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U.S. forces fought their way into anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr s home turf last spring. But when the fighting died down, this became a political battle and the Americans insist they ve been on the offensive, reports CBS News correspondent Randall Joyce. The weapon of choice - badly needed public works projects.First Lieutenant Shawn McKinney is an engineer with Task Force Gold which is rebuilding the Southern end of Sadr City. He took CBS News on a tour of his projects. Everything is going to be repaved, the sewer s going to be cleaned out as part of the project, said McKinney. Manholes raised along with the new road. A lot of work. And that will make a big difference. On hot days in Sadr City now, children swim in filthy water right next to ponds filled with raw sewage. Getting those kids into decent classrooms is another project. McKinney works closely with Iraqi contractors on school renovations, which creates jobs for local workers and cups stanley will hopefully build support in the community.U.S. officials insist the Iraqis are starting to spend their own money on projects here and in the northern part of Sadr City where a ceasefire agreement prevents Americans from operating. They re in a hurry to get things done while the ceasefire with Sadr s militia holds. One of the intents of the work that we do is to show that in the areas stanley termoska that we are, by working with us, by being part of the governmen stanley cup usa t, by being part of the solution, good things happen, things get b

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PETZAEL, West Bank -- An Israeli businessman appears to have bitten off more than he can chew with plans for a crocodile farm in a West Bank settlement. Hundreds of crocodiles have been stranded at the farm in a remote spot in the Jordan Valley -- left behind by a pair of failed business ventures.The crocodiles were brought to the settlement of Petzael in the mid-1990s as a tourist attraction. Ensuing Israeli-Palestinian violence kept visitors away, prompting the crocodiles purchase by entrepreneur Gadi Biton, who hoped to sell them for their skin.But his venture flopped after Israel passed a law in 2012 defining the crocodile as samba og a protected animal, and banning raising the animals for sale as meat or adidas campus merchandise. Multiple attempts to sell them abroad have failed. We found ourselves with hundreds of crocodiles in this farm that no one knows what to do with, said David Elhayani, head of the Jordan Valley Regional Council. A lone worker feeds the animals dead chickens once every eight days.Dozens of the crocodiles lazed recently on the sun-baked shores of a lagoon on the property, their jaws ajar, revealing menacing teeth. The animals have become a pain for the owner, the region and Israel. Dozens of crocodiles have escaped on two occasions, including once when 70 flew the coop only to be found after a three-day croc-hunt. The reptiles, which can live well into their 70s, are also reproducing. Their numbers are expected to grow to the thousands in the coming ye adidas samba damen ars. I do Hmhp Santa lookalike has perfect response to little boy in Tim Hortons
Fidel Castro is showcasing a theory long popular both among the far left and far right: that the shadowy Bilderberg Group has become a kind of global government, controlling not only international politics and economics, but even culture.The 84-year-old former Cuban president published an article Wednesday that used three of the only eight pages in the Communist Party newspaper Granma to quote - largely verbatim - from a 2006 book by Lithuanian-born writer Daniel Estulin.Estulin s work, The Secrets of the Bilderberg Club, argues that the international group largely runs the world. It has held a secretive annual forum of prominent politicians, thinkers and businessmen since it was founded in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel in Holland.Castro offered no comment on the excerpts other than to describe Estulin as hones stanley quencher t and well-informed and to call his book a fantastic story. Estulin s book, as quoted by Castro, described sinister cliques and the Bilderberg lobbyists manipulating the public to install a world government that knows no borders and is not accountable to anyone but its own stanley cup self. The Bilderberg group s website says its members have nearly three days of informal and off-the-record discussion about topics of current concern once a year, but the group does nothing else.It said the meetings were meant to encourage people to work together on major policy issues.The prominence of the group is what alarms critics. It often stanley cup includes members of the Rockefeller fami

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An endangered spotted jaguar rescued from poachers is one of the stars of a soon-to-released feature film shot in the Brazilian Amazon, officials said Thursday.The 15-month-old jungle cat named Catarina plays the mother of a lost cub found by two children in Taina 3 - an adventure story a stanley tumbler bout an 8-year-old Indian girl who dreams of becoming stanley quencher a warrior and battles a timber smuggler bent on exploiting the rainforest.Natalia Lima of Ibama, the enforcement branch of the Environment Ministry, said agents in the city of Coari rescued Catarina in March from poachers who intended to sell her to foreign tourists for 30,000 reals $17,000 . Lima did not give further details of the rescue or identify the poachers or tourists.The jaguar spent four months being cared for at Ibama headquarters in Manaus and was then taken to Santarem in the state of Para for filming.Catarina is an extremely docile animal who loves being around people, especially children, said Taina 3 producer Virginia Limberger. It was very easy work stanley cup usa ing with her. After wrapping up her role in the movie this week, Catarina was taken to her new home, a shelter run by NEX, a non-governmental organization in the state of Goias whose name plays on the words no extinction. Cristina Gianni, the agency s president, said NEX is also caring for a male jaguar named Chico. I hope he and Catarina will form the perfect couple and reproduce, Gianni said. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 { display

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Three people died in Serbia during another deadly storm that ripped through the Balkans this week, local media said on Saturday.The storm on Friday first swept through Slovenia, moving on to Croatia and then Serbia and Bosnia, with gusts of wind and heavy rain. Authorities reported power distribution issues and extensive damage mdash; including fallen trees mdash; that destroyed cars and rooftops.On Wednesday, another storm killed six people in chanclas yeezy the region, four in Croatia, one in Slovenia and another in Bosnia.Meteorologists said the yeezy storms were of such powerful magnitude because they followed a string of extremely hot days. Experts say extreme weather conditions are likely fueled by climate change. People check the damage after a powerful storm, in Zagreb, Croatia, Wednesday, July 19, 2023. A powerful storm with strong winds and heavy rain hit Croatia and Slovenia on Wednesday, killing at least four people and injuring several others, police and local media outlets said. AP Photo AP In the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad, a 12-year-old was found dead in the street during the storm but it remains unclear whether he was struck by lightning or was electrocuted, said the official RTS television. Loc nike dunks panda al media say Novi Sad was hit the hardest, with the storm damaging the roof of the city s exhibition hall. Some 30 people have sought medical help and many streets r Ceuf Hundreds killed in Ecuador earthquake
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A Norwegian teenager was acquitted Tuesday in a key case that pitted the use of new technology against sharing copyrighted material.The court said that Jon Lech Johansen, 19, didn t break Norway s data security laws when stanley cup website he developed and posted online a program that let him watch copyright-protected DVDs on his personal computer.In its unanimous 25-page ruling, the three-member Oslo City Court found Johansen known throughout Norway as DVD-Jon innocent on all counts in the latest setback for the film industry s push to eliminate illegal copying. I m very satisfied. We won support on all points. I had figured that we could win, but it can go either way, Johansen said after the verdict was read.In Washington, Phuong Yokitis, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture Association of America, said the group decided not to issue a statement and will have no comment. Prosecutors have two weeks to decide whether to file an appeal. They sought a 90-day suspended jail sentence, the confiscation of Johansen s computer equipment and the payment of court costs, all of which were rejected in the ruling.Johansen became a folk hero to hackers, especially in the United States where a battle is raging over a 1998 copyright law that bans software like stanley cup quencher DeCSS.The film industry developed the Content Scrambling System, ususally called CSS, to encrypt and prevent illegal copying of DVD films. How stanley mugs ever, the program also prevents DVD films from being played on unauthorized equipment.Johansen had

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WASHINGTON The National Security Agency has been sifting through millions of contact lists from personal email and instant messaging accounts around the world - including those of Americans - in its effort to find possible links to terrorism or other criminal activity, according to a published report.The Washington Post reported late Monday that the spy agency intercepts hundreds of thousands of email address books every day from private accounts on Yahoo, Gmail, Facebook and Hotmail that move though global data links. The NSA also collects about a half million buddy lists from live chat services and email accounts.Watching you: When and where you may be trackedNSA data center runs into electrical problemsGlen Greenwald: Tide is clearly turning against NSAThe Post said it learned about the collection tactics from secret documents provided by NSA leaker Edward Snowden and conf mizuno de irmed by senior intelligence officials. It was the latest revelation of the spy agency s practices to be disclosed by Snowden, the for crocs winterstiefel mer NSA systems analyst who fled the U.S. and now resides in Russia. Edward Snowden AP/The Guardian The newspaper said the NSA analyzes the contacts to map relationships and connections among various airmax plus foreign intelligence targets. During a typical day last year, the NSA s Special Source Operations branch collected more than 440,000 email address books, the Post said. Nxjp China Prepares To Drain Swelling Lake
Rebels there say government forces killed at least 50 more people Friday.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in North Africa, where she used her strongest language yet to condemn Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at a conference in Tunis at a conference of world leaders known as The Friends of Syria. The conference was a glo stanley cups uk bal gathering of outrage. The result was a new set of demands, the first one being that Assad permit immediate shipments of food water and medicine, or face a world much more angry than it already is. If the Assad regime refuses to allow this stanley tumbler life-saving aid to reach people in need, Clinton told the conference, it will have even more blood on its hands. And so, too, will those nations that continue to protect and arm the regime. She was unusually harsh on the Russians and Chinese, blaming them for a share of the violence for their veto of a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have condemned Assad. The secretary called that veto despicable, and asked rhetorically, Whose side are they on Clinton predicted the conference would put new pressure on Assad, but the Saudi foreign minister seemed to issue a pointblank threat. Asked if it was time to arm the Syrian rebels, he replied, I think it is an excellent idea ... because they have to protect themselves. The conference also marked the debut of the Syrian National Counc stanley cup il, a dissident group of exiles asked to form a transitional government. The leader of the group, Burhan Ghalioun,

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Throughout January, the World Health Organization publicly praised China for what it called a speedy response to the new coronavirus and thanked the Chinese government for sharing the genetic map of the virus immediately. nike dunk But in fact, Chinese officials sat on releasing the genetic map, or genome, of the deadly virus for over a week after multiple government labs had fully decoded it, not sharing details key to designing tests, drugs and vaccines. Strict controls on information and competition within the Chinese public health system were largely to blame, The Associated Press has found from internal documents, emails and dozens of interviews. EU urges Trump to reconsider cutting funding for WHOHealth officials only released the genome after a Chinese lab published it ahead of authorities on a virology website on January 11. Even then, China stalled for at least two weeks more on giving WHO the details it needed, according to recordings of multiple internal meetings held by the U.N. health agency in January mdash; all at a time when the outbreak arguably might have been dramatically slowed.Although WHO continued to publicly commend China, the recordings obtained by the AP show they were concerned China was not sharing enough i adidas originals nformation to assess the risk posed by the air max new virus, costing the world valuable time. We re currently at the stage where yes, they re giving it to us 15 minutes before it appears on CCTV, said WHO s top official in China, Dr. Gauden Galea, referring Avpf Turks reject any U.S. legal favor to ease pressure on Saudis over Khashoggi killing
Joint Australian-U.S. naval exercises scheduled for next month may be used to practice boarding vessels suspected of exporting weapons of mass destruction from rogue states, the Australian government said Monday.Administration officials told The New York Times that the exercises mdash; which were to involve practice of nonpermissive boarding of ships mdash; were meant as a signal to North Korea to end its pursuit of nuclear weapons.Officials from the United States, Australia, Japan and eight European countries mdash; agreed in principle last month to begin training for high seas interdictions of ships believed to be carrying weapons of mass destruction. The European countries are Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Spain.While officials here have not named any nations that would be targeted by such raids, North Korea is thought to be high on the list. We are not saying which countries are being targeted, because it would not be politically wise, an Asian diplomat told The Times. But the American government believes that o stanley cups ne of the reasons why North Korea has agreed to the six-party talks in Beijing is that they are feeling the pinch. No date has been given for the first exercises next month in the Coral Sea off Australia s northeast coast. The government is considering using the maritime component of the routine bilateral Exercise Crocodile 03 scheduled for stanley cup September in the Coral Sea as a potential opportunity to conduct th

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Eas adidas campus tern Syria mdash; Fierce battles are being fought as U.S.-backed forces air force appear on the verge of taking the last ISIS stronghold in eastern Syria. As the military moves in, civilians are pouring out. CBS News saw the latest surge in an over yeezy whelming flood of civilians. Human shields trapped inside the last remaining ISIS village are the single biggest obstacle slowing down the U.S.-led offensive.On Tuesday, there were 500 people alone, who said they escaped in the early hours, defying ISIS death threats. They wouldn t let us go, Hala Mohammed, a mother of five said. She said they had to risk their lives to get there.Every day, they came streaming out mdash; far more than soldiers in the region anticipated. What s striking is the number of children, who have only known life under ISIS.Syria: CBS News dodges ISIS bombs despite Trump claim group is almost wiped outPentagon chief visits Iraq after Trump s remarks on ISIS strategy anger BaghdadIf there is a positive note about the mass exodus, it s that people here say there are now very few civilians left inside. There are just 500 to 600 ISIS fighters facing inevitable defeat. For Hala, whose husband has already been killed in an airstrike, there s no love lost. When asked what it means to her to see the end of ISIS, she said they mean nothing, calling them trash.With civilians left, the U.S.-led defeat of the last ISIS holdouts in Syria may be imminent. Each person who escapes that village is one less civilian to worry Mksb Gas Leak Kills Georgian Leader
The U.N. Human Rights Council has voted to refer a Gaza war crimes report to the Security Council, possibly setting up international prosecution of Israelis and Palestinians accused of war crimes.The vote was 25 to 6 in favor of the resolution. Eleven countries abstained in the 47-nation body Friday.The council approved the resolution after two days of debate o stanley cups ver a report on last winter s war that was written by Judge Richard Goldstone and his team.Israel and the United States have called the report flawed and warned that it could jeopardize the Middle East peace pros stanley cup pects. Almost 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis died during the Dec. 27-Jan. 18 conflict. Israel immediately rejected the commission s report, calling it one-sided, biased and therefore wrong. The report became the focus of the Security Council s monthly Mideast meeting on Wednesday after an about-face by the Palestinians.Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Al-Malki and Israel s U.N. Ambassador Gabriela Shalev opened the council meeting Wednesday by trading accusations about the Goldstone report. The session ended Wednesday evening after nearly 50 speeches. stanley cup ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-98f0b568-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-98f0b568-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-98f0b568-8c8

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BAGHDAD -- President Obama s envoy to the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS visited northern Syria over the weekend, according to a coalition official.Brett McGurk s visit to the town of Kobani was the first known visit by a senior U.S. official to Syrian territory since the beginning of the U.S.-led campaign against ISIS in August 2014. U.S. airstrikes pound ISIS in Syria as battle for Kobani rages 01:35 McGurk was joined by British and French officials in Kobani, where Kurdish forces aided by U.S.-led airstrikes drove back ISIS militants a year ago, handing the extremists one of their biggest defeats.The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he salomon zapatillas was not authorized to brief media.The Britain- adidas samba bas air force one ed Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition group that monitors the conflict, also reported the visit. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-65d8b1c4-ca38-4915-be90-9e0a4765f860, right-rail-recirc-item--id-65d8b1c4-ca38-4915-be90-9e0a4765f860 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-65d8b1c4-ca38-4915-be90-9e0a4765f860 ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block; Bxyx Actress: Part of Sean Penn s El Chapo article never happened
Interim leader Raul Castro led tens of thousands of loyalists in celebrations marking the launch of Cuba s revolution Thursday, filling in for his ailing brother, Fidel, as his provisional government took on further airs of permanence.Looking presidential and delivering what can only be called a State of the Union Address in front of tens of thousands in the central Cuban city of Camaguey, Cuba s 76-year-old acting president and defense minister cautioned Cubans not to expect immediate solutions stanley tumbler to all their problems, reports CBS News producer Portia Siegelbaum.Among the problems he singled out was low wages, saying, wages today are markedly not stanley canada enough to satisfy all needs and have thus ceased to play a role in ensuring the socialist principle that each should contribute according to their capacity and receive according to their work, Siegelbaum reports. He went on to pinpoint what many see as the most damaging result of low wages: This has bred forms of social indiscipline and tolerance, which, having taken root p stanley cup rove difficult to eradicate, even after the objective causes behind them are eradicated. Many Cubans, disgusted with their inadequate wages, problems with housing and transportation work half-hardily resulting in low production and poor services, Siegelbaum reports.Siegelbaum reports that Raul Castro also addressed the future of Cuba s relations with the United States. The new administration will have to decide whether it will maintain the absurd, illegal and

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VATICAN CITY - Looking tired but relaxed, Pope Francis has led his first major public ceremony after a spate of canceled appointments for health problems.Francis appeared to hold up well Sunday during the more than 90-minute Mass in St. Peter s Basilica to honor Saint adidas samba adidas s Peter and Paul.The Vatican has played down the cancellations, including one last-minute Friday because 77-year-old Francis had an unspecified mild health problem.The Vatican said he had suffered an unexpected indisposition, but there were no concerns for his health. Francis has only one full lung, has a bad back and was down with an intestinal problem earlier this month.Francis, often laughing or smiling, chatted with each of the 24 archbishops kneeling before him to receive a white woolen band adidas campus symbolizing shared episco adidas originals pal power. An hour after the ceremony, he appeared to people in St. Peter s Square from an Apostolic Palace window. He appealed for Iraq s leaders to use dialogue to save national unity and avoid further warfare there.The Vatican has insisted the pope isn t suffering from any major health issues, pointing to his busy schedule and plans for a whirlwind trip to South Korea in August. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-6cece88e-0899-45ea-a407-21acb82c2ab2, right-rail-recirc-item--id-6cece88e-0899-45ea-a407-21acb82c2ab2 display: none; Echg Hurricane Willa, now a Category 4 storm, threatens Mexico s Pacific coast
AP BEIRUT - Special U.N. envoy Kofi Annan acknowledged in an interview published Saturday that the i stanley flasche nternational community s efforts to find a political solution to the escalating violence in Syria have failed.Annan also said that more attention needed to be paid to the role of longtime Syrian ally Iran, and that countries supporting military actors in the co stanley deutschland nflict were making the situation worse. The evidence shows that we have not succeeded, he told the French daily Le Monde.Annan, the special envoy for the United Nations and the Arab League, is the architect of the most prominent international plan to end the crisis in Syria, which activists say has killed more than 14,000 people since March 2011.His six-point plan was to begin with a cease-fire in mid-April betwe stanley becher en government forces and rebels seeking to topple the regime of President Bashar Assad. But the truce never took hold, and now the almost 300 U.N. observers sent to monitor the cease-fire are confined to their hotels because of the escalating violence. Activists reported more than 50 people killed on Saturday alone, after some 800 people last week.Turkey: Syrians defecting by the hundredsRussia to meet with Syria opposition, AnnanMood pessimistic at Geneva meeting on SyriaAnnan defended the unarmed observers, saying it was not their job to stop the violence, but to monitor the sides adherence to the truce.He offered few suggestions on how the plan could be salvaged, only saying that Iran should be part