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Europe s top human rights court has ordered Russia to release jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny, a ruling that will be unlikely to soften the Kremlin s determination to isolate its most prominent foe. The ruling by the European Court of Human Rights tha adidas samba t was posted on Navalny s website on Wednesday demands that Russia set him free immediately and warns that failing to adidas samba do so would mark a breach of the European human rights convention. Navalny, 44, an anti-corruption investigator and President Vladimir Putin s most prominent critic, was arrested last month upon returning from Germany, where he spent five months recovering from a nerve-agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin. Russian authorities have rejected the accusation. Alexey Navalny appears in court for a hearing in the criminal case against him for defaming a World War II veteran in Moscow, Russia on February 16, 2021. Moscow Court Press Service/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Earlier this month, a Moscow court sentenced Navalny to two years and eight months in prison for violating terms of his probation while recuperating in Germany. The sentence stems from a 2014 embezzlement conviction that Navalny has rejected as fabricated and the European co hoka wanderschuh urt has ruled to be unlawful. In its Tuesday s ruling, the ECHR pointed to Rule 39 of its regulations, citing the nature and extent of risk to the appl Naer Civilians Rocketed In Mideast
A psychological study of 1,300 children shows tha stanley thermos mug t 70 percent of Palestinian children in the West Bank and 30 percent of children in Jewish settlements are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder because of months of bloodshed.Children taking part in the study said they suffered from nightmares, eating disorders, anxiety and a sense of loss mdash; all symptoms of the disorder, according to Tamar Lavi, a psychologist who conducted the research last summer as part of her thesis for Tel Aviv University s Adler Center. We knew from books that exposure to violence can lead to a lot of things, but we also knew that different exposure leads to different results, Lavi said Tuesday.Israeli and Palestinian children have been exposed to steady suicide bombings, missile strik stanley cupe es and shootings since the current round of violence erupted in September 2000. Some children in Lavi s study said they had seen attacks, been injured and lost relatives. Some Palestinian children had been arrested.Lavi found that in the West Bank, Palestinian children had been exposed to an average of 10 incidents of violence between September 2000 to July 2001, while Israeli children living in the Gush Katif bloc of settlements in the Gaza Strip had been exposed to an average of 11 instances of bloodshed. She did not study Palestinians in Gaza. Hassan Ziadah, a p stanley tumblers sychologist at the Gaza Community Mental Health Program, said Lavi s findings were similar to a study done by his center that found 90 per
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The wreckage of a German warship that was struck by a British torpedo in 1940 has been discovered off the coast or Norway. Norwegian power gr salomon zapatillas id operator Statnett saidthe cruiser Karlsruhe was identified more than 1,600 feet underwater from sonar images. Launched in 1927, the 571-foot ship led the attack on the southern Norwegian port of Kristiansand during the invasion of Norway on April 9, 1940. With nine cannons and three triple turrets, it was the largest and most fearsome ship in the attack group, Statnett said. An element of sunken German WWII warship cruiser Karlsruhe that had been observed 13 nautical miles from Kristiansand in Norway, according to Statnett, is seen in this undated photo obtained by Reuters September 7, 2020. Statnett Gun turrets and a Nazi-era swastika were captured in underwater images take airforces n by Statnett and televised by Norwegian public broadcaster NRK, Reuters reported.Karlsruhe was struck by a British submarine torpedo while returning from Kristiansand. The ship s crew evacuated and the vessel was finally sunk by the Germans themselves, resting upr yeezy ight on the seabed at a depth of 490 meters, Statnett said. An element of sunken German WWII warship cruiser Karlsruhe that had been observed 13 nautical miles from Kristiansand in Norway, according to Statnett, is seen in this undated photo obtained by Reuters September 7, 2020. Pkrg GIs Die Amid Fear Of New Violence
Proposals by Tanzania and Zambia to weaken the 21-year-old ban on ivory sales were shot down by a U.N. conservation meeting Monday over fears it would fuel the illegal trade of elephant tusks.The 175-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species CITES first stanley us rejected the Tanzania proposal for a one-off sale of existing ivory stocks and then swept aside a Zambian compromise to allow for future sales of tusks.The rulings were a rare victory for environmentalists at the two-week meeting where they have endured defeats of proposals ranging from an export ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna to a shark conservation plan to a measure to regulate trade of red and pink corals.The propos stanley cup als would have been the third and fourth such one-time ivory sales following cases in 1999 and 2008.Prof. Samuel K. Wasser, director of the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington, said there is a clear link between one-off sales and the rise in poaching. He said the sales revive dormant markets by send stanley cup ing consumers the message that it is OK in general to once again buy ivory and makes it difficult to differentiate between legal and illegal products. This is a rare victory for elephants, said Jason Bell-Leask, director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, Southern Africa.Tanzania was asking to sell almost 200,000 pounds of ivory that would have generated as much as $20 million. It noted in its proposal that its elephant population has risen from about
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UNITED NATIONS -- Russia nike dunk vetoed a U.N. Security Council vote on a U.S.-sponsored resolution to extend the mandate of chemical weapons inspectors in Syria.The veto will prevent inspectors from doing their job hoka and investigating chemical weapons attacks in Syria unless a new agreement is struck to extend them before mid-November.The resolution did garner 11 votes, so it would have passed if not for the Russian veto. France, which holds the presidency, read the vote. Ambassador Francois Delattre said that the vote failed because of the veto. U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley, who is traveling in Africa, condemned the Russian veto. Russia has once again demonstrated it will do whatever it takes to ensure the barbaric Assad regime never faces consequences for its continued use of chemicals as weapons, she said in a statement. It stinks, Russia s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said before the vote, but after Russia failed in its proposal to postpone the vote until after the repo nike sb dunk rt is issued. Why put the cart before the horse Russia is always guilty in everything. The vote took place days before a report is due on who is responsible for an attack thatkilled nearly 100 civilians, including children, in Syria s Idlib province six months ago.A joint investigation between the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons OPCW and the U.N. is expected to say who was to blame for the attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun. Pkzh Colorful carnival in the UK
Updated at 7:44 p.m. EDTHonduras ousted president won overwhelming international support Tuesday as he planned a high-profile return to his chaotic country. The politicians who sent soldiers to fly him into exile in his pajamas said he will be arrested for treason if he tries.The showdown was building to a climax as the presidents of Argentina and Ecuador signed on to accompany President Manuel Zelaya and other figures on a flight to Honduras on Thursday. Attorn stanley us ey General Luis Alberto Rubi said Zelaya would be seized as soon as he sets foot on Honduran soil and face 20 years in prison on charges that also include abuse of authority. I m going back to calm people down. I m going to try to open a di stanley cup alogue and put things in order, Zelaya said at the United Nations. When I m back, people are going to say ... `commander, we re at your service and the army will have to correct itself. There s no other possibility. The U.N. General Assembly voted by acclamation to demand Zelaya s immediate restoration, and the Organization of American States was meeting to consider suspending Honduras for straying from democracy. With no international support but a significant following at home, the new Honduran leadership called thousands of flag-waving people into a downtown plaza. Soldiers fenced off the area around the presidential palace, where security forces used tear gas and water cannons Monday against stanley trinkflaschen Zelaya supporters, injuring and arresting dozens.The interim president named
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Beirut A coalition of Syria-based opposition groups warned Monday that a proposed international peace conference to negotiate an end to the three-year conflict might be the last chance for a solution.The statement by the Coalition of adidas originals uomo Forces for Peaceful Change is the latest call of support for the talks, which the U.S. and Russia are trying to convene in Geneva by the end of the year.But the so-called internal opposition, which ranges from officials close to the government of President Bashar Assad to intellectuals and parties that have opposed the rule of Assad s Baath party for decades, has little influence over the disparate armed groups fighting the government. This is the only available framework and might be the last chance to resolve the crisis in Syria, the groups warned in a joint statement. They welcomed the conference as a chance for global and regional powers to be invested in a solution to the three-year conflict. The coalition called for an immediate ceasefire.The statement came as Syria s main Western-backed opposition group in exile, the Syrian National Coalition, said it intended to attend talks, but made its participation conditional on the creation of hu salomon xt manitarian corridors to besiege hoka wanderschuh d areas and the government releasing political prisoners. The often-fractious SNC was still meeting in Istanbul, but an official on early Monday released excerpts of a statement that officials said reflected the outcome of a vote among members.But coalition members Rarb Suicide Bomb Kills 32 In Baghdad
Secretary of State Colin Powell insists the intelligence around which the United States built its arguments for war in Iraq isn t a figment of s stanley website omebody s imagination, and Iraqi nuclear scientists could hold the key to proving the information is accurate.At the same time, a senior intelligence official says the CIA shared with other U.S. agencies its doubts about prewar reports mdash; later proven false mdash; that Iraq sought uranium from Niger.Despite these doubts, the CIA passed the information along anyway, and the reports made it into President Bush s State of the Union address.About a month after Bush s January 2002 speech, the United Nations determined the uranium reports were based primarily on forged documents initially obtained by European intelligence agencies.In an interview Thursday with The Associated Press, Powell said the Bush administration believes Sadd stanley cup am Hussein had both deadly weapons and programs to develop them. He suggested that the United States would help Iraqi scientists if they share what they know about Saddam s weapons. Saddam Hussein kept them together so that if the opportunity ever presented itself, he could create nuclear programs. We want to make sure those scientists are no longer kept together in a cell ... but that they go on to find other things to do, Powell said.When U.S. and British teams finish their searches of suspected weapons hidin stanley water bottle g places, their interviews with knowledgeable Iraqis and their exhaustive review of docum
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MIAMI -- A federal judge rejected a bid by two women to join a high-profile sexual abuse lawsuit and ordered scandalous sex allegations against Britain s Princ air force one e Andrew and a prominent U.S. lawyer removed from adidas originals donna the court record.U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra s ruling Tuesday came in a case involving wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein. The two women, identified as Jane Does No. 3 and No. 4, claim to be among dozens of women Epstein sexually abused as teenagers at locations ranging from a Palm Beach mansion to a private Caribbean island to a sprawling New Mexico ranch. Royal sex scandal: Prince Andrew denies relationship with teenager 03:02 The women wanted to join a lawsuit filed by other al nike dunk leged victims. The lawsuit against the U.S. government seeks to reopen a non-prosecution agreement Epstein reached with federal prosecutors. Epstein pleaded guilty more than six years ago to state sex offenses and served a 13-month jail sentence, but could have gotten a much longer prison term if the Justice Department had brought charges.Federal prosecutors opposed allowing the two Jane Does to join the lawsuit, which was filed in 2008, and Marra agreed. Justice does not require amendment in this instance, the judge wrote. Marra also ordered sensational allegations against Prince Andrew and well-known la Rtel Ex-Inspector To Dish On Iraq Intel
AP EL-ARISH, Egypt - Egypt said Saturday that it had arrested a high-level Islamist militant convicted of killing troops in the Sinai Peninsula, vowing to keep up military operations to cleanse the volatile desert region.Officials said the military would soon issue a detailed report on its operations in the Sinai, now in their fourth week, that started after a brazen attack by extremists on a border outpost on Aug. 5 killed 16 soldiers.The announcements seemed intended to offset reports that Egypt s Islamist president is using former jihadists to mediate with radical Islamis stanley cup ts in Sinai, trying to ensure a halt in militant attacks in return for stopping the military offensive in the lawless peninsula.The government has repeatedly tried to underplay talks of a tit-for-tat agreement, amid criticism that negotiations with radicals may give the hard-core Islamist groups a de facto recognition.Egypt: Sinai offensive against militants goes onEgypt to Israel: Our tanks needed in Sinai Operations proceed to cleanse the Sinai. stanley cup There are geographical considerations among other things that determine the course of the operation , said Yasser Ali, spokesman for President Mohammed Morsi. His comments were carried by the official state news a stanley flask gency.Ali said that Defense Minister Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi will soon issue a statement detailing the operations and investigations into the Rafah border attack last month. Ali s comments came following a meeting between Morsi and el-Sissi in
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PARIS -- Two days after the deadly terror attacks in Paris that left at least 129 people dead and 352 injured, a French defense official says they have conducted massive airstrikes that have destroyed two jihadi sites in the Islamic State of dunk panda Iraq and Syria ISIS group s de facto capital in Syria.Twelve aircraft including 10 fighter jets dropped a total of 20 bombs in the biggest air strikes since France extended its bombing campaign against the extremist group to Syria in September, a Defense Ministry statement said. The jets launched from sites in Jordan and the Persian Gulf, in coordination with U.S. forces. The French announced that in coordination with U.S. forces they have conducted massive airstrikes that have destroyed two jihadi sites in the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS group s de facto capital in Syria. French Ministry of Defense CBS News David Martin reports that by the U.S. count, there were seven strikes and 30 explosions in Sunday s strikes in Raqqa. On Monday, the French will release video of the Raqqa strik af1 es.Ma af1 rtin also reports that U.S. and French officials will announce on Monday a new intelligence sharing agreement which gives France access to more sensitive U.S. intelligence to be used in the fight against ISIS. Currently, such intelligence is only shared among the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Muir Oscar Pistorius getting off too easy
Pervez Musharraf promised Thursday to lift Pakistan s state of emergency by Dec. 16 and restore its constitution before January elections, a key demand of his domestic stanley polska rivals and foreign backers.In a televised speech hours after taking the oath of office, stanley deutschland Musharraf also urged former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif - his two stanley quencher rivals for power who recently returned from exile - not to boycott the Jan. 8 parliamentary elections.He said a level playing field has been given to their parties, and they and others should participate fully. I am determined to lift the emergency by Dec. 16, Musharraf said, seated between a portrait of Pakistan s founding father, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, and a green-and-white national flag. The elections, God willing, will be held free and transparent under the constitution. The opposition appeared split on how to react.Sharif said his party and other smaller groups decided in principle at a meeting on Thursday to boycott the ballot. Musharraf took oath today by murdering the judiciary, he told reporters in the eastern city of Lahore.Sharif reiterated his demand that judges ousted under the emergency be restored. But he said he would talk to Bhutto and a wavering Islamist leader before making a final decision. Bhutto has said she is reluctant to leave the field open to pro-Musharraf parties and Makhdoom Amin Fahim, a key aide, said Thursday that she was still mulling what to do.Musharraf imposed emergency rule on Nov.
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Mohammed Salem/Reuters A Palestinian boy practices his Parkour skills near the ruins of houses, which witnesses said were destroyed during a seven-week Israeli offensive, in the Shejaia neighborhood east of Gaza City, Oct. 1, 2014.Parkour is a physical discipline of movement focused on overcoming obstacles.Some Palestinian youths train in the devastated area as a personal initiative to develop their skills. Gaza Mohammed Salem/Reuters Young Palestinians practice their Parkour skills over the ruins of houses, which witnesses said were destroyed during a seven-week Israeli offensive, in the Shejaia neighborho adidas yeezy od east of Gaza City, Oct. 1, 2014. Gaza Mohammed Salem/Reuters A Palestinian youth practices his Parkour skills near the ruins of houses in the Shejaia neighborhood east of Gaza City, nike dunk Oct. 1, 2014. Gaza Mohammed Salem/Reuters Palestinian children watch from their damaged house as youths practice their Parkour skills, Oct. 1, 2 air max 1 014. Gaza Mohammed Salem/Reuters Young Palestinians practice t Ygya Suspected poacher trampled to death by elephant in South Africa
A roadside blast ripped through a vehicle in southern Afghanistan Friday, killing 14 people as they traveled to a provincial capital for holiday celebrations, an official said.British television reports said most onboard the mini-bus were children and old civilians. stanley thermos mug The explosion, which also wounded three people, went off on a road leading to a small village just north of Tirin Kot, the capital of Uruzgan province, said Abdul Qayum Qayumi, the governor s spokesman.The Reuters news agency reported that the leader stanley canada of the Taleban militant movement had contacted their offices via satellite phone Friday and accused NATO forces operating in Afghanistan of genocide, after claims the day before that they had killed as many as 80 civilians in Kandahar province.Taleban military commander Mullah Dadullah a stanley cup lso said his group would conduct increased suicide bombings and other attacks in Afghanistan in retaliation for the NATO operations, according to Reuters. It wasn t clear if Friday s explosion was from an old mine left over from past conflicts or a newly planted roadside bomb, Qayumi said.Thursday, a provincial council member from Kandahar, Bismallah Afghanmal, said 80 to 85 civilians were killed in fighting in the province s Panjwayi district on Tuesday. A villager, Karim Jan, said 60 to 70 died.Another government official who asked not to be named because it would cause him problems said at least 60 were killed.NATO s International Security Assistance Force late Wednesday
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Visiting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden chastised Palestinian leaders Wednesday for not condemning the latest in a series of stabbing attacks targeting Israelis. The kind of violence we saw yesterday, the failure to condemn it, the rhetoric that incites that violence, the retribution that it generates, has to stop, Biden said. American veteran killed in Israel 01:07 The stabbing spree on the popular Jaffa area waterfront Tuesday claimed the life of Ameri dunks shoes can tourist Taylor Allen Force, 28, a Texas native and U.S. Army veteran. The Palestinian man who killed him also wounded twelve other people before being killed himself.CBS News correspondent Allen Pizzey says the incident took place less than a mile from where Biden was meeting with Israeli officials.Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas Fatah political party posted a statement online praising the attacker as a hero and a martyr, and suggesting such attacks would continue so long as Israel does not believe in the two-state solution an airmaxplus d ending its occupation. Gunman opens fire in Tel Aviv bar, kills 2 00:16 Violent and indiscriminate lone wolf attacks mizuno handballschuh on Israeli soldi Fwzp O Malley: Boots on the ground vs. ISIS could be counterproductive
Slovak officials on Wednesday blamed a silly and unprofessional mistake for a failed airport security test that led to a man unwittingly carrying hidden explosives in his bag aboard a flight to Dublin.Dublin security chiefs said it was foolish for the Slovaks to hide bomb parts in the luggage of innocent passengers under any circumstances.Slovak Interior Minister Robert Kalinak expressed profound regret to the Irish government for the oversight and the three-day delay in alerting Irish authorities about the Saturday incident.The explosives never posed a danger to the flight, the interior ministry said Wednesday, even as it ordered water bottle stanley an immediate halt to such tests and took steps to prevent a repeat of failed security test.Tibor Mako, the head of Slovakia s border and foreign police whose people carried out the exercise, offered his resignation Wednesday. There was no immediate word on whether it would be accepted. Security experts said the episode illustrated the inadequacy of security screening of checked-in luggage - the very point the Slovak authorities had sought to test when they placed rea stanley cup l bomb components in stanley mugs nine passengers bags Saturday. The aim of the training was to keep sniffer dogs in shape and on alert in a real environment, the ministry said.Eight items were detected. But one bag had two bomb components in it. The sniffer dog found one but the police officer in charge failed to remove the second, which was not detected by the dog, because he was busy
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Poland, near the Belarus border mdash;Poland s defense chief said Wednesday that migrants gathered in Belarus had been attacking his country s barbed wire-lined border again over night. Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak warned that the standoff between Poland and Belarus, in which thousands of migrants and refugees are caught in the middle, could last months.CBS News adidas original campus senior foreign correspondent Charlie D Agata reports that Polish forces mdash; about 15,000 of whom have been deployed to secure the border mdash; unleashed tear gas and water cannons on migrants who tried to breach the fence on Tuesday. It was some of the worst violence along the border in recent weeks.Poland, the European Union and the U.S. accuse Belarus of orchestrating the migrant crisis, by luring thousands of desperate people from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and other nations marred by violence into his country, with the promise adidas campus donna being a relatively easy crossing over its frontier onto the EU soil of Poland. But Poland has made it clear that migrants and refugees are not welcome.Belarusian strongman President Alexander Lukashenko s motivation for the purported hybrid warfare tactic, according to the EU, has been to retaliate for sanct adidas samba adidas ions levied against his regime by Europe over a crackdown on dissent following Belarusian elections that many believe were far from democratic. EU sanctions Belarus govern Puis Nervous wait for families of U.S. vets Andy Huynh and Alexander Drueke, feared captured by Russian forces in Ukraine
The United States walked out of a stanley termohrnek U.N. meeting Tuesday to protest Cuba s election to the Human Rights Commission for another three-year term. It was an outrage for us because we view Cuba as the worst violator of human rights in this hemisphere, said Sichan Siv, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Economic and Social Council, which elected 24 new members to the top U.N. human rights watchdog. That s why we decided to walk out. The election came four days after the 53-member Human Rights Commission ended its annual six-week session in Geneva amid criticism that it was dominated by political horse-trading and did too little for the victims of abuses worldwide.During this year s session, commission members narrowly passed a resolution calling on Cuba to accept a visit by a human rights investigator but failed to approve an amendment criticizing the country s recent crackdown on the opposition mdash; leading to Cuban claims of a moral victory. Members also used a procedural move to block discussion of alleged human rights violations in Zimbabwe, ended scrutiny of Sudan and rejected a resolution condemning Russia s record in Chechnya. In Tuesday s vote, Russia was also re-elected to another three-year term on the commission. Saudi Arabia and several African countries with poor hu stanley kubek man rights record also gained a seat on the commission. Cuba and Russi stanley cup a each have very serious human rights problems and have failed to cooperate with the commission despite many resolutions against
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VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis on Tuesday accepted the resignation of a U.S. bishop who pleaded guilty to failing to report a suspected priestly child abuser in the first known case of a pope sanctioning bishops for covering up for pedophiles.The Vatican said Tuesday that Bishop Robert Finn had offered his resignation under the code of canon law that allows bishops to resign early for illness or some grave reason that makes them unfit for office. It didn t provide a reason. Pope Francis asks for forgiveness for sexual abuse crisis 00:32 Finn, who leads the Diocese of Kan af1 sas City-St. Joseph in Missouri, waited six months before notifying police about the Rev. Shawn Ratigan, whose computer contained hundreds of lewd photos of young girls taken in and around churches where he worked. Ratigan was sentenced to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to child pornography charges.Finn pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of failure to report suspected abuse and was sentenced to two years probation in 2012. Ever since, he has faced pressure from local Roman Catholics to step down, with some parishioners petitioning Francis to remove him from yeezy the diocese.No U.S. bishop has been removed for covering up nike dunk donna for guilty clergy. Finn remains the highest-ranking church official in the U.S. to be convicted Psra Transcript: Robert Costa on Face the Nation, June 11, 2023
Mortar shells slammed into an Interior Ministry prison on Monday in Baghdad, killing at least seven inmates and wounding 23, officials said. Iraq s foreign minister, meanwhile, said a new security pact with the United States would set a time limit on the American troop presence. The government s eventual goal was to reach a level of preparedness that leaves us with absolutely no need for foreign forces to remain in the country, he said.The mortar rounds hit a prison made up of several cell blocks, each containing prisoners accused of terrorism-related crimes or civil offenses, police said.Police said American troops sealed off the area and were investigating the bombardment, which took place about 6:30 a.m. The U.S. military said it had no immediate information, and Iraqi Interior Ministry officials could not be reached for comment.A hospital official said the inmates were still asleep when the mortars hit, one landing directly on a cell and two others nearby. In Baghdad s Dora neighborhood, an oi stanley quencher l refinery went up in flames Monday morning, but U.S. military officials said the blaze was not the result of enemy action, as initially reported. The military initially blamed the fire on a rocket or mortar attack.The military sai stanley thermobecher d the fire was the result of an industrial accident .Assim Jihad, a spokesman for Iraq s Oil Ministry, said no casualties were reported and the plant was still operating. The fire is under control and within a few hours it will be stanley cup extinguished. Th
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