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Davos, Switzerland mdash; A veteran Russian diplomat to the U.N. Office at Geneva says he handed in his resignation before sending out a scathing letter to foreign colleagues inveighing against the aggressive war unleashed by President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine.Boris Bondarev, 41, confirmed his resignation in a letter d adidas samba og elivered Monday morning at the Russian diplomatic mission after a diplomatic official passed on his English-language statement to The Associated Press. For twenty years of my diplomatic career I have seen different turns of our foreign policy, but never have I been so ashamed of my country as on Feb. 24 of this year, he wrote, alluding to the date of Russia s invasion.He called the war not only a crime against the Ukrainian people, but also, perhaps, the most serious crime against the people of airmaxplus Russia ... crossing out all hopes and prospects for a prosperous free society in our country. Reached by phone, Bondarev mdash; a diplomatic counselor wh adidas campus o has focused on Russia s role in the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva after postings in places like Cambodia and Mongolia mdash; confirmed he handed in his resignation in a letter addressed to Ambassador Gennady Gatilov. A spokesman for the mission didn t immediately respond to calls and a text message from the AP seeking comment.The resignation amounts to a rare mdash; if not unprecedented mdash; public admission of disgruntlement about Russia s war in Ukraine among the Russian diplomatic corps, at a Pnkd North Korea accused of phishing attack
With debate intensifying in Washington about when to bring home U.S. troops in Iraq, the Baker-Hamilton Commission that called for all troops to be out by next spring may go back to work, reports CBS News chief White House correspondent Jim Axelrod. We gave the president an opportunity a few months ago for a bipartisan solution to Iraq, said co-chair Lee H. stanley website Hamilton. He chose not to follow that immediately. I think the realities on the ground have made our proposals more attractive. The House of Representatives passed a bill providing a million dollars to reconstitute Baker-Hamilton, adds Axelrod. Hamilton says while conditions in Iraq have changed since their initial report last fall, their main point has n stanley website ot: the security of Baghdad s neighborhoods shouldn t be the priority for U.S. forces mdash; training Iraqi troops should be. I mean, the only way you really get out of there is to make that the primary mission of U.S. forces, said Hamilton.But a Congressional investigation concludes that after spending $19 billion on exactly that, the Iraqi security forces are not yet ready to assume responsibility for the nation s security, Axelrod reports. Investigators charge that the Department of Defense cannot report how many of the 346,500 Iraqi military and police personnel are operational today.In other d kubki stanley evelopments:The U.S. military announced Wednesday that coalition forces killed a senior al-Qaida leader and his courier, both Turks, in an operation in northern Iraq.

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TheG7 photo that went viral Saturday appeared to say 1,000 words: President Trump, sitting with his arms crossed, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel facing him, leaning forward and surrounded by other leaders. Released by the German federal government, it contrasted heavily with the official White House photos that showed more conciliatory photos of Mr. Trump and the other world leaders.The photo from Merkel s office went viral Saturday before Mr. Trump retracted his earlier signing of the final statement. Mr. Trump tweeted that after false statements from salomon hombre Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, he had instructed his representatives not to endorse the final communique.In a press conference after Mr. Trump left, Trudeau said retaliatory tari adidas yeezyslide ffs will go into adidas samba effect July 1. Canadians, we re polite, we re reasonable, but we also will not be pushed around, Trudeau said. Steffen Seibert, Germany spokesman, via Twitter Trudeau, though, does not appear to be in the German photo, perhaps showing other tensions during the summit. Aside from Merkel, the other leaders are Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japanese deputy chief cabinet secretary Yasutoshi Nishimura, French president Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Theresa May. Also pictured are U.S. national security adviser John Bolton and Larry Kudlow, director of the US National Economic Council.Another photo that rec Ogpk Panetta: African terrorists a real concern
A series of bomb blasts and insurgents attacks killed 11 people across Afghanistan on Sunday, including five NATO service members and three Afghan police, official cups stanley s said.The strikes, which come a day after Taliban fighters stormed a NATO base in eastern Afghanistan, show the insurgents fighting spirit has not been broken despite a surge of U.S. troops and firepower.Also Sunday, the Afghan president s office said the former ambassador-designate to Pakistan, who was seized by gunmen two years ago in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, has been released and is back home safe.CBS News Complete Coverage: Af stanley deutschland ghanistanThe diplomat, Abdul Khaliq Farahi, was freed in eastern Afghanistan late Saturday in a joint effort by officials from both countries and has returned to Kabul, where he met Sunday with President Hamid Karzai, the Afghan leader s office said. A brief statement gave no details on how he was freed. Farahi was heading from the Afghan consulate toward his home in the border city of P stanley cup eshawar on Sept. 22, 2008, when gunmen stopped the vehicle and killed his driver. Abdul Khaliq Farahi is in good condition and right now he is in Kabul with his family, Karzai s office said.NATO said three coalition service members were killed in an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan. The international military coalition did not provide further details or the nationalities of the dead service members.In the south, a roadside bomb killed a Danish soldier and wounded an interpreter, Denma

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WASHINGTON-- Aiming to prove their commitment to Israel, senior U.S. lawmakers are backing bipartisan legislation that would slap Iran with new sanctions while maintaining rigorous enforcement of the landmark nuclear deal.The measures, unveiled ahead of the opening of the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference, seek to build consensus among Republicans and Democrats who are so often bitterly at odds on domestic issues.The United States will stand with Israel, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said at the conference Tuesday. But the Kentucky Republican criticized the nuclear agreement as a windfall for Tehran that prevented the U.S. from taking more aggressive steps against Iran.But today w air force one e can take a different approach, McConnell said. Today, we can combat Iranrsquo capability to fund, arm, and train terrorists like Hezbollah, Hamas, asics gel and its proxies in Syria.In exchange for Tehran rolling back its nuclear program, the U.S. and other world powers agreed to suspend wide-ranging oil, trade and financial sanctions that had choked the Iranian economy. The House bill, which is co-sponsored by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Minorit adidas originals y Whip Steny Hoyer, targets Iranrsquo illicit ballistic missile development program. The measure would shut out of the international financial system Iranian and foreign companies involved in the missile program - alon Uahu Rwanda Holds Elections
Iraq has promised to meet a Dec. 8 deadline for declaring whether it still holds any weapons of mass destruction, the head of the U.N. nuclear control agency said Tuesday.Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the stanley cup International Atomic Energy Agency, said Iraqi officials made the commitment during talks Monday night with chief U.N. inspector stanley quencher Hans Blix and other team members. Iraq is committed to declare all it possesses regarding weapons of mass destruction, if it still has any of them hellip; and will also declare all of its activities in the chemical, biological and nuclear fields, even those of civilian use, ElBaradei told Associated Press Television News and Egypt s Nile television. We hope that this oral commitment will be translated into fact when we begin inspections next week, stanley canada he added.On Tuesday, Blix and team members visited U.N. officials and diplomats in Baghdad on Tuesday, and were scheduled to meet with Iraqi officials later in the day to discuss restarting searches. U.N. officials said the talks with Iraqi officials centered on the timetable for inspections, including a requirement for Baghdad to submit a detailed report on its weapons programs next month.Mark Gwozdecky, spokesman for the U.N. nuclear controls agency, said the Iraqis expressed concern about meeting the reporting deadlines. However, Gwozdecky said the talks were going well. A government newspaper, Al-Iraq, insisted that Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction and the U.S. government wants to atta

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Among a colony of black and white penguins with bright orange beaks in Antarctica is one animal that stands boldly apart from the rest. Scientists have discovered that one of the penguins is almost completely white ndash; the result of a rare conditi asics on that makes it more susceptible to danger.The female penguin belongs to the Gentoo species, animals that typically have bright reddish-orange bills and black heads with white patches around their eyes. But on Jan. 4, researchers at the Gonzaacute;lez Videla Antarctic base found one that looked a little different ndash; it s almost entirely white.The lack of color is caused by a genetic mutation known as leucism. This female Gentoo penguin was found in Antarctica with a rare condition that makes it almost entirely white. Hugo Alejandro Harros Guerra/Reuters Although pigmentation is present, it is not present across the whole specimen, veterinarian Diego Penaloza told R hoka wanderschuh euters, saying there have been similar cases of the mutation across other species, including giraffes, alligators, whalesand bison. Unlike albinism, which impacts all melanin production, leucism only has partial effects and does not impact pigment cells in the eyes.The condition itself isn t harmful hoka trekkingschuhe in and of itself, but it can still prove dangerous for the penguin. In this case, being an animal that has a mostly white body, it can make it easier for a pre Kejc Powerful Indonesian Quake Kills 3
MIR ALI, Pakistan - U.S. unmanned aircraft fired four missiles into a building where suspected militants were meeting Thursday, killing more than 30 of them in an unusually deadly strike close to the Afghan border, Pakistani intelligence officials said.The strikes took place in the Datta Khel area of the North Waziristan tribal region 151; the main sanctuary for al Qaeda and Taliban fighters along the Afghan border, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.The stanley cup roughly three dozen suspected militants at the meeting were allied with Hafiz Gul Bahadur, a powerful Pakistani Taliban commander in the area who stanley cup has focused his efforts on fighting foreign troops in Afghanistan, said the officials. The insurgents were discussing plans to send new groups of fighters across the border, the intelligence officials added.Did U.S. pay blood money for CIA agent Video: Blood Money for Raymond Davis release There were stanley termohrnek conflicting reports about exactly how many of the militants were killed. One set of Pakistani intelligence officials said 32 people died in the strikes, while another put the number at 34. It s unclear if anyone escaped the strike and if there were wounded.The most senior militant killed in the attack was Sharabat Khan, Bahadur s top commander for the Datta Khel area, who was leading the meeting, said the officials. Several foreign militants were also killed, they said. The United States began firing m

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A 49-year-old migrant from Mexico who was in Customs and Border Protection custody died Monday at an Arizona hospital, according to a statement from the agency released Tuesday. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is saddened to report a 49-year-old man from Mexico was pronounced deceased Monday morning in a Southern Arizona hospital, the agency wrote. Our condolences are with his family. The man, who has not been identified, was apprehended by Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents at 1 p.m. Sunday south of Casa Grande, according to the statement. While he was being processed, the statement added, it was determined the man needed medical attention and was transported to a Tucson area hospital. The statement said that a yeezy 350 fter the man arrived at the hospital, medical officials determined that he had a pre-ex crocs badelatschen isting heart condition. He was reportedly pronounced dead at approximately 9 a.m. Monday. Immigration More crocs hausschuhe L.A., a city of immigrants, braces for Trump s vow of mass deportations Qfhi Palestinians may exhume Yasser Arafat s body for tests
Attacks on U.S. and Iraqi troops and Iraqi civilians jumped sharply in recent mon stanley cup ths to the highest level since Iraq regained its sovereignty in June 2004, the Pentagon told Congress on Monday in the latest indication of that country s spiraling violence. In a report issued th stanley kubek e same day Robert Gates took over as defense secretary, the Pentagon said that from mid-August to mid-November, the weekly average number of attacks increased 22 percent from the previous three months. The worst violence was in Baghdad and in the western province of Anbar, long the focus of activity by Sunni insurgents.The military said Tuesday that a Marine died the previous day from wounds sustained from enemy action in Anbar, bringing to 61 the number of American military personnel killed in Iraq in December.The Marine, whose name was withheld pending family notification, was assigned to the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Special Operations Capable. At least 2,950 members of the U.S. military have died since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to an Associated Press count.At a ceremonial swearing-in attended by President Bush, Gates warned that failure in Iraq would be a calamity that would haunt our nation, impair our credibility and endanger Americans for decades to come. He said he intended to go to Iraq soon to get the unvarnished advice of U.S. commanders on ho stanley becher w to stabilize the country.A bar chart in the Pentagon s report to Congress gave no exact numbers but indicated the weekl

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The Trump administration s top diplomat for Latin America has resigned amid internal disputes over immigration policy for the region, U.S. officials said Wednesday.Two officials and a congressional aide said Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Kimberly Breier stepped down earlier air max 1 this week, although they offered differing reasons for her departure. They say Breier cited personal reasons for her decision, but the two officials suggested it was prompted by differences over a recent migrati adidas originals hamburg on accord with Guatemala. The congressional aide said Breier s departure was mainly driven by family responsibilities.The officials and the aide spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss personnel matters. The State Department had no immediate comment.Breier tweeted early Thursday, confirming her departure from State. It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as the Assistant Secretary of Western Hemisphere Affairs. I offer my profound thanks to President Trump, Secretary Pompeo, and the administration for the opportunity to serve, she wrote. The Washington Post, which first reported Breier s resignation, said she had clashed with the White House over the Guatemala accord that many human rights advocates oppose. In a tweet, President Donald Trump s daughter samba og Ivanka thanked Breier for her friendship and great service and she would miss working with her. Breier in return thanked Trump and her husband Jared Kushner Hztg Final battle of ISIS is in its final days, says commander of U.S.-backed Syrian forces
GlobalPost correspondent James Foley in Libya stanley water jug GlobalPost BOSTON -- GlobalPost correspondent James Foley called his mother at her home in New Hampshire on Saturday in the first contact he has been allowed to make since forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi first detained him on April 5.Foley told his mother that he was fine, that he felt strong and was not injured. He told her not to worry, that he was eating and drinking and had a decent bed, a blanket and a pillow. He stressed that he was being treated well and expressed his gratitude to the Libyan people.Foley s mother, Diane Foley, said she felt tremendously relieved after recei stanley cups uk ving the call at about 3 p.m. on Saturday.Foley was first captured while reporting on the outskirts of Brega, a key oil town in eastern Libya that has seen some of the heaviest fighting between Qaddafi forces and the Libyan rebels since the conflict began. Foley, 37, was detained along with Clare Morgana Gillis, a freelance journalist who wrote for The Atlantic and USA Today, and Manuel Varela, 30, a Spanish photographer who works under the na stanley romania me Manu Brabo. More from GlobalPost on Middle East unrestWatch videos and read stories from James Foley in Libya and AfghanistanFoley had been reporting on the rebel army and their movements for GlobalPost since the middle of March. Foley told his mother that he was in a Tripoli detention cente

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BAGHDAD -- An Iraqi criminal court on Sunday sentenced 15 Turkish women to death by hanging after finding them guilty of belonging to the Islamic State or Iraq and Syria ISIS , a judicial official said. Aged between 20 and 50, the women said they had entered Iraq illegally to join their husbands who were heading to fight for the self-proclaimed caliphate straddling vast areas of Iraq and Syria, the official added.Four of the women, all of whom were dressed in black, were accompanied by young chil nike af dren in the courtroom, he said.Another Turkish woman accused of joining the jihadist group was given a life sentence, the official said, adding they had all acknowledged the charges agai adidas campus donna nst them. One of them told the judge she had taken part in fighting against Iraqi forces alongside the jihadists, he said. air max Wives of ISIS fighters attempting return to normal life in Europe 02:32 Supreme Judicial Council spokesman Abdel Sattar Bayraqdar told AFP the women had a month to appeal.Last week, another group of foreign widows of ISIS fighters told a court hearing attended by an AFP journalist that they had been fooled or threatened by their husbands to head to Iraq.Iraq, which has detained at least 560 women, as well as 600 children identified as jihadist or relatives of suspected ISIS fighters, is wasting no tim Ugjw Mexican Leftists End Protests
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- Hugo Chavez always said his socialist project would last decades, but a year after the Venezuelan president s death even some of his most fervent supporters are having their doubts. The desperation of Venezuelans is growing along with the length of the queues outside state-run markets that reflect the economy s downward spiral and helped trigger a wave of protests in mid-February which have claimed at least 18 lives. Hugo Chavez: 1954-2013 36 photos Recent elections indicate that a majority of Venezuelans remain loyal to Chavez s legacy, but many are less sure of those he chose to follow him. When the head of household is absent, as we say around here, things start to get out of control, said Pablo chanclas yeezy Nieves, a community leader in the adidas campus poor 23 de Enero district of Caracas. If he were still with us, it would have never gotten to this. President Nicolas Maduro, the hand-picked successor of Chavez, organized 10 days of commemorative activities to mark Wednesday s anniversary of the larger-than-life leader s death from salomon mujer cancer at age 58. A civilian-military parade is to be followed by speeches by allied presidents expected to include Evo Morales of Bolivia and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua as well as the debut Knru ISIS pursuing production of chemical weapons, officials say
Israeli troops have arrested dozens of officials from the Hamas-led Palestinian government, while expanding their military operation in Gaza. Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister Nasser Shaer was among those arr stanley cup usa ested.Israel says it holds Hamas responsible for the capture of an Israeli soldier four days ago, reports CBS News correspondent Robert Berger, and the abduction of Cpl. Gilad Shalit shows that the Palestinian Authority is a terrorist regime. The main purpose behind this military operation is first of all to bring the release of the Israeli soldier, defense spokesman David Hacham said.Also Thursday, Israeli aircraft fired at a car carrying Palestinian militants in Gaza City, the Israeli military said. At least one person was wounded, but witnesses said the missile missed the car and the Islamic Jihad activist who was targeted. Adding to stanley mug the tension, the body stanley cup of a kidnapped 18-year-old Jewish settler who was shot in the head was found in the West Bank, Israeli security officials said. Palestinian militants said they executed Eliahu Asheri, whose body was found buried near the West Bank city of Ramallah.The Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza had said they would execute Asheri if the Israeli army did not pull out of Gaza after its incursion there Wednesday, but an Israeli military official says Asheri was killed immediately after his abduction Sunday.Jewish religious leaders declared that hitchhiking with an unknown driver, as Asheri had done, is a sin, but with m

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Ketevan Kardava On March 22, 2016, Ketevan Kardava ndash; a foreign correspondent for the country of Georgia ndash; was checking in for her flight when terrorists detonated two bombs at the Brussels airport. In one minute, she took these 12 photos. Remarkably everyone in them survived. She calls them her photo heroes.This photo ofSebastien Bell adiletten original in was the first that Ketevan Kardava posted to social media just after the Brussels Airport bombings.For me, it was most important to show everyonehellip; the face of terrorism Kardava told 48 Hours.Bellin and Kardavarsquo mizuno emotional reunionPhotos: Sebastien Bellinrsquo road to recovery48 Hours Live to Tell: The Long Road Home Photo Heroes Ketevan Kardava A second angle of Sebastien Bellin on af1 the ground. Note the blue scarf thatrsquo near him.I remember seeing a scarf as well, lying on the ground. So I asked someone to bring over the scarf and to use it as a tourniquet, Bellin told 48 Hours.Bellin and Kardavarsquo emotional reunionPhotos: Sebastien Bellinrsquo road to recovery48 Hours Live to Tell: The Long Road Home Photo Heroes Ketevan Kardava Ketevan took Ublj Kosovo Copter Crash Dead ID d
In a victory for the administration, the Senate Thursday rescinded a threat to force a withdrawal of U.S. troops in Kosovo without express congressional approval to extend the mission. In stanley cup a 53-47 vote, the Senate struck from a military construction spending bill a provision that would have terminated U.S. military participation in the peacekeeping mission next July 1 unless the president requested and Congress approved an extension. Vice President Al Gore made a rare appearance in his capacity as president of the Senate to cast his vote in the event of a tie. The Senate vote came a day after the House approved a somewhat stanley us less constricting limitation on the future of the Kosovo mission. The House voted 264-253 to require the president to certify by next April 1 that Europeans are providing their fair share of the financial burden of the mission. If not, the president must by April 30 lay down a plan for withdrawal. The administration has threatened to veto the Senate bill, which also includes $4.7 billion in emergency funding for Kosovo and anti-drug efforts in Colombia, if the withdrawal language stayed in the bill. By m gourde stanley andating a date-certain withdrawal, U.S. policy would be on auto-pilot, constricting our ability to react to or deal with changing situations on the ground, the administration said in a statement. Like the House version, the Senate withdrawal provision, by Sens. John Warner, R-Va., and Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., also would have cut extra funds

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BOGOTA, Colombia -- More than 2,100 pregnant women in Colombia are infected with the mosquito-borne Zika virus, the country s national health institute said on Saturday, according to Reuters.The disease has been linked to a serious birth defect called microcephaly, which causes babies to be born with small heads and underdeveloped brains. Overall, more than 20,000 people in Colombia have developed Zika.The virus was initially detected last year in Brazil. Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of World Health Organization, warned Thursday that Zika i adidas originals hamburg s spreading explosively, and has quickly gone from a mild threat to one of alarming proportions. adidas originals How concerned should U.S. be about Zika virus outbreak 02:52 The WHO said the virus could infect 4 million people by the end of the year.Health officials in Brazil reported adidas campus shoes earlier this week that about 4,000 infants have been born with microcephaly, compared to fewer than 150 in 2014.Dozens of Zika cases have been reported in the U.S., all in people who traveled outside the country. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned that pregnant women, or those who may become pregnant, should try to avoid travel to at least 24 countries and territories, mostly in Latin America and the Caribbean, where Zika virus has been spreading.The CDC has Qbwz 2,000-year-old pre-Roman statues discovered that archaeologists say could rewrite history
AP stanley cup Iraqi policemen protest outside a police station in downtown Baghdad Sunday, Nov. 16 2003, demanding their backpay. They claim they have not received their salary for the stanley quencher past two months. AP U.S. forces lift debris of a crashed US Black Hawk helicopter from the crash scene, Sunday Nov. 16, 2003, in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul in this image from TV. U.S. command says 17 soldiers were killed, five injured and one still unacounted for in the crash of two Black Hawk helicopters in Mosul which occured after sundown Saturday. AP Soldiers of the U.S. Army s 4th Infantry Division Task Force Ironhorse look at an explosion of Iraq ammunition, outside Tikrit, north of Baghdad, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2003. U.S. soldiers found hundreds of rockets and missiles at the insurgents area and have destroyed them. AP 1st lt. Michael Tobias, of the U.S. Army s 4th Infantry Division, 299th Engineering Battalion, explains to journalists the type of Iraqi rockets found in a desert bunker outside Tikrit, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2003, U.S. soldiers brought the journalists to the site o stanley becher f the bunk