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Russian American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva says she was fantasizing about the moment she would once again step foot on American soil and hug her family from the moment she was arrested in October 2023.Earlier this month, after a historically complex and monthslong negotiation that involved six countries, Kurmasheva was among the three American citiz yeezy ens released from Russian prison. Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and Marine veteran Paul Whelan were the other two adidas campus Americans released i salomon gtx n a prisoner swap. It was a Saturday morning. I was told to pack my belongings in 15 minutes and be out, she told CBS Mornings on Friday, recalling the days leading up to her return to the U.S. And they took me to a high-security prison in Moscow and I didn t even know how long I would stay there. I was scared. I felt happy. I knew it was coming but still, I didn t believe it was real until I hugged my children, she added. Alsu Kurmasheva is welcomed by her relative as she has returned to the U.S. after Turkiye s National Intelligence Organization MIT led a successful prisoner exchange involving seven countries. Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images Kurmasheva, an editor for Radio Free Europe ndash; Radio Liberty, was detained in Russia and charged with failing to register as a foreign agent. The Committee to Protect Journalists said that Russia accused Kurmasheva of co Cfto Iran recalls ambassador from Bahrain in protest
Israeli security forces clashed with hundreds of opponents of Israel s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, arresting dozens of people in the roughest confrontation between troops and settlers since the start of the operation.The confrontation came hours ahead of a midnight deadline for all Jewish settlers to leave the Gaza Strip voluntarily or face forcible removal. Officials said they were hopeful many settlers would leave the area before the deadline, but also issued a stern warning of tou stanley thermoskannen gh action against anyone who resists. We will make every effort, the army and the police, to have law and order in this process and anyone who acts illegally will be treated according to the law, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told a news conference. The number expected to still be in the settlements at midnight is estimated at about 10,000 people, reports CBS News Correspondent Robert Berger: 4,000 Gaza residents and the rest supporters who came from outside. They ll face off against 55,000 soldiers and police. The army is keeping everyone guessing, says Berger: No one knows which settlement will be targeted first. The army did say security forces detained 50 Israelis for clashing with police and soldiers attempting to help Gaza settlers leave, mostly in Neve Dekalim stanley cup .The three-week operation to evacuate Gaza began Monday with the distribution of eviction notices. Israel plans to remove all 21 settlements from Gaza and four stanley cup from the West Bank. It is the first time Israel has r

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SEOUL, South Korea - A former North Korean military chief who Seoul had said was executed is actually alive and in possession of several new senior-level posts, the North s state media said Tuesday.The news on Ri Yong Gil marks yet another blunder for South Korean intelligence officials, who have often gotten information wrong in tracking developments with their rival. It also points to the difficulties that even professional spies have in figuring out what s going on in one of the world s mo airmax plus st closed governments.Ri, who was considered one of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un s most trusted aides, missed two key national meetings in February. Seoul intelligence officials later adidas originals samba said that Kim had him executed for corruption and other charges.Kim has reportedly overseen a series of killings, purges and air force one dismissals since he took power in late 2011, part of what foreign experts call an attempt to tighten his grip on power.The South s report on Ri s execution seemed to be bolstered later in February when Pyongyang s official Korean Central News Agency confirmed Ri had lost his job by describing someone else as chief of the North Korean military s general staff. He hadn t appeared anywhere in KCNA, the North s main media outlet for foreign audiences, until the report Tuesday that a person with the same name as Ri was among those awarded important positions during the just concluded Workers Party congress in Pyongyang. The congress, the first in 36 years, ended Monday with annou Wayy Hamas To Collaborators: Repent
A generous world has flooded Haiti with donations, but anger and desperation are mounting as the aid stacks up inside this broken country.Bottlenecks at key transportation points and scattered violence, including an armed group s attack on a food convoy, have slowed the distribution of food and medicine from the port, airport and a warehouse in the Cite-Soleil slum. U.S. air traffic controllers have lined up 2,550 incoming flights through March 1, but some 25 flights a day aren t taking their slots. Communication breakdowns between Haitians and their foreign counterparts are also endemic.Complete Coverage: Devastation in HaitiHaiti Quake: How You Can Help Aid is bottlenecking at the Port-au-Prince airpo stanley canada rt. It s not getting into stanley mug the field, said Mike O Keefe, who runs Banyan Air Service in Fort Lauderdale.Foreign aid workers and Haitians are fed up - one Haitian father paid a group of men more than $200 on Tuesday to retrieve his daughter s body from his collapsed house, rather than wait for demolition crews. No one is in charge, said Dr. Rob Maddox of Start, stanley water bottle Louisiana, tending to dozens of patients in the capital s sprawling general hospital. There s no topdown leadership. ... And since the Haitian government took control of our supplies, we have to wait for things even though they re stacked up in the warehouse. The situation is just madness. Boxes of supplies are stacked to the ceiling in the hospital s dimly lit warehouse. In another storage area, medicine, banda

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President Trump focused on unifying Muslim nations in the fight against terrorism in a Sunday speech on Islam in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, shying away from his harsher comments against the religion on the campaign trail. Mr. Trump said the U.S. will not impose an American way of life on the Muslim-majority nations represented in the room where he gave his speech, while calling on them to unite in the global fight against terrorism.Notably, the president did not utter the phrase radical Islamic terrorism, words former President Obama declined to use during his time in office but that Mr. Trump used frequent air force 1 ly on the campaign trail. Mr. Trump emphasized the fight against terrorism isn t a battle between different faiths, but battle between good and evil -- and a battle that other Muslim nations must lead. The president called on Muslim nations to drive them terrorists out of your Holy Land, and drive the out of this earth. Muslim nations must be willing airforce to take on terrorism and send its wicked ideology into oblivion, Mr. Trump said. Barbarism will bring you no glory, Mr. Trump continued. Piety to evil will bring you no dignity. If you choose the path of terror, your life will be empty. Your air max 1 life will be brief. And your soul will be fully condemned, the president said, in one of his strongest statements in the speech.The president drew clear lines between the religion of Islam, and those who use Islam for extremist purposes. Terrorists do not worship God, they Qylu Papal security: How Catholic leader is kept safe
AP HAVANA - Many people would be leery of cyc stanley thermoskannen ling through chaotic downtown Havana, sharing its narrow, potholed streets with the dartin stanley cup g scooters, incorrigible jaywalkers an stanley cup d hulking 1950s Detroit classics that clog every byway.Felix Guirola does it every day, and not on just any bicycle.Guirola rides 13 feet above the ground atop his homemade super-tall bike, peering over pickup trucks and even buses and without a helmet or other protective gear to break a fall. I feel good up high. I don t get nauseated or dizzy, nothing like that, the 48-year-old Guirola said. Up there I see the scenery better. I feel relaxed. There s more of a breeze, I breathe it and I feel freer. Since Guirola sold his home in the central province of Ciego de Avila and moved to Havana in November, the odd spectacle of him pedaling around town at eye-level with second-story apartments has become a daily occurrence. But neighbors still turn their heads and gawk, and smiling tourists whip out digital cameras. It s crazy. It must be difficult to keep his balance up there, said Rafael Trejo, a 55-year-old motorist. And when he comes to a stoplight, he must be a ninja to be able to climb down from there. In fact, Guirola more resembles a daring child on a jungle gym than a deadly assassin. To mount, he has other people stabilize the bike while he scrambles up the metal frame. When a red light looms, he starts lowering himself while the bike s still in motion, leaps to the ground and grabs the fr

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CANBERRA, Australia -- A leading Australian theater company said Friday it had received a complaint of inappropriate behavior against Geoffrey Rush, an allegation lawyers for the Oscar winner denied.The Sydney Theatre Company was not disclosing details of the allegations, which reports said dated from Rush s starring role in the theater s staging of King Lear two years ago. At the time the complaint was made, the complainant requested that the matter be dealt with confidentially, and did not want Mr. Rush notified or involved in any investigation, a statement said. The theater company said it complied in the interest of the complainant s health and welfare. Bette Midler asks Geraldo to apologize for alleged gropingHWL Ebsworth Lawyers did not respond to a request for comment Friday, but had issued an earlier statement denying Rush nike air force was involved in any inappropriate behavior. It is with great disappointment to Mr. Rush the STC has chosen to smear his name and unjustifiably damage his reputation in this way, Thursday s statement said.Rush has performed at the Sydney theater for 35 years. The 66-year-old Australian actor won the 1997 best actor Academy A adidas originals uomo ward for Shine and has three other Oscar nominations. He is perhaps best known as Captain Barbossa in the Pirates of the Caribbean films. salomon Australian media reports say the allegation dated from the theater s production of William Shakespeare s King Lear from November 2015 to January 2016. Acon Neckties, long shunned in Iran as a sign of Westernization, are making a timid comeback
HELSINKI - Finnish scientists said they hope to re-brew an old ale after studying ancient beer found in a 19th century shipwreck at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.The VTT Technical Research Center of Finland said it aims to determine the recipe used in the brewing of what is one of the world s oldest preserved beers. Divers in July found five bottles of dark, foamy beer while salvaging champagne from the wreck near Finland s Aland Islands. The shipwreck is believed to be from the early 19th century.VTT spoke stanley cups uk swoman Annika Wilhelmson said Tuesday that researchers want to find out what kind of yeast was used because the role of yeast in beer brewing was not yet fully understood in the early 1800s. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-9969fdd8-8c88-11 stanley website e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-9969fdd8-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display stanley flask : none; inline-recirc-item--id-9969fdd8-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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MEXICO CITY --The death toll continues to rise in central Mexi yeezy co after it was hit Tuesday by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake.At least 230 people were killed. But there are also incredible stories of survival.After the anguish of waiting and uncertainty, a boy and girl were pulled alive from a crack in the wall of a collapsed school. But rescuers fear more may nike dunk still be trapped more than 24 hours after the earthquake struck, killing 25 at the school -- the majority children. Rescuers search for survivors after the deadly earthquake. CBS News The area surrounding the school has become a hub of activity, where people are donating food and water donated for rescuers and anxious parents. But every now and then, people raise their fists. This means silence because rescuers are listening for any sounds coming from the rubble.Volunteer Alex Osorio, a banker, helped free four people from this demolished office building. They were making noise with metal -- with coins -- so that the volunteers rescue could hear that noise, Osorio said. yeezy foam Major earthquake hits Mexico 80 photos They used coins to hit metal, hoping the rescuers could hear it on the other side of Jtpd Tanzania, Zambia Bid for Ivory Sales Nixed
The music was loud and the tattooed fans were wild, dancing and swaying in flashing strobe lights to the crashing sounds of heavy metal songs. Suddenly, the music stopped. The band leader grasped the mike and announced: It s prayer time. No one left to pray. Everyone stood by the stage and waited, as the band paused its music while a nearby mosque began the call to prayer from a loudspeaker. Then the music resumed stanley website .Welcome to Egypt s heavy metal scene, making a tentative comeback in a conservative Muslim society nine years after a government crackdown amid allegations of satanic worship, drug use and group sex among the upper-crust youthful fans. We are Arab Muslims. We respect our religion. But we only love this music, said Noor, a 23-year-old part-time German language teacher and guitarist for Dark Philosophy, a pioneering Egyptian heavy metal band.Noor has no illusions that the raucous music is likely to catch on big-time in a society where many young adults still date with a chaperon stanley cups e. The first step is always the hard one, he said. People are not used to our music and songs yet. People cannot get over all the ne stanley cup gativities that happened in the past. In January 1997, about 100 heavy metal and rock music fans were arrested in Cairo by state security officers on suspicious of satanic worshipmdash;a serious allegation in a country where respect for organized religion runs deep.Egypt s state-controlled media carried stories of clandestine parties with drugs, group

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An energy executive and safari hunter said he s received deat crocs winterstiefel h threats after photos of him with a dead elephant sparked backlash on social media. Mike Jines, a partner with TopGen Energy in Georgia, said his critics are misinterpreting what really happened during a hunt in Zimbabwe, CBS affiliate WGCL-TV reports.Jines said he and another hunter named Buzz shot two adult elephants in self-defense when they charged them during a hunt in October 2018. The two elephant that are shown in the photos were shot in self-defense, in an unprovoked charge and both elephants were fully mature cows, not juveniles, he told WGCL in an email. Jines said he and his company are now dealing with the fallout and making sure people understand the actual facts as opposed to the mischaracterization of the information on social media. Jines said the elephants were killed in a designated safari area and was conducted in compliance with laws and regulations in both Zimbabwe and the U.S. He called the majority of the responses to the images profane and threatening. While I can appreciate that hunting can be polarizing and that views on hunting can vary materially, I am sure that you can appreciate wha adidas og t it is like to deal with the vitriol particularly when the underlying information in this case is inaccurate, he said. More from CBS News dunks Szlr World s longest nonstop flight touches down in Sydney 19 hours after departing from New York
CBS/AP ATLANTA - The FBI is investigating the discovery of what appeared to be sewing needles in turkey sandwiches on Delta Air Lines flights from Amsterdam to the United States.CBS News senior co stanley termosy rrespondent John Miller, a former assistant director of the FBI, reported on CBS This Morning Tuesday that the case has been assigned to the FBI office in Atlanta. Agents there are working with the FBI s legal attache in Amsterdam to coordinate with Dutch authorities.The FBI can analyze the needles recovered from the sandwiches to try to find out their manufacturer, Miller reports.Needles found in sandwiches on 4 Delta flightsThe airline sa water bottle stanley id the needles were found in five sandwiches on Sunday. One passenger on a flight to Minneapolis was injured, according to Delta spokeswoman Kristin Baur. The other needles were on two flights to Atlanta and one to Seattle. Jim Tonjes of Plymouth, Minn., told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that he felt a sharp poke in his mouth when he bit into his sandwich. He figured it was a toothpick, but instead pulled out a 1-inch needle that punctured the roof of stanley thermoskannen his mouth. Tonjes was interviewed by the FBI and spent several hours in a hospital emergency room.Jack Drogt of St. Paul told the newspaper he and his 16-year-old son, William, also found sewing needles in their sandwiches on the flight to Minneapolis.The sandwiches were made in the Amsterdam kitchen of catering company Gate Gourmet, and were to be served to business class passengers on Del

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VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis issued a Christmas Day prayer that recent U.N.-backed peace agreements for Syria and Libya will quickly end the suffering of their people, denouncing the monstrous evil and atrocities they have endured and praising the countries that have taken in their refugees.Speaking from the central balcony of St. Peter s Basilica, Francis issued a plenary indulgence for Catholics in hopes of spreading the church s message of mercy in a world torn by war, poverty and extremist attacks. The sun-so adidas samba aked St. Peter s Square was under heavy security, as it has been since the Nov. 13 Paris attacks by Islamic extremists that left 130 dead. Looking back at Pope Francis year aroun adidas campus 80s d the globe 04:36 An indulgence is an ancient church tradition related to the forgiveness of sins. Francis announced it after delivering his annual Urbi et Orbi To the city and the wor salomon speedcross ld speech listing global hotspots and his prayers for an end to human suffering.Francis referred to the brutal acts of terrorism that struck the French capital this year as well as attacks in Egypt s airspace, in Beirut, Mali and Tunisia. He denounced the ongoing conflicts in Africa, the Middle East and Ukraine and issued consolation to Christians being persecuted for their faith in many parts of the planet. They are our marty Zvbg 8 killed, 15 injured in factory fire in India
KABUL, Afghanistan - Support for the Taliban among Afghans has steadily declined in recent years and people strongly back a government peace initiative, according to a survey funded in part by the U.S. government.But the survey released Tuesday by the nonprofit San F stanley cup rancisco-based Asia Foundation also showed a population weary of insecurity and corruption, and distressed by poverty and corruption.The survey found that an overwhelming majority of Afghan adults, 82 percent, back reconciliation and reintegration efforts with insurgent groups. It said that the number stanley cup of people who said they sympathized with the aims stanley trinkflaschen of Taliban had dropped to 29 percent compared to 40 percent last year and 56 percent in 2009.Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been making peace overtures to the Taliban for years with the backing of the international community. These efforts however were dealt a major blow by the Sept. 20 assassination of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was leading the government s U.S.-backed initiative.The survey was conducted prior to Rabbani s death. Beyond that, while the survey showed some confidence in Afghanistan s economic development, it also showed dissatisfaction with the state s ability to deliver both security and clean government. The biggest problem at the national level is insecurity, followed by unemployment and corruption said Bruce Tolentino, the foundation s country representative.A lack of security was identified as the biggest problem i

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In the series Separated and Counting, CBS News looks at the real-life impact of immigration policies that have led to families being split apart.Houston mdash; It s been one year since former Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Trump administration s zero tolerance immigration policy, in which migrant families were separated at the border. The policy was struck down and a federal judge ordered families reunited by October.Seven-year-old Angie air max plus and her father, Ad adidas originals elino, arrived at a border crossing in McAllen, Texas, last year, seeking asylum from threats of violence in Honduras. It was a journey Adelino said they had to take because their country is unsafe.Angie was taken from her father on June 1, during the Trump administration s now-discontinued zero tolerance policy. She was released to her mother in Houston, but she hadn t known her since she was a baby. Adelino was the only parent she knew and he had been raising her as a single parent. He could request to be reunited, but only at the risk of putting her back in detention. The organization Immigrant Families Toget adidas samba og herstepped in, paying Adelino s $8,000 bond so he could be released from the Adelanto detention center in California. The next day, he flew to Texas to see her again. Angie, 7, was separated from her father for 326 days. CBS News Lindsay Toczylowski, executive director at Immigrant Defenders Ejpq This car stole the show at the royal wedding
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that Pakistan should do more to stop the rise in terrorist violence in neighboring Afghanistan.Rice said there has been an uptick in terrorism recently in Afghanistan, and that Islamabad must help in preventing militants from organizing attacks into Afghanistan from Pakist stanley cups an s Northwest Frontier Province.Rice was speaking to reporters during a trip to Australia, whose foreign minister agreed Pakistan should help end militant activity in the restive border region between the two countries.Meanwhile, NATO s secretary general more gently urged Pakistan to be involved in international attempts to end cross-border attacks into Afghanistan, a stanley cup s dozens of insurgents were reported killed in fresh violence.Afghanistan faces intensifying militancy nearly seven years after the U.S.-led invasion ousted the hard-line Islamic Taliban movement from power. More than 2,700 people stanley thermosflasche - most of them militants - have died in insurgency-related violence this year, according to an Associated Press tally of official figures. President Hamid Karzai and other Afghan officials have blamed the growing insurgency in part on Pakistan, saying the government there does not do enough to root out militants using its largely lawless tribal regions as sanctuaries and bases from which to launch attacks.But during a joint press conference with Karzai on Thursday, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said that simply blaming Pakistan for increased cross-b

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Ruling out a strike by space debris or a micrometeoroid, Russian engineers say a small leak in a Soyuz crew ferry ship docked to the International Space Station was the result of a hole drilled into the wall of the spacecraft s upper compartment, an apparent case of human error. The hole was discovered and patched last week.According to Russian media accounts, Dmitry Rogozin, director general of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, told reporters Monday the hole was drilled by a human hand a mizuno laufschuhe nd that he was not ruling out any theories, saying it could have happened on the ground before launch or after the spacecraft reached orbit June 6.Known for controversial comments and tweets, Rogozin mdash; a former deputy prime minister who was sanctioned by the Ob adidas campus ama administration in the wake of Russia s 2014 annexation of Crimea mdash; did not address why an astronaut or cosmonaut might do such a thing given the obvious danger to the space station and its six-member crew. We are considering all the theories, Rogozin said Monday in a report posted in English by the TASS news agency. The one about a meteorite impact has been rejected because the spaceship s hull was evidently impacted from inside. While he said it was too early to come to a conclusion, it seems to be done by a faltering hand. It was done by a human hand, there are traces of a drill sliding along the surface, he said. We don t reject any theories. crocs absatz The RT network in Russia posted this pictu Vids Rogue Nations May Have Nuclear Blueprints
Updated 5:31 p.m. ESTHaiti issued wildly conflicting death tolls for the Jan. 12 earthquake on Wednesday, adding to confusio stanley cup n about how many people actually died 151; an stanley quencher d to suspicion that nobody really knows.A day after Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue raised the official death toll to 230,000, her office put out a statement quoting President Rene Preval as saying 270,000 bodies had been hastily buried by the government following the earthquake.Complete Coverage: Devastation in Haiti Haiti Quake: How You can HelpA press officer withdrew the statement, saying there was an error, but re-issued it within minutes. Later Wednesday, the ministry said that due to a typo, the number should have read 170,000. The number buried in mass graves is not necessarily the same as the government s official estimate for the overall death toll and it remains unclear who s doing the counting.Government officials were not available to com stanley cup ment on the confusion.The 270,000 figure, which Preval s office said he announced at a meeting with South American presidents in Ecuador, was 40,000 higher than one released by Preval s communications minister the previous day, even though a gravedigger at the mass graves just north of Port-au-Prince said only two bodies have been buried there this week.Haitian officials offer no convincing explanation for how they are compiling the death toll - which has climbed from a precise 111,481 on Jan. 23 to 150,000 on Jan. 24, to 212,000 o

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KATOWICE, Poland mdash; Hundreds of U.S. cities, states, adidas samba adidas businesses and churches planted the American flag at the U.N. climate talks Friday in an effort to show that many people in the United States remain committed to curbing global warming despite the stance of their president.The opening of the U.S. Climate Action Center alongside pavilions from Britain, Poland and New Zealand contrasts with the low-key presence of the official U.S. government delegation at the two weeks of talks in Poland.Envoys from the administration of U.S. President Trump, who has announced a U.S. withdrawal from the landmark 2015 Paris climate change accord, are holed up in a cubicle away from the main concourse. They currently have one public event planned Monday promoting U.S. technological innovations.The Climate Action Center is backed by a group called We Are Still In that wants to maintain the Paris climate deal s aim of keeping global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius 3.6 degre salomon hombre es Fahrenheit .California billionaire Tom Steyer, who is considered a possible 2020 Democratic presidential candidate , said the United States has to return to leading the world in tackling climate chan nike dunk ge. He urged environmental activists not to lose sight of the wider concerns of American voters in the coming years if they want political change. Tom Steyer speaks at the U.S. Climate Action Center in Katowice, Poland, on Friday, Dec. 7, 2018. Frank Yxya Julian Assange praises Bradley Manning in rare speech
China finished building an enormous dam across the Yangtze River on Saturday, an important milestone for the world s largest hydroelectric project.The staccato of simple paper firecrackers marked the completion of the 607-foot-high, 1.4-mile-long Three Gorges dam.Formidable tasks remain before the hugely controversial project is completed, including the construction of power-generating facilities and a ship lift, said Pu Haqing, deputy director of the State Council Three Gorges Project Construction Commit stanley cup tee, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.The final 12 of the dam s 26 generators are to be installed over the next two years, finishing the project in 2008, a year ahead of schedule, according to Xinhua.Begun in 1993, the project has steamed ahead with the backing of the Communist leadership despite objections to its $22 billion cost and environmental and social impact. More than 1.3 million people have been relocated to make way for the dam and its reservoir.Environmentalists and engineers have warned that the reservoir risks becoming polluted with waste from cities and towns upriver, many of which lack adequate sewage treatment plants.The China Yangtze River Three Gorges Project Development Corp. has spent $2.5 million o stanley romania n a vessel to collect as much as 7 million stanley flask cubic feet of garbage that accumulates at the dam each year, according to Xinhua.The government maintains that when it is fully operational, the dam will alleviate flooding on the Yangtze and produce ele