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ALEPPO, Syria -- Desperate to escape Syria s terrors, Ammar Maarawi bolted. In early 2016, he paid smugglers and endured a dangerous sea crossing to Greece and an exhausting journey by train, mizuno laufschuhe bus and foot through Europe.Two years later, the 36-year-old is back home in Aleppo. He returned last summer - depressed, homesick and dreading another winter, he couldn t bear life in the German city of Suhl.Germany, he said, was boring, boring, boring. Maarawi is among a small number of refugees who have come back to Syria from among the more than 5.4 million who fled their homeland since the civil war erupted in 2011. So far, they are just a trickle, numbering in the tens of thousands. The United Nations and host governments in Europe are not encouraging returns, saying the country is not safe. Young Syrian refugee writes book detailing harrowing experiences 02:48 But the stream of returnees may grow over the coming year as stability returns to Syria and as hostility grows to refugees in host nations. The Russia- and Iran-backed military of President Bashar Assad has retaken almost all major cities, and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syri air max plus a I nike air force SIS has been driven out of almost all the territory it once held. Motivations for going back are many. Simple homesickness is one. Many refugees have burned thr Upbo Syria releases 2 Americans detained at protests
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton talked tough on her first overseas trip as America s top diplomat, delivering a sharp warning to North Korea on Tuesday over its threat to conduct a missile test.As she wound down a long day of official events in Tokyo before preparing for the next leg of her Asia tour in Indonesia, Clinton said North Korea s threatened missile test would harm its prospects for improved relations with the United States and other neighbors. The possible missile launch that North Korea is talking ab stanley cups uk out would be very unhelpful in moving our relationship forward, she said, adding that if Pyongyang wants to end its isolation, it would have to act on pledges made to previous Bush administration negotiators stanley tumblers to scale back its nuclear weapons efforts. The de stanley uk cision as to whether North Korea will cooperate in the six-party talks, end provocative language and actions is up to them and we are watching very closely, Clinton said, referring to North Korea s continuing talks with the U.S. and four other major nations over efforts to nudge the North to abandon nuclear weapons.Clinton s first day of talks with Japanese officials to reaffirm the U.S.-Japan alliance was overshadowed by North Korea s rhetoric. Japan, too, is concerned about North Korean intentions, and its diplomats, along with envoys from the U.S., China, Russia and South Korea, have been involved in the six-nation talks that were to resume later this week in Moscow. If North Korea abides by th
ALEPPO, Syria -- Desperate to escape Syria s terrors, Ammar Maarawi bolted. In early 2016, he paid smugglers and endured a dangerous sea crossing to Greece and an exhausting journey by train, mizuno laufschuhe bus and foot through Europe.Two years later, the 36-year-old is back home in Aleppo. He returned last summer - depressed, homesick and dreading another winter, he couldn t bear life in the German city of Suhl.Germany, he said, was boring, boring, boring. Maarawi is among a small number of refugees who have come back to Syria from among the more than 5.4 million who fled their homeland since the civil war erupted in 2011. So far, they are just a trickle, numbering in the tens of thousands. The United Nations and host governments in Europe are not encouraging returns, saying the country is not safe. Young Syrian refugee writes book detailing harrowing experiences 02:48 But the stream of returnees may grow over the coming year as stability returns to Syria and as hostility grows to refugees in host nations. The Russia- and Iran-backed military of President Bashar Assad has retaken almost all major cities, and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syri air max plus a I nike air force SIS has been driven out of almost all the territory it once held. Motivations for going back are many. Simple homesickness is one. Many refugees have burned thr Upbo Syria releases 2 Americans detained at protests
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton talked tough on her first overseas trip as America s top diplomat, delivering a sharp warning to North Korea on Tuesday over its threat to conduct a missile test.As she wound down a long day of official events in Tokyo before preparing for the next leg of her Asia tour in Indonesia, Clinton said North Korea s threatened missile test would harm its prospects for improved relations with the United States and other neighbors. The possible missile launch that North Korea is talking ab stanley cups uk out would be very unhelpful in moving our relationship forward, she said, adding that if Pyongyang wants to end its isolation, it would have to act on pledges made to previous Bush administration negotiators stanley tumblers to scale back its nuclear weapons efforts. The de stanley uk cision as to whether North Korea will cooperate in the six-party talks, end provocative language and actions is up to them and we are watching very closely, Clinton said, referring to North Korea s continuing talks with the U.S. and four other major nations over efforts to nudge the North to abandon nuclear weapons.Clinton s first day of talks with Japanese officials to reaffirm the U.S.-Japan alliance was overshadowed by North Korea s rhetoric. Japan, too, is concerned about North Korean intentions, and its diplomats, along with envoys from the U.S., China, Russia and South Korea, have been involved in the six-nation talks that were to resume later this week in Moscow. If North Korea abides by th
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BREAKING NEWS: The U.S. launched cruise missiles against a Syrian regime target in retaliation for a chemical attack.In a televised statement, Mr. Trump said he authorized the airstrike because it is in the vital, national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the use of deadly chemical weapons. After changing his position on Syrian President Bashar Assad staying in power earlier Thursday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson briefed President Trump on military options in Syria. In an impromptu press conference, Tillerson said adidas samba herren of Assad, It will seem that there would be no role for him to govern the Syrian people. When asked about a possibility ofremoving Assad, Tillerson replied Those steps are underway. Live Updates all times Eastern 2:49 a.m.:A communication link between the U.S. and Russia used to protect their pilots flying sorties over Syria was used ahead of an American missile strike on the country.The so-called deconfliction line is operated by the U.S. military s Central Command at the sprawling al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar. It serves as a crucial link to make sure the increasingly crowded Syrian airspace doesn t see any accidental collisions or attacks on each other. Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis says: U.S. military planners took precautions adidas campus beige to minimize risk to Russian or Syrian personnel located at the airfield targeted in Syria s Homs province. U.S. Central Command did not immediately respond adidas originals mujer to an Associated Press query on sp Wwyq Foreign investment in U.S. dropping dramatically under Trump
Spain s Crown Prince Felipe married former TV anchorwoman Letizia Ortiz on Saturday as tens of thousands of people lined the streets outside to catch a glimpse of the new princess - the first commoner in line to be queen in Spanish history.The archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, pronounced the couple husband and wife at Almudena Cathedral in what was Spain s first royal wedding in 98 years. Previous weddings took place abroad.Just one year after she started dating the prince, Ortiz, a 31-year-old divorcee, now has the title of Princess Letizia of Asturias.In his ho stanley mug mily, Rouco Varela urged the couple not to be intimidated by the enormous responsibility of being heirs to the Spanish throne. Fear not these extraordinary demands, he said. You are not alone in your path. Their majesties the king and queen of Spain, the royal family, your relatives and loved ones, the good people of Spain, are with you. The congregation of some 1,400 royals and other dignitaries included Britain s Prince Charles, former South African President Nelson Mandela and Jordan s Queen Rania.The prince met Ortiz at a dinner party in late 2002 and they started dating sec stanley cup retly the following spring. Word of their engagement in November took the country by surprise, though polls suggest Spaniards don t mind that Ortiz is a divorcee and has no royal blood.Torrential rain fell as Ortiz entered the church, and thunder sounded during the wedding stanley cup Mass. She wore an off-white gown with
BREAKING NEWS: The U.S. launched cruise missiles against a Syrian regime target in retaliation for a chemical attack.In a televised statement, Mr. Trump said he authorized the airstrike because it is in the vital, national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the use of deadly chemical weapons. After changing his position on Syrian President Bashar Assad staying in power earlier Thursday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson briefed President Trump on military options in Syria. In an impromptu press conference, Tillerson said adidas samba herren of Assad, It will seem that there would be no role for him to govern the Syrian people. When asked about a possibility ofremoving Assad, Tillerson replied Those steps are underway. Live Updates all times Eastern 2:49 a.m.:A communication link between the U.S. and Russia used to protect their pilots flying sorties over Syria was used ahead of an American missile strike on the country.The so-called deconfliction line is operated by the U.S. military s Central Command at the sprawling al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar. It serves as a crucial link to make sure the increasingly crowded Syrian airspace doesn t see any accidental collisions or attacks on each other. Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis says: U.S. military planners took precautions adidas campus beige to minimize risk to Russian or Syrian personnel located at the airfield targeted in Syria s Homs province. U.S. Central Command did not immediately respond adidas originals mujer to an Associated Press query on sp Wwyq Foreign investment in U.S. dropping dramatically under Trump
Spain s Crown Prince Felipe married former TV anchorwoman Letizia Ortiz on Saturday as tens of thousands of people lined the streets outside to catch a glimpse of the new princess - the first commoner in line to be queen in Spanish history.The archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, pronounced the couple husband and wife at Almudena Cathedral in what was Spain s first royal wedding in 98 years. Previous weddings took place abroad.Just one year after she started dating the prince, Ortiz, a 31-year-old divorcee, now has the title of Princess Letizia of Asturias.In his ho stanley mug mily, Rouco Varela urged the couple not to be intimidated by the enormous responsibility of being heirs to the Spanish throne. Fear not these extraordinary demands, he said. You are not alone in your path. Their majesties the king and queen of Spain, the royal family, your relatives and loved ones, the good people of Spain, are with you. The congregation of some 1,400 royals and other dignitaries included Britain s Prince Charles, former South African President Nelson Mandela and Jordan s Queen Rania.The prince met Ortiz at a dinner party in late 2002 and they started dating sec stanley cup retly the following spring. Word of their engagement in November took the country by surprise, though polls suggest Spaniards don t mind that Ortiz is a divorcee and has no royal blood.Torrential rain fell as Ortiz entered the church, and thunder sounded during the wedding stanley cup Mass. She wore an off-white gown with
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VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis got a cake, cards and a tango demonstrati adidas samba og on for his 78th birthday Wednesday -- and 1,760 pounds of chicken meat for the poor.The Vatican said Wednesday the meat, provided by a Spanish producer, would be distributed to soup kitchens.Francis also g air max 2 reeted eight homeless people bearing sunflowers during his Wednesday general audience, held under bright sunny skies in St. Peter s Square.The pope s birthday fell on the same day that Cuba released American prisoner Alan Gross and the U.S. and Cuba announced they were taking steps to normalize relations for the first time in 50 years. Both Pr salomon hombre esident Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro said Wednesday that Pope Francis and the Vatican were instrumental in diplomatic developments.In recent months, the pope sent Mr. Obama and Castro a letter, urging them to resolve the Gross situation. The Vatican also hosted U.S. and Cuban delegations over the fall to review the final diplomatic terms that were announced Wednesday. When Mr. Obama spoke in person with Pope Francis earlier this year, according to administration officials, they talked about Cuba more than anything else. As the pope drove around in an open-air car to greet the crowds, children handed up birthday cards they had made for him. Francis asked one: Did you make this It s good! Others held up signs saying Feliz Cumpleanos Happy Birthday in Spanish and sang to him.Outside the square, dozens of couples danced the tango, the Argentine pop Fevt Merchant of Death arms dealer gets 25 years
AP An Iraqi man cleans up a picture showing a page of the Quran in a destroyed house in Fallujah, Iraq, Oct. 8, 2004, after a U.S. air strike. The strike on the Sunni rebel-held city killed at least 13 people and wounded 17 at a wedding party, according to hospital sources. AP American soldiers stop near an open sewer while driving through a residential area near Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 8, 2004. The soldiers w stanley cupe ere from the U.S. Army s 1st Cavalry Division. AP Local residents examine the debris after houses were flattened in an overnight U.S. air strike in Fallujah, Iraq, Oct. 8, 2004. AP An i stanley thermosflasche njured Iraqi man is comforted at the hospital in Fallujah, Iraq, Oct. 8, 2004, after an U.S. air strike on the Sunni city. stanley cup AP A fire burns outside the Sheraton Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, after several explosions and gunfire erupted outside the hotel, which houses foreigners and journalists, Oct. 7, 2004.
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis got a cake, cards and a tango demonstrati adidas samba og on for his 78th birthday Wednesday -- and 1,760 pounds of chicken meat for the poor.The Vatican said Wednesday the meat, provided by a Spanish producer, would be distributed to soup kitchens.Francis also g air max 2 reeted eight homeless people bearing sunflowers during his Wednesday general audience, held under bright sunny skies in St. Peter s Square.The pope s birthday fell on the same day that Cuba released American prisoner Alan Gross and the U.S. and Cuba announced they were taking steps to normalize relations for the first time in 50 years. Both Pr salomon hombre esident Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro said Wednesday that Pope Francis and the Vatican were instrumental in diplomatic developments.In recent months, the pope sent Mr. Obama and Castro a letter, urging them to resolve the Gross situation. The Vatican also hosted U.S. and Cuban delegations over the fall to review the final diplomatic terms that were announced Wednesday. When Mr. Obama spoke in person with Pope Francis earlier this year, according to administration officials, they talked about Cuba more than anything else. As the pope drove around in an open-air car to greet the crowds, children handed up birthday cards they had made for him. Francis asked one: Did you make this It s good! Others held up signs saying Feliz Cumpleanos Happy Birthday in Spanish and sang to him.Outside the square, dozens of couples danced the tango, the Argentine pop Fevt Merchant of Death arms dealer gets 25 years
AP An Iraqi man cleans up a picture showing a page of the Quran in a destroyed house in Fallujah, Iraq, Oct. 8, 2004, after a U.S. air strike. The strike on the Sunni rebel-held city killed at least 13 people and wounded 17 at a wedding party, according to hospital sources. AP American soldiers stop near an open sewer while driving through a residential area near Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 8, 2004. The soldiers w stanley cupe ere from the U.S. Army s 1st Cavalry Division. AP Local residents examine the debris after houses were flattened in an overnight U.S. air strike in Fallujah, Iraq, Oct. 8, 2004. AP An i stanley thermosflasche njured Iraqi man is comforted at the hospital in Fallujah, Iraq, Oct. 8, 2004, after an U.S. air strike on the Sunni city. stanley cup AP A fire burns outside the Sheraton Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, after several explosions and gunfire erupted outside the hotel, which houses foreigners and journalists, Oct. 7, 2004.
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MEXICO CITY -- After Donald Trump s recent Mexico-bashing comments, Mexicans are engaging in a little Trump-bashing of their own.Call it revenge, Mexican style.Artisan Dalton Avalos Ramirez has launched a Trump pinata, featuring The Donald s inimitable hairstyle and a big, big mouth.The papier-mache figure air max will come in a variety of sizes. The first was on display at the Pinatas Ramirez store in the border city of Reynosa.Avalos Ramirez said he created it because of the hatred Trump expressed for the Mexican people. adidas samba Mexico may quit Miss Universe pageant after Donald Trump s comments 00:22 He said, People want to burn the pinatas, they want to break them. People are angry. During his presidential campaign kickoff speech last week, Trump accused Mexican immigrants of bringing drugs, crime and rapists to the U.S.It isn t the first pinata the Ramirez store has made of a controversial figure. Avalos Ramirez said he made Miley Cyrus models after the singer used a Mexican flag adidas originals hamburg against her buttocks prosthesis during a show in 2014.Previous pinata-worthy figures included Kim Kardashian and Dutch soccer player Arjen Robben, who knocked Mexico out of the 2014 World Cup on a questioned penalty.Traditionally, children in Mexico use sticks to break open candy-filled pinatas on birthdays and holidays. Zejx Argentine woman reunited with grandson stolen 36 years ago
Three stolen paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Paul Gauguin may have been recovered near the art gallery where the theft occurred, police said Monday.Acting on an anonymous tip, officers discovered three paintings rolled in a tube near a public toilet close to Whitworth Art Galle gourde stanley ry in Manchester, northern England.Greater Manchester Police said the artworks were taken to the gallery for safekeeping and examination by an expert.A major investigation was launched after staff noticed the paintings were missing shortly before the gallery was due to open on Sunday. The works have an estimated total valu stanley cup e of $1.6 millio cups stanley n.Police said they could have been taken any time after 9 p.m. on Saturday. They named the works as Van Gogh s The Fortifications of Paris with Houses, painted in 1878, Picasso s Poverty, painted in 1903 and Gauguin s Tahitian Landscape, painted between 1891 and 1893.The gallery has a collection of 40,000 works of art. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-97417a04-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-97417a04-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-97417a04-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;
MEXICO CITY -- After Donald Trump s recent Mexico-bashing comments, Mexicans are engaging in a little Trump-bashing of their own.Call it revenge, Mexican style.Artisan Dalton Avalos Ramirez has launched a Trump pinata, featuring The Donald s inimitable hairstyle and a big, big mouth.The papier-mache figure air max will come in a variety of sizes. The first was on display at the Pinatas Ramirez store in the border city of Reynosa.Avalos Ramirez said he created it because of the hatred Trump expressed for the Mexican people. adidas samba Mexico may quit Miss Universe pageant after Donald Trump s comments 00:22 He said, People want to burn the pinatas, they want to break them. People are angry. During his presidential campaign kickoff speech last week, Trump accused Mexican immigrants of bringing drugs, crime and rapists to the U.S.It isn t the first pinata the Ramirez store has made of a controversial figure. Avalos Ramirez said he made Miley Cyrus models after the singer used a Mexican flag adidas originals hamburg against her buttocks prosthesis during a show in 2014.Previous pinata-worthy figures included Kim Kardashian and Dutch soccer player Arjen Robben, who knocked Mexico out of the 2014 World Cup on a questioned penalty.Traditionally, children in Mexico use sticks to break open candy-filled pinatas on birthdays and holidays. Zejx Argentine woman reunited with grandson stolen 36 years ago
Three stolen paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Paul Gauguin may have been recovered near the art gallery where the theft occurred, police said Monday.Acting on an anonymous tip, officers discovered three paintings rolled in a tube near a public toilet close to Whitworth Art Galle gourde stanley ry in Manchester, northern England.Greater Manchester Police said the artworks were taken to the gallery for safekeeping and examination by an expert.A major investigation was launched after staff noticed the paintings were missing shortly before the gallery was due to open on Sunday. The works have an estimated total valu stanley cup e of $1.6 millio cups stanley n.Police said they could have been taken any time after 9 p.m. on Saturday. They named the works as Van Gogh s The Fortifications of Paris with Houses, painted in 1878, Picasso s Poverty, painted in 1903 and Gauguin s Tahitian Landscape, painted between 1891 and 1893.The gallery has a collection of 40,000 works of art. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-97417a04-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-97417a04-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-97417a04-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;
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HARARE, Zimbabwe --In a euphoric gathering that just days ago would have drawn a police crackdown, crowds marched through Zimbabwe s capital on Saturday to demand the departure of President Robert Mugabe, one of Africa s last remaining liberation leaders, after nearly four dec adidas yeezyslide ades in power.Euphoric crowds chanted He must go! as they waved placards demanding Mugabe s resignation. People sat on top of cars and buses holding Zimbabwean flags, BBC News correspondent Andrew Harding reports. This is a revolution, said one man joining the protests. It has been a long time coming. We just want change, a woman told Harding. Others spoke of the country s deep economic problems and its soaring unemployment. They hope that a change of leadership might improve people s lives.In the first public outpouring since the military put Mugabe under house arrest earlier in the week, the bulk of Harare s population of about 1.6 million appea crocs absatz red to be in the streets. The army held back thousands who gathered near the State House, home to official functions, while others headed toward Mugabe s lavish mansion. Supporters of Tajamuka Sesijikisile SA, The African Democrats Opposition Party, the Zimbabwe Communist Party, the Zimbabwe Diaspora Coal adidas campus ition and other groups attend a rally at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa, to call for the resignation of Zimbabwe s President, on November 18, 2017. Gulshan Khan / AFP/Getty Qqsv As Afghanistan s provincial capitals fall to the Taliban, Biden remains quiet
The markets in the Central African Republic offer all of the jungle s delicacies, including monkey, chimpanzee, antelope and, if you have the cash, even elephant.Hunters kill the elephants and cut off the ivory. Then, over grills fueled with green tree branches, they smoke the meat for a day, charring the outside to preserve it for the trip to town. The main market is in Africa, where elephant meat is considered a delicacy and where increasing po stanley website pulations have increased demand.Most people believe international demand for ivory is the biggest threat to elephants. But while wildlife experts are meeting in the Netherlands through June 16 to discuss the ban on the ivory trade, forest elephants mdash; perhaps the most endangered elephant species in the world mdash; are being hunted to extinction not only for their tusks, but for their stanley us meat. These elephants get poached a lot more than the eastern and southern African elephants, sai stanley website d Karl Amman, a wildlife photographer and investigator into the illegal trade in animals. I am convinced the poaching of forest elephants in the Central African region is for the meat and ivory has become a byproduct. In the markets of Bangui, ivory earns a poacher about $13.60 a pound. Smoked elephant meat brings $5.45 a pound, considerably more than any other kind of meat, including beef or pork. A typical forest elephant, which weighs 5,000 to 6,000 pounds and produces 1,000 or so pounds of edible meat, can earn a poacher up to $180 for the
HARARE, Zimbabwe --In a euphoric gathering that just days ago would have drawn a police crackdown, crowds marched through Zimbabwe s capital on Saturday to demand the departure of President Robert Mugabe, one of Africa s last remaining liberation leaders, after nearly four dec adidas yeezyslide ades in power.Euphoric crowds chanted He must go! as they waved placards demanding Mugabe s resignation. People sat on top of cars and buses holding Zimbabwean flags, BBC News correspondent Andrew Harding reports. This is a revolution, said one man joining the protests. It has been a long time coming. We just want change, a woman told Harding. Others spoke of the country s deep economic problems and its soaring unemployment. They hope that a change of leadership might improve people s lives.In the first public outpouring since the military put Mugabe under house arrest earlier in the week, the bulk of Harare s population of about 1.6 million appea crocs absatz red to be in the streets. The army held back thousands who gathered near the State House, home to official functions, while others headed toward Mugabe s lavish mansion. Supporters of Tajamuka Sesijikisile SA, The African Democrats Opposition Party, the Zimbabwe Communist Party, the Zimbabwe Diaspora Coal adidas campus ition and other groups attend a rally at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa, to call for the resignation of Zimbabwe s President, on November 18, 2017. Gulshan Khan / AFP/Getty Qqsv As Afghanistan s provincial capitals fall to the Taliban, Biden remains quiet
The markets in the Central African Republic offer all of the jungle s delicacies, including monkey, chimpanzee, antelope and, if you have the cash, even elephant.Hunters kill the elephants and cut off the ivory. Then, over grills fueled with green tree branches, they smoke the meat for a day, charring the outside to preserve it for the trip to town. The main market is in Africa, where elephant meat is considered a delicacy and where increasing po stanley website pulations have increased demand.Most people believe international demand for ivory is the biggest threat to elephants. But while wildlife experts are meeting in the Netherlands through June 16 to discuss the ban on the ivory trade, forest elephants mdash; perhaps the most endangered elephant species in the world mdash; are being hunted to extinction not only for their tusks, but for their stanley us meat. These elephants get poached a lot more than the eastern and southern African elephants, sai stanley website d Karl Amman, a wildlife photographer and investigator into the illegal trade in animals. I am convinced the poaching of forest elephants in the Central African region is for the meat and ivory has become a byproduct. In the markets of Bangui, ivory earns a poacher about $13.60 a pound. Smoked elephant meat brings $5.45 a pound, considerably more than any other kind of meat, including beef or pork. A typical forest elephant, which weighs 5,000 to 6,000 pounds and produces 1,000 or so pounds of edible meat, can earn a poacher up to $180 for the
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PARIS -- The European Union prepared a $15 billion aid package to Ukraine on Wednesday and froze the assets of 18 people blamed for looting the treasury of the nearly mizuno handballschuh bankrupt country. The moves came as top diplomats from the West and Russia gathered in Paris to defuse tensions that have approached Cold War levels. Russia-Ukraine tensions 49 photos yeezy CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan reports from Paris that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to tell Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov later Wednesday that there is a peaceful way out. In a possible diplomatic off-ramp, the administration is asking Russia to send its troops back to the barracks, to accept international monitors and to recognize a May election to set up a new government in Ukraine, Brennan reports. Speaking in Madrid just hours before the meetings in Paris, Lavrov reiterated Moscow s stance that Ukraine s newly installed president, and the uprising which forced his predecessor, Kremlin-backed President Viktor Yanukovych, to flee Kiev, were illegitimate. Putin steps back from wider invasion of Ukra crocs badelatschen ine 02:49 Nvpq NYPD report: Just 4 al-Shabab gunmen with AK-47s staged Kenya Westgate mall attack
MOSCOW - Thousands of protesters held hands to form a 10-mile human chain encircling central Moscow on Sunday to keep u kubki stanley p the pressure on Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as he prepares to extend his rule for six more years.Putin, who was Russia s president from 2000 to 2008, is running for a third, now six-year term in a March 4 election. He is expected to win easily against four Kremlin-approved challengers, but an unprecedented wave of protests has undermined his image as a strong leader who rules with broad public support.Sunday s protest appeared to have drawn close to the 34,000 people that opposition activists estimated were needed to complete the chain along the Garden Ring, a wide road that makes a loop around the city center. Almost all of the people standing in the wet snow wore the white ribbons that have become a symbol of the peaceful anti-Putin protest movement.Young Putin supporters also were out on sections of the Garden Ring on Sunday. Wearing heart-shaped red signs around their necks that said Putin loves everyone, they handed out similar ribbons in imitation of the protesters. Some passers-by refused to take the pro-Putin ribbons, which had stripes of white, blue and red like the national flag.The Garden Ring was the scene of protests on two previous S stanley quencher undays, when hundreds of people drove cars decorated with white ribbons and balloons as others waved from the sidewalks and overpasses as they went by, horns blaring. These demonstrations hav stanley website e helped the
PARIS -- The European Union prepared a $15 billion aid package to Ukraine on Wednesday and froze the assets of 18 people blamed for looting the treasury of the nearly mizuno handballschuh bankrupt country. The moves came as top diplomats from the West and Russia gathered in Paris to defuse tensions that have approached Cold War levels. Russia-Ukraine tensions 49 photos yeezy CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan reports from Paris that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to tell Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov later Wednesday that there is a peaceful way out. In a possible diplomatic off-ramp, the administration is asking Russia to send its troops back to the barracks, to accept international monitors and to recognize a May election to set up a new government in Ukraine, Brennan reports. Speaking in Madrid just hours before the meetings in Paris, Lavrov reiterated Moscow s stance that Ukraine s newly installed president, and the uprising which forced his predecessor, Kremlin-backed President Viktor Yanukovych, to flee Kiev, were illegitimate. Putin steps back from wider invasion of Ukra crocs badelatschen ine 02:49 Nvpq NYPD report: Just 4 al-Shabab gunmen with AK-47s staged Kenya Westgate mall attack
MOSCOW - Thousands of protesters held hands to form a 10-mile human chain encircling central Moscow on Sunday to keep u kubki stanley p the pressure on Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as he prepares to extend his rule for six more years.Putin, who was Russia s president from 2000 to 2008, is running for a third, now six-year term in a March 4 election. He is expected to win easily against four Kremlin-approved challengers, but an unprecedented wave of protests has undermined his image as a strong leader who rules with broad public support.Sunday s protest appeared to have drawn close to the 34,000 people that opposition activists estimated were needed to complete the chain along the Garden Ring, a wide road that makes a loop around the city center. Almost all of the people standing in the wet snow wore the white ribbons that have become a symbol of the peaceful anti-Putin protest movement.Young Putin supporters also were out on sections of the Garden Ring on Sunday. Wearing heart-shaped red signs around their necks that said Putin loves everyone, they handed out similar ribbons in imitation of the protesters. Some passers-by refused to take the pro-Putin ribbons, which had stripes of white, blue and red like the national flag.The Garden Ring was the scene of protests on two previous S stanley quencher undays, when hundreds of people drove cars decorated with white ribbons and balloons as others waved from the sidewalks and overpasses as they went by, horns blaring. These demonstrations hav stanley website e helped the
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Northern Syria mdash; Russian troops have taken command of a U.S. airbase in northern Syria mdash; and without firing a shot. Russian state media showed commandos staging what looked like a military invasion.Choppers descending onto the dusty runway, troops taking up combat positions. The Russians are playing up the takeover of the Kobani airfield as a victory.The former U.S. airbase that served as the main logist adidas sambarose ical hub for America s fight against ISIS, now with the Russian flag flying above it.The nike dunk low Russians moved in just a day after U.S. forces moved out, leaving behind barracks, beds, abandoned medical supplies and the skeleton of a gym with weights removed, to render it useless. Russians have taken command of the Kobani airfield in northern Syria. CBS News The same can t be said of the runway, however. An American-made landing strip now under Russian management. It s the second major military expansion in this region in as many days, after Russia announced i adidas samba t had opened up a new helicopter base in Qamishli, which, like Kobani, is also on the Turkish border.The repositioning of U.S. troops mean their footprint has been reduced to patrolling oil fields while partnering with America s Kurdish allies on the ground.Even top Kurdish commander Mazloum Kobani lamented that the sudden U.S. retreat left him no choice but to turn to the Russians.In an interview with Bskd Shock And Awe Throttles Iraq
CBS/AP BEIRUT - The death toll from a car bomb in Syria s largest city has risen to 30, state media said Monday, as the new international envoy to the country said the Syrian people are desperate to see peace and stability.The Sunday night blast ripped through the northern city of Aleppo, which has become one of the main battlegrounds of the country s civil war. Activists say at least 23,000 people have been killed since the conflict erupted in March 2011.On Monday, the ne stanley cup w U.N.-Arab League envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, said he will travel to Syria this week to meet with regime officials as well as civil society. I answer to no one except the Syrian people, Brahimi told reporters in Cairo, where he was meeting with Arab League stanley cup officials and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. Syrians aspire to peace, stability and to realizing their goals of freedom and political progress. Inside a secret Syrian rebel TV channelKofi Annan: The man in the middleWatch: Syrian child survives blast that killed entire family WARNING: Graphic Brahimi, who is tasked with brokering a diplomatic solution to the conflict, replaced former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, w stanley cup ho stepped down in August in frustration after his six-point peace plan collapsed.Also on Monday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world s foremost human rights body to keep up the pressure on major powers to end the civil war and rights abuses in Syria.At the opening of the U.N. Human Rights Council s m
Northern Syria mdash; Russian troops have taken command of a U.S. airbase in northern Syria mdash; and without firing a shot. Russian state media showed commandos staging what looked like a military invasion.Choppers descending onto the dusty runway, troops taking up combat positions. The Russians are playing up the takeover of the Kobani airfield as a victory.The former U.S. airbase that served as the main logist adidas sambarose ical hub for America s fight against ISIS, now with the Russian flag flying above it.The nike dunk low Russians moved in just a day after U.S. forces moved out, leaving behind barracks, beds, abandoned medical supplies and the skeleton of a gym with weights removed, to render it useless. Russians have taken command of the Kobani airfield in northern Syria. CBS News The same can t be said of the runway, however. An American-made landing strip now under Russian management. It s the second major military expansion in this region in as many days, after Russia announced i adidas samba t had opened up a new helicopter base in Qamishli, which, like Kobani, is also on the Turkish border.The repositioning of U.S. troops mean their footprint has been reduced to patrolling oil fields while partnering with America s Kurdish allies on the ground.Even top Kurdish commander Mazloum Kobani lamented that the sudden U.S. retreat left him no choice but to turn to the Russians.In an interview with Bskd Shock And Awe Throttles Iraq
CBS/AP BEIRUT - The death toll from a car bomb in Syria s largest city has risen to 30, state media said Monday, as the new international envoy to the country said the Syrian people are desperate to see peace and stability.The Sunday night blast ripped through the northern city of Aleppo, which has become one of the main battlegrounds of the country s civil war. Activists say at least 23,000 people have been killed since the conflict erupted in March 2011.On Monday, the ne stanley cup w U.N.-Arab League envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, said he will travel to Syria this week to meet with regime officials as well as civil society. I answer to no one except the Syrian people, Brahimi told reporters in Cairo, where he was meeting with Arab League stanley cup officials and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. Syrians aspire to peace, stability and to realizing their goals of freedom and political progress. Inside a secret Syrian rebel TV channelKofi Annan: The man in the middleWatch: Syrian child survives blast that killed entire family WARNING: Graphic Brahimi, who is tasked with brokering a diplomatic solution to the conflict, replaced former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, w stanley cup ho stepped down in August in frustration after his six-point peace plan collapsed.Also on Monday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world s foremost human rights body to keep up the pressure on major powers to end the civil war and rights abuses in Syria.At the opening of the U.N. Human Rights Council s m
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Getting the arms of a hulk almost cost a bodybuilder his life, not because he worked out every day, but because of what he put in his arms.Romario Dos Santos Alves, 25, who lives in Brazil, could have died after injecting a cocktail of oil and alcohol into his biceps. He says it led him to nearly commit suicide when his wife was pregnant and doctors almost had to amputate both his arms. adidas originals forum ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-chil adidas originals hamburg d 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-e5c22fac-17e0-4686-8e47-b05bdce338e3, right-rail- asics recirc-item--id-e5c22fac-17e0-4686-8e47-b05bdce338e3 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-e5c22fac-17e0-4686-8e47-b05bdce338e3 ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block; Ttbv Russian planes patrol U.S. West Coast
DUBLIN stanley cups British prosecutors have charged a 61-year-old Irishman with the Irish Republican Army bombing of the queen s cavalry in Hyde Park in 1982, a strike at a top London tourist attraction that killed four soldiers and seven horses.The Crown Prosecution Service said John Downey was arrested Sunday at Gatwick Airport south of London. He was arraigned Wednesday in a London court on four counts of murder and one count of conspiring to cause an explosion. He offered no plea, and spoke only to confirm his identity. The Troubles of Northern Ireland 16 photos IRA killer s confessions on tape 02:39 stanley cup The Irish nationalist Sinn Fein party accused Britain of violating an agreement not to pursue Downey 151; who had been on a list of IRA suspects on the run from British investigators 151; and demanded his immediate release.Sinn Fein official Gerry Kelly, who once led IRA car-bomb attacks on London, called the arrest vindictive and an act of bad faith that would fuel anger in Irish nationalist parts of Northern Ireland.He said Downey had received a 2007 l stanley uk etter from Britain
Getting the arms of a hulk almost cost a bodybuilder his life, not because he worked out every day, but because of what he put in his arms.Romario Dos Santos Alves, 25, who lives in Brazil, could have died after injecting a cocktail of oil and alcohol into his biceps. He says it led him to nearly commit suicide when his wife was pregnant and doctors almost had to amputate both his arms. adidas originals forum ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-chil adidas originals hamburg d 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-e5c22fac-17e0-4686-8e47-b05bdce338e3, right-rail- asics recirc-item--id-e5c22fac-17e0-4686-8e47-b05bdce338e3 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-e5c22fac-17e0-4686-8e47-b05bdce338e3 ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block; Ttbv Russian planes patrol U.S. West Coast
DUBLIN stanley cups British prosecutors have charged a 61-year-old Irishman with the Irish Republican Army bombing of the queen s cavalry in Hyde Park in 1982, a strike at a top London tourist attraction that killed four soldiers and seven horses.The Crown Prosecution Service said John Downey was arrested Sunday at Gatwick Airport south of London. He was arraigned Wednesday in a London court on four counts of murder and one count of conspiring to cause an explosion. He offered no plea, and spoke only to confirm his identity. The Troubles of Northern Ireland 16 photos IRA killer s confessions on tape 02:39 stanley cup The Irish nationalist Sinn Fein party accused Britain of violating an agreement not to pursue Downey 151; who had been on a list of IRA suspects on the run from British investigators 151; and demanded his immediate release.Sinn Fein official Gerry Kelly, who once led IRA car-bomb attacks on London, called the arrest vindictive and an act of bad faith that would fuel anger in Irish nationalist parts of Northern Ireland.He said Downey had received a 2007 l stanley uk etter from Britain
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MANILA, Philippines - Slow-moving Typhoon Koppu blew ashore with fierce wind in the northeastern Philippines early Sunday, toppling trees and knocking out power and communications. Officials said there were no immediate reports of casualties.Thousands of villagers have been evacuated in the typhoon s path, including in towns prone to flash floods and landslides and coastal villages at risk from destructive storm surges, officials said.After slamming into Casiguran town in Aurora province shortly after midnight, the typhoon weakened slightly and slowed airmaxplus considerably, hemmed in by the Sierra Madre mountain range and a high pressure area in the country s north and another typhoon far out in the Pacific in the east, government forecaster Gladys Saludes said.The center of the storm was moving west at a speed of just 5 miles per hour, slow for a typhoon, she said. It has slowed almost to adiletten original a crawl. We re hoping it would speed up and spare us sooner, said Alexander Pama, who heads the government s main disaster agency that has overseen evacuati nike dunk donna on and pre-deployment of rescue contingents. President Benigno Aquino III and disaster-response agencies have warned that Koppu s rain and wind may potentially bring more damage with its slow speed. But Saludes said there was less heavy rain than expected initially in some areas, including in the capital, Manila, but wind was fierce in many regions.A wayward barge carrying coal and 10 crew drifted dangerously close to a breakwater in Mani Jgtp NATO Launches Huge Afghan Offensive
Investigators said Wednesday a faulty altimeter played an important role in a Turkish Airlines crash that killed 9 people in the Netherlands.The Dutch Safety Authority said the plane was being landed on automatic pilot and the problem with the altimeter, a device that measures altitude, led to a loss of airspeed before the crash.The Boeing 737-800 carrying 135 passengers and crew went down in a muddy field less than a mile short of the runway at Amsterdam s Schiphol Airport shortly before it was due to land on Feb. 25.Chief investigator Pieter van Vollenhoven said the airplane had twice before experienced problems with its altimeter. Boeing has been instructed to warn clients of the problem, he said.At 1,950 feet the airplane s left radio stanley cups altimeter suddenly registered a change in altitude of negative 8 feet. It didn t only register it, but passed it on to the automatic steering system, Van Vollenhoven said. Van Vollenhoven said it was not unusual to land a plane on autopilot.Acc gourde stanley ording to conversation recorded between the plane s captain, first officer and an extra first officer on the flight, the pilots noticed the faulty altimeter but didn t consider it a problem and didn t react, Van Vollenhoven sai stanley cup d.Gas to the engines was reduced and the plane lost speed, decelerating until, at a height of 450 feet the plane was about to stall, and warning systems alerted the pilots. From the black box data recorders it appears that then the pilots immediately gave gas, full
MANILA, Philippines - Slow-moving Typhoon Koppu blew ashore with fierce wind in the northeastern Philippines early Sunday, toppling trees and knocking out power and communications. Officials said there were no immediate reports of casualties.Thousands of villagers have been evacuated in the typhoon s path, including in towns prone to flash floods and landslides and coastal villages at risk from destructive storm surges, officials said.After slamming into Casiguran town in Aurora province shortly after midnight, the typhoon weakened slightly and slowed airmaxplus considerably, hemmed in by the Sierra Madre mountain range and a high pressure area in the country s north and another typhoon far out in the Pacific in the east, government forecaster Gladys Saludes said.The center of the storm was moving west at a speed of just 5 miles per hour, slow for a typhoon, she said. It has slowed almost to adiletten original a crawl. We re hoping it would speed up and spare us sooner, said Alexander Pama, who heads the government s main disaster agency that has overseen evacuati nike dunk donna on and pre-deployment of rescue contingents. President Benigno Aquino III and disaster-response agencies have warned that Koppu s rain and wind may potentially bring more damage with its slow speed. But Saludes said there was less heavy rain than expected initially in some areas, including in the capital, Manila, but wind was fierce in many regions.A wayward barge carrying coal and 10 crew drifted dangerously close to a breakwater in Mani Jgtp NATO Launches Huge Afghan Offensive
Investigators said Wednesday a faulty altimeter played an important role in a Turkish Airlines crash that killed 9 people in the Netherlands.The Dutch Safety Authority said the plane was being landed on automatic pilot and the problem with the altimeter, a device that measures altitude, led to a loss of airspeed before the crash.The Boeing 737-800 carrying 135 passengers and crew went down in a muddy field less than a mile short of the runway at Amsterdam s Schiphol Airport shortly before it was due to land on Feb. 25.Chief investigator Pieter van Vollenhoven said the airplane had twice before experienced problems with its altimeter. Boeing has been instructed to warn clients of the problem, he said.At 1,950 feet the airplane s left radio stanley cups altimeter suddenly registered a change in altitude of negative 8 feet. It didn t only register it, but passed it on to the automatic steering system, Van Vollenhoven said. Van Vollenhoven said it was not unusual to land a plane on autopilot.Acc gourde stanley ording to conversation recorded between the plane s captain, first officer and an extra first officer on the flight, the pilots noticed the faulty altimeter but didn t consider it a problem and didn t react, Van Vollenhoven sai stanley cup d.Gas to the engines was reduced and the plane lost speed, decelerating until, at a height of 450 feet the plane was about to stall, and warning systems alerted the pilots. From the black box data recorders it appears that then the pilots immediately gave gas, full
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Geneva mdash; An exceptionally rare blue diamond went under the hammer in Geneva Tuesday, selling for almost $44 million, making it one of the most expensive diamonds ever sold at auction, Christie s said. Weighing 17.61 carats, the Bleu Royal is the largest internally flawless fancy vivid blue gem ever to appear for sale in auction history. It was the star lot in a series of luxury sales in Geneva this month, which also feature adidas campus items from movie history including pearls worn by Audrey Hepburn and Marlon Brando s self-engraved watch. The Bleu Royal had been expected to fetch between $35 million and $50 million in Christie s Magnificent Jewels auction. This photograph taken on Nov adidas campus . nike af 2, 2023 in Geneva shows the Bleu Royal, a rare 17,61 carats internally flawless fancy vivid blue pear shaped diamond, which fetched nearly $44 million in a Christie s auction on Nov. 7, 2023. PIERRE ALBOUY/AFP/Getty After an intense seven-minute bidding round between three potential buyers, it was snapped up by an anonymous private collector for 39.505 million Swiss francs $43.8 million , including tax and fees. We are extremely pleased, Max Fawcett, Christie s head of jewelry in Geneva, told AFP shortly after the final hammer came down. The gem, he pointed out, had sold for nearly $2.5 million per carat, making it the most expensive jewelry lot sold in all of 2023 by any auction house w Fplh Iran vows quick return to nuclear deal if Biden drops sanctions, as it upgrades uranium enrichment
President Bush appointed a conservative former judge and a moderate former Democratic senator Friday to head a special commission to figure out why inspectors haven t found the weapons that intelligence experts said Saddam Hussein was hiding in Iraq.But as CBS News Correspondent Bill Plante reports, the president s critics say it s nothing more than political window-dressing. And Mr. Bush doesn t have to worry about the findings of his intelligence commission influencing the voters, since it doesn t report for over a year. Some prewar intelligence assessments by America and other nations about Iraq s weapon stockpiles h stanley water bottle ave not been confirmed, Bush said in the White House briefing room. We are determined to figure out why. Democrats reacted to the new commission with skepticism. They wondered whether any panel picked by the president could be impartial, and they said its findings should be reported before, not after, the presidential election. To have a commission appointed exclusively by stanley tumblers President Bush investigate his administration s intelligence failures in Iraq does not inspire confidence in its independence, said House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California. Carl Levin of Michigan, senior Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, said the commission s assignment was diluted with less-than-urgent intelligence matters at the expense of examining exaggerations of that intelligence by the Bush admi stanley termoska nistration. Bush said the panel would be bipartisan mdash;
Geneva mdash; An exceptionally rare blue diamond went under the hammer in Geneva Tuesday, selling for almost $44 million, making it one of the most expensive diamonds ever sold at auction, Christie s said. Weighing 17.61 carats, the Bleu Royal is the largest internally flawless fancy vivid blue gem ever to appear for sale in auction history. It was the star lot in a series of luxury sales in Geneva this month, which also feature adidas campus items from movie history including pearls worn by Audrey Hepburn and Marlon Brando s self-engraved watch. The Bleu Royal had been expected to fetch between $35 million and $50 million in Christie s Magnificent Jewels auction. This photograph taken on Nov adidas campus . nike af 2, 2023 in Geneva shows the Bleu Royal, a rare 17,61 carats internally flawless fancy vivid blue pear shaped diamond, which fetched nearly $44 million in a Christie s auction on Nov. 7, 2023. PIERRE ALBOUY/AFP/Getty After an intense seven-minute bidding round between three potential buyers, it was snapped up by an anonymous private collector for 39.505 million Swiss francs $43.8 million , including tax and fees. We are extremely pleased, Max Fawcett, Christie s head of jewelry in Geneva, told AFP shortly after the final hammer came down. The gem, he pointed out, had sold for nearly $2.5 million per carat, making it the most expensive jewelry lot sold in all of 2023 by any auction house w Fplh Iran vows quick return to nuclear deal if Biden drops sanctions, as it upgrades uranium enrichment
President Bush appointed a conservative former judge and a moderate former Democratic senator Friday to head a special commission to figure out why inspectors haven t found the weapons that intelligence experts said Saddam Hussein was hiding in Iraq.But as CBS News Correspondent Bill Plante reports, the president s critics say it s nothing more than political window-dressing. And Mr. Bush doesn t have to worry about the findings of his intelligence commission influencing the voters, since it doesn t report for over a year. Some prewar intelligence assessments by America and other nations about Iraq s weapon stockpiles h stanley water bottle ave not been confirmed, Bush said in the White House briefing room. We are determined to figure out why. Democrats reacted to the new commission with skepticism. They wondered whether any panel picked by the president could be impartial, and they said its findings should be reported before, not after, the presidential election. To have a commission appointed exclusively by stanley tumblers President Bush investigate his administration s intelligence failures in Iraq does not inspire confidence in its independence, said House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California. Carl Levin of Michigan, senior Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, said the commission s assignment was diluted with less-than-urgent intelligence matters at the expense of examining exaggerations of that intelligence by the Bush admi stanley termoska nistration. Bush said the panel would be bipartisan mdash;