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SALISBURY, Englan adidas campus d -- British police have revealed the substance used to poison a Russian ex-spy was a nerve agent. News of the nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal and his 33-year-old daughter, who are both still in critical condition, splashed across headlines, but as soon as the police confirmed it was a ner air force one ve agent attack, the main question became -- whodunit Britain s home secretary, Amber Rudd, reacted Thursday morning to the widespread speculation that the Russian state was involved air force 1 , saying, The use of a nerve agent on U.K. soil is a brazen and reckless act. We will respond in a robust and appropriate manner once we ascertain who was responsible. One police officer who was among the first to attend to the pair where they were found slumped on a bench also remained hospitalized on Thursday. Rudd said he was awake, talking, and responding. She said the officer is believed to have been exposed to the same nerve agent as Skripal and his daughter, as he acted selflessly to help members of the public.Brits have more information in case of Russian ex-spyAs CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports, just two weeks ago Sergei Skripal was shopping at his local grocery store ndash; not acting like a man who feared for his life. Sergei Skripal left and his 33-year-old daughter, Yulia right . Arrested in Moscow for spying in 2004, he came to the U.K. six years later and settled down to an apparently quiet life in Salisbury, until Cnjm Khmer Rouge Amnesty Denied
The U.S. military arrested an Iraqi cameraman and three of his family members Thursday during a raid on their home in Baghdad, an official with Baghdad TV said.The arrest comes two days after American and Iraqi forces detained a freelance photographer for the Reuters news agency south of Baghdad.The cameraman, Omar Husham, 28, was arrested at his house in the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah, said the television official, who sp stanley cup oke on condition of anonymity because of security reasons. His father and two brothers were also detained, the official said.The U.S. military said it was looking into the report and did not have immediate comment.The official said Husham had been working for Baghdad TV for two years and covered many political events. Baghdad TV is owned by the Iraqi Islamic Party, the major Sunni political group and a member of the Shiite-led Iraqi government. Husham is a respected cameraman who has traveled abroad with government officials, the official told The A stanley water bottle ssociated Press. We demand that concerned officials intervene and for the Americans to release him immediately. Azamiyah had been stanley cups a center for Sunni insurgent operations until the U.S. military walled off the center of the district and organized a group of local Sunni fighters who had turned against the insurgents.Even with the neighborhood s concrete walls, a suicide bomber last month killed Farooq al-Obeidi, the deputy head of the U.S.-allied Sunni fighters in Azamiyah. Nine other peop

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DUBLIN Ireland s justice minister says two children temporarily taken by police from their Gypsy parents have been returned to their families after DNA tests determined that the children were rightfully theirs.Alan Shatter said Wednesday he had ordered the police commander to produce a report into why officers felt it necessary to take the children - a 2-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl - from their families.In both cases, police suspected that the children might be victims of abductions because they were blond-haired and blue- dunks eyed, unlike the rest of their immediate relatives. Irish police were respon adidas samba donna ding to public tipoffs fueled by media coverage of an alleged child-abduction case in Greece involving a blond-haired girl and a Gypsy, or Roma, family.Human rights groups in Ireland have accused police of racism. Martin Collins , who represents Irish Travellers and the Roma community, called the incident outrageous and despicable, according to the Irish Examiner. We hope it is not the beginning of some sort of pattern where children of Roma parents who are not dark skinned and have brown eyes are taken away one after the other for DNA test after DNA test, Collins said. yeezy ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 { display: none; } inline-recirc-item--id-d6bdf2ad-45eb-11e3-a5af-047d7b15b92e, right-rail-recirc-item--id-d6bdf2ad-45eb-11e3-a5af-047d7b15b92e { di Xajv Simone Biles dominates Olympic qualifying round despite injury
T stanley cup he wife of a former Iranian vice-president on trial for postelection violence says his televised confessions were made under pressure.Fahimeh Mousavi-nejad tells The Associated Press that the forcing of confessions shows the clerical rulers weakness, saying, they are completely disarmed. Her husband, forme stanley cup r Vice-President Mohammad Ali Abtahi, is one of the top figures in a trial that began Saturday for around 100 people detained in the postelection crackdown. State TV aired footage of Abtahi admitting he fueled protests as part of a foreign plot to topple the governm stanley tumblers ent. The opposition says he and other detainees were coerced during weeks in prison.Mousavi-nejad says, I personally believe what he has gone through has made him speak the way he has. The trials of political activists began Saturday in the Revolutionary Court system, first used to sentence officials of the Western-backed monarchy that was toppled by the 1979 Islamic Revolutionary. The more than 100 defendants spanned nearly a dozen years of efforts to challenge Iran s Islamic systems: from supporters of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi to several top allies of former President Mohammad Khatami, who began the openings for greater political and social freedoms with his election in 1997.The blanket trial - on broad charges of trying to bring down the nation s political order - appeared part of an attempt by authorities to rattle and discredit the core of the reform movement in one blow.Officials

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United Nationsndash; North Korea s ambassador airmaxplus to the United Nations Kim Song said Saturday that denuclearization is off the table in negotiations with the United States, despitetwo major summitsbetween North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Trump. We do not need to have lengthy talks with the U.S. now and the denuclearization is already gone out of the negotiation table, he said in a statement sent to CBS News.The statement by the ambassador took shots at the White House s attempts to keep talks open. The alleged sustained and substantial dialogue claimed by the United States is none other than a time-saving trick to make expedient use of the DPRK-U.S. dialogue solely in its domestic political agenda, he said, using the acronym for the Democratic People s Republic of Korea.Kim Song also reacted to a December 4 joint statement by six European nations that condemned North Korea.North Korea s envoy called air max 96 the European action another serious provocation and stupid and serious. Thirteen ballistic missile launchesby North Korea since May have upped the pressure on the U.S. and world leaders to negotiate to lift sanctions if Pyongyang dismantles its nuclear weapons program, although Washington has made clear thatcomplete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearizationwou adidas campus 80s ld be needed for anyeasing of economic measures.At a press conference on Friday, U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Kelly Craft, told reporters, Each of us are very, very concerned about the series of Bsac Beijingers Protest Olympic Evictions
A case of the deadly waterborne disease cholera has been confirmed in Pakistan s flood-ravaged northwest, and aid workers expect there to stanley tumblers be more, the U.N. said Saturday. The discovery came as new flood surges hit the south and the prime minister said the deluge has made 20 million people homeless.The flooding disaster has battered Pakistan s economy and undermined its political stability at a time when the United States needs its steadfast cooperation against Islamist extremism. The U.N. has appealed for an initial $460 million to provide relief to Pakistan but has said the country will need billions to rebuild once the flood recedes.Because of the crisis, Pakistan canceled celebrations Saturday marking its creation and independence from Britain in 1947. President Asif Ali Zardari met with flood victims in the northwest, and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-m stanley quencher oon was expected to visit country soon, possibly over the weekend.The floods have killed about 1,500 people, and aid workers have warned that diseases could raise that toll.One case of cholera was confirmed in Mingora, the main town in the northwest s Swat Valley, stanley thermoskannen U.N. spokesman Maurizio Giuliano said Saturday. Other cases were suspected, and aid workers are now responding to all those exhibiting acute watery diarrhea as if it is cholera, Giuliano said. Cholera can lead to severe dehydration and death without prompt treatment, and containing cholera outbreaks is considered a high priority following floods. You know,

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London mdash; Moderna announced preliminary data on Monday that it said showed a third, booster dose of its coronavirus vaccine appeared to significantly increase antibodies that can help fight off an infection with the Omicron variant. Moderna said lab tests showed Omicron-neutralizing anti adidas campus bodies were low after two doses of its jab, but 29 days after a booster dose of 50 micrograms, they increased about 37-fold.The 50 mic air force 1 rogram dose is given as a booster with the Moderna shot, but the company s data showed that a full, 100 microgram booster dose increased antibody counts even more, around 83-fold. It s highly effective, and it s extremely safe, Moderna s chief medical officer Dr. Paul Burton said of the current vaccine in an interview with the Press Association. I think it will protect people through the coming holiday period and through these winter months, when we re going to see the most severe pressure of Omicron. Omicron has been reported in at least 89 countries and all but five U.S. states, and the number of cases is doubling every couple of days in places where there is community transmission, the World Health Organization said on Saturday. airforce Global concern grows as Omicron variant surges 10:03 Because of how quickly Omicron is spreading around the globe, Moderna said the current version Gjun Taliban kill 4 French troops in Afghanistan
Iran convicted an American journalist of spying for the United States and sentenced her to eight years in prison, her lawyer said Saturday, complicating the Obama administration s efforts to improve relations with Tehran.The White House said President Barack Obama was deeply disappointed by the conviction, while the journalist s father told a radio station his daughter was tricked into maki stanley quencher ng incriminating statements by officials who told her they would free her if she did.It was the first time Iran has found an American journalist guilty of spying, and it is unclear how it will affect President Obama s push to break a 30-year-old diplomatic deadlock between the two adversaries.Roxana Saberi, a 31-year-old dual American-Iranian citizen, was arrested in late January and initially accused of working without press credentials. But earlier this month, an Iranian judge leveled a far more serious allegation, stanley cup charging her with spying for the United States.The Fargo, North Dakota native had been living in Iran for six years and had work stanley cup ed as a freelance reporter for several news organizations including National Public Radio and the British Broadcasting Corp. The journalist s Iranian-born father, Reza Saberi, told NPR that his daughter was convicted Wednesday, two days after she appeared before an Iranian court in an unusually swift one-day closed-door trial. The court waited until Saturday to announce its decision to the lawyers, he said.Saberi s father is in Iran but was no

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China conducted a second day of military drills around Taiwan on Sunday, in what it called a stern warning to th adidas samba herren e self-ruled island s government following a meeting between its president and the U.S. House speaker.Dubbed Joint Sword , the three-day operation mdash; which includes rehearsing an encirclement of Taiwan mdash; will run until Monday, the People s Liberation Army s PLA Eastern Theatre Command said. China s war games saw planes, ships and personnel sent into the maritime areas and air space of the Taiwan Strait, off adidas campus shoes the northern and southern coasts of the island, and to the island s east , the army said. Two Taiwanese Navy warships are seen anchored on April 7, 2023 in Keelung, Taiwan. Getty Images A report from Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said: The task force will simultaneously organise patrols and advances around Taiwan island, shaping an all-round encirclement and deterrence posture. The report went on to detail the type of weaponry China was putting through its paces, including long-range rocket artillery, naval destroyers, missile boats, air force fighters, bombers, jammers and refuellers. China on Thursday began deploying wars yeezy slide hips around Taiwan. More than 40 Chinese planes flew into its de facto air space on Saturday, Taiwan s defence ministry said. The exercise will also include live-fire drills on Monday off the coast of China s F Nmky Vatican Slams China Over Unauthorized Bishop
Wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, defending himself against charges of Europe s worst genocide since the Holocaust, told judges Monday he was not the barbarian depicted by U.N. prosecutors, but was protecting his people against a fundamentalist Muslim plot.During a four-hour opening defense statement at the U.N. war crimes tribunal, Karadzic barely referred to specific allegations of mass murder at Srebrenica, indiscriminate shelling of Sarajevo, the destruction of Bosnian Muslim and Croat villages or the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia.But he took personal responsibilit stanley cup y for stanley thermobecher Serb actions, as Yugoslavia dissolved and the region descended into a war in which some 100,000 people were killed, saying he was standing up for ethnic Serbs against Muslim Bosnians. I don t want to defend myself by s stanley cup aying that I wasn t important or that I didn t occupy an important post while I was serving my people. Nor will I shift the blame to someone else, he said. I will defend that nation of ours and their cause, which is just and holy. He claimed Bosnia s Serbs were under threat and physical attack by Muslims, led by former Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic, who rejected power-sharing proposals and wanted an Islamic republic in Bosnia. The Serbs wanted to live with Muslims, but not under Muslims, he said.The image of the Muslims as victims was untrue, he said. The prosecution is trying to make me out to be a barbarian att

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BEIRUT -- I chanclas yeezy slamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS militants have destroyed a temple at Syria s ancient ruins of Palmyra, CBS News has confirmed. The attack has realized the worst fears archaeologists had for the 2,000-year-old Roman-era city after the extremists seized it and beheaded a local scholar.Palmyra, one of the Middle East s most spectacular archaeological sites and a UNESCO World Heritage site, sits near crocs the modern Syrian city of the same name. Activists said the militants used explosives to blow up the Baalshamin Temple on its grounds, the blast so powerful it also damaged some of the Roman columns around it.The site dates back to the first century AD, and has survived numerous invaders and occupiers. People of the religions of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism have joined together to protect for nearly 2000 years. It is seen as one of the most important archaeological sites in the world. ISIS beheads antiquities expert in Syria 01:40 The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday night that the temple was blown up a month ago. Turkey-based activist Osama al adidas samba og -Khatib, who is originally from Palmyra, said the temple was blown up Sunday. Both said the extremists used a large amount of explosives to destroy it.Both activists relied on information for those still in Palmyra an Napr Second U.S. aircraft carrier arrives in Mideast amid regional conflict fears
Palestinian security forces sealed off Gaza s southern border early Sunday, officials said, halting a chaotic flood of people into Egypt since the Israeli withdrawal from the area.Adnan Barbach, a spokesman for the Palestinian National Security Forces, said all the gaps in the border were closed, and 2,000 security personnel were now deployed along the border. He said the Palestinians were working with Egypt to make sure that all Gazans in Egypt could return home.Officers were seen patrolling the border area early Sunday and preventing people from crossing. Angry Palestinians turned around, and threatened to return wit stanley cup h Hamas militants and homemade rockets. A helicopter hovered overhead.Security along the b stanley becher order broke down last week after Israel completed its withdrawal from Gaza. With the Israelis gone, thousands of Palestinians freely crossed into Egypt without any border checks.Although most people traveled to shop, celebrate or reunite with relatives, Palestinian officials acknowledged that drugs and weapons were smuggled into Gaza. The border mayhem has emerged as a key test for Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who is under heavy Israeli pressure to assert control in Gaza. After talks with Egyptian security officials, Abbas had promised to have the border under control by early this week.The issue has put Abbas in a difficult situation stanley cup . With legislative elections scheduled in January, Abbas needs to secure freedom of movement for his people or risk losing support

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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lankan authorities will deport a British tourist for having an image of Buddha tattooed on her arm, an official said Wednesday. Police spokesman Ajith Rohana said Naomi Coleman was detained at Colombo s airport after she arrived from India on Monday when authorities spotted the tattoo of Buddha seated on a lotus flower. She was sent before a magistrate who ordered her deportation. Rohana said that Coleman air max 1 has been handed over to immigration authorities, who are taking steps to deport her. He said Coleman was arrested for hurting others religious feelings. Immigration officials did not answer calls seeking a comment. Coleman could not be reached and it wasn t clear if she was traveling with others. Buddhism is Sri Lanka s state religion and plays an important part in political and social affairs. About 70 percent of Sri Lanka s 20 million people practice Buddhism. In 2010, Sri Lanka refused to give a visa to RB star Akon over a music video in which scantily clad women dance in front of a Buddha statue. Akon expressed regret and said he was not previously aware of the statue in the video. p adidas samba og onent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 { salomon gtx display: none; } inline-recirc-item--id-f2c0901d-d497-4bca-994e-68a3e537418f, right-rail-recirc-item--id-f2c0901d-d497-4bca-994e-68a3e537418f { display: none; } inline-recirc-item--id-f2c0901d-d497-4bca-994e-68a3e537418f ~ .item:nth-child 5 { Elxv Egyptian Gays In Trouble
BENGHAZI, Libya - Libyan state television broadcast images Wednesday of a man it said was Muammar Qaddafi s youngest son in an attempt to refute rebel claims that he had been killed in a NATO airstrike.Rebels claimed on Friday that 27-year-old Khamis Qaddafi, who commands one of the best trained and equipped units in the Libyan military, was killed in the western front-line town of Zlitan. The regime dismissed the claim stanley mug and said the rebels were only trying to deflect attention from the killing last week of the opposition s military commander, possibly by other rebels.The images on television show stanley cup usa ed the son at a Tripoli hospital visiting people wounded in a NATO airstrike and said it was on Tuesday. If genuine, it would be the first time he has been seen in public since the reports of his death.The Libyan revolt that began in February has sunk into a deep stalema stanley cup te in the past few months, with the rebels holding on to most of the eastern half of the country that they captured early on and Qaddafi s regime controlling most of the west. Neither side has been able to tip the balance into an outright victory, even with months of NATO airstrikes pounding regime targets.State television also showed funerals for dozens of civilians it said had died in another NATO airstrike on Tuesday in Zlitan, a main front for the rebels fighting Qaddafi s troops. It is about 90 miles 140 kilometers southeast of Tripoli. The channel has been airing images in black and white to honor a thre

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On January 20, 1986, 33 years ago today, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and French President Francois Mitterand broke new ground. For that was the day they agreed to construction of the Chunnel. Thatcher said, The United Kingdom and France have decided today, on the basis of reports by experts, to link their two countries by a twin-bore tunnel. Although an English Channel tunnel between Britain an adidas original campus d France was a long-standing dream, reality had forced would-be travelers to rely o nike dunk low n ferries, or anything else that came to mind. But by the mid-20th century, the channel tunnel began to take shape. Digging the English Channel Tunnel. CBS News Soon after that joint 1986 announcement, construction began for real. And when the British and French tunneling crews first met in the middle in 1990, it was very big news.In 1994, the tunnel was completed, with Queen Elizabeth and President Mitterand sharing the first ride i adidas campus n a Rolls-Royce carried on a train.Thirty-one miles long 23 miles of it under water , the Channel Tunnel, or Chunnel for short, is a crucial link, both real and symbolic, between Britain and France, carrying high-speed trains between London and the Continent. How its role might change in the wake of Britain s bitter Brexit debate remains unclear since, as of now, there s no light at the end of THAT tunnel. For more info: eurotunnel1880 Chann Ykpa My best friend, the tiger
President Bush, in remarks for broadcast throughout Iraq, told citizens of the war-torn nation Thursday, The regime of Saddam Hussein is being removed from power. British ally Tony Bla stanley thermos ir said coalition forces are friends and liberators, not your conquerors. The joint addresses, taped on Tuesday while Mr. Bu stanley cup sh and Blair wrapped up their war summit in Northern Ireland, was being aired by the U.S. military as part of a news and information program televised to the Iraqi people. You will be free mdash; free to build a better life instead of building more palaces for Saddam and his sons, Mr. Bush said, according to excerpts released by the White House and Blair s office.Mr. Bush said Iraqis will soon be free to pursue economic prosperity without the hardship of economic sanctions. Free to travel and free to speak your mind. Free to join in the political affairs of Iraq. And all the people who make up your country mdash; Kurds, Shia, Turkomens, Sunnis and others mdash; will be free of the terrible persecution that so many have endured, the president said. Blair, in his message for the new station called Towards Freedom, told Iraqis that the United States and Britain had not wanted war. But in refusing to give up his weapons of mass destruction, Saddam gave us no choice but to act. Now that the war has begun, it will be seen through to the end, stanley quencher he said.The station will broadcast from a U.S. C-130 Hercules aircraft circling in the skies over Iraq, beaming five hou

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When Katie Ledecky mdash; four-time Olympian, 14-time medalist mdash; found out she would carry the American flag at the 2024 Paris Olympics closing ceremonies, she was moved to tears. It s such an honor, said Ledecky. Teammate Bobby Finke gave her the good news Thursday. He FaceTimed me to tell me the news, and I started crying. And it s really just such an honor to represent this team with so many great performances this week from all sports. It s an honor that Team USA s most decorated female Olympian will share with men s four rower Nick Mead, who was part of the team that ended a 64-year medal drought for the U.S.The closing ceremony at the Stade de France will be the first one Ledecky will attend.The Bethesda, Maryland, native had an impressive performance at the Games coming home with four medals, winning gold in the 800m and 1500m freestyles, silver in samba shoes the 4x200m relay and bronze in the 400m freestyle. And, she said, she is not done yet. She plans to keep training mdash; and keep pushing her teammates as well mdash; ahead of the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angel af1 es. By the time LA comes around in four years, we want to be better, said Ledecky. We want to be better than we were here in Paris. And I think that s definitely doable. We re gonna have the home crowd in front of us, and we want to put on a good show for them. While Ledecky admits she never saw herself as an Olympian as a kid, she did know right aw chanclas yeezy ay how much she loved being in the pool. I start Ycga Newsweek Tightens Source Rules
OPEC agreed Tuesday to stop overproducing crude at once, and then cut quotas by 1 million barrels effective April 1, ministers said.The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed to stanley cup the two-stage reduction in output to try to keep oil prices stable when warmer weather erodes demand in major importing countries. OPEC expects the combined cuts to curb its production by about 10 percent, or 2.5 million barrels a day.The move was somewhat unexp stanley us ected. A stronger U.S. economy and growth in China are boosting demand and made a production cut unlikely. The delegates were expected to vote to maintain the production ceiling at the meeting in the Algerian capital.Most of the delegates said Monday upon arriving in Algiers that OPEC members should stop producing above their agreed limits, rather than reduce the quotas themselves.When OPEC last met in December, several oil ministers predicted that they would make cu stanley website ts at this meeting to prevent prices from falling as a result of warmer weather and a reduced demand for fuel. Since then, however, a recovering U.S. economy and vigorous growth in China have boosted demand more than many had anticipated.Iran s Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zangeneh argued that OPEC needed to strike a delicate balance in steering a course through the April-June quarter. In this situation we should be very careful about the market. We have both high prices and oversupply, Zangeneh said. It s probably better to wait and postpone any decision until M

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Police leveled their first formal charge against Myanmar s adidas originals samba Aung San Suu Kyi, her allies said Wednesday, accusing her of possessing illegally imported walkie-talkies and giving the military authorities who staged a coup a legal reason to detain her for two weeks. The charge came to light two days after she was placed under house arrest and appeared to be an effort to lend a legal veneer to her detention, though the generals have previously kept her and others locked up for years. A person holds up a placard depicting Aung San Suu Kyi in Bangkok, Thailand, February 3, 2021. SOE ZEYA TUN / REUTERS The military announced Monday that it would take power for one year mdash; accusing Suu Kyi s government of not investigating allegations of voter fraud in recent elections. Suu Kyi s party swept that vote, and the military-backed party did poorly.National League for Democracy spokesman Kyi Toe confirmed the charge against Su air max 1 u Kyi that carries a maximum sentence of three years in prison. He also said the country s ousted president, Win Myint, was charged with violating the natural disaster management law. A leaked charge sheet dated February 1 indicates they can be held until February 15. It was clear that the military were going to look for some legal cases against the air max plus leaders of the National League for Democracy and especially Aung San Suu Kyi to actually legitimize what they v Udlu Return To Saigon
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