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PARIS-- Police say a police dog was killed in the siege of an apartment where some of the Paris attackers were thought to be holed up.The National Police said in a tweet that the 7-year-old Belgian Malinois named Diesel, a SWAT team assault dog, was killed by terrorists during the raid in Saint-Denis, north of Paris. Les chiens d assaut et de recherche d explosifs: indispensables dans les missions des opeacute;rateurs du RAID pic.twitter/vb5lGjnwjOmdash; Police Nationale @PNationale November 18, 2015 Two suspects died in the assault, one of them a female suicide bomber and seven people were arrested in the apartment building. adidas originals uomo Five police officers were lightly injured.The raid targeted perpetrators of Friday s deadly gun-and-bomb attacks in Paris that killed 129 people.The intended target of the raid was Abdelhamid Abaao nike af ud. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-406d8cba-caea-47a7-b3b8-97ee9a8f6666, right-rail-recirc-item--id-406d8cba-caea-47a7-b3b8-97ee9a8f6666 display: none; in yeezy line-recirc-item--id-406d8cba-caea-47a7-b3b8-97ee9a8f6666 ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block; Gxsf Koala Saved from Australia Wildfires Dies
Polling stations opened late, or not at all, and scuffles broke out in some areas Tuesday as Haitians cast ballots in the country s first presidential election since a bloody revolt two years ago drove out the president and pushed the country toward total collapse.Rosemond Pradel, the secretary-general of Haiti s nine-member Electoral Council, told The Associated Press that voting hours will be extended by at least two hours because of organizational problems. He did not give a new closing time but said there were no pl water bottle stanley ans to extend the voting hours into Wednesday.The polls were supposed to open at 6 a.m. across the Caribbean nation, but a shortage of workers, missing ballots and other pr stanley mugs oblems delayed the opening of some voting stations, including those used by people from Cite Soleil, a volatile shantytown at the northern edge of the capital. Overall, however, voters formed orderly lines and patiently waited to cast ballots. There s some frustration and anger on the voting lines, said David Wimhurst, a spokesman for the U.N., which has some 9,000 troops and police trying to maintain order in the troubled nation. People have ben waiting several hours now and in some cases stanley cups they haven t even got inside. More than 5,000 people waited to vote at a polling station near Cite Soleil, which was deemed too dangerous to have voting booths of its own. Some frustrated people chanted We have the right to vote, as the far-behind-schedule election workers assembled ballot boxes.

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BEIJING -- Chinese authorities say four people have been killed and five injured in an explosion at a stall selling fireworks on the eve of the Lunar New Year holiday.The information office in Tonghai county in the southwestern province of Yunnan says the blast occurred at around 11 p.m. Thursday. It says the cause of the explosion is under investigation.Friday marked the start of China s most important traditional holiday, with tens of millions traveling across the vast nations for family reunions.Fireworks have generally been a major part of the festivities, although authorities have cracked down on the practice for safety reasons and to cut down on air pollution. Cities such as Beijing and Shanghai that used to shake from fireworks have been eerily quiet this year. Passengers gather in the waiting hall at Hongqiao Railway Station ahead of the Lunar New Year holidays in Shanghai on February 6, 2018. GETTY Across China and indeed much of Asia around the world, millions are celebrating the Lunar New Yea yeezy r with festivals, parades and temple visits to ask for blessings. This year marks the year of the dog, one of the 12 animals in the Chinese astrological chart. People in Beijing celebrated with family feasts and visits to bustling temple fairs amid the mid-winter chill.Ditan Park in the center of Beijing was the most vibrant, w adidas samba ith empty tree branches festooned samba shoes with Rftz Pope Francis, in Christmas message, prays for end to pandemic and conflicts around the world
LAGOS, Nigeria - A piracy monitoring official says pirates off Nigeria s coast have attacked a cargo ship and shot dead its captain and chief engineer.Cyrus Mody of the International Maritime Bureau said the attack happened early Monday morning, about 110 nautical miles south of Lagos.Mody says the ship tried to escape but both the captain and chief engineer were shot dead during a continuous firefight. He offered no other details. Nigerian officials could not be immediately reached for comment.Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea has escalated from low-level armed robberies to hijackings and cargo thefts. West African pirates also have been more willing to use violence 151; beating crew members, and shooting and stabbing those who get in the way. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-99d3cd4e-8c88 stanley mug -11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-99d3cd4e-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-99d3cd4e-8c88-11e2-b0 stanley website 6b-024c619f5c3d ~ . stanley cups item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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L ISLE-VERTE, Quebec -- A fire raged through aseniors home in eastern Quebec on Thursday, trapping residents dependent onwheelchairs and walkers. Three were confirmed dead, 30 were missing and Canada s primeminister said there is little doubt the death toll will be high.Officials saidfirefighters saw and heard people in the building that they were unable tosave.Many of those unaccountedfor were dependent on wheelchairs and walkers and only five residents in thecenter were fully autonomous, said Ginette Caron, acting mayor of the smalltown of L Isle-Verte, about 140 miles northeast of QuebecCity.She said some hadAlzheimer s disease.The massive fire in thethree-st adidas originals hamburg ory building broke out around 12:30 a.m. and raged through the night.Firefighters arrived within eight mi air force 1 nutes of getting the alarm and several firedepartments in the region were called in to help. But firefighters were unableto carry out a complete evacuation because of the intensity of the fire. About20 residents were transported to safety. It was a totalfire, said L Iles-Verte fire chief Yvan Charron. Firefighters survey the damage after a fatal fire at a seniors residence in L Isle-Verte, Quebec, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014. Ryan Remiorz, Canadaian Press/AP The fire broke out in -4Fahrenheit temperatures, ca nike dunk using equipment to freeze, Charronsaid.As morning dawned and thefire was brought under control, th Uxsh Australia cops shut down Greenpeace offices
AP PARIS - French fishermen will be on the hunt for a vulnerable shark species off the coast of the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion soon 151; and will pocket government cash for their kills after a dramatic rise in deadly attacks pushed Paris to take unprecedented measures.Financial incentives will come into force as early as next week 151; and it s provoked an outcry from animal rights groups, who call it a legalized extermination. The sharks to be ta stanley cup rgeted are bull sharks, a large and aggressive species common in the Indian Ocean which is widely believed to be behind several recent attacks on people.Seals to blame for shark attacks, experts sayMass. beach remains open after swimmer was bittenThe International Union for Conservation of Nature, a leading conservation group that produces the world s main list of endangered species, the so-called Red List, designates the bull sh stanley cups ark as near threatened, meaning it could face the threat of extinction in the near future. From 2000 to 2010, there were no shark attacks off Reunion and no calls for cullin stanley tumbler g, but the last two years have seen several deadly attacks, the most recent coming last week when a 22-year-old surfer died after a shark bit off his leg. It was the seventh attack 151; and the third fatality 151; since the start of last year.The attacks have frightened many local residents into staying on dry land. A couple of weeks ago, I allowed my son to go swimming, said 49-year-old Philippe Nanpon, who

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Nikki Haley, who isleaving her post as U.S. ambassador to the United Nationsat the end of year, was a rookie on the international stage when she was appointed to the position in November 2016. Since then, she hasreset U.S. policyon Israel and helped lead the United States push to impose increasingly severe sanctions against North Korea.H adiletten original aley s term was one of both diplomacy and tough policies that were sometimes unpopular at the U.N. But diplomats have praised her uniformly. Frances s ambassador to the U.N., Francois Delattre, called Haley one of the most talented, m adidas campus 00s ost authentic U.S. government officials that I have ever met. Nikki is a trusted friend and colleague, said Koro Bessho, Japan s ambassador to the U.N. who has worked closely with Haley on sanctions against North Korea. I look forward to working with her for the rest of the year. .@nikkihaley has been and continues to be an outstanding Ambassador great colleague. Led @UN on several important issues, including North Korea responding to chemical weapons use in Syria Salisbury.I look forward to working closely with her until the end of her term. pic.twitter/4lrkzsxpRrmdash; Karen Pierce @KarenPierceUN October 9, 2018 Haley was the first woman named to President Trump s Cabinet. During Haley s tenure, the U.S. withdrew from the Paris climate accord, the Geneva-based U.N. Hu adidas campus 00s man Rights Council, the Iran nuclear deal, and the U.N. Educational and Cultural agency UNESCO . The U.S. also ref Uhoz Lufthansa OK d to Fly 50 Planes Back to Germany
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What happens when you hang a rhinoceros upside down That s what a group of researchers from Cornell University and Namibia s Ministry of Environment wanted to find out. So they dangled a dozen tranquilized black rhinos from a crane mdash; and earned an award for their work.Science humor magazine Improbable Research awarded the study an Ig Nobel mdash; a takeoff on the famed Nobel Prize mdash; for transportation, one of 10 research projects cited Thursday for achievements that first make people salomon mujer laugh then make them think. The study tested how rhinos fare upside down because that s increasingly how conservationists move the critically endangered animals mdash; suspended from a helicopter with a 130-foot chain while the 1,400-pound mammals a hoka wanderschuh re relocated either for their protection or to ensure genetic diversity in breeding efforts. According to the researchers, nobody had ever checked to see if the health of a tranquilized rhino was compromised when being airlifted upside down. A tranquilized rhino hangs in the air. Namibian Ministry of the Environment, Forestry, and Tourism As it turns out, the rhinos coped very well mdash; and better in this unusual position than simply lying on their side or chest. That s likely good news f air force one or conservation efforts, as the number of rhinos has been decimated by poaching, in part from rising demand for rhino horn under the mistaken Bgfy Shiite Alliance Likely To Dominate
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The United States says Sweden s ambassador in North Korea has visited two American reporters sentenced to 12 years of hard labor.State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters that the ambassador visited the women T stanley us uesday in Pyongyang. Kelly had no other details.Sweden serves as the U.S. protecting power in North Korea.The ambassador s last meeting with the women was June 1. Kelly says the ambassador has been in constant contact with the North, pressing for access. He says the United States is pursuing many different avenues to secure their release but would not elaborate.Euna Lee and Laura Ling were sentenced in June on charges of entering the North illegally and engaging in hostile acts. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-98d74e52-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id- stanley france 98d74e52-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; stanley cup inline-recirc-item--id-98d74e52-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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Suspected insurgents ambushed an American military convoy on a road in southern Afghanistan, setting off an explosion that wounded three Marines, one of them seriously, the U.S. military said Monday.The attack occurred Saturday near the village of Dailanor, in restive Kandahar province, said Lt. Col. Tucker Mansager, a military spokesman. The wounded men were taken to a military hospital at the U.S. base in Kandahar, the main coalition headquarters in southern Afghanistan.The attack on the Marines is an indication of stepped-up aggressiveness by insurgents mdash; Taliban and al Qaeda holdouts also believed responsible for the ambush of the U.S. Army rangers last Thursday night that killed Specialist Pat Tillman, the former NFL player, and an Afghan soldier and wounded two others.Lt. Gen. David Barno, the top American commander in Afghanistan, said M stanley water jug onday that the military has seen a recent surge in violence, but that most attacks were directed a stanley cupe gainst soft targets, such as civilians or isolated Afghan security outposts. We are seeing the beginnings hellip; in the last two weeks, of some degree of spring surge by the enemy forces, Barno said. I think they are still dangerous, they still have the ability to conduct attacks, but those attacks are growing increasingly more focused on vulnerable populations. The stanley termohrnek three men wounded on Saturday are part of a recently arrived contingent of 2,000 Marines that arrived in Afghanistan in recent weeks, bringing the total size o

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An inspector general s report to be released Thursday details Russia s failure to give the FBI crucial information about one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect prior to last year s bombing, the The New York Times reports. Th air force one e FBI first learned about Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011, two years before the bombing, but the Russians never revealed at the time that Tsarnaev talked about jihad with his family.CBS News justice and national security correspondent Bob Orr reported last year that Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which Tsarnaev had a conversation with his mother of a radical nature and hadn t relayed that information to the U.S. government until after the April 2013 bombing.In another conversation, Tsarnaev s mother was recorded talking to someone in southern Russia who is under FBI investigation in an unrelated case, officials mizuno volleyballschuhe told The Associated Press last year. The conversations, confirmed in the inspector general s report, are significant because, had they been revealed earlier, they might have been enough evidence for the FBI to initiate a more thorough investigation of adidas originals forum the Tsarnaev family. As it was, Russian authorities told the FBI only that they had concerns that Tamerlan and his mother were religious extremists. With no additional information, the FBI conducted a limited inquiry and closed the case in June 2011.The additional information, CBS News national security analyst Juan Zarate explained Thursda Vcvp As Russia claims new peace talks are planned, airstrike hits rescuers in Syria
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SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea on Monday reported its sixth death from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome as autho adidas original campus rities were bolstering measures to stem the spread of the virus that has left dozens of people infected.A total of 87 people in South Korea have been infected by MERS since last month in the largest outbreak outside the Middle East. About 1,870 schools have closed and more than 2,000 people are isolated at their homes or state-run facilities after having contact with patients infected with the virus. Latest MERS patient no longer has virus 02:02 An 80-year-old man, who tested positive for the virus last week while being treated for pneumonia, died Monday and became the country s sixth death linked to MERS, according to a statement from the Health Min air max 1 istry.Departing from its earlier policy, the government on Sunday disclosed the name adidas samba damen s of the 24 hospitals where the MERS patients have been diagnosed or had been treated before their condition was confirmed. This will allow people who have visited those facilities in recent weeks to report themselves if they are showing symptoms similar to MERS-related illnesses, officials said.The government had earlier refused to reveal the names of those hospitals saying it would cause a disruption in services if people started avoiding them. The disclos Vriv 2 Arrested In Case Of Missing British Girl
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, at the outset of a hastily arranged visit to Iraq aimed at containing the prisoner abuse scandal, said Thursday that U.S. administration lawyers are advising the Defense Department not to publicly release any more photographs of Iraqi prisoners being abused by U.S. soldiers. As far as I m concerned, I d be happy to release them all to the public and to get it behind us, Rumsfeld told reporters traveling with stanley mugs him from Washington. But at the present time I don t know anyone in the legal shop in any element of the government that is recommending that. The government lawyers argue that releasing such materials would violate a Genev stanley cups a Convention stricture against presenting images of prisoners that could be construed as degrading, Rumsfeld said en route to the Iraqi capital on a trip that was not announced in advance due to security concerns.Rumsfeld was accompanied by Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and several lawyers on a trip designed to reassure U.S. troops that the prisoner abuse scandal has not weakened public support for their mission and to get firsthand reports from the most senior commanders.The trip followed President George W. Bush s visit Monday to the Defense Department, where he got an update from commanders in Iraq and declared his unwavering support for Rumsfeld, who has taken a lot of criticism from members of Congress for his handling of the scandal. Some Democrats have called for his resignation