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More than half of Americans mdash; and an overwhelming number of Democrats mdash; say they approve of the fact that Congress has opened an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. But as the inquiry begins, there is no national consensus on how to assess the president s actions.Partisans have immediately and predictably split: most Democrats call the president s handling of matters with Ukraine illegal, and deserving of impeachment.Most Republicans call his actions proper mdash; or, even if improper, then still legal mdash; and feel they re an example of things that past presidents typically did, too. Most Americans think that because Congress is now tak nike dunk ing up the matter, it will be unable to work on other issues. Almost nine in 10 Democrats approve of the inquiry, and two-thirds strongly approve. Prior to the inquiry, some had wondered if taking up impeachment proceedings might divide a Democratic rank-and-fil yeezy slide e that has been long concerned with other policies like health yeezy foam care and guns. However, these findings suggest that it this is not the case: most moderate Democrats side with liberal Democrats in supporting impeachment proceedings. Of those who say they voted for a Democratic House candidate in 2018, nine in 10 feel this inquiry is necessary. Characterizing the president s actions in particular, just under one-third of Americans say the president s handling of matters with Ukraine may have bee Ijtt Taj Mahal minarets damaged in powerful storm
Move over Navy SEALs: There s a new sea creature in town.Make way for Zachary, the 19-year-old sea lion, one of the U.S. Navy s new secret weapons in any war against Iraq.Brought to the Persian Gulf to swim alongside naval vessels and key facilities in this kingdom, Zachary and the other whiskered sea mammals are here to test their effectiveness in guarding against attack, by providing early warning of enemy saboteurs. If there is somebody down there who shouldn t be there, the sea lions will find them, said Lt. J.G. Josh Frey, a spokesman for th cups stanley e Navy s 5th Fleet.The need for the stealthy sea lion was highlighted after the Oct. 12, 2000, attack on the USS Cole. The bombing, blamed on al Qaeda, occurred when a seemingly harmless dinghy eased up to the destroyer and blew a hole in its hull, killing 17 sailors and injuring 39. A sea lion patrol, had it been t stanley termohrnek here, might stanley cup not have been able to detect the Cole attackers because they were above the surface, but the bombing demonstrated the vulnerability of navy ships to small-scale assault.The U.S. military has used intelligent sea creatures for three decades, including dolphins that patrolled Persian Gulf waters during the late 1980s. But it is the first time sea lions are being used in a real world environment, Frey said.Thomas LaPuzza, a spokesman for the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego, the sea lions base, said the deployment is a temporary test program to see how sea lions, along with other techn

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Duabai, United Arab Emiratesmdash; At least nine Yemeni employees of United Nations agencies have been detained by Yemen s Houthi rebels under unclear circumstances, authorities said Friday, as the rebels face increasing financial pressure and airstrikes from a U.S.-led coalition. Others working for aid groups also likely have been taken. The detentions come as the Houthis, who seized Yemen s capital nearly a decade ago and have been fighting a Saudi-led coalition since shortly after, have been targeting shipping throughout the Red Sea corr mizuno handballschuh idor in what they say is a direct response to Israel s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.Exactly a week ago, the Houthis threatened to escalate their Red Sea attacks after new airstrikes by U.S. and British forces in Yemen that the rebels said killed 16 people. Three officials told CBS News national security correspondent David Martin the U.S. used a 5,000-pound bunker-buster bomb as part of that adidas campus joint strike against Houthi targets. Mourners ride vehicles carrying the coffins of people killed in joint U.S.-U.K. airstrikes targeting Houthi rebels, after attending their funeral procession at Al-Sha ab Mosque, June 3, 2024, in Sanaa, Yemen. nike af Mohammed Hamoud/Getty While gaining more attention internationally, the secretive group has cracked down on dissent in the vast territory it holds in Yemen, including recently sentencing 44 people to d Ggph Strike Grounds European Air Travelers
Swedish prosecutors say they will seek an international arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a rape investigation.The announcement came after a Stockholm court approved their request to detain Assange for questioning in the case, which stems from his encounters with two Swedish women in August.Assange is suspected of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion. Director of Public Prosecution Marianne Ny told the AP on Thursday that she will seek Assange s arrest through Interpol. His whereabouts were not immediately clear.Assange has denied the allegations, which stem from his encounters with two women during kubki stanley a visit to Sweden in August. The reason for my request is that we need to interrogate him, Director of Public Prosecution Marianne Ny said in a statement. So far, we ha stanley thermosflasche ve not been able to meet with him to accomplish the interrogation. WikiLeaks has angered the Pentagon by releasing thousands of classified U.S. war reports from Afghanistan and Iraq. Assange had considered setting up a base for WikiLeaks in Sweden, where some of its servers are located, but Swedish immigration authorities denied him a residence permit. Earlier this month, he said he may apply for asylum in Switzerland instead. Court documents filed by the pros stanley cup ecutor show Assange is suspected of raping and sexually molesting a woman in the town of Enkoping, central Sweden. He s suspected of sexual molestation and unlawful coercion of the second woman, in Stockholm.

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Ben Curtis/AP American researcher Dian Fossey and her book Gorillas in the Mist first brought international attention to the primates plight. The mountain gorilla population dropped sharply in the last century because of poaching, illness and human encroachment, but their numbers are now rising - a hopeful sign for the critically endangered asics sneaker species.These days, an estimated 900 mountain gorillas live in the steep-sloped forests of Rwanda and neighboring Congo and Uganda, the last of their species on earth.In Rwanda, a country that has struggled with the ravages of genocide and civil war, conservation tourism is big business - seen as key to the welfare of the gorillas as adidas originals well as Rwanda s economy.In this photo, a male silverback from the Amahoro family sits in the dense forest on the slopes of Mount Bisoke volcano in Volcanoes N adidas samba ational Park, northern Rwanda, September 4, 2015. Rwanda s mountain gorillas Ben Curtis/AP A mountain gorilla from the Amahoro family, which means peace in the Rwandan language, forages for food high in a tree in the dense forest on the slopes of Mount Bisoke, where the group has made their home.In Rwanda, eighty individual permits to see the gorillas for one hour are available daily for a maximum price of $750 each increased from $250 10 years ago , and 20 percent of permit revenue goes to schools, Tuss Lions are being forced to change the way they hunt. It s all because of a tiny invasive ant, scientists say.
President Bush prodded Iraq s neighbors on Monday to do more to help in its reconstruction and said he would push nations around the world to make good on aid they have promised. Iraq s neighbors ought to do more to help, the president said after a day of discussion with his top national security advisers on Iraq s future.The two-day strategy session at the mountainous Camp David presidential retreat started Monday, with national security advisers on hand and top commanders in Iraq connected by video-conference. President Bush will also meet with Iraq s Prime Minister al Maliki and his cabinet via video link to talk about how to move forward, CBS News senior White House correspondent Bill Plante reports. I think what they ll talk about today is, as they do periodically, is about the overall strategy in Iraq and the three major dimensions - the security dimension, the political dimension, economic dimension, retired General Richard Myers, former cha stanley polska irman of the Joint Chiefs, told CBS News The Early Show stanley quencher .Mr. Bush said that nations around the world mdash; many of them outside the Middle East mdash; have pledged $13 billion for Iraq and we expect our friends ... to honor those commitments. Mr. Bush said he and his advisers talked about security in Iraq, particularly in Baghdad and Basra. He said the message he wanted to send the government there was, We stand with you. He d stanley termohrnek eclined to make specific predictions about U.S. troop withdrawals, saying the new Iraqi defen

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The U.S. is on pace to complete its military withdrawal from Afghanistan by September or sooner, but Congress is growing impatient with the administration s lack of urgency to protect Afghans who could find themselves under attack for assisting in the U.S. war effort.Thousands of Afghans who were employed by the U.S. government as interpreters, translators or in other positions are eligible for a special immigrant visa to leave the country for their safety.According to the nonprofit No One Left Behind, over 300 interpreters and their family members have been killed because of their association with the United States. By some estimates, 70,000 Afghans either worked with or have a family member who worked with Americans and could now be in danger. In an open letter to President Bid yeezy en, a group of Afghan interpreters called on the President to shorten the length of SIV processing time amid other requests. The letter has been obtained by CBS News. In this November 3, 2009, file photo, Lt. Thomas Goodman, center, of the 2nd Ba dunk pand ttalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division meets with villagers in Qatar Kala in the Pech Valley of Afghanistan s Kunar province with his interpreter Ayazudin Hilal, center left with h airmaxplus at. David Guttenfelder / AP The local Afghan employees paid a very high price for joining the U.S. as they were threatened to death a Pwdw Mother of Mark Swidan, U.S. citizen wrongfully detained in China, fears he may take his life
A wave of massive fires raged out of control across Greece, sweeping into mountainous towns and villages and killing at least 18 people in the south, in the country s deadliest forest fire toll in decades.Rescue crews were checking reports of several other bodies found in a mountain village in the western Peloponnese, fire department spokesman Nikos Diamandis said early Saturday.In the capital, a sudden fierce fire broke out during t stanley thermosflasche he night in a park in the upscale neighborhood of Filothei, a few miles north of central Athens. Between 10 and 12 fire trucks brought the fire under control w stanley canada ithin about two hours, the fire department said. The blaze broke out in the middle of the night, and it was unclear what had caused it.Throughout the day Friday and into the night, 170 fires raged across the country, with blazes reported from the western Ionian islands to Ioannina in northwestern Greece and down to the south. With some fires starting long after dark, authorities said they were investigating the possibility of arson.A fire on the island of Evia north of the capital grew through the night, and the authorities declared a state of emergency in the area, said Sofia Moutsou, the mayor of the town of Styra. If we don t stop this now there will be nothing left, she said on Antenna radio. She w stanley thermos mug as hoping ferries could transport fire trucks to the island to help tackle the blaze.But the most devastating mdash; and deadly mdash; fires were in the Peloponnese region of the sou

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BRUSSELS -- The European Union says it will start imposing duties from July on a list of U.S. products in response to President Donald Trump s decision to slap tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Europe. European Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic said Wednesday that formalities in finalizing the list should be completed this month and that the new duties start applying from July. The EU says it will introduce rebalancing tariffs on about 2.8 billion euros $3.4 billion worth of U.S. steel, agricultural and other products, including bourbon, peanut butter, cranberries and orange juice.The European Union exported some 5.5 million tons of steel to the U.S. last year. European steel producers are concerned about a loss of market access but also that steel from elsewhere will flood in.Key Senate Republicans seek to challenge Trump on tariffsFacing tariff blow mizuno running -back, Trump insists U.S. trade will be strongerChina threatens retaliation as U.S. trade talks end in impasseKey Sen adidas campus damen ate Republicans, meanwhile, are pushing longshot legislation that would require Congress to sign off onPresident Trump s import tariffs, a rare attempt to stand up to the administration on a bedrock issue that once defined the GOP. Trump s tariffs spar adidas originals k international backlash 02:50 Trump took office promising to ri Xmbh Syria rebel coalition rejects Russia chemical weapons handover proposal
AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara Mount Sinabung spews clouds of hot ash and smoke in Tanah Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. Mount Sinabung last erupted in 1600 and government volcanologists acknowledged they had made no efforts before the mountain started rumbling last week to sample gases or look out for rising magma or other signs of seismic activity. stanley cups stanley deutschland AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade A child dressed as the Hindu God Krishna looks on during festivities to mark Janmashtami at a school in Mumbai, India, Sept. 1, 2010. Janmashtami is the festival that marks the birth of Krishna. AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta Tunisia s Macram Ben Romdhane tries to grab a loose ball during the Worl stanley thermoskannen d Basketball Championship preliminary round match against Croatia in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia A giant photograph of Iranian woman Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani hangs from a building in central Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. The Italian government has displayed a giant photograph from the offices of the Equal Opportunities Ministry, urging Iran to lift its deat

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JOHANNESBURG -- A male lion known to wildlife lovers around the world as Cecil has been illegally killed by a party of game hunters, according to the Zimbabwean government.The Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Authority chanclas yeezy and the Safari Operators Association said two men, one a landowner whose property is adjacent to a game reserve, and the other a professional big game hunting guide, were facing poaching charges. Cecil the lion killed in Africa 18 photos It s believed the professional guide lured the big cat named Cecil into moving out of the safe confines of Zimbabwe s Hwange Game Reserve so that it could be killed by the foreign hunter, identified by conservation groups including the Zimbabwe Conservation Ta adidas originals uomo sk Force, as American Walter James Palmer, whose history of big game hunting is documented online.On Tuesday, Palmer released a statement saying that to his knowledge, everything about this trip was legal and prope salomon xt 6 rly handled and conducted. I had no idea that the lion I took was a known, local favorite, was collared and part of a study until the end of the hunt. I relied on the expertise of my local professional guides to ensure a legal hunt, he said. I deeply regret that my pursuit of an activity I love and practice responsibly and legal Skcb Restoring The Peace In Kosovo
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks with Phongsavath Souliyalat, who lost his forearms and si stanley mugs ght when an unexploded bomb left from the Vietnam War exploded in his hands, in Vientiane, Laos, July 11, 2012. AP CBS News VIENTIANE, Laos - It was a painful sixteenth birthday for Phongsavath Souliyalat. It was the day he lost both arms and his eyesight when a U.S. cluster bomblet exploded in his hands. While walking to school, a fri stanley kubek end handed him the unexploded bomb without realizing that it would nearly kill Souliyalat.The two teenagers weren t even alive during the relentless bombing campaign by U.S. forces to cut off supply lines to the North Vietnamese, from 1964 to 1975, but their generation continues to stumble upon lethal reminders.The U.S. State Department estimates that some 80 million unexploded American bombs remain in Laos. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton listened to Souliyalat s story Wednesday as she got a tour of the Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise COPE , an organization in the Laotian capital that helps provide victims with prosthetic limbs. We have to do more, Clinton told the young man. That s one of the reasons I wanted to come here today, so that we can tell more people about the work that we should be doing together. More than 30 years after the end of U.S. military action in Laos, the communist nation still holds the title a

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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas-- A Southeast Texas native and wife of an Air Force lieutenant colonel was one of thepeople killed in the Brussels attacks, a U.S. congressman said Wednesday.Gail Minglana Martinez was identified as a victim by the office of U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold, who said in a statement that he had spoken to Martinez s brother. My heartfelt condolences and prayers go out to the family of Mrs. Martinez, whose life was tragically cut short by the ISIS terror attack in Brussel yeezy s, Farenthold said. adidas originals Family members of Brussels attacks victims open up 03:18 Suicide bombers killed 32 people at Brussels airport and in a subway station near the European Union headquarters. Dozens of people remain hospitalized.Martinez, 41, was married to Lt. Col. Kato Martinez, who Farenthold said is still hospitalized due to the blast, as are the couple s four children.Kato Martinez serves as a crocs badelatschen military assistant to the commander at NATO s Joint Force Command in the Netherlands. It s not yet known where in Brussels the family was when they were injured. Martinez grew up in Corpus Christi, a city on the Gulf of Mexico southwest of Houston. She graduated from a local high school in 1992. She was a fireball, said David Hiser, who was Martinez s choir teacher in middle and high school. Huge laugh. I just rem Qdjl U.S. mulls drone strike on American al Qaeda suspect in Pakistan
An American working to restore medical care in war-shattered Chechnya was kidnapped stanley cup by masked gunmen who pulled him from his car, forced him into another vehicle and drove away, officials said Wednesday.Kenny Gluck, 38, was traveling Tuesday in a four-car convoy of aid workers near the town of Stariye Atagi, south of the regional capital Grozny, when unidentified men opened fire on them, according to a statement from the medical aid stanley cup group Doctors Without Borders.The group said in a statement from its Amsterdam office that it was outraged by this direct attack on a clearly marked humanitarian convoy. Other foreign and local employees traveling in the group of cars managed to escape unharmed, the statement said. Doctors Without Borders 151; which won the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize 151; is an international relief agency that provides medical help in war zones, disaster areas and remote regions.Doctors Without Borders pulled out of the rebel region in December 1997 following the abductions of aid workers as kidnapping for ransom became widespread, but returned in December 1999. Russian authorities blamed the aid workers for not notifying them of their travels and moving around without military escort. Such behavior in Chechnya by citizens of foreign governments and employees of humanitarian missions are dangerous, Gen. Ivan Babichev, the military commandant in Chechnya, was quoted as saying by Interfa stanley cup x. Part of the blame for this tragedy lies with the international orga

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Tony Fernandes, the chief executive of AirAsia, has cultivated a reputation as a charismatic business mogul who owns racing and soccer teams and loves to be in the spotlight.But now, after one of his planes carrying 162 passengers has been declared lost, the 50-year-old is trying to manage a company in crisis. Fernandes, who had no aviation experience when he took control of AirAsia in 2001, is calling the disappearance of AirAsia Flight 8501 his worst nightmare, and says he has been meeting with the families of passengers and crew. Been one of my toughest days, he wrote on Twitter Monday. My heart bl af1 eeds for all the relatives of my crew and our passengers, he added. Nothing is more important to us. Looking At The History Of Missing AirAsia Flight 8501 08:54 The Malaysian entrepreneur was part of a group of investors adidas samba damen who bought the money-losing AirAsia from the Malaysian government in 2001 for about 25 cents. They took on $11 million in debt in the process. At the time, the airline only had two Boeing planes, one route between the Malaysian regions of Kuala Lumpur and Langkawi and a staff of 250. Fernandes has turned the business around since then, casting AirAsia as a no-frills budget airline with the slogan Now everyone can fly. The airline flies to more than 88 destinations.A nike dunks panda s of t Ffpz Zimbabwe ruling party accuses thug U.S. ambassador of funding protests, threatens expulsion
A landslide triggered by torrential seasonal rains swept through a hilly region in southern India, killing at least 39 people, an official sai stanley tumblers d Tuesday.The landsl stanley flasche ide demolished nearly 300 tin-roofed mud huts Monday in the Ooty and Coonoor region of Tamil Nadu state, a state flood control official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to reporters. The region is nearly 1,120 miles south of the capital, New Delhi.Rescuers found 14 bodies in the debris Monday and another 25 on Tuesday, the official said, adding that eight injured people were hospitalized.Ooty is a popular tourist destination, but none of those killed or injured were foreigners, he said.India s June-September monsoon season causes severe flooding and kills hundreds of people across the country. But the annual mons stanley termoska oon brings rains that are vital to agriculture in India. It is common for the southern parts of the country to receive heavy rains in November and December. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-98f5cc06-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-98f5cc06-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-98f5cc06-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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A federal judge on Wednesday delayed a pretrial detention hearing for Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old airman in the Massachusetts Air National Guard accused of posting dozens of secret Pentagon documents to social media.Teixeira has been nike air force charged with unlawful retention and transmission of national defense information and unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents. If convicted on both charges, he faces up to 15 years in prison.Magistrate Judge David Hennessy on Wednesday granted a request by Teixeira s public defenders to delay the scheduled hearing for two weeks to give them time to r adidas yeezy eview the government s request for detention. The Justice Department agreed to the delay.Teixeira has waived his right to a preliminary hearing. Teixeira was arrested on April 13, a week after the documents, posted to the social messaging platform Discord starting in February 2023, had becom yeezy e public knowledge. Jack Teixeira in court Dale Stephanos It s not known how many documents were posted. CBS News has reviewed more than 50 that appear to be part of the leak. The documents reviewed cover the Russia-Ukraine conflict, China, Turkey, South Korea and Israel. According to charging documents, one of the posted documents described the status of the Russia Ukraine conflict, including troop movements, on a particular date. The government confirmed that the document in que Ygtp Big Quake, Little Damage, In Japan
Updated 1:11 p.m. ETTALLINN, Estonia - A fire raced through an orphanage for disabled children in western Estonia on Sunday, killing 10 of them, a rescue service spokesman said.There were 37 children and nine adults inside the wooden building when the fire started at 2:30 p.m. in the coastal town of Haapsalu, said Viktor Saaremets, a spokesman for the Western Estonia Rescue Services Center. By the time rescue workers and firefighters arrived at the scene three or four minutes later the building was completely in flames, he said.Ten children were killed and one adult was injured, Saaremets said. The others were evacuated to a nearby building and were not hurt, he said. The cause of the fire was not immediately clear. Fire safety inspectors went there in January and found that the building met all the necessary criteria, Saaremets said.Estonian newspaper Postimees showed pictures on its website of flames tearing into a one-story wooden building. Victims were carried out from a window, as thick smoke billowed from stanley cup the roof.The Estonian government met for an emergency meeting after the blaze and declared Monday a nationwide day of mourning. Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves expressed his condolences. The tragic accident in the Haapsalu orphanage shocked the whole of Estonia today, Ilves said in a brief statement.Local officials in Haapsalu told Estonian media that the number of victims was unlikely to rise.The Haa stanley flask psalu o stanley termoska rphanage was opened as a home for

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G adidas sambarose hana international soccer player Christian Atsu remains missing more than a week after the deadly earthquakes which struck Turkey, his agent said Tuesday. Atsu was believed to have been in a building which collapsed in the southern Turkish city of Antakya, in the Hatay province, his Turkish club, Hatayspor, previously reported.Atsu s agent, Nana Sechere, tweeted Tuesday that he was at the quake site in Hatay with Christian s family, but that Atsu still had not been located. On Feb. 7, both Hatayspor and Ghana soccer associationsaid that the 31-year-old Atsu had been rescued from a collaps crocs winterstiefel ed building and taken to a hospital. FILE - Christian Atsu during a Newcastle United training session at the Newcastle Unit mizuno running ed Training Centre on Jan. 28, 2021, in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Serena Taylor/Newcastle United via Getty Images However, two days later, on Feb. 9, Sechere and Aydin Toksoz, the deputy head of Hatayspor soccer club, said that Atsu remained missing, along with the club s sporting director, Taner Savut. We have not been able to reach Atsu or Taner Savut, Toksoz told the Anadolu Agency.Sechere also had said in messages to the Associated Press on Feb. 9 that he traveled to Turkey to try to find Atsu but the player is yet to be found. Atsu who previously played for English clubs Chelsea and Newcastle, signed for Hatayspor late last year. The club is ba Qqbv A week later, Parisians still in shock over deadly attack
U.S. and Afghan forces have taken control of the main roads, bridges and government centers of the Taliban haven of Marjah, the top Marine commander in southern Afghanistan said Thursday, though he added that pockets of insurgents remain. I d say we control the spine of the town, Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson told The Associated Press as he inspected the Marines front line in the north of the town. We re where we want to be. After six days of a massive NATO offensive, Marines and their Afghan counterparts succeeded in their initial military objectives, he said: They now control all access points into town, the government centers and the main markets, and the key roads that crisscross the 80-sq stanley cup uare-mile area. Special Report: AfghanistanAs Nicholson spoke, bursts of heavy machine gunfire in the near distance highlighted that insurgents still hold terrain less than a mile away. Everyday, there s not a dramatic stanley fr change, it s steady, he said, noting that fighting continues to erupt.The offensive is the biggest since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion stanley tumblers of Afghanistan, and a test of President Barack Obama s strategy for reversing the rise of the Taliban while protecting civilians.Five NATO service members and one Afghan soldier have been killed since the attack on the town, the hub of the Taliban s southern logistics and drug-smuggling network, began Saturday. NATO had previously reported six deaths, but said Thursday that one death had mistakenly been reported twice.U.S. Marines pum