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Saudi border guards fired like rain on Ethiopian migrants trying to cross into the Gulf kingdom from Yemen, killing hundreds since last year, Human Rights Watch said in a reportMonday.The allegations, described as unfounded by a Saudi government source, point to a significant escalation of abuses along the perilous route from the Horn of Africa to Saudi Arabia, where adiletten original hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians live and work.One 20-year-old woman from Ethiopia s Oromia region, interviewed by HRW, said Saudi border guards opened fire on a group of migrants they had just released from custody. They fired on us like rain. When I remember, I cry, she said. I saw a guy calling for help, he lost both his legs. He was screaming; he was saying, Are you leaving me here Please don t leave me . We couldn t help him because we were running for our lives. Ethiopian migrants are seen inside a building while undergoing quarantine as they across Yemen s land to reach Saudi Arabia on April 05, 2020 in Dhamar go adidas yeezyslide vernorate, Yemen. Getty Images HRW researcher Nadia Hardman said Saudi officials are killing hundreds of migran adidas campus femme ts and asylum seekers in this remote border area out of view of the rest of the world, according to a statement. Spending billions buying up professional golf, football clubs, and major entertainment events to improve the Saudi image should not deflect attention from these horrendous crimes, she said.The United States on Monday vo Xwmi Last 45 trapped China miners pulled out alive
Diplomatic tensions between China and Japan escalated Wednesday when Beijing called in Japan s ambassador after a Chinese fishing boat collided with two Japanes stanley cups e patrol vessels near a chain of disputed islands and Tokyo arrested the boat s captain.Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Song Tao summoned Japanese Ambassador Uichiro Niwa and urged Japan to stop the illegal interception of Chinese fishing boats, the official Xinhua News Agency reported late Tuesday.Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku urged that the situation be handled calmly. We will handle the matter firmly in accordance with law, he told reporters, according to Kyodo News agency. It is important that in Japan we not get overly excited. Japan Coast Guard spokeswoman Akane Yonemori said Wednesday that the 41-year-old Chinese captain of the fishing boat had been arrested for allegedly obstructing public duties in connection with Tuesday s collision near the chain of islands in the East China Sea. She said the coast guard is investigating the Chinese captain on Ishigaki island, around 400 kilometers 250 miles south of Okinawa. The ship s remaining 14 crew membe stanley cup rs will also be questioned on board, she said.No injuries were reported from the two separate collisions that occurred within 40 minutes, Japan Coast Guard spokesman Yosuke Oi said. The two Japanese patrol vessels sustained minor damage. It was unclear i stanley deutschland f the Chinese ship was damaged.The collisions happened in Japanese territorial waters off the nor
Saudi border guards fired like rain on Ethiopian migrants trying to cross into the Gulf kingdom from Yemen, killing hundreds since last year, Human Rights Watch said in a reportMonday.The allegations, described as unfounded by a Saudi government source, point to a significant escalation of abuses along the perilous route from the Horn of Africa to Saudi Arabia, where adiletten original hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians live and work.One 20-year-old woman from Ethiopia s Oromia region, interviewed by HRW, said Saudi border guards opened fire on a group of migrants they had just released from custody. They fired on us like rain. When I remember, I cry, she said. I saw a guy calling for help, he lost both his legs. He was screaming; he was saying, Are you leaving me here Please don t leave me . We couldn t help him because we were running for our lives. Ethiopian migrants are seen inside a building while undergoing quarantine as they across Yemen s land to reach Saudi Arabia on April 05, 2020 in Dhamar go adidas yeezyslide vernorate, Yemen. Getty Images HRW researcher Nadia Hardman said Saudi officials are killing hundreds of migran adidas campus femme ts and asylum seekers in this remote border area out of view of the rest of the world, according to a statement. Spending billions buying up professional golf, football clubs, and major entertainment events to improve the Saudi image should not deflect attention from these horrendous crimes, she said.The United States on Monday vo Xwmi Last 45 trapped China miners pulled out alive
Diplomatic tensions between China and Japan escalated Wednesday when Beijing called in Japan s ambassador after a Chinese fishing boat collided with two Japanes stanley cups e patrol vessels near a chain of disputed islands and Tokyo arrested the boat s captain.Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Song Tao summoned Japanese Ambassador Uichiro Niwa and urged Japan to stop the illegal interception of Chinese fishing boats, the official Xinhua News Agency reported late Tuesday.Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku urged that the situation be handled calmly. We will handle the matter firmly in accordance with law, he told reporters, according to Kyodo News agency. It is important that in Japan we not get overly excited. Japan Coast Guard spokeswoman Akane Yonemori said Wednesday that the 41-year-old Chinese captain of the fishing boat had been arrested for allegedly obstructing public duties in connection with Tuesday s collision near the chain of islands in the East China Sea. She said the coast guard is investigating the Chinese captain on Ishigaki island, around 400 kilometers 250 miles south of Okinawa. The ship s remaining 14 crew membe stanley cup rs will also be questioned on board, she said.No injuries were reported from the two separate collisions that occurred within 40 minutes, Japan Coast Guard spokesman Yosuke Oi said. The two Japanese patrol vessels sustained minor damage. It was unclear i stanley deutschland f the Chinese ship was damaged.The collisions happened in Japanese territorial waters off the nor
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Iran ordered a commercial aircraft chartered by the U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan to land in the Islamic Republic so it could pay expenses and complete paperwork, an official there said Saturday.The comments by Mansour Haghighatpour, a member of the parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy, are the first official word from Iran over the diversion Friday of the chartered flight from Dubai-based low-cost carrier flydubai.The plane, on its way from Bagram airfield north of Kabul to Dubai, was allowed to depart after spending several hours on the ground in Bandar Abbas in southern Iran. The flight path goes through Iranian airspace.A U.S. official told CBS News the Fly Dubai charter plane was re-routed because of a bureaucratic issue. The plane was ordered to land in order to pay related expenses and doing paperwork to continue its flight, the semi-official Fars news agency quoted Haghighatpour as saying. Americans should know that Iran strongly defends its territory in land, sea and air. They sho air max 1 uld obser crocs badelatschen ve international measures in this regards. Otherwise they will face such an attitude. Jasem Jaderi, the governor of Hormozgan province, where Bandar Abbas is the capital, told Iranian news website yjc.ir that out of 140 passengers on the diverted flight, 110 were American.Iranians radioed the plane s crew to say they did not have the proper paperwork and to return to Bagram, a U.S. official said Frid airforce a Vmil This is huge : Protests in China over COVID restrictions bring back memories of Tiananmen Square
The Pentagon is speeding up delivery of a colossal bomb designed to destroy hidden weapons bunkers buried underground and shielded by 10,000 pounds of reinforced concrete.Call it Plan B for dealing with Iran, which recently revealed a long-suspected nuclear site deep inside a mountain near the holy city of Qom.The 15-ton behemoth - called the massive ordnance penetrator, or MOP - will be the large stanley cup st non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal and will carry 5,300 pounds of explosives. The bomb is about 10 times more powerful than the weapon it is designed to replace.The Pentagon has awarded a nearly $52 million contract to speed up placement of the bomb aboard the B-2 Stealth bomber, and officials say the bomb could be fielded as soon as next summer.Pentagon officials acknowledge t stanley cup hat the new bomb is intended to blow up fortified sites like those used by Iran and North Korea for their nuclear programs, but they deny there is a specific targ stanley cup et in mind. I don t think anybody can divine potential targets, Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said. This is just a capability that we think is necessary given the world we live in. The Obama administration has struggled to counter suspicions lingering from George W. Bush s presidency that the United States is either planning to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities itself or would look the other way if Israel did the same.The administration has been careful not to take military action off the table even as it reaches out to Iran wit
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Iran ordered a commercial aircraft chartered by the U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan to land in the Islamic Republic so it could pay expenses and complete paperwork, an official there said Saturday.The comments by Mansour Haghighatpour, a member of the parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy, are the first official word from Iran over the diversion Friday of the chartered flight from Dubai-based low-cost carrier flydubai.The plane, on its way from Bagram airfield north of Kabul to Dubai, was allowed to depart after spending several hours on the ground in Bandar Abbas in southern Iran. The flight path goes through Iranian airspace.A U.S. official told CBS News the Fly Dubai charter plane was re-routed because of a bureaucratic issue. The plane was ordered to land in order to pay related expenses and doing paperwork to continue its flight, the semi-official Fars news agency quoted Haghighatpour as saying. Americans should know that Iran strongly defends its territory in land, sea and air. They sho air max 1 uld obser crocs badelatschen ve international measures in this regards. Otherwise they will face such an attitude. Jasem Jaderi, the governor of Hormozgan province, where Bandar Abbas is the capital, told Iranian news website yjc.ir that out of 140 passengers on the diverted flight, 110 were American.Iranians radioed the plane s crew to say they did not have the proper paperwork and to return to Bagram, a U.S. official said Frid airforce a Vmil This is huge : Protests in China over COVID restrictions bring back memories of Tiananmen Square
The Pentagon is speeding up delivery of a colossal bomb designed to destroy hidden weapons bunkers buried underground and shielded by 10,000 pounds of reinforced concrete.Call it Plan B for dealing with Iran, which recently revealed a long-suspected nuclear site deep inside a mountain near the holy city of Qom.The 15-ton behemoth - called the massive ordnance penetrator, or MOP - will be the large stanley cup st non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal and will carry 5,300 pounds of explosives. The bomb is about 10 times more powerful than the weapon it is designed to replace.The Pentagon has awarded a nearly $52 million contract to speed up placement of the bomb aboard the B-2 Stealth bomber, and officials say the bomb could be fielded as soon as next summer.Pentagon officials acknowledge t stanley cup hat the new bomb is intended to blow up fortified sites like those used by Iran and North Korea for their nuclear programs, but they deny there is a specific targ stanley cup et in mind. I don t think anybody can divine potential targets, Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said. This is just a capability that we think is necessary given the world we live in. The Obama administration has struggled to counter suspicions lingering from George W. Bush s presidency that the United States is either planning to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities itself or would look the other way if Israel did the same.The administration has been careful not to take military action off the table even as it reaches out to Iran wit
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Brisbane, Australiamdash; Australia s third-largest city headed into lockdown and borders were set to tighten nationwide Friday, after a cleaner at a quarantine hotel contracted the U.K. coronavirus strain that officials say is more infectious. More than two million residents in the Greater Brisbane area will have to stay at home for at least three days from Friday evening, authorities said. If we are going to stop the spread of this infectious strain, this U.K. airforce strain, we must act immediately, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk told media. Large lines formed at shops around the city, prompting officials to urge people to stop panic-buying. The incoming restrictions will still allow residents to leave home to buy essentials. On Brisbane s central shopping strip, Queen Street Mall, people voiced broad support for the measures - keen to avoid hoka laufschuhe the soaring case numbers seen as the variant takes hold in Britain. U.K. s Boris Johnson reinstates national lockdown amid spiraling infections, new COVID-19 strain 02:41 Andy McPhee, 51, a Brisbane resident who works for an international firm, said the lockdown paled in comparison to what his colleagues overseas were experiencing. I don t think a three-day lockdown is going to hurt us at all. I think it s imperat mizuno handballschuh ive to stamp out the virus, Mc Bpng Elections in Libya
F stanley cup ier stanley cups ce battles between insurgents and U. stanley cup S. and Iraqi forces killed at least 27 people Monday in Baqouba and south of Baghdad mdash; the latest in a wave of clashes that has swept Iraq s Sunni Muslim heartland even as American forces move against the last remaining pockets of resistance in Fallujah.A convoy of ambulances and relief supplies trying to enter Fallujah was forced to turn back because the fighting made it too dangerous, the head of the Iraqi Red Crescent said. The Red Crescent and Red Cross have been unable to gain access to people inside Fallujah during more than a week of violence.Even as the fighting continued in the city, Iraq s interior minister declared victory in the offensive. Fallujah is no more a safe haven for the terrorists and killers. This thing is over, Falah Hassan al-Naqib told reporters in Baghdad.Outside Fallujah, U.S. and Iraqi troops and insurgents clashed in several cities across a belt of central and northern Iraq, including Baqouba, Ramadi, Mosul and Suwayrah, south of Baghdad.In other recent developments: An investigation is underway into a videotaped incident in which a U.S. Marine apparently shoots and kills an already captive and wounded Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque which Marines thought was the source of heavy enemy fire. CBS News Correspondent Wyatt Andrews reports it turns out the insurgents found in the mosque were unarmed - left there by a previous squad of Marines to await medical evacuation. But the second squad did not know tha
Brisbane, Australiamdash; Australia s third-largest city headed into lockdown and borders were set to tighten nationwide Friday, after a cleaner at a quarantine hotel contracted the U.K. coronavirus strain that officials say is more infectious. More than two million residents in the Greater Brisbane area will have to stay at home for at least three days from Friday evening, authorities said. If we are going to stop the spread of this infectious strain, this U.K. airforce strain, we must act immediately, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk told media. Large lines formed at shops around the city, prompting officials to urge people to stop panic-buying. The incoming restrictions will still allow residents to leave home to buy essentials. On Brisbane s central shopping strip, Queen Street Mall, people voiced broad support for the measures - keen to avoid hoka laufschuhe the soaring case numbers seen as the variant takes hold in Britain. U.K. s Boris Johnson reinstates national lockdown amid spiraling infections, new COVID-19 strain 02:41 Andy McPhee, 51, a Brisbane resident who works for an international firm, said the lockdown paled in comparison to what his colleagues overseas were experiencing. I don t think a three-day lockdown is going to hurt us at all. I think it s imperat mizuno handballschuh ive to stamp out the virus, Mc Bpng Elections in Libya
F stanley cup ier stanley cups ce battles between insurgents and U. stanley cup S. and Iraqi forces killed at least 27 people Monday in Baqouba and south of Baghdad mdash; the latest in a wave of clashes that has swept Iraq s Sunni Muslim heartland even as American forces move against the last remaining pockets of resistance in Fallujah.A convoy of ambulances and relief supplies trying to enter Fallujah was forced to turn back because the fighting made it too dangerous, the head of the Iraqi Red Crescent said. The Red Crescent and Red Cross have been unable to gain access to people inside Fallujah during more than a week of violence.Even as the fighting continued in the city, Iraq s interior minister declared victory in the offensive. Fallujah is no more a safe haven for the terrorists and killers. This thing is over, Falah Hassan al-Naqib told reporters in Baghdad.Outside Fallujah, U.S. and Iraqi troops and insurgents clashed in several cities across a belt of central and northern Iraq, including Baqouba, Ramadi, Mosul and Suwayrah, south of Baghdad.In other recent developments: An investigation is underway into a videotaped incident in which a U.S. Marine apparently shoots and kills an already captive and wounded Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque which Marines thought was the source of heavy enemy fire. CBS News Correspondent Wyatt Andrews reports it turns out the insurgents found in the mosque were unarmed - left there by a previous squad of Marines to await medical evacuation. But the second squad did not know tha
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ROME - Rome s mayor and officials are considering a red light district to shield prostitutes from exploitation and families from embarrassment.Prostitution is legal in Italy, and its practitioners are a common sight along severa air max 1 l streets in Rome and many other Italian cities.City officials in the EUR neighborhood, filled with ministries, office high-rises and residential buildin salomon xt 6 gs, want to designate certain streets for prostitutes, starting experimentally in April.Mayor Ignazio Marino told state TV RAINews24 Sunday the aim is to find a balance by pinpointing places, such as parks frequented by children and families, where prostitution won t be allowed, and by designating some streets where it will.Exploitation of prostitution is illegal, as is paying minors for sex. EUR official Andrea Santoro says designated streets will help ensure prostitutes aren t put there by traffickers. Many women leave homes in Africa and Eastern Europe for Italy after promises of work like waitressing, but instead are forced into prostitution by trafficking rackets.Some neighborhood groups like the proposal. Paolo Lampariello, from one such group, said there are so many prostitutes on EUR s streets that women c nike dunk high an t enter their homes without being mistaken for prostitutes. The newspaper Avvenire, of the Italian bishops conference, scathingly described the designated-streets-for-prostitutes plan as a hypocritical and perhaps ideological operation for urban decorum. The city would pr Ukig Israel Offers U.S. A Settlement Compromise
HAVANA - Cuba s former leader Fidel Castro said Tuesday that unrest in Libya may be a pretext for a NATO invasion. Nicaragua s Daniel Ortega has jumped to the support of the embattled leader of the North African nation, saying he telephoned to express solidarity.The protests sweeping across Libya have created challenges for the Latin American allies of Muammar Qaddafi.Leftist governments in the Americas have long embraced him as a fellow fighter against U.S. influence in the world. Qaddafi has responded over the years by awarding the Muammar Qaddafi International Human Rights Prize to Castro and Ortega, as well as to Presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Evo Morales of Bolivia.His relations with Chavez are so warm that rumors that he was headed to Venezuela swept the world on Monday. Qaddafi took to television late Monday to deny them.Ortega said he had kept in communication with Qaddafi and expressed solidarity due to the moments of tension Libya is experiencing. State radio carried excerpts of his remarks on Tuesday. There is looting of stanley cup businesses now, there is destruction. That is terrible, Ortega said during a commemoration Monday of Nicaraguan hero Augusto Cesar Sandino. He said he told Qadd stanley thermos mug afi that difficult moments put loyalty to the test. Ortega said he had also ordered Nicaragua s security forces not to repress protesters, though he did not say Qaddafi had done so.Protesters emboldened by the fall of pro-Western strongmen in Egypt and Tunisia have taken t stanley canada o
ROME - Rome s mayor and officials are considering a red light district to shield prostitutes from exploitation and families from embarrassment.Prostitution is legal in Italy, and its practitioners are a common sight along severa air max 1 l streets in Rome and many other Italian cities.City officials in the EUR neighborhood, filled with ministries, office high-rises and residential buildin salomon xt 6 gs, want to designate certain streets for prostitutes, starting experimentally in April.Mayor Ignazio Marino told state TV RAINews24 Sunday the aim is to find a balance by pinpointing places, such as parks frequented by children and families, where prostitution won t be allowed, and by designating some streets where it will.Exploitation of prostitution is illegal, as is paying minors for sex. EUR official Andrea Santoro says designated streets will help ensure prostitutes aren t put there by traffickers. Many women leave homes in Africa and Eastern Europe for Italy after promises of work like waitressing, but instead are forced into prostitution by trafficking rackets.Some neighborhood groups like the proposal. Paolo Lampariello, from one such group, said there are so many prostitutes on EUR s streets that women c nike dunk high an t enter their homes without being mistaken for prostitutes. The newspaper Avvenire, of the Italian bishops conference, scathingly described the designated-streets-for-prostitutes plan as a hypocritical and perhaps ideological operation for urban decorum. The city would pr Ukig Israel Offers U.S. A Settlement Compromise
HAVANA - Cuba s former leader Fidel Castro said Tuesday that unrest in Libya may be a pretext for a NATO invasion. Nicaragua s Daniel Ortega has jumped to the support of the embattled leader of the North African nation, saying he telephoned to express solidarity.The protests sweeping across Libya have created challenges for the Latin American allies of Muammar Qaddafi.Leftist governments in the Americas have long embraced him as a fellow fighter against U.S. influence in the world. Qaddafi has responded over the years by awarding the Muammar Qaddafi International Human Rights Prize to Castro and Ortega, as well as to Presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Evo Morales of Bolivia.His relations with Chavez are so warm that rumors that he was headed to Venezuela swept the world on Monday. Qaddafi took to television late Monday to deny them.Ortega said he had kept in communication with Qaddafi and expressed solidarity due to the moments of tension Libya is experiencing. State radio carried excerpts of his remarks on Tuesday. There is looting of stanley cup businesses now, there is destruction. That is terrible, Ortega said during a commemoration Monday of Nicaraguan hero Augusto Cesar Sandino. He said he told Qadd stanley thermos mug afi that difficult moments put loyalty to the test. Ortega said he had also ordered Nicaragua s security forces not to repress protesters, though he did not say Qaddafi had done so.Protesters emboldened by the fall of pro-Western strongmen in Egypt and Tunisia have taken t stanley canada o
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BAGHDAD A bomb struck a Sunni mosque during Friday prayers north of Baghdad, salomon hombre killing 28 people in the latest eruption of violence to rock the country, officials said.The bombing hit the village of Umm al-Adham on the outskirts of Baqouba, a former militant stronghold 35 miles northeast of the Iraqi capital, according to police officials.At least 41 people were wounded in the attack, said police and health officials who provided details on the casualties. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.Iraq is weathering it deadliest bout of violence in half a decade, raising fears the country is returning to the widespread killing that pushed it to the brink of civil war following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.14 killed in Iraq bomb attacksCoordinated bomb attacks around Baghdad kill dozensScores of Iraqis killed in insurgent attacksThe months-long surge of bloodshed is taking place against the backdrop of rising tensions between Iraq s Sunni and Shiite Muslims. The tensions are being inflamed in part by the sectarian divisions reflected in the civil war in neighboring Syria. Members of Iraq s Sunni Arab minority have been protesting against the Shiite-led government since December, angered over what they see as second-class treatment of their sect and what they see as unfair application of tough anti-terrorism measures. Atta air max 96 cks surged after a deadly cr adidas campus ackdown on a Sunni protest camp by security forces in April.There was Jirq AP: U.S. troops didn t have eyes on Afghan hospital before attack
Iraq will deal with a new Security Council resolution that makes sweeping changes to the U.N. sanctions regime, the information minister said Thursday, though the Iraqi leadership criticized the measure.The Iraqi leadership portrayed the U.N. measure as American manipulation of the Security Council, according to the official Iraqi News Agency. Once again the Security Council, in its Resolution 1409, exposes its weakness and inability to face the American tendency toward harming Iraq, INA quoted a statement issued in a joint meeting of the Revolutionary Command Council and the Regional Command of the ruling Baath party as saying.The statem stanley website ent alone fell short of saying Iraq rejected or completely accepted the revamped sanctions resolution. But Iraq s Information Minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, told INA that Iraq will deal with Resolution 1409 regarding the renewal of the oil-for-food deal for anoth stanley kubek er six months ... according to the memorandum of u stanley becher nderstanding signed by Iraq and the United Nations. The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to revamp sanctions, capping a yearlong effort by the United States and Britain to get more humanitarian goods to the Iraqi people and try to tighten military embargo on Baghdad. Now, most civilian goods are to be allowed into Iraq, but a 332-page checklist spells out civilian items with potential military use that require U.N. approval. Iraq s U.N. ambassador, Mohammad Al-Douri, had said earlier at U.N. headquarters i
BAGHDAD A bomb struck a Sunni mosque during Friday prayers north of Baghdad, salomon hombre killing 28 people in the latest eruption of violence to rock the country, officials said.The bombing hit the village of Umm al-Adham on the outskirts of Baqouba, a former militant stronghold 35 miles northeast of the Iraqi capital, according to police officials.At least 41 people were wounded in the attack, said police and health officials who provided details on the casualties. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.Iraq is weathering it deadliest bout of violence in half a decade, raising fears the country is returning to the widespread killing that pushed it to the brink of civil war following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.14 killed in Iraq bomb attacksCoordinated bomb attacks around Baghdad kill dozensScores of Iraqis killed in insurgent attacksThe months-long surge of bloodshed is taking place against the backdrop of rising tensions between Iraq s Sunni and Shiite Muslims. The tensions are being inflamed in part by the sectarian divisions reflected in the civil war in neighboring Syria. Members of Iraq s Sunni Arab minority have been protesting against the Shiite-led government since December, angered over what they see as second-class treatment of their sect and what they see as unfair application of tough anti-terrorism measures. Atta air max 96 cks surged after a deadly cr adidas campus ackdown on a Sunni protest camp by security forces in April.There was Jirq AP: U.S. troops didn t have eyes on Afghan hospital before attack
Iraq will deal with a new Security Council resolution that makes sweeping changes to the U.N. sanctions regime, the information minister said Thursday, though the Iraqi leadership criticized the measure.The Iraqi leadership portrayed the U.N. measure as American manipulation of the Security Council, according to the official Iraqi News Agency. Once again the Security Council, in its Resolution 1409, exposes its weakness and inability to face the American tendency toward harming Iraq, INA quoted a statement issued in a joint meeting of the Revolutionary Command Council and the Regional Command of the ruling Baath party as saying.The statem stanley website ent alone fell short of saying Iraq rejected or completely accepted the revamped sanctions resolution. But Iraq s Information Minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, told INA that Iraq will deal with Resolution 1409 regarding the renewal of the oil-for-food deal for anoth stanley kubek er six months ... according to the memorandum of u stanley becher nderstanding signed by Iraq and the United Nations. The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to revamp sanctions, capping a yearlong effort by the United States and Britain to get more humanitarian goods to the Iraqi people and try to tighten military embargo on Baghdad. Now, most civilian goods are to be allowed into Iraq, but a 332-page checklist spells out civilian items with potential military use that require U.N. approval. Iraq s U.N. ambassador, Mohammad Al-Douri, had said earlier at U.N. headquarters i
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Marsel van Oosten/tpoty Dutch photographer Marsel van Oosten is the 2015 Travel Photographer of the Year, beating out a field of competitors from more than 110 countries. The competition, established in 2003, accepts entries from professional, semi-pro and amateur photographers. The contest s oldest entry to date has been 88-years-old, the youngest just five. Winning images will be on display at the Museum of London Docklands in the summer of 2016.Here s a look at a selection of the winning images, including a large lemon shark cruising the ocean surface, a crocodile cult and the landscape of Inner Mongolia.This photo is from Marsel van Oosten s winning portfolio.Giant Cypress trees on a misty morning on one of the countless bayous of the Atchafalaya basin, the largest U.S. wetland. Travel Photographer of the Year Ly Hoang Long/tpoty Ly Hoang Long Vietnam Tat Vien village, Hung Yen Province, VietnamMan transporting bamboo fishing baskets.Faces, People, Encounters - Special Mention Travel Photographer of the Year yeezy Alisson Gontijo/tpoty Alisson Jonas Car hoka trekkingschuhe doso Gontijo Brazil Satilde;o adidas campus Francisco, Minas Gerais, BrazilFaces, People, Encounters - Special Mention Travel Photographer of the Year Ylry Emily Recharges In Gulf
Israeli soldiers destroyed two houses belonging to suicide bombers in the West Bank, the military said Friday, a day after soldiers killed a child and two attackers in stanley cup two shootings in the Gaza Strip.Israel has destroyed at least 23 homes since last month, in what the government says is an attempt to send a message to suicide terrorists and those participating that terror activity has a price that everybody involved in one way or another will pay. The military said soldiers destroyed the house of Iyad Sawalha, an Islamic Jihad member who blew himself up in a car next to an Israeli bus on May 6, killing 17 passengers. Troops also knocked down the family home of Murad Abu Asal, who blew himself up on Jan. 30, wounding two Israeli soldiers.In violence Thursday, Israeli soldiers shot and killed two armed Palestinians stanley fr who were crawling toward the fence around Gaza, apparently planning to attack soldiers or infiltrate Israel, the military said. The two were carrying a large bomb, the military said.A 5-year-old child was killed Thursday in a residential area of Khan Younis in the central Gaza Strip, near an Israeli settlement, residents said. His grandfather and another Palestinian man were critically wounded, they said, charging that the shooting was unprovoked. In a statement about the incident, the Israeli military said three Palestinians opened fire at soldiers stanley quencher and fled in a car. The soldiers fired back, wounding one of the men in the car. The military said it knew noth
Marsel van Oosten/tpoty Dutch photographer Marsel van Oosten is the 2015 Travel Photographer of the Year, beating out a field of competitors from more than 110 countries. The competition, established in 2003, accepts entries from professional, semi-pro and amateur photographers. The contest s oldest entry to date has been 88-years-old, the youngest just five. Winning images will be on display at the Museum of London Docklands in the summer of 2016.Here s a look at a selection of the winning images, including a large lemon shark cruising the ocean surface, a crocodile cult and the landscape of Inner Mongolia.This photo is from Marsel van Oosten s winning portfolio.Giant Cypress trees on a misty morning on one of the countless bayous of the Atchafalaya basin, the largest U.S. wetland. Travel Photographer of the Year Ly Hoang Long/tpoty Ly Hoang Long Vietnam Tat Vien village, Hung Yen Province, VietnamMan transporting bamboo fishing baskets.Faces, People, Encounters - Special Mention Travel Photographer of the Year yeezy Alisson Gontijo/tpoty Alisson Jonas Car hoka trekkingschuhe doso Gontijo Brazil Satilde;o adidas campus Francisco, Minas Gerais, BrazilFaces, People, Encounters - Special Mention Travel Photographer of the Year Ylry Emily Recharges In Gulf
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Indonesia s navy on Saturday declared its missing submarine had sunk and cracked open, killing 53 crew members aboard, after finding items from the vessel over the past two days. Military chief Hadi Tjahjanto said the presence of an oil slick as well as debris near the site where the sub yeezy marine s last dive on Wednesday off the island of Bali were clear proof the KRI Nanggala 402 sank. Indonesia earlier considered the vessel to be only missing. Navy Chief Yudo Margono told a press conference in Bali, If it s an explosion, it will be in pieces. The cracks happened gradually in some parts when it went down from 300 meters to 400 meters to 500 meters ... If there was an explosion, it would be heard by the sonar. T adidas yeezy he navy previously said it believes the submarine sank to a depth of 600-700 meters 2,000-2,300 feet , much deeper than its collapse depth of 200 meters 655 feet , at which point water pressure woul nike dunk d be greater than the hull could withstand. Family members hold photographs of Marine Colonel Harry Setiawan, commander of the Navy s KRI Nanggala 402 submarine that went missing off the coast of Bali on April 21 during a training exercise, at their family home in Depok on April 24, 2021. RAYI GIGIH/AFP via Getty Images The cause of the disappearance was still uncertain. The navy had previously said an electrical failure could have left the submarine unable to execute Feuz Bethlehem Christmas Pull-Out Unlikely
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adidas originals uomo Law enforcement officials tell CBS News there is intelligence that indicates the Barcelona attack that left 14 dead and more than 100 injured was more than just an ISIS-inspired attack.CBS News national security analyst and former homeland security adviser to President George W. Bush, Fran Townsend, said on CBS This Morning the attack looks like it was much more directly controlled than merely inspired. As you look at the chronology, this was a fairly large cell, had to have be nike air force en in place for a while ndash;pretty good planning, Townsend said. You had the house that blew up when they failed to put together these gas canisters ndash; probably for a car bomb. Then you had the tragic sort of seven-block rage of this car killing 14. You also had in Cambrils last night another car attack. Police fatally shot five people who staged a car attack in Spain s Catalonia region on Friday, just hours after a van mowed down pedestrians in a popular tourist area of Barcelona. This wasn t somebody who got out and decided to take a car and ram it in a crowd. This was much more deliberate than that, Townsend said. Barcelona terror attack witness: Within seconds it was panic 02:19 Some a air force one re questioning why the popular boulevard in Barcelona didn t have barricades. I think you re going to see more Ncwu Cruise Ship Co. Goes Belly-Up
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adidas originals uomo Law enforcement officials tell CBS News there is intelligence that indicates the Barcelona attack that left 14 dead and more than 100 injured was more than just an ISIS-inspired attack.CBS News national security analyst and former homeland security adviser to President George W. Bush, Fran Townsend, said on CBS This Morning the attack looks like it was much more directly controlled than merely inspired. As you look at the chronology, this was a fairly large cell, had to have be nike air force en in place for a while ndash;pretty good planning, Townsend said. You had the house that blew up when they failed to put together these gas canisters ndash; probably for a car bomb. Then you had the tragic sort of seven-block rage of this car killing 14. You also had in Cambrils last night another car attack. Police fatally shot five people who staged a car attack in Spain s Catalonia region on Friday, just hours after a van mowed down pedestrians in a popular tourist area of Barcelona. This wasn t somebody who got out and decided to take a car and ram it in a crowd. This was much more deliberate than that, Townsend said. Barcelona terror attack witness: Within seconds it was panic 02:19 Some a air force one re questioning why the popular boulevard in Barcelona didn t have barricades. I think you re going to see more Ncwu Cruise Ship Co. Goes Belly-Up
North Korea on Tuesday accused South Korean navy ships of violating their disputed western sea border repeatedly in recent days, and hours la stanley becher ter a S stanley cup quencher outh Korean navy speedboat fired warning shots at a Northern fishing boat.South Korea said the fishing boat sailed about 200 yards into its waters and the South s navy fired eight machine-gun rounds. There were no reports of injuries.The Southern navy boat was about 300 yards from the fishing boat and no hostile actions were taken by North Korean navy ships in the area, said Kim Sung-ok, a spokesman at the South Korean military s Office of Joint Chiefs of Staff.The North Korean fishing boat turned back in five minutes, Kim said.South Korea s navy ships had also fired warning shots Sunday when eight North Korean fishing boats allegedly entered the South s territorial waters. Tension along the maritime border comes as the United States is mustering internati stanley tumblers onal pressure on the North to abandon its suspected development of nuclear weapons. Now that there is an increasing danger of a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula, any military clash between the North and the South may lead to a war, a spokesman for the North Korean Navy Command told Pyongyang s official news agency KCNA.The unidentified spokesman accused South Korea of deploying warships closer to the border off the peninsula s west coast and infiltrating warships into the North s territorial waters every day, escalating the tensions. South Korea is staging a prelude
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More than 100 American firefighters are now helping battle the bushfires in Australia. The massive blazes have burned about 16 times the amount of land destroyed during California s worst fire season in 2018. The veteran firefighters, who spent years fighting wildfires across the West, have had to shift tactics because of the sheer scale of the fires.Nearly 28 million acres have burned across Australia, covering an area almost the size of Louisiana.Fire Management Specialist Jason Loomis told CBS News correspondent Jamie Yuccas he was excited and pretty anxious to be part of the U.S. effort, noting that he expecte adidas originals uomo d the explosive conditions. Bushfires in Australia are not an uncommon or often a deadly occurrence mdash; bushfire season is dealt with regularly across the country. However, this year the thick brush, hotter than normal temperatures and low humidity combined with devastating effects.Colorado firefighter Jay Karle expressed his disbelief while sharing what kind of toll the mission has taken on him and his family. Karle is in Australia helping coordinate air operations, leaving behind a 7-month-old s air force 1 on at home. I do miss them a lot and, you know, thinking about having four more weeks, three and a half more salomon speedcross weeks over here, it gets challenging, he said, adding that he uses FaceTime to keep in contact with his family. Australia wildfires Nish Photos of the week
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More than 100 American firefighters are now helping battle the bushfires in Australia. The massive blazes have burned about 16 times the amount of land destroyed during California s worst fire season in 2018. The veteran firefighters, who spent years fighting wildfires across the West, have had to shift tactics because of the sheer scale of the fires.Nearly 28 million acres have burned across Australia, covering an area almost the size of Louisiana.Fire Management Specialist Jason Loomis told CBS News correspondent Jamie Yuccas he was excited and pretty anxious to be part of the U.S. effort, noting that he expecte adidas originals uomo d the explosive conditions. Bushfires in Australia are not an uncommon or often a deadly occurrence mdash; bushfire season is dealt with regularly across the country. However, this year the thick brush, hotter than normal temperatures and low humidity combined with devastating effects.Colorado firefighter Jay Karle expressed his disbelief while sharing what kind of toll the mission has taken on him and his family. Karle is in Australia helping coordinate air operations, leaving behind a 7-month-old s air force 1 on at home. I do miss them a lot and, you know, thinking about having four more weeks, three and a half more salomon speedcross weeks over here, it gets challenging, he said, adding that he uses FaceTime to keep in contact with his family. Australia wildfires Nish Photos of the week
An American photographer and a British reporter on assignment for the Los Angeles Times were kidnapped, Colombian rebels said, but three other foreigners believed abducted w stanley uk ere freed late Thursday.Scott Dalton, a native of Conroe, Texas; and Ruth Morris, a British national, have been retained by the National Liberation Army, or ELN, the guerrilla group said in a statement Thursday on a clandestine rebel radio station.The two were seized Tuesday at a rebel roadblock in Arauca state, one of the most violent regions of Colombia. They were led away stanley cupe from their taxi with hoods on their heads, but had been told they were being taken for an encounter with a rebel commander, their driver, Madiel Ariza, told The Associated Press.Meanwhile, Robert Pelton, Megan Smaker and Mark Wedeven who were reported missing Sunday in Panama, just north of the Colombian border, were turned over to church officials Thursday, CMI Television said.The three planned on spending the night in Unguia, 500 kilometers northwest of Bogota, Catholic Bishop German Garcia told the station. They were reportedly been seized by the right-wing United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia on Sunday. Pelton gained worldwide attention with an interview of American Taliban suspect John Walker Lindh while covering the war in A water bottle stanley fghanistan for CNN.Ariza said the rebels told him to leave their encampment the following day, and that the ELN would turn over the journalists to the Red Cross within a day or two. But the ELN stat
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The thaw in relations between the United States and Cuba is raising concerns among some on the communist-ruled island nation that the U.S. could wipe away a speci adidas samba al immigration policy that favors Cubans.Those fears are largely unfounded. But that hasn t stopped tens of thous yeezy ands of Cubans from fleeing their home since President Barack Obama announced the normalization of relations between the countries in 2014.In fact, the rush out of Cuba has led to the highest number of people trying to make the dangerous sea crossing in the past eight years. That s according to internal documents from the Homeland Security Department that were obtained by The Associated Press. How accidents of history led to U.S.-Cuba thaw 13:31 The perception is that the time is now. Given all that is going on, I could see how that perception would exist, said Coast Guard Capt. Mark Gordon.The rapprochement between the Cold War foes could have benefits for people in each country. But Cubans worry that once U.S. tourists and businesses floc adidas originals samba k to Havana, American politicians will move to end an immigration policy that basically allows any Cuban who can make it to U.S. soil to stay.Cubans can get permanent resident status after living in the U.S. for a year and can later become a citizen as part of the decad Hkei China Opposes U.S. Arms Sale To Taiwan
Multiple explosions shook Fallujah after dark Tuesday and plumes of smoke rose into the air as fighting e stanley cup rupted for a second straight night. A U.S. AC-130 gunship hammered targets in the city.Blasts and gunfire went on steadily for more than half an hour in sustained fighting, apparently in the northern Jolan district, a poor neighborhood where Sunni insurgents are concentrated.Flames could be seen ri stanley flask sing from buildings, and mosque loudspeakers in other parts of the city c stanley cup alled on firefighters to mobilize.The fighting broke out as a two-day extension to a cease-fire came to end.It wasn t clear if the fighting was a final American push for the city, or a focused attack on known guerilla bases, CBS News Correspondent Kimberly Dozier reports. Earlier in the day, U.S. aircraft dropped white leaflets over the city west of Baghdad, calling on insurgents to surrender. Surrender, you are surrounded, the leaflets said. If you are a terrorist, beware, because your last day was yesterday. In order to spare your life end your actions and surrender to coalition forces now. We are coming to arrest you. In other developments:A U.S. soldier was killed Tuesday in fighting with Shiite gunmen in Baghdad. The number of U.S. troops killed in combat in April now equals the umber of Americans killed during the two-month invasion of Iraq. At least 714 U.S. troops have died in all. U.S. troops fought militiamen near the Shiite holy city of Najaf overnight, killing 64 gunmen and destroying an
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The thaw in relations between the United States and Cuba is raising concerns among some on the communist-ruled island nation that the U.S. could wipe away a speci adidas samba al immigration policy that favors Cubans.Those fears are largely unfounded. But that hasn t stopped tens of thous yeezy ands of Cubans from fleeing their home since President Barack Obama announced the normalization of relations between the countries in 2014.In fact, the rush out of Cuba has led to the highest number of people trying to make the dangerous sea crossing in the past eight years. That s according to internal documents from the Homeland Security Department that were obtained by The Associated Press. How accidents of history led to U.S.-Cuba thaw 13:31 The perception is that the time is now. Given all that is going on, I could see how that perception would exist, said Coast Guard Capt. Mark Gordon.The rapprochement between the Cold War foes could have benefits for people in each country. But Cubans worry that once U.S. tourists and businesses floc adidas originals samba k to Havana, American politicians will move to end an immigration policy that basically allows any Cuban who can make it to U.S. soil to stay.Cubans can get permanent resident status after living in the U.S. for a year and can later become a citizen as part of the decad Hkei China Opposes U.S. Arms Sale To Taiwan
Multiple explosions shook Fallujah after dark Tuesday and plumes of smoke rose into the air as fighting e stanley cup rupted for a second straight night. A U.S. AC-130 gunship hammered targets in the city.Blasts and gunfire went on steadily for more than half an hour in sustained fighting, apparently in the northern Jolan district, a poor neighborhood where Sunni insurgents are concentrated.Flames could be seen ri stanley flask sing from buildings, and mosque loudspeakers in other parts of the city c stanley cup alled on firefighters to mobilize.The fighting broke out as a two-day extension to a cease-fire came to end.It wasn t clear if the fighting was a final American push for the city, or a focused attack on known guerilla bases, CBS News Correspondent Kimberly Dozier reports. Earlier in the day, U.S. aircraft dropped white leaflets over the city west of Baghdad, calling on insurgents to surrender. Surrender, you are surrounded, the leaflets said. If you are a terrorist, beware, because your last day was yesterday. In order to spare your life end your actions and surrender to coalition forces now. We are coming to arrest you. In other developments:A U.S. soldier was killed Tuesday in fighting with Shiite gunmen in Baghdad. The number of U.S. troops killed in combat in April now equals the umber of Americans killed during the two-month invasion of Iraq. At least 714 U.S. troops have died in all. U.S. troops fought militiamen near the Shiite holy city of Najaf overnight, killing 64 gunmen and destroying an