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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia s government on Monday defended its decision to de stanley becher port a young Saudi journalist who may face persecution at home for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad on Twitter.International rights groups have slammed the deportation but Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said Malaysia was not a safe haven for fugitives.Jiddah-based newspaper columnist Hamza Kashgari, 23, was detained Thursday at the Malaysian airport while in transit to New Zealand. He was deported Sunday despite fears from rights groups that he may face the death penalty if charged with blasphemy over remarks he tweeted that many considered offensive. I will not allow Malaysia to be seen as a safe country for terrorists and thos stanley cups e who are wanted by their countries of origin, and also be seen as a transit county, Hishammuddin said.He said the deportation followed a request from the Saudi government. Allegations that Kashgari could be tortured and killed if he was sent back home are ridiculous because Saudi Arabia is a respectable country, he said. Malaysian authorities also didn t receive any court order to halt the deportation, he added.Lawyers repre stanley cup senting Kashgari s family obtained a court order Sunday to try to keep him in Malaysia but he had been put on a plane back home by the time the order was issued.Saudi king spares female driver the lashHuman Rights Watch slammed Malaysia s failure to respect human rights. It said Kashgari was kept incommunicado and denied access

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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 Ardt Japanese network apologizes for offensive and insensitive video about U.S. racial divide
A German court said Friday it has approved a deal allowing former Chancellor Helmut Kohl to pay a fine and avoid criminal charges in his party s financing scandal. Kohl accepted, but his poli stanley mug tical foes accused him of buying his way out.Under the deal with prosecutors in Bonn, an investigation into possible breach of trust charges will be closed as soon as Kohl pays a $140,000 fine. Kohl s lawyer, Stephan Holthoff-Pfoertner, said the former chancellor would pay.Prosecutors in the former German capital, where Kohl governed for 16 years, opened their probe in January 2000 after he admitted accepting illegal campaign donations when he was chancellor and leader of the Christian Democra stanley water bottle tic party.Months of legal maneuvering followed as Kohl attempted to stave off further damage to his reputation as one of his nation s most respected postwar statesmen and the chancellor who united Germany in 1990.The Bonn state court said Friday the investigation left open whether Kohl had committed a crime, and it chided the ex-chancellor for failing to set a good public example. But it stressed his fine payment would not represent an admission of guilt. In closing the case, the court cited Kohl s political legacy and accepted his statement that the illegal donations went into campaigning, not his own pocket. The court also questioned whether a drawn-out legal battle would be in stanley termoska the public interest.Kohl has three months to pay the fine 151; half to charity, the other half into public coff

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Taiwan unveiled its first domestically developed military submarine Thursday, as the democratic, self-governing island ramps up its defenses with anxiety building about the possibility of China launching an attack. Even if there are risks, and no matter how many challenges there are, Taiwan must take this step and allow the self-reliant air force one national defense policy to gr hoka laufschuhe ow and flourish on our land, Taiwan s President Tsai Ing-wen said at the unveiling ceremony.The diesel-electric submarine, called Haikun, cost $1.5 billion and still needs to undergo further tests before it s deployed. It will be handed over to the Taiwanese navy in 2024, CBS News partner network BBC News reported. The Taiwan Navy s Haikun submarine is unveiled during an event at CSBC Corp. s dockyard in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Sept. 28 adidas samba og , 2023. Bloomberg/Getty It is the first of eight submarines Taiwan plans to build, according to the Reuters news agency, and will join two others that were purchased from the Netherlands in the 1980s.China claims sovereignty over Taiwan, considering it a breakaway province to eventually be brought under the control of Beijing.Tension between Taiwan and Beijing has been high for decades, but recent pledges to bring the island under China s control by President Xi Xinping have led many to believe the possibility of a military conflict is greater now than ever before. Taiwan h Ixhq China Rebuked For Anti-Satellite Test
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Seoul, South Korea mdash; South Korea s spy agency said Friday that North Korea has dispatched troops to support Russia s war against Ukraine, a development that could bring a third country into the war and intensify a standoff between North Korea and the West.The National Intelligence Service said in a statement that Russian navy ships transferred 1,500 North Korean special operation forces to the Russian port city of Vladivostok from Oct. 8 to Oct. 13. It said more North Korean troops are expected to be sent to Russia soon. chanclas yeezy The North Korean soldiers deployed in Russia have been given Russian military uniforms, weapons and forged identification documents, the NIS said. It said they are currently staying at military bases in Vladivostok and other Russian sites such as Ussuriysk, Khabarovsk and Blagoveshchensk, and that they will likely be deployed to battle grounds after completing their adaptation training. The NIS posted on its website satellite and other photos showing what it calls Russian navy ship movements near a North Korean port and suspected North Korean mass gatherings in adidas originals samba Ussuriysk and Khabarovsk in the past week. South Korean med air max 98 ia, citing the NIS, reported earlier that Pyongyang has decided to dispatch a total of 12,000 troops to Russia. If confirmed, it would be North Korea s first major participation in a foreign war. North Korea has 1.2 million troops, one of the largest militaries in the world, but it lacks actual combat experience.NATO chief Mark Ru Fjkf Elian Turns 7, Media Circus Goes On
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HAVANA -- U.S. officials say the United States and Cuba will sign an agreement next week to restart commercial air traffic for the first time in five decades.U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx flies to Havana on Tues yeezy slide day to cement the deal. nike af The storied history of U.S.-Cuba relations 27 photos It will let U.S. airlines bid on routes for dozens of U.S.-Cuba flights per day. That s more than five times the current number of flights, all of which are charters.There has been no commercial air traffic between the nations since shortly after Cuba s 1959 revolution.Resuming commercial passenger flights would be the most important development in U.S.-Cuba trade since the countries announced in late 2014 that they would begin normalizing ties. State Department official Thomas Engle says the deal reinforces President Barack Obama s goal of building ties with Cuba. pone nike air force nt--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-5f76da02-b7e7-4003-8483-2bb9404eab62, right-rail-recirc-item--id-5f76da02-b7e7-4003-8483-2bb9404eab62 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-5f76da02-b7e7-4003-8483-2bb9404eab62 ~ .item:nth-ch Bsdb Elian Gonzalez turns 18, quietly celebrates
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In the face of continued international opposition to military action against Iraq, Secretary of State Colin Powell revealed new intelligence Wednesday which he says shows Iraq is still building and hiding banned weapons.Powell said that from recent intelligence we know Iraq plans to destroy only a portion of its all Al Samoud missiles and to continue production of the missiles even as it dismantles some.He said the sources of the information could not be revealed, but claimed they were reliable.Powell s speech a stanley cup t the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington was scheduled at the last minute and designed to blunt the argument for more time which U.S. arms inspectors are expected to make Friday, reports CBS News Co stanley cup rrespondent Bill Plante.Powell made the case that Saddam has no intention of disarming, has moved chemical and biological agents to the Syrian and Tu stanley cup rkish borders, and is cooperating only to divide the U.N. and undermine support for the U.S. resolution which would authorize war. Iraq s too-little too-late gestures are meant not just to deceive and delay action by the international community, he has as one of his major goals to divide the international community, to split us into arguing factions. That effort must fail, he said. The only real issue left, said Powell, is whether Saddam had made a strategic decision, a political decision, to give up these horrible weapons of mass destruction. He said Saddam had not. But Powell also held

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MOGI DAS CRUZES, Brazil -- If Belgium has a reputation for self-indulgence because of its love of chocolate and beer, it is time to look at its World Cup squad and admire discipline, stamina and determination.So far, this has been a hard team to appreciate despite its perfect group record ahead of Tuesday s clash with the United States. Team USA goalkeeper Tim Howard on World Cup advancement 03:59 Team USA goalkeeper Tim Howard told CBS This Morning that even though Belgium recently beat the U.S. 4-2 in a friendly and is one of the up-and-coming superstar powers in Europe, he feels his team can adidas campus 80s match up well against them. We relish the role of underdog, Howard said. It keeps us hungry. It allows us to not be complacent. Howard s coach has been preaching to his team to keep that fighting spirit going. Don t be content, U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann said. Nobody can claim that he reached his 100 percent yet. Here are 5 th adidas campus ings to know about the Belgium team.TOUGH DEFENSE Belgium s goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois reacts at the end of a Group H football match between South Korea and Belgium at the Corinthians Arena in Sao Paulo during the 2014 FIFA World Cup on June 26, 2014. MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty Images nike dunk Jeaf U.S. Troop Buildup In Afghanistan Begins
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MEXICO CITY -- A powerful earthquake jolted central Mexico on Tuesday, killing more than 130 people, cracking building facades and scattering rubble on streets in the capital on the anniversary of a devastating 1985 quake. The nationwide death toll rose to 139 on Tuesday evening, according to Mexico s head of Civil Defense, and the Mexican federal government declared a state of disaster in Mexico City which helps free up emergency funds. Luis Felipe Puente said 64 people died in the state of Morelos, just south of Mexico City, though local officials reported only 54. In addition, 36 people died in Mexico City, 29 in Puebla state, nine in the State of Mexico and one in Guerrero. The count did not include one death that officials in the southern state of Oaxaca reported earlier as quake-related. Hours after the quake, rescue workers were still clawing through the wreckage of a primary school that partly collapsed in the city s south looking for any children who might be trapped. Some relatives said they had received Whatsapp message from two girls inside, but the claim could not be confirmed. samba shoes adidas originals hombre Major earthquake hits Mexico 80 photos adidas campus femme The earthquake is the deadliest in Mexico since the 1985 quake that killed thousands. It came less than two weeks aft Taar 130-Year-Old Woman Expert Casts Doubt
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BAGHDAD -- Two suicide attacks in and outside the Iraqi capital killed at least 27 people and wounded dozens on Thursday, officials said.The deadliest attack took place in a commercial area of a majority Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad. At least 15 civilians were killed and 35 wounded, police said.Another suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into an Iraqi army checkpoint north of Baghdad, killing at least 12 people, police said. Seven civilians and five troops were killed in the attack in the town of Taji, about 1 nike dunk 2 miles adidas originals mujer north of the capital, a police officer said. At least 28 people were wounded, he added.Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to brief the press.In an online statement, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS claimed responsibility for the New Baghdad attack, saying it targeted Shiite militia members. It later claimed responsibility for the Taji bombing in a second online statement, saying it was targeting the Iraqi army. The Associated Press could not verify the authenticity of the statements, but they were posted on a militant website commonly used by the extremists.Inside the battle to take back Fallujah from ISIS dunk pand Iraqi forces try to re-take Fallujah from ISIS with help from air strikes 02:10 Zfko Egypt Boosts Pay 15% for Government Employees
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One of slain Islamic State of Iraq and Iran ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi s wives revealed a lot of information about the jihadist group s inner workings after she was captured last year, a Turkish official told Agence France-Presse.The official said Baghdadi s spouse identified herself as Rania Mahmoud but was in f nike sb dunk act Asma Fawzi Muhammad Al-Qubaysi.She was s adidas campus shoes aid to be the first wife of the ISIS leader, who was killed in a U.S. special forces raid in Syria last month. Al-Bagdadi was known to have four wives, according to The Associated Press.AFP said the woman was arrested on June 2, 2018, in the Turkish province of Hatay, near the Syrian border, along with 10 others, including Baghdadi s daughter, who identified herself as Leila mizuno de Jabeer. Asma Fawzi Muhammad Al-Qubaysi, a wife of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is seen in an unknown location. Turkish security officials / Handout via Reuters The official said the family links were confirmed using a DNA sample of Baghdadi provided by Iraqi authorities. We discovered the wife s real identity pretty quickly. At that point, she volunteered a lot of information about Baghdadi and the inner workings of ISIS, the official said. We were able to confirm a lot of things that we already knew. We also obtained new information that led to a series of arrests elsewhere. The detainees are being held at a deportati Xqds Palestinians: Clinton Hinders Peace Talks
MOSCOW - North Korea is ready to impose a moratorium on nuclear missile tests if international talks on its nuclear program resume, a spokesman for Russia s president said Wednesday after talks between the two leaders.Russian news agencies, meanwhile, reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il said his country is ready to resume talks without preconditions. Kim and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met Wednesday on a military base near the city of Ulan-Ude in eastern Siberia in Kim s first trip to Russia since 2002.The six-sided nuclear talks have been long-stalled, but Kim s Russia trip comes as his country pushes to restart them. South Korea and Washington have demanded that the North first show its sincerity on fulfilling past nuclear comm stanley termoska itments.N. Korean missiles could hit Guam, Japan warnsU.S., N. Korea to hold rare direct talksN. Koreans vote in rubber stamp elections The Korean peninsula has seen more than a year of tension during which the North shelled a South Korean island and allegedly torpedoed a South Korean warship.Medvedev spokeswoman Natalya Timakova w stanley cupe as quoted by the ITAR-Tass news agency as saying that Kim expressed readiness to return to the six-sided talks without preconditions and in the course of the talks, North Korea stanley cups uk will be ready to resolve the question of imposing a moratorium on tests and production of nuclear missile weapons. Medvedev said Russia and North Korea also moved forward on a proposed project to ship natural gas to South Kore

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TOKYO - The 47 ronin samurai who inspired the long adidas originals -loved saga of loyalty and honor eulogized in films, books and plays are fighting a new kind of battle in urban Japan.An apartment complex is going up next to the curved tile-roofed Sengakuji temple where the three-century-old graves of the ronin, or masterless samurai, lie. The stone monuments, standing barely waist-high, are known here and elsewhere as a humble but proud testament to sacrificin adidas campus shoes g one s life for what s right.The Buddhist monks who are still praying for the souls of the ronin, visitors from near and far, and the neighborhood residents including those who run souvenir stores are all aghast. Nearly 2,000 people have signed a petition demanding a stop to the construction. Huge protest banners are up by the gate.Plans show an eight-story condominium, measuring 79 feet, dwarfing the graves and placing the temple s main wooden gate in its shadow. Building has already begun and construction is expected to be completed later this year mizuno . People who come and pray here, including tourists from abroad, can t believe why this is being allowed, said Kenmyo Muta, a priest at the temple. Anyone can see what it will do to this beautiful place. The plight of the graves highlights the recurring struggles between commercial development and the effort to preserve history.Although many European and American cities work hard to maintain the old, Japanese cities often are a hodgepodge of cutting-edge futuristic buildings n Ovvx Vatican hires Fox correspondent as media adviser
A Hamas Web site posted an audio message on Monday from an Israeli soldier captured a year ago by militants allied with the Islamic group mdash; the first sign from him since he was seized at an army base near the Gaza Strip.In the message, posted on a Web site of the Hamas military wing, Cpl. Gilad Shalit said his health is deteriorating and that he needs to go to a hospital. He also said in the brief statement that he is disappointed in the lack of interest of the Israeli government in his fate.The message was released on the anniversary of his June 25, 2006, capture by Hamas-allied militants who tunneled into Israel. Shalit s father and grandfather told Israeli media they believed the voice was Gilad s, although the father expressed doubts to the Ynet news site.In other developments: The leaders of Israel, the Palestinians, Egypt and Jordan were discussing Monday how to advance the peace process after the violent Hamas takeover of Gaza earlier this month. The aim, reports CBS News correspondent Robert Berger, is to strengthen U.S.-backed Palestinia stanley flask n President Mahmoud Abbas. As a first step, Israel will release hundreds of millions of dollars in withheld tax revenues to the moderate Abbas government in the West Bank. In a new video, kidnapped British journalist Alan Johnston appears with what he says are explosives strapped to his body and warns that his captors intend to set th stanley cup em off if rescuers attempt to free him by force. As you can see, I ve been dressed in what

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SEOUL, stanley romania South Korea -- Former NBA star Dennis Rodman is tapping his friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to ask for the release of a Korean-American man sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in the North.Rodman took to Twitter to issue his plea: I m calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea or as I call him Kim , to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose.mdash; Dennis Rodman @dennisrodman May 7, stanley cup usa 2013 He later called the tweet a direct response to a Seattle Times editorial that dared him to ask Kim for the release if the two are really buddies.Rodman visited North Korea in February and sat next to Kim as they watched an exhibition basketball game. His trip came at a time of high tension between Pyongyang and Washington and was not endorsed by the U.S. State Department.Bae is a tour operator who was arrested in North Korea in November. The North s Supreme Court sentenced him last week for unspecified hostile acts against the state. In a Foreign Ministry statement on Sunday, North Korea said the 44-year-old Washington state man entered the country with a disguised identity. stanley mug Bae is at least the sixth American detained in North Korea since 2009. The others eventually were deported or released, some after trips to Pyongyang by prominent Americans, including former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. Dennis Rodman travels to

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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis will meet with h samba og omeless people, immigrants and prisoners during his upcoming trip to Cuba and the United States. He ll also preside over a meeting about religious liberty - a major issue for the U.S. Catholic Church in t airmaxplus he wake of the Supreme Court s gay marriage decision.The Vatican published the itinerary Tuesday for the eagerly awaited Sept. 19-28 visit.Francis added the Cuba leg onto the start of his U crocs .S. trip at the last minute after helping contribute to the historic thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations. Pope Francis issues climate change gauntlet 02:18 In Cuba, he ll celebrate Mass in Revolution Square in Havana - as both of his predecessors did during their trips to the Caribbean island nation. He ll travel to Holguin and pray before the Virgin of Charity of Cobre, the patron of Cuba, and meet with Cuban families in the eastern city of Santiago.Francis arrives Sept. 22 at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, D.C., and the next day will be welcomed on the South Lawn of the White House by President Barack Obama, the Vatican said.He will become the first pope to address the U.S. Congress on Sept. 24, and will meet with homeless people later in the day at a local parish, St. Patrick s. He ll give America a new saint by canonizing the 18th-century Spanish missionary Junipero Ovyp Murdoch defiant: I m best person to fix mess
NEW DELHI A 5-year-old girl has died after being raped in the central Indian state stanley tumbler of Madhya Pradesh, an official said Tuesday.The girl suffered cardiac stanley cup usa arrest and died late Monday at a hospital in Nagpur city in neighboring Maharashtra state where she was being treated for injuries from the April 18 assault, said Bharat Yadav, collector for Seoni district, where the attack occurred.Two men have been arrested in connection with the attack, he said.The girl was lured by one of the men to a farm, where she was then raped by the other man, who was a friend of her parents, Yadav said. The parents, poor construction workers, were at work when the attack occurred, he said.Ravi Manadiar, an administrator at the hospital, said the girl suffered a brain injury when the men tried to smother her cries and was in a coma from April 20 until she died. India has seen a recent sharp rise in the numbers of rapes and sexual crimes against women and children. Officials say the spike has resulted from more people reporting the crimes.2nd man held over rape of Indian girlIndia sees tourism decline after sex assaultsIndian hotelier accused of attacking Brit stanley mugs ish touristEarlier this month, another 5-year-old girl was kidnapped, raped and tortured by two men who then abandoned her in a locked room in New Delhi. She is still recovering at a hospital in the city.Police refused to register a case when the girl s parents reported that their daughter was missing. Hundreds of people protested outside

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An American citizen has been killed in Ukraine, a U.S. State Departmentspokesperson confirmed to CBS News on Friday. Newsweek first reported the latest death of a U.S. national amid the war, citing claims by a Russian official who said online that an American volunteer was killed fighting alongside Ukraine s military.The U.S. official told CBS News they could not provide any further information about the American who died, out of respect for the privacy of the family.Oleg Kozhemyako, governor of Russia s far eastern Primorsky Krai region, which is thousands of miles away from the fighting in Ukraine, said members of the Tiger military unit from his area had kill adidas samba adidas ed the American during a battle. Two Americans fighting for Ukraine believed to have been captured by Russian forces 05:52 American mercenary was destroyed in Ukraine, Kozhemyako said in a Friday post on his channel on the Telegram messaging app. The post was accompanied by photos of both a U.S. passport and Ukrainian state-issued ID identifying the purported American casualty.Kozhemyako claimed the man, whose identity has not been conf mizuno running irmed by family members or U.S. officials, was killed in the first clash literally immedia yeezy tely after arriving at the front line. The Russian politician claimed the American man was killed when a trained Ywch Taliban: Swap U.K. Aid Worker for U.S. Prisoner
Iraqi security forces have detained an al Qaeda militan stanley termoska t suspected of planning an attack targeting the World Cup in South Africa next month, an official said Monday.Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, a spokesman for Baghdad security services, said Abdullah Azam Saleh al-Qahtani was an officer in the Saudi army. He is suspected of planning a terrorist act in South Africa during the World Cup beginning June 11, al-Moussawi told a news conference in Baghdad.He said al-Qa stanley cup htani entered Iraq in stanley cup 2004 and is suspected in several attacks in the capital and elsewhere in the country.Despite the killing last month of al Qaeda in Iraq s two top figures in a U.S.-assisted military operation, attacks blamed on the group have continued.On Monday, assailants disguised in Iraqi military uniforms beheaded a Sunni cleric and stuck his head on an electricity pole in the town where he preached against al Qaeda, the cleric s son and Iraqi police said. The son of the cleric Abdullah Jassim Shakour told The Associated Press the gunmen wearing military uniforms came to the family house in the town of Sadiyah north of Baghdad, took his father into a room, killed him and walked away with his head.The family found the headless body in the house, said the son, Mohammed. When they went to report the killing to the police, they saw his head on an electric pole in the center of the town. I was sleeping and screams from the street woke me up, said one of the victim s neighbors. When I stepped out of my

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For decades, Nepal s endangered rhino population has dwindled to near extinction. But recently, thanks in part to travel restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic, the population has soared.The nation s count of endangered one-horned rhinoceros has increased by more than 100 over the past six years. Officials adidas samba adidas are hailing the rise a conservation milestone. The rhino population across four national parks in the southern plains rose to 752 mdash; up from 645 in 2015, according to the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation. That s the highest it s been in decades. The increase of rhinos is exciting news for us, the department s information officer, Haribhadra Acharya, said in a statement. But we have challenges ahead to expand the habitat areas of this an adidas og imal to maintain the growth. 752Rhinos!That is Nepal s new one-horned rhino population finalized by the National Rhino Count 2021. Out of these...Posted by National Trust for Nature Conservation NTNC , Nepal onSaturday, April 10, 2021 The area was once dominated by thousands of one-horned rhinos, butrampant poaching and habitat lossreduced their numbers. In the 1960s, there were only about 100 left. Nepal has conducted a rhino census every five years since 1994 in an effort to conserve the species after it was listed as vulnerable. That year, the Himalayan nation recorded 466 rhinos.Ever since, the government has stepped up its anti-poaching and conservati yeezy on initiatives. But this year, the lac Jrpd Alleged Drug Kingpin Arrested In Brazil
AP Photo/Vincent Yu An anti-government protester wears a hat decorated with an airplane outside a closed upscale shopping mall in Bangkok,Thailand, on Wednesday April 7, 2010.Thousands of anti-government protesters refused to leave the commercial heart of Thailand s capital, defying threats of arrest and vowing to hang on u stanley polska ntil new elections are called. India Mourns Soldiers Killed in Maoist Rebel Attacks AP Photo/Saurabh Das stanley cup usa Se stanley cup curity personnel wait as they load coffins of Central Reserve Police Force CRPF soldiers who were killed in Maoist rebel attacks, to be taken back to their families, in Jagdalpur, India, Wednesday, April 7, 2010. India will push ahead with an offensive against Maoist rebels despite the deaths of 76 government troops in an ambush by insurgents in the east, the country s top security official said Wednesday. Preparing for Sri Lanka s Parliamentary Elections AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena A Sri Lankan boy looks on as he stands near election posters of candidate A.H.M. Fowzie of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa s United People s Freedom Alliance in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, April 7, 2010. Sri Lanka s parliamentary elections are scheduled for Thursday.

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HAVANA -- Few on the island doubt that Cuba s removal from the U.S. State Sponsors of Terrorism list is coming. It s a dishonor the nation has carried for 33 years, and which it shares with only Iran, Sudan, and Syria. Pre adidas originals donna sident Obama is widely expected to make the announcement at the current Summit of the Americas in Panama, where he arrived late Thursday. The summi adidas campus donna t will also be attended this year, for the first time, by the leader of Cuba, President Raul Castro. Cuba s President Raul Castro arrives in Panama City, April 9, 2015 to attend the Summit of the Americas for the first time. Getty But regardless of when the presumed announcement comes there s much expectation of the practical impact the move could have, particularly on Cuba s struggling economy. adidas originals Special Report: Obama announces major shift in Cuba relations 19:31 Orlando Marquez, director of the Catholic Church magazine Palabra Nueva New Word of the Archdiocese of Havana, says a decision of this type has been awaited ever since President Obama s December 17 announcement of a Cuba policy turnaround. I think it will be positive for the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, he said. It will also have r Dsdb Rescuers race to move whales out of Scottish loch before major military exercise
Pope Benedict XVI says he hopes his upcoming letter to Irish Catholics on the sex abuse scandal in the Irish Church helps with the process of repentance, healing and renewal. Benedict told his weekly general audience Wednesday that he would sign the pastoral letter Friday and would send it to the faithful soon thereafter.Speaking in English, Benedict acknowledged the Irish church had b stanley cup een severely shaken as a result of the crisis, and that he himself was deeply concerned. Those statements fall far short of the demands for an outright apology which have been made by victims advocacy groups in Ireland and Britain. It is not yet clear how far toward an apology, on behalf of the church, Benedict will go in his letter.Benedict convened Irelan stanley cup d s bishops to a special Vatican summit last month to discuss the fallout from the crisis. The meeting came before reports mounted about similar sex scandals in the Catholic stanley cups Church in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. Germany s most prominent Roman Catholic youth organization said earlier this week it was hoping for Benedict to speak out on the church s sexual abuse scandal in his home country.More than 170 former students of Catholic schools have recently come forward with claims of sexual abuse. The pope has not officially commented. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-99160e30-8c88-11e2-b06b-

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As Siberian gun rights activist Maria Butina faces a hearing in Washington, here is a look at the unusual path that led to her arrest.She s accused of working as an undeclared foreign agent, based on FBI suspicions that she and patron Alexander Torshin sought to infiltrate the NRA and build a long-term influence campaign with the American right. She has pleaded not guilty.2001Torshin is elected to serve in Russia s upper house of parliament, the Federation Council. He makes his first contact with the NRA.2011Butina moves to Moscow, funded by an oligarch couple, and forms gun rights group Right to Bear Arms. Torshin and Butina meet at Moscow gun rally.2012Torshin presents draft bill on liberalizing gun sales, crafted in part by Butina. It fails miserably, lacking support from President Vladimir Putin. Torshin attends NRA convention in St. Louis, and goes to Nashville to observe the 2012 U.S. presidential election.2013Torshin attends NRA convention in Houston in May. Three months later, Spanish police try and fail to arrest Torshin for alleged connections to organized crime; Torshin denies wrongdoing.In October, an nike air max NRA delegation including then-chief David Keene visits Russia chanclas yeezy for a conference organized by Butina s group Right to Bear Arms. Butina meets Torshin s NRA contacts.2014Butina goes to the U.S. for the first time, and she and Torshin attend an NRA convention in Indianapoli adidas originals donna s. She resigns as leader of Right to Bear Arms. 2015Torshin leaves parliament to Dbgg Suspected Racist Murder Shakes Norway
Two bodies found in woodland along a country lane almost certainly belong to missing 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jes stanley cup sica Chapman detectives said Sunday, as they continued to question two people suspected of murdering the pair.The stanley cup announcement brought to a chilling end a two-week manhunt that has transfixed Britain, since the girls disappeared from their rural hometown of Soham, near Cambridge on Aug. 4. It may be some days yet before we are able to positively identify the two bodies, said Deputy Chief Constab stanley termohrnek le Keith Hoddy outside the town s Church of St. Andrew, where hundreds of residents had gathered earlier in the day to pray for the girls and their families. However, we are as certain as we possibly can be tonight that they are those of Holly and Jessica, he added.He said the girls parents had been told the news and then called on the assembled journalists to hold a moment of silence as a mark of respect. Hoddy then read a statement from Jessica s parents, Sharon and Leslie Chapman, in which they thanked friends, family and police for their support and kindness and appealed for privacy.Holly s parents, Nicola and Kevin Wells, said in a statement read out by Hoddy that they were still numb after losing our gorgeous daughter. Police signaled Saturday that they had given up hope of finding Holly and Jessica alive when they arrested two people, reportedly school workers, on suspicion of murder.The anguish in the children s close-knit community grew a few hours la

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Finland announced Thursday it is applying to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Sweden is expected to quickly follow, which could expand the Western military alliance to 32 nations. Russian President Vladimir Putin has long been opposed to NATO expansion mdash; even citing it as one of the reasons for his invasion of Ukraine.Further cornered by Finland s NATO aims and facing a fierce fight on the battlefield in Ukraine, Russia has pulled the trigger on another weapon in its arsenal: effectively cutting off gas supplies to Europe, a day after the Ukrainian government halted gas transfers through its territory.Ukrainian forces have launched a blistering counterattack outside Kharkiv, recapturing villages surrounding Ukraine s second largest city. They ve pushed Russian soldiers back and cut off critical supply lines to the Donbas r dunks egion.Yet further south in the eastern Donbas region, villages and towns have faced a relentless Russian bombardment by land and air.The daily reality for those in the path of Russia s war machine is never knowing when the next missile or airstrike will come or where it will land. Dazed and angry residents on a dir salomon mujer t road in Bakhmut were stunned by a massive explosion that left an eno yeezy rmous crater in a quiet lane and obliterated their homes. War in Ukraine More Mcwe Putin calls armed rebellion by Wagner mercenary group a betrayal, vows to defend Russia
BOGOTA, Colombia - Officials in Colombia s second-largest city on Monday inaugurated a giant, outdoor escalator for residents of one of its poorest neighborhoods.For generations, the 12,000 residents of Medellin s tough Comuna 13, which clings to the side of a steep hillside, have had to climb hundreds of large steps authorities say is the same as going up a 28-story building.Now they can ride an escalator Medellin s mayor says is the first massive, outdoor public escalator for use by residents of a poor area. It turned out very well, said Mayor Alonso Salazar, adding that he has not heard of any such project elsewhere in this world.Salazar said officials from Rio de Janeiro plan to visit Medellin to see if such an escalator would work in that city s favelas, which also cling precariously to hillsides. Comuna 13 residents came out to celebrate and study the $6.7 million escalator which officials say will shorten the 35-minute hike on foot up the hillside to six minutes. Use of the escalator is free. This is a dream come true, homemaker Olga Holguin told RCN television.Cesar Hernandez, head of projects for Medellin, said the electric stairway is divided into six sections and has a length of 384 meters 1 stanley france ,260 feet . An escalator goes up and a second goes down. Authorities plan to build a covering for inclement whether.Salazar described Comuna 13 as the city s district that has suffered the greatest urban violence... but lately this has been receding and we hop stanley cup e stanley cup this s

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WASHINGTON mdash; The descriptions are haunting. Some victims felt fine in the morning and were dead by night. Faces turned blue as patients coughed up blood. Stacked bodies outnumbered coffins.A century after one of history s most catastrophic disease outbreaks, scientists are rethinking how to guard against another super-flu like the 1918 influenza that killed tens of millions as it swept the globe adidas sambarose .There s no way to predict what strain of the shape-shifting flu virus could trigger another pandemic or, given modern medical tools, how bad it might be.But researchers hope they re finally closing in on stronger flu shots, ways to boost much-needed protection against ordinary winter influenza and air force 1 guard against future pandemics at the same time. We have to do better and by better, we mean a universal flu vaccine. A vaccine that is going to protect you against essentially all, or most, strains of flu, said Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National I adidas yeezy nstitutes of Health. Why you should get the flu shot 03:02 Labs around the country are hunting for a super-shot that could eliminate the annual fall vaccination in favor of one every five years or 10 years, or maybe, eventually, a childhood immunization that could last for life. Fauci is designating a universal flu vaccine a top priority for NIH s National I Rlqa North Korea finding new ways to evade sanctions, secret U.N. report reveals
BRUSSELS - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the NATO alliance will pursue planning for a possible no-fly zone over Libya bu stanley thermosflasche t is not ready to act on that or any other military action against the North African nation.Gates told reporters at NATO headquarters in Brussels, following a meeting of alliance defense ministers, that unspecific NATO ships will be moved closer to Libya to be in position in case urgent humanitarian aid to Libyan civilians is required.But he made clear that NATO is not interested in direct military intervention in Libya unless the U.N. Security Council passes a further resolution granting such authority.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made much the same point in Washington, telling Congress that unilateral military action would have unintended consequences.Me stanley quencher anwhile, Muammar Qaddafi s forces pushed rebel fighters from the strategic oil port of Ras Lanouf on Thursday, driving the opposition from the city with a withering rain of artillery fire. Fleeing rebels said government forces were showering rockets or tank shells on the city in preparation for a full-scale advance. The lightly armed opposition sped back to their territory by the hundreds, fleeing eastward in cars and pickup trucks mounted with machine guns.Taking back Ras Lanouf would be a major victory for Qaddafi, reestablishing his power over a b stanley termosy adly damaged but vital oil facility and pushing his zone of control further along the main coastal highway running from rebe