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A new book about celibacy and the Catholic Church has set off a firestorm at the Vatican as Pope Francis contemplates rule changes for married priests in remote areas like salomon hombre the Amazon. The book is co-authored by retired Pope Benedict. To ha mizuno de ve two men at the Vatican dressed in white is rare. Benedict XVI is just the second pope to resign in the church s 2,000 year history. Pope Emeritus Benedict pledged not to interfere on major church affairs to leave room for his successor, Pope Francis, to lead. So when the former pope was cited as co-author of From the Depths of Our Hearts: Priesthood, Celibacy, and the Crisis of the Catholic Church, Benedict was seen as putting a very influential papal thumb on the scales.Benedict argued for the necessity of celibacy, writing, Serving the lord hellip; requires the total gift of a man. Francis, who also supports priestly celibacy, is contemplating a rule change recommended by bishops allowing the ordination of older, married men in remote regions of the Amazon where there s a priest shortage. Of course, everybody knew that a retired pope in the church always is a difficult situation, Monsignor Kar adidas samba el Kasteel, who served seven popes, told CBS News correspondent Seth Doane.On key church issues, Benedict and Francis are generally aligned, Kasteel said. Asked if Benedict is breaking his vow to be quiet after retiring, Kasteel said, He vowed to be obedient to his successor. I never heard that he would shut up forever. Benedic Nzbx Sochi Games: Competition begins
MUMBAI, India - Slumdog Millionaire child star Rubina Ali said Saturday that her home had burned down in a fire that raged through a crowded slum in the Indian city of Mumbai.Most of the awards that she received for her role as a poverty-stricken child in the Oscar-winning film were destroyed in the blaze that erupted in the Garib Nagar slum late Friday, the 12-year-old said.She said that she and other members of her family were watching television when they heard shouts of a fire stanley flask and ran out of their tin-roofed shanty. We just grabbed what we could and dashed out. The fire spre stanley us ad so fast we couldn t get back in, said Rafiq Ali, Rubina s father.Rubina said she had lost all her awards and her collection of newspaper clippings and photographs from the success of the 2008 film. It s all gone. Even my best clothes, everything, a tearful-sounding Rubina said over the telephone.Gallery: Slumdog Millionaire The child star said the family was yet to move into a new apartment paid for by a trust set up by the film s director, Danny Boyle.Rubina played the young Latika in Slumdog Millionaire, the rags-to-riches blockbuster that won eight Oscars. Police w stanley mug ere investigating the cause of the fire, which left 21 people injured and 2,000 homeless.Fires often break out in Mumbai s sprawling slums, usually sparked by electrical short circuits from the many thousands of illegal power connections. pon

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A French tourist died on Thursday after h yeezy slide e slipped and fell from a waterfall in Ko Samui, Thailand, authorities said. The 33-year-old man fell from the Na Mueang 2 waterfall, the same spot from which a Spanish tourist died in July. It took multiple hours to reach the body because the site was very slippery and steep, Lieutenant Phuvadol Viriyavarangkul of the island s tourist police told AFP. His friend said he was trying to take a selfie and then he slipped and fell. According to Viriyavarangkul, the spot is now roped off and has a sign warn dunks ing hikers of the danger.A 2018 s hoka schuhe tudy published in the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care found that some 259 people worldwide have died while taking selfies from 2011 to 2017.The study found that the three most common selfie-related deaths include drowning, transport-related transports ndash; such as taking a selfie in front of an oncoming train ndash; and falling from heights. It also notes that no selfie zones should be declared across dangerous tourist spots, especially in places such as water bodies, mountain peaks and over tall buildings in order to decrease selfie-related deaths.The highest number of incidents has been reported in India, which accounts for approximately 50% of reported selfie-related deaths. It s followed by Russia and then the United States in third place. Dangerous selfi Wbvn Violence erupts again at Jerusalem holy site over key holiday weekend
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Remember BBC Dad mdash; the professor who became an internet sensation when his energetic kids gatecrashed his interview on live television in 2017 He returned to BBC News on Thursday, and of course, his adorable children couldn t salomon gtx help but interrupt.Robert Kelly, a political scientist living with his wife and two children in Busan, South Korea, returned for his latest appearance with the British broadcaster to talk about the coronavirusand how his family has been coping at home mda adidas yeezy sh; a topic Kelly and his wife, Jung-a Kim, are basically experts on.Kim joined Kelly on air, but unsurprisingly, their kids, Marion and James, could not manag samba rose e to sit still. It s very difficult to stay in the house for a long time, Kim said.Over the course of the interview, James runs around the room and Marion makes hilarious faces while flailing her arms, hugging Kelly and pulling on his hair. Kelly, of course, attempts to apologize for their behavior. Remember Professor Robert Kelly His family went viral after his children crashed a live TV interview in 2017Now they are on lockdown in South Korea, how is he coping working from home https://t.co/RCHkWHj3D8 pic.twitter/q8tA9pkp35mdash; BBC News World @BBCWorld March 26, 2020 Oh no, you must never apologize, that s one thing you can never apologize for now. It s part of the scene. the interviewer jokes. While South Korea was never under a mandatory national lockdown, the government asked people to self-isolate in their hom Gcqr Bartering For Bin Laden
Death came far too close for Filipino hostage Angelo dela Cruz, who says Iraqi insurgents at one point sharpened a sword and probed his neck for the right spot to cut.But his fate changed dramatically when his captors learned that Filipino troops would withdraw from Iraq to meet their demand and the kidnappers agreed to let him go, according to statements the 46-year-old truck stanley quencher driver gave to Philippine officials and friends after he was freed in Baghdad on Tuesday.The officials and others spoke to The Associated Press on condition of an stanley polska onymity. Dela Cruz has publicly said he was treated well during his terror-filled two-week captivity. They did not harm me and I m relieved that I survived. I really thought my time had come, dela Cruz told a Filipino reporter in Manila.Dela Cruz s nightmare began July 4 when Iraqi insurgents stanley cup attacked the convoy of fuel trucks he was traveling in after it had crossed into Iraq from Saudi Arabia. The insurgents slapped him when he tried to resist. His Iraqi guard was shot dead, but 10 other Filipino drivers were rescued, officials said. It was previously reported that he was kidnapped near Fallujah, a hotbed of anti-U.S. resistance, on July 7.Dela Cruz, constantly guarded by six young insurgents clutching AK-47s and grenade launchers, was bound and stashed in the trunk of a car while being moved to at least four houses. From one, dela Cruz heard frequent rumbling from tanks and the drone of fighter jets overheard, an official said.He did

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LA PAZ, Bolivia - An evangelical pastor and his sister have been arrested by police in Bolivia after they purportedly killed a sibling during a bathtub exorcism, officials said Monday.The suspects, Carlos Uriona and Adelaida Ma stanley thermosflasche rca, were arrested after they allegedly drowned their sister during the ritual, police spokesman Juan Carlos Corrales said. The suspects confessed that their 18-year-old sister was possessed by the demon and they wanted to purify her and christen her in a bathtub, but it went too far, said Corrales, speaking during a telephone interview.He said the young woman drowned.The incident occurred on Sunday in the city of Cochabamba. Police found the victim s body inside a store owned by the pastor. Marca told investigators that he felt an evil presence when he submerged his sister in the tub, Corrales said. An evil spirit entered me, took control of my hand and began to submerge my little sister, Marca purportedly told police. Satan was inside the tub. Corrales stanley cup said the suspects may undergo a psychological evaluation before they go to trial.He said they had said they intended to perform a purification ceremony or exorcism because they felt their sister had been possessed by the devil. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-99c22594-8 stanley cup c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-99c22594-8c88-11e2-b06b-024

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JERUSALEM- Holy smokes! The Israeli government has taken a step toward decriminalizing marijuana use.Israeli media say Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahursquo Cabinet has approved a measure that would reduce penalties for possession of marijuana. If caught, smokers would pay a fine, instead of facing criminal charges. adidas campus 80s A worker tends to cannabis plants at a plantation near the northern Israeli city of Safed June 11, 2012. It is here, at a medical marijuana plantation atop the hills of the Galilee, where researchers adidas samba adidas say they have developed marijuana that can be used to ease the symptoms of some ailments without getting patients high. REUTERS Netanyahu said ahead of Sundayrsquo meeting that a new enforcement policy should be drawn up cautiously and in a controlled manner.The decision does not mean that Jerusalem will now have Amsterdam-style coffee shops. The Haaretz da adidas originals samba ily said a committee would study ways to regulate the use of pot.Opposition lawmaker Tamar Zandberg told Haaretz this is an important step, but not the end of the road. It sends a message that a million of Israelis who consume marijuana arenrsquo;t criminals. More from CBS News French prime Fxmw Zero trust between U.S. and North Korea ahead of historic summit
LE BOURGET, France 151; The crew piloting a doomed Air France jet over the Atlantic did not appear to know the plane was in a stall, despite repeated warning signals, and never informed the passengers anything was wrong before the jet plunged into the sea, according to new findings released Friday.Based on cockpit recordings from the crash, the French air accident investigation agency is recommending mandatory training for all pilots to help them fly planes manually and handle a high-altitude stall.All 228 people were killed when the Airbus 330, en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashed as thunderstorms hit over the Atlantic on June 1, 2009. It was the worst accident in Air France s history.The passengers were never told what was happening as Flight 447 went into an aerodynamic stall and then dived for 3 1/2 minutes into the sea, according to a summary of the BEA s latest findings released Friday.The pilots themselves may not have been aware they were in stanley polska the stall even as it was dooming the flight, the summary says. The BEA will release a fuller report later Friday, based on cockpit voice and data recordings retrieved from the ocean depths in May in an exceptionally long and costly search operation.Video: Flight 447 s black box raises training questionsVideo: Inside Air France Flight 447 cockpitVideo stanley cups : stanley termoska Sullenberger on Air France Flight 447 crashThe summary confirms that external speed sensors obstructed by ice crystals produced irregular speed readings on the pla

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NANGARHAR, A nike sb dunk fghanistan -- Parliamentary elections in Afghanistan are just days away, and the Taliban and ISIS are doing all they can to disrupt the democratic process. U.S. troops are helping their Afghan counterparts beat back the Islamic extremists.Nangarhar, in eastern Afghanistan, was the deadliest province for Americans in 2017. Of the 11 American troops killed in Afghanistan last year, more than half died here. It is not only Taliban territory, but also a stronghold for the Afghan branch of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS , which has launched at least 17 attacks this year, killing hundreds of people.American soldiers who were in the fifth gra adidas campus 00 de when this war began in 2001, now direct Afghan forces in operations to clear ISIS-held villages. Lt. Col. Brian Ducote commands some of them, and we asked him if he was kicking the hornet s nest, expecting ISIS militants to fight back. We want a fight back, and so do our Afghan partners. Because they know that they don t want to kick it and have them come back. They want to destroy them, Ducote said.The soldiers of Charlie Company are among 14,000 U.S. troops still serving in Afghanistan. We watched as they prepared to head outside the wire. A heavily armed military convoy is the only way U.S. troops can get around this region. The soldiers know to keep their eyes peeled for incoming fire, IEDs, roadside bombs or vehicle bombs as they move toward their target.Elite Afghan force nike air max s serve as the first line of defense i Iyrc Pope Francis, day after being discharged from hospital, presides over Palm Sunday Mass
North Korea on Monday for the first time issued a detailed report on last week s massive train explosion, saying that damages are considerably big. North Korea s official KCNA news agency said the explosion last Thursday in Ryongchon left about 150 people dead and 1,300 people injured.KCNA, monitored by South Korea s Yonhap news agency, said the number of missing people was being investigated.North Korea briefly reported the incident on Saturday, but gave a detailed report for the first time on Monday.KCNA also said about 8,100 houses or apartments were damaged, stanley thermobecher including 1,850 that were totally destroyed. The damages are considerably big, KCNA said.North stanley us Korea s detail stanley cupe ed report came as international aid efforts accelerated.South Korea pledged over the weekend to provide the North with $1 million in relief goods. Red Cross trucks loaded with medical supplies, bottled water, blankets, clothes, and instant noodles were gathering at a cargo depot near Seoul.Relief workers cautioned that more help would be needed. There is still a huge need for help, said Brendan McDonald, a U.N. aid coordinator in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. The immediate needs for the homeless are under control. The main concern is for those in hospital. Japan planned to send medical kits and Russia promised aid Monday. South Korea, Australia and China have also agreed to contribute money and supplies.China sent 11 truckloads of tents, blankets, canned food and packages of insta

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NEW DELHI -- The birth of Muhammad Haroon s son a few months ago brought some measure of joy to his shanty in New Delhi. But he can t help worry about his young boy s future; At af1 if-ul-Islam was born a refugee, into a fetid maze of a slum. Rohingya people at center of migrant crisis 02:03 Haroon visits his son several times a day. It provides a welcome break from the small United Nations-funded shop he runs in the slum, which is home to about 50 families, all Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar.Haroon is one of about 14,000 Rohingya refugees registered in India. They all fled alleged ethnic persecution in Myanmar s western Rakhine state. The Rohingya are believed to have migrated from what is now Bangladesh to Rakhine then known as Arakan in the 17th century. When Myanmar gained independe adidas campus 80s nce from British colonial rule in 1948, the Rohingya were yeezy slide left stranded in Rakhine state; no longer Bangladeshi, but viewed by the newly-independent nation of Burma as outsiders. We are people of nowhere, Haroon told CBS News. Myanmar doesn t recognise us as its citizens, other countries don t want us. Where should we go The Rohingya: Stateless and adrift 34 photos Gtzg Defense Secretary Hagel spars with China over territorial disputes
Israeli police cut through the main gate of the West Bank s largest settlement early Tuesday, seizing control of a major flashpoint with Jewish settlers who have resisted orders to leave the community under Israel s Gaza withdrawal plan.Police burst through the main gate and Neve Dekalim s other entrances, then proceeded to cut off the metal gate with stanley cupe an electric saw. About a dozen forces dragged the gate away and threw it in a nearby sand pile.Police officials said the operation was meant to allow people to freely exit the settlement on Tuesday, the last day for residents to leave voluntarily. Hundreds of activists, many of them youths, had blocked police from entering on Monday, and moving trucks struggled to get through the crowd.There were few protes stanley tumblers ters in Neve Dekalim on Tuesday, in contrast to the previous day. Police said there were no plans to confront the residents.After midnight Tuesday, settlers remaining in the Gaza Strip are to be forcibly removed by Israeli forces. Monday - the first day of Israel s Gaza pullout - soldiers handed out eviction notices to sobbing Jewish settlers and helped some pack, but troops also scuffled with pr stanley water jug otesters who barricaded their communities with burning tires and locked arms.The Israeli army expects that about half of the 8,000 settlers living in the Gaza Strip will obey the evacuation order and leave voluntarily before the midnight deadline on Tuesday, CBS News Correspondent David Hawkins reports.Army commanders took pain

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Washington mdash; The Biden administration on Wednesday declared Yemen s Houthi rebels to be a specially designated global terrorist group, or SDGT, air force 1 a move that comes amid the militia s continuing attacks against commercial vessels in the Red Sea.The move, announced by the State Department and the White House, reverses part of an earlier decisionby the State Department in February 2021 that removed the SDGT designation. Today, in response to these continuing threats and attacks, the United States announced the designation of Ansarallah, also known as the Houthis, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, national security adv adidas samba iser Jake Sullivan said in a statement. This designation is an important tool to impede terrorist funding to the Houthis, further restrict their access to financial markets, and hold them accountable for their actions. The State Department s 2021 decision also removed the group s designation as a foreign terrorist organization, but Wednesday s action did not reinstate that characterization. Both designations were applied in the final days of the Trump administration to the Iran-backed group, which controls large portions of Yemen and has been engaged in a years-long civil war with the internationally recognized, Saudi-backed Yemeni government.A S asics gel tate Department official told CBS News in 2021 that the move was due entirely to the humanitarian consequences of this last-minute designation from the prior administration, which the United Nations Ptgs At least 6 killed in mass shooting on Russian university campus
This undated photo released by Saudi Arabia s Ministry of Interior on Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010, is said by them to show Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri. AP AP stanley termohrnek CBS/AP Yemen is aggressively hunting down a Saudi bomb maker accused of masterminding a thwarted bomb plot involving U.S.-bound packages, Reuters reported.Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, considered a key figure in al Qaeda s most active franchise, is now the chief suspect behind the mail bombs sent from Yemen and bound for the United States, according to U.S. intelligence officials.According to Reuters, Yemen launched a military stanley cups operation in the provinces of Maarib and Shabwa to capture al-Asiri as well as the U.S.-born radical preacher Anwar al-Awlaki. Together with a al-Awla stanley becher ki=6978200gt;, Yemeni militants, and former Saudi inmates of Guantanamo, al-Asiri makes up the leadership of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula AQAP .On Tuesday, Yemeni prosecutors charged al-Awlaki in absentia with plotting to kill foreigners. Asiri is believed to be hiding and moving with senior al Qaeda elements such as Yemen al Qaeda leader Nasser al-Wahayshi. Security intelligence are still tracking them down to exactly identify their whereabouts, a local official told Reuters. Maarib and Shabwa are known for their impenetrable deserts, Reuters reports. The threat last week came in the form of explosive devices hidden in the toner cartridges of computer

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Hong adidas campus Kongmdash; President Joe Biden was scheduled to hold a face-to-face summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Monday. The meeting, via video conference, will be the most significant U.S.-China talks since Mr. Biden took office. The discussion is to begin at 7:45 p.m. Eastern time, and is expected to last several hours with the aim, according t adidas samba og o nike sb dunk a senior Biden administration official, being to keep the lines of communication between the world s two biggest economies open to ensure that competition doesn t lead to conflict. Mr. Biden will be direct and candid about areas of concern, the U.S. official said. Those areas likely include China s record number of incursions into Taiwan s air defense zone in recent months; human rights issues in Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong, and Beijing s use of economic coercion and cyber technology. Ongoing supply chain issues and trade tariffs are not expected to be a priority during the conversation. FILE: DAVOS, Jan. 17, 2017 -- Chinese President Xi Jinping R meets with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 17, 2017. Xinhua News Agency The White House official downplayed the likelihood of any major policy changes or diplomatic breakthroughs, amid bilateral tension that has risen to near its worst level since the U.S. and China normalized diplomatic ties in 1979.Over the weekend, as a prelude to the presiden Enkr Alexey Navalny, fierce critic of Vladimir Putin, dies in a Russian penal colony, officials say
Guided by the memories of an aging witness, an American search team is scouring a patch of northeastern China where it hopes to uncover a CIA plane that shot down 50 years ago mdash; and the remains of the pilots believed lost in the crash.In a statement Wednesday, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing said the team ha stanley website d reached a site near the town of Antu in the northeastern province of Jilin and was clearing land and beginning sweeps with metal detectors to locate the wreckage of the unmarked C-47 aircraft.The two pilots mdash; Robert C. Snoddy of Eugene, Oregon, and Norman A. Schwartz of Louisville, Kentucky mdash; were about to pick up an anti-communist Chinese spy in the foothills of the region formerly known as Manchuria when their C-47 was shot down on Nov. 29, 1952.China has told the Pentagon that their charred bodies were buried at the snow-covered crash site. Two CIA officers traveling aboard the plane were captured an stanley cup usa d imprisoned by China for two decades. The U.S. government is hopeful that this search will yield results that bring comfort and closure to the families of these two brave Americans, the U.S. Embassy said Wednesday. At the time, China and the United States were fighting on opposing sides in the Korean War and the CIA was trying to undermine the fledgling communist regime on its home territory.The eight-member search team, from the U.S. Army s Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii, reported Tuesday evening that they had reached a site near a stre

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BRUSSELSThe European Unionrsquo environment ministers on Friday approved the ratification of the landmark Paris climate change pact, paving the way for the agreement to take effect in November.Itrsquo really a historic result, French Environment Minister Segolene Royal told reporters after the ministers agreed unanimously to ratify the deal at talks in Brussels, tweeting Victory! in delight. What it takes to confront the cl adidas originals hamburg imate cha air max plus nge tipping point 04:03 It was not was a sure thing, she added, given the different energy requirements and concerns among the EUrsquo 28 member nations.After years of negotiations, governments agreed in Paris last December to curb emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that scientists say are warming the planet.More than 170 world leaders have signed the deal, but it wonrsquo;t ta adidas campus ke effect until 55 countries, accounting for at least 55 percent of global emissions, have ratified or accepted it through their domestic procedures. Sixty-one parties have already ratified it but they only account for 48 percent of emissions. The EUrsquo ratification, which is expected to take about a month to complete, would take the Paris Agreement past the 55 percent threshold. The European Parliamen Inlr U.S. says its destroyer shot down 14 drones in Red Sea launched from Yemen
Pro-market lawmaker Donald Tusk had a razor-thin lead over Warsaw Mayor Lech Kaczynski in Poland s presidential election, the state electoral commission said early Monday.The commission said that with 91.5 percent of the ballots counted, 35.8 percent of voters had backed Tusk in Sunday s election, while 33.3 percent voted for Kaczynski. Such a result would force the two former activists with the anti-communist Solidarity movement into a head-to-head race Oct. 23.Final official results were not expected until late Monday. An exit poll by state television indicated Tusk, who wants to stimulate the economy with low taxes and deregulation, led with about 38 percent while Kaczynski, a former child actor hoping to preserve a strong safety net, had 32 percent.The race in the formerly communist country centered on the Europe-wide issue of just how far to go in sacrificing welfare state protections for the promise of an American-style economy with fewer social benefits but faster growth and job creation.Tusk wants a 15-percent flat tax rate on personal and corporate earnings, while Kaczynski favors a greater role for the state in protecting the social safety net and promoting stanley cup Roman Catholic values. He wants tax cuts, but would keep the system under which high earners pay more mdash; and would give deductions for big families. The election stanley quencher of either candidate would cement the sharp decline of the ruling former communists, who were defeated in parliamentary elections on Sept. 25