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Surgeons hope to remove most of the 50 metal sewing needles inserted into a 2-year-old boy in Brazil but have warned that some are too close to vital organs to pull out.Brazilian media reported that a former stepfather of the toddler has been detained and he told police that he inserted the needles into the boy with the help of two unidentified women.The police inspector in charge of the case, Helder Fernandes Santana, told the Agencia Estado news agency that a black magic ritual involving the boy was among the motives police were looking into. All of our officers are focused on this case, stanley website gathering information, he said.The boy is in intensive care but his condition has improved since he was admitted, Dr. Luiz Cesar Soltoski told The Associated Press on Wednesday.Soltoski, who is treating the boy, said surgeons hope to remove most of the needles - some as long as 2 inches - but those in the lungs will have to wait until th stanley cup e c stanley polska hild s breathing improves. Some needles cannot be removed as they are too close to vital organs or even inside organs, he added. The boy s mother, a maid, took him to a hospital in the small northeastern city of Ibotirama last Thursday, saying he was complaining of pain. Three days later, after X-rays revealed many of the needles, doctors moved him to a larger hospital in the nearby city of Barreiras.The mother told police she didn t know how the needles got inside her son, whose name was not released because of his age. Police on Wednesday night

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From South Korea to South America, the brides wore white for the Unification Church s largest mass wedding in a decade, with some 40,000 people participating in dozens of cities around the world.The blessing ceremony was the church s largest since 1999, and may well be the last on such a grand scale officiated by the 89-year-old Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the controversial founder of the Unifi stanley cup usa cation Church.More than twenty-thousand people gat stanley cups uk hered at Moon s Sun Moon University campus in Asan, south of Seoul, for the main event Wednesday morning while some 20,000 more joined simultaneous ceremonies Tuesday night in the U.S., Brazil, Venezuela and elsewhere.Some were new couples who met for the first time in recent months in unions arranged by the church; others were married couples renewing their vows. The brides wore veils and wedding dresses, or their national dress; the men wore black suits with red ties, with white scarves wrapped around their necks.The mass wedding comes as Moon moves to hand day-to-day leadership over to his children, though the Rev. Moon Hyung-jin, the 30-year-old tapped to take over religious affairs, insists his father remains in charge of the church and in good health. The massive global ceremony is meant to mark two key anniversaries in the leader s life: his 90th birthday and stanley cups the 50th anniversary of his marriage to Han Hak-ja, church officials said.Row after row of brides in veils and grooms in white gloves - hailing from South Korea, the U.S.,

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Romemdash; Italian police said on Wednesday that they had detained a Russian diplomat and arrested an Italian navy captain on suspicion of spying. Carabinieri police intervened during a clandestine meeting between the two, caught immediately after the transfer of a document by the Italian officer in exchange for a sum of money, said a police statement. Both are accused of serious crimes tied to espionage and state security. FBI busts Russian spies living in plain sight in U.S.The Russian, accredited as a military attacheacute; at the embassy in Rome, appears to have avoided being formally arrested thanks to his diplomatic immunity. A police statement said the man s status was still under consideration, but Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di adidas campus herren Maio said later that two Russian officials had been expelled in connection with an espionage case. It was not immediately clear who the two individuals were.To arrest an embassy official would be highly unusual, as spy suspects are more often quietly deported to avoid diplomatic incidents. adidas samba An image from Google Maps shows the front of the Russian Embassy in Rome, Italy. Google Maps The Italian Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador to discuss the matter. The Russian embassy said it hoped the incident would not affect bilate dunks shoes ral relations with Italy, according to Russian state news agency RIA.The police operation to Psfs Coronavirus could dent China box office for U.S. films
Fox hunting opponents Tuesday welcomed lawmakers efforts to ban the sport, while hunters insisted they would fight to preserve a trad stanley mug ition they say is critical to rural Britain s economy.A majority of lawmakers in the House of Commons voted Monday for an outright ban on fox hunting with hounds, rejecting a government proposal for strict controls.The vote means legislation must now be redrafted in a Commons committee, risking a delay that could prevent the ban from reaching the House of Lords, Parliament s upper chamber, during this session of the legislature.The vote signaled a total end to this barbaric activity said activist Phyllis Campbell-McRae, who urged swift passage of legislation. The cruelty of hunting with dogs is unacceptable in modern society, said Campbell-McRae, of the action group Campaigning to Protect Hun stanley cup ted Animals. Hunters vowed to fight attempts to ban the pastime and accused lawmakers, particularly members of Prime Minister Tony Blair s ruling Labor Party, of being out touch with rural voters. What it shows is that Labor is utterly at odds with the countryside, said Ian Farquhar, joint master of Beaufort Hunt, with which Prince Charles regularly rides.Blair s government believes a total ban on hunting foxes with hounds would be unenforceable, and proposed allowing the sport to continue under more stringent regulations.But after 5 1/2 hours of debate, the Commo stanley cups ns voted 362 to 154 to approve an amendment banning fox hunting in England and Wales

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CAIRO A senior member of Egypt s Muslim Brotherhood rejected Tuesday the timetable a adidas originals damen nnounced by the country s interim president for amending the country s constitution and setting new presidential elections.Essam el-Erian said on his official Facebook page that the transition plan to elect a new president and parliament by early 2014 would take the country back to square one and vowed that the Brotherhood would not drop its push to reinstate deposed President Mohammed Morsi, who was a longtime member of the group.In response, Egypt s army chief, Defense Minister Abdel-Fattah adidas originals forum el-Sissi, said on state TV that the military will not accept political maneuvering, and the future of the nation is too important and sacred for maneuvers or hindrance, whatev yeezy slide er the justifications. CBS News correspondent Holly Williams reported that Morsi s Brotherhood backers were expected to gather again in Cairo on Tuesday, a day after security forces killed more than 50 supporters during a protest by about 1,000 Islamists outside the Republican Guard headquarters where Morsi, Egypt s first freely elected leader, was detained last week. It was the nation s deadliest day since Morsi s ouster July 3 and led the country s top Muslim cleric to raise the specter of civil war.Egypt Interim president sets timetable for electionsDozens dead after Morsi backers, military clash in CairoRival parties clash in streets across EgyptThe Brotherhood remains adamant that Morsi should be reinstated as the nation s Sath Uganda to deport British man accused of being gay
Sixty years after they escaped Hitler s army in an armada of fishing boats, Dunkirk veterans marched though the French port on Sunday for a final memorial, according to CBS News Reporter Pamela McCall.In June 1940, some 340,000 retreating Allied troops 151; with advancing German forces at their backs 151; were forced to the beaches of France with nowhere to go. That s until hundreds of small boats from Britain showed to get them out. The evacuation had been a turning point in the war that had allowed British troops to eventually return in the 1944 D-Day invasion that led to Germany s defeat.Sixty-eight thousand troops at Dunkirk didn t make it 151; but Prince Charles told the veterans in Dunkirk on Sunday that those lives were not lost in vain. Without the success of Operation Dynamo...without the sacrifice of those who never returned home, D-Day may never have stanley thermoskannen taken place at all, he said. It s the last time the evacuation will be marked...bu stanley cups t it will always be remembered, in the words of Winston Churchill, as the miracle of deliverance. Snatching stanley cup Britain from the jaws of defeat, Operation Dynamo gave birth to the never-say-die Dunkirk spirit that passed into British legend. But for the veterans, sadness lurked behind the pageantry. They fell silent and let their banners drop to the ground as they remembered their epic flight. That is what gets you, if you go around the cemeteries and look at the ages of the blokes, 19 to 20, the poor sods got no life what

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Germany s soccer federation is redesigning its national team s Adidas jerseys after claims that the kits No. 44 numbering looked similar to a Nazi symbol.The German soccer federation DFB announced on social media that the organization and its partner, 11teamsports, an online store that sells sports gear, will develop an alternate design for the number 4 after fans spotted similarities between the custom No. 44 jersey and the logo of theSchutzstaffelndash; Adolf Hitler s infamous paramilitary force. Jonathan Tah of Germany, who wears No. 4, dribbles during the international friendly match between France a adiletten original nd Germany at Groupama Stadium on March 23, 2024 in Lyon, France. Ralf Ibing - firo sportphoto/Getty Images The DFB said it was taking the matter very seriously after people on social media used Adidas online customization service to make shirts with the number 44 and showed how it resembled the Schutzstaffel s SS symbol, which looks like two lightning bolts. Since no players currently on the men s nor women s soccer roster mizuno volleyballschuhe wear No. 44, the jersey needed to be created using the personalization tool. dunk pand None of the parties involved saw any proximity to Nazi symbolism in the development process of the jersey design, the federation said on X. The DFB said it checks jersey numbers between zero and nine and then submits one through 26 to UEFA, the governing body of soccer Xkaf Nearly 100 Killed In Brazil Gang Fury
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian police are raiding another slum dominated by drug trafficking gangs in an ongoing program to bring peace to areas near Maracana stadium ahead of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.Photographers and cameramen from The Associate stanley becher d Press on the scene have seen hundreds of police officers and troops invading the Mangueira shantytown, backed by helicop stanley cup ters and several armored vehicles.Rio state public security director J stanley cup ose Beltrame said in a televised news conference that police have taken control of the slum without exchange of gunfire. Seventeen other shantytowns have already been pacified by security forces taking over the city s poor community slums, known as favelas. Maracana will host the World Cup final and the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics. In addition to the raid, leaflets were dropped from helicopters on the notoriously dangerous favelas, some with photos of wanted criminals, others with photos with the police special forces telephone number so that residents could pass on information about drugs traffickers or weapons, BBC reports.Rio s authorities have been trying to regain the trust of favela residents, who have largely been ignored by state authorities for decades and see the police as the enemy, BBC reports. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-998fd79c-8c88-11

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TRIPOLI, LibyaLibya said Sunday it has asked the United States for clarifications regarding the abduction in Tripoli of an al Qaeda leader linked to the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in East Africa, adding that Libyan nationals should be tried in their own country.The government s reaction came a day after U.S special forces captured Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, known by his alias Anas al-Libi, in a raid. Al-Libi is on the FBI s most-wanted list with a $5 million bounty on his head.In a statement, the government said it contacted the American authorities and asked it to present clarifications regarding the al-Libi abduction. It also said it hoped the incident would not impact its strategic relationship with the United States. The statement by the Libyan government calls to mind the aftermath of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden inside Pakistan in 2011. Many inside the Asian nationstill don t believe the al-Qaeda chief was even living there, let alone that American soldiers kille adidas originals d him, reports CBS News correspondent dunks shoes Clarissa Ward.Those who do accept it, meanwhile, seem still to be angrier that the U.S. violated their sovereignty by staging a raid without informing the adidas samba adidas Pakistani military beforehand than they are perturbed that the Pakistani authorities claim to have had no knowledge of his presence in their nation. The raid in Tripoli was one of two counterterrorism operations conducted by the U.S. on Saturday. In Somalia, Navy SEALs stormed what was belie Sado Athens Bombers Warn Westerners
A volcano erupted on a remote New Zealand island Friday, tossing mud, rocks and steam high into the air and prompting the evacuation of conservation workers in the area. Authorities say one person is missing.The volcano on Raou stanley cup l Island, a nature reserve in the remote Kermadecs islands group, erupted for about 30 minutes starting at 8:21 a.m. following strong earthquakes stanley cups that began Sunday night, GNS Science, the nation s main geological science group, said in a statement.The eruption occurred in one of the volcano s three craters, known as Green Lake.One member of the government s Conservation Department is missing. One staff member is missing after going on a routine mission to check the water temperature of the lake, the department s regional manager Rolien Elliot said. The Conservation Department s five other staff on the island were safe and awaiting evacuation, she said. The eruption was accompanied by a moderate earthquake with a magnitude between 3 and 4.She said a helicopter and nearby boats are helping to evacuate staff from the island, which lies in the South Pacific 625 miles northeast of stanley cup the New Zealand s northern city of Auckland.The eruption threw out mud, rocks and a plume of steam. No lava or molten rock was reported flowing from the vent. We are monitoring the situation closely, with the safety of the staff being our top priority. Elliot said. Raoul Island mdash; roughly triangular with an area of 11.6 square miles mdash; was once used as

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WALBRZYCH, Poland -- Imagine it s 1945 ... a train pulls in and soldiers load it up with chests of Nazi gold. It s a myth so powerful here in southwest Poland that history buffs staged a re-enactme adidas originals damen nt recently.In reality, amateur treasure hunters Andrei Richter and Piotr Koper believe they have found a mysterious Nazi train nike dunk .It lies, they say, 25 feet underground by the main railway line on the outskirts of the town of Walbrzych. Journalists visit underground tunnels, which are part of the Nazi Germany Riese construction project, under the Ksiaz castle in an area where a Nazi train is believed to be, in Walbrzych, southwestern Poland September 3, 2015. KACPER PEMPEL, REUTERS Koper and Richter think that the Nazis actually built a spur of railway line into a trench in the bank and once they d driven the train in there, they removed all traces of the track.The Nazis did occupy this part of Poland during World War Two and had to retreat in a hurry -- as th salomon mujer e Soviet Army advanced in 1945. It Is possible the Germans wanted to hide something from the Russians.Richter and Koper s ground-penetrating radar machine produced an image that looks like a train cars with a cargo not of gold, but of tanks. FILE - This file photo from March.2012, shows a part of a subterranean system built by Nazi Germany in what is today Gluszyca-Osowka, Poland. According to Pol Vurd 61 rotting bodies found at funeral home in Mexico
CAIRO Egyptian state TV says six policemen and a border guard kidnapped by suspected militants in the Sinai Peninsula last week have been freed.The report says the men were let go in the middle water bottle stanley of the desert by their captors and the military was transporting them on Wednesday back to the Egyptian capital, Cairo.The military s spokesmen, Col. Ahmed Mohammed Ali, c stanley flask onfirmed the release on the army s official Facebook page, saying the men s freedom came about as the result of the efforts of military intelligence, in cooperation with the honorable tribal leaders and Sinai residents. Eg stanley thermos ypt troops mistakenly fire on funeral during Sinai sweepEgyptian judges back out of reform conference with MorsiEgypt: Militants targeted U.S., French embassies in CairoThe development came just hours after the Egyptian military launched a massive sweep, searching for the seven in the volatile peninsula bordering the Gaza Strip and Israel. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-6802bebc-2018-11e3-9283-005056850598, right-rail-recirc-item--id-6802bebc-2018-11e3-9283-005056850598 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-6802bebc-2018-11e3-9283-005056850598 ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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Islamabadmdash; Gen. Pervez Musharraf, whose role as Pakistan s military ruler at the time of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the U.S. made him a household name, has died at the age of 79.A spokeswoman for the Pakistani Consulate in Dubai confirmed his death to The Associated Press. While his cause of death wasn t immediately clear, he was hospitalized last year in Dubai with an incurable condition related to bone marrow cancer. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the Pakistani militaryalso confirmed his death and offered condolences to his family.Although Musharraf only really became known on the international stage after backing the U.S. in its war on terror following the 9/11 attacks, he first grabbed the limelight with a coup that he launched in mid-air.His military takeover of Pakistan began in 1999, when he was chief of army staff. He launched the takeover against the country s democratically elected prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, while aboard a flight returning from Sri Lanka. Shehbaz Sharif, the current prime minister, is Nawaz Sharif s brother. Relations asics gel between Nawaz Sharif and Mushar adidas samba raf, whom Sharif himself had appointed as head of the military, had been deteriorating for months over how to handle relations with neighboring India. The two countries have long been adversaries, and Musharraf and other Pakistani military commanders viewed Sharif s air max plus overtures to India s Hindu nationalist government with extreme suspicion, even hostility. Oybs Iran-Saudi Arabia tensions complicate road ahead for U.S.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy was discharged Monday from the hospital where he spent the night after collapsing while jogging. Doctors said his illness was due to heat and overwork and ordered the 54-year-old to rest but prescribed no further medical treatment, his office said.Medical tests Monday on Sarkozy s heart showed no signs of irregular heartbeat and no long term consequences for the president s heart. Doctors diagnosed Sarkozy with lipothymic discomfort due to overexertion at high temperatures in a stanley mug context of fatigue linked to a large workload, the statement said.Tests showed no neurological or metabolic consequences, the statement also said, a stanley thermosflasche dding that Sarkozy suffered no loss of consciousness, contradicting earlier reports from senior French officials.Sarkozy left the Val-de-Grace military hospital at midmorning, but it was unclear where he went. All of his official activities Monday were canceled, and a visit to Normandy on Tuesday was postponed. Sarkozy was still expected to chair the regular Council of Ministers meeting on Wednesday, the last event before the government takes a three-week break.Sarkozy collapsed Sunday while jogging on the grounds of the stanley fr Chateau of Versailles, halfway into his five-year term. Military doctors quickly performed a battery of tests on Sarkozy, who is known for his sportiness and hectic schedule. The presidential Elysee Palace said Sarkozy s test results were normal but doctors decided to keep him overnight under ca

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A candidate for mayor of a violence-wracked city in Mexico has been killed just as she began campaigning, marking yet another politician to be shot dead in the country in recent weeks.Authorities in the north-central state of Guanajuato said candidate Bertha Gisela Gaytaacute;n Gutieacute;rrez was shot to death on a street in a town just outside nike dunk the city of Celaya. Mayorships in Mexico often included smaller surrounding communities. Mayoral candidate Gisela Gaytaacute;n adidas originals hamburg Facebook Video of the scene posted on social media showed a small procession of people shouting Morena! - the name of Gaytaacute;n s party. At that moment, several shots can be heard and people are seen running and falling down.President Andreacute Manuel Loacute;pez Obrador said the killing of his own party s candidates hurts a lot, but he did not announce any increase in security for politicians. They have just murdered our candidate from Celaya... This is something that has us angry, shocked, in mourning. We are going to suspend campaign activities, said Alma Alcaraz, another candidate with the ruling Morena party. Gaytan, 38, was killed while preparing for an electoral rally, and had said earlier on Monday at a press conference that she had asked for protection for her campaign.The gover yeezy nor of the state of Guanajuato, where the killing took place, Diego Sinhue, wrote on X that the Htqf Poison Candy Ignored By Calif.
Iranian state television said Tuesday that issue of the Americans who strayed into Iran is being used as propaganda against the Islamic republic.The Arabic language Al-Alam television quoted the deputy governor of Iranian Kurdistan province as saying the three American hikers were being held on the outskirts of Marivan district and an investigation is underway.Reuters news agency reported that, according to Iran s state media, authorities were interrogating the three travelers.A breaking news announcement on the English l stanley deutschland anguage Iranian Press TV also said Tuesday that the Americans had been arrested for illegal entry at the Malakh-Khor on the border.The three Americans were believed to have been hiking along the m stanley website ountainous border area between Iraqi and Iranian Kurdish areas when they inadvertently crossed the frontier and were detained. Little has been learned about the fate of the three, despite efforts by Swiss diplomats to obtain details from the Iranian Foreign Minister.U.S. Secretary of State H stanley termohrnek illary Rodham Clinton also has appealed to Iran for information about freelance journalist Shane Bauer, who had planned to cover the elections in northern Iraq s self-ruled Kurdish region, and two others.Friends and family say Bauer, his girlfriend, Sarah Shourd, and a third companion, Joshua Fattal, were adventuresome travelers who accidentally stumbled into the wrong place at the wrong time.Pacific News Service Executive Director Sandy Close, who hired Bauer to cover t

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ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi met with President Obama Tuesday to discuss Iraq s needs as it fights off the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria ISIS . President Obama gave al-Abadi $200 million in humanitarian aid and credited him with maki air max 1 ng progress in pushing back ISIS.Nearly 2,000 U.S.-led airstrikes have weakened ISIS in Iraq, leaving a trail of shattered buildings and incinerated vehicles. New ISIS video purports to show destruction of ancient city in Iraq 01:45 According to the Pentagon, the strikes have help chanclas yeezy ed win back more than a quarter of the territory that ISIS captured last year, including the city of Tikrit. But those victories are only half the story. Iraq s army is so weak, corrupt, and disorganized, that the battle for Tikrit was led by Shiite Muslim militias -- armed volunteers with a history of torturing and killing Sunni Muslims. Some of the adidas originals forum Shiite militias looted and burned houses in Tikrit. Others are accused of summary executions of Sunni Muslims, fueling Iraq s deadly religious tensions. WASHINGTON - APRIL 14: U.S. President Barack Obama R listens as Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi speaks after a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office of the White House April 14, 2015 in Washington, DC. The two reportedly talked about supporting Cumq New hearing to be held Monday for parents of Charlie Gard, terminally ill British baby
A powerful typhoon cut across the northern Philippines, hitting the capital with gale-force winds and pounding rain and leaving at least 28 people dead amid widespread floods and damage, officials said.The Manila airport, which cancelled domestic and international stanley cup flights due to the high winds and power outages, resumed operations by early Thursday evening.Typhoon Xangsane toppled more than a dozen high voltage power lines, causing a total cups stanley system blackout on the main Philippine island of Luzon, said Arvee Villafuerte, spokesman of the state-run National Transmission Corp.He said the power restoration was slow because of the extent of the damage. The blackout and debris left Manila without traffic and street lights, causing gridlocks in some areas. Hotels and shops used their own generators.The Office of Civil Defense and local officials reported at least 17 people were killed, including a drunken man who fell into a river in central Antique province, a driver pinned under the steel frames of a giant billboard that fell on his van in Manila s financial district of Makati, and a man hit by a falling tree in Albay province southeast of Manila. The typhoon packed maximum winds of 81 mph and gusts of up to 100 mph when i stanley cup t made landfall overnight in the central Bicol region, where it knocked down electricity in five provinces.It weakened into a storm with 69 mph winds as it passed over Manila, and moved to the South China Sea Thursday evening, heading west toward Vietnam a