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VIENNA -- The U.N. nuclear agency says Iran has neutralized about four-fifths of its stockpile of higher-enriched uranium that could be turned quickly into the core of a nuclear weapon.The agency says Iran now has less than 90 pounds of the material. That s about a fifth of what it would need to for a weapon.The U.N s International Atomic Energy Agency reported the development Friday in a confidential report obtained by The Associated Press.Iran denies any interest in having atomic arms. But it has agreed to some nuclear concessions in exchange for a partial lifting of the sanctions that are crippling its economy under a deal in effect since January.Diluting and converting its 20-percent enriched stockpile were among the Iranian commitments under the agreement.Last week, an ambitious round of nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers ended with serious setbacks, with a senior Iranian official saying the two sides are at odds on several key issu yeezy es. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Iranian media that differences were too big to start the drafting process. He gave no immediate details beyond saying that both sides were apart on several issues. There was no tangible progress in this round of the talks, Araghchi said. We will have one or two more rounds of samba rose talks in June. Talks will continue. For Iran, the major sticking point is sanctions relief, reports CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer.President Obama s administration can o adidas campus ffer to un Avjf Grisly Medical Climate Emerges From Haiti
An Irish court on Wednesday charged Colm Murphy, 48, with conspiring to cause the explosion that killed 29 people last August in Northern Ireland s worst bomb attack. Murphy was also charged with membership of an illegal armed group. The Real Irish Republican Army , a fringe group, said it exploded the car bomb in Omagh. Murphy was the first person to be charged in connection with the investigation.Murphy was ordered held without bail pending a trial on charges of belonging to the dissident Irish Republican Army group responsible for the attack, and for conspiring to cause explosions between Aug. 12 and Aug. 16. stanley cup A native of the Irish Republic border town of Dundalk, Murphy was arrested Sunday at his home. Police in both parts of Ireland -- who until Wednesday had arrested more than 60 people but secured no charges -- were still holding six other suspects in interrogation centers on Wednesday. The dissident group, which calls itself simply the IRA and has been dubbed the Real IRA by Irish media, has been observing a truce since the Omagh attack. Its leaders oppose the decisions of IRA comma stanley cups uk nders to call an indefinite truce in July 1997 and of the IRA s allied Sinn Fein party to accept the Good Friday peace accord of April 1998. That agreement included a blueprint for a new Protestant-Catholic government for Northern Ireland, a goal at odds with traditional IRA-Sinn Fein policy, which is to see the British-linked state overthr stanley thermobecher own, not reformed.copy;1999 C

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An American tourist was found dead near the Greek island of Corfu on Sunday, local media reported. It is the latest in a string of recent cases in which tourists in the Greek islands have died or gone missing. Another tourist found the man in the sea near the old port of Mathraki and informed the police, AFP reported, citing local media.The American tourist was reported missing on Thursday. He had last been seen alive Tuesday at a cafe in the company of two female tourists who have since left the island, The Associated Press reported.According to Athens News Agency, he was at Mathraki for a holiday with a Greek-American friend, AFP reported. No further details about the victim, including a name or hometown, were immediately available.Mathraki, with a population of just 100, is a heavily-wooded island covering 1.2 square miles. I airmax plus t is west of the better-known island of Corfu. salomon mujer The man s death is the third in recent days on Greece s islands.Dr. Michael Mosley, a noted British TV anchor and author,was found dead last Sundayon the island of Symi. A coroner concluded that he had died the previous Wednesday, shortly after going for a hike over difficult, rocky terrain.Symi lies very close to the Turkish coast.A missing Dutch tourist was found dead early Saturday on the eastern island of Samos, local media reported. The body of the 74-year-old Dutch tourist was found by a Fire Service drone lying face down in a ravine a adidas originals uomo bout 330 yards from the spot where he was last observed on Gdes Afghanistan suicide blast kills 33
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday during a meeting with top Kuwaiti envoy that Iran is ready to transfer its nuclear technology to neighboring countries, state-run television reported. The Islamic Republic of Iran is prepared to transfer to regional states its valuable experience and achievements in the field of peaceful nuclear technology as a clean energy source and as a replacement for oil, the state quoted Ahmadinejad as telling Mohammed Zefollah Shirar, a top advisor to Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah.The broadcast said Shirer is carrying a written message from the Emir to Ahmadinejad but didn t elaborate on the contents of the message.The television said Ahmadinejad also welcomed a d stanley cup price ecision by Iran s Arab neighbors to the south to pursue peaceful nuclear technology programs.Such a technological transfer would be legal as long as it is between signatory-states to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and as long as the International Atomic Energy Agency that monitors t stanley tumblers he treaty was informed of the transfer. Iran is currently at odds with the United States and its European allies who accuse Iran of seeking nuclear weapons. Iran insists its nuclear program is aimed solely at the peaceful production of nuclear energy, not bomb. United Nations Sanctions Closer To ResolutionMeanwhile, on Friday Britain said that a deal is emerging on a U.N. resolution that would impose sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, but Russia remain

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Seoul, South Korea mdash; North Korea launched a new intercontinental ballistic missile Thursday in its first test in almost a year of a weapon designed to threaten the U.S. mainland, days ahead of the U.S. ele adidas originals ction.North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered the missile test and was at the launch site, calling the launch an appropriate military action to show North Korea s resolve to respond to its enemies moves that have th dunk panda reatened the North s safety, according to its Defense Ministry. The United States, South Korea and Japan had also identified the weapon as an ICBM and condemned the launch as raising tensions. Following a call later Thursday by the three allies foreign ministers, the countries issued a joint statement saying they strongly urge the DPRK [North Korea] to immediately cease its series of provocative and destabilizing actions that threaten peace and security on the Korean Peninsula and beyond. The launch came as Washington warned that North Korean troops in Russian uniforms are heading toward Ukraine, likely to augment Russian forces and join the war. A TV screen shows an image of a North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, on Oct. 31, 2024. Lee Jin-man / AP North Korea confirmed the launch hours after i mizuno laufschuhe ts neighbors detected the firing of what they suspected was a new Unes Tunnel Death Toll Soars
A car bomb exploded Sunday near a stanley cup n Iraqi checkpoint in a market north of Baghdad, killing at least 23 civilians and wounding 25, the U.S. military said.The violence was among a series of attacks in northern Iraq.The military said U.S. and Iraqi forces had secured the area and the wounded had been evacuated to hospitals.Ir stanley mugs aqi police said earlier that a suicide car bomber targeted U.S.-allied fighters and Iraqi security forces at a checkpoint in Yathrib, near Balad, 50 miles north of Baghdad.Police and members of an anti-al Qaeda group opened fire as the attacker sped toward a joint checkpoint, but he managed to detonate his explosives near some shops about 20 yards away, according to police at the Salahuddin provincial coordination center. Police said eight civilians were killed and 20 wounded. The differing casualty figures and details could not immediately be reconciled.Meanwhile, Iraqi police said four civilians were killed Sunday when a tanker truck exploded near an Iraqi Army checkpoint south of Mosul.In an attempt to avert a suicide attack, Iraqi soldiers opened fire on the tanker about 30 yards f stanley mugs rom their post, an officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to media. The tanker exploded, killing four civilians and damaging six cars nearby, he said.The blast also damaged a gas station near the checkpoint on the outskirts of Mosul, which lies 225 miles northwest of Baghdad. The explosions came hours after suspected al Qa

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Vatican City af1 ndash; Pope Francis offered a Christmas wish for fraternity among people of different faiths, races or ideas, describing the world s differences as a richness, not a danger, and calling for political solutions to end wars in Syria, Yemen and elsewhere.Conflicts in Ukraine and tensions on the Korean Peninsula also drew the pope s attention in his Christmas Day message, which he read Tuesday from the central balcony of St. Peter s Basilica.Addressing tens of thousands of tourists, pilgrims and Romans who flocked to St. Peter s Square on a mild, sunny day, Francis said the universal message of Christmas is that God is a good Father and we are all brothers and sisters. This truth is the basis of the Christian vision of humanity, Francis said, delivering the traditional Urbi et Orbi to the city and the world message.Without fraternity, he said, even our best plans and projects risk being soulless and empty. He called for that spirit among individuals of every nation and culture as well as among people with different ideas, yet capable of respecting and listening to one another air force one . Our differences, then, are not a detriment or a danger; they are a source of richness, Francis said. Pope Francis gives a blessing from the balcony of St. Peter s Basilica during the traditional Urbi et Orbi Christmas message to the city and the world, on Dec. 25, adidas original campus 2018 at the Vatican. Tiziana Fabi / A Urro Sarkozy Touts U.S.-French Friendship
TORONTO The former Canadian ambassador to Iran who protected Americans at great personal risk during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis says it will reflect poorly on Ben Affleck if he doesn t say a few words about Canada s role should the director s film Argo win the Oscar for best picture Sunday.But Ken Taylor 151; who said he feels slighted by the movie because it makes Canada look like a meek observer to CIA heroics in the rescue of six U.S. Embassy staff members caught in the crisis 151; is not expecting it. I would hope he would. If he doesn t then it s a further reflection, Taylor told The Associated Press. But the 78-year-old Taylor added tha stanley cup t given what s happened in the last few months, I m not necessarily anticipating anything. Taylor kept the Americans hidden at his residence and the home of his deputy, John Sheardown, in Tehran and facilitated their escape by arranging plane tickets and persuading the Ottawa government to issue fake passports. He also agreed to go along with the CIA s film production cover story to get the Americans out of Iran.Taylor became a hero in Canada and the United States afterward. He felt the role that he and other Canadians played in helping the Americans to freedom was minimized in the film. In general it makes it seem like the Canadians were just along for the ride. The Canadians were brave. Period, Taylor said.On the other hand, actress Sheila Vand, who plays an Iranian housekeeper in the film, told CBS Radio News th stanley canada at he

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WASHINGTON -- An American airstrike has targeted and likely killed a top leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Libya, the Pentagon said. hoka trekkingschuhe Pentagon reasonably certain hell-fire missile fired by drone killed Jihadi John 01:50 Pentagon press secretar adidas originals hamburg y Peter Cook said in a statement the strike targeted Abu Nabil. The statement said that Nabil, who also goes by Wissam Najm Abd and Zayd al Zubaydi, is an Iraqi national and the senior ISIS leader in Libya. He also may have adidas yeezy been the spokesman in the Coptic Christian execution video from February of 2015, the statement said. A senior U.S. official told The Associated Press that the F-15 fighter jet made the strike after the Paris terror attacks were underway, and the statement said the operation was authorized and initiated prior to the terrorist attack, which killed at least 129 people. The U.S. claim comes one day after U.S. officials said a drone strike in the Syrian city of Raqqa likely killed the ISIS militant known as Jihadi John, who participated in the beheading videos of two American journalists and the slayings of several other captives, according to the Pentagon.Cook said that the strike in Libya should demonstrate that the U.S. will go after ISIS wherever they operate. Ysae France Says Au Revoir To 35-Hour Work Week
More than 3,000 U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major operation Tuesday against insurgent strongholds just south of Baghdad, their second mission in five days to wrest control from militants whose attacks threaten national elections seen as crucial to stabilizing this turbulent country.The operation in Babil province mdash; an area notorious for kidnappings and ambushes and home to the fabled, ancient city of Babylon mdash; follows last week s U.S.-Iraqi drive to oust insurgent forces from Samarra, about 60 miles north of Baghdad.The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit and Iraqi forces went into action after a string of bombings set off clashes Tuesday between U.S. troops and stanley canada gunmen west of Baghdad and in the northern stanley cup city of Mosul, and as the discovery of five beheaded bodies over two days indicated the pace of such grisly killings was also surging.The Marines and Iraqis punched their way across the Euphrates River, rounded up 160 suspects, seized a suspected training camp and took control of a major bridge, the U.S. command said. The bridge, spanning the Euphrates, is believed to be a favored corridor linking insurgent areas around Baghdad, Fallujah and towns farther south.The area in which they were operating was an estimated 40 to 45 miles northwest of ancient Babylon. The capital of Babil province is Hillah, about 65 miles south of Baghdad. The provincial capital sits near the Euphrates in a belt of rich agricultural land between that river and the nearby Tigris. In

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Tokyo mdash; There are more problems for the troubled Tokyo Olympics. The dir salomon ector of the opening ceremonies was fired just hours before the spectacle is scheduled to kick off. And despite reports that the Games could be canceled, officials said they are currently proceeding as planned. Team USA s Simone Biles trained with none of the usual spectators in place on Thursday because of COVID restrictions. While she mostly managed to stick her landings, Biles has said she s unsure of how she ll do in actual competition without the energy of a live crowd.There are more than 90 cases of COVID in people connected to the Games. USA volleyball player Taylor Crabb and four other American athletes have been sidelined by positive COVID tests. After taking every nike air force precaution, getting vaccinated and adidas campus following protocols, I have tested positive for COVID-19, Crabb announced Thursday on Instagram. I m symptom-free, thankfully, but deeply disappointed to not be able to join Jake on the sand and compete as a member of Team USA. I ve faced adversity before, and I will face it again, but it doesn t take the sting out of the situation. Meanwhile, first lady Jill Biden arrived in Tokyo ahead of Friday s opening ceremony, as the city logged another round of nearly 2,000 new daily cases alone mdash; a six-month high. A technician pauses near Olympic Rings as he works at Ariake Urban Sports Park on July 22, 2021, in Tokyo. Carl Cou Qvrc Road-builder: Landowner permitted Belize pyramid excavation
CBS News has compiled a rundown of Inauguration Day headlines and story summaries from some of the leading media outlets in the Arabic world and Iran. Here s what the Muslim world is saying:Asharq al-Awsat - London based Saudi pan-Arab daily newspaper, Front Page:Obama in His Inauguration Speech: An Invitation to Americans To Embrace New Culture In his inauguration speech tomorrow, U.S. President Barack Obam stanley thermos a will be calling upon Americans to embrace a new, responsible behavior, instead of sitting in the spectators seats. White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs told Fox News that the speech stresses responsibility and turning America in the right direction. Al-Quds al-Arabi - London based pan-Arab daily newspaper, Front Page: At Last, A World Without Bush. And Obama Plans a Week Full of Achievements It s a world without Bush, for the first time in eight years! A world with no pre-emptive war ideology, no war on terror, and without a president who believes he invaded Iraq after receiving orders to do so from God! But will Ob stanley kubek ama rise up to the expectations of the Arab world in terms of adopting better policies that are more balanced and less bloody Only time will tell. Al-Hayat - London based Lebanese pan-Arab daily newspaper, Front Page:Obama President of the United States Today, And Growing Optimism With Bush s Departure Hours separate Americans from a historic moment that many of them wanted, so little expected - the inauguration stanley termoska of Obama, the first

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The pilots of a helium balloon attempting a record-breaking flight across the Pacific Ocean were aiming for Canada, but now the weather has forced them to make a sweeping right turn toward Mexico.The Two Eagles pilots Troy Bradley of Albuquerque and Leonid Tiukhtyaev of Russia are trying to break two world records, for distance and duration.They set off from Saga, Japan, shortly before 6:30 a.m. Sunday Japan time, and were aiming for Canada until a high-pressure ridge formed off the U.S. West Coast as they approached North America. Think of it as hitting a wall: It will have to go left or right, their mission control said in a statement. Bert Padelt foreground prepares the Two Eagles capsule for launch in Saga on January 28, 2015, courtesy of Al Nels of the Two Eagles Balloon Team. Pilots Leonid Tiukhtyaev behind Padelt , Troy Bradley standing, R , and team members look on. REUTERS The northerly course would have taken them over the Canadian Rockies to somewhere in the northern U.S adidas campus herren ., possibly Montana or North Dakota. Instead, they re headed south, to a Saturday landing in Mexico, possibly on the peninsula of Baja California, mission control said.Baja California had been ruled out earlier because of bad weather there, but cond air force one itions shifted and the balloon should have good weather adidas originals coming into the Mexican coast, mission control said.In a Cjay U.N.: Entire families shot in homes in Syria
The Defense Department stron stanley termosy gly denied claims made in a published repor stanley cup t that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the expansion of a secret stanley cup website program that encouraged physical coercion and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners to obtain intelligence about the growing insurgency in IraqThe New Yorker magazine, which cited unnamed current and former intelligence officials, published the story Saturday on the magazine s Web site. Pentagon spokesman Lawrence Di Rita issued a statement calling the claims outlandish, conspiratorial, and filled with error and anonymous conjecture. The story, written by reporter Seymour Hersh, said Rumsfeld decided to expand the program last year, broadening a Pentagon operation from the hunt for al Qaeda in Afghanistan to interrogation of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. And the goal was to use a couple of very harsh means, one, sexual humiliation, another, a more physical force, Hersh told CBS News Face The Nation host Bob Schieffer. That -- and I m not saying Rumsfeld authorized what we saw in the last few weeks, but he did authorize these guys to come into the prison system and jack it up, get better stuff. Also speaking on Face The Nation, top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan said the Armed Services panel will do everything it can to find out what happened -- and whether there s any validity to the report. A full-blown investigation was required before this most recent articl

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PARIS -- Police said they are hunting fields and towns in southeast adidas samba adidas France for four thieves who stole dozens of kilograms of gold Monday from an armored truck before setting cars ablaze near a major highway.The thieves, operating in two cars, surrounded the armored truck and forced it off the A6 highway between Paris and Lyon, a national gendarme service spokesman said.They then seized the gold, locked the two delivery men in the back of the truck, and set one of their own cars on fire before fleeing, according to the spokesman.He said the flames spread to three other cars nearby and were threatening to engulf the armored truck as well, but local police intervened thanks to a tipoff from a witness and rescued the two men in time. The other cars yeezy appeared to have been parked and unoccupied, he said.Police vehicles and a helicopter are searching the surrounding area around the town of Dardilly, the spokesman said on condition of anonymity because he wasnrsquo;t authorized to give details about an on samba rose going investigation. Scientific police studied the charred hulls of the cars and the empty truck, operated by security company Loomis.While France occasionally sees big jewel thefts and has seen a couple of high-profile highway heists, itrsquo rare to see a large-scale gold robbery like this, gendarmes said.The spokesman said dozens of kilograms of gold were stolen. With gold selling for more than $37,000 a kilogram, the value of the theft could top $1 million.Authorities d Iyml Abbas Seeks Early Palestinian Elections
Getty Images/Mujahed Mohammed A US Marine secures an area during clashes with unknown gunmen after a suicide bomber targeted an Iraqi polic stanley trinkflaschen e patrol with his car, July 30, 2006 in the northern city of Mosul, killing one policeman and wounding three others. AP Photo/Mohammed Ibrahim An Iraqi police officer inspects the site of car bomb, July 30, 2006, in Mosul, northern Iraq. The suicide car bomb exploded on a passing police patrol wounding three police and three civilians, Police Lt. Ahmed Khalid said. AP Photo/Adam Hadei A blindfolded suspect sits during a raid conducted by Iraqi soldiers, Sunday, July 30, 2006, in Muqdadiyah, Iraq. The 5th brigade, 3 stanley cup rd division of the Iraqi army conducted raids on the villages of Hamais and Sinsil in Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, arresting 12 suspects and seizing weapons. Getty Images/Daniel Berehulak The sun rises over Quarmat Ali Canal on July stanley cups uk 29, 2006 in Basra, Iraq. Two Rigid Raiders were lifted this morning to be transported by helicopter to the Maysan Province. An increase of mortar attacks by insurgents on coalition unit

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A plane with 98 people on board crashed shortly after takeoff in Kazakhstan early Friday, killing at least 12 and sending 54 to hospitals, authoriti adidas samba adidas es said. Ten of them were in critical condition.Local authorities had earlier put the death toll at 15, but the Interior Ministry of the Central Asian nation later revised the figure downward, without explaining.The cause of the crash was unclear, but authorities were looking at two possible scenarios mdash; pilot error and technical failure, Kazakhstan s deputy prime minister Roman Sklyar said. The Bek Air aircraft hit a concrete fence and a two-story building after taking off from Almaty International Airport, which said the plane lost attitude and fell off the radar before dawn, shortly after 7:00 a.m. Almaty is Kazakhstan s largest city and former capital.In a statement on its Facebook page, the airport said there was no fire and a rescue operation got underway immediately following the crash. Around 1,000 people were working at the snow-covered site of the crash in Almerek village, just beyond the end of the runway.A reporter for the Reuters news service said the area was blanketed with thick fog soon after the crash.Agence France Presse said a video released by the Kazakh emergencie nike dunk donna s committee showed the front of the plane crushed into a partially collapsed air max 2 house as rescuers tried to pull people from the wreckage. They were reaching into the windows of the shattered cockpit. Dozens of people lined up in Almaty in Bhzk More Tragedy For Afghanistan
CBS/AP PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A Pakistani doctor who helped the U.S. track down Osama bin Laden was sentenced to 33 years in prison on Wednesday for conspiring against the state, officials said, a verdict that is likely to further strain the country s relationship with Washington.Shakil Afridi ran a vaccination program for the CIA to collect DNA and verify bin Laden s presence at the compound in the town of Abbottabad where U. stanley cup S. commandos killed the al Qaeda chief last May in a unilateral raid stanley tumblers . The operation outraged Pakistani officials, who portrayed it as an act of treachery by a supposed ally. Senior U.S. officials have called for Afridi to be released. Pentagon press secretary George Little declined to talk about the specific case, but told reporters Wednesday in Washington that anyone who supported the United States in finding Osama bin Laden was not working against Pakistan. They were working against al Qaeda. But many Pakistani officials, especially those working for the country s powerful spy agency, do not see it that way.A senior Pakistani intelligence officer, speaking to CBS News on condition of anonymity, described Afridi as a mastermind in an unprecedented case that helped the U.S. confirm bin Laden was in the compound. Another intelligence official said that while the U.S. was already 90 percent certain of the presence of a very high value tar stanley cup get, Dr. Afridi s work not only helped to raise that to 100 percent but also confirmed Osama bin Laden s pres

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New Delhi ndash; Pakistan announced it was downgrading its diplomatic relations with India Wednesday in response to India s earlier revocation of a consitutional amendment that granted the disputed region of Kashmir special, semi-autonomous status. Muslim-majority Kashmir borders both India and Pakistan, and both countries control parts of it but c adidas samba adidas laim it in full. In a tweet, Pakistan s government announced it would also be suspending bilateral trade with India and taking the is yeezy sue of Kashmir to the United Nations Security Council. Pakistan s foreign ministry said the country would be expelling the Indian envoy from Islamabad and recalling their High Commissioner from New Delhi. 1-Downgrading of diplomatic relati adidas samba og ons with India.2-Suspension of bilateral trade with India.3-Review of bilateral arrangements.4-Matter to be taken to UN, including the Security Council.5-14th of August to be observed in solidarity with brave Kashmiris. StandwithKashmir pic.twitter/v06GmMc5lGmdash; Govt of Pakistan @pid_gov August 7, 2019 India scrapped Article 370 of its constitution Monday, which gave the state of Jammu and Kashmir its own constitution and significant decision-making rights for everything apart from foreign affairs, communications, and defense. Indian parliament on Tuesday also passed a bill to split the restive state into two Union Territories, making way for the Indian central government to directly control the disputed region.Kashmir was divided between India Yukp S. Koreans Recount Attack; 2 More Bodies Found
The Popocatepetl volcano outside Mexico City settled into a quiet slumber Wednesday after its biggest eruption in more than a millennium, and volcano experts said the worst appeared to be over.But a spokeswoman for Mexico s president wouldn t confirm the scientific report, and officials said they would likely keep residents of tow stanley polska ns on the volcano s slopes in shelters at least through Christmas.Shelter directors were making arrangements Wednesday for Christmas celebrations, asking for donations for gifts and pintilde;atas for the children. Evacuees did their best to turn school classrooms into temporary homes. It would be nice to go home to celebrate the birth of Jesus with our families, but at least we are calm and safe here with our children, said 38-year-old Dominga Luna, one of more than 1,000 evacuees from San Nicolas de los Ranchos, a village in the shadow of the volcano.At the Miguel Aleman School in Cholula, 65 miles southeast of Mexico City, children played on seesaws and monkey bars in a thick, sun-illuminated haze caused by falling ash. Women draped in shawls scrubb stanley thermoskannen ed clothes in aluminum wash tubs, hanging their laundry on makeshift clotheslines and available bushes. Others mopped the floors of their small rooms. Soldiers manned roadblocks around the villages nearest stanley us to the volcano to ward off looters and to keep evacuated residents from returning home too early.The 17,886-foot Popocatepetl pronounced poh-poh-kah-TEH-peh-til sprayed a fountain of hot roc