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KABUL, Afghanistan Taliban insurgents will increase the number of insider attacks against coalition and Afghan forces, which have resulted in the deaths of at least 52 foreign troops so far this year, the movement s reclusive leader said Wednesday.In an emailed statement congratulating Muslims as they prepare to celebrate the Eid al-Adha holiday, Mullah Mohammad Omar urged every brave Afghan in the ranks of the foreig stanley thermos n forces and their Afghan hirelings ... to strike them. Jihadist activities inside the circle of the state militias are the most effective stratagem. Its dimension will see further expansion, organization and efficiency, he said. Increase your efforts to expand the area of infiltration in the ranks of the enemy. Also Wednesday, NATO said in a statement that two of its soldiers died following an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan. It did not provide further details about the attack or the nationality of the victims.6 Afghan police killed in insider attack Video: 60 Minutes on Afghan insider attacksAllen: Insider attacks signature of Afghan warThe surge in insider attacks is throwing doubt on the capability of the Afghan security forces to take over from intern stanley cups ational troops ahead of a planned handover to the Afghans in 2014. It has further undermined public support for the 11-year war in NATO countries. The attacks have not been limited to members of the NATO-led international coali stanley flask tion. More than 50 Afghan members of the government s security

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NATO says three U.S. service members have been killed in southern Afghanistan, but the international coalition says they did not die in connection with a major offensive under way in the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, in Helmand province.NATO said the Americans died following a bombing, but it provided no other details.Afghan National Army Maj. Abdul Rahman says international troops were killed when a suicide bomber on a motorbike targeted a joint foot patrol of Afghan and U.S. soldiers in Kandaha stanley cup website r province, which lies next to Helmand. NATO would not confirm if it was the same incident.Separately, NATO says a Canadian soldier has died of injuries he suffered in a training accident Friday on a shooting range northeast of Kandahar. stanley cup ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 stanley france display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-990d042a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-990d042a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-990d042a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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American tennis star Coco Gauff is out of the Australian Open after losing in Thursday s night s semifinal to reigning champion Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus 7-6 2 , 6-4 mdash; marking Gauff s first loss of the year.The second-seeded Sabalenka will compete in the final Saturday at Melbourne s Rod Laver Arena against China s Qinwen Zheng, who defeated Ukraine s Dayana Yastremska Thursday.Sab salomon gtx alenka is the first woman to reach back-to-back finals at the Australian Open since Serena Williams did it in 2016 and 2017.Gauff, a four-seed, kept herself in the match with surprise responses to Sabalenka s powerful hits, nearly taking the first set after briefly getting the lead, but losing a contentious tiebreaker.The 25-year-old Sabalenka played steadily against Gauff in the second set, making sure to take advantage of each of Gauff s mistakes. Coco Gauff reacts during her match against Aryna Sabalenka in the semifinal of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Jan. 25, 2024, in Melbourne, Australia. Getty Images She s a great player, always tough battles against her, Sabalenka said in a post-game interview on the court. I was just ready for anything tonight. I think that was the key. This was not th salomon e pair s first high-stakes matchup. The two competed in the U.S. Open final last September, when Gauff defeated Sabalenka 2-6, 6-3, 6- adidas campus 80s 2 to take home her first Grand Slam tit Jgss Suspected U.S. drone strike kills three alleged al Qaeda members in Yemen, a first for Trump
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LONDON - Next Friday, Kate and William will be married inside one of the world s most famous churches. Westminster Abbey - officially the Collegiate Church of St. Peter at Westminster - has been at the heart of British history and the monarchy for more than a thousand years. It s been the coronation church since Christmas day 1066 when William the Conqueror was crowned here, said the Very Rev. Dr. John Hall, the dean of Westminster Abbey. Special Section: The Royal Wedding CBS News Early Show anchor Eric Hill reports the present church is where the Queen occasionally worships, and where she was crowned nearly 60 years ago like 37 of her predecessors. The monarchs are crowned in the Coronation Chair made famous in the recent movie The King s Speech. That King - George the Sixth - was married at the Abbey. As was his daughter who became Queen Elizabeth. Pictures: Westminster AbbeyThe last royal wedding here took place 25 years ago when Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson stanley termosy . A very young Prince William was a pa stanley uk ge then, and apparently not very interested in the event. Friday morning is sure to be different. I am delighted they are marrying here, Hall said. They wanted to come here because it is a place of staggering beauty and also remarkable intimacy and I stanley website think that is true. For Prince William, the Abbey is steeped in memories. It was the setting for his mother Princess Diana s funeral in 1997. People have thought isn t it rather sad and s

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This 94-year-old s journey from Pennsylvania all the way to a tiny grave in Cologne, Germany, is deeply personal. I m sorry Katharina. I never forget you, whispered Clarence Smoyer.He never met Katharina Esser. Yet, always feared her death might be his fault. What were you thinking when you were at her grave asked correspondent Seth mizuno running Doane. I ask her forgiveness if it was my shot that harmed her, Smoyer replied. Clarence Smoyer, a gunner with the U.S. Army s Third Armored Division, in Europe during World War II. CBS News It was a shot that still haunts him, more than 70 years after he fired it in World War II. adidas originals Clarence Smoyer. CBS Ne nike dunk ws At the time, Smoyer was a gunner with the U.S. Army s 3rd Armored Division. He d come ashore in Normandy three weeks after D-Day, criss-crossed France and Belgium, and in March of 1945, the fight to capture the key city of Cologne lay ahead: Our lieutenant got on the radio and he said, Gentlemen, I give you Cologne. Let s knock the hell out of it, Smoyer said.Incredibly, Army photographer Jim Bates, who was documenting the Allied advance, filmed Smoyer s Pershing tank in a battle with a German Panzer ndash; a fight that s now seared into Smoyer s mind: I saw movement over my left side, he recalled. I fired armor- Pwoy Pantone announces Classic Blue as 2020 Color of the Year
Palestinian officials sought to mediate in a power struggle between Yasser Arafat and his prime minister Sunday, as Israel warned it will not deal with Arafat and wi stanley water jug ll keep up strikes against militants unless the Palestinians disarm them.Arafat and Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas have disagreed in the past week on key appointments and control of Palestinian security forces, which under the U.S.-backed road map peace plan are required to dismantle militant groups. I think we must put an end to this internal crisis. We have to find a formula to organize relations between the presidency and Abbas council. We face a serious challenge from the Israelis, Palestinian Information Minister Nabil Amr said at a news conference in the West Bank town of Ramallah.A senior Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Israel told U.S. officials it will not deal with Arafat or any marionette that he puts in place of Abbas.Arafat reluctantly appointed Abbas, his PLO deputy, as the Palestinians first prime minister in April unde stanley cup usa r pressure from Israel and the United States, which have tried to sideline Arafat and want an alternative leader. Palestinian mediators were shuttling between Arafat and Abbas seeking to try to bridge their differences, officials said. The situation had reached a stage where it was not acceptable to anybody, said Ahmed Qureia, speaker of the kubki stanley Palestinian parliament. It has its effects on the entire process, and that s why it is very dangerous.

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At the end of April, Pakistani officials told CBS News that 10 men linked to the Taliban had been sentenced to 25 years in prison for the attempted assassination of teen activist Malala Yousafzai in the country s Swat province.Friday, however, it emerged that eight of those men were subsequently set free -- and may never have been convicted in the first place -- by a secret military court that found the evidence against them had gaps. Malala Yousafzai: Activist for education 32 photos samba og Malala: Fearless teen leads fight for global education 05:54 A senior Pakistani intelligence source confirmed to CBS News Farhan Bokhari that only two of the ten suspects have been convicted, and said the other eight have been freed because they did not carry out the shooting. Officials from the Pakistani Emb mizuno volleyballschuhe assy in London told CBS News later Friday that the eight freed suspects were acquitted because of a lack of evidence against th adidas originals damen em.The current whereabouts of the eight men freed by the court, however, remained a mystery. The two convicted suspects have been sentenced to life Sosy Questions About Castro s Future Answered
U.S. and NATO commanders say they have blunted the Taliban s threatened spring offensive, killing almost 40 commanders and 2,000 insurgents. But suicide bombings and civilian deaths inflicted by international forces are all on the rise, threatening to derail the five-year mission to pacify and rebuild Afghanistan.Six months into 2007, claims of progress in stabilizing the government of President Hamid Karzai are clouded by strains in the Western stanley cup alliance and what analysts say is growing pessimism in NATO capitals.Five years after the Taliban s ouster, the militia is again a serious adversary, seizing control of swaths of the south, despite the presence of more NATO, U.S. and Afghan troops.In a possible additional setback, U.N. and other Western officials expect this year s opium-producing poppy crop to exceed last year s record haul, mostly because of a spike in Helmand province, the world s largest poppy-growing region and also perhaps the most violent part of Afghanistan.Two Afghan officials f stanley cup quencher rom Helmand on Sunday said 45 civilians and 62 insurgents were killed by NATO stanley website and U.S. air strikes in their province Friday night. NATO admits some civilians were killed but says that estimate is far too high. Karzai ordered a six-man team to investigate. The military insists increased fighting this year reflects their own more muscular approach. However, there is doubt that the bloodletting will pave the way for the Western-backed government to assert control over longtime Tali

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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt - Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen will continue until Shiite rebels there withdraw and surrender their weapons, a summit of Arab leaders decided Sunday, as they also agreed in principle to forming a joint military force.The decision by the Arab League puts it on a path to potentially more aggressively challenge Shiite power Iran, which is backing the Yemeni rebels, known as Houthis. adidas campus damen White House isn t ruling out U.S. involvement in Yemen 02:32 A Saudi-led coalition began bombing Yemen on Thursday, saying it was targeting the Houthis and their allies, which include forces loyal to Yemen s former leader, Ali Abdullah Saleh.Warplanes struck Yemen s capital, Sanaa overnight and after daybreak on Monday, residents said, on the fifth day of the campaign, the Reuters news agency reported. At the summit, held in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby read a final communique outlining the lead nike dunk high ers views. Yemen was on the brink of the abyss, requiring effective Arab and international moves after all means of reaching a peaceful resolution have been exhausted to end th adiletten original e Houthi coup and restore legitimacy, Elaraby said. War in Yemen Jata Syria s violence relentless, crossing borders
America s super secret eavesdropping agency said Tuesday it had never targeted Princess Diana s telephone conversations for monitoring.The statement by the National Security Agency comes amid media reports in London about secret recordings of Diana s telephone communications that apparently surfaced during the British investigation into her 1997 death in a Paris car crash.CBS News national security correspondent David Martin first reported Monday that the NSA was crafting an of stanley cup ficial denial of the phone tapping reports.Diana, 36, her friend Dodi Fayed, 42, and the driver of their car died in the Aug. 31, 1997 crash. An investigation later concluded that the driver, Henri Paul, had been drinking and was driving at a high speed.An official British report into the crash, to be published Thursday, is expected to find her death was an accident, the Lon stanley thermoskannen don Observer reported over the weekend. The newspaper also reported that U.S. authorities had bugged Diana s phone without the approval of their British counterparts on the night of her death. It said U.S. officials assured British officials the secretly recorded conversations shed no new light on her death.In a statement Tuesday, the National Security Agency said it had 39 classified documents containing references to Diana but had never targeted her for monitoring. Those documents were previously released stanley bottles in response to a Freedom of Information Request in 1998, the agency noted. As NSA has made clear in the past, the 39 NSA-

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Kyivmdash; A Russian missile strike on a crowded pizza restaurant in Ukraine killed at least nine people, including three children, and left dozens more injured, officials said Wednesday. Twisted metal and concrete is all that remained of the popular restaurant in the eastern city of Kramatorsk after two missiles slammed into the building the previous evening as people had dinner.Two sisters, both 14, were killed in the attack, according to a statement posted online by the educational department of Kramatorsk s city council. Russian missiles stopped the beating of the hearts of two angels, it said. The other child killed was 17, Ukraine s Prosecutor General Andrii Kostin said. The attack damaged 18 other buildings, as well as 65 houses, five schools, two kinder crocs badelatschen gartens, and a shopping center, regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said, according to The Associated Press. Search and rescue efforts after a Russian missile strike hit the Ria restaurant in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, June 27, 2023. Wo yeezy jciech Grzedzinski/Anadolu Agency/Getty Ukrainian officials said the city was hit by Russian S-300 surface-to-air missiles, which are not made to hit ground targets accurately but have been used repeatedly by Russia s forces since the February 22, 2022, full-scale invasion was launched, ofte nike dunk high n hitting civilian infrastructure in indiscriminate strikes on crowded cities.Kramatorsk is about 2 Zwsv No one seems to want body of Kim Jong Un s half brother
AP TEHRAN, Iran - Tehran will retaliate against any attack by Israeli or American forces on the same level, Iran s top leader said Tuesday in a defiant address just moments after U.S. President Barack Obama appealed directly to the Iranian people with a message of solidarity.The contrasting approaches highlighted the broad range of political posturing and tactics as the standoff deepens over Iran s nuclear program.Iran s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaking on state TV to mark the Iranian new year, repeated his claims that the country does not seek atomic weapons, but said all of Iran s conventional firepower was ready to respond to any attack.Obama decries Iran s electronic curtain Iranian New Year glimpse of pre-Islamic rituals We do not have atomic weapons and we wi stanley cup quencher ll not build one. But ag stanley canada ainst an attack by enemies - to defend ourselves either against the U.S. or Zionist regime - we will attack them on the same level that they attack us, he said, using the term Iranian authorities oft stanley becher en use for Israel.Despite the hard-edged tone for most of the speech, there were hints of overtures toward America before a possible resumption of nuclear talks between Iran and world powers. He urged the U.S. to have a respectful attitude toward Iran - suggesting it could bring dividends.Earlier this month, Khamenei gave a rare nod of approval to Washington after Obama said he favored diplomacy to resolve the nuclear dispute. In a video message for the Iranian new ye

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MACAU - Manny Pacquiao is preparing for a visit to thetyphoon-devastated city of Tacloban in the coming days, returning to thePhilippines with his boxing career back on the upswing after an impressive victory over Brandon Rios.Pacquiao said after his winat The Venetian casino in Macau on Sunday that he planned to travel to theepicenter of this month s Typhoon Haiyan, which killed more than 5,000 peopleand displa nike dunk donna ced an estimated 3 million. I promised them that after thefight I would go to Tacloban to visit them, Pacquiaosaid. As soon as possible we will finalize adidas campus homme the date, what day. Despite the devastation, big screenswere set up in the city s plaza to allow fans to watch Sunday s fight, andtheir spirits received a much-needed boost from the victory for the Filipinostar.When the storm hit, Pacquiao was already in a training camp at thesouthern city of General Santos, and while the boxer and l adidas campus 80s awmaker s firstinstinct was to go to the affected areas to help, he was talked out of it bytrainer Freddie Roach and others who advised him that the best thing he coulddo for the nation s spirits was to win the fight. It was very difficult for me, Ifelt so bad for what happened, Pacquiaosaid after Sunday s fight. I wanted to visit there but because of mytraining I could not, so I was just praying for them and sent my staff to bringthem help. This fight is for the familiesand the people affected by the typhoon - I am just happy that God answered myprayer. While Pacquiaodedicated Yomj K-pop s sex and power scandal a reckoning for music industry mdash; and Korea
U.N. chief Kofi Annan said Monday he would appoint a mediator for indirect talks between Israel and Hezbollah on the release of two abducted Israeli soldiers, the first public word of negotiations between the bitter enemies since figh stanley thermos ting in Lebanon ended.The announcement raised the possibility of a prisoner swap to win the soldiers release, an exchange which Israel has repeatedly rejected, at least in public. Until now, Israel had insisted that it would not hold any contacts with Hezbollah, but its government has been under increasing domestic pressure to bring the two home.The agreement on the mediat stanley canada ion effort could mark a breakthrough on an issue that is crucial to preserving the fragile 3-week-old cease-fire that ended 34 days of Israel-Hezbollah fighting. Israel mounted its offensive in Lebanon after the Shiite guerrillas seized the two soldiers stanley cup and killed three others in a cross-border raid July 12.The U.N. cease-fire resolution that ended the fighting on Aug. 14 urges the unconditional release of the two soldiers. Hezbollah has said it would free them only in a swap for Arab prisoners held by Israel. Both sides have accepted the good offices of the secretary-general to help resolve this problem, Annan told a news conference in Saudi Arabia s Red Sea port of Jiddah. I will designate someone to work discreetly and quietly with them to find a solution. The only thing that I insisted on is that if I m going to use my good offices, then my mediator should be the

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Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images Smoke rises from Mount Bromo, in Bromo Tengger Semeru National Parkin Probolinggo, Java, Indonesia.The Tenggerese villages celebrate the Tenggerese Hindu Yadnya Kasada Festival over the course of a month. On the festival s fourteenth day, the Tenggerese make the journey to Mount Bromo to make offerings of rice, fruits, vegetables, flowers and livestock to the mountain gods by throwing them into the volcano s caldera.The origin of the festival lies in the 15th century when a princess named Roro Anteng started the principality of Tengger with her husband Joko Seger, and the childless couple asked the mountain Gods for help in bearing children. The legend says the Gods granted them 24 children but on the provision that the 25th must be tossed into the volcano in sacrific asics sneaker e. The 25th child, Kesuma, was finally sacrificed in this way after initial refusal, and the tradition of throwing sacrifices into the caldera to appease the mountain God air force 1 s continues today. Offerings to the volcano Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images asics gel Tenggerese worshippers trek across the Sea of Sand with a goat for an offering during the Yadnya Kasada Festival at the crater of Mount Bromo in Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia, Aug. 12, 2014. Offerings to the volcano Ulet Rukf Bethlehem Christmas Pull-Out Unlikely
Last Updated 11:00a.m. ETPERUGIA, Italy - A lawyer said the parents of Amanda Knox, the American student convicted of murder in Italy, have been ordered to stand trial for alleging that Italian police abused their daughter.The Italian news agency ANSA said Curt Knox and Edda Mellas were indicted Tuesday in Perugia for libel. Lawyer Luciano Ghirga confirmed the indictment and said the trial was set for July 4. He said the couple did not attend the hearing.The charge stems from an interview they gave Britain s Sunday Times years ago in which the stanley tumbler father alleged that police had physically and verbally abused his daughter during questioning after Meredith Kercher s 2007 slaying but before Knox was arrested. In the Sunday Times interview published June 15, 2008, Curt Knox said, Amanda was abused physically and verbally. She told us she was hit in the back of the head by a police officer with an open hand, at least twice. The police told her, If you ask for a lawyer, things will get worse for you and If y cups stanley ou don t give us some explanation for what happened, you re going to go to jail for a very long time. Edda Mellas told the paper that Amanda was told she would never see her family again, and gave a description of the officer who allegedly struck stanley cup her. The Sunday Times said that could not be published for legal reasons. Police have denied harming Knox. A Knox family representative said they would have no comment.More on the Amanda Knox Case:Amanda Knox Lawyers