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New Delhi -- Indian Air Force jets carried out pre-emptive strikes on Pakistani territory on Tuesday, stoking tension between the nuclear-armed neighbors. adidas samba adidas Pakistan called the attack a grave aggression and promised a timely and effective response by its own military.India claimed the strikes hit the biggest training camp of the Islamic extremist group Jaish-e-Muhammad, killing a very large number of terrorists, in Pakistan s Khyber Pakhtunwa Province. The airstrikes came 12 days after a suicide car bomb attack by Jaish-e-Muhammad on Indian paramilitary soldiers in India s half of Kashmir. The terror attack left more than 40 soldiers dead and spiked the animosity between two nations which have fought over territorial rights to the Hi af1 malayan region of Kashmir for decades.India and Pakistan have fought three major wars since 1947, but there has been no major military confrontation since both nations gained nuclear weapons. An Indian paramilitary solider fires tear gas shell towards Kashmiri protesters in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Feb. 26, 2019. Kashmiri protesters were protesting against raids targeting purported key separatist leaders by Indian intelligence officers. AP Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi blamed Pakistan for the February 14 suicide attack in Kashmir -- one of the deadliest in decades -- and promised a crushin adidas samba g response in its wake. P Edqj Rescuers in flood-hit Japan search for the missing as death toll tops 150
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President Biden is expressing support for demonstrators in Cuba after thousands of people took to the streets in one of the country s biggest protests i crocs hausschuhe n decades. The U.S. stands firmly with the people of Cuba as they assert their universal rights. And we call on the government of Cuba to refrain from violence in their attempt to silence the voices of the people of Cuba, he said.The comments came a day after thousands of Cubans poured in dunk pand to the streets protesting against the communist government, triggered by food shortages, rising prices, and the government s response to rising COVID-19 infections.Thousands in Miami have joined in solidarity. Havana-born Damir Perez came to Florida a decade ago and says he s optimistic the protests will fuel change. We ve been fighting this fight for a long time now. We have never seen this in 62 years of dictatorship in Cuba, Perez mizuno handballschuh told CBS News Manuel Bojorquez. But in Havana, it was mostly quiet again by Monday. Police were seen patrolling the streets. Cuban authorities appear to have blocked access to social media sites like Facebook, Whatsapp, and Instagram. Dozens of people have been reportedly arrested in the protests, including journalists.Many demonstrators were also injured in clashes with police and pro-government activists. President Miguel Diaz-Canel blamed Cuba s economic turmoil on the U.S. trade embargo. These are protests inspired by the harsh reality of everyday life in Cuba, not people in another country, White Ifhh Security forces clash with protesters in Syria
A former teacher armed with a handgun that fires rubber bullets surrendered peacefully Thursday after taking nearly two dozen people mdash; mostly students mdash; hostage in a classroom at his former school in western France, official stanley uk s said.Nicolas Vilpail, 33, was on medication and apparently under the influence of alcohol during the four hours he held 21 students and two aides captive, authorities said. A government official said Vilpail had made stanley mugs paranoiac demands. The students were released to their families, and nobody was injured in the standoff, CBS News correspondent Elaine Cobbe reports.Vilpail had taught at the Colbert de Torcy High School until two years ago, school officials said. He was armed with a gun that fires rubber bullets, police said, adding that the weapon was n stanley cup evertheless dangerous. He surrendered after hours of negotiations, said Jean-Luc Prigent, a top aide in the local administration.Education Minister Gille de Robien said Vilpail had resigned of his own accord from the national education system in November. It was unclear whether he had taught elsewhere over the past two years. The minister, who went to the school, said the drama ended peacefully in part because of the calm, responsible behavior of the students, aged 16 to 18.One of two teacher s aides taken captive said Vilpail appeared calm and terribly depressed. His explanations for doing this were incoherent, said the woman, identifying herself only as Celine. He asked us to call a

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As President Trump and North Korea increase their war of words, China has been on the sidelines -- and despite Mr. Trump s previous criticisms of Beijing, that is unlikely to change anytime soon.CBS News foreign correspondent Ben Tracy says it is not likely at all that China will step up when it comes to the North Korea crisis.China is in a unique adidas originals position since North Korea depends on China for 90 percent of its trade. But it s unclear how much North Korea would even listen to any words from China, Tracy said.Kim Jong Un s regime is angry at China for going along with tough new sanctions the United Nations Security Council imposed last week, but Beijing could cut off North Korea s oil supply -- which could cause the regime to collapse, Tracy said.China fears refugees streaming into their country. If there is a war on the Korean Peninsula, China believes South Korea and the U.S. would win that war, Tracy said. And the U.S. military on its border is not something it is going to tolerate. Trump: Maybe North Korea warning wasn t tough enough adidas campus shoes 07:32 China s own relationship with the White House is complicated at best, Tracy said. The Chinese prize stabi nike dunk high lity and predictability, Tracy said. President Trump is constantly throwing them for a loop. One day, he ll compliment China on its eff Djoa Americans On Alert In Asia
The families of three Israeli soldiers captured by Islamic militants said that U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan promised them he would work to secure the release of the men.Annan was visiting Israel Tuesday as part of an 11-day trip through the Middle East to try to shore up the fragile cease-fire that ended 34-days of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon. The fighting started after Hezbollah fighters stanley cup attacked an Israeli army patrol July 12, killing three soldiers and capturing two others.Wednesday morning, Annan met in Jerusalem with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, and afterwards both diplomats said they hope the current Mideast cease-fire which ended 34 days of Israeli-Hezbollah warfare will evolve into a full peace agreement between Israel and Lebanon. I promise we will stick with it and do whatever we can to make it happen, said Annan.There was good news Wednesday for civilians in Lebanon whose homes were ravaged by bombs. The Lebanese government now says it will pay $33,000 per house to compensate Lebanese whose homes were destroyed by Israeli attacks. Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said 130,000 ho stanley thermos mug using units had been destroyed or damaged in more than a month of Israeli airstrikes and ground fighting with Hezbollah guerrillas, mostly in south Lebanon.Also Wednesday, the European Commission announced it will stanley website pledge euro42 million US$54 million at Thursday s conference in Stockholm to raise money to rebuild Lebanon.Th

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Bangkokmdash; Lawmakers in Thailand s lower house of Parliament overwhelmingly approved a marriage equality bill on Wednesday that would make the country the fir air max 98 st in Southeast Asia to legalize equal rights for marriage partners of any gender. The bill passed its final reading with the approval of 400 of the 415 members of the House of Representatives who were in attendance, with airmaxplus 10 voting against it, two abstaining and three not vot yeezy ing. The bill amends the Civil and Commercial Code to change the words men and women and husband and wife to individuals and marriage partners. It would open up access to full legal, financial and medical rights for LGBTQ+ couples. The bill now goes to the Senate, which rarely rejects any legislation that passes the lower house, and then to the king for royal endorsement. This would make Thailand the first country or region in Southeast Asia to pass such a law and the third in Asia, after Taiwan and Nepal.Attitudes on same-sex marriage in Japan shifting, but laws aren t yet Same-sex marriage around the world 15 photos Danuphorn Punnakanta, a spokesperson of the governing Pheu Thai party and president of a committee overseeing the marriage equality bill, said in Parliament that the amendment is for everyone in T Tfic Mladic extradited to U.N. war crimes tribunal
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BI hoka winterschuhe NALONAN, Philippines -- Super Typhoon Haima slammed into the northeastern Philippine coast late Wednesday with ferocious winds and rain that rekindled fears and memories from the catastrophe wrought by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013.Haima, which has sustained winds of 140 miles per hour and gusts of up to 195 mph, made landfall at Penablanca town in Cagayan province shortly before midnight, weather officials said. Many villages lost power and intense winds tore tin roofs off houses.We canrsquo;t go out because the wind is so intense, trees are being forced down, Councilor Elisa Arugay told DZMM radio from Camasi village in Penablanca.Officials were concerned becaus adidas original campus e the powerful typhoon struck at night and is expected to hit towns and cities amid power outages. After Cagayan, Haima is forecast to blow across the mountainous province of Apayao and then lash Ilocos Norte province before exiting into the South China Sea Thursday morning.The governmentrsquo weather agency raised the the storm warning to the highest level in six northern provinces, which meant that powerful winds could inflict very heavy to widespread damage and whip up storm surges of up to 16 feet, enough to engulf shanties in many rural communities. We are possibly dealing with a typhoon that is even stronger than Typhoon Yolanda, said Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea, referring to the loc af1 al name for Haiyan. We must, therefore, brace ourselves for the Lfpn 106 Dead, Missing in Philippine Storm
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is believed to be recovering from an apparent stroke, South Korea s presidential office said Wednesday, as the communist nation rejected reports questioning Kim s health as a conspiracy plot. Speculation has intensified that Kim may have taken ill after he missed a parade Tuesday commemorating the communist state s founding 60 years ago. That followed weeks of being absent from public view and rumors that foreign doctors were brought to the isolated nation to possibly treat him.On Wednesday, South Korean presiden stanley cup tial spokesman Lee Dong-kwan said that President Lee Myung-bak and top officials received an intelligence briefing on Kim s health. The spokesman said in a statement that according to the briefing Kim was not seen to be in a serious condition. South Korea s National Intelligence Service reported to a parliamentary committee that it obtained intelligence reports showing Kim recently had surgery for an unspecified circulatory problem, and his condition had much improved, an agency official said.The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity citing office policy, did not elaborate. South Korea s Yonhap news agency, ci cups stanley ting lawmakers briefed by the spy agency, reported that the 66-year-old Kim suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, but he remains conscious and is able to control the situation. The NIS also reported to lawmakers that Kim is in a recoverable and ma stanley cup nageable condition, and that the North is not in a power vacuum, Yonha

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Wellington, New Zealandmdash; Good riddance to 2021. Let 2022 bring fresh hope. That was a common sentiment as people around the world began welcoming the new year. In many places, New Year s Eve celebrations were muted or canceled for the s yeezy slide econd straight year due to a surge of coronavirus infections, this time driven by the highly contagious Omicron variant. But even before Omicron hit, many people were happy to say goodbye to a second grinding year of the pandemic. So far, at least, the Omicron surge hasn t resulted in the same levels of hospitalizations and deaths as previous outbreaks mdash; especially among vaccinated people mdash; offering a glimmer of hope for 2022.Many New Year s celebrations canceled as Omicron surgesBecause of where the international date line sits, countries in Asia and the Pacific region are among the first to usher in each new year, and New Zealand was one of the yeezy first places to welcome 2022, with a low-key lights display projected onto Auckland landmarks, including the Sky Tower and Harbor Bridge. That replaced the traditional fireworks show. A light show from the Skytower and harbour bridge during Auckland New Year s Eve celebrations on January 1, 2022 in Auckland, New Zealand. adidas samba og Dave Rowland/Getty/Auckland Unlimited While there hasn t yet been any community spread of Omicron in New Zealand, authorities still discouraged crowds gatherin Tdox BBC: Staff subjected to mock execution in Libya
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New Delhi mdash; An ambulance of volunteers is dispatched, but it s too late for the living. The volunteers are risking their lives to collect the bodies of those who died at home and whose families couldn t afford to cremate them.COVID-19 has samba og killed a record 4,200 people in India in just 24 hours, according to a government tally. But experts say the daily toll could be closer to 25,000. When people die at home, they almost never get counted in the official death toll in India.Bram Singh, a 65-year-old retired police officer, was one of the those who died at home after he couldn t get a bed in the city s hospitals, which are overwhelmed with yeezy slide COVID-19 patients. A group of volunteers, who allowed CBS News to foll nike air force ow them, collected his body for cremation. Volunteers in New Delhi collect bodies of those who died from COVID-19 and whose families could not afford cremation. CBS News At a makeshift crematorium, bodies have been burning nonstop, says Jitender Singh Shunty, the leader of the volunteer group. He said more than 500 bodies have been cremated in the last three to four weeks. He said he s not afraid of dead bodies, but added that it s sad to see so many dying, especially the young.As infections and the death toll continue to soar, a pile of firewood for cremations is stacked 10 feet high and stretches longer than a football field.With the help of the volunteers, the Bjhz Twin teens die after sneaking onto Olympic bobsled track
The United States withheld judgment Tuesday on whether Israel s plans to build 1,000 new homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank violate the U.S-led Middle East pea gourde stanley ce plan.U.S. of stanley mugs ficials are studying the details of bids, or tenders, issued by the Israeli government for construction of the homes, State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said. Our concern is to determine whether these tender stanley cup s are consistent with Israel s commitments to freeze settlements as part of the peace plan known as the road map, Ereli said.In the past State Department officials have repeatedly pressed the Israelis to live up to statements in the road map.However, Ereli declined to say whether the housing plans run afoul of the road map provision that says Israel freezes all settlement activity including natural growth of settlements . In Jerusalem, Israeli officials said they have Washington s tacit approval for constructing the homes because they would be built inside existing settlements and are among the enclaves Israel wants to keep in a peace agreement. Ereli said, We ve got to look at where these tenders are, what previous discussions were, what these tenders are for and what specific commitments were made. A senior State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the homes would violate the road map. But the official said it is unclear whether Israel would proceed with construction.The Israeli announcement came a day before a crucial meeting of the governing body o

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WASHINGTON - The U.S. military says it has placed nike dunk a contingent of Marines at a small outpost in northern Iraq to provide protection for an Iraqi military base where U.S. advisers are present.It announced the deployment Sunday, one day after a member of that unit, Staff Sgt. Louis F. Cardin, was killed by rocket fire. Peter Cook, the Pentagon press secretary, said several other Marines were wounded in the attack on what he called a fire base near Makhmour.Cardin was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.A military official told CBS News national security correspondent David Martin that militants with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS, fired two rockets at the site of a new training base for the Iraqi army in Makmour.The U.S. statement announcing the Marine deployment did not say how many were sent, but two U.S. officials said it is between 100 and 200. The officials were not authorized to provide details about the deployment and spoke on condition of anonymity. The U.S.-led coalition has reported that the build-up of Iraqi troops at Makmour in pr adidas campus eparation for an assault on the ISIS-held city of Mosul has brought a spike in the frequency of such indirect fire attacks.Prior to Cardin s death, the last U.S. service member killed in Iraq was in October 2015. ponent--type-recircula crocs schuhe tion .item:nth-child 5 { display: Eysz 8 bodies found by farmer likely kidnapped workers from Mexican resort, prosecutors say
Turkey s foreign minister said Friday there was broad agreement with the United States on the conditions for deploying U.S. troops in his country ahead of a possible war in Iraq.Yasar Yakis did not say when he expected a deal to be reached, saying that depended on ongoing negotiations on some outstanding issues regarding the military, economic and political dimensions of the deployment. There is a very broad agreement on all subjects, Yakis said in a broadcast interview. The remaining issues are not that many, but I think we will be able to overcome the differences and mutually agree. But as CBS News Correspondent David Martin reports, the stanley cup agreement must still be submitted to the Turkish parliament and that won t happen until Tuesday when parliament reconvenes. Since some 95 percent on Turks are reported to oppose any war, passage would not b stanley thermobecher e assured.In the event of war, American planners hope to wage a two-front campaign, with one invasion thrust sprinting down from Turkey to complement the incursion from Kuwait in the south. With several transport ships waiting offshore to offload equipment for the Army s 4th Division, U.S. officials said earlier this week that they needed an immediate answer from Ankara.One of the main sticking points has been the size of a U.S. aid package to compensate Turkey for losses incurred in a war, diplomats said, although military and political stanley mugs issues were also outstanding.Turkey has demanded $10 billion in grants and $20 billion more i

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The mutilated bodies of six people were found on Thursday in a vehicle in southern Mexico, authorities said -- the latest gruesome discovery in a country riven by gang-related violence. Reuters, citing a statement from the attorney general s office of Guerrero, reported that the severed heads of six men were discovered on top of a Volkswagen abandoned on a busy boulevard in the town of Chilapa de Alvarez.According to local authorities, a warning sign strung from two trees was also found at the gruesome scene, Reuters reported. In Chilapa selling crystal, kidnapping, extortion and stealing are strictly prohibited. This will happen to anyone who messes around, the sign reads, according to a photo of the crime scene provided by the police to Reuters. Capital punishment is the sentence for all these crimes. Authorities said the corpses would be buried on Friday.Discoveries of mutilated bodies dumped in public or hung from bridges have increased in Mexico in recent years as criminal gangs seek to intimidate their rivals. In Jun yeezy e 2021, two heads and other human remains were left at polling stations in the border city of Tijuana on election day.The violence in Guerrero has als yeezy o included thediscovery of hidden gravesholding do samba og zens of bodies and a camp where gunmen stored the severed heads of nine rivals in a cooler. Mexican army members patrol the Ahuhuiyuco community in Chilapa de Alvarez, Guerrero state, Mexico, on June 20, 2017 after some 800 families fled Sfsp 2 college students die in Denmark boat crash while studying abroad
The final report of the chief U.S. arms inspector for Iraq was expected to undercut a principal Bush administration rationale for removing Saddam Hussein: that his Iraqi government had weap stanley kubek ons of mass destruction.I stanley termoska n drafts, weapons hunter Charles Duelfer concluded Saddam s Iraq had no stockpiles of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons but said he found signs of idle programs that Saddam could have revived once international attention waned.Duelfer, head of the Iraq Survey Group, was providing his findings Wednesday to the Senate Armed Services Committee. His team has compiled a 1,500-page report; it is unclear how much will be made public. Duelfer s predecessor, David Kay, who quit last December, also found no evidence of weapons stockpiles.White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Tuesday the report will conclude that Saddam Hussein had the intent and the capability, that he was pursuing an aggressive strategy to bring down the sanctions, the internatio stanley tumblers nal sanctions, imposed by the United Nations, through illegal financing procurement schemes. Saddam was importing banned materials, working on unmanned aerial vehicles in violation of U.N. agreements and maintaining industrial capability that could be converted to produce weapons, officials have said. Duelfer also describes Saddam s Iraq as having had limited research efforts into chemical and biological weapons.But a Bush administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said. It appears that he did n

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The United Nations Security Council on Monday demanded a cease-fire in Gaza during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, its first de mizuno de mand to halt fighting. The United States abstained on the resolution, which also demanded the release of all hostages taken captive during Hamas Oct. 7 surprise attack in southern Israel, which sparked the war. The measure does not link the demand for the hostages release to the call for a cease-fire during Ramadan, which ends April 9.Imm samba rose ediately after the vote, U.N. Secretary-General Antoacute;nio Guterres said on social media that the resolution must be implemented. Failure would be unforgivable. Given the dates of Ramadan, the cease-fire demanded by the resolution would last for only about two weeks, though the draft says the pause in fighting should lead to a permanent sustainable cease-fire. Since the start of the war, the Security Council has adopted two resolutions on the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza, but none has called for a cease adidas samba og -fire.First U.N. demand to halt the fightingThe vote comes after Russia and China vetoed a different, U.S.-sponsored resolution on Friday, which would have supported an immediate and sustained cease-fire in theIsraeli-Hamas conflict. The United States warned that the resolution approved Monday could impede negotiations to reach a more permanent resolution to the hostilities, which the U.S., Egypt and Qatar have continued.The resolution, put forward by the 10 elected council members, was ba Lsuk Iraq Action May Elude Prince Harry
Iraq s government received reports that the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq had been killed, but officials said Tuesday the information had not been confirmed, and an insurgent coalition insisted he was alive.CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann reports U.S. military sources in Baghdad are being extremely cautious about taking the reports of Abu Ayyub al-Masri s death at face value.One senior commande stanley cup r told CBS News that reports of al-Masri s death or capture seem to come from Iraqi officials every month, and so far they ha stanley france ve all been false alarms. U stanley cup usa .S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker told reporters that American authorities in Baghdad were seeking more information.An umbrella organization of Iraqi insurgent groups denied the al Qaeda leader had been killed, saying he was alive and safe, according to an Internet statement. The Islamic State of Iraq reassures the Ummah nation that Sheik Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, God protect him, is alive and he is still fighting the enemy of God, the umbrella group said on a Web site commonly used by insurgents. A series of reports Tuesday said Abu Hamza al-Muhajer mdash; whom U.S. and Iraqi forces identify by another pseudonym, Abu Ayyub al-Masri mdash; had been killed, either by rivals in al Qaeda or Sunni tribesmen who have turned against al Qaeda.A Pentagon spokesman, Col. Gary Keck, said he was aware of the reports from Iraq but had no confirmation. U.S. forces are working with Iraqi officials to determine if this is true, he said, adding t