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Was hoka laufschuhe hington mdash; The number of unauthorized entries along the southern border has dropped to an average of 4,400 per day after soaring to 10,000 last week ahead of the expiration of Title 42 border restr adidas samba ictions, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday, attributing the sharp drop to increased deportations, tighter asylum rules and efforts by other countries to stop U.S.-bound migrants.Over the past two days, U.S. Border Patrol agents have recorded fewer than 4,000 migrant apprehensions, a 60% decrease from the record daily border crossings seen before May 11 when the Title 42 pandemic-related restrictions on migration expired, said Blas Nuntilde;ez Neto, the Department of Homeland Security s top immigration policy official.The end of Title 42, which allowed U.S. border agents to expel migrants on public health grounds, was expected to trigger a spike in migration. While illegal border crossings did soar just before Title 42 ended, they plummeted soon after, Nuntilde;ez Neto said. We attribute the reduction in encounters at our border both to the consequences that we have strengthened and put in place for unlawful entry, and the lawful pathways that we have expanded, but also to the actions of our foreign partners, Nuntilde;e nike dunk z Neto told reporters during a briefing Wednesday.Nuntilde;ez Neto noted the Mexican and Guatemalan governments had dispatched law enforcement and military units to their southern borders to slow U.S.-bound migration. In Panama s Darieacute;n Gap, he Veuz Typhoon slams Philippines; 74 dead
BEIRUT Israel launched a rare airstrike inside Syria, U.S. officials said Wednesday, targeting a convoy believed to contain anti-aircraft weapons bound for Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. The attack adds a potentially flammable new element to tensions already heightened by Syria s civil war.It was the latest salvo in Israel s long-running effort to disrupt the Shiite militia s quest to build an arsenal capable of defending against Israel s air force and spreading destruction inside the Jewish state.Regional security officials said the strike, which occurred stanley cups overnight Tuesday, targeted a site near the Lebanese border, while a Syrian army statement said it destroyed a military research center northwest of the capital, Damascus. They appeared to be referring to the same incident.U.S. officials said the target was a truck convoy that Israel believed was carrying sophisticated anti-aircraft weapons bound for Hezbollah in Lebanon. They spoke on condition of ano stanley kubek nymity because they were not authorized to speak about the operation. CBS News David Martin at the Pentagon also reported Israel hit a convoy believed to be carrying weapons to Hezbollah.Regional security officials said Israel had been planning in the days leading up to the airstrike to hit a shipment of weapons bound for Hezbollah, Lebanon s most powerful military force and a sworn enemy of the Jewish s stanley cup price tate. Among Israeli officials chief fears is that Assad will pass chemical weapons or sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles

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PARIS --French police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse demonstrators in Paris on Saturday as thousands gathered in the capital and staged road blockades across the nation to vent asics outlets anger against rising fuel taxes and Emmanuel Macron s presidency. Thousands of police were deployed nationwide to contain the deadly demonstrations that started as protests against tax but morphed into a rebuke of Macron and the perceived elitism of France s ruling class. Two people have been killed since November 17 in protest-related tragedies.Tense clashes on the Champs-Elysees on Saturday saw police face off with demonstrators who burned plywood, wielded placards reading Death to Taxes and upturned a large vehicle. Authorities said that 5,000 protesters flooded the Champs-Elysees at the demonstration s peak. There were nearly 81,000 protesters in total nationwide.The famed avenue was speckled from the early morning in neon, owing to the color of the vests the myriad self-styled yellow jacket protesters don. French drivers are required to keep neon security vests in their vehicles, and now, the vests have become a sort of uniform for the movement against higher fuel costs,BBC News reported. Protesters wearing yellow vest, a symbol of a French drivers protest against higher fuel prices, stand up in front of a police water canon during clashes on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, Fr adidas yeezy ance, November 24, 2018. BENOIT TESS adidas originals donna IE Uvba Report: Kim Jong Il Has Pancreatic Cancer
The U.S. military is working more aggressively to forge cease-fires with Iraqi militants and quell the violence around Baghdad, judging that 80 percent of enemy combatants are reconcilable, a top U.S. commander said Thursday.However, Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno also warned that he may not be able to make a full assessment of the situation in Iraq by September, as demanded by lawmakers.And as American troops move into new parts of the country, they re suffering higher casualties as they stanley cup run into deeply-buried, impossible to see explosive devices mdash; the infamous IEDs, reports CBS News national security correspondent David Martin.Odierno, the No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq, told Pentagon reporters by videoconference that he is pressing his military officers to reach out to the tribes, to some small insurgent groups and to religious and political leaders to push them to stop the violence. We are talking about cease-fires, and maybe signing some things that say t stanley cups hey won t conduct operations against the government of Iraq or against coalition forces, Odierno said from Camp Vic cups stanley tory in Baghdad. We believe a large majority of groups within Iraq are reconcilable and are now interested in engaging with us. But more importantly, they want to engage and become a part of the government of Iraq. Stemming the violence in and around the capital city is key to giving the Iraqi government time to stabilize and move toward reconciliation with the warring sectarian factions. That woul

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MINSK, Belarus -- Military officials in Belarus sought Thursday morning to calm Western fears about major war games taking place with Russia, hours before they got underway. We are not threatening anyone, Oleg Voinov, adidas originals uomo an adviser to the Belarusian Defense Minister, told journalists.Despite assurances from Minsk and Moscow, the Zapad West 2017 maneuvers have caused concern among NATO nations. Some members of the alliance, including the Baltic States and Poland, have questioned Moscow s real intentions and said the number of troops involved could be much higher than official figures offered by Moscow.Russia accused the West of whipping up hysteria over the exercises, Reuters reports. We reject complaints of these exercises not being transparent, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a salomon zapatillas conference call with reporters on Thursday, according to Reuters. We believe that whipping up hysteria around these exercises is a provocati adidas originals ultraboost on. Russia responds to U.S. troops in Poland, Trump intel claims 02:32 Russia and Belarus have said that the exercises, which will last until Sept. 20, will involve 5,500 Russian and 7,200 Belarusian troops, but U.S. military and NATO officials have said Russia could mass as many as 100,000 troops along the borders shared with Eastern European countries. Leaders in Pol Tvqc Rob Ford s vote on Mandela honor draws gasps from lawmakers
When terrorists slammed their hijacked airplanes into the World Trade Center, they attacked more than America.Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of foreigners worked in the towers.On Thursday, people arou water bottle stanley nd the globe awaited word of whether their sons, daughters and colleagues had survived.Dramatic stories began to emerge - an Irishman said his brother who worked in the towers survived, but his sister on a hijacked plane did not. From China, a woman escaped and saw her office building melt like chocolate. Nearly everywhere, people simply hoped for the barest of details. As is the case with the overall count, the number of foreigners among the missing remained unclear. But as governments try to track down their citizens, it appeared the number of dead could easily rise into stanley thermos the hundreds.According to Japan stanley cups s Foreign Ministry, roughly 100 Japanese nationals, including dozens of tourists, were unaccounted for.There were 31 Japanese companies with branch offices in the Trade Center towers, and at least 22 workers were among the missing. We are working around the clock, Yoshinori Ide, a spokesman for Japan s Fuji Bank, said from an emergency center to coordinate the bank s search for 12 missing employees. Bank employees who survived the attack were calling and visiting hospitals in search of missing colleagues, who mostly worked on the 79th through 81st floors of the second tower.At least 50 Bangladeshis have been confirmed dead in the World Trade Center attacks and

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Rescue crews are still sorting through the remnants of collapsed buildings after the deadliest earthquake to strike Mexico City in decades. At least 223 people died in the 7.1-magnitude quake that struck outside Mexico City on the 32nd anniversary of the 1985 earthquake that killed thousands. Buildings across the city were reduced to rubble, and many people remain missing. At least 25 people were killed when a portion of a three-story school collapsed, trapping students and teachers. One child was found alive. The earthquake is the third major natural disaster to hit the country in two weeks. Hurricane Katia dumped rain on the country s Gulf Coast on Sept. 8, killing at least two people and leaving thousands without power. The same day, a powerful 8.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the country s southern Pacific coast, killing more than airmaxplus 90 people and toppling hundreds of buildings. Children rescued from collapsed school after Mexico quake 01:49 The Mexi salomon mujer can government and aid groups are struggling to respond to the series of disasters. After Hurrican adidas samba e Harvey left much of Houston underwater, the Mexican government offered to send supplies and personnel to aid in the recovery effort. The country rescinded that offer on Sept. 11, citing the need for resources to deal with its own disasters. The White Nobs Relatives of journalist held in Egypt focusing on deportation
VIENNA - Iran is poised to greatly expand uranium enrichment at a fortified underground bunker to a point that would boost how quickly it could make nuclear warheads, diplomats tell The Associated Press.They said stanley uk Tehran has pu stanley cups t finishing touches stanley becher for the installation of thousands of new-generation centrifuges at the cavernous facility machines that can produce enriched uranium much more quickly and efficiently than its present machines.While saying that the electrical circuitry, piping and supporting equipment for the new centrifuges was now in place, the diplomats emphasized that Tehran had not started installing the new machines at its Fordo facility and could not say whether it was planning to.Still, the senior diplomats who asked for anonymity because their information was privileged suggested that Tehran would have little reason to prepare the ground for the better centrifuges unless it planned to operate them. They spoke in recent interviews -- the last one Saturday.The reported work at Fordo appeared to reflect Iran s determination to forge ahead with nuclear activity that could be used to make atomic arms despite rapidly escalating international sanctions and the latent threat of an Israeli military strike on its nuclear facilities. Fordo could be used to make fissile warhead material even without such an upgrade, the diplomats said.They said that although older than Iran s new generation machines, the centrifuges now operating there can be reconfigured within d

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LUCKNOW, India -- Police are investigating a mysterious raft of attacks in which Indian women say they re waking up to find someone has chopped off their hair.A top official in northern Uttar Pradesh state says police have advised people not to believe or spread rumors following the death of a 65-year-old woman who was beaten by a mob on suspicion that she was a witch responsible for the hair theft.Anand Kumar says village committees have been ordered to quash rumors about ghosts or witches cutting off women s braids. Similar complaints have come from neighboring Haryana and Delhi suburbs.Kumar said Friday police are investigating the claims.Some psychiatrists believe they may be due to mass hysteria or hallucination. More from CBS News Crime-solving techniques may have solved medieval art mystery adidas samba donna adidas campus Crocodile kills woman despite coworker s attempt to save her adidas campus beige Driver finds highly venomous snake slithering up her leg Iran frees r Giwn The Guards Of Peace On Earth
AP Photo/Nabil al-J stanley france urani Iraqi security officers examine a car damaged by a roadside bomb in Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, July 27, 2008. There were no immediate reports on possible casualties. AP Photo/Hadi Mizban Shiite pilgrims walk down a street as they make their way to the shrine of Imam Musa al-Kazim, in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, July 27, 2008. AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo U.S.Army Gen. David Petraeus, the top commander in Iraq, speaks to soldiers from 3rd Squardron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment at F stanley quencher orward Operating Base Normandy in Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles north of Baghdad in Iraq s vo stanley becher latile Diyala province on Saturday, July 26, 2008. AP Photo/Karim Kadim People attend open air prayers in Baghdad s Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, Iraq, Friday, July 25, 2008. AP Photo/Ahmed Alhussainey People gather next to a site of a bomb explosion in Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, July 25, 2008. Iraqi authorities say a bomb expl

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Oceans make up 70% of the planet, and provide 97% of the Earth s water. They re also the planet s epicenter for climate change. The oceans are actually absorbing about a third of the carbon dioxide that we are releasing, said Jacqueline Savitz, Oceana s chief policy officer for North America. They are doing us this huge service, because climate change would actually be worse than it is today if it weren t for the oceans. But that service that they are providing us is also making it sick. Carbon dioxide can actually change the chemistry of the water. That is actually not so good for marine animals, Savitz said. adidas campus 00s Some of the water expansion and the melting of ice caps is also leading to sea level rise, which causes problems especially for coastal communities. So, there are a number of different ways in which climate change is impacting the oceans. But one of the main impacts is the warming of waters mdash; and not just ocean surfaces. A new international study found deep oceans are warming at a faster pace, which could accelerate even more in the coming decades.The study has been published in Nature Climate Change. The absorption of carbon dioxide by the planet s oceans is increasing, with warming temperatures forcing some marine species to migrate. mizuno volleyballschuhe CBS News adidas campus herren In the best case scenario, it s about seven times faster than the surface, said the study s lead author, Iss Jqdd Violence erupts as Kenyan opposition leader claims vote fraud
Updated 10:48 p.m. ETA pair of suicide car bombings Sunday devastated the heart of Iraq s capital, killing at least 147 people in the country s deadliest attack in more than two years. The bombs targeted two government buildings and called into question Iraq s ability to protect its people as U.S. forces withdraw.The bombings show that insurgents still have the ability to launch horrific attacks even as violence has dropped dramatically in Iraq. Many fear such attacks will only increase as Iraq prepares for crucial January elections.The dead included 35 stanley kubek employees at the Ministry of Justice and at least 25 staff members of the Baghdad Provincial Council, said police and medical officials speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. At least 721 people were wounded, including three American contractors.The street where the blasts occurred had just been reopened to vehicle traffic six months ago. Shortly after, blast walls were repositioned to allow traffic closer to the government buildings. Such changes were touted by Iraq s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as a sign that safety was returning to the city. The Iraqi leader walked among the mangled and blackened car stanley mugs s, which lay in front of blast walls that had been decorated with peaceful street scenes of Iraq. At the Justice Ministry, windows a stanley canada nd walls on both sides of the street were blown away, and blood pooled with water from burst pipes.Al-Maliki has staked his political re

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London mdash;Thousands of people from across the world are set to arriv salomon mujer e in the United Kingdom to attend Queen Elizabeth II s state funeral service on Monday. The guest list for the service includes around 500 foreign dignitaries, including about 100 heads of state. As CBS News senior foreign correspondent Holly Williams reports, that makes it a massive security challenge.The U.K. has plenty of experience organizing elaborate public events, from the funeral of Princess Diana in 1997, to the royal weddings of her children that have come since. All those events have required meticulous preparation. But this is different. The queen s funeral is reportedly bringing with it the most complex security operation London has ever undertaken. Police officers mingle with members of the public waiting on Lambeth Bridge as they line up to pay their respects to the late Queen Elizabeth II, in London, September 15, 2022. ODD ANDERSEN/AFP/Getty Around 10,000 police officers and 1,500 military personnel have already been deployed, including armed police, which is more unusual in the U.K. as most police don t carry guns. Police snipers have been spotted on rooftops in the capital, keeping care yeezy 350 ful watch over the big crowds already gathering to pay their respects to the late monarch.The f crocs winterstiefel uneral will be held at the ancient Westminster Abbey in the heart of London. Britain s capital is full o Hhxz Biden says it s a big mistake for Russia to suspend participation in New START nuclear treaty
Authorities found traces of radiation on two British Airways jetliners, and the airline appealed Wednesday to tens of thousands of passengers who flew the aircraft to or from Moscow to come forward as investigators widened the search for clues into the poisoning death of a former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.Meanwhile, an Italian security expert who was one of the last people to meet with the former KGB agent who fell fatally ill said Wednesday that tests cleared him of radioactive contamination.The airline said the risk to public health is low, adding that it was in the process of contacting tens of thousands of passengers who flew on the jets.Two planes at London s Heathrow Airport tested positive for traces of radiation and a third plane has been taken out of service in Moscow awaiting examination, British Airways said in a statement.The airline said it was contacted by the British government Tuesday night and told to ground the planes and allow investigators looking into Litvinenko s death to stanley mug test them stanley termohrnek for radiation. All three planes had been on the London-Moscow route, British Airways said. In the last three weeks, the planes had also traveled to routes across Europe including Barcelona, Frankfurt and Athens. Around 30,000 passengers had traveled on 220 flights on those planes, said Kate Gay, an airline spokeswoman. The airline is in t stanley polska he process of making contact with customers who have traveled on flights operated by these aircraft, which operate within Eur

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BETHLEHEM, West Bank - The offices of the Israeli and Palestinian presidents are confirming that they have accepted an invitation from Pope Francis to visit the Vatican together next month.At the end of an open-air Mass in the biblical town of Bethlehem on Sunday, Francis invited the Israeli and Palestinian leaders to the Vatican to pray for peace.The offices of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israel yeezy i President Shimon Peres both said they would attend.The 90- adidas samba year-old Peres, who is stepping down this summer, has been a fervent supporter of Mideast peace efforts. His decision risks upsetting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is angry about out nike dunk low reach efforts by other politicians at a time when Abbas is reconciling with the Islamic militant group Hamas.Pope Francis landed Sunday in the cradle of Christianity in a symbolic nod to Palestinian aspirations for their own state, calling the stalemate in peace talks unacceptable and stopping briefly to pray at the Israeli separation barrier surrounding this biblical West Bank town. Pope Francis visits the Holy Land 02:29 Jubilant Palestinians cheered Francis on the second day of his Mideast pilgrimage as he arrived for Mass in Bethlehem s Manger Square, shouting Viva al-Baba! or Long live the pope! Giant Palestinian flags in red, white Lhwi Raul Castro says Cuba is ready sit down with U.S.
As the MS Deutschland prepared to sail from New Yo stanley becher rk on Thursday, the captain spoke of death and passengers wept for those who never checked in, having perished in the fiery crash of an Air France Concorde outside of Paris Tuesday. Everywhere, there are signs of people missing, seats and cabins empty, said Brigitte Schoeneberg, a teacher f stanley cup rom Lunen, Germany, as she boarded the ship. Schoeneberg and her husband, Willi, had crossed the Atlantic on another ship, while 100 other would-be passengers, mostly Germans, died en route in Tuesday s Concorde crash near Paris. On Manhattan s Pier 88 Thursday, three American flags flew at half staff. Docked opposite the carrier USS Intrepid, the snow white ship with red stripes was ready to sail, its own flags fluttering in the breeze. Flight AF4590Complete coverage from CBSnews:Concorde Pilot Reported Engine Trouble Eyewitness: Like A Tiny Atomic Bomb French Town: Grateful Toll Wasn t WorseGermany Shaken By Concorde TragedyConcorde Flies AgainPilots Vouch For Concorde Safety A Future Barrier For Concorde Concorde Has Good Safety Record stanley polska Microcracks Ground A Concorde On the first evening of the five-star cruise through the Panama Canal to Ecuador, there would be no ball as planned. Instead, a 4 p.m. memorial service was arranged in memory of those who perished in the flaming crash on their way to the Deutschland. In New York, the cool, overcast July day matched what Schoeneberg described as the depressed, quiet,

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Lutsk, Ukraine mdash; An unstable armed man who seized more than a dozen hostages on a long-distance bus in Ukraine s western city of Lutsk was detained late Tuesday after a standoff that lasted for over 12 hours. All hostages were freed unharmed, officials said.The assailant agreed to release the hostages following a 15-minute phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Zele yeezy slide nsky s deputy chief of staff Kyrylo Tymoshenko told reporters.Shortly after the call, Zelensky posted a brief video mizuno running message on his Facebook page to urge Ukrainians to watch Earthlings, a 2005 American documentary alleging humanity s cruel exploitation of animals mdash; as the hostage-taker had wanted. Minutes later, the assailant walked out of the bus and surrendered to the police. Authorities said all 13 hostages he held were freed and no one was hurt.Earlier, following negotiations with the first deputy chief of national police, Yevhen Koval, the man had released three of the hostages, including a pregnant woman. At one point during the conversation, he fired his gun through the bus window and a bullet narrowly missed Koval, who also brought water for the hostages. After the drama ended, Zelen adidas campus beige sky hailed law enforcement officers for saving the hostages. Human life is the most important value, he said on Facebook. Now families can finally hug their relatives who spent the entire day on the bus in anguish. 1042; 1110; 1090; 1072; 1102; 1074; 1089; 1110; 1093;, Ljth 50 Held After Deadly Iraq Bombs
The Belgian government has set strict conditions for resuming soft drink production at two Coca-Cola plants, two weeks after children first fell ill drinking the popular beverage and setting off an international health scare. The government, however, maintained an import ban on products from the Coca-Cola plant in northern France s Dunkirk, a statement from Health Minister Luc Van stanley cup price den Bossche said. The government listed five conditions for the resumption of production at the Coke plants in Antwerp and Ghent, including requiring new security, health monitoring and a thorough cleaning of the factories. The government decision came a day after Coca-Cola Co. Chairman M. Douglas Ivester placed full-page ads in major Belgian newspapers to apologize for the incident.But Coke is still off the shelves in both Belgium and France despite the ads, CBS News Correspondent stanley water bottle Mark Phillips reports. Several Coke products have been pulled off the shelves in Belgium and France, even though tests by the French testing authority have come up negative. The soft-drink giant has now begun running full-page ads apologizing for the lapse in its product s quality. The government is under pressure because of other food scares recently. The problem with Coke has been traced to two plants - one in Belgium and one in France. At the Belgian plant, the company stanley cup says it used poor quality gas to carbonate the drinks. And small carbon particles used in the water filtration process made their way into

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Boeing said it will provide $100 million over several years to help families and communities affected by two crashes of its 737 Max plane that killed 346 people.Some of the money will go toward living expenses and to cover hardship suffered by the families of dead passengers, the company said Wednesday. The fund is separate from any legal settlements that are negotiated in connection with the two crashes, a company spokesman said. Boeing faces dozens of lawsuits over the crashes in October and in March. Relatives of passengers on a Lion Air Max that crashed off the coast of Indonesia last year agreed to try to settle through mediation, but families of passengers killed in an Ethiopian Airlines crash are waiting until more is known about the accidents.Preliminary investigations indicate that new software that pushed the planes noses down played a role in the crashes. Boeing is updating the software. Max jets have been grounded worldwide since March.--CBS News Kris Van Cleave contributed to this report. air force 1 More from CBS News nike dunk adidas samba damen Bitcoin price tops $100,000. Here s what s driving the gains QVC recalls 1.1 million pairs of oven gloves after users suffer burns Pvag Malaysia: PM Wasn t Slurring Jews
Before Jamaican security forces stormed into his poor West Kingston neighborhood stanley cup , George Green got jobs and help with food bills from a fugitive slum boss. Garbage trucks left the cracked streets spotless.Today, the walls of the Tivoli Gardens housing proj stanley cup ect are pockmarked with bullets and trash is strewn about after fighting between security forces and gunmen loyal to reputed drug kingpin Christopher Dudus Coke that left more than 70 people dead. I was safe before, the 48-year-old Green said after being frisked by soldiers who have taken over the complex. Now, I m scared just talking to you. Prime Minister Bruce Golding s pledge to crush street gangs and replace their strong-armed rule with social programs for the poor has a hollow ring to it in slums where dons like Coke have long provided services and imposed a disciplined law and order the government could never achieve. Slum dwellers have a deep distrust of the police, whom they of stanley mugs ten see as agents of the country s elite.Many Jamaicans also express skepticism that their two main political parties can wean themselves from their decades-old alliances with the underworld bosses. The political parties built the gangs: Dons received government contracts, and in exchange delivered the votes of their people. Residents were caught in the middle: The poor are exploited from both sides, said Yvonne McCalla Sobers, head of the Jamaican rights group Families Against State Terrorism.For years, citizens turned a blind