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ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan o adidas samba schuhe n Tuesday branded a U.S. consulate staffer who was arrested by Turkish authorities a spy and said it was Turkey s rights to take steps against an internal threat, in the latest swipe in an escalating feud with the United States.Speaking at a news conference in Belgrade, Serbia, Erdogan also accused the U.S. ambassador to Turkey of wrecking ties between the NATO allies by suspending the issuing of visas to Turkish citizens at U.S. diplomatic missions following the arrest of Metin Topuz, a Turkish citizen employed at the U.S. consulate in Istanbul.The U.S. suspended considering visa applications on Sunday saying crocs schuhe it wanted to reassess Turkey s commitment to the safety of U.S. personnel. Turkey retaliated by halting visas services in the U.S. How did these spies infiltrate the American consulate If they didn t infiltrate the American consulate, who put them there Erdogan said, speaking alongside the Serbian president. No state would allow such spies that pose an internal threat. He was referring to Topuz as well as a second consulate employee whom Turkish authorities say they want to qu af1 estion. That man s wife and at least one of his children have been taken into custody this week. Who is Fethullah Gulen 13:22 Turkish authorities accuse T Uisx Obama pledges to help bring Brussels attackers to justice
Israeli tanks and bulldozers backed by attack aircraft moved into the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday in the biggest operation in the territory since Islamic H stanley cup amas forces wrested control in June, setting off clashes with militants.An stanley cup Israeli tank shell fired at a group of Islamic Jihad fighters killed three, while missiles fired from an aircraft killed two unidentified militants, hospital officials said.Schoolchildren ran through the streets of Khan Younis, let out early from school so they could take refuge in their homes.Militants carrying land mines and other weapons dodged among houses and maneuvered behind the tanks to fire at troops. Others took cover behind trees, or covered themselves in leaves to c stanley cup amouflage themselves in open farmlands in the area of the fighting.Tanks and bulldozers were about a mile deep inside southern Gaza, on the main road between the towns of Khan Younis and Rafah, and deployed over a 2.5-mile stretch of territory. The military described it as a routine operation against the terror infrastructure. Militants in Gaza routinely fire crude rockets and mortars at Israeli border communities, and smuggle in weapons from Egypt.Residents and Hamas security forces said at least 30 tanks and bulldozers took part in the operation, but the military said only 10 tanks were sent in.The area where the operation was taking place is a main launching ground for rocket and mortar assaults on army bases and the Israeli-controlled Sufa crossing into Gaza. Mo

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The U.S. will have to help Iraqi and Kurdish troops in order to completely wipe out the Islamist militants who have seized control of the northern part of Iraq, said CBS News Intelligence Analyst Michael Morell, the former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency. adidas sambarose U.S. airstrikes continue as Iraq s Yazidis flee militants 02:01 It s going to require us with our capabil af1 ities to take out the leadership of the group while the Iraqi army and the Kurdish ar crocs absatz my, the Peshmerga, fights on the ground against these guys, Morell said on CBS This Morning Monday. Obama: U.S. can and should support moderate forces to stabilize Iraq 01:21 President Obama authorized targeted airstrikes in Iraq Thursday to protect U.S. personnel in Erbil, the Kurdish capital, and to help stop the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS, also known as ISIL from carrying out a massacre against religious minorities. Although he suggested the airstrikes could go on for months, he has also insisted he will not allow the U.S. to be dragged into fighting another war in Iraq. Morell said the cooperation of the Kurdish and Iraqi force Hybm Official: Foreign Fighters Helping Taliban
This story was written by CBS News Producer Alfonso Serrano .Ollanta Hu stanley quencher mala, the former army commander who has vowed to legalize coca and nationalize key industries, has emerged as the frontrunner in Peru s tightly contested presidential elections, surely a cause for concern in Washington as the region tilts further left.With 80 percent of the votes ta stanley uk llied, Humala, 43, has pulled away from the two other presidential candidates, conservative Lourdes Flores and former president Alan Graciacute;a. Though it is unlikely that Humala will garner enough votes to avoid a runoff, h stanley quencher is good showing in Sunday s elections has many Peruvians on edge. Humala has not won yet, but what is clear is that Peru has lost, said Baruch Ivcher, owner of Peru s Frequencia Latina Channel 2.In the months leading up to Sunday s vote, Humala declared that he would nationalize key industries while legalizing coca and ending the Andean nation s dependence on the United States. These statements mirror those of Latin America s two other populist leaders, Venezuela s Hugo Chaacute;vez and Evo Morales of Bolivia. Humala has accused former presidents of sustaining a dictatorship of the powerful. Allegations of human rights abuses have shadowed Humala since he led army troops against the Maoist Shinning Path guerillas in the 1980s and 90s. Humala is also an admirer of Juan Velasco, the left-wing military dictator who ruled the Andean nation from 1968 to 1975.But where others see a brutal military ma

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Authorities know that Faisal Shazad visited Pakistan; the key question is whether he met with terrorist groups there -- and which groups. C stanley cups BS News national security analyst Juan Zarate outlined possible contacts there for CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric. A map of the different areas of Pakistan controlled by different terrorist groups stanley quencher CBS Faisal Shahzad told authorities here he learned to make bombs at a training camp in Pakistan. How many of these training camps are there It s hard to know, said Zarate, because there are numerous camps throughout Pakistan. And these aren t the large outdoor camps or compounds we re used to.Second, there are a n stanley kubek umber of groups throughout Pakistan with different causes who are training thousands of operatives throughout the country:Al Qaeda has a presence in the tribal areas in the west and in particularly North Waziristan. The Pakistan Taliban is present throughout Western Pakistan including northwest province. And the leadership of the Afghan Taliban is thought to be in Quetta.And the Kashmiri groups like Lashkar-e Tayyiba -- which was responsible for the Mumbai, India attacks -- has more of a presence in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and in the settled parts of Pakistan, like Lahore. CBS News national security

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BEIJING -- China s state broadcaster is investigating one of its hosts after a video of him insulting Mao Zedong w adidas yeezy as leaked online, causing a stir and rekindling debate on the complicated legacy of the father of communist China.China Central Television said talent show host Bi Fujian would face serious investigation because his jokes have had a severe social impact. In the home video that circulated widely online before censors removed adidas campus 00s it this week, Bi sings a song about Communist Party-led soldiers battling bandits in northeastern China in the 1940s. To the laughter of guests at a dinner, Bi adds his own commentary in a speaking voice between lines.Chairman Mao s grandson: China s most-mocked manWhen the lyrics refer to Mao, Bi describes the revolutionary hero with a known Chinese vulgar phrase that includes a reference to female genitals, and says he has ruined us all. Bi also mocks the soldiers, suggesting their battles were pointless and the song s claim of victory boastful. Free speech muted in China 01:25 The incident renewed debate both on free speech and about Mao, who many Chinese feel should be held responsible for disa nike af strous periods such the 1959-1961 famine and the chaos unleashed by the decade-long Cultural Revolution in 1966 when Mao appealed directly to the masses to root out reac Gece AP says Hajj crush was deadliest ever, Saudis disagree
Afghan officials Monday said a U.S. helicopter attacked a house in a village in southern Afghanistan, killing 11 people, four of them children.There was no immediate comment from the U.S. military.The attack occurred at around 4 a.m. Sunday, a day after U.S. forces hunting for Taliban insurgents had searched Saghatho village, wher stanley flask e the home is located, said Abdul Rahman, chief of Char Chino district in Uruzgan province. They were simple villagers, they wer stanley cup e not Taliban. I don t know why the U.S. bombed this home. We have informed our authorities, he told The Associated Press by telephone in the southern city of Kandahar.Maj. Steven R. Moon, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Kabul, had no immediate comment. The governor of Uruzgan, Jan Mohammed Khan, confirmed Rahman s account that four men, four children and three women were killed in a U.S. bombing.Also Monday, a U.S. military spokesman said three U.S. soldiers were wounded when insurgents launched a surprise daylight raid on an American base in southern Afghanistan.The soldiers were hit by shrapnel when about 15 attackers opened fire on the base at Deh Rawood in Uruzgan province early Sunday with rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns and AK-47 assault rifles, Lt. Col. Bryan Hilferty said.One attacker was killed when American soldiers returned fire. The injured soldiers, who were flown to the main U.S. military bas stanley thermoskannen e at Bagram, 250 miles northeast near the capital, Kabul, were in stable condition and

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Washington mdash; President Biden said Monday he is weighing additional sanctions against Russi airforces a over the death of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny. We already have sanctions, but we are considering additional sanctions, yes, Mr. Biden told reporters as he returned to the White House from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.On Friday, Mr. Biden blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for Navalny s death, saying the U.S. wasn t sure what exactly happened, but that it was a consequence of something that Putin and his thugs did. Navalny s death was reported Friday by Russian prison authorities, who said the dissident felt unwell after going for a walk and almost immediately lost consciousness.His widow Yulia Navalnaya, who lives in exile outside Russia, said Monday that authorities were hiding his body and refusing to give it to his mother. She accused the Kremlin of poisoning her husband, alleging that Russian authorities were delaying handing over his body to allow for traces of the poison to disappear. yeezy The U.S. has already imposed several rounds of punishing sanctions against Russian officials, institutions and businesses since its invasion of Ukraine two chanclas yeezy years ago.When asked about increasing sanctions against Russia on Friday, Mr. Biden told reporters he was considering a whole number of options. He has also used Navalny s death to underscore the threat posed by Russia, and has urged Congress to approve more funding to Ukraine. But Mr. Biden said Monday he wa Rglc Pelley: Obama and Kerry see true opening from Iran
China brushed aside international appeals Tuesday and executed by lethal injection a British drug smuggler who relatives say was mentally unstable and unwittingly lured into crime.Britain s prime minister said he was appalled at the execution of 53-year old Akmal Shaikh - China s first of a European citizen in nearly 60 years. His government summoned the Chinese ambassador in London to express its anger.China defended its handling of the case, saying there not been documentary proof Shaikh was mentally ill. Beijing also criticized Gordon Brown s comments, but said it hoped the case would n stanley cups ot harm bilateral relations. The Foreign Ministry called on London not to create any obstacles to better ties.Shaikh s daughter Leilla Horsnell was quoted by the BBC and other British media outlets as saying she was shocked and disappointed that the execution went ahead with no regards to my dad s mental health problems, and I struggle to understand how this is justice. Shaikh was arrested in 2007 for carrying a suitcase with almost 9 pounds 4 kilograms of heroin into China on a flight from stanley cups uk Tajikistan. He told Chinese officials he didn t know about the drugs and that the suitcase wasn t his, according to Reprieve, a London-based prisoner advocacy group that is helping with his case. He was convicted in 2008 after a half-hour trial.He first learned he was about to be executed Monday from his visiting cousins, who made a last-minute plea for his life. They say he is mentally stanley mug unst

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JOHANNESBURG -- Thousands of white farmers have snarled traffic on some major roads in South Africa in what they call the Black Monday protest against the high rate of murders of farmers.Convoys of hundreds of slow-moving t adidas original campus rucks and cars brought traffic to a crawl on highways leading from farming areas to Cape Town, Pretoria and Johannesburg, and white farmers and their supporters wore black in memory of farmers killed. The protests have been peaceful and the South African police have accompanied the demonstrators.The protests are backed by AfriForum, a lobby group which promotes the rights of South Africa s white minority, especially the Afrikaner population descended from Dutch settlers. AfriForum claims that 70 white farmers have been murdered in 341 attacks on farms so fa yeezy r this year.Some protesters were seen carrying a flag from the nation s apartheid era, when the white minority was in power and black people couldn t vote, the BBC reports.The rate of murders of white farmers is much higher than South Africa s general murder rate, said Ian Cameron, AfriForum s head of community safety, speaking at the Afrikaners Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria where hundreds of protesters gathered. A farmer has 4.5 times more chance of being murdered in South Africa, than an average South Afri airmaxplus can, said Cameron, according to the African News Agency. That means a farmer is three times more likely to be murdered in South Africa than a police officer in this country. So farmers ha Bsil Gaza City Plunged Into Darkness
AP KABUL, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber blew himself up Saturday in a wedding hall in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 23 people including a prominent warlord-turned-politician and three Afghan security force officials, in an attack that deals a setback to efforts to unify the nation s ethnic factions, Afghan officials said.Ahmad Khan Samangani, an ethnic Uzbek stanley cup and anti-Soviet guerrilla leader in the 1980s who later became a member of parliament, was welcoming guests to his daughter s wedding when the explosion occurred in Aybak, the capital o stanley cup website f Samangan province.President Hamid Karzai said 23 people were killed and about 60, including government officials, were wounded in the attack, which he condemned and said was carried out by the enemies of Afghanistan. He ordered a team from Kabul to fly to the northern province to investigate the bombing.No one has yet claimed responsibility for the blast. But in announcing their spring offensive on May 2, the Taliban said they would continue to target thos stanley canada e who back the Karzai government and the U.S.-led international military coalition.Karzai needs the minority groups 151; loosely known as the Northern Alliance 151; to back his efforts to reconcile with the Taliban. But minorities already worry that Karzai, a Pashtun, will make too many concessions to their Taliban enemies to achieve a peace deal to end the war. Whatever support for peace talks that Karzai has won from minority groups is likely to erode if militants con

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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Three American Olympic swimmers plannedto meet with Brazilian law enforcement Thursday to discuss a reported robberytargeting 12-time medalist Ryan Lochte and his teammates, a U.S. OlympicCommittee official said.USOC spokesperson Patrick Sandusky said Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were released by local authorities after being pulled from aflight at the Rio de Janeiro airport, with the understanding that discussionswould continue amid uncertainty over what truly took place during a late outingthe night Olympic swimming wrapped up at the Rio Games.Fellow teammate Jimmy Feigen also plans to talk toofficials, Sandusky said, as he navigates a judgersquo order that keeps him inBrazil. The order similarly called for Lochtersquo passport to be seized, bu yeezy foam t thestar swimmer had already returned to the United States before authorit nike sb dunk ies couldenforce the decision. Brazil orders Ryan Lochte, Feigen to stay put 03:07 A lawyer for Conger and Bentz said Thursday that theywonrsquo;t be allowed to leave Brazil until they provide testimony to investi yeezy slide gators.The swimmers didnrsquo;t speak to reporters as they left the airport, shuttled awayby a black car waiting outside. They departed for an unspecified location inBrazil and had yet to testify, said attorney Sergio Viegas.Representatives from the Bhxa ISIS holdouts launch surprise attacks in reclaimed towns
SASI-RIThe North Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone is a hive of activity 151; not of fighting, but of farming.Beyond the barbed wire, ruddy-faced North Korean soldiers put down their rifles Wednesday stanley cup and stood shoulder to shoulder with farmers as they turned their focus to another battle: the spring planting.As neighboring nations remain on guard for a missile launch or nuclear test that South Korean and U.S officials say could take place at any time, the focus north of the border is on planting rice, cabbage and soybeans. In hamlets all along the DMZ, soldiers were knee-deep in mud and water as they helped farmers with the spring planting.U stanley bottles .N. detects possible signs of past North Korea nuclear testTranslating North Korea s rhetorical rageNorth Korea: sanct stanley cup ions, U.S. military drills must end for talks to resumeAlong the boundary, hundreds of North Korean soldiers marched in a line with backpacks. On a hilltop above them in North Hwanghae province, Col. Kim Chang Jun said they were being dispatched to farms 151; but still prepared for war if need be. From the outside, it looks peaceful: farmers are out in the fields, children are going to school, he said. But behind the scenes, they are getting ready for war. They re working until midnight but come morning, if the call comes, they ll be ready to go to battle. To the east, inside the Joint Security Area that is the heart of the DMZ, a tense quiet hangs over the area that divides North from South. This is the spot that

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LONDON -- A British judge on Tuesday upheld a U.K. arrest warrant for the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, leaving his legal position unchanged after more than five years inside the Ecuadorean Embassy.Judge Emma Arbuthnot rejected a call from Assange s lawyers for the warrant to be revoked because he is no longer wanted for questioning in Sweden. I am not persuaded the warrant should be withdrawn, Arbuthnot told lawye dunk pand rs, journalists and Assange supporters gathered at London s Westminster Magistrates Court. What is WikiLeaks today 01:28 After the ruling, Assange s lawyer, Mark Summers, tried to persuade the judge to hold a further hearing on new legal arguments. She di yeezy dn t immediately agree.Ecuadorean leader laments nuisance AssangeAssange has been holed up in the Ecuador s embassy in London since he took refuge there in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden. Swedish prosecutors were investigating allegations of sexual assault and rape made by two women in 2010.Swedish prosecutors dropped the case last year, saying there was no prospect of bringing Assange to Sweden in the foreseeable future adidas yeezyslide . But Assange was still subject to a British arrest warrant for jumping bail in 2012.Had the judge ruled in Assange s favor, he would have been free to leave the embassy without being arrested on the Bri Hrcq Leaders Hail Ukraine Vote Decision
A mud-spewing fissure in the ocean floor has given birth to a tiny Caribbean island and is posing a threat t stanley cup website o small boats. The island, breaching a few inches above the ocean s surface and stretching 500 feet long, was discovered recently roughly five miles northeast of Trinidad, said Roderick Stewart, a seismologist at the University of the West Indies in St. Augustine.An advisory has been issued for small boats, which could lose buoyancy because of gas bubbling up from the underwater fissure or run aground in the mud.The danger may be short-lived. Large waves are washing away the mud and the fissure may fade.It is not the first time such tiny, short-lived islands have emerged off the coast of the twin-island Caribbea stanley mugs n nation of Trinidad and Tobago. Temporary islands also were formed in 1964 and 2001. The islands are created by what scientists call mud volcanoes, a varying mixture of water, sediment and compressed pockets of natural gas that usually emerge along fault lines. A mud volcano even stanley website erupted on land here in the late 1990s, inundating part of a village. No one was injured.Sediment deposits from rivers in nearby South America contribute to the phenomenon. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-986c4314-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-986c4314-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-986c4314-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3

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Thousands of people broke into aid warehouses in Gaza to take flour and basic hygiene products, a U.N. agency said Sunday, in a mark of growing desperation and the breakdown of public order three weeks into the war between Israel and Gaza s militant Hamas rulers.Robert Mardini, the director-general of the International Committee of the Red Cross, told Face the Nation earlier Sunday that three truckloads of medicine, medical equipment, water and sanitation equipment had made it into Gaza on Sunday. This is good, this air max plus is positive, but this is a drop in an ocean of need, Mardini said.Tanks and infantry pushed into Gaza over the weekend as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a second stage in the war, three weeks after Hamas launched a brutal incursion into Israel. The widening ground offensive came as Israel also pounded the territory from air, land and sea. United Nations aid is loaded on lorries to be distributed to Palestinian families and displaced families, many of whom fled the northern areas of the Gaza Strip following Israel s call to move south for their safety, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on Oct. 28, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and Hamas. MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images nike air force air force 1 The bombardment mdash; described by Gaza residents as the most intense of the war mdash; knocked out most communications in the territory late Friday, largel Sgxl Transcript: Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Face the Nation, January 23, 2022
Updated 3:22 p.m. ET CBS/AP WASHINGTON - The Obama administration has named the first full ambassador to Burma, also known as Myanmar, in more than two decades as U.S. political ties warm with the former Southeast Asian pariah state.As has been long expected, the White House tapped its current special envoy for Burma to become a full ambassador. Derek Mitchell has overseen U.S. engagement with Burma as the country has undergone startling political reform. Today marks the beginning of a new chapter in the relationship between the United States and Burma said President Barack Obama. Since I announced a new U.S. opening to Burma in November... Burma have made significant progress along the path to democracy. The United States has pledged to respond to positive developments in Burma and to clearly demonstrate America s commitment... That is what we are doing. Burma on the road to democracyLearning to celebrate democracy in BurmaBurmese opposition claims Suu Kyi winIf confirmed by the Senate, Mitchell would be the first U.S. ambassador in the country since 1990. The U.S. is currently represented by a lower-level diplomatic officer. The announcement came ahead of a meeting Thursday between Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Burma s visiting foreign minister Wunna Maung Lwin. Clinton announced the U.S will suspend sanctions that had blocked American investment in Burma but will keep relevant laws on the books as an insura stanley cup nce policy and maintain a stanley cup usa U.S. arm

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Nathan Chen of Team United States celebrates during the men s individual free skating on day six of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at Capital Indoor Stadium on February 10, 2022 in Beijing, China. Getty Images Beijing mdash; Nathan Chen remembers making the long drive with his mother from his home in Salt Lake City to Rafael Artyunyun s training base in Southern California. He had started just a few years earlier, using his sister s skates and sleeping in the car to follow his Olympic dreams.Ten years later, Chen sat alongside Artyunyun on Thursday morning as his scores were read and that dream was finally realized. With a nearly perfect free skate on the heels of salomon speedcross a record-setting short program, the 22-year-old Yale student walked away with the gold medal at the Beijing Games Thursday. He became the first American figure skating champion since Evan Lysacek in 2010 and capped one of the most dominant four-year runs in the history of the sport. My mom and I grew up quite poor. We really didn t have much money, Chen said after the emotions of his stirring triumph had slowly settled down. She would adidas originals damen just scrap together some dollars to try to pay Raf, and Raf obv air force one iously knew about the situation and thanks to the kindness of his heart, was able to just continue taking me in, and taking as much money as we could provide him. Artyunyun would try to give the money back sometimes, Che Gjcv Bastille Day 2010
Five American soldiers were killed south of Baghdad, including four in a single roadside bombing, the military said Sunday.The blast that killed the four soldiers and wounded four others occurred Saturday during combat operations south of the capital, the military said. Another soldier was killed Saturday by small-arms fire during a stanley flasche foot patrol southeast of Baghdad.All the soldiers were assigned to Task Force Marne, which operates in an area with a volatile mix of Sunni and Shiite extremists.The troops also ha stanley mugs ve been cracking down on networks allegedly smuggling explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, from Iran to the Baghdad area. The precision-crafted explosives have become a growing threat to American troops, and the Pentagon has struggled to find ways to protect vehicles against their deadly power.The deaths announced Sunday raised to at least 3,690 members of the U.S. military have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press coun stanley cup price t. U.S. and Iraqi forces elsewhere reportedly staged raids in a Shiite stronghold in Baghdad and the holy city of Kufa.A police officer said two civilians were killed and four wounded when the joint forces backed by helicopters stormed into houses in Baghdad s Shiite district of Sadr City.The officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn t authorized to release the information, also said 16 people were detained. The U.S. military said it was looking into the report.AP Television News foot