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Russian teen figure skater Kamila Valieva finished fourth in the women s individual figure skating competition at the Beijing Olympics, days after she was cleared to participate in the Games despite testing positive for a banned drug.She finished at the top of the leaderboard on Tuesday after the women s short program, but fell multiple times during her routine on Thursday. Russia s Kamila Valieva competes in the women s single skating free skating event during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games on February 17, 2022. ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP via Getty Images Her Russian Olympic Committee teammates Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova took gold and s adidas samba og ilver. Japan s Kaori Sakamoto finished in third place. Team USA s Alysa Liu finished seventh, Mariah Bell took 10th and Karen Chen had 16th.Following the event, many of the skaters appeared to be in disbelief as Valieva broke out in tears. Her fourth place finish allowed for a podium celebration to ta nike air force ke place after the International Olympic Committee said there would be no medal ceremony if she placed in the top three. Silver medalist Alexandra Trusova of Team ROC, gold medal winner Anna Shcherbakova of Team ROC and bronze medalist Kaor hoka trekkingschuhe i Sakamoto of Japan are seen during the flower ceremony for the women s figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Nozk Philippines typhoon recovery: line after line in hard-hit Tacloban
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WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon on Friday confirmed the death of the leader of the al-Shabaab terror group, Ahmed Abdi Godane, who was the target of a U.S. airstrike Monday in Somalia.The Pentagon s press secretary, Rear Adm. John Kirby, confirmed the death in a brief written statement. President Barack Obama, speaking nike dunk at the conclusion of a NATO summit in Newport, Wales, said the successful U.S. strike was an example of his administration s determination to hit back at terrorists. Strike against al-Shabab may not have hit target 01:36 af1 yeezy Obama said the U.S. would use the same approach in degrading the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. We have been very systematic and methodical in going after these kind of organizations that threaten U.S. personnel and the homeland, Obama said. That deliberation allows us to do it right, but have no doubt: We will continue to do what is necessary to protect the American people. Godane, also known as Mukhtar Abu Zubeyr, is the group s spiritual leader under whose direction the Somali militants forged an alliance with al Qaeda. The White House declared a counterterrorism success. Godane s removal is a major symbolic and operational loss to the largest al-Qaida affiliate in Africa and reflects years of painstaking work by our intelligence, military and law enf Yadq Haiti: U.S. Baptists Knew They Were Wrong
CAIRO - Egyptians prepared to vote Monday in the first elections since Hosni Mubarak s ouster, a milestone many hoped would usher in a democratic age after decades of dictatorship. Instead, the polling is already marred by turmoil in the streets and the population is sharply polarized and confused over the nation s direction.Nine months after the popular uprising that pushed stanley flasche Mubarak out, protesters are back in the streets. This time, they are demanding that military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi and his council of generals step down immediately, accus stanley quencher ed of bungling the transition. Nine days of clashes that have left more than 40 dead have heightened fears of violence at polling stations.More critically, the political crisis has cast doubt on the legitimacy of the vote, which is expected to be dominated by Islamic parties. That could render the parliament that emerges irrelevant. We have no idea who we are going to vote for, said Mustafa Attiya Ali, a 50-year-old barber in Cairo. We don t know any of the candidates, but I and my friends will get together tonight and decide who to vote for. Egypt s military rulers decided to forge ahead with the elections despite the new wave of unrest, scenes starkly reminiscent of the first uprising. On Sunday night in Cairo s Tahrir Square, the center of th stanley cup e original uprising, a relatively small crowd of a few thousand braved a rare rainstorm to keep the round-the-clock protests going.Protests, violence overshadow coming Egypt electi

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HELSINKI -- Nearly 10 years after a doomsday seed vault opened on an Arctic island, some 50,000 new samples from seed collections around the world have been deposited in the worldrsquo largest repository built to safeguard against wars or natural disasters wiping out global food crops.The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a gene bank built underground on the isolated island in a permafrost zone some 620 miles from the North Pole, was opened in 2008 as a master backup to the worldrsquo other seed banks, in case their deposits are lost. Syria war prompts doomsday seed vault withdrawal 02:21 adidas campus The latest specimens sent to the bank, located on the Svalbard arch air force one ipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole, included more than 15,000 reconstituted samples from an international research center that focuses on improving agriculture in dry zones. They were the first to retrieve seeds from the vault in 2015 before returning new ones after multiplying and reconstituting them.The specimens consisted of seed samples for some of the worldrsquo most vital food sources like potato, sorghum, rice, barley, chickpea, lentil and wheat. A general view of the entrance of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault outside Longyearbyen on Spit samba og sbergen, Norway, on Feb. 29, 2016. Swgf From Francis to Fauci, Vatican health conference focuses an eclectic mix of voices on COVID
ISTANBULTurkish police have released security camera footage of a New York City woman who has gone missing while vacationing alone in Istanbul.Sarai Sierra, 33, has been missing stanley cup since Jan. 21, when she was supposed to return to New York but did not show up for her flight home. She arrived in I stanley trinkflaschen stanbul on Jan 7 alone after her a friend could no longer join her.CCTV camera footage released Tuesday shows Sierra eating alone at a shopping mall cafeteria near her hostel and walking around the mall. It was not immediately clear when the images were recorded.The husband and brother of Sierra, a mother of two, were speaking Tuesday with Istanbul police who specialize in missing persons. I don t want to come home without my sister, her brother, David Jimenez, said before leaving for Turkey. Before she went missing, Sierra told relatives she planned to take photographs at a tourist destination. Istanbul police start search for missing NYC momMissing N.Y. mother of two disappears while on vacation in TurkeyFamily heads to Turkey to seek missing NYC mom ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-9a4067a6-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail stanley mugs -recirc-item--id-9a4067a6-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-9a4067a6-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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WARRI, Nigeria -- Mortuaries overflowed with bodies Sunday from a church collapse in southern Nigeria that killed at least 160 people, and worshippers said construction of the building had been rushed.Hundreds had been inside the Reigners Bible Church International in the city of Uyo on Sat yeezy slide urday for the consecration of founder Akan Weeks as its bishop when the metal girders fell and the corrugated iron roof caved in. Screaming survivors streamed out amid cries from the injured inside. There were trapped bodi adidas sambarose es, parts of bodies, blood all over the place and peoplersquo handbags and shoes scattered, said computer analyst Ukeme Eyibio. Officials feared the death toll could rise. adidas samba Weeks and Akwa Ibom state Gov. Udom Emmanuel were among the survivors. Heavy duty equipment and machinery are seen at the premises of the collapsed church in Uyo, Nigeria Dec.11, 2016. REUTERS Eyibio had parked his car outside the complex to make a phone call when he heard a deafening crash and saw that the church had disappeared. He and three others dragged 10 injured people from an overflow area for worshippers just outside the collapsed church. They did not enter the main structure because a construction worker warned it was not safe. The worker called his boss at Julius Berger construction company, which sent a crane to help lift debris off bodies. While they Jdeu Last-minute deal reached at U.N. climate talks
A man who claimed he saw a suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway driving with two friends the night she vanished failed to appear in court Thursday and has possibly fled the country, officials said.The witness had been summoned to give sworn testimony in court Thursday, but authorities were unable to locate him, Chief Prosecutor Karin Janssen told The Associated Press.The man told police last month that he saw Joran van der Sloot, an 18-year-old Dutch high school student who had been detained in the case, and two Surinamese brothers dri stanley water jug ving near the Marr stanley water bottle iott Hotel around 2:30 a.m. on May 30.The man s account is significant because van der Sloot told authorities that he was already at home at 2:30 a.m. that night. Van der Sloot has admitted he was alone with Holloway that night, but said he left her unharmed at a beach near the Marriott Hotel.Defense lawyers on stanley cup Wednesday appealed a judge s ruling that Aruban authorities could share information with the FBI about missing teen Natalee Holloway. Last week, a judge struck down a motion by the defense to prohibit file sharing with the American law enforcement agency, which is acting in an advisory role in the high-profile case. It s not a question of having something to hide but about the legality of their FBI involvement, said defense lawyer David Kock.Kock, one of three lawyers who argued the appeal Wednesday in a closed court session, said a decision was expected Monday.FBI agents have been on the Dutch Cari

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HAVANA -- Still at odds over human rights, the United States and Cuba closed two days of historic talks in Havana with some adidas campus 80s progress toward restoring diplomatic ties after a half-century of estrangement.It wasn t immediately clear whether the human rights issue, which has previously blocked closer U.S.-Cuban relations, would pose a threat to the new diplomatic process. As a central element of our policy, we pressed the Cuban government for improved human rights conditions, including freedom of expression, said Roberta Jacobson, the top U.S. diplomat for Latin America and most senior American official to visit the island country in more than three decades. In Spanish, however, her statement said the U.S. pressured Cuba on the issue. Cuba has never responded to pres adidas campus herren sure, Josefina Vidal, Cuba s top diplomat for U.S. affairs, responded. U.S., Cuba spar over immigration in landmark talks 02:30 The comments by Jacobson and Vidal reflected longstanding po air max plus sitions of their governments. And they laid bare the pressures each side faces at home - the U.S., from Republican leaders in Congress and powerful Cuban-American groups and Cuba, from hardliners deeply concerned that rapprochement could undermine the communist system founded by Fidel Castro. In the first face-to-face talks since last month s d Kfqr Anti-U.S. Cleric Returns to Iraq from Exile
Shiite fighters in tracksuits and sneakers unloaded cars full of machine guns, mortars and land mines Monday as a five-day disarmament program kicked off in Baghdad s Sadr City district mdash; a sign of progress in the center of Shiite resistance in Iraq.A lasting peace in the sprawling slum would allow U.S. and Iraqi forces to focus resources on the mounting Sunni insurgency. Underscoring the threat, two American soldiers were killed in a rocket attack in southern Bagdad, and a third U.S. soldier died when a suicide driver exploded a car bomb in front of a U.S. convoy in Mosul.Followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr promised the government last weekend they would hand over medium and heavy weapons for cash in a deal considered an important step toward ending weeks of fighting with U.S. and Iraqi forces in Sadr City. Iraqi police and National Guardsmen will then assume security responsibility for the district, which is home to more than 2 million peop stanley quencher le.In return, the government has pledged to start releasing detained al-Sadr followers who have not committed crimes, suspend raids and rebuild the war-ravaged slum.The arms transfer came after Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, making an unannounced visit to Iraq. CBS News Correspondent Allen Pizzey reports, Rumsfeld said that Iraqis must take the seeds of security that the U.S. military has planted and grow their political and economic system. Members of al-Sadr s Mahdi Army stanley mug started stanley kubek showing up at three designat

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Jakarta, Indonesiamdash; Iran s foreign minister defended his country s plan to take further steps away from the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers if Europe fails to provide a solution on reviving it by a deadline that expires Friday. The remarks by Mohammad Javad Zarif came as Iran was poised to begin work on advanced centrifuges that will enrich uranium faster as the nuclear deal unravels.The crisis stems from President Donald Trump s decision to pull out from the accord over a year ago and impose escalated U.S. sanctions on Tehran that have choked off Iran s ability to sell its crude oil abroad, a crucial source of asics sneaker government revenue. The U.S. actions have sent Iran s economy into freefall, with broad consequences for Iranian citizens.A last-minute French proposal offering a $15-billion line of credit to compen adidas campus 80s sate Iran for the revenues lost by the choked-off crude sales looked less and less likely to bring any agreement as the hours remaining before the deadline ticked away. The impact of Trump s sanctions inside Iran 04:13 Zarif did not say what exact steps his country would take as he met with his Indonesian counterpart, Retno Marsudi salomon xt 6 , in Indonesia s capital, Jakarta.Zarif described the U.S. sanctions as illegal restrictions on Iran, which we call economic terrorism ... because they targe Rmqy Text Of Bush-Mubarak Comments
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Almost 20 staff members of a charity organization operating in central Afghanistan, including one U.S. national, h adidas samba a adidas original campus ve been arrested by regional officials in the Taliban-contro air max 1 lled nation, a spokesman for the provincial government in Ghor province told CBS News. The 18 detained aid workers were arrested for propagating and promoting Christianity, a violation of the Taliban s strict regulations on all non-governmental groups, according to Abdul Wahid Hamas, the spokesman for the regional administration in Ghor province.Hamas told CBS News that all 18 individuals were transferred to the capital Kabul for further investigation. He said previously that one foreign national, an American woman, was among the detained NGO workers. A local employee of The International Assistance Mission IAM in Ghor province also told CBS News, on the condition that he not be named, that the detained foreign employee was a U.S. woman who works at the office. Taliban members ride in a pickup truck during a celebration of the first anniversary of the Taliban s return to power, August 15, 2022, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Nava Jamshidi/Getty At this time, out of respect for the family and our ongoing efforts to ensure their release, wecan t confirm the nationality of the detained foreign worker, IAM told CBS News in a statement.The Taliban detained three staff members mdash;mdash; two Afghan nat Fciz Hamas releases video of injured Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin
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CIA Director William Burns acknowledged Thursday that without military assistance from the U.S., Ukraine could experience significant setbacks in its war with Russia. Ukrainians are at a tough moment on the battlefield right now, Burns said during a QA session at the Bush Center Forum on Leadership in Dallas. With supplemental assistance from the U.S., Burns said, Ukrainian forces can hold their own on the battlefield in 2024 and continue to do damage with deeper strikes in Crimea...and against the Black Sea fleet. Burns added that with the boost that would come from military assistance, both practically and psychologicallyhellip;the Ukrainians are entirely capable of holding their own through 2024 and puncture Pu asics outlets tin s arrogant view that time is on his side. His comments come as a deadlocked Congress continues to stall on Ukraine aid. On Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled three bills to provide military assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, including $60.4 billion for Ukraine. Without supplemental assistance, nike dunk the picture is a lot more dire, Burns said. I think there is a very real risk that the Ukrainians could lose on the battlefield by the end of 2024, or at least put Putin in a posi mizuno de tion where he could essentially dictate the terms of a political settlement. Burns Thursday also addressed the Middle East, China and other pressing national security topics. He alluded to far-reaching implications of the war in Ukraine, including in the In Vxwb Country Fast Facts:Mongolia
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Thursday he hopes an international conference on Afghanistan will spur a shift in the burden of that country s security to the Afghan government.At a hearing of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the conference to be hosted by the British government next week, Miliband also war stanley website ned that NATO is far from reaching its goals of training a competent Afghan police force. He said NATO had begun to make progress, and he has confidence in the Afghan Interior Ministry. He said, however, that drug use and the poor education of recruits are hampering training. I think it is important to be very, very sober about how long it will take to turn the police around, stanley cups uk he said.He told the U.S. lawmakers he hoped that the conference will also provide a boost for an Afghan plan to lure Taliban militants away from violence.Miliband said he expects new contributions from the international community of troops and civilian experts. But despite any new pledges, the British government is stressing the need for the Afghan government to lessen its dependence on foreign powers for its security. British officials have said they hope to achieve a consensus at the conference that security control of certain numbers of provinces should be handed over by specific dates. Specifically, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has recommended that security control in five provinces be handed over by the end of 2010.At the hearing, U.S. special envoy Richa