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REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque President Barack Obama toured Greecersquo most famous ancient monument, the Acropolis citadel, and delivered a speech to the Greek people Wednesday as he finished up the first leg o adidas campus 00s f his final foreign tour as president before handing over the White House t adidas campus homme o President-elect Donald Trump.President Obama lingered at the base of the Parthenon, gazing at the columns and glancing around at the panoramic view of Athens as he chatted with his guide, Eleni Banou of the Culture Ministryrsquo antiquities division.In this photo, U.S. President Barack Obama passes the Parthenon while touring the Acropolis with Banou in Athens, Greece November 16, 2016. adidas campus 80s State dinner in Greece REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque The last visit to Greece by a U.S. president was by Bill Clinton in 1999, which was also marred by clashes between anarchists and riot police.In this photo, U.S. President Barack Obama listens as Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos speaks during a state dinner in Obamarsquo honor at the Presidential Mansion in Athens, Greece November 15, 2016. Protesters in Greece REUTERS/Michalis Karagiannis Greek riot police used tear gas and stun grenades Tuesday in Athens to disperse about 3,000 left-wing marchers p Ckzx Killing of anti-coup protesters is only fueling the demand for democracy in Myanmar
Updated at 12:56 a.m. ETA Qantas jetliner made an emergency landing Thursday in Singapore with 459 people aboard, after one of its four engines shut down over western Indonesia and following witness reports of a blast that sent debris hurtling to the ground.The airliner denied there had been any explosion, and said the plane landed safely with no injuries. Qantas had no immediate comment on whether the engine troubles were related to eruptions stanley cupe of Indonesia s Mount Merapi over the past 10 days.Given the timing of the malfunction, 15 minutes after takeoff from Singapore, and the airliner s flight path, there appeared to be no connection.A Qantas statement said the double-decker A380 plane experienced an engine issue soon after taking off from Singapore for Sydney. It made a safe emergency landing in Singapore at 11:45 a.m. local time with 433 passengers and 26 crew on board, the statement said. Some media reports suggested the aircraft had crashed. These reports are incorrect. No Qantas aircraft has crashed, it said.Qantas spokeswoman Emma Kearns in Sydney, Australia, said there were no reports of injuries or an explosion on board. When asked if the engine trouble was related to ash hurled from Merapi, Kearns said she had no further details.A series of powerful eruptions from Indonesia s most volatile volcano, which was spewing massive clouds of gray ash 850 miles west of Batam, earlier prompted officials to close some air routes above the mountain. We stanley thermosflasche have no way of

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UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. s World Food Program WFP has gone tech-savvy. Drones, the organization said at the U.N. this week, are key to a more advan salomon xt ced fight against hunger and to help humanitarian aid and data collection in places like Cox s Bazar district in Bangladesh, which has dealt with an influx ofRohingya refugees from neighboring Myanmar.Enrica Porcari, head of WFP s Technology Division told CBS News that the use of drones in humanitarian responses is groundbreaking because it could reduce humanitarian response time from days to hours to even minutes and make delivery of assistance more efficient, accurate and cost-effective. Drones can allow humanitarian agencies to mitigate risks before they turn to disasters, Porcari said. A recent drone model. WFP/UAV The example she gave was Mozambique, where the WFP-supplied drones were able to send data to analyze flood-prone areas and allowed the government s disaster management agency to move people in areas that will be affected by the floods before it actually reached th salomon hombre em, greatly reducing potential loss of life.Of course, with any technology, there are challenges, Porcari said at the U.N. panel to present the project to the public, in a meeting sponsored by the Permanent Missions of asics gel Belgium and Mozambique.The idea of drone use in humanitarian assistance has broad support at the U.N. At the discussion on Thursd Errs Pompeo makes unannounced trip to Iraq amid rising tensions with Iran
President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that Russian bombers would be welcome in Venezuela but the socialist leader denied that his country would offer Moscow its territory for a military base.Chavez - a fierce critic of Washington with close ties to Russia and Cuba - said his government did not raise the possibility, as Russian media had reported. It s not like that, the president said, responding to a report by Interfax news agency quoting the chief of staff of Russia s long range aviation, Maj. Gen. Anatoly Zhikharev, as saying some strategic bombers could be based on an island offered by Venezuela.Zhikharev reportedly said Saturday stanley cup that Chavez had offered a whole island with an airdrome, which we can use as a te stanley cup mporary base for strategic bombers. Speaking during his weekly television and stanley cups radio program, Chavez said he told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that his nation s bombers would be allowed to land in Venezuela if necessary, but no such plans have been made. Venezuela hosted two Russian Tu-160 bombers in September for training flights and joined Russian warships two months later for naval exercises in the Caribbean. I told President Medvedev that any time Russia s strategic aviation needs to make a stop in Venezuela as part of its strategic plans, Venezuela is available, he said.Interfax also reported that Zhikharev said Russian bombers could be based in communist-led Cuba, but a Kremlin official said Zhikharev had been speaking hypothetically.Kremlin official

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SEOUL, South Korea --North Korea on Tuesday launched yet another ballistic missile from its western coa adidas sambarose st in the direction of Japan, South Korean officials said, part of a string of recent test-firings as the North works to build a nuclear-tipped missile that could reach the United States. China warns rising tension with North Korea could be disastrousThe South s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that the launch, which came before the U.S. celebration of its national independence, was made from North Phyongan province. Other details were scarce. It wasn t immediately clear if this was a routine firing of a short-range missile or an att adidas yeezyslide empt to perfect North Korea s longer-range missiles. But South Korean President Moon Jae-in said the military was analyzing the possibility that the missile might have been an intercontinental ballistic rocket, according to the Reuters news agency.Pyongyang said it would be making an important announcment Tuesday afternoon local time. Charts showing success and failures of North Korea s missile tests. air max Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters the missile was fired around 9:40 a.m. Tuesday and flew for 40 minutes before landing in the Sea of Japan within waters where Japan claims economic rights. He said no damage to aircraft or ships has been reported. Japanese media said the coast guard had cautioned ships about potential falling objects. Late Monday evening, President Trump too Tmpn Japan Emperor Under Cancer Surgery
Sharply escalating its military campaign, Israel dropped a quarter-ton bomb on a Gaza home Wednesday to assassinate top Hamas fugitives, killing nine civilians as Islamic militant leaders got away.The nine dead were all members of the same family, including the parents and seven of their children, Palestinian officials stanley thermosflasche said. The body of a 4-year-old boy, torn in half, was among those pulled out of the rubble.Israel says it launched the airstrike in the Sheik Radwan neighborhood, a Hamas stronghold, because Hamas commande stanley kubek rs there were planning more attacks on Israel. Israel also says the home it attacked was a meeting place for terrorists. After the Israeli attack, hundreds of Palestinians gathered at the flattened house in Gaza, vowing revenge and calling the Israelis terrorists. As bodies were pulled from the rubble here, you could feel the crowd, the anger of the crowd, reports CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan. As people surged forward, it almost seemed to go out of control and then, in one dramatic moment, a man in the crowd began a chant, a traditional Palestinian chant of resistance, als stanley cups o vowing revenge. Hundreds of people, Logan continues, who in one moment, were surging forward in anger, almost out of control, suddenly stood rooted to the spot and repeated this chant, which has been a chant of resistance against the Israelis for the past few years. Further heightening tensions, the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah fired rockets at north

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Egypt is failing yeezy to protect free speech and its minorities, investigate abuses by its forces or grant U.S. monitors access to the conflict-ridden Sinai Peninsula, according to a damningTrump administration reportobtained by The Associated Press.The U.S. grievances, detailed in a State Department memorandum, stand in stark contrast to the warm, harmonious relationship President Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi have projected publicly since Trump took office. Neither leader mentioned the report or Washington s concerns as they opened a meeting Wednesday in New York on the sidelines of a United Nations gathering. We appreciate everything you ve done, Trump told el-Sissi. And I know you ve appreciat adidas yeezyslide ed everything we ve done. Yet in the report, submitted to Congress in August but never released publicly, the United States concluded that the climate adidas campus donna for human rights in Egypt continues to deteriorate. The report was legally required for the Trump administration to continue giving certain aid to Cairo despite its failure to meet several conditions on good governance. There is a continuing problem with arbitrary arrests, detentions and disappearances, the memo says. There are reports of extrajudicial killings. There are numerous allegations of torture and deaths in detention. Last month, the Trump administration cut nearly $100 million in military and economic aid to Egypt, a key counterterrorism partner that has repeatedly run afoul of the U.S. Stkp Iran warns of reprisal if U.S. doesn t compensate for withdrawal from nuclear deal
Somali pirates have hijacked two more boats in the Gulf of Aden, bringing to 26 the total number of ships seized off Somalia this year, a Kenyan maritime official said Thur stanley cup sday.Andrew Mwangura, head of the East Africa Seafarers Assistance Program, said the two ships were taken on Wednesday near where a Dutch ship was seized on Monday. He did not have any information about the owners or the nationalities of the crew onboard the MV Lehmann Timber or the MV Arean or any information on the pirates demands.Cyrus Mody of the International Maritime Bu stanley mugs reau confirmed the attack on the MV Lehman Timber but said the bureau was still waiting for final confirmation on the MV Arean. Mody, a piracy analyst with the bureau, a specialized maritime crime division of the International Chamber of Commerce, could not provide any further details.Piracy is rampant along the 1,880-mile Somali coast, the longest in Africa and located n stanley thermos mug ear key shipping routes connecting the Red Sea with the Indian Ocean. A Spanish trawler, a French yacht and several ships carrying humanitarian aid have been seized this year.Somali officials have publicly blamed Western companies, accusing them of paying ransoms that can run into hundreds of thousands of dollars and, in so doing, encouraging more hijackings. Some pirates have been arrested in connection with the attacks, but that has failed to halt the hijackings. Last month the United States and France introduced a U.N. resolution that would allow countries to

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There s a 300-year-old row of townhouses in London where they know all about how the home has changed over the years. Today, this building is the Museum of the Home, where they re just getting ready to reopen after a three-year refurbishment hellip; and just in time.Correspondent Mark Phillips asked, Could there have been a better time for a Museum of the Home to reopen It s a brilliant time for us to be talking about home, said Sonia Solicari, the museum s director, because, you know, around the world pe af1 air force one ople have been in lockdown, which means that people have been thinking more intensely about their domestic spaces than ever before. This is a drawing room from a 1915 suburban family home. Museum of the Home director Sonia Solicari shows correspondent Mark Phillips an Edwardian drawing room, c. 1915. CBS News Solicari oversees the exhibits that recreate the spaces we ve lived in over time, going back to the 1600s. A hall in the 1600s, where family members and servants would take their meals adidas campus herren , and where children would take their lessons. CBS News And they continue through the technological and social changes that have brought us to today, from the arrival of the knife and fork, to electricity, to television, to the home computer. Sometimes that journe Xuuu Bolton says no doubt Iran attacked oil tankers, and it still wants nuclear weapons
NATO s decision Tuesday to maintain the threat of military intervention in the Kosovo crisis, is the beginning of another longterm commitment for U.S. forces in the Balkans, reports CBS News Senior White House Correspondent Scott Pelley.The move meant immediate air strikes threatened after a Tuesday deadline would not take place but the activation order authorizing m gourde stanley ilitary commanders to use force would not be cancelled.For the foreseeable future, American spy planes and observers on the ground will monitor the cease fire in Kosovo. Late Tuesday, stanley becher President Clinton said there was a chance for peace, not a guarantee. Hopefully, now the climate of fear and intimidation can be lifted and Kosovar Albanians can return to their villages, Mr. stanley mug Clinton told reporters Tuesday.Indeed, thousands of ethnic Albanian refugees began flooding back to their homes Tuesday after Yugoslav troops and Serbian police withdrew in large numbers overnight. We heard on the radio and from friends that the police had withdrawn from Malisevo. So I came back into town this morning for the first time since July 28 to see what had happened to my shop and my house, said Ibrahim Mazerreku. I had an auto and tractor parts shop, but the Serbs stole all my stock, about 80,000 German marks [$48,500] worth. My house has been vandalized too, but it s livable. I m luckier than many others in Malisevo who were killed or wounded this year. Hundreds of army vehicles and troops returned to barracks on M

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israel and Hamas agreed late Thursday to a humanitarian cease-fire in the war in Gaza, beginning Friday and lasting 72 hours.The Israelis and the Palestinians will also send delegations to Egypt to negotiate a more lasting truce. But Israeli troops i yeezy slide n Gaza will remain in place nike dunk high and continue efforts to wipe out the tunnels that Hamas uses to attack Israel. Mourning the dead in the Middle East 30 photos In a virtual declaration of victory, the chief of Israeli forces said they are a few days away from destroying almost all the Hamas tunnels. There was no doubt that Israel would win the military part of this war. Now in Gaza, the question is the mental wounds that will emerge after the bombs stop falling. I call it psychological massacre cases, said Gaza psychologist Sami Owaida. There will be shock. Owaida has a grim prediction -- made as bombs fell nearby -- for how the shell-shocked and depressed with cope. You commit suicide and you die or you will stay alive just to get revenge for your families who were k adidas originals donna illed, he said. Emran Krayka, a 15-year-old Palestinian boy, says he wants to be a suicide bomber to wreak revenge on Israel. CBS News Lxin Blue glow in Tasmania Bay may signal trouble
A car bomb killed at least 11 Pakistanis outside the U.S. Consulate in Karachi on Friday. U.S. diplomats in Pakistan said no foreigners or staff of the Consulate were stanley cup killed in the explosion, although one American and five Pakistani employees received minor injuries when struck by flying debris. Twenty other people outside the consulate were wounded by the blast, which left a crater several feet deep, destroyed a guard post and damaged a concrete wall surrounding the building. Early U.S. suspicion centered on al Qaeda and affiliated Pakistani Islamic extremist groups, but officials said they had no direct evidence of who was responsible. Several Pakistani groups have ties to al Qaeda, but could have conducted the attack without the sanction of Osama bin Laden s organization.President Bush said radical killers were behind Friday s attack stanley mug and he vowed they would not intimidate the United States. We fight an enemy that are radical killers. That s what stanley mugs they are. They claim they re religious people and they blow up Muslims. They have no regard for individual life, Mr. Bush told reporters as he toured a summer reading camp in Houston. These people, if they think they are going to intimidate the United States, they don t understand the United States of America, he said, adding that that he felt for the victims and their families.The attack followed visits to South Asia by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.CBS Radio News

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UNITED NATIONS -- At least 171 world leaders gathered Friday at the United N salomon zapatillas ations to sign a sweeping climate agreement samba rose negotiated last year and aimed at slowing global warming and helping poorer nations affected most by it.The Paris Agreement was hammered out in Le Bourget, France, in December, at a summit of diplomats and leaders including U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who flew back from Saudi Arabia Thursday night in time to take part in Friday s signing ceremony.To resounding applause, Kerry said, It s fair to say that all of us could feel an extraordinary sweep of emotion and joy at the moment in Paris when 196 nations simultaneously said a resounding yes, we will do our part, we will live up to the responsibility to future generations and together citizens of the world, we will work to save our planet from ourselves. Those negotiations, Kerry said, began instead to galvanize our focus on how as a global community we are going to address the irrefutable reality that nature is changing at an increasingly rapid pace due to our own choices. And, on renewable energy, Kerry added, Fo air max 1 r the first time in history, despite the low prices of oil, coal and gas, more of the world s money was spent fostering renewable energy technologies than on new fossil fuel plants. Nearly 200 countries reach climate change agreement 02:41 Ybbx How Much Ice Is Left In The Arctic
Elders ensured calm Monday night in an Aboriginal ghetto in downtown Sydney, a day after 40 police were injured in a nine-hour street battle with rioters.The riot which erupted Sunday night was sparked by allegations that a 17-year-old Aborigine, Thomas Hickey, died while being chased by police.Rioters set fire to stanley flasche a train station at the height of overnight rioting that stretched into Monday morning in the Redfern neighborhood of Australia s most populous city. Hundreds of police in full riot gear doused the rioters with high-pressure water hoses during the clashes.But with respected Aboriginal elders urging calm in the community, there was no repeat of the violence late Monday. Aborigines held a barbecue and stood around fires, but there were no clashes with the handful of police watch stanley cup ing them.Hickey s mothe stanley tumbler r claimed Monday that her son died after he fell from his bicycle and was impaled on a fence while being chased by police on Sunday. It s got to stop, the way they treat our kids, Gail Hickey said. They treat our kids like dogs ... they manhandle them. Police denied they were chasing the teen.The hospitalized police officers mostly suffered broken bones, and one officer was knocked out after being hit by a flying brick. All but one of the police officers had been released by Monday afternoon. There was no immediate word on injuries to rioters.Four alleged rioters were arrested and charged with involvement in the fighting. Assistant commissioner Bob Waites said po

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A man walks past the office enterance of Marion Biotech, a pharmaceutical company in Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, December 29, 2022. AFP/Getty salomon gtx New Delhimdash; The World Health Organization has issued an alert warning against the use of two Indian cough syrups blamed for the deaths of at least 20 children in Uzbekistan. The WHO said the products, manufactured by India s Marion Biotech, were substandard and that the firm had failed to provide guarantees about their safety and quality. The alert issued on Wednesday came after Uzbekistan authorities said last month that at least 20 children died after consuming a syrup made by the company under the brand name Doc-1 Max. India s health ministry subsequently suspended production at the company and Uzbekistan banned the import asics outlets and sale of Doc-1 Max.The WHO alert said an analysis of the syrup samples by the quality control laboratories of Uzbekistan found unacceptable amounts of diethylene glycol and /or ethylene glycol as contaminants. Diethylene glycol and ethylene are toxic to humans when consumed and can prove fatal. Both of these products may have marketing authorizations in other countries i adidas originals uomo n the region. They may also have been distributed, through informal markets, to other countries or regions, WHO said. The products were unsafe and their use, especially in children, may result in serious injury or death Nysv Mass murderer s appeal to human rights court rejected
The Israeli government was under intense scrutiny Monday, with Palestinians urging the United Nations to demand that Israel ensures Yasser Arafat s safety and key Security Council members p stanley mugs ushing both parties to implement the peace plan known as the road map. At the same time, the U.N. s nuclear body, the International Atomic stanley thermobecher Energy Agency, is expected to discuss Israel s nuclear program this week during talks in Vienna. Although Iran, Iraq and North Korea are also on the agenda, observers told Israel s Haaretz newspaper the talks about Israel could become heated. Arab states have frequently complained that the IAEA has been silent so far about Israel, which has never acknowledge having mdash; but is widely belie stanley cup ved to possess mdash; nuclear weapons. The Security Council scheduled an open meeting Monday on the situation in the Middle East amid mounting criticism of the Israel s security Cabinet s decision Thursday to remove Arafat in a manner and time to be decided.The statement Sunday by Israel s Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that killing Arafat is a possibility was certain to intensify the Palestinian demand for speedy U.N. action. Mr. Arafat is a murderer and a killer, Olmert said. The council began consultations on a resolution drafted by the Palestinians late Friday and then adjourned until Monday, despite Palestinian pressure for a quick vote.Council ambassadors said they wanted to consult capitals and wait for the outcome of Secretary-General Kofi Annan

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The U.S. Embassy will move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in May, based on information from three State Department officials. High-level Jewish-American donors have voiced their willingness to donate to the building of the new embassy.The news comes after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson signed off on a security plan for the move this week. The U.S. am air force one bassador to Israel and a small team of embassy personnel will make the initial move. They will take over an e air max xisting U.S. building, now used as a U.S. consular facility for issuing visas and other diplomatic matters, until there is a location and a plan for a permanent U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, according to the officials.The embassy in Tel Aviv will become a branch of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, and there are currently no plans to shutter the Tel Aviv building, although discussions about that are ongoing. The embassy had been scheduled to move in 2019.The U.S. ambassador to Israel has been fielding many of the offers from Jewish donors who have voiced a willingness to give funds for adidas originals the new building. The Associated Press reported Mr. Trump had considered accepting donations from megadonor Sheldon Adelson to help fund the project. One source tells CBS News interior decorators have offered to decorate the embassy. There are no formal talks between the State Department and private U.S. donors at this time, CBS News White House and senior foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan reports. The White House is asking the State Dep Whoa Canadian Qaeda Cell Fears
Five Palestinians were killed in clashes in the Gaza Strip Tuesday, but at the hands of fellow Palestinians.CBS News Correspondent Robert Berger reports Palestinian police are locked in a blood feud with the Islamic militant group Hamas. It began Monday when Hamas gunmen killed a colonel who headed the Palestinian riot police. That was revenge for the killing of Hamas supporters in riots a year ago. When police tried to arrest suspects in connection with the latest shooting, gun battles erupted with Hamas militants, leaving four Hamas members dead. In stanley kubek the West Bank Tuesday, four Israeli motorists were wounded, two of them seriously, in a shooting attack near the West Bank town of Hebron. Gunmen fired on the car as it reached a road junction.Undeterred by U.S. criticism, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on T stanley cup uesday praised a deadly Israeli military strike in the Gaza Strip as a success and vowed there would be more such operations.Berger reports Sharon described the attack as difficult and complicated. Israel said Monday s raid in Gaza, which left 14 Palestinians dead and more than 100 wounded in the town of Khan Younis, was meant to put members of the Islamic militant group Hamas on notice that they could no longer feel safe in the crowded neighborhoods of Gaza.The Palestinians said all the dead and nearly all the wounded were civilians, while Sharon and the Israeli milita stanley flask ry said most of the dead were armed men killed in battle.The U.S. State Department, while reaf

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An Irish woman who recently traveled to Kenya discovered an unpleasant surprise nearly two weeks after she returned home mdash; a scorpion had made the journey of over 4,000 miles in her luggage.James Hennessey, from Ireland s National Reptile Zoo, said in a radio appearance on Ireland s RTEacute; Radio One that the woman and her family called the zoo for help once they realized they had the venomous guest. The person came back from Kenya two weeks ago, and they were in their bedroom and they d done what we all do, they left their bag in the corner, unpacked the stuff and didn t bother with the bag and decided to go have a look at the bag and move it, lifted it up and something moved on the floor adidas originals damen underneath it, and there was this little tiny scorpion sitting there in the bedroom, in the, I think it was the shag pile type rug, Hennessey explained.Hennessey said that the bag had been in the corner for 12 days before the stowaway was spotted. The scorpion in its new home at the National Reptile Zoo of Ireland. National Reptile Zoo The family freaked out at first, Hennessey said, allowing the scorpion to do a yeezy legger adidas yeezyslide and get away. It disappeared underneath a bed, Hennessey said. That s when the family called him. They called us then straight away, said we found a scorpion under the bag and now we don t know where it is. I think they kind of pulled the house apa Ijyu Paper: Leak Shows UK Briefed Libya on Lockerbie
Even before the tsunami ripped away her husband, Vallatha was the subject of gossip and derision, through no fault of her own.Because stanley canada her eyes are a stunning shade of green, an unusual twist of genetics in a country of brown-eyed people, she was considered evil. Behind her back, villagers call her the cat-eyed woman. Adding to her reputation was the fact she married her husband because she loved him. That is stanley thermosflasche not a valued reason to wed in this seaside village. Here, marriages are arranged by parents based on similarities of social status and the size of the bride s dowry. Worse, after 15 years of marriage, her husband recently took up with the woman next door. To save face among disapproving neighbors, he took that woman as his second wife, which violates Hindu custom. Vallatha was shamed.Now she sits on the floor of her mother-in-law s stone house. The tsunami, which killed five men in this poor village of 200 families, has left her penniless, homeless and a new member of one of the lowest rungs of Indian society: widowhood.For the rest of her life, she must depend on the continued good graces of her in-laws. Without them, she could lose her children and her place in this tight-knit community. She can never remarry. In India, for all of its recent modernization and openness to foreign cultures, being a widow remains one of the worst sti stanley romania gmas a woman can endure, and women are far from equal here. When her husband dies, the widow often becomes a pariah, excluded from fam