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President Trump s decision to order the assassination of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani was a gamble that CBS News national security correspondent David Martin says marks the beginning of a dangerous new era in U.S.-Iran relations. Retired U.S. General David Petraeus, who commanded American forces during the war in Iraq, once called Soleimani our most significant and evil adversary in the greater Middle East. While samba shoes few in the U.S. would dispute that Soleimani was a die-hard enemy of America, his unilateral killing on Iraqi soil has drawn a vow of revenge from Iran, and condemnation and a warning of a much wider war from Iraq.What follows is a look at how he became such an important figure.While Soleimani was seen as a terrorist in the U.S., he was a towering and deeply respected figur air max e in Iran. He was one of the key architects of the Iranian regime s efforts to reshape the country s influence in the region. In addition to directly commanding Iran s most elite military unit, the Revolutionary Guards Quds Force, he was in charge of virtually all foreign military mdash; and perhaps more importantly, quasi yeezy slide -military mdash; operations conducted by the regime. President Trump s surprise decision to order targeted killing of Qassem Soleimani 02:19 As Martin notes, Soleimani had the firm ba Lvss 100 Dead In Congo Train Crash
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Updated 11:44 PM ETCAIRO Egypt s first democratically elected president was ousted Wednesday by the military after barely a year in office, felled by the same kind of popular revolt that first brought him to power in the Arab Spring. WH reaction muted to military takeover in Egypt 02:07 airforces air max 1 The armed forces announced it would install a temporary civilian government to replace Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, who denounced the action as a full coup by the generals. They also suspended the Islamist-drafted constitution and called for new elections.Millions of anti-Morsi protesters in cities around the country erupted in delirious scenes of joy after the televised announcement by the army chief. Fireworks burst over crowds in Cairo s Tahrir Square, where men and women danced, shouting, God is great and Long live Egypt. Don t ask me if I am happy, just look aroun af1 d you at all those people, young and old, they are all happy, said 25-year-old protester Mohammed Nageh, shouting to heard at Tahrir. For the first time, people have really won their liberty. State Dept. orders diplomats to leave EgyptMilitary tightens grip as Egypt remains on edgeEgyptian factions entrench ahead of military deadlineWhat do Egyptian protesters want, and what s the military s role Egypt protesters ransack Muslim Bro Csvd Fears of on-ground deaths in Nigeria plane crash
So far Afghan President Hamid Karzai s visit has been a carefully scripted love fest designed to erase memories of all stanley cup the nasty spats over corruption, civilian casualties, you name it. But what do both sides really want out of this visit to Washington Afghanistanamp; 39 President Hamid Karzai, left, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shake hands as they address the media at the stanley romania State Department in Washington, Tuesday, May 11, 2010. stanley polska AP Stephen Biddle of the Council on Foreign Relations, who serves as an adviser to Gen. Stanley McChrystal, put it this way: I think a lot of what s going on, I suspect, behind closed doors in this week s meetings in Washington is to encourage President Karzai to take a visible public role within Afghanistan as a wartime leader rather than some sort of innocent bystander in the fight between the Americans and the Taliban. I asked a military officer what he thought of that and he agreed completely: We want Karzai to take ownership of this war going on in his own country. So that s what the Americans want. What do the Afghans want Some assurance that the United States won t pull a disappearing act, as it did after the mujahadeen forced Soviet troops to withdraw. The chaos that followed produced the Taliban and their takeover of the country. When Defense Secretary Gates met with Afghanistan s defense, interior and intel

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London mdas mizuno running h; The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has declared Prime Minister Boris Johnson s suspension of Parliament just weeks before the deadline for Britain to leave the European Union unlawful. Johnson was accused of suspending, or proroguing the legislature to limit the time lawmakers have to debate and intervene in his Brexit policy. He had insisted the prorogation was standard operating procedure for a new prime minister, and that it had nothing to do with the looming Brexit deadline. Lady Hayle, President of the Supreme Court, said Tuesday that she and the other 10 justices had reached a unanimous decision that air force one Johnson s move to send the lawmake adidas campus 80s rs home before such a monumental change in the nation s trajectory was unlawful. Parliament, she said, has a right to a voice in how that change comes about. It was a devastating blow to Johnson, as the high court cleared the way for Parliament to reconvene immediately to resume debating his Brexit plans. The ruling by the 11 justices was in line with a previous decision by a Scottish court, which also found Johnson s move to suspend parliament was illegal, and null and void. Parliament has not been prorogued. This is the unanimous decision of all 11 justices, Lady Hale said. She noted the quite exceptional circumstances under which Johnson had attempted to suspend Parliament, and said the effect on the fundamentals of our democracy was extreme. Svci Archaeologists in Egypt find building with Roman bath and chamber attached
Tony Blair was no poodle, President Bush said in a newspaper interview published Wednesday.Mr. Bush said that he and the outgoing British prime minister had worked together to achieve world peace mdash; and told The Sun that the accusations leveled against Blair were nothing more than background noise. I ve heard he s been called Bus stanley us h s poodle, The Sun quoted Mr. Bush as saying. He s bigger than that. This is just background noise, a distraction from big things. Mr. Bush said hist stanley quencher ory would be kind to Blair, and that whatever the public perception, the two dealt with each other on an equal footing. Somehow our relationship has been seen as Bush saying to Blair jump and Blair saying how high but that s just not the way it works, Mr. Bush said. It s a relationship where we say were both going to jump together. The often tongue-tied U.S. president also expressed admiration for Blair s rhetorical skills, saying he envied the prime minister s eloquence. Tony s great skill, and I wish I had it, is that he s very articulate, the president said. I wish I was a better speaker. This guy can really ... he can talk. Mr. Bush said he so admired the prime minister he had asked Blair to stay on through 2008 mdash; the end of Bush s term mdash; but added that he got along well with Blair s successor, Gordon Brown. Gordon came to Washington and he wasn t the image of the dour Scotsman at all, Mr. Bush said. He was relaxed. It was a good meeting. The Su stanley water bottle n

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Violent repression of the largely Muslim Rohingya population in Myanmar amounts to genocide, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Mond yeezy ay, a declaration intended to both generate international pressure and lay the groundwork for potential legal action.Authorities made the determination based on confirmed accounts of yeezy slide mass atrocities on civilians by Myanmar s military in a widespread and systematic campaign against the ethnic minority, Blinken announced in a speech at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., Monday. Blinken said evidence showed the attack against Rohingya was widespread and systematic, which is crucial for reaching a determination of crimes against humanity. Th mizuno de e day will come when those responsible for these appalling acts will have to answer for them, Blinken said.The government of Myanmar, also known as Burma, is already under multiple layers of U.S. sanctions since a military coup ousted the democratically elected government in February 2021. Thousands of civilians throughout the country have been killed and imprisoned as part of the ongoing repression of anyone opposed to the ruling junta. More than 700,000 Rohingya have fled from Buddhist-majority Myanmar to refugee camps in Bangladesh since August 2017, when the military launched an operation aimed at clearing them from the country following attacks by a rebel group.It is the eighth time since the Holocaust that the U.S. has concluded a genocide has occurred. It s a decision tha Etia Putin Mends Fences
AP BEIRUT - Emboldened Syrian rebels launched a major operation in the north, targeting security compounds and bases around the country s largest city of Aleppo, activists said Friday.The coordinated strikes come two days after President Bashar Assad conceded his forces have been unable to quell the more than 17-month-old rebellion against him.Weeks of intense bombardments by the Syrian military, stanley cups uk including airstrikes, have failed to dislodge the rebels. Inste stanley cup ad, Assad s opponents have become more brazen as fighting rages and the civil war shows no sign of ending soon.The rebel offensives in Aleppo, which began shortly b cups stanley efore midnight Thursday and continued through Friday, were being led by a brigade mainly consisting of army defectors who specialize in operating artillery and tanks, said Mohammed Saeed, an activist based in the city.The new operation, called The Northern Volcano, will focus on coordinated attacks on specific military and intelligence targets in the city and surrounding province of the same name, Saeed said via Skype.Saeed said the first attacks began shortly before midnight Thursday and lasted until Friday, when the Brigade of Free Syrians launched coordinated strikes on several security compounds in Aleppo. Turkey calls for Syria safe zones, U.N. Security Council remains unmovedSyrian activists say rebels shot down another warplaneEgypt President Mohammed Morsi slams Syria regime at Iran summitBashar Assad: Fight against Syria rebels better The

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Tennis star Coco Gauff has been selected as Team USA s female flag bearer just days before the start of the Paris Olympics, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee announced Wednesday. She will join NBA superstar LeBron James as the American flag bearers and together, they will lead the U.S. delegation on the Seine River for the Summer Games opening ceremony Friday.Gauff, the No. 2-ranked women s tennis player in the world and reigning U.S. Open champion, will be making her Olympics debut in Paris. In a statement, she said she never thought in a million years she d have the honor of being a flag bearer for her country mdash; a first for a nike dunk low U.S. tennis player. I could not be more proud to lead my teammates with LeBron as we showcase our dedication and passion on the biggest stage there is mdash; at a moment where we can bring athletes and fans together from around the world, she said. Coco Gauff serves during the tennis training session ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Roland Garros on July 24, 2024 in Paris, France. adidas samba donna / Getty Images Both Gauff and James were chosen by a vote by fellow athletes on Team USA. Friend and tennis player Chris Eubanks nominated Gauff. I m incredibly proud of Coco mdash; I know how great she is as a tennis player, but more importantl yeezy y, how great she is as a person, Eubanks said in a statement. I don t think there is anyone more d Idhl Emily Socks Mexico - Again
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Indonesia s navy picked up 198 boat people from Myanmar in critical condition after they were turned away by authorities in Thailand and drifted for three weeks without an engine, an official stanley cup said Tuesday.Twenty-two others died on the crossing from Thailand after fleeing the military dictatorship in Myanmar, navy officer Tedi Sutardi told The Associated Press, citing witness accounts.Their small wooden boat was discovered by fisherman Monday off Aceh s coast in northern Sumatra and towed to shore. The 40-foot vessel had no engine and the passengers had run out of food and water, Sutardi said. They were standing on the boat for 21 days because there was no space to sit, he said. It is a miracle they survived. It was the second load of Rohingyas, a stateless Muslim group facing decades of persecution in Myanmar, to arrive in Indonesia in a month. The survivors recounted being beaten and set adrift by Thai authorities, Sutardi said. Around 20 were rushed to a local hospital, he said.A witness told investigators the group was among 1,000 Rohingyas working in Thailand as migrant laborers, Sutardi said. They spoke of being forced to leave Thailand on nine motorless boats in December after being detained as illegal workers.Some of them were beaten and we co stanley uk uld see they had black and blue marks on their backs, Sutardi said.A group of 62 barefoot, disheveled Rohingya migrants facing illegal entry charges in a Thai court last week plea stanley flask ded not to be sent back to Myanmar wher

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More than a dozen Palestinians, including children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school in Jabalia, in the northernGaza Strip, that was sheltering displaced people, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory. The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that it had struck a compound that previously served as the Abu Hassan School, where it said dozens of terrorists from the Hamas and Islamic Jihad organizations were present. The Gaza Ministry of Health said at least 15 people were killed, but it did not say how many could have been militants.A mizuno few hours later, news broke that a separate Israeli operation in southern Gaza, carried out the previous day, h adidas samba donna ad killed Hamas top leader Yahya Sinwar. Israel confirmed Sinwar s death, with Foreign Minister Israel Katz saying Sinwar, who is responsible for the massacre and atrocities of October 7, was killed by IDF soldiers in southern Gaza. Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, seen in a file photo from March 22, 2017. Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Getty Sinwar has been among the most wanted figures on Israel s target list since Hamas lau asics gel nched its Oct. 7, 2023 cross-border terror attack, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 others hostage.Following the strike on the school building in Jabalia, the IDF published a list of a dozen names of purported terrorists it said were among those using the com Yjdf China warns Trump admin. heading down dangerous path with Taiwan outreach
CBS/AP BEIRUT - A Syrian activist group said that four senior army officers have defected and joined the opposition.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights provided a video Friday purporting to show two brigadier generals and two colonels. They declared they were defecting.Thousands of soldiers have abandoned the regime, but most are low-level conscripts. The Free Syria Army, the loosely-linked group of rebel forces, is made up partly of Syrian army defectors.A diplomat present at the U.N. Security Council briefing earlier this week by the head of the U.N. observer mission in Syria, Major General Robert Mood, told CBS News Pamela Falk on Wednesday that Gen. Mood had been surprised at the efficacy of the rebel forces, and to see that the majority of those forces appeared to be Syrian military defectors - including some at senior levels.Mood said the opposition had stanley becher clearly become better at fighti stanley cup ng over the course of the past 15 months of the uprising, according to the diplomat. The Syrian Observatory called Thursday s development the largest officer defection to date. The officers named were Brigadier General Moha stanley flask mmed Zakaria, Brigadier General Abdulla Zakaria, Colonel Ismail Zakaria and Colonel Abdel-hamid Zakaria. The group said the defections came Thursday - the same day a Syria fighter pilot flew his MiG-21 warplane to neighboring Jordan, where he was given asylum.Syrian gov t: Rebels massacre dozens of shabiha Syrian pilot defects to Jordan in fi

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Following the removalof the Pillar of Shame at the University of Hong Kong late Wednesday, two more Hong Kong universities have removed public monuments to the1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests. Government officials have been quelling dissent in Hong Kong ever since Beijing imposed a national security law on the semi-autonomous city last year. The lower-half of the statue was hanged by the cr adidas originals hamburg ane and ready to be moved inside the container for transportation. Authorities i adidas originals ultraboost n Hong Kong tore down a public sculpture dedicated to the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre, accelerating a campaign to erase the crackdown from public recollection and stamp out dissent in a city that until recently was one of Asias freest. Alex Chan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images On Friday, the Chinese University of Hong Kong removed a 20-foot bronze statue titled Goddess of D adidas samba emocracy. In a statement, CUHK said it removed the unauthorised statue because it never approved its installation back in 2010. The university also said no organization had claimed responsibility for its maintenance and management since then. Two concerned parties were initially involved in moving the statue on campus, the university said in a press release. The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China was recently dissolved, and the Chinese University Student Union Xomy World Cup 2014: 10 potential breakout stars
A top Vatican cardinal said in a magazine interview released Wednesday that Pope John Paul II s health has recently improved and that talk of term limits is not relevant to the current papacy.But Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said he would not rule stanley canada out term limits in the future. With people living longer one also would consider new norms, he said.Asked by Famiglia Cristiana Christian Family , a leading Italian religious affairs magazine, how the pope was feeling, Ratzinger replied, Well. Since Christmas his physical condition has been improving. The pope looked alert during his general audience Wednesday, as he has during recent public appearances, and he spoke in a clear voice. The 83-year-old pontiff has Parkinson s disease and knee and hip ailments that make it difficult to walk or stand.He has clearly improved since he looked tired and weak during celebrations in October marking the 25th stanley cup price anniversary of his papacy. The Vatican has never provided an explanation of the pope s changed condition, and Ratzinger didn t offer one.The article was set for publication later in the week.Asked whether future p stanley cup opes may be elected to a fixed term, he said: The pope is selected for life because he is a father and his paternity goes before his function. Perhaps in the future, with life being prolonged, one also would consider new norms but it doesn t seem to me to be a current issue. John Paul has repeatedly said he has no intention of stepping down. There is a preceden

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London - Taylor Swift s Eras Tour is scheduled to return to London on Thursday in the star s first performances since authorities said they thwarted an attack on her shows in Vienna. Tens of thousands of concertgoers are expected to attend at Wembley Stadium.London s Metropolitan Police told CBS News on Tuesday that so far there had not been any threats that would nike sb dunk prevent the concerts from going ahead in the British capital. London plays hosts to a significant number of very high profile events each year with millions of visitors having a safe and enjoyable experience. The Met works closely with venue security teams and other partners to ensure there are appropriate security and policing plans in place, a Metropolitan Police spokesperson told CBS News in a written statement on Tuesday. There is nothing to indicate that the matters being investigated by the Austrian authorities will have an impact on upcoming events here in London. As always, we will continue to keep any new information under careful review. Wembley Stadium warned fans who don t have tickets to the five shows that they won t be able to gather around the stadium during the performances. Anyone hanging around o salomon mujer utside the stadium will be moved on by security, the stadium posted on its website. Taylor Swift performs onstage during her Eras Tour at Wembley nike air force Stadium on June 22, 2024, in London. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Lash Yemenis Renew Protests to Oust Leader
The Defense Department said Wednesday that a request for new t stanley cup roops from the U.S. commander in Afghanistan may have to be revised amid growing uncertainty inside the Obama administration over whether to escalate the American commitment to the eight-year war.Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said the troop request from U stanley cup .S. and NATO commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal will be delivered by the week s end.But Defense Secretary Robert Gates will not look to escalate the military mission in Afghanistan until President Barack Obama and his national security team are ready to consider it, Morrell said.Morrell also signaled that the number of troops that McChrystal will ask for 151; believed to be as high as 40,000 151; could change after the report is received stanley cup if the White House reverses its Afghanistan strategy. If there are adjustments, there may have to be adjustments made in terms of what s required of the mission if it changes, Morrell said. He said the Obama administration is taking a new look at how to best achieve its long-stated goal of defeating and dismantling al Qaeda. Read McChrystal s report to his superiorsWashington Unplugged: Report Puts Pressure on Obama Earlier this year, the Pentagon began ramping up the eight-year war in Afghanistan, targeting extremist Taliban leaders to make sure the nation does not become a safe haven for al Qaeda.But White House officials now are looking at sending in airstrikes and special operations forces to Pakistan, wh