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The parents of Amanda Knox, an American student convicted of murder in Italy, say they won t be deterred from seeking to prove their daughter s innocence after they were indicted for libel.Curt Knox and Edda Mellas were indicted this week in Perugia for alleging that Italian police abused their daughter.Amanda Knox Lawyers Seek to Stop Lifetime MovieThe couple said in a statement emailed to The Associated Press that the charge was expected and that their focus is unchanged and remains wholeheartedly with our daughter, her appeal, overturning her wrongful conviction, and bringing her home. Amanda Knox Appeal: Key Evidence to stanley cup Be Reviewed In the Sunday Times interview published June 15, 2008, Curt Knox said, Amanda was abused physically and verbally. She told us she was hit in the back of the head by a police officer with an open hand, at least twice stanley website . The police told her, If you ask for a lawyer, things will get worse for you and If you don t give us some explanation for what happened, you re going to go to jail for a very long time. Knox was convicted in 2009 of murdering Meredith Kercher, her roommate in Perugia, and sentenced to 26 years. She denies wrongdoing and her appeals trial is under way. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-919e359c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-919e359c-8c88 stanley cup -11e2-b06b-024c

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The Japan Meteorological Agency says a quake with preliminary magnitude of 7.4 has occurred near New Zealand at around 2:24 p.m. in Japan, but preliminary reports suggested the quake was too far offshore to be felt.The agency said in a statement that there may be chance of tsunami near the epicentre.A spokesman for Geoscience Australia said seismologists were not expecting any damage given the distance offshore.Volcanic arcs and oceanic trenches partly encircling the Pacific Basin form the so-called Ring of Fire, a zone of stanley thermos mug frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and the location of the top 10 earthquakes in the world since 1900. All of the top 10 measured an 8.5 magnitude or above. stanley cup Several hours earlier on Sunday, a strong earthquake swayed buildings on the Pacific island of Guam. No injuries, damage or tsunami were immediately reported. The U.S. Geological Survey reported the quake magnitude at 6.8 and said it occurred about 215 miles south-southeast of the U.S. territory of Guam. It had a depth of about 6.2 miles beneath the sea floor, according to the USGS.The Japan Meteorological stanley trinkflaschen Agency did not issue an official tsunami warning, but said there may be a chance of one near the epicenter. However, an official from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, or PTWC in Honolulu, Hawaii, said the quake probably did not create a tsunami, and the center had not received any reports of one. It s very unlikely any destructive tsunami was created by this earthquake, said PTWC s

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The top U.S. general in Afghanistan will soon formally order U.S. and NATO forces to break away from fights with militants hiding in Afghan houses so the battles do not kill civilians, a U.S. official said Monday.The order would be one of the strongest measures taken by a U.S. commander to protect Afghan civilians in stanley cup battle. American commanders say such deaths hurt their mission because they turn average Afghans against the government and U.S. and NATO forces.Civilian casualties are a major source of friction between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the U.S. The U.N. says U.S., NATO and Afghan forces killed 829 civilians in the Afghan war last year.Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who took command of international forces in Afghanistan this month, has said his measure of effectiveness will be the number of Afghans shielded from violence, and not the number of militants killed.McChrystal will issue orders within days saying troops may attack insurgents hiding in Afghan houses if the U.S. or NATO forces are in imm water bottle stanley inent danger and must return fire, said U.S. military spokesman Rear Adm. Greg Smith. But if there is a compound they re taking fire from a stanley cups nd they can remove themselves from the area safely, without any undue danger to the forces, then that s the option they should take, Smith said. Because in these compounds we know there are often civilians kept captive by the Taliban. McChrystal s predecessor, Gen. David McKiernan, issued rules last fall that told commanders to

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UNITED NATIONS -- China s conflict with regional neighbors in the South China Sea peaked this spring, when Beijing rammed and sunk a Vietnamese fishing vessel near a Chinese oil rig in waters claimed by Vietnam and Indonesia. China has since removed the rig, but the dispute highlighted the Asian giant s willingness to flex military muscle to assert control over vast energy reserves in contested waters, and to cement Beijing s evolving strategic role in the world.Seven nations claim territory in the South China Sea, including China, Brunei, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam. The territorial rights to oil and gas exploration and fishing in the South China Sea have been disputed for hundreds of years, so the question is, why did tensions flare this year Inside the South China Sea Conflict 02:08 Globally, there is now the issue of energy security, and all countries in Southeast Asia -- not only China -- need to have more energy for that development, Vietnam s Permanent Representative to the salomon U.N., Ambassador Le Hoai Trung, told CBS News. For China, it is even a bigger issue as you may be aware. Since 2009 China has become the largest user of energy in the world. We don t think that they a nike air force re entitled to the nike dunk exploration of oil and gas in that area, Trung added.He also said China was p Muxm ISIS reportedly behind deadly attack on Afghan forces
If Israel wants peaceful relations with Lebanon, it must not only withdraw from the country s south but also release all Lebanese held in Israeli jails, the leader of the Hezbollah guerrillas said Saturday.Israel must also pay compensation for the loss of life and damage that resulted from its occupation and settle the fate of 350,000 Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said in a public speech.Nasrallah s demands indicated that Hezbo stanley romania llah, which has been fighting Israel s forces in south Lebanon since 1982, is unwilling to make peace once Israel pulls out in July as promised by Prime Minister Ehud Barak.Hezbollah has never stated clearly whether it will continue its campaign against Israel with cross-border attacks after Israeli troops leave the south. Israel has warned Lebanon of harsh retaliation if it comes under guerrilla attack after the pullout. 147;The Israeli occupation of south Lebanon and the western Bekaa is just one of the problems, 148; Nasrallah said, addressing tens of thousands of Hezbollah supporters in a southern suburb to commemorate the martyrdom of Hussein, a revered Shiite Muslim saint. Men dressed in black beat their chests as an expre stanley cups uk ssion of sorrow and chador-cla stanley quencher d women wailed. Hussein, the grandson of Islam s Prophet Mohammed, was killed by rival Muslim forces in the year 680 on the Karbala plain in modern-day Iraq. Shiites elsewhere in Lebanon also marked the occasion, known as Ashoura. Hours after the demonstratio

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LONDON -- Stan Beaton lost his wife a decade ago, so he cherished the simple voicemail greeting she had recorded at their home in northern England. adidas samba donna salomon U.K. widower given back the voice of his late wife 00:53 Then, without warning, it disappeared; deleted by his phone service provider, Virgin Media. When Virgin heard about his story, BBC Radio Leeds reports, they set a team of 10 employees to the task of bringing the audio back, and adidas samba adidas the radio station was on hand this week to surprise Stan with a sound he believed he d never hear again. That s her, he says choking up as he hears his late wife s voice. Wonderful. Wonderful. As Stan himself point s out to the BBC Radio reporter sitting in front of him, I suppose it s gonna be a bit of a PR job now, but thank you, Virgin Media. He said he was staggered at the lengths the company had gone to to retrieve it.The full video can be found here, and it s worth watching.Not all PR stunts are created equal. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-b7bea0c2-968f-42b5-bd66-96a1582c3a62, right-rail-recirc-item--id-b7bea0c2-968f-42b5-bd66-96a1582c3a62 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-b7bea0c2-96 Mnqy Secrets of the papal ring: Goldsmith details how one-of-a-kind adornment is crafted
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Russian authorities are hunting in and around the southern city of Sochi for a so-called black widow who they fear may be plotting to carry out a terror attack at the upcoming Winter Olympics.The woman, identified as Ruzana Ibragimova, has promised to get revenge for the death of her husband, an Islamic militant killed last year by Russian security forces, CBS News investigative producer Pat Milton reported. Russian authorities have plastered Sochi with posters seeking information about this woman, Ruzana Ibragimova. CBS News Police have been visiting hotels in the Sochi area inquiring if Ibragimova has been seen and have been distributing posters seeking information about her. CBS News has confirmed eyewitnessaccounts from S adidas samba ochi that these posters have been put up in the area of theOlympic venues.There is also a con adidas campus cern that other widows whose husbandswere killed may be used by the Islamic terrorists as well to carry out anattack, possibly suicide attacks, Milton reported. adidas campus donna Juan Zarate: Russians are very concerned about security at 2014 Winter Olympics 03:04 Last month, CBS News national security analyst Juan Zarate noted that Chechen rebels are famous for using blackwidows ndash; wido Fbtj Unprecedented rise in cholera outbreaks forces last-resort decision on vaccine policy
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The Perseid meteor shower, one of the most highly anticipated celestial events every year, just took place mdash; and at Stonehenge, one photographer managed to capture it in an image that he calls a window to the universe. The image, a composite of dozens taken over three hours the night of Aug. 9, shows the me adidas samba teor shower and the Milky Way glowing over the U.K. historic site. I always like to remember them as ancient fireworks because they are, astrophotographer Josh Dury, who captured the image, told CBS News. The Perseus meteor shower is created by one of the oldest objects of our solar system, comets ... I thought, this is such a pertinent narrative through that sense of mystery and time. adidas campus herren Astrophotographer Josh Dury captured a photo of the Perseids meteor shower s ancient fireworks falling over Stonehenge on Aug. 9. Josh Dury The image, a composition of 40 images taken over a three-hour period, was so dazzling that even NASA featured it as the Astronomy Picture of the Day on Aug. 12, an honor that Dury said words can t explain. It s insane, he said. ... In a career as a landscape astrophotographer, it can t get any bigger than that. Dury has been photographing the night sky since he was 7 years old after he watched the animated seri adidas samba es Biker Mice from Mars. That just encapsulated my curiosity from such a young age for life on other worlds. And Fara Mobs hit U.S. buildings in Libya, Egypt; American diplomat killed
Amid allegations of fraud, Peruvian election officials announced Wednesday that the presidential election will go to a second round.President Alberto Fujimori fell just shy of the majority needed to avoid a runoff for an unprecedented third term, and so must face challenger Alejandro Toledo in a run- off election.Officials said that after counting 97.68 perc stanley website ent of Sunday s ballots, Fujimori had 49.84 percent stanley polska compared to 40.31 percent for his challenger, economist-turned-candidate Alejandro Toledo.Immediately afte stanley becher r Sunday 146 elections, fraud was on the lips of Peruvians in the capital streets and world leaders had cautioned Fujimori not to claim a first-round victory. We don t have a lot of confidence in the voting process either. It is clear that there has been a lot of irregularities during the campaign and during the day of the vote, British Ambassador Roger Hart said Wednesday. Independent monitoring organizations in Peru had said that a first-round victory by Fujimori 151;which most pre-election polls suggested was unlikely 151; would be powerful evidence that fraud had taken place. Officials said after counting more than half the ballots that Fujimori had 49.6 percent, compared to Alejandro Toledo s 40.6. That defied exit polls and unofficial vote tallies by independent monitors that indicated he would not reach the 50 percent plus one vote needed to avoid a runoff. The first results were made public at midday Monday, more than 12 hours later than el

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One love, one heart, Jamaican reggae superstar Bob Marley sang in his iconic 1977 hit, One Love/People Get Ready. It was a call for peace and social unity, and on Friday, the United Nations joined forces with Marley s children Stephen and Cedella Marley, and her son Skip, to release a reimagined version of the song to raise money for children affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Marley was born 75 years ago, adidas og the same year the U.N. was founde yeezy d, and rose to global popularity before his death in 1981 at the age of just 36. His children have pledged proceeds from the One Love remake to the U.N. Children s Fund UNICEF . I listen to a lot of music, and sometimes I feel things, and sometimes I don t, Cedella Marley said in an interview on CBSN. But with this one, I had to listen to it over and over, because it was really that good. She said that 100% of the proceeds from the song would go to UNICEF. It all goes to helping children that have been affected by this pandemic. It s in UNICEF s hands. We re doing our part and we know they re going to do their part, Cedell nike sb dunk a said.The Marleys lead the artistic effort along with the family brand, Tuff Gong International, and Amplified Music. The unifying remake of the hit record will help support UNICEF s Reimagine campaign. It s a global fundraiser aiming to reimagine a fair and safe world for children who have been harshly impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The Amplified Project - One Love in support of UNIC Argu Palestinians poised for status upgrade at U.N.
The number of weight-loss surgeries in England jumped more than tenfold from 2000 to 2007, a new study says.Dr. Omar Faiz, a consultant surgeon at St. Mary s Hospital in London and colleagues monitored the number of weight-loss surgeries done in government hospitals from 2000 to 2008. Overall, they found 6,953 such operations were performed, including three different types of surgeries, all designed to shrink the size of the patient s stomach.In 2000, there were 238 weight loss surgeries, but by 2007 there were 2,543 such operations. The study was paid for by Britain s National Ins stanley cup titute of Health Research.Faiz described the increase in surgeries as exponential, but was unsure if it would continue. We don t know whether we ve seen the summit of the peak, but the trend still looks to be going upwards, he said. He said there were not enough data to know how many obese people were awaiting the surgery in England, but said the number of people getting the surgery was likely only a small proportion stanley cup of those who qualified for it and wanted it. Faiz and colleagues found that the majority of patients who got the weight loss surgeries were women and were stanley cup price from poorer areas. Most patients were in their 40s. The surgeries also appeared to be safe; the risk of dying one year after the surgery was about 1 percent. The study was published Friday in the medical journal, BMJ.Since 2002, when Britain s health watchdog recommended weight loss surgery for morbidly obese people, usually

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The Trump administration will start returning non-Mexican migrants who claim asylum in Texas Rio Grande Valley back to Mexico under the second expansion of the controversial Remain in Mexico policy.U.S. officials a adidas campus re slated to make the first returns of migrants who claim asylum in the Texas border city of Brownsville as early as Friday, a Department of Homeland Security DHS official to air force ld CBS News.The move means asylum seekers will now be sent to Matamoros, the second largest city in Tamaulipas, one of five Mexican states the State Department warns Americans travelers not to visit because of widespread crime and the risk of being kidnapped. Violent crime, such as murder, armed robbery, carjacking, kidnapping, extortion, and sexual assault, is common. Gang activity, including gun battles and blockades, is widespread, the State Department says in itstravel advisoryof Tamaulipas. adidas campus People cross the the Brownsville-Matamoros International Bridge on the U.S.-Mexico border in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico June 28, 2019. CARLOS JASSO / REUTERS Just this Thursday, Mexico s ambassador to the U.S., Martha Baacute;rcena, said the Mexican government was not prepared for the expansion of Remain in Mexico in Tamaulipas. We recognize there are certain areas of Mexico in which the challenges of security are higher, Baacute;rcena said at a CQ Roll Call event. So, that is why w Vqzx Familiar face appointed Tokyo tourism ambassador
REYHANLI, Turkey In one of the deadliest attacks in Turkey in recent years, two car bombs exploded near the border with Syria on Saturday stanley mugs , killing 43 and wounding 140 others. Turkish officials blamed the attack on a group linked to Syria, an stanley uk d a deputy prime minister called the neighboring country s intelligence service and military the usual suspects. The blasts, which were 15 minutes apart and hit the town of Reyhanli s busiest street, raised fears that Turkey could increasingly be drawn into Syria s brutal civil war.Turkey already hosts Syria s political opposition and rebel commanders, has given shelter to hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees and in the past retaliated against Syrian shells that landed in Turkey.Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said the assailants were from Turkey, but were linked to Syria s intelligence service. We have to a great extent completed our work toward identifying the assailants, he told reporters. We have established that the organization and assailants have links to the pro-regime mukhabarat intelligence organization. He did not name the group, but said the aim of the attack was to pit Turks against Syrian refugees in Reyhanli.Earlie stanley cup r, another deputy prime minister, Bulent Arinc said: Our thoughts are that their mukhabarat and armed organizations are the usual suspects in planning and the carrying out of such devilish plans, he said.Arinc said the attacks were still being investigated, but that If it s proven that Syrian

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JERUSALEM -- Three Palestinians opened fire on Israelis near a major Jerusalem holy site Friday, wounding three before fleeing into the sacred compound where they were killed in a gunfight with secu adidas samba rity forces, police said.Two police officers were killed in the attack, Israel s police chief said later Friday.The rare gunfight took place inside a sacred hilltop compound in Jerusalem, known to Jews as Temple Mount and to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary. The compound is the holiest site in Judaism and the third-holiest in Islam, after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. Trump shifts U.S. approach on Middle East peace 06:48 The site has been a flashpoint for violence in the past, with friction there sparking major rounds of Israeli-Palestinian violence, including a Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation that lasted several years.Police said the site was cleared of people after the attack and would be closed for prayers Friday -- the highlight of the Muslim religious week. It typically draws tens of thousan adidas samba ds of worshippers who flock to the compound from Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.It marked only the third time since Israel s capture of e yeezy foam ast Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war that authorities ordered the Muslim-administered compound closed, said Ikrema Sabri, a prayer leader at the holy s Fbtb Sex Abuse Scandal Flares In Australia
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