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JERUSALEM - Israel s antiquities authority says archaeologists have discovered a rare 3,000-year-old inscription of a name mentioned in the Bible.The name Eshbaal Ben Beda appears on a large ceramic jar. Eshbaal adidas campus 00s of the Bible was a son of King Saul. af1 Archaeologists Yosef Garfinkel and Saar Ganor say the jar belonged to a different Eshbaal, likely the owner of an agricultural estate.They said Tuesday it is the first time the name was discovered in an ancient inscription. It is one of only four inscriptions discovered from the biblical 10th century B.C. Kingdom of Judah, when King David is said to have reigned.Archaeologists pieced together the inscription from pottery shards found at a 2012 excavation in the Valley of Elah in central Israel. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item- samba shoes -id-1bead4bd-6644-4134-a0ff-d2de71ad2a8f, right-rail-recirc-item--id-1bead4bd-6644-4134-a0ff-d2de71ad2a8f display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-1bead4bd-6644-4134-a0ff-d2de71ad2a8f ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block; In: Israel Ceyk U.N. panel: Sanctions delaying NKorea nuke program
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Malaysian police said they as adidas samba og ked Interpol on Wednesday to help track down a U.S. comedian after she made a joke about the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 mdash;a request the comedian called ridiculous. Jocelyn Chia told the joke during a set at the Comedy Cellar in New York City, reportedly in April, as she riffed on the historically testy relationship between Malaysia and Singapore, where she was raised.MH370 went missing in March 2014, and is one of Malaysia s deadliest aviation incidents, with all 239 people on board presumed dead.Such was the outrage over Chia s joke that Malaysian police began an investigation under incit asics ement and offensive online content laws. Comedian Joselyn Chia performs on March 29, 2022 in Burbank, California. / Getty Images On Tuesday Malaysia s police chief Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani said they would ask Interpol to help locate her, according to Malaysian news agency Bernama. The head of police in the southern state of Johor said in a statement that a request had been filed on Wednesday. Kamarul Zaman Mamat said they were seeking further information regarding the suspect to assist in investigations. Chia is being probed under public mischief laws th adidas samba adidas at carry a jail term of up to two years, as well as communications legislation under which offenders face up to a year in prison.Malaysia and Singapore were briefly one stat Cvmv Iran Rejects U.S. Nuke Claims
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In Nepal, there was no sign Friday night of an Indian climber and two Sherpa guides after an avalanche on Mount Kanchenjunga, the world s third tallest mountain. Just April, 16 Sherpas were killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest.And a few hundred miles to the west, American John All is recovering after falling into an ice crevasse on Mount Himlung.The Western Kentucky University associate professor of geography rescued himself and shot video while he did it. John All broke an arm and four ribs in his fall CBS News I fell through that hole, he says o adidas sambarose n the video. Thankfully I didn t keep falling. This is where 44-year-old All found himself on Monday, alone, on a narrow ledge, in a deep 70-foot crevasse, seriously injured. I got trapped instead on this ledge, he says. My arm I can t use. Below him, a further drop of s airmaxplus everal hundred feet. Above him, nothing but packed snow and ice and, in the distance, a tiny patch of sky. All he could see above him was packed snow and ice and a tiny patch of sky CBS News adidas samba I hurt bad, but I got to get out, he says. I m going to somehow climb out that way. He had a broken arm and four broken ribs. Using his ice axe he tried to climb out of the crevasse. Climbed all the way - over, up, over, he says. All said Olav U.S. Protests Cuban Rights Post
The United States was helping identify possible drug smugglers by giving Peru s military informat water bottle stanley ion such as plane tail numbers when the Peruvian air force shot down a small aircraft carrying U.S. missionaries, President Bush said Sunday. Our role was top simply to pass on information, Mr. Bush said at a news conference closing out the Summit of the Americas.On Friday, the Peruvian air force shot down the missionaries Cessna 185 single-engine plane, which was mistakenly identified as the carrier of illegal drugs.Baptist missionary Veronica Roni Bowers and her 7-month-old adopted daughter, Charity, the pilot wounded. Her husband and son survived.CBS News Correspondent Lee Cowan reports there are serious questions inside the U.S. government about how such a deadly mistake could happen: How could a private plane carrying 5 Americans missionaries, be shot out of the sky by Peruvian fighter jets, after being identified, even tracked for the Peruvians, by a U.S. government surveillance plane Our government is involved with helping, and a variety of agencies are involved with helping, our friends in South America identify airplanes that might be carrying illegal drugs, Mr. B stanley termohrnek ush said. These operations have been going on for quite a while. He added that such flights have been suspended until we get to the bottom of the situation, to fully u stanley mug nderstand all the facts, to understand what went wrong in this terrible tragedy. A U.S. surveillance plane was tracking the mission

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Scientists in China on Tuesday announced that they have cloned the first healthy rhesus monkey, a two-year-old named Retro, by tweaking the process that created Dolly the sheep.Primates have proved particularly difficult to clone, and the scientists overcame years of failure by replacing the cloned cells that would become the placenta with those from a normal embryo.They hope their new technique will lead to the creation of identical rhesus monkeys that can be experimented on for medical research.However, outside researchers warned that the success rate for the new method was still very low, as well as adidas samba raising the usual ethical questions around cloning. Two-year-old rhesus monkey named Retro. Nature Communications Since the historic cloning of Dolly the sheep using a technique called somatic air max 96 cell nuclear transfer SCNT in 1996, more than 20 different animals have been created using the process, including dogs, cats, pigs and cattle. However adiletten original it was not until two decades later that scientists managed to clone the first primates using SCNT.A pair of identical crab-eating macaques named Hua Hua and Zhong Zhong were created using SCNT in 2018 by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Neuroscience in Shanghai.But that breakthrough, led by the institute s Qiang Sun, only resulted in live births in fewer than two percent of attempts.Qiang was also Odli Succeeding NATO In Macedonia
One of the last people to learn that Princess Diana was dead was bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones. The only survivor of the car crash that killed her, Rees-Jones was fighting for his own life in the same hospital where doctors tried to save the fatally injured princess. Now two and a half years later he has written The Bodyguard s Story, his firsthand account of Princess Diana s final weeks. It is not quite the romance portrayed in the tabloids and by the father of Dodi Al Fayed, who also died in the crash. Rees-Jones and Kez Wingfield, a second bodyguard on duty, talked to Mike Wallace for an interview broadcast Sunday on 60 Minutes. Wallace talked about the story Monday with Early Show Co-Anchor Jane Clays stanley cup on.Rees-Jones told Wallace he first met Princess Diana when she and her children vacationed with the Al Fayed family, and then when she returned for a private holiday with Dodi Al Fayed. In the interview, Rees-Jones revealed his frustration about serving as a bodyguard for Dodi Al Fay stanley thermobecher ed. He felt this way because, Dodi was a pain in the neck. I mean, he was - he didn t want to tell anybody where he was going ahead of time so it was difficult for a b stanley termosy odyguard to set up security, Wallace says. Rees-Jones is coming forward now because He s angry at Mohammed Al Fayed who, in effect, is blaming him for the crash and, of course it s inaccurate, Wallace explains. Mohammed Al Fayed has come up with a conspiracy theory that says that the British royal family, the British gov

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At least 54 people have died of methanol poisoning in Peru since mid-September, the country s Ministry of Health announced this week. Their death adidas campus damen s came amid a significant uptick in hospitalizations for methanol ingestion in and around Lima, which officials have linked to bottled alcoholic beverages contaminated with the toxic compound.The health ministry said that it has registered 117 cases of methanol poisoning over the past month, as the agency works with leaders in Peru s capital city to raise awareness about laced drinks and how to identify early symptoms of methanol t adidas campus oxicity. It is the highest figure of methanol poisoning in recent years, the head of the ministry s National Center for Epidemiology, Eduardo Ortega, told AFP while speaking about the recent increase in cases.On Sunday, the health ministry had urged people not to consume vodka-passion fruit and pintilde;a colada flavored drinks sold in two-liter plastic bottles by the company Punto D Oro. La Digea, the General Directorate of Environmental Health and Food Safety in Peru, conducted tests that found bottles of both flavors contained methanol, an ingredient in windshield washer fluid and antifreeze that bottles of both flavors that found methanol in showed both contained methanol, an ingredient in windshield washer fluid and antifreeze that is toxic and possibly deadly when consumed.The health ministry warned that the drinks posed serious damage to the adidas originals ultraboost health of people who ingest them. It has taken steps Azfw More BBC staff probed on sex claims post-Savile
MOSCOW - A rash of teenage suicides in Russia has set off alarm bells and experts are urging the government to take immediate action.Russia has the world s thi stanley cup rd-highest rate of suicide among teenagers aged 15-to-19, with about 1,500 taking their own lives every year, according to a recent UNICEF report. The rate is higher only in the neighboring former Soviet republics of Belarus and Kazakhstan.In recent years, there have been 19-to-20 annual suicides per 100,000 teenagers in Russia 151; three times the world average, Boris Polozhy of the respected Serbsky psychiatric center in Moscow sa stanley cup price id Friday. Until the highest authorities see suicide as a problem, our joint efforts will be unlikely to yield any results, he said.In the southwestern Siberian region of Tuva, the rate reaches a staggering 120 suicides per 100,000 teenagers, while the stanley mugs nearby region of Buryatiya has an average rage of 77 per 100,000. Both regions are impoverished and have high crime and alcoholism rates. Two 14-year-old girls in the Moscow suburb of Lobnya killed themselves this week by jumping off the roof of a 14-story building while holding hands. They had skipped classes for two weeks and were terrified of what their parents would do to them once they found out, Russian media quoted their friends as saying.Several other recent teen suicides have been reported elsewhere in Russia.Experts say that domestic violence and problems in schools are among the main reasons why adolescents take their lives

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PARIS -- The Moroccan suspect in a foiled attack on a high-speed train was hit Wednesday with terrorism charges after prosecutors argued he planned to unleash carnage among hundreds travelling from B adidas samba schuhe elgium to France.The prosecutor s office in Paris confirmed that Ayoub El-Khazzani had been formally charged overnight. As CBS News correspondent Charlie D Agata reports, el-Khazzani, 26, was led barefoot and blindfolded into the French court to face the charges, including multiple counts of attempted murder, possession of weapons, and conspiracy. air force 1 Suspect s activity before train attack revealed 01:03 Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said el-Khazzani pumped himself for the attack by watching a jihadist video in the train bathroom just before emerging shirtless and strapped with 270 rounds of ammunition.Molins said the Moroccan was intent on killing a whole trainload of people, but in the end he was thwarted by passengers, including four Americans, who disarmed and subdued him until police could take adidas samba over.French-American Mark Moogalian was the only one to take a bullet in the fracas. In an interview with CNN, his wife Isabella described the moment U.S. Airman Spencer Stone and his two friends piled on, saying she saw two guys running down the aisle really fast. Obzd 6 U.S. Soldiers, Journalist Killed In Iraq
Israel and the Palestinians will begin negotiations on a final peace treaty on Nov. 7, the two sides announced Friday. The date was set in a first meeting between the two chief negotiators, Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo and Israeli diplomat Oded Eran. So-called final status stanley quencher negotiations were launched with a ceremony on Sept. 13 to mark the fifth anniversary of the signing of a breakthrough agreement of mutual recognition between Israel and the PLO. However, no talks were held since then, even though the two sides face tight deadlines of reaching a framework agreement by February and a final treaty by September. Once the talks begin, the negotiators will have to tackle the stanley cup thorniest issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, such as the final borders of the Palestinian entity, the status of Jerusalem, the future of millions of Palestinian refugees and the fate of Jewish settlements. This morning, Abed Rabbo and Eran met at a Jerusalem hotel to prepare next week s summit between President Clinton, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak in Oslo, Norway. Abed Rabbo and Eran also worked out several procedural issues concerning the negotiations, said Barak spokesman Gadi Baltiansky. The two will meet again in Oslo to complete their work on procedural questions, Baltiansky said, adding that the meeting took place in a good atmosphere. Since Barak took office in July, the two sides have s stanley romania igned a new interim

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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- A suspect in the poisoning death of the North Korean leader s half brother wrote to her parents from jail, asking them to pray for h crocs absatz er but saying don t think about me too much. Siti Ai salomon gtx syah, an Indonesian mother who worked in Malaysia, appeared in court Tuesday along with a second suspect, Doan Thi Huong of Vietnam. Their trial was formally transferred to the High Court as the lower court had no jurisdiction to hear a murder case. VX nerve agent used to kill N. Korean dictator s half-brother, police say 02:20 They are the only people who have been arrested in the assassination of Kim Jong Nam at the Kuala Lumpur airport on Feb. 13.The suspects are accused of smearing VX nerve agent on Kim s face in the crowded airport terminal; he died soon afterward. The women have said they were duped into thinking they were playing a harmless prank for a hidden-camera show.Yusron hoka laufschuhe Ambary, counsellor at the Indonesian Embassy, said Siti wrote a letter to her parents recently, asking them not to worry about her. I am in good health. Just pray. Don t think about me too much. Keep healthy and pray at night. I have a lot of people helping me. The embassy officials always come to see me, my lawyers also. Don t worry. Pray for me so that the case will be over soon and I can go back home Oyya AQAP leader who claimed Charlie Hebdo attack killed by U.S. drone
A Scottish council on Thursday rejected a plan by Donald Trump to build a golf course on a stretch of remote and stunning coastline that is home to some of the country s rarest birds. Mr. Trump is shocked, extremely disappointed and dismayed at this decision, said George Sorial, managing director of Trump International Golf Resorts. This is certainly not something we expected. After a heated debate lasting two and a half hours, Aberdeenshire Council s Infrastructure Committee rejected plans for the Trump International Golf Links after a tie-breaking vote stanley cup from the committee chair. An initial vote was a 7-7 deadlock.Opponents of the development said water bottle stanley sand dunes at the Menie Estate, 15 miles north of Aberdeen, should be protected as the habitat of rare birds such as Lapwings, Redshanks and Skylarks.A week ago, Trump and his organization were jubilant when the council s Formartine area committee approved the golf course in a 7-4 vote. But Thursday s vote takes prec stanley cups uk edence over the earlier decision. Sorial, who attended the Infrastructure Committee meeting, said: On a personal basis the Menie project has been of great importance to Mr. Trump. I have just spoken to him and he cannot believe this. The council failed to take into account the wishes of the people, and ultimately they are the losers here, Sorial said.He said Trump was now looking at an alternative site in other European countries, including Ireland, but did not rule out appealing Thursday s vote to ministers

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Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images af1 A worker shifts dirt through the eastern ticket hall near Hannover Square in London, England, Dec. 8, 2014. Crossrail is Europersquo biggest infrastructure project. A total of 26 miles of train tunnels are being built beneath the streets of London by e yeezy slide ight tunneling machines. When complete in 2018, ten new stations in central and southeast London will increase the cityrsquo rail capacity by 10 percent and bring an extra 1.5 million people to within 45 minutes of central London. Digging the Crossrail Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images A guard looks back at Crossrail s Bond Street tunnel. Digging the Crossrail Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images The Fisher Street shaft burrows down amongst buildings in Holborn. Digging the Crossrail crocs hausschuhe Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images A worker shifts dirt through the eastern ticket hall near Hannover Square. Digging the Crossrail Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Workers spray concrete on a crossover rail tunnel on December 8, 2014 in London, E Kvye Suicide bombers kill at least 14, wound dozens in northern Nigeria
North Korea criticized the U.S. on Monday for positioning missile defense systems around Hawaii, calling the deployment part of a plot to attack the regime and saying it would bolster its nuclear arsenal in retaliation.U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said he ordered the deployment of a ground-based, mobile missile intercept system and radar system to Hawaii amid concerns the North may fire a long-range missile toward the islands, about 4,500 miles away. Through the U.S. forces clamorous movements, it has been brought to light that the U.S. attempt to launch a pre-emptive strike on our republic has become a brutal fact, the North s main Rodong Sinmun newspaper said in a commentary.The paper also accused the U.S. of deploying nuclear-powered aircraft and atomic-armed submarines in waters near the Korean peninsula, saying the moves prove the U.S. pre-emptive nuclear war on the North is imminent.The commentary, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, sai stanley cups uk d the North will bolster its nuclear arsenal in self-defense. The North routinely accuses the U.S. of plotting to invade. But the U.S., stanley kubek which has 28,500 troops in South Korea, has said it has no such plan.Tensions on the Korean peninsula have been running high since the No stanley cup rth defiantly launched a rocket in April and conducted an underground nuclear test last month, prompting U.N. Security Council sanctions.North Korea responded to the U.N. resolution on the nuclear test with threats of war, and pledg

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GENEVA mdash; Usain Bolt has lost one of his nine Olympic gold medals because of a doping case involving Jamaican teammate Nesta Carter. The IOC said Wednesday that Carter tested positive for methylhexaneamine, a banned stimulant, in re-analysis of samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympics.Olympic rules state that the entire relay team can be disq crocs schuhe ualified and st yeezy ripped of medals if one runner fails a doping test. Carter and Bolt were teammates on the winning 4x100-meter team, which set a world record of 37.10 seconds. Carter ran the opening leg, and Bolt took the baton third in a team that also included Michael Frater and Asafa Powell. Usain Bolt 27 photos The Jamaican team is disqualified, the IOC said in adidas originals samba a statement. ... the corresponding medals, medalist pins and diplomas are withdrawn and shall be returned. The relay title in Beijing completed the first of Boltrsquo gold medal sweeps in the 100, 200 and relay at three straight Olympics. Bolt set world record times for all three sprint titles at the Birdrsquo Nest, establishing himself as the defining superstar of Olympic track. I want to share it with my team, said Bolt said after completing his hat trick in 2008. Itrsquo down to th Ubsq In Royal Circles
The European Union nations have agreed that a multinational force to protect civilian peace observers must be sent to Macedonia this month after NATO troops finish collecting arms from ethnic Albanian stanley uk rebels.The new force would be smaller than the 4,500 NATO troops now in Macedonia, would again be led by the 19-nation western alliance and be open to Russian, Ukrainian and other non-NATO troops, according to a German plan that won support at a weekend meeting of EU foreign ministers.Difficult details still must be worked out.Some nations insisted a successor force to the one-month NATO mission be given a U.N. Security Council mandate. Britain opposed t stanley termosy hat most strongly, while others said there was not enough time to get such a mandate.Additionally, the government of Macedonia opposes a further military intervention. The job of getting President Boris Trajk stanley becher ovski to endorse the EU plan fell to Javier Solana, the union s foreign and security policy chief, who had his first contacts on the issue with the government in Skopje on Sunday night. NATO deployed troops to Macedonia last month to collect weapons from ethnic Albanian rebels as part of a political agreement signed by all the major parties in Macedonia. NATO s 147;Operation Essential Harvest 148; is to end Sept. 26. The alliance has said it would not extended that deadline.German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer told his EU colleagues 147;we must avoid a vacuum 148; that could lead to another outbreak of fightin

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Burger King has apologized for an online ad offering burgers to Russian women who get impregnated by soccer players during the World Cup the country is hosting until July 15. The promotion on the global fast food chain s account on VK -- a local rival of Facebook -- suggested Russia could benefit from some good football genes. As part of its social responsibility campaign , Burger King is offering a reward to women who get impregnated by football stars, said Burger King. Every woman will get three million rubles around $45,000 and a lifetime s supply of Whopper burgers. Women who manage to get the best football genes will ensure Russia s success in future generations. Portugal adidas samba adidas s Cristiano Ronaldo leads contenders for Golden Boot 02:05 The post ended with a call: Go ahead! We believe in you! Burger King removed the ad and tried to make amends after a furor erupted on social media and in international media. We apologise for our statement. It turned out to be too offensive, Burger King said. The ad appeared to be ineptly trying to poke fun at an inflammatory statement by a lawmakers who urged women not to have sex with foreign fans.A Communist Party parliamentarian, Tamara Pletneva, told a radio station that the World Cup could le mizuno de ave Russian women raising child nike air max ren of another race .Pl Cmdf China Reports Bomb Threat on Plane
The Pentagon is canceling plans to send a 3,500-member Army brigade to Iraq, a move that speeds the drawdown there and cou stanley quencher ld free up forces as President Barack Obama considers sending new troops to Afghanistan.The 1st Infantry Brigade Combat Team from the 10th Mountain Division based in Fort Drum, New York, had been scheduled to relieve another comba stanley mugs t brigade in Iraq in January. But the brigade will no longer deploy and will now return to the Army s pool of available combat forces, the Defense Department said Saturday. This decision was based on a thorough assessment of the security environment in Iraq and reflects the continued improvement in the ability of the Iraqi Security Forces to safeguard Iraqi citizens and institutions, the statement said.The U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, has recommended from as many as 80,000 more troops to as few as 10,000 for the war in Afghanistan - but favors a compromise of 40,000 more forces. Such additional forces would not be deployed until early next year at the soonest, and it is not clear how they would be fully compiled.In Brussels Saturday, NATO s military chiefs called for reinforcements and more resources for Afghanistan s special forces, an alliance spokesman said.NATO did not say how or from where the reinforcements should come, and no decision was made on sending extra NATO troops to the region, according to military committee spokesman Col. Massimo Pan stanley cup izzi. The issue will likely be di