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People watch a TV showing an image of North Korea leader Kim Jong Un, during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, July 28, 2022. Ahn Young-joon / AP North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned he s ready to use his nuclear weapons in potential military conflicts with the United States and South Korea, state media said Thursday, as he unleashed fiery rhetoric against rivals he says are pushing the Korean Peninsula yeezy to the brink of war.Kim s speech to war veterans on the 69th anniversary of the end of the 1950-53 Korean War was apparently meant to boost in adidas originals uomo ternal unity in the impoverished country amid pandemic-related economic difficulties. While Kim has increasingly threatened his rivals with nuclear weapons, it s unlikely that he would use them first against the superior militaries of the U.S. and its allies, observers say. Our armed forces are completely prepared to respond to any crisis, and our country s nuclear war deterrent is also ready to mobilize its absolute power dutifully, exactly and swiftly in accordance with its mission, Kim said in Wednesday s speech, according to the official Korean Central News Agency. He accused the United States of demonizing North Korea to justify its hostile policies. Kim said regular air max 98 U.S.-South Korea military drills that he claimed target the North highlight U.S. double standards and gangster-like aspects be Sily Russia s Vladimir Putin hails election victory, but critics make presence known despite harsh suppression
The traders sell an array of bushmeat: monkey carcasses, smoked anteater, even preserved porcupi stanley cup ne.But this isn t a roadside market in Africa - it s the heart of Paris, where a new study has found more than five tons of bushmeat slips through the city s main airport each week.Experts suspect similar amounts are arriving in other European hubs as well - an illegal trade that is raising concerns about diseases ranging from monkeypox to Ebola, and is another twist in the continent s struggle to integrate a growing African immigrant population.The research, the first time experts have documented how much bushmeat is smuggled into any European city, was published Friday in the journal Conservation Letters. Anecdotally we know it does happen ... But it is quite surprising the volumes that are coming through, said Marcus Rowcliffe, a research fellow of the Zoological Society of London and one of the study s authors. In the Chateau Rouge neighborhood in central Paris, bushmeat is on stanley cup the menu - at least for those in the know.Madame Toukine, an African woman in her 50s, said she receives special deliveries of crocodile and other bushmeat each weekend at her green and yellow shop off the Rue des Poissonieres market. She wouldn t give her full name for fear of being arrested. Everyone knows bushmeat is sold in the area and they even know where to buy it, said Hassan Kaouti, a local butcher. But they won t say it s illegal. For the study, European experts checked 29 Air France f

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Thursday marked the 46th anniversary of John McCain s release after being held captive as a prisoner of war at the Hanoi Hilton during the Vietnam War. McCain, whodied last year at the age of 81 after a lifetime of service in the military and as a senator, asics sneaker was greeted by a cheering crowd at Clark Airbase in the Philippines on March 14, 1973.CBS News correspondent Bruce Dunning, who died in 2013, covered the return of McCain and more than 100 others for CBS Evening News. Dunning said witnessing the disembarkment seemed all too familiar to people who had watched the first two releases of American prisoners there but the enthusiasm of the crowd was just as strong for these former prisoners as those who preceded them. McCain, who Dunning described as the probably the best known of the air force 1 prisoners, limped off the plane gripping a hand rail and with white hair. Dunning described him as the most seriously marked of all the prisoners. But his smile was broad as he saluted and shook hands with Adm. Gayler, who replaced McCain s own father, Adm. John S. McCain Jr., as Pacific Forces commander, Dunning said.Then-Navy Lt. Commander John McCain was held captive in North Vietnam for five and a half years, from 1967 to 1973. The injuries he sust af1 ained would affect his mobility for the rest of his life. U.S. Navy Lt. Commander John S. McCain III returned to the United States in 1973, after having spent more than five years as a prisoner of war in Hanoi. His fellow p Pelp Russian journalist who made on-air protest of war in Ukraine fined again for discrediting the military
BEIJING A Chinese tycoon with ties to mining companies in the United States, Australia and Africa is missing and a newspaper says he has been detained by police.Sichuan Jinlu Group said Thursday it is looking for its chairman, Liu Han, and has been unable to contact him by phone.The newspaper Shanghai Securities News said Liu was detained by Beijing police in mid-March while on a business trip to the Chinese capital but gave no indication why he might have been picked up. Chinese police regularly detain people for lengthy questioning without charge or public notice.Liu s main company, Sichua stanley cup n Hanlong Group, owns a 13 percent stake in General Moly, a Colorado miner of molybdenum, a mineral used to harden steel. Hanlong was arranging financing for a General Moly mine in Nevada.A Hanlong spokesman who would give only h stanley cup is surname, Su, said, I am unclear about this, when asked whether Liu was detained and where he was. General Moly said in a statement Wednesday it suspended work on a $665 million loan for its Mt. Hope mine from the state-run China Development Bank until it receives clarification from Hanlong.Hanlong also owns 14 percent of Australia s Sundance Resources, which is developing an iron mine in Congo and neighboring Cameroon in central Africa. Hanlong is offering 1.5 billion Australian dollars $1.5 billion to acquire the rest of the company but Sundance said this week the deal has yet to receive stanley cup final approval from China s economic planning agency.Sundance a

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JERUSALEM -- The Nazi soldiers made their orders very clear: Jewish American prisoners of war were to be separated from their fellow brothers in arms and sent to an uncertain fate.But Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds would have none of that. As the highest-rank adidas campus ing noncommissioned officer held in the German POW camp, he ordered more than 1,000 Americans captives to step forward with him and brazenly pronounced: We are all Jews here. He would not waver, even with a pistol to his head, and his captors eventually backed down.Seventy years later, the Knoxville, Tennessee, native is being posthumously rec salomon xt ognized with Israel s highest honor for non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during World War II. He s the first American serviceman to earn the honor. Master Sg yeezy foam t. Roddie Edmonds seemed like an ordinary American soldier, but he had an extraordinary sense of responsibility and dedication to his fellow human beings, said Avner Shalev, chairman of the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum and memorial. The choices and actions of Master Sgt. Edmonds set an example for his fellow American soldiers as they stood united against the barbaric evil of the Nazis. Portraits of Holocaust survivors 12 photos It s a story that remained untold for decades and one that his so Xpjy Russian jet conducts unsafe intercept of U.S. Navy plane
Last Updated 4:53 p.m. ET CBS/AP PARIS - Socialist candidate Francois Hollande and Franc stanley tumbler e s conservative incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy are headed for a runoff in their race for the presidency, according to partial official results, in a vote that could alter the European political and economic landscape.With 75 percent of the vote counted, Hollande had 27.9 percent of ballots cast and Sarkozy 26.7 percent, according to figures released by the Interior Ministry after final polls closed.Defying expectations, the anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim candidate Marine Le Pen landed a significant third-place showing, with 19.2 percent of the vote so far.Ten candidates were competing in Sunday s first round of voting in what was seen as a referendum on the incumbent Sarkozy, at a time when many French voters are worried about high joblessness and weak economic prospects. In fourth place was leftist firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon with 10.8 percent, followed by centrist Francois Bayrou with 9.2 percent. Five others won minimal support.Turnout was also surprisingly high, projected by polling agencies at about 80 percent, despite concern that a campaign lacking a single overarching theme had failed to inspire v stanley cup oters.The top two vote-getters head to a May 6 runoff May 6.Hollande, a 57-year-old who has worried investors with his pledges to b stanley canada oost government spending, pledged to cut France s huge debts, boost growth and unite the French after Sarkozy s divisive first term. T

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LONDON - Hurricane-force gustshit Britain on Thursday as part of a powerful stormmoving across Europe, disrupting airtravel, halting trains and leaving tens of thousands of homes withoutelectricity. Accidents linked to the stormkilled three people.Authorities evacuated some 10,000homes along the eastern English coast after warning that the country could faceits worst tidal surge in 60 years. af1 The Thames Barrier - a series of huge metalplates that can be raised across the entire river - was being closed lateThursday to protect London from the surge.Tidal floods - caused as the storm drives huge amounts of seawater towardthe land - were expected in Britain, Germany and Scandinavia, together withfreezing high winds from Greenland.The stormplowed into Scotland overnight, slamming the highlands with gusts up to 142 miles 229 kilometers per hour. Trains were suspended for much of the day, but beganto run fitfully later as some routes were cleared of debris.Rescue teams ferried residents tosafety by boat in north Wales, while officials in other areas handed out adidas samba damen sandbagsand set up emergency shelters.Transportation troubles were reportedthrough adidas samba og out northwestern Europe. Allflights to and from Copenhagen s international airport were halted lateThursday due to the storm, officialssaid. It was not immediately clear how many passengers were affected or howlong the airport - Scandinavia s largest - would stay closed.Almost all flights to and from Hamburgairport in northern Germany were also Dord Russia, China reject interference in Syria
A judge on Monday ordered Gen. Augusto Pinochet to undergo medical tests to determine whether the former dictator is mentally fit to sta stanley becher nd trial on human rights charges stemming from the killing of political dissidents during his seventeen-y stanley cup usa ear reign.Judge Juan Guzman said the 84-year-old Pinochet must be examined by state doctors within 30 days.The Supreme Court last month stripped Pinochet of immunity so he can be tried in a complaint involving the slaying of 72 political prisoners.The episode, in which a traveling military squad killed the detainees soon after Pinochet overthrew Marxist Presi kubki stanley dent Salvador Allende, became notorious as the caravan of death. Declassified DocumentsThe CIA has posted the report on covert activities in Chile on its Web site. Click here to read it. Lawyers for relatives of the victims were not pleased with Guzman s ruling, saying it will inevitably postpone the first legal questioning of Pinochet, which Guzman had scheduled for Oct. 9.The tests should be conducted as soon as possible to avoid further delays, plaintiff s lawyer Hugo Gutierrez said. Pinochet s lawyers did not immediately comment. However, while arguing that his ill health prevents him from properly organizing his defense, they insist his ailments are physical, not mental. My general is not crazy, one of his closest aides, retired Gen. Guillermo Garin, said recently.Chile s law does not exempt ill people from legal responsibility unless they are officially declared mad

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BEIRUT -- Syrian government troops seized control Thursday of most of a contested suburb southeast of the capital from rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar Assad. The troops were trying to crush remaining resistance on the town s northern outskirts, activists and state media said.Forces loyal to Assad have waged a ferocious offensive for months to try to dislodge rebels from Mleiha, located about 6 miles from downtown Damascus. Syrian officials told CBS News George Baghdadi the army had gained full control of Mleiha, stormed several rebel-held suburbs and choked off supplies to others in the east and south.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government troops backed by fighters from the Lebanese Shiite militant Hezbollah had taken the center of Mleiha, but were still fighting in surrounding areas.The army carried out several air raids and s dunks helled suspected rebel positions in advance of a ground incursion into the town, the officials told Baghdadi. Both sides have been keen to control Mleiha because of its strategic location near the highway to the capital s airport, as well the opposition stronghold of eastern Ghouta. adidas originals With al-Mleiha under control, the Syrian Army has effectively closedthe noose on the remaining pockets of terrorists in the Eastern Ghouta, and established a springboard from which these terrori adidas originals forum sts can be eliminated completely, claimed the General Command of the Army and Armed Forces in a statement carried by Syrian medi Jpaj India: Pakistan Spy Agency Behind Mumbai Attack
A videotape monitored Tuesday shows an American abducted last November by gunmen in Baghdad pleading for his life and appealing to Arab rulers, including Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, to intercede to spare his life.Roy Hallums, 56, was seized Nov. 1 along with Robert Tarongoy of the Philippines during an armed assault on their compound in Baghdad s Mansour district. The two were working for a Saudi company that does catering for the Iraqi arm stanley water bottle y. Both are missing.On the tape, Hallums, with a rifle pointed at his head, stated his name and said I have worked with American forces. I am please asking for help because my life is in danger because it s been proved I worked for American forces, he said. I m not asking for any help from President Bush because I know of his selfishness and unconcern for those who ve been pushed into this hellhole. Hallums, speaking slowly, said he was asking for help from Arab rulers especially President Moammar Gadhafi because he s known for helping those who are suf stanley cup fering. I also ask that Arab leaders help me in this situation so I can be released as quickly as possible from this definite end, he added. I would remember this favor for the rest of my life should my life remain and I ask my family to help because my health is in a very bad situation. In December, his wife, Susan Hallums of Corona, Calif., said she has not heard from the kidnappers. I want to plead for his life and send out prayers and hope that he will be releas stanley cup website ed, sai

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BAGHDAD -- A Kurdish official in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil says a suicide car bomber has struck in the heart of the city.At least four people were killed and more wounded in the attack -- the first of its kind in the largely secure city since militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS began fighting for territory in the region during the summer -- according to local health officials. Inside Iraqi Kurdistan: Confronting ISIS 03:52 Wednesday s bombing in Erbil, capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq adidas campus , took place near the historic citadel and reportedly near the entrance to the g air force 1 overnor s home.Mayor Nawzad Hadi told the state-run Rudaw TV channel that the number of casualties was not immediately known.Hadi says the suicide bomber tried to enter the citadel but failed, so he detonated his car outside the gates. The mayor says there is significant damage to the property in the area. Erbil is close to the front-lines. ISIS militants advanced to within just a handful of miles of Er adidas campus bil last summer, but were eventually repelled by Kurdish forces with the help of U.S. airstrikes. Enhw UN agency report shows Iran mostly complying with nuke deal
A soccer game bringing Mus stanley water bottle lim imams and Christian priests shoulder to shoulder on a field in Norway was canceled Saturday because the teams could not agree on whether women priests should take part.The game was to mark the end of a daylong Shoulder to Shoulder conference in Oslo that encouraged religious dialogue between the two faiths.Church of Norway spokesman Olav Fykse Tveit said differences began when the imams refused to play against a mixed-gender team of priests because it would have gone against their religious beliefs in avoiding close physical contact with women. We found that out two days before, but because we thought it would be a nice conclusion of the conference we did stanley cup n t want to call it off, so we decided to stage an all-mens team game instead, he said.But when the church decided to drop its female players, the priest team captain walked out in protest. Just hours before Saturday s scheduled game, the church released a statement saying it had called it off because it was sending the wrong signal. We realize now that it will be wrong to have a priest team without women... The reactions we have had today shows us that this is being interpreted as a gender-political issue. This is why we cannot go through with the soccer match. Fykse Tveit said tha stanley deutschland t, despite the differences on the field, one very good lesson we ve learned from this is that when we cooperate, we also enter each others boundaries, and that s a positive thing.

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MEXICO CITY - Mexicorsquo president is considering canceling next weekrsquo visit to Washington following President Donald Trumprsquo order to begin construction of a wall between the two countries, a senior official said Wednesday.But President Enrique Pena Nieto, while he did not directly mention the trip in a speech late Wednesday, appeared not to rule out going.He air force 1 said he would await reports from the high-level team of Mexican officials currently meeting with Trump administration officials in Washington.Based on the final report from the Mexican officials who are in Washington right now ... I will make decisions about what to do next, Pena Nieto said. President Trump signs adidas campus order to build U.S.-Mexico border wall 07:55 Pena Nieto said he regrets and condemns the decision to build the wall, saying I have said time and time again, Mexico will not pay for any wall. He said he had issued an order to designate the 50 Mexican consulates in the U.S. as defense centers to protect the rights of Mexican naitonals in the U.S.Mexico offers and demands re crocs spect, he said.But Pena Nieto held out an olive branch, saying Mexico re-affirms its friendship with the people of the United States, and its willingness to reach agreements with i Rtkb Baltic Sea pipeline leaks will have significant detrimental impact on climate, researchers say
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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LONDON -- The World Health Organization s chief says she will convene an expert committee to consider whether the Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics should proceed as planned, following concerns raised about the threat of the Zika virus. asics outlets 20 alarming facts about the Zika virus asics 21 photos In a request last month, U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen asked WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan to evaluate whether the Rio Games this year should be delayed or postponed. Chan said in a letter released by Shaheen on Friday that WHO has sent senior scientists to Brazil four times to asse adidas campus 80s ss the risk of Zika to the approximately 500,000 athletes and visitors expected to attend the Aug. 5-21 games in Brazil.Brazil has been the hardest-hit of the approximately 60 nations that have reported Zika outbreaks - and has by far the most cases of brain-damaged babies linked to the virus, almost 1,500.Complete Olympics coverage on CBSSports Given the current level of international concern, I have decided to ask members of the Zika Emergency Committee to examine the risks of holding the Olympic Summer Games as currently scheduled, Chan wrote. CDC director on protecting pregnant women Ipaj China doesn t understand U.S. feeling of insecurity
In a crucial step heralded as a fresh start to peacemaking, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas promised Tuesday to halt all acts of violence and agreed to m stanley flask eet again soon to tackle the tougher issues that for decades have blocked the road to peace.But even as the men shook hands and Sharon talked of a new spirit, signs of doubt cast themselves over the apparent move toward peace. A report came in of a Palestinian break in the accord. The Israeli military says Palestinians opened fire on a car near a Jewish settlement on the West Bank and threw firebombs a stanley flasche t troops that came to investigate. No injuries are reported.Still, Palestinian foreign minister Nabil Shaath predicts compliance with the cease-fire will be complete and comprehensive. Even if their cease-fire pledge sticks, much negotiating lies ahead as the two sides work to rebuild the trust destroyed in four years of deadly attacks. What we agreed upon today is simply the beginning of the process of bridging the gap, Abbas said after his first face-to-face meeting with Sharon since succeeding Yasser Arafat. The Palestinian leader made clear the two sides have yet to wade into more fundamental issues, including control of Jerusalem and the settlements, the release of prisoners, the wall. The last time the two men met mdash; a year and a half ago mdash; the U.S. stage-managed the event and Yasir Arafat was pulling the strings, notes CBS News Corres stanley cup pondent David Hawkins. A

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PARIS -- France s Culture Ministry has denied actressJulie Gayet a coveted spot at a prestigious French cultural i nike air force nstitution overreports that she s having an affair with the president.An official with the ministry says Gayet was nominated for the jury at the Villa Medicis, a French state-owned institution in Rome. Culture Minister Aurelie Filippetti rejected the nomination Wednesday, the official said, without giving a reason. The official was not authorized to be publicly named.The decision came a day after French President Francois Hollande s news conference where he admitted to problems in his love life but ref air max used to comment on the affair. French president-elect Francois Hollande embraces his companion Valerie Trierweiler after greeting crowds gathered to celebrate his election victory in Bastille Square in Paris, France, Sunday, May 6, 2012. Francois Mori, AP But the person who ma nike dunks panda y be taking news of the alleged affair hardest is Hollande s first lady, journalist Valerie Trierweiler. She has been hospitalized since Friday, when the tabloid magazine Closer published photos it said proved Hollande s liaison with actress Gayet. The question on many French lips this week is not, How could Francois Hollande have done such a thing but rather, Do we really need a first lady That s in part a reflection of a French willingness to forgive infidelity by men in public offi Ulan North Korea fires two apparent cruise missiles, the latest launches in its recent testing flurry
Sudan s president agreed Friday to release a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and two Chadians jailed on charges of espionage after meeting with a U.S. governor, a spokesman for the governor said.Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico secured the release of Chicago Tribune journalist Paul Salopek, his driver and interpreter on humanitarian grounds after meeting with President Omar al-Bashir at the president stanley kubek s palace soon after the governor arrived in Khartoum, said Richardson s spokesman Pahl Shipley.Richardson was scheduled on Saturday to pick up Salopek and his colleagues, who were in custody in the war-torn region of Darfur. The Sudanese government confirmed the release but did not provide additional comment. I emphasized to the President that releasing these men was the right thing to do because Paul Salopek is not a spy, he is my constituent and a respected journalist who was attempting to do his job telling the story of the people, cu stanley flask lture and history of the sub-Saharan region known as the Sahel, Richardson said in a written statement.Salopek, who has a home in New Mexico, was on assignment for National Geographic Magazine when he was arrested last month and charged with espionage, passing information illegally, writing false news and entering the African country witho stanley tumbler ut a visa. His trial was set to resume Sunday before a judge in the North Darfur capital of el-Fasher. His wife, Linda, had traveled with Richardson to Sudan to help secure his release, Shi

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BEIRUT -- It took a garbage crisis for Lebanon to finally snap.Anger about the heaps of trash accumulating in Beirut s streets boiled over this week with thousands protesting in the street against a government so dysfunctional it can t hold elections or pick a president, much less deliver basic services.While surviving the Arab Spring and neighboring Syria s civil war relatively unscathed, tiny Lebanon could find itself plunging into renewed chaos if furt adidas campus femme her violence tears across the capital. And its politicians, many of them warlords from the country s own brutal 15-year civil war, may be sweating through the end of this long, hot Arab summer. It shows the Lebanese society to some extent catching up with the rest of the Arab world in terms of popular protests against the central government, said Rami Khou adidas samba ri, a senior fellow at the Issam Fares Institute at the American University of Beirut.In many ways, Lebanon never got over its civil war, which raged from 1975 until 1990. Some of the country s aging warlords passed on their power to their sons and relatives. Consecutive governments neglected to improve the country s infrastructure, leading to chronic water shortages and electricity cuts even now, 25 y adidas samba og ears after the war ended. From the archives: Trouble in Lebanon 01:41 These longstanding grievan Yfkl Battles rage in Damascus as Syria cuts Internet
More than 10,000 Afghan and coalition forces have begun a massive anti-Taliban operation across southern Afghanistan, the largest offensive stanley mug since the 2001 invasion that toppled the former regime, according to the U.S. military.U.S. military officials say troops are moving forward with large-scale operations in four southern provinces, Uruzgan, Helmand, Kandahar and Zabul.As the offensive began, suspected militants continued their attacks against the coalition.A bomb hidden on a bus carrying Afghan laborers to a coalition base in southern Kandahar city exploded Th stanley cup ursday, killing 10 workers and wounding 15. Coalition spokesman Maj. Quentin Innis said the explosion clearly targeted Afghans working for the coalition.The military offensive, dubbed Operation Mountain Thrust, is part of a major push to squeeze Taliban fighters responsible for a spate of ambushes and suicide attacks against coalition forces and Afghan authorities in recent months. The operation was also timed to coincide with the upcoming transfer this summer of command in the south from the U.S.-led coalition to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force. There is no scheduled end date to Mountain Thrust. The Coalition will continue operations well into the summer and until objectives are met, the statement said.The offensive is focused on souther gourde stanley n Uruzgan and northeastern Helmand provinces, where the military says most of the militant forces have gathered. Operations also will be conducted in