or LIVE. Users who are 18 years old or older are also able to send and receive tips, allowing users to earn gratuities for their content.The new adult audience feature for livestreaming is intended to protect the younger members of our community as they start and build their online presence, TikTok said, citing adult comedy routines and sensitive story content that would be better suited for users above the age of 18.TikTok said it will add updated keyword features to further improve livestream safety. LIVE creators can already use our keyword filtering tool to limit comments they feel aren t appropriate, the social media company said. In the coming weeks, we re rolling out an air max 2 updated version of this feature that will send a reminder to people and suggest new keywords they may want to consider adding to their filter list. TikTok also announced a new multi-guest LIVE experience, which will a Ngpu Spain Remembers Bombing Victims
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JUBA, South Sudan - Anti-government rebels in South Sudantook control of nearly all of a strategic city on Tuesday even as officialsannounced that representatives from the government and the rebels agreed tohold talks for the first time.The announcement that talks would soon take place inneighboring Ethiopia was the first political breakthrough sinceethnically-based violence began coursing through South Sudan late on Dec. 15.The violence h adidas samba as killed more than 1,000 people - a number that is believed tobe a low estimate - and has seen the country s two most powerful ethnic groupsfight each other.The United States envoy to the region, Donald Booth, metwith President Salva Kiir on Tuesday - their fourth meeting in eight days - andspoke on the phone with the former vice president, Riek Machar, who is accusedby the government of having tried to carry out a coup, a charge he denies.Booth told reporters in Juba that the commitment to meet bythe two sides was a first step but very important step towardachieving a cessation of hostilities and substantive talks to resolve theunderlying political issues that could bring a halt to the violence.Earlier in the day, heavy fighting erupted in Bor, thecontested provincial capital of Jonglei state, which is a short drive from thecapital, Juba. Gove adidas originals rnment asics sneaker troops battled renegade forces loyal to Macharincluding the Nuer tribal militia known as the White Army, saidmilitary spokesman Col. Philip Aguer. South Sudan s government had been w Xtho Laos vows action after dam failure with 131 still missing
Human rights activists fear the men accused in the Khobar Towers attack could be subjected to torture or execution before the United States can put them on trial, reports CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart.The Justice Department Thursday announced a federal grand jury s indictments in the 1996 attack, which killed 19 American airmen at their housing complex in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.As stanley cup many as six of the 14 men indicted by the United States are believed to be held in Saudi prisons, and activists say most were tortured into confessing months ago.The Saudis have always gone their own way on judicial matters, which, in severe cases usually means severe punishment.Based on inmate accounts of how it s done, Ali Al-Ahmed of the Saudi Institute says, One famous torture method in Saudi Arabia is commonly referred to in Saudi Arabia as the Farouji style, which is rotisserie chicken style. You ll be handcuffed, shackled and a bar would be inserted between your knees, he said. You ll then be subject to beatings, kicks, electric shocks. Al-Ahmed, whose group is based in McLean, Va., said This indi stanley mugs ctment is tainted with blood, murder and torture. It s worth nothing. Al-Ahmed said two Saudis, who were arrested shortly after the bombing and came from the same town as many of the defendants, die stanley cup d under Saudi torture.According to Human Rights Watch, Saudi Arabia executed more than 100 people last year, for crimes including murder, rape, armed robbery, drug smuggling, sorcery and

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One day after a fighter jetshot a Chinese spy ballooninto the Atlantic Ocean, cellphone video showed U.S. Navy personnel on Sunday with what appeared to be a white, deflated balloon laying across two different boats.The Pentagon assesses that the balloon was up to 200 feet tall, and its destruction created a debris field roughly 1,500 meters by 1,500 meters. Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recover a high altitude balloon off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Feb. 5, 2023. The suspected Chinese spy balloon was shot down on Saturday, Feb. 4. U.S. Navy Photo After the balloon first entered U.S. airspace on Jan. 28, it flew over or near four mil adidas campus i adidas campus 00 tary sites in Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska and Missouri.Republicans are furious that the balloon floated over the U.S. for a week. He allowed a full week for the Chinese to conduct spying operations over the United States over sensitive military installations, Sen. Ted Cruz told Face the Nation on Sunday. President Biden said he ordered the military to shoot the balloon down on Wednesday, but military advisers urged adidas originals him to wait until it was over water.China claims it was a weather balloon that veered off course, calling the U.S. response unacceptable and an overreaction. When asked Monday whether the balloon weakens U.S.-China relations, Mr. Biden said no. We ve made it clear to China wha Abqz At least 23 dead in explosion, fire at Bangladesh factory
AP SEOUL, South Korea - He was th gourde stanley e guardian figure always at the side of North Korea s young new leader. As the top army official, his experience and position lent Kim Jong Un credibility with the troops. Now, Vice Marshal Ri Yong Ho is out, dismissed from several powerful posts because of illness, state media said Monday in a brief surprise announcement just days after he last appeared in public.Ri did not appear ill in recent appearances, feeding speculation abroad that Kim purged him in an effort to put his own mark on the nation he inherited when father Kim Jong Il died in December. At the same time, there was no sign of discord at Ri s last public appearance at a high-level event, barely a week ago.Still, Ri s removal, whether for health reasons or political missteps, shakes the core of the authoritarian regime s power structure and may be a sign that Kim is tensing his grip on power, just as his father and grandfather, founding leader Kim Il Sung, did in their eras.On Tuesday morning, the official Korean Central News Agency announced that the title of vice marshal had been bestowed on Hyon Yong Chol. No other details were provided about Hyon and his militar stanley cup y background. It was not immediately clear if he would receive any of Ri s other titles and powers, including chief of stanley thermobecher the General Staff of the Korean People s Army. The appointment was made by the Central Military Commission of the Workers Party of Korea and the National Defense Commission of North Korea,

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SEOUL, South Korea -- A Seoul court on Friday handed a 12-year prison sentence to a South Korean man who slashed and seriously injured the U.S. ambassador during a March forum.Kim Ki-jong was convicted of attempted murder, assaulting a foreign envoy and obstruction, according to court spokesman Joon Young Maeng.Both Kim and nike af the prosecution have one week to determine whether to appeal, Maeng said. Prosecutors had previously asked for a 15-year prison term.Kim slashed Mark Lippert during a breakfast forum in Seoul, leaving deep gashes on the envoy s face and arm. Lippert was treated for five days at a Seoul hospital. In handout image provided by The Asia Economy Daily newspaper, U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert is seen after getting attacked on March 5, 2015 in Seoul, South Korea Handout/Gettyl Images Kim has described himself as an anti-U.S. activist. He told police his assault was meant to protest annual U.S.-South Korean military drills but that he did not intend to kill the ambassador. The drills, which are meant a adidas og s a deterrent against an attack by North Korea, are a major source of friction on the nike dunks panda Korean Peninsula. Pyongyang says they are practice for a northward invasion to topple the dictatorship that has ruled the country since its founding in 1948. U.S. and South Korean officials say the drills are defensive in nature.Police said Kim attempted to Drkd John McAfee arrested in Guatemala for illegal entry
French counterterrorism agents arrested three suspects in a network with alleged ties to al Qaeda in Iraq, seizing guns, explosives and detonators in a sweep north of Paris, officials said Thursday.The overnight roundup in the suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois stemmed from information culled in investiga stanley mugs tors questioning of 25 suspects detained in a similar anti-terrorism sweep Monday, officials said. Thanks to questioning, a stash of arms has been discovered, which shows how serious this affair is, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy told reporters. A certain number of terrorists, in order to finance their activities, are involved in organized crime. We think they have indirect links fairly highly placed in the al Qaeda organization, Sarkozy said on the sidel stanley quencher ines of an Interior Ministry ceremony honoring police who battled angry youths during thr stanley thermobecher ee weeks of violence across France that began Oct. 27.Police found a stash of weapons in a garage in the Parisian suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, said a police investigator who cannot be identified because his agency does not allow it. Agents found several kilograms of explosives, AK-47 and Famas assault rifles, revolvers, ammunition, balaclavas and bulletproof vests, he said.Asked by The Associated Press at the ceremony whether he was concerned that agents had discovered Famas rifles mdash; standard issue for French soldiers mdash; Sarkozy said, Of course, I am. Investigators believe the weapons were used to carry out armed robberi

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ERBIL, Iraq -- Iraqis on Friday welcomed the U.S. nike air force airlift of emergency aid to thousands of people who fled to the mountains to escape Islamic extremists and called for greater intervention, as U.S. warplanes struck the militants for the first time. U.S. warplanes strike ISIS targets in Iraq 02:20 Cargo planes dropped parachuted crates of food and water over an area in the mountains outside Sinjar, where thousands of members of the Yazidi minority where sheltering, according to w af1 itnesses in the militant-held town, who asked not to be identified for security reasons.The airstrikes were meanwhile launched outside the Kurdish regional capital Erbil, and marked the first time U.S. forces have directly targeted the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS, also known as ISIL , which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq.In contrast to Washington s decision to invade Iraq more air force 1 than a decade ago, both the airdrop and the authorization of military action against ISIS were widely welcomed by Iraqi and Kurdish officials fearful of the militants lightning advance across the country. Fighting ISIS in Iraq 14 photos Bgjs Prince Andrew email surfaces as American woman alleges disgusting sexual assault
Hundreds of civilians have died in fierce fighting between rebels and government forces in C stanley thermos had s capital, Red Cross officials said Tuesday, as the insurgents agreed to a cease-fire and their momentum faded. Former colonial power France threatened to enter the fight to support the government.Chad s government told the French military it still was fighting rebels using air power outside of N Djamena, the capital, according to French military spokesman Cmdr. Christophe Prazuck.Chief rebel leader Mahamat Nouri charged they were being bombarded by French Mirage jets - but France said it had not yet gone on the attack. French intervention in the past helped stave off a major rebel attack in this oil-rich country on President Idriss Deby, accused by the insurgents of corruption and embezzling millions in oil revenue.Tuesday, bodies lay rotting under a tropical sun in N Djamena, according to a local reporter who left his home Tuesday for the first time since the rebels entered on Saturday.Corpses of more than 10 military and civilian victims were sprawled across Avenue Mobutu, a main thoroughfare. The stanley becher charred hulks of two tanks and several pickup trucks, used by both sides in the fighting, littered the streets. Most downtown shops and buildings have been looted. Further from the stanley cup center, the state broadcasting station and the parliament building were stripped by rampaging looters.The Presidential Palace, which backs onto the Chari River, was off limits, the entrance blocked

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Top diplomats from the United States and Russia each said Monday that bilateral, business-like talks air force 1 in Geneva offered some openings for future engagement on missile systems and military exercises. But the two sides remained at an impasse on the future of NATO membership, which the Russians called a top priority. Speaking air force 1 from Geneva, where the two delegations met to kick off a week of intensive diplomacy, deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said the U.S. had offered to meet again soon to discuss missile placement and a possible revival of the now-defunctIntermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. She also said the U.S. had signaled its openness to setting reciprocal limits on the size and scope of military exercises, and to improve transparency about those exercises. Two officials from the Department of Defense, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia Laura K. Cooper air force one and Lieutenant General James J. Mingus, are accompanying Sherman during her meetings. Speaking from the Pentagon on Monday, Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said the Department of Defense is aware of and supports discussing missile capabilities in Europe assuming that there would be reciprocity from Russia in negotiations on that point. The U.S. does not have intermediate-range missiles in Europe and has no plans to put them there, so there would likely need to be more concessions from Russia regarding missiles. Russia s deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov, who led the Russ Ixzz Suicide Bomber Targets Kabul Police
The American doctor who was airlifted out of the long Antarctic night this week in a risky rescue mission says he s sorry he had to leave the South Pole behind. And he s itching to get back for the next winter. If I had my druthers, I d be at the Pole. But the window of opportunity to get me out was now. I couldn t sit around and wait, said Ronald Shemenski, 59, said hours after a Twin Otter propeller plane carried him from Antarctica to Chile on Thursday.He said he never worried about the flight out 151; these pilots were go stanley quencher od 151; and that he rested on a makeshift bed atop a couple of 55-gallon fuel drums in a parka with a fur-lined hood. I m fine, Shemenski said.He would have preferred to tough it out at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station he left behind. I didn t want the crew to risk coming down there, he said. But in an interview with The Associated Press, Shemenski acknowledged that it would have been dangerous to stay on. He was diagnosed with inflammation of the pancreas. Pancreatitis can happen when a gallstone passes down the bile duct, irritating the pancreas. It is potentially life-thr stanley water jug eatening. Rescue Video Click here to watch video of Shemenski s arrival at Punta Arenas airport in Chile.Click here to stanley becher watch video of the C-130 returning to New Zealand after rescuing 11 Americans from McMurdo Antarctic Base. When I got sick, I was having quite a bit of pain. I wasn t sure what was going on. We did some lab tests down there and nothing fit what

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The Christmas dream of Peace On Earth briefly came true one hundred years ago. Mark Phillips has the story of the Christmas Truce of 1914:The old line about never letting the facts get in the way of a good story could have been invented for this scene. The facts are as slippery as the muddy football field -- and the story is so good, it s still being told, even embellished, a hundred years later. It s the story of the World War I Christmas Truce of 1914, when groups of German and British soldiers briefly stopped shooting at each other and met and mingled in the no-man s-land between their lines -- before going back to shooting at each other.On the 100th anniversary, the encounter has been re-staged at one of the places along the old front line in Belgium where the truce originally occurred.The men the story goes not only exchanged greetings and gifts; they organized a soccer game between teams from the two armies -- bo nike dunk high ots and balls instead of bullets and bayonets. It s Christmas, good will! Let s just be friends for asics outlets the day, said Chris B adidas samba damen arker, whose three great-uncles were killed in the war not far from here. He says the truce should be remembered because it shows a different side to a war more known for wholesale slaughter than humanitarian gesture. I think it just shows the good in people that can be there, he said. Whereas days before and afterwards it was barbarous and savage, but people can suddenly lay down their differences. The truce is now be seen Dysq Victory day parade in Moscow
Stephen Harper was sworn in as Canada s 22nd prime minister Monday, marking the first time in more than 12 years that the Conservative Party will rule this traditionally liberal nation.The 46-year-old economist has pledged to cut taxes, clean stanley mugs up government corruption and reconsider such hot-button issues as gay marriage. He takes over for outgoing Liberal Party leader Paul Martin, whose 18-month government was marred by indecision and the inability to rise above an ethics scandal that outraged many Canadians.Harper s Cabinet ministers also were sworn in by Governor-General Michaelle Jean in a ceremony at her residence, Rideau stanley cup Hall, in the federal capital of Ottawa. The new team had been kept under wraps and was made public only minutes before the ceremony.Peter MacKay, deputy leader of the Conservative Party, was sworn in as minister of foreign affairs and Stockwell Day became minister of public safety, an important post that works closely with Washington on matters of national and continental security.Gordon O Connor was sworn in as minister of defense. Harper declined to name a deputy prime minister, doing away with the post under him. The 27-member cabinet, which includes six women, is much leaner than the 39 positions the Liberals had. They arrived at Rideau Hall in cars and ta stanley cup xis mdash; an apparent effort to show they are closer to the people than the Liberals, who used limousines. ponent--type-

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A U.S. helicopter crashed Sunday in southern Afghanistan, killing one crew member, the U.S. military said.The AH-64 Apache attack helicopter plunged to the ground shortly after taking off from Kandahar Air Field. A statement says one crew member was killed, while the other was injured and evacuated for emergency treatment.On Monday, a small explosion went off Monday in a classroom at a university in western Afghanistan, wounding eight female college students, police said.The blast took place in a women s English class at Herat University, said Nasar Ahmed Piakar, director of the criminal department of H stanley cup erat police.Piakar said the explosive was hidden inside a trash can in the classroom. It did not contain shrapnel, he said. Eight young women were wounded, one of them seriously, he said.Also on Sunday an insurgent attack on a British base killed two soldiers and an Afghan interpreter, military officials said Sunday, while at least 20 militants died during clashes and coalition stanley cup airstrikes.The deaths came amid a massive anti-Taliban campaign in southern Afghanistan involving more than 10,000 Afghan and coalition soldiers. It is the largest military o kubki stanley ffensive since the hard-line regime s ouster in late 2001.The two British soldiers died after their base was hit by small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades Saturday night in southern Helmand province, said military spokesman Capt. Drew Gibson. An Afghan interpreter also was killed, coalition spokesman Maj. Que

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An Amer nike dunk donna ican man was sentenced to 42 years in prison in Bogota on Tuesday for the murder of a famous Colombian DJ in a case that drew international outrage from women s rights activists. adidas og John Nelson Poulos was arrested in January 2023 in Panama while on the run from Colombian authorities for the murder of 23-year-old Valentina Trespalacios, whom he d dated for just under a year. Prosecutors said he beat and suffocated her in the midst of a jealous attack. Security camera footage showed Poulos leaving his apartment pushing a cart with a large suitcase yeezy , and Trespalacios body had been stuffed inside. Her corpse was later discovered in a garbage container. The year before, the Colombian Femicide Observatory, a non-governmental organization, recorded 612 femicides in the country, though the government only recorded 100. Femicide has been a distinct crime in Colombia since 2015.The European Institute for Gender Equality says femicide is deeply rooted in and a manifestation of power imbalances in society, which promotes an unequal status for men and women. The institute says femicide is broadly defined as the killing of a woman or girl because of her gender and can take different forms, such as the murder of women as a result of intimate partner violence; the torture and misogynist slaying of women; killing of women and girls in the name of honor, etc. Valentina Trespalacios uncle, Carlos Trespalacios, told CBS Milwaukee affiliate WDJT-TV in October that, Qpxe Roger Federer wins record 8th Wimbledon title
The Bush administration plans to ease restrictions on assistance to Iran in response to the country s devastating earthquake.Blanket licenses that would permit American firms and individuals to transfer funds to Iran will be approved in a joint announcement expected from departments of State and Treasury.Currently it is illegal to transfer funds to Iran be stanley quencher cause of sanctions on Tehran, dating to 1979. The result is individual licenses for exceptions to the rule are required, and that can be a time-consuming process, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday.Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage placed a phone call to Iran s U.N. envoy, Javad Zariv, who was in Tehran at the time of the tragedy, and pledged U.S. assistance in light of the disaster.But while Zariv accepted the offer and Iranian President Mohammad Khatami thanked the United States, Khatami said there could be no change in a nearly 25-year estrangement with the United States unless Washington changed its tone and behavior. Within the Bush administration there stanley mug continues to be disagreement on how to deal with Iran and on whether democratic change is in the wind in Tehran.Secretary of Colin Powell told The Washington Post earlier in the week that there were encou stanley us raging developments in Iran and that Tehran was demonstrating a new attitude on some issues.But a White House spokesman, Trent Duffy, accompanying President Bush in Crawford, Tex., cast a different spin. We ve made clear to the Iranian government on

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Nicolas Axelrod/Getty Images Monks clash with police officers who tried to release a National Election Committee employee - who was accused of denying people the right to vote - at a polling station in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, July 28, 2013.Cambodians went to the polls for the fifth parliamentary election since 1993. 123 seats in the National Assembly were up for grabs to eight airmaxplus listed parties, with the main contenders being the ruling Cambodian Peoples Party CPP and the leading opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party CNRP led by Sam Rainsy, recently returned to the country from exile.On Monday, Rainsy rejected the results of the weekend election showing a win for the long-time ruling party crocs schuhe , raising fears of post-poll instability and setting the stage for a new showdown with Prime Minister Hun Sen. Nicolas Axelrod/Getty Images airmax plus A police car is set on fire after clashes errupted with police officers who tried to release a National Election Committee employee in charge of a polling station during the Cambodian general elections in Phnom Penh, July 28, 2013. Nicolas Axelrod/Getty Images A man is attacked by a mob in front of a polling station after being accused of striking a monk during an alterca Nqoj Russia retaliates in escalating feud over U.K. nerve agent attack
The interim government vowed Thursday to eradicate Afghanistan s opium poppy crop, believed to be the country s major source of income, in a move that could wipe out as much as 70 percent of the world s supply of opium.Starting Monday, the government will offer farmers $250 per jirib of poppy they destroy, said senior government adviser Ashraf Ghani Amatzai. The compensation is only a fraction of what they would othe stanley kubek rwise earn per jirib, an Afghan land measure equaling 20,000 square feet.For those who refuse to tear up their crops, joint task forces of Interior Ministry, provincial and local authorities will carry out enforcement, Ghani Amatzai said at a news conference. Will people be unhappy Absolutely, replied the sen stanley termoska ior adviser when asked about the political difficulties in eliminating the crop, a key income source for tens of thousands of farmers and farm laborers, and for dealers believed associated with some Afghan warlords stanley cup and other influential figures. Some are going to make $17,000 per jirib if they harvest their opium, he said. Initial funds for the buyout program would come from the Afghan administration, but additional financing was promised by Britain, the European Union and the United States, Ghani Amatzai said.The government would also immediately institute a program of labor-intensive projects, especially on roads and irrigation systems, to help employ affected harvesters, he said.Eradication by government agents would be a major logistical chal