Exploring the Miraculous of Dating: Connections, Growth, and Idea

[CharlesteVibra]

Mpsp Pope uses cane at airport before heading west
A divided federal appellate court allowed the Trump administration on Monday to move forward with plans to terminate several humanitarian programs that shield hundreds of thousands of immi adidas campus herren grants in the U.S. from deportation.A three-judge panel for the 9th Circuit Court Appeals said it could not second guess the Trump admin dunk homme istration s efforts to end Temporary Protected Status TPS for roughly 300,000 immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan. Two Republican-appointed judges on the panel ruled that decisions by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to wind down the TPS programs were not reviewable, setting aside a lower court order that had prevented officials from ending these protections.Through the 2-1 ruling, the court also rejected the argument that the decisions to end the TPS programs violated the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution because of President Trump s disparaging comments about immigrants from non-European, predominantly non-white countries. The judges acknowledged Mr. Trump s offensive comments but did not find a direct link between them and the moves to eliminate TPS protections. While we do not condone the offensive and disparaging nature of the President s remarks, we find it instructive that these statements occurred primarily in contexts removed from and unrelated to TPS policy or decisi yeezy ons, U.S. Circuit Judge Consuelo Callahan, a George W. Bush appointee, wrote in the majority s opinion.In her dissent, U.S. Circuit Judge Wkev South Korea to pull all workers from jointly-run Kaesong industrial complex
AP VIENNA - Inspectors have found traces of uranium enriched at an Iranian site to a level that is slightly closer to the threshold needed to arm nuclear missiles, the U.N. nuclear agency said Friday.Iran said the find was a technical glitch, according to the Internatio stanley cup nal Atomic Energy Agency report. The agency said it was assessing that explanation and has asked for more details, but analysts and diplomats said Iran s version sounded plausible stanley cup .The news comes a day after Iran and six world powers meeting in Baghdad found they were still far apart over how to oversee Tehran s atomic program but scheduled more talks next month as an alternative to possible military action.Iran is under several rounds of U.N. sanctions for its failure to d stanley romania isclose information on its controversial nuclear program. Tehran says it is enriching uranium to provide more nuclear energy for its growing population, while the U.S. and other nations fear that Iran doing that so it can later make nuclear weapons.Iran nuclear talks end, next round in MoscowIran rejects nuclear curbs proposed by U.S., other world powersPoll: Opposition to Iran going nuclear widespread In its report, the nuclear agency said its experts have found particles enriched up to 27 percent at the Fordo enrichment plant in central Iran.That is still substantially below the 90-percent level needed to make the fissile core of nuclear arms. But it is above Iran s highest-known enrichment grade, which is close to 20 percent and ca

[CharlesteVibra]

Tmxo Bob Dylan a no-show for Nobel awards ceremony
BANGKOK -- A morbidly obese wild monkey who gorged himself on junk food and soda left behind by tourists has been rescued and placed on a strict diet of lean protein, fruits and vegetables.Wildlife officials caught the chunky monkey - nicknamed Uncle Fat by adidas samba herren locals - adidas og after photos of the animal started circulating on social media last month.Wild monkeys roam free in many parts of Thailand, attracting tourists who feed and play with the animals. Most of the monkeys are macaques like Uncle Fat, and they typically weigh around 20 pounds.Uncle Fat weighs three times that, tipping the scales at around 60 pounds. It was not easy to catch him, said Kacha Phukem, the wildlife official who conducted the capture and rescue on April 27. He was the leader of his pack, and when I tried to go in, I had to fight off a flock of them with sticks. A wild obese macaque named Uncle Fat, who was rescued from a Bangkok suburb, sits with bananas in a rehabilitation center in Bangkok, Thailand, May 19, 2017. AP The subordinate monkeys fed into Uncle Fat s bad habits. He had minions and other monkeys bringing food for him but he would also re-distribute it to younger monkeys, said Supakarn Kaewchot, a veterinarian in charge of the monkey s diet. He is now in a critical condition where there is a high-risk of heart disease and diabetes. Uncle Fat is believed to be be adidas samba adidas tween 10 and 15 Rtvo Nigerian army says it has rescued nearly 300 from Boko Haram hideout
European environment ministers slammed U.S. rejection of the Kyoto Protocol and its policies on greenhouse gas emissions Sunday, calling them political man stanley polska euvers to preserve the energy-burning American lifestyle that have nothing to do with economics.The comments on the final day of weekend talks by environment ministers of the world s industrial powers overshadowed their discussions on how to integrate e stanley cup nvironmental issues in new global policies for sustainable development.Host Canada had tried to prevent the Kyoto Protocol dispute from dominating the G-8 environment ministers meeting involving the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia, along with the European Union and U.N. Environment Program.The formal agenda made no mention of the Kyoto agreement that requires reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, but it came up in every discussion and was the focus of a breakfast meeting Sunday, delegates said.After breakfast, European ministers expressed their dissatisfaction with the U.S. stance on the issue, calling climate change an i stanley cup usa nternational problem that required an international agreement with full participation by such a major emitter of greenhouse gases. The basic problem is that the United States has chosen to stand outside the Kyoto protocol, said Margot Wallstrom, the European Commission environment commissioner. It makes the protocol weaker, that s for sure. Germany s Jurgen Trittin said he had trouble understanding U.S. arguments

[CharlesteVibra]

Ybtc Kim Jong Il Photo A Fake, Report Claims
Three American citizens, two Spaniards and a Czech citizen have been detained in Venezuela on suspicion of plotting to destabilize the country through violent actions, the government said Saturday, adding that hundreds of weapons had been seized.The Venezuelan government identified the men detained on Saturday in an online video. One of them was identified as an American Navy sailordetained in Venezuelaearlier this month while visiting the country on personal travel, several U.S. officials confirmed to CBS News. The enlisted sailor is a petty officer first class and formerly a Navy SEAL who was assigned to a West Coast team, several U.S. officia adidas originals ls and a senior Defense Depar nike sb dunk tment official told CBS News.A State Department spokesperson told CBS News in a statement Saturday that the Biden administration could confirm the detention of the sailor and was aware of unconfirmed reports of the detentions of two other U.S. citizens.Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said that the five were held on suspicion of planning an attack on President Nicolas Maduro and his government. The arrests come amid heightened tensions between Venezuela and both the U.S. and Spain over Venezuela s disputed July 28 presidential election, which the country s opposition accuses Maduro of ste adidas originals aling. Any claims of U.S. involvement in a plot to overthrow Maduro are categorically false, the State Department spokesperson said. The United States continues to support a democratic solution to the political cris Wcnh Iraq Photos: November 8 - November 14
A bomb exploded near a U.S. military patrol in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing one American soldier and wounding three others, the military said.The attack occurred as the troops were traveling in an armored vehicle in Zabul province s Shinkay district, U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Jerry O Hara said.A purported Taliban spokesman, Mullah Latif Hakimi, claimed responsibility for the attac stanley deutschland k in a telephone call to The Associated Press. His claim could not be verified.The death brings to 144 the number of U.S. troops killed in and around Afghanistan since Operation Enduring F stanley canada reedom began in 2001.Two of the wounded soldiers were taken to a U.S.-led coalition base near the town of Qalat for treatment, a military statement said. The third was taken to a base near the southern city of Kandahar and was expected to be flown to Landstuhl, Germany, for further treatment. The soldiers names were not released. There will be considerable efforts made to find out who is behind these attacks and prevent more like it, O Hara said. This incident will not prevent us from accomplishing our mission. After a winter lull, loyalists to the ou water bottle stanley sted Taliban regime and other militants opposed to the U.S.-backed government of President Hamid Karzai have ramped up their insurgency with a series of bombings and other attacks.Also on Saturday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai called for control of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and demanded the United States take strong action a

[CharlesteVibra]

Lhni New ISIS hostage video includes change in tactics
London mdash;Britain s Prince William has said that the brightest people in the world should focus on ke adidas samba schuhe eping Earth a livable planet in the future, not on space tourism. The prince s remark was released as an excer air max 1 pt from an environmentally-focused interview with the BBC one day after actor William Shatner went to space on Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos Blue Origin capsule. We ve seen everyone trying to get space tourism going. hellip; We need some of the world s greatest brains and minds fixed on trying to repair this planet, not trying to find the next place to adidas samba uomo go live, William, who is second in line to the British throne, says in the clip.Bezos fellow entrepreneurs and billionaires Elon Musk and Richard Branson have also been building businesses to send private citizens into space. We need to be focusing on this planet rather than giving up and heading out into space to try and think of solutions for the future, William told Newscast on BBC Sounds in the interview, which he gave on September 30 ahead of the awarding of the first-ever Earthshot Prize. He created the prize to reward people doing groundbreaking work to save our planet s environment. The winner will be announced later this month. It s such a large issue that everyone feels completely overwhelmed by the facts, the scale of the problems and things like that, William said. So we wanted to break it down and try and work out mdash; how could we add something that was going to create action, create posit Tyhf Netanyahu brings fears of nuclear Iran to U.N.
The families of three Americans being held in Iran plan to release video footage that they say proves the three were simply on vacation and had no underhand intentions when they strayed across the border.Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27, have been detained since July 31. They apparently crossed into Iran by accident while hiking in a scenic area in northern Iraq. They , who oversee U.S. interests in Iran, but have had no contact with their families.Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said last week that inves stanley cups tigators are still questioning the three and that their fate rests with judicial authorities.Mottaki gave no other details on the case. But his comments suggested that formal charges could still be possible against the Americans, although Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in an interview with The Associated Press last month that he could ask the judiciary to take a look at the case with maximum l stanley cup eniency. One of the vid stanley cup price eos, set for release on YouTube Tuesday, shows Fattal performing an impromptu rap song - Yo, it s hot/It s cos I m in Iraq. - against a backdrop of the city of Irbil in Iraq. A second video shows Fattal, Bauer and Shourd dancing in an unfinished cinder block building. CBS News station WCCO-TV in Minneapolis broadcast clips of the videos Tuesday morning. Watch the station s story and the videos in full below These kids were on vacation. They were just traveling; they were having a good time, Nora Shourd, Sh

[CharlesteVibra]

Clnw Constructive Talks In South Asia
SpaceX is building a souped-up version of its cargo Dragon air max 1 spacecraft to drive the International Space Station out of orbit for a controlled re-entry and breakup over an uninhabited stretch of ocean when the lab is finally retired in the 2030 timeframe, NASA and company officials said Wednesday.The ISS Deorbit Vehicle, samba shoes or DV, will be a custom-built, one-of-a-kind spacecraft needed to make sure the space station re-enters the atmosphere at the precise place and in the proper orientation to insure any wreckage that survives the 3,000-degree heat of re-entry will crash harmlessly into the sea. An artist s impression of SpaceX s ISS Deorbit Vehicle pushing the lab toward a controlled re-entry and breakup in the 2030 timeframe, after a formal decision to retire the lab complex after three decades of operation. salomon xt SpaceX In late June, NASA awarded SpaceX a contract valued at up to $843 million to build the deorbit vehicle, which will be owned and operated by the space agency. The heavy-lift rocket needed to launch it has not yet been selected, but NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has asked Congress for a total of about $1.5 billion to carry out the entire de-orbit operation.And it is no trivial matter. The long axis of the space station, made up of multiple pressurized modules where visiting crews live and work, measures 218 feet long. The lab s solar array power and cooling truss, Tgsw Commandos Assault Besieged Hostage-Takers
Austrian authorities have classified documents suggesting that Iran s president-elect may have played a key r stanley cup ole in the 1989 execution-style slayings of an Iranian Kurdish leader and two associates in Vienna, a newspaper reported Saturday.Austria s Interior Ministry and the public prosecutor s office are investigating alleged evidence pointing to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad s possible involvement in the attack, the daily Der Standard reported.Officials were not immediately available to comment on the report Saturday.Austrian Green Party leader Peter Pilz told the newspaper he wants a warrant issued for the arrest of Ahmadinejad, who he alleged stands under strong suspicion of having been involved. stanley france Pilz accused the hard-liner of planning the murders of Kurdish resistance leader Abdul-Rahman Ghassemlou and two of his colleagues, all of whom were shot in the head at a Vienna apartment by Iranian commandos on July 13, 1989. A fourth victim survived the attack and was able to crawl out of the apartment and alert Austrian authorities. Pilz told Der Standard his source was an stanley cup price unidentified Iranian journalist living in France, who he said also claimed to have evidence that former Iranian President Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani gave the order to have Ghassemlou killed. He did not elaborate.He said the ultraconservative Ahmadinejad, then a high-ranking member of Iran s elite Revolutionary Guard, allegedly traveled to the Austrian capital a few days before the slayings to deliver the murd

[CharlesteVibra]

Pcon India train accident that killed nearly 300 people caused by signal system error, official says
Editor s note: Officials said on Thursday that hundreds of kidnapped schoolboys in Nigeria have been released. Read the latest update here. Our original story appears below.A video circulating on social media purportedly shows Boko Haram with some of the hundreds of schoolboys kidnapped last week in northwest Nigeria. The Islamist militant group claimed credit this week for the Friday assault on the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Katsina State.Poorly filmed and often out of focus, the distressing video shows a group of boys in a forest pleading yeezy with the Nigerian government to respond to the demands of the kidnappers and not to raid their camp. The video warns that 500 men are hiding in the Zamfara forest, where the boys had been taken by their captors.At one point, the voice of the child speaking to the camera in English and Hausa appears to break and other, younger children begin to cry. Please, you have to dissolve any gang of vigilantes, close any kind of schools, excluding Islamiyyah Islamic Schools . All the troops who have come here to help us, please send them back, the air max 96 boy said.The video is believed genuine but CBS News cannot independently verify the authenticity of the footage, the identity of the boys on camera or who released it. We have been caught by the gangs of Abu Shekau, some of us were killed, the boy said in adidas sambarose the clip. A voice behind the camera is heard telling the pupil what to say.A spokesman for Nigerian President Muhamma Pkwi Pope Reaches Out To Young People
President Bush sought Chinese President Hu Jintao s help on dual fronts Sunday, aiming to rein in North Korea s nuclear ambitions and encourage the Chinese people to buy more U.S. goods.Capping a three-day stay in Vietnam s capital, Bush also asked for help from Moscow in the North Korea nuclear dispute an stanley cup d celebrated a deal allowing Russia to join the stanley cup World Trade Organization.Here for an economic summit of 21 Pacific Rim nations, Bush also coordinated strategy on North Korea in one-on-one sessions with all four of America s partners in the effort to rid Pyongyang of its nuclear weapons programs.All the while, he feted America s new footing with host Vietnam, a communist country in an economic boom. Later Sunday, the president was stopping in Ho Chi Minh City, the country s economic heart.Concerns over North Korea and economic disputes shared equal billing when Bush sat down with China s Hu, said National Security Council official David McCormick. I strongly support your vision, Mr. President, of encouraging your country to become a nation of consumers and not savers, Bus stanley mugs h told his Chinese counterpart, in a pitch for U.S. farmers and manufacturers.This gentle nudge represented a change from past meetings, where last year s record and rising $202 billion trade deficit between the two countries mdash; and complaints over lax Chinese enforcement of intellectual property rights mdash; have produced more acrimonious exchanges.The landscape is different now.China has sho

[CharlesteVibra]

Rzhp Iraq Wants Timeline For U.S. Pullout
JOHANNESBURG -- The health of the world s last male northern white rhino has deteriorated, bringing the rhino subspecies a step closer to extinction caused by poaching. The 45-year-old rhino named Sudan, listed as The Most Eligible Bachelor in the World on the Tinder dating app last year as a fundraiser, lives with the last two female northern white rhinos.Kenya s Ol Pejeta Conservancy said Thursday that Sudan was struggling despite 24-hour care by veterinarians.Sudan appeared to recove af1 r well from an infection that developed on his back right leg at the end of 2017 but another, deeper infection was recently discovered in the same area, the conservancy said. We are very c adidas samba oncerned about him mdash; he s extremely old for a rhino and we do not want him to suffer unnecessarily, the conservancy said in a statement. Critically endangered species and beloved animals at risk 28 photos Sudan and the females Najin and Fatu, along with a second male from the same subspecies that since died, arrived at Ol Pejeta from a Cz adidas campus herren ech zoo in 2009. Scientists hope to save the northern white rhino from extinction by using southern white rhinos as surrogates to carry northern white rhino embryos and give birth. The in vitro process would be conducted using sperm f Wczl Spanish women s soccer coach who called World Cup kissing scandal real nonsense gets fired
Australia s main doctors group has come out in support of surgeons who refuse smokers medical treatment, including lung transplants stanley cup , unless the patients quit smoking.Australian Medical Association federal president Kerryn Phelps said anyone who requires emergency treatment deserves to receive it, but scarce medical resources means doctors are forced to prioritize elective surgery. The group represen stanley mugs ts 26,000 doctors nationwide.Phelps commented in response to a published report saying it is common practice in several major hospitals in Melbourne not to perform elective surgery, particularly lung operations, on patients who continue to smoke. There has to be a choice made, argued Phelps, in an interview on Australia s 2UE Radio. Choices are being made every day about which patients will get which services and this is a decision that is being made on the basis of which patients will do better after operations than others. Resources are being rationed whether we like it or not because there are not enough health dollars to go around, said Phelps. Phelps said smokers face much greater risks under anesthetic, and more chance of developing postoperative pneumonia.Lung transplant specialist Greg Snell from the Alfred Hospital in the Melbourne said it was hospital policy to refuse smokers transplants, according to the Herald Sun newspaper. Snell is quoted as saying that other critical surgery or treatment for smokers may also be denied.Lou Irving, an associate professor

[CharlesteVibra]

Cilz Suspect in teacher s beheading in France was Chechen teen
WILMINGTON, Del. Federal authorities say they have recovered hundreds of pages from the wartime diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a Nazi party official and key adviser to Adolf Hitler. A 1937 portrait of Nazi official Alfred Rosenberg 1893-1946 . Rosenberg was an influential member of the Nazi Party, including its theory on race. AFP/Getty Images Officials from the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department planned to join representatives of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Thursday to discuss the recovery of some 400 handwritten pages from the diary.Rosenberg was convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg trials after World War II and was execut salomon xt ed in 1946.Officials said the diary was among several documents kept by Robert M.W. Kempner, a government lawyer during the Nuremberg trials. Kempner died in 1993, and museum airmaxplus officials later took possession of some of his document collection. But the Rosenberg diary remained missin adidas og g until recently.Acting upon information they received last November about the diary, authorities recently seized the missing pages after locating them in upstate New York. The roughly 400 pages of loose-leaf paper cover the years 1936 through 1944, when Rosenberg was responsible for looting valuables in lands occupied by the Nazis and planning Nazi rule of conquered Soviet territories, museum officials said in a Web posting Thurs Wgst A stain on U.S. history : Trump s attorney general pick used Guantanamo Bay to hold thousands of Haitian refugees
President Bush urged Shiites to make concessions to Sunni Arabs on two key points stanley quencher mdash; federalism and Saddam Hussein s Baath Party mdash; to win their support gourde stanley for Iraq s constitution, a Shiite official said Friday following a third extension of the deadline to approve the charter.U.S. officials have also appealed to the country s powerful Shiite clergy, including Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, to help resolve the standoff, said Ali al-Adeeb, a Shiite member of the committee drafting the charter.Shiite negotiators agreed to study suggested changes to the document Friday after parliament speaker Hajim al-Hassani announced officials would try again to reach unanimity after the stanley france latest deadline passed at midnight Thursday.A Sunni negotiator, meanwhile, pointed the finger at the Kurds, citing their intransigence over the issue of federalism, which the Sunnis oppose.Several Shiite negotiators, expressing frustration with the continued delays, said Thursday there was no need for unanimity or a parliament vote and that the draft approved Monday by them and the Kurds should go to voters in an Oct. 15 referendum without further changes. The United States, hoping to lure Sunni Arabs away from the insurgency, had pressed the Shiites and Kurds to accept unelected 15 Sunni negotiators on the drafting committee last spring to ensure that the pivotal community was represented. Sunni Arabs form the core of the insurgency.In other developments:An overwhelming number of Americans s

[CharlesteVibra]

Nntk U.N.: World s refugees sheltered in poor nations
Shamima Begum, a London teenager who left Britain four years ago to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS , is to be stripped of her U.K. citizenship by the government, her family s lawyer said Tuesday. Attorney Tasnime Akunjee twee hoka trekkingschuhe ted that the family is very disappointed with the Home Office s intention to have an order made depriving Shamima of her citizenship. He said the family is considering all legal avenues to challenge this decision. ITV News reported that the family had received a letter from the Home Office, which oversees immigration, saying that the order revoking Begum s British citizenship had already been made.The letter said Begum could appeal the decision. Begum left London with two friends in 2015, when she was 15, and traveled to Syria.Now 19 and living in a refugee camp, she said she has given birth to a baby and wants to come home. T adidas campus he case has nike dunk reignited a debate in the U.K. about how to deal with citizens who joined ISIS but want to return home now that the group is on the verge of collapse.President Trump has demanded that European countries take back their citizens who fought in Syria, but European nations are worried about security. Begum was found this month by The Times newspaper in a refugee camp in Syria. She said she had fled ISIS last enclave. The teenager said she had married an ISIS fighter, had lost two children through malnutrition and disease, and wanted her newly born baby boy to grow up in Britain. Shami Vzyn Chinese president gives ultimatum to reporters and editors
President George W. Bush on Saturday ple stanley quencher dged full U.S. suppo stanley cup rt to India as it investigates the deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai, saying the killers will not have the final word. The more than 60-h gourde stanley our siege ended early Saturday as Indian commandos killed the last three gunmen at Mumbai s historic Taj Mahal hotel. The battle ended with several explosions and one of the gunmen falling from a hotel window, as CBS News Celia Hatton reported tonight.Commandos then entered the hotel to search for live ammunition the gunmen had intentionally left behind. We are going through the entire hotel, through the corridors, through the rooms. Until we are able to check each and every room, I will not say that my operation is over, Jyoti Krishan Dutt, director general of India s National Security Guard commando unit, told Hatton.Bush spoke at the White House after returning from the Camp David presidential retreat where he spent Thanksgiving and monitored the rampage. The coordinated assaults left nearly 200 people dead, including six Americans, and raised tensions between India and neighboring Pakistan, two nuclear-armed rivals. The killers who struck this week are brutal and violent, Bush said on the South Lawn with first lady Laura Bush at his side. But terror will not have the final word. The people of India are resilient. The people of India are strong. They have built a vibrant, multiethnic democracy. They can withstand this trial. Before leaving Camp David in the mountai

[CharlesteVibra]

Itpe Christian clerics helping Chinese men target poor girls in Pakistan for marriage, AP reports
BOGOTA, Colombia -- A deluge of rain set off landslides that smashed homes and filled streets with mud Wednesday in a mountain city in a coffee-growing part of Colombia, a af1 nd authorities said at least 17 people were killed and two dozen injured.The disaster struck in the early morning when many people in Manizales were still asleep, just as a flooding disaster two weeks ag adidas originals ultraboost o that caused more than 300 deaths in this Andean nationrsquo southern city of Mocoa.Dozens of hillsides gave way in Manizales after the city of nearly 400,000 people received the equivalent of a full monthrsquo rain in the span of five hours. The inundation caused at least 40 to 50 avalanches of mud and rock that destroyed homes and left several roadways impassable.Rescuers dug in thick layers of mud searching for nine people listed as missing. General view after mudslide samba og s in Manizales, Caldas department, Colombia, April 19, 2017. Getty Among those believed buried in the debris was a man trying to help several relatives after water began entering their home. A mudslide wrecked the house while he was still inside, though all of his family members managed to escape. Unfortunately, everything indicates he is buried in there, said Juan Carlos Rendon, a transit coordinator aiding operations in Manizales.The dead included a police officer and two children. Sfmv Ancient royal tomb unearthed in Egypt by archaeologists
WARSAW, Poland U.S. officials visiting Warsaw tried to reassure Poland on Monday that the cancellation of the final stage of a European missile defense system wil stanley flask l not sideline the country and was not made to appease Russia.U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced last week that plans to place long-range missile interceptors in Poland in the next decade are being abandoned. As part of the announced changes, the U.S wants to pla stanley thermos ce other interceptors in Alaska due to the threat from North Korea.But U.S. defense and political officials on a previously scheduled visit to the Polish capital said shorter-range interceptors would still be based in Poland as part of NATO s missile defense system in Europe.The Obama administration has planned to put medium-range interceptors in Redzikowo, in northern Poland, starting in 2018, as part o stanley thermoskannen f the NATO system. They are meant to protect Europe from attacks from Iran.Wendy Sherman, U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs, said the Polish site will go forward as scheduled. The U.S. missile defense plans involve building up the system in Europe in four stages, with shorter- and medium-range interceptors to be deployed in the first three phases, and longer-range interceptors due in the fourth phase.However, the fourth stage has not yet been funded by Congress, and there are indications the technology is not ready. At the same time they have been an irritant in relations between the U.S. and Russia, which suspects the inter