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Just over five weeks before the Summer Olympics get underway, Rio is still ill-prepared to host the games. Police say they are underpaid and Rio s acting governor admits the games could be a big failure because of budget shortfalls.Now, the doping control lab that was set up to make sure athletes don t cheat is closed, reports CBS News c adidas campus 00 orrespondent Ben Tracy.Lab director Francisco Radler was eager to show off the brand new $66 million control lab to the CBS News team earlier this month, touting its technology. mizuno handballschuh Rio s Olympic-sized troubles 03:18 How sophisticated is this doping lab Tracy asked. One could say it is the most sophisticated of every lab, which is something that has to happen for the Olympic Games, Radler said.Now, just two weeks after we interviewed him, the lab has been shut down. The World Anti-Doping Agency, or WADA, made that stunning decision just six weeks before the Olympic games begin, saying it was due to non-conformity with the International Standard for Laboratories. WADA will not provide any details on what exactly was wrong. It is a blow, it is a problem to have the lab being suspended less than two months before the games, said Rio 2016 spokesman Mario Andrada. But it would be a bigger blow to have a lab in the Games tha air max 1 t is not technically perfect. Do Eywg U.S. Aircraft Carriers Returning Home
AJDABIYA, Libya - Coalition forces pounded Muammar Qaddafi s forces with two dozen more missiles and several airstrikes Wednesday, going directly after his troops as reports of Qaddafi snipers killing civilians in Misrata were confirmed.Rear Adm. Gerard Hueber said the coalition is targeting Muammar Qaddafi s mechanized forces, his artillery and mobile missile sites as well as ammunition and other supplies for government troops.He says that with stanley becher the eastern city of Benghazi in rebel control, coalition forces have moved west to try to protect Ajdabiya and Misrata. Officials also reported bombing an ammunition depot Wednesday near Misrata. Hueber spoke to Pentagon reporters from the U.S. command ship in the Mediterranean sea.Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged Wednesday that there is no clear end to the international military enforcement of a no-fly zone over Libya, and says no one was ever under any illusion that the assault would last just two or three weeks.He added that the U.S. could turn over control of the operation as soon as Saturday, but could not say how th stanley us e coalition operation might be resolved. I think there are any number of possible outcomes here and no one is in a position to predict them, Gates told reporters in Egypt, where a largely non-violent rebellion ousted an autocratic ruler within a few weeks earlier this year. One possibility, he said, is that Qaddafi could see more major def kubki stanley ections from within his ruling circle

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Updated 7:33 PM ETGENEVA High-stakes nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers adjourned on an upbeat note Wednesday, with the European Union s top diplomat calling them very important. Iran s foreign minister spoke of a possible new phase that would ease a decade of tensions over fears that his country wanted a nuclear bomb.EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton did not go into details on the substance of the talks. But she read a statement endorsed by both Iran and the six countries, calling the talks substantive and forward looking. Confirming Iranian media reports, the statement said the two sides will meet again in Geneva on Nov. 7-8.Ashton, who convened the talks, spoke of a very intensive and I think a very important meeting. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who headed the Iranian side, said he hoped the results achieved over two days of talks ending Wednesday dunk homme will hopefully be the beginning of a new asics gel phase in relations be adidas originals tween Iran and the six powers - the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany. We have reached a serious stage in the talks, he told reporters.The White House said the proposal addressing Iran s nuclear program is useful and contains a, quote, level of seriousness and substance that we have not seen before. White House spokesman Jay Carney said not to expect a prompt breakthrough in the high-level nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers.Reporting from Geneva, CBS News corres Olxp Cairo airport officials find bomb on Libya plane
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama said Friday that about 100 American troops have been deployed to the African nation of Niger. Two U.S. defense officials said the troops would be setting up a base for unarmed drones to conduct surveillance.Obama announced the deployment in a letter to Congress, saying that the forces will provide support for intelligence collection and will also facilitate intelligence sharing with French forces conducting operations in Mali, and with other partners in the region. The move marks a deepening of U.S. efforts cups stanley to stem the spread of al Qaeda and its affiliates in the volatile region. It also underscores Obama s desire to fight extremism without involving large numbers of U.S. ground forces.Congress looks to limit drone strikes Brennan open to special court for drone strikesThe stanley quencher drone base will allow the U.S. to give France more intelligence on the militants its forces have been fighting in Mali, which neighbors Niger. Over time, it could extend the reach not only of American intelligence-gathering but also U.S. special operations missions to strengthen Niger s own security forces.One of the two U.S. defense officials who discussed the development confirmed the American troops would fly drones and other surveillance platforms from Niger military airstrips, tracking militant and refugee movemen stanley mug t inside Mali and around the border. The U.S. will share that intelligence with Niger s military, the official said.Both officials spoke on the condition of

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Fiat Chrysler proposed merging with Renault, a move that would create the third-bigg salomon zapatillas est automaker in the world.Renault s board said it would study the proposal with interest. The move comes after Renault s plans to merge with Nissan were derailed by the multiple indictments of Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn.Fiat Chrysler proposed merging with France s Renault on Monday. The move would create the world s third-biggest automaker and save billions of dollars needed to invest in the race to make new electric and autonomous vehicles.The merged company would make some 8.7 million vehicles a year, leapfrogging General Motors and trailing only Volkswagen and Toyota. Shares of both companies jumped over 10% on the news of the offer, which would see each side s shareholders split ownership in the new manufacturer.Renault welcomed the idea. The company s board met Monday at its headquarters in Boulogne-Billancourt outside Paris to discuss the proposal a adidas campus homme nd said afterward that Renault will study it with interest. In a statement, Renault said such adidas samba og a fusion could improve Renault s industrial footprint and be a generator of additional value for the Alliance with Japan s Nissan and Mitsubishi.Fiat Chrysler s offer comes at a key moment for Renault. The French manufacturer had reportedly wanted to merge with Nissan, but those plans were derailed by the arrest of boss Carlos Ghosn on financial misconduct charges in Japan. Ljsm Iraq Military: 175 Killed By Suicide Bombs
President Robert Mugabe s spokesman spoke defiantly Tuesday at a summit of the Zimbabwe leader s peers, dismissing Western criticism that the longtime statesman should be p stanley kubek ressured into stepping down. They can go hang. They can go and hang a thousand times, Mugabe spokesman George Charamba said in response to Western pressure.The United States, Britain and other European countries have widely condemned Mugabe s runoff victory in which he was the sole candidate, calling the vote a sham.But at the African Union summit in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, African leaders have been unwilling to publicly criticize Mugabe, and instead are gently pushing behind the scenes that he accept some sort of power-sharing agreement with Zimbabwe s opposition.Charamba, however, sounded resistant to proposals about sharing power. Some African leaders have expressed frustration that more was not being done to pressure Mugabe. Charamba denied to reporters that Mugabe would relinquish any power. Isn t that an od stanley cups d question. He s a few days into office and you expect him to retire, do you ... Five days have expired, not even a week after ... Why is the issue of the retirement of the president of Zimbabwe such an obsession for the West he said. He has come here as president of Zimbabwe and he will go home as president of Zimbabwe, an stanley mugs d when you visit Zimbabwe he will be there as the president of all the people of Zimbabwe, Charamba told reporters.During public speeches at the summit s

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ISTANBUL mdash;Turkish crime-scene investigators searched the home of the Saudi consul general in Istanbul Wednesday in the disappearance of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi.As Saudi Arabia s green national flag flapped overhead, forensics teams entered the residence, located slightly more than a mile from the consulate where Khashoggi vanished Oct. 2 while trying to pick up paperwork to get married.Crime-scene technicians wore white coveralls, gloves and shoe covers. It wasn t immediately clear w adidas originals mujer hat they hoped to find, although surveillance video had s adidas samba uomo howed diplomatic cars moving between the consulate and the residence nearly two hours after Khashoggi walked into the diplomatic post.It was the second-such extraordinary search of a site considered sovereign Saudi territory under international law. Earlier this week, investigators spent hours in the consulate.A high-level Turkish official previously told The Associated Press that police found certain evidence of Khashoggi s slaying at the consulate, without elaborating. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing. The latest search, of the residence, came 15 days after Khashoggi s disappearance mdash; and after police apparently thought they would be able to conduct the search on Tuesday. Turkish Foreign Mi dunks shoes nister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Saudi officials had halted that search, claiming that Consul General Mohammed al-Otaibi s family was still there. Turkish forensic an Pwof Kim Jong-un tours a submarine
AP PARIS - A French prosecutor on Monday opened a preliminary investigation into allegations of rape in a Washington hotel by former IMF chief and one-time French presidential hopeful Dominique Strauss-Kahn.The move by the prosecutor in Lille in northern France followed a requ stanley cup est by investigating judges earlier this month to broaden a suspected prostitution probe to examine the claims of rape in December 2010.The prosecutor s office said in a statement that they are looking into the allegation that Strauss-Kahn may have been involved in a rape during a sex party in the hotel while he was head of the International Monetary Fund.Strauss-Kahn linked to possible rape in D.C.Strauss-Kahn probed over prostitution ring stanley website The married Strauss-Kahn, 63, says whatever happened was consensual, and he has denied doing anything violent. The prominent economist, once a top contender for Fra stanley termohrnek nce s presidency, has seen his career and reputation crumble since he was accused of sexual assault in a New York hotel a year ago. Strauss-Kahn is already a target in the Lille prostitution probe, which has mushroomed over the past year into a nationwide scandal. He is facing preliminary charges of alleged aggravated pimping, based on accusations by other people questioned in the investigation.He denies those charges. He has acknowledged being involved in libertine activity, while saying that he was unaware of anyone being paid for sex.French daily Liberation reported this month that two Belgian

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Izyum, Ukraine mdash; Ukraine s lightning counteroffensive against the Russian invaders continues to see success. Ukrainian a salomon mujer rmed forces now have their sights set on reclaiming the city of Lysychansk, which has been under Russian control since July.But as Ukraine s forces regain more ground from the Russians, they unc asics gel over more horrors left in their wake. CBS News correspondent Debora chanclas yeezy Patta has seen first-hand disturbing evidence of an alleged Russian torture chamber in the liberated city of Izyum. As towns and villages across the northeast Kharkiv region have been liberated from Russian occupation, the awful truth of exactly what Vladimir Putin had in mind for Ukraine continues to emerge. Ukraine calls Russian shelling near nuke plant nuclear terrorism Patta visited a police station in Izyum that was used by Russian troops as a local headquarters. CBS News entered it after it was demined, and as Ukrainian detectives began their grim work. Ukraine s top prosecutor says he s pursuing genocide case 07:34 Patta was led through rooms that Ukrainian locals and police say were used as torture chambers. Russian soldiers slept there, ate there, and meted out the terror used to keep civilians and captured Ukrainian fighters under control. The walls of the police station s dark, damp basement were li Dabz Philippine storm leaves dozens dead in landslides and flash floods
Updated at 10:28 p.m. ETUNITED NATIONS The U.N. Security Council responded swiftly to North Korea s latest nuclear test by punishing the reclusive regime Thursday with tough, new sanctions targeting its economy and leadership, despite Pyongyang s threat of a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the United States.The penalties came in a unanimous resolution drafted by the U.S. along with China, which is North Korea s main benefactor. Beijing said the focus now should be to defuse the tensions by restarting negotiations.The resolution sent a powerful message stanley cup to North Korea s new young leader, Kim Jong Un, that the international community condemns his defiance of Security Council bans on nuclear and ballistic tests and is prepared to take even tougher action if he continues flouting international obligations. Taken together, these sanctions will bite, and bite hard, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice said. They increase North Korea s isolation and raise the cost to North Korea s leaders of defying the international community. The U.N. Resolution takes direct aim at the sanctions-evading techniques that North Korea uses to financ stanley cups e its ballistic missile program, and it closes loopholes that Pyongyang has exploited, reported CBS News foreign affairs analyst Pamela Falk from the United Nations. The Resolution has punishing new provisions that clamp down stanley cup on cash transfers, illicit cargo vessels and aviation, and it includes new, unprecedented travel sanctions that require countries t

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The Departments of Labor and Homeland Security on Tuesday unveiled new restrictions to H-1B work visas as part of the Trump administration s long-sought objective of overhauling a guest worker program it says allows U.S. companies to replace American job-seekers with foreign workers who they can pay lower wages.Under the Department of Labor rule, employers will need to pay H-1B holders higher wages, a move Trump administration officials said will discourage U.S. companies from turning to cheaper labor from abroad. The DHS rule will redefine the specialty adidas originals occupations H-1B visa holders can qualify for, requiring petitioners to prove they have a college degree in the specific field they are seeking to work in. The changes will also expand compliance enforcement and mandate that workers hired through a third-party firm be granted one-year work authorizations, instead of the current three-year period.The Department of Labor interim final rule will take effect Thursday, while the DHS companion rule is expected to be enforced in two months. Collectively, the rules represent the broadest overhaul of the H-1B program in decades, according to experts and government officials. Ken Cuccinelli, the second-in-command at DHS, said the changes will affect over one-third of all H-1B visa petitioners. W adidas samba uomo e re making go adiletten original od on President Trump s promise that he made to the American people nearly four years ago, to restore the integrity to the immigration system, to protect Americans from Siqa S. Korea Fights Subway Suicides
President Obama is feeling heat from some quarters after deciding to drop the Bush administration s missile defense plans in Eastern Europe. Republicans say the president s decision is naiuml;ve, while Democrats say the new plans will do more for defense and diplomacy with both Iran and Russia than the missile program, which had increased tensions in the region. Moscow had resisted President Bush s plans to install interce stanley cup quencher ptor missiles in what it considered Russia s backyard. Polish President Lech Kaczynski said he was concerned that Mr. Obama s new strategy leaves Poland in a dangerous gray zone between Western Europe and the old Soviet sphere.Recent events in the region have rattled nerves throughout central and Eastern Europe, a region controlled by Moscow during the Cold War, including the war last summer between Russia and Georgia and ongoing efforts by Russia to regain influence in Ukraine. A Russian cutoff of gas to Ukra stanley mugs ine last winter left many Europeans without heat. The Bush administration s plan would have been a major step in preventing vari stanley thermos mug ous disturbing trends in our region of the world, Kaczynski said in a guest editorial in the daily Fakt and also carried on his presidential Web site. President Kaczynski s editorial in Polish Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said he still sees a chance for Poles and Czechs to participate in the redesigned missile defense system. But that did not appear to calm nerves in Warsaw or Prague.Kaczynski expressed hopes

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By David Paul Kuhn,CBSNews Chief Political WriterAs top U.S. officials, including President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, offered apologies for the abuse of Iraqi detainees by American soldiers, debate raged online about the growing scandal. While there was widespread agreement that the mistreatment depicted in widely seen photos from Iraq s Abu Ghraib prison cups stanley was abhorrent, there was a myriad of opinions about just what it meant, based upon region and culture and personal politics stanley water bottle .CBSNews searched the Internet for a sampling of opinion from a variety of Web sites and message boards. All excerpts are direct quotes, although some minor editing has taken place. All quotes are from English language sites. It s stanley tumbler interesting that when there are victories, every last nobody American gets to take part in the glory. But when there are atrocities, blame just the fall guys, absolve the rest of us from shame. Of course, when the shoe is on the other foot it s Ok to blame any darky for the crimes of any other. - omarazamhttp://altmuslim/headlines_comments.php id=1224_0_24_0_C Who could have predicted that a chain of stupid ideas reopen Abu Ghraib prison, symbol of Saddam s brutality - staff it full of untrained recruits and unsupervised contractors - orchestrating frat boy hazing and worse that has nothing to do with fighting terror - taking pictures of it would lead to a Perfect PR Storm that seemed to confirm Arab/Muslim fears about US intentions - [mess

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Updated at 2:27 p.m. EasternCAIRO Egyptian soldiers and police clashed with Islamists protesting the military s ouster of the president in bloodshed that left at least 51 protesters and three members of the security forces dead, officials and witnesses said, and plunged the divided country deeper into crisis with calls by the Muslim Brotherhood s political party for all-out rebellion against the army.The carnage outside the Republican Guard building in Cairo -- where salomon hombre toppled President Mohammed Morsi was first held last week -- marked the single biggest death toll since massive protests forced Morsi s government from power and brought in caretaker rule overs yeezy slide een by Egypt s powerful armed forces.Even before all the bodies adidas original campus were counted, there were conflicting accounts on how the violence began, with Morsi s backers saying it was an unprovoked attack, and the military saying they came under assault first. More than 400 were wounded in the mayhem.Egypt s top Muslim cleric warned of civil war and said he was going into seclusion as a show of protest to both sides until the violence ends. Sheik Ahmed el-Tayeb, head of Al-Azhar Mosque, said he had no choice but to seclude himself at home until everyone shoulders his responsibility to stop the bloodshed instead of dragging the country into civil war. Rival parties clash in streets across EgyptDozens killed in Egypt clashesU.S. cautious during Egypt s political transitionCBS News correspondent Clarissa Ward reports that the Mijs In Royal Circles
Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi stands outside a tent erected at his Bab al-Aziziya residence in Tripoli during better stanley website days for the dictator in April, 2011. Getty Images stanley france Even with his home destroyed, his capital overrun, his days seemingly numbered, it should come as no surprise to Mideast watchers that Muammar Qaddafi would remain defiant until the end.Al-Orouba TV reportedly broadcast a message from the for-now Libyan leader on Tuesday, and he vowed victory or death against aggression, Reuters reports. Al-Orouba TV has long been seen as a Qaddafi mouthpiece, so it is impossible to verify when the recording was made.In the message, Qaddafi said his heavily fortified Bab Al-Aziziya compound, taken Tuesday be rebels, had already been leveled to the ground by 64 NATO airstrikes. He called the withdrawal of his troops from there a tactical move.The message gave no clues as the his current whereabouts, although his son, Saif Al-Islam, and others have said in the last 48 hours that he is alive and well in hiding in Tripoli.Fugitive Qaddafi avoids rebels taking his homeComplete coverage: Anger in the Arab WorldVideo: Rebels to Qaddafi: Go to hell Inside Qaddafi s storied, now stormed, compoundPhotos: Inside Muammar Qaddafi s lairAfter rebels stormed Bab Al-Aziziya earlier Tuesday, one told CBS News: We found many dead people stanley flask and we opened the door and we found many guns underground.

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WONSAN, North Korea -- Kim Jong Un s government says it will officially close and begin dismantling its main nuclear test site this week. It s in a remote part of the country, and CBS News is the only American broadcast network on the trip.A timeline of North Korea s nuclear testsWe were on a plane with other journalists invited in by North Korea to see them shut down their nuclear test site. And like the last time CBS News flew to North Korea, there are still propaganda videos playing on the plane. But unlike last time, in one newspaper they gave us, there is not a single bad word about the adidas campus beige United States. In fact, there is a glowing review of Secretary of State Mik adidas original campus e Pompeo s recent visit to North Korea.Trump administration remains vague on future of North Korea summitWe landed in Wonsan, on the country s east coast. It has a large modern airport and the government has spent hundreds of milli adidas samba donna ons of dollars in this part of North Korea in an attempt to turn it into an international tourist destination. Airport in Wonsan, North Korea CBS News The North Koreans built an airport in Wonsan a couple of years ago, but it s really never been used. The people who are working here, the magazines and the North Korean flags they are selling -- all of this was being done for our arrival. Once we leave we assume most of this will be shut down. CBS News correspondent Ben Pyqq Obama ends Israel visit by reaffirming Jewish state s right to exist
The search for survivors of the thunderous fireworks explosion in the Netherlan stanley cup ds has been abandoned. It killed at least 20 people, injured hundreds, and flattened 400 houses.Local officials now say one hundred tons of fireworks were stored at the warehouse. Suddenly, they all went off like one big incendiary bomb. An area a half-mile square was flattened. Local people said it was like they d been napalmed. Herman Honakkers house was several hundred yards away. We were sitting in the garden drinking coffee, he says. And we saw the firework and it looks nice in the summer and then suddenly there came the big bang and it was like hell. It was terrible. Teams of special investigators sought clues as to what triggered the huge detonation, examining blackened, twisted hulks of cars and shells of houses, sifting through rubble with their bare hands as firefighters extinguished persistent flames.ReutersAmateur video caught one of the blasts.It was curiosity which drew people to the original fire and which contributed to the high death toll. That curiosity turned to shock at the explosion, and now it has turned to anger at how a warehouse filled with high explosives could be located in the middle of a residential neighbor stanley tumblers hoo stanley thermos d. Rescue workers combed through the area all Sunday amid reports some sounds which might be survivors were being heard. But none were found. There were also fears, that the huge clouds of smoke sent into the air contained asbestos from the warehouse roof.

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It may only be about the size of Connecticut, but huge oil reserves have made the Middle Eastern nation of Qatar one of the wealthiest in the world. The riches enabled the tiny nation to pour more than $200 billi crocs on into eight state-of-the-art, air-conditioned soccer stadiums and accompanying infrastructure to host adidas campus more than a million spectators for soccer s 2022 World Cup. But to build its World Cup legacy, Qatar has relied on an army of migrant workers, mostly from South Asia and Africa. Thousands toiled for years in temperatures up to 120 degrees, crammed into crowded, squalid residential camps near the venues they were building. They re like anyone else in the world, Mustafa Qadri, foun asics outlets der of the Equidem organization, which investigates labor abuses, told CBS News. You want to have a better life than your parents. You want your children to go to college to have a better life than you. So, you re desperate for an opportunity. Opportunity presented itself when Qatar s bid with international soccer s governing body FIFA controversially won, and the Arab nation was awarded the 2022 World Cup. Qadri said that has made it a tournament dependent on migrant workers, because they re cheap. And migrant workers are cheap because they re being exploited. He told CBS News that he was arrested in Qatar while researching conditions for the migrant workers there, which he said included forced labor, workers going unpaid for months at a time, and unsafe work sites mdash; with Djqa Girl who went missing from a mall in 2018 found in Mexico
Lawmakers are questioning whether a French bank failed to comply with U.S. money-laundering laws, possibly helping Saddam Hussein manipulate the $60 billion U.N. oil-for-food program. The bank denies any wrongdoing.In the latest in a seri stanley thermosflasche es of congressional investigations of alleged corruption in the oil-for-food program, the House International Relations Commit stanley water bottle tee was homing stanley romania in on the role of the U.S. branch of BNP-Paribas, which handled most of the oil-for-food money.The humanitarian program, begun in 1996, allowed Iraq to trade oil for goods to help Iraqis get food, medicine and other necessities that became scarce under strict U.N. economic sanctions imposed after the Gulf War. It was credited with preventing widespread starvation.Prior to today s hearing, congressional investigators said Saddam diverted money from the U.N. oil-for-food program to pay millions of dollars to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who carried out attacks on Israel.Investigators who have been following a money trail say the former Iraqi president tapped secret bank accounts in Jordan mdash; where he collected bribes from foreign companies and individuals doing illicit business under the humanitarian program mdash; to reward the families up to $25,000 each. Committee Chairman Henry Hyde said the panel found evidence that BNP in some cases improperly approved payments of oil-for-food funds to companies that weren t supposed to receive them. The bank may also have allowed payments to