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A rare square 37-carat emerald owned by the Aga Khan fetched nearly $9 million at auction in Geneva on Tuesday, making it the world s most expensi af1 ve green stone.Sold by Christie s, the Cartier diamond and emerald brooch, which can also be worn as a pendant, dethrones a piece of jewelry made by the fashion house Bulgari, which Richard Burton gave as a wedding gift to fellow actor Elizabeth Tay adidas originals damen lor, as the most precious emerald.In 1960, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan commissioned Cartier to set the emerald in a brooch with 20 marquise-cut diamonds for British socialite Nina Dyer, to whom he was briefly married.Dyer then auctioned off the emerald to raise money for animals in 1969. A Christie s employee poses with The Aga Khan Emerald, a cartier emerald and diamond brooch made with a square-shaped emerald of 37.00 carats, marquise-shaped diamonds, platinum and 18k yellow gold during a press preview in Geneva, on Nov. 7, 2024. FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images af1 By chance that was Christie s very first such sale in Switzerland on the shores of Lake Geneva, with the emerald finding its way back to the 110th edition this year. It was bought by jeweler Van Cleef Arpels before passing a few years later into the hands of Harry Winston, nicknamed the King of Diamonds. Emeralds are hot right now, and this one ticks all the boxes, said Christie s EMEA Head of Jewellery M Iuco 11 Somalis in U.S. Court on Piracy Charges
South Korea s vice foreign minister Wednesday confirmed reports that the United States had offered one-on-one talks with North Korea on the communist nation s nuclear program, but was rejected.South Korea s Yonhap news agency and other media reported Tuesday that the chief U.S. nuclear envoy, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, proposed a meeting with his North Korean counterpart during a recent stop in China. The North did not accept the o stanley trinkflaschen ffer, the reports said. I understand that Assistant Secretary Hill made such a gesture on his own initiative in an effort to resume six-nation talks on the North s nuclear program, South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan told a news briefing.Hill sent a message to the North saying he could meet North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan during a trip to China last week, a Foreign M stanley mug inistry official said on condition of anonymity, citing ministry policy. The official did not offer any more details.The unusual offer for direct talks came despite Washington s public insistence it won t meet directly with the North, but only will speak to the country with other partners. Efforts to restart the disarmament talks have gained greater urgency in recent weeks as leaders worry about a potential North Korean nuclear weapons test and considering the North s decision to test launch seven missiles in July.Nuclear talks mdash; among the two Koreas, Ch stanley cup ina, Japan, Russia and the United States mdash; were last held in Nove

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Beryl weakened to a tropical storm Saturday but is still expected to dump heavy rain over the Lesser Antilles at the end of the weekend on its way to the eastern Caribbean, bringing a new threat to islands still rebuilding from last year s storms. A tropical storm warning was issued for Dominica, which was battered by Hurricane Maria in September as a Category 5 storm, and GuadeloupeThe island s meteorological service said yeezy weather conditions would start deteriorating Saturday night and warned of six to 12 inches of rain, with the storm expected to cross over or near Dominica late Sunday or early Monday.Beryl was named the first hurricane of the Atlantic season Friday yeezy . The National Weather Service said late Saturday that the storm was moving at west-northwest at 18 mph, and was expected to hit mizuno running the eastern boundary of the Caribbean Sunday. Maximum sustained winds have decreased to 45 mph, and additional weakening is predicted over the next 48 hours. This graphic from the National Hurricane Center shows the projected path of Tropical Storm Beryl on Saturday, July 7, 2018. National Hurricane Center Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said in a public address that the storm s track and intensity could still change and urged people to remain alert. They should not let their guard down, he said.He also asked people to store water because he said Rzfr Double-amputee Afghan troops long for front line
CBS/AP A convoy of vehicles led by the head of the U.N. observers mission was attacked by tanks Sunday, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said. No one was injured, but Ban said a dozen armored vehicles used by the military observers were destroyed by blasts and shelling, and a convoy carrying the general heading the force was targeted on Sunday.The U.N. s military observer stanley termoska force in Syria has been sidelined by the violence and lack of political will in the Security Council. Secretary-General Ban on Monday singled out Syria s government for censure, telling it to halt its violent crackdown on the dissidents and rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar Assad s regime.He noted that his peacekeeping chief, Herve Ladsous, recently went to Syria where he called on the government to end i stanley cupe ts use of heavy weapons and demonstrate the commitment to ending the armed violence. Government officials have repeatedly said they would honor these commitments. We are still waiting for them to act, Ban said. The government is adding to its brutal crackdown by attacking heavily populated areas with fighter aircraft and helicopters. The armed opposition groups have also stepped up their attacks, Ban told reporters.The U.N. observer mission s latest 30-day mandate is due to expire in August, and the United States, Britain and France do not want to see it extended under these circumstances. It s important, again, that the Syrian government must fully co cups stanley operate with the U.N. missi

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The daughter of a French retiree on trial for enlisting strangers to rape his drugged wife Friday described him as likely one of the worst sexual criminals in past 20 years. Dominique Pelicot, 71, has admitted to abusing his wife without her knowledge between 2011 and 2020, drugging her with sleeping pills and then recruiting dozens of strangers to rape her in her own home. How are we supposed to rebuild ourselves when we know what he did, said his daughter, 45-year-old Caroline Darian, who uses a pen name, speaking in court in the souther adidas campus n city of Avignon on the fifth day of a case that has horrified France.Pelicot kept meticulous records of the abuse of his wife, which police only discovered by chance after he was caught filming up women s skirts in a supermarket. Gisele Pelicot right speaks to one of her lawyers, beside her daughter Caroline Darian cent adidas og er and her son, at the courthouse during the trial of her husband accused of drugging her for nearly ten years and inviting strangers to rape her at their home in Mazan, a small town in the crocs winterstiefel south of France, in Avignon, on September 2, 2024. CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP via Getty Images For years his wife, Gisele Pelicot, 71, and in divorce proceedings, says she was troubled by strange memory lapses until she was contacted by police. Dominique Pelicot admitted to investigators that he gave his wife powerful tranquilizers,o Bekw Karzai s Brother Reportedly on CIA Payroll
Secretary-General Kofi Annan suspended the head of the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq and a senior U.N. official who dealt with contracts following an independent investigation that accused them of misconduct, a U.N. spokesman said Monday.Benon Sevan, who was in charge of the $64 billion humanitarian program, and Joseph Stephanides, who currently heads the U.N. Security Council Affairs Division, were informed on Friday that they had been suspended with pay, spokes stanley mugs man Fred Eckhard said.Sevan and Stephanides were told they would receive a letter this week laying out the charges against them, which stanley becher will allow them to defend themselves before U.N. disciplinary bodies in what will likely be a lengthy appeals process, he said. Suspension is the beginning of a disciplinary process, Eckhard said.Sevan ran the oil-for-food program from 1996 until it ended in November 2003 and retired from the United Nations last year but remains on the payroll for $1 a year to stanley thermobecher help with the investigation. Stephanides is scheduled to retire in about five months. An investigation led by former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker accused Sevan in an interim report released Thursday of a grave conflict of interest, saying his conduct in soliciting oil deals from Iraq was ethically improper and seriously undermined the integrity of the United Nations. Volcker did not say that Sevan received kickbacks, but expressed concern at $160,000 in cash which he said he received from his aunt i

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OSLO, Norway - Thehead of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning watchdog leading the mission to destroy Syria s chemical weapons says there may bedelays in transporting the chemicals out of the war-torn country.The most toxicchemicals are supposed to be taken out of Syriaby Dec. 31, but that deadline will be quite difficult to meet, Ahmet Uzumcu, director-general of the Organization for the Prohibition ofChemical Weapons, told reporters in Oslo on Monday. This is verychallenging, especially in view of the security situation, which is worseningin this country, he said.He also called th adidas samba egoal to get less-toxic chemicals out of Syriaby Feb. 5 quite an ambitious timeline and added there mightbe a few days delay. Nevertheless, Uzumcusaid he s hopeful all the Syrianchemicals will be destroyed by mid-2014 as planned. He spoke to reportersin Oslo, where he was to collect the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of theOPCW on Tu yeezy esday.The plan is to shipthe chemicals from the port of Latakia, from where the arms would be shippedfor destruction abroad or at sea, but getting them there in the middle of acivil war is a challenge.Syria s deputy foreignminister last week said his country needs armored vehicles and other resourcesto move chemicals out of the country. It s correctthat all material and equipment may not be available for the transportation butwe are looking ... for alt yeezy slide ernatives, Uzumcu said. That s why theremight be slight delays in fact in transportation of those weapons out Tlsj Haiti Feels Strain of Homeless Survivors
Residents in this western Ukrainian city began two days of official mourning Sunday after a fighter jet crash at an air show left at least 83 people dead and 116 others injured in one of the world s deadliest-ever air show accidents.A Su-27 warplane was performing risky aerobatic maneuvers at Sknyliv air base Saturday in the city of Lviv when it clipped the ground and sheared through a crowd of hundreds of spectators before exploding in a ball of fire. The two crew ejected and survived.Yevhen Marchuk, the chief of Ukraine s Security and Defense Council who is heading the investigation, told a news conference Sunday that the death toll had risen to 83, including 19 children. He said 116 people were injured, many of them children. These are sad statistics, Marchuk said.He said the remains of 25 victims had been identified, bu stanley cups uk t the badly mutilated condition stanley termoska of many other victims was making the identification process difficult. The highest priority is to identify these people, he said. Lviv residents have begun two days of mourning, which was announced by city governor Liubomyr Buniak. Music and entertainment programs were curtailed as residents attended church services to pray for the victims.Hundreds of anxious relatives waited outside the Lviv morgue for officials to identify the victims, whose bodies were being held in refrigerated t stanley mugs rucks outside pending identification.Mykhailo Kurochka, deputy head of Lviv s police service, said officials have begun to call relativ

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Last Updated 11:01 a.m. ET AP ROME - The remains of American and German couples who died when the Costa Concordia capsized near a Tuscan island have been identified, several weeks after the bodies were found in the wreck of the cruise ship, Italian authorities said Tuesday.The Prefect s office from the Tuscan town of Grosseto, where the bodies were brought, also announced the iden stanley cup tification of a fifth body, that of an Italian crewman from aboard the Italian luxury liner which struck a reef off the island of Giglio on Jan. 13 and ca stanley cup usa psized. Thirty-two people died, including two people whose bodies still haven t been found.The two U.S. victims 151; the only Americans who died in the accident 151; were identified as Barbara and Gerald Heil of White Bear Lake, Minnesota. Also identified were Christina Mathi Ganz and Norbert Josef Ganz of Muehlheim am Main of Germany, and Giuseppe Girolamo, the crew member. The German couple had just celebrated their golden wedding anniversary.John Heil, a son of the U.S. couple, said the family was declining to say anything about the identification when contacted by phone by The Associated Press. The U.S. Embassy in Rome, citing privacy concerns, declined to discuss plans for the transpor stanley cups t of the Heils remains. But the Embassy website posted a message of condolence. We are grateful for the skill and courage of the Italian search teams who made such an effort to first rescue and then recover remains of the victims, the message said.

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The mayor of Canada s capital declared a state of emergency Sunday and a former U.S. ambassador to Canada said groups in the U.S. must stop interfering in the domestic affairs of America s neighbor as protesters opposed to COVID-19 restrictions continued to paralyze Ottawa s downtown.Mayor Jim Watson said the declaration highlights the need for support from other jurisdictions and levels of government. It gives the city some additional powers around procurement and how it delivers services, which could help purchase equipment required by frontline workers and first responders.Thousands of protesters descended on Ottawa again over the weekend, joining 100 who remained since last weekend. Residents of Ottawa are furious at the nonstop blaring of horns, traffic disruption and harassment and fear no end is in sight after the police chief called it a siege that he could not manage.The freedom truck convoy has attracted support from many U.S. Republicans including former President Donald Trump, who called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a far left lunatic who has destroyed Canada with insane Covid mandates. Canada US relations used to be mainly about solving technical issues. Today Canada is unfortunately exp adidas samba eriencing radical US politicians involving themselves in Canadian domestic issues. Trump and his followers are a threat not just to th adidas campus beige e US but to all democracies, Bruce Heyman, a former U.S. ambassa adidas originals hamburg dor under President Barack Obama, tweeted. Heyman said under no c Jmmn The Walls That Divide Belfast
As a symbol of rapidly expanding ties betw water bottle stanley een Washington and New Delhi, U.S. soldiers on Thursday strapped on Indian parachutes and jumped from a Soviet-made AN-32 transport aircraft in the first U.S.-India joint military exercise in stanley flasche seven years.Minutes later, an American C-130 Hercules transport plane dropped a group of Indian soldiers in green camouflage on the outskirts of Agra mdash; the ancient home of the Taj Mahal. The best thing is trying to train together, learning about each other s methods and sharing ideas, said Maj. Thomas Seagrist, joint mission commander for the U.S. Special Operations Forces.A heat wave has hit India, making conditions tough for troops participating in the exercise, dubbed Balance Iroquois, after a native American tribe. Temperatures reached 113 degrees.Most of the Americans came from For stanley thermosflasche t Lewis, Wash., where daytime summer temperatures hover around 70 degrees. It s hot here. But it won t slow us down. We take more water breaks and stand in the shade, said Master Sgt. Michael Farris from New Jersey.The U.S. soldiers come from the Special Forces departments of the Air Force and the Army, and are forbidden from giving many details about their identities.After 19 years with the Air Force, Farris described the exercise as a new experience. It s the first time I have seen a Soviet-built aircraft. One hundred and eighty U.S. personnel and 150 Indian troops are taking part in the exercise, which ends May 26. They are exchanging expertis

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The U.S. is not close to launching a military assault against an Iraqi insurgent group, but may get to that point if the militants become a threat to the American homeland, the U.S. military chief said Thursday. Who is the mysterious leader of ISIS 02:19 Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Pentagon reporters that he does not, at this point, believe the U.S. needs to send in an industrial strength force with a mountain of supplies to bolster the Iraqi troops as they battle the fast-moving Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ISIL insurgency. Instead he said the most urgent need still is a polit yeezy ical solution centered on a more inclusive Iraqi government. That s obvi asics ously one possibility, but it s not one that personally I think the situation demands, Dempsey said. I think the situation demands first and foremost that the Iraqi political system find a way to separate the Sunnis who have partnered now with ISIL, because they have zero confidence in the ability of Iraq s politicians to govern. Offering his most extensive comments to date on the state of Iraq and the U.S. militar chanclas yeezy y s effort there, Dempsey said the U.S. is still assessing the situation there, and American troops are not involved in combat. This is not 2003. It s not 2006. This is a very different a Lubo Allies Hit With Abuse Allegations
An Israeli warplane fired a missile at a car in Gaza City after sundown Tuesday, killing at least five people in the first Israeli airstrike in Pale stanley cup stinian territory since the war in Iraq began.At least 47 people also were wounded mdash; eight of them critically by the missile strike, doctors said. The wounded were civilians ranging in age from 6 to 75, doctors said.Witnesses reported a huge explosion in the Zeitoun neighbo stanley mug rhood in Gaza City, known as a stronghold of the militant group Hamas, which is responsible for dozens of attacks that have killed hundreds of Israelis in 30 months of fighting.One of the dead was identified as Saed Arabeed, 38, a senior Hamas commander.Those injured by Tuesday s strike were taken to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The casualties included women and children. The Israeli military refused to comment. Since the war in Iraq began March 20, Israel had scaled back its stanley cup incursions and military operations in the West Bank and Gaza, but Israeli forces have arrested dozens of suspects in nightly sweeps and raids in the West Bank.Residents said two Israeli F-16 fighter planes circled low over Gaza City, breaking the sound barrier, in the minutes before attacking a Subaru car on a Gaza street.Yussef Touth, 24, said the white car was approaching an intersection when he saw the planes, then a big flame in the sky followed by the missile hitting the car. He was wounded in both legs and lay covered with blood in the hospital. I saw bodies torn to pie

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North Korea called out the U.S. shameless and impertinent behavior, according to a press release out Thursday via a foreign ministry spokesperson. It also claims that high-level officials within the U.S adidas campus shoes . administration are ma yeezy king baseline allegations against [North Korea] and making desperate attempts at intensifying the international sanctions and pressure. Relations between North Korea and the U.S. remain tense, despite reassurance from the U.S. State Department that the two countries are in contact with each other. I can tell you we continue to have conversations virtually every day, every other day or so with the North Koreans, Heather Nauert, U.S. State Department spokeswoman, said Thursday. When I say conversations, that can be by phone, that can be my me yeezy slide ssage, that can be by email. We continue to have conversations with the government, she added.U.S. extends small olive branch to North Korea to streamline humanitarian aidIn its statement, North Korea outlined goodwill measures it has taken since the historic meeting in June between President Trump and Kim Jong Un, including its discontinuation of nuclear testing and returning the remains of fallen Korean War soldiers to families in the U.S. Expecting any result, while insulting the dialogue partner and throwing cold water over our sincere efforts for building confidence which can be seen as a precondition for implementing the [North Korean]-U.S. joint statement, is indeed a foolish act that amounts to waitin Ksbw Capitol Hill Fight Over Iraqi WMD
U.S. Marines have scaled back their planned tsunami aid efforts after reaching a compromise with the Indonesian government and agreeing not to carry weapons or set up a base camp on Indonesian soil, an American spokesman said Wednesday.The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which is leading the U.S. military s relief effort, steame stanley cup d out of Indonesian waters Wednesday because the country declined to let the ship s fighter pilots use its airspace for training missions. Helicopters will still deliver aid to Sumatra s devastated coast, however.Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla said foreign troops would be stanley romania out of the country by the end of March. A three-month period is enough, even the sooner the better, Kalla said.The moves underscore sensitivities in nationalistic Indonesia at having foreign military forces operating there, even in a humanitarian operation. They also come amid warnings from the Indonesian military that areas of tsunami-battered Aceh province may not be safe for aid workers. The government ordered aid workers and journalists to declare travel plans or face expulsion from Aceh as authorities moved to reassert control of the rebellion-wracked area.Wary of Indonesia s sensitivities, Marines scaled back plans to send hundreds of troops ashore to build roads and clear rubble. Col. Tom Greenwood stanley bottles , commander of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, said earlier this week they would instead keep only a minimal footprint. In a major compromise, the Marines ag

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North Korea s attack on a South Korean island won t dissuade the United States from going ahead with a long planned joint military exercise with its South Korean allies. Although already planned for months, the White House described the pending arrival of the USS George Washington aircraft carrier strike group to South Korean waters as a timely demonstration of the stren cups stanley gth of the ROK Republic of Korea -U.S. Alliance and our commitment to regional stability through stanley cup deterrence. In a statement released Tuesday night, the White House said the ship, along with five other U.S. war ships, would arrive off the Korean peninsula on Nov. 28 and participate in long-planned military exercises with the South until Dec. 1. Such U.S.-South Korean military drills are often labeled by the North as provocation.A Pentagon official later said the exercises should be seen as a deterrent to North Korea, even though they were planned before the attack, reports CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller.The visible show of support for South Korea followed strong condemnations from White House of the North s attack, which the U.S. branded as provocative and outrageous. S. Korea Decries Inhumane Atrocities in ClashNorth Korea Warns of More Military Strikes South Korea is our ally. It has been since the Korean war, Mr. Obama said in his first comments a stanley quencher bout the North Korean shelling of a South Korean island. And we strongly affirm our commitment to defend South Korea as part of that

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MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin asked parliament Tuesday to cancel a resolution sanctioning the use of military force in Ukraine, a move his Ukrainian counterpart heralded as a practical step toward bringing peace to a region roiled by a separatist insurgency. Ukrainian protests grow more violent 41 photos Putin s announcement comes after pro-Russia rebels adidas campus beige in eastern Ukraine said Monday they would respect a cease-fire declared by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, raising hopes for an end to months of fighting that have killed hundreds and driven thousands from their homes.A statement on the Kremlin website announced that Putin had asked the head of Russia s upper house of parliament to cancel his March 1 request authorizing the use of force on Ukrainia nike air max n territory.Russian parliament member Valery Shnyakin said the house would vote Wednesday on the issue, according to RIA Novosti.Russian markets, which have been rattled by the crisis in Ukraine and a host of sanctions by the U.S. and the European Union against Russian officials and businessmen, soared 1.6 percent Tuesday after the news, reaching a four-month high. The Russian leader had made the re adidas samba adidas quest after Ukraine s pro-Russian president was ousted in February following mont Puql ICC issues warrant to Sudan minister over Darfur
As more violence was reported in the West Bank, President Bush Monday backed Israel s right to defend itself and insisted Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat move further down the road to reform before a Middle East peace summit could be held. Israel has right to defend herself, and at the same time that Israel does so, the prime minister stanley mugs is willing to discuss the conditions necessary to achieve what we want, which is a secure region and a hopeful region, Mr. Bush told reporters.Sharon didn t get everything he wanted from Mr. Bush during their hourlong session and separate lunch. The president stopped short of endorsing calls to expel Arafat, and aides said he would pursue political talks despite Sharon s misgivings.Even so, Sharon was pleased with the meeting s outcome, said a senior official in the Israeli party. The official, briefing reporters on condit stanley deutschland ion of anonymity, said Sharon told Mr. Bush the military operation around Arafat s Ramallah compound had been planned to occur several days earlier stanley cup .It was postponed because many of those being sought had fled the area, but they then returned, apparently mistakenly believing that Israel would not initiate military action while Sharon was in Washington, the Israeli official said. Violence did not let up as the two leaders conferred. Israeli military sources said a Palestinian gunman opened fire at a convoy of Israeli civilian cars escorted by an army jeep along a road near a settlement in the Gaza Strip. He was killed wh