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Watch the CBS Reports documentary Arming Cartels: Inside the Mexican-American Gunrunning Networks in the video player above.Mexican drug cartels have been smuggling a vast arsenal of even military-grade weapons out of the U.S. with the help of American citizens, a CBS Reportsinvestigation has found. Exclusively-obtained U.S. intelligence documents and interviews with half a doze nike dunk n current and former officials reveal that the American government has known this for years but, sources said, it s done little to stop these weapons trafficking networks inside the United States, which move up to a million firearms across the border annually, including belt-fed miniguns and grenade launchers. Dozens of cartel gunrunning networks, operating like terrorist cells, pay Americans to buy weapons from gun stores and online dealers all across the country, as far north as Wisconsin and even Alaska, according to U.S. intelligen adidas originals damen ce sources. The firearms are then shipped ac asics ross the southwest border through a chain of brokers and couriers. This infographic was created by the Drug Enforcement Administration s Special Operations Division as a visual representation of intelligence findings, to depict how an American supply chain provides firearms and ammunition to Mexican cartels. Project Thor / Obtained by CBS News When CBS News pressed the Justice Department about its findings, a senior offi Zkgq Mystery Virus Hits Russian Area
Leading relief groups urged the United States to reconsider its strategy to counter Afghanistan s illeg stanley quencher al narcotics industry, the world s largest, warning that destroying farmers opium crops could wreck the country s post-Taliban recovery.I stanley france n an open letter to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, more than 20 aid organizations active in Afghanistan said premature and excessive crop eradication could create such uproar that planned help for farmers cannot be delivered. Massive eradication efforts in 2005 could risk destabilizing large areas of the country, thereby undermining critical alternative livelihood and law enforcement initiatives, they said in Monday s letter, which was signed by international aid groups including CARE, Mercy Corps and Oxfam.Cultivation of opium poppy has so stanley polska ared since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Last year s crop supplied nearly 90 percent of the world s opium, the raw material for heroin, and the trade accounted for about 40 percent of Afghanistan s gross domestic product.To bolster President Hamid Karzai s call for a holy war on the industry, the United States plans to spend $780 million for a crackdown on refiners, traffickers and corrupt officials using new police units and special courts. But Afghan leaders and aid organizations have expressed dismay that only $120 million has been earmarked for rural development programs to help farmers switch to legal crops, compared to $300 million for crop eradication programs.U.S. and Afg
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LONDON - Game. Set. Serena Slam.Serena Williams overcame a slow start, eight double-faults and a nervy finish to be af1 at Garbine Muguruza 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday for her sixth Wimbledon title, fourth Grand Slam championship in a row and 21st major overall.The win means Williams holds all four Grand Slam titles a adidas campus homme t once - completing the second Serena Slam of her career. What s more, she secured the third leg of a calendar-year Grand Slam and, if she wins the U.S. Open, will become the first player to sweep all four majors in the same season since Steffi Graf in 1988.Williams, winning her 28th straight Grand Slam match, is now just one major title behind Graf on the Open era list and two behind all-time leader Margaret Court.At 33, Williams is also the oldest woman to win a Grand Slam title in the Open era. She has now won eight major championships in her 30s. Serena Williams 27 photos Williams adidas campus beige was broken in the opening game by the 21-year-old Spaniard, who was playing in her first Grand Slam final, and fell behind 4-2. But Williams began playing more aggressively and ran off five straight games to take the set and go up 1-0 in the second. Williams pulled out to a 5-1 lead and looked ready to finish Muguruza off quickly. But she seemed to get tight, Xiqz Seine river pollution delays Olympic men s triathlon as water testing continues
Spanish nightclub bouncers, often accused of being thugs or worse, are being offered courses in kindness.The curriculum includes customer service techniques, anger management and civil rights. Classes are to begin in a couple of months under a US$1 million pilot program adopted by the Madrid regional government and an association of club owners.Famous for its vibrant night life, the greater Madrid area has about 2,000 bouncers guarding some 1,000 bars and clubs, many of which stretch nights to extraordinary lengths, remaining open until the next afternoon.And their doorways are sometimes violent places where scuffles over who gets in escalate dangerously: last year two youths were killed in fights involving bouncers.Police say they have no statistics, but newspapers are filled with accounts of such violence and it isn t limited to Madrid. Last year in Barcelona, a 26-year-old Ecuadorean, Wilson Pacheco, ended up dead in the harbor after a brawl at the entrance to a waterside nightclub. A b stanley mug ouncer, 31-year-old James Anglada, surrendered to police and is charged with manslaughter. Anglada, a New York City native, has told a judge he pushed Pacheco into the water but didn t mean to kill him. Three other bouncers accused of taking part in the fight face stanley us lesser charges.The human rights gro stanley thermobecher up SOS Racism says some doormen have reported receiving orders to turn away blacks, North Africans, Gypsies and Latin Americans.The newspaper El Mundo quoted the head of security at three l
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Palestinian gunmen killed three young sons of a senior Palestinian intelligence officer Monday, pumping dozens of bullets into their car as it passed through a street crowded with schoolchildren in an apparent botched assassination attempt that could ignite widespread factional fighting.There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the drive-by attack, which l stanley becher eft the schoolbags and a small plastic bag with a sandwich covered in blood. I have no words. Words stop at the extent of this crime, the boys fat stanley cup her, Baha Balousheh, told The Associated Press. I am a father who has lost his children. Senior officials in the intelligence service, which is loyal to the Fatah Party of President Mahmoud Abbas, blamed the Islamic militant group Hamas for the shooting. Balousheh, a Fatah member, was a lead interrogator in a crackdown on Hamas a decade ago. The attack marked the the first time children have been targeted, reports CBS News correspondent Robert Berger from Jerusalem. Hamas denied involvement and denounced the bloodshed. While dozens have been killed in Gaza s escalating lawlessness since Hamas defeated Fatah in January parliamentary elections, the death of the children was especially shocking and was likel stanley cup y to trigger widespread confrontations at a time Hamas and Fatah were at loggerheads over the creation of a national unity government.The shooting has raised fears of a Palestinian civil war, Berger reports.At midday, thousands of angry Fatah supporters joined a
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MOSCOW -- Vowing never to let the West defang his proud nation, President Vladimir Putin promised Thurs crocs winterstiefel day to fix Russia s economic woes within two years by diversifying and voiced confidence that the plummeting ruble will soon recover. Vladimir Putin: Economy will rebound, ruble will stabilize 00:53 In a live, three-hour news conference that has become yeezy slide a Putin holiday tradition, the Russian leader demonstrated unwavering confidence in his domestic policies despite the catastrophic collapse in the ruble. His fierce defiance toward the United States flared throughout as he insi air force one sted the West was trying to destroy Russia to grab Siberia s great natural resources.CBS News correspondent Charlie D Agata reports from Moscow that Putin said Western sanctions were to blame for 25 to 30 percent of the country s economic problems.This year Putin held his televised extravaganza from a particularly strong vantage point: An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released Thursday showed his approval rating among Russians stood at 81 percent - a level far above the ratings for other world leaders.Putin accompanied his message with trademark images of Russian pride, with video showing him surrounded by Sochi Olympic athletes, petting a baby tiger and greeting Russian cosmonauts. And his most Tizz Mob Killings Spark Cop Vice Debate
MOSCOW - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday he s satisfied with the performance of his party in Russia s parliamentary election even though it stanley mugs lost a significant number of seats, adding that a drop in support is inevitable for any ruling party. The statement came as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton again criticized the election.United Russia won about 50 percent of Sunday s vote, a result that opposition politicians and election monitors said was inflated because of ballot-box stuffing and other vote fraud. It was a significant drop from the stanley thermobecher 2007 election when the party took 64 percent, gaining a two-thirds majority that allowed it to change the constitution. But Putin said the party had retained a stable majority. Yes, there were losses, but they were inevitable, he said. They are inevitable for any political force, particularly for the one which has been carrying the burden of responsibility for the situation in the country. Thousands protest Putin over Russia electionsU.S. concerned over possible Russia vote fraudPutin s party barely clings to majority in RussiaThe res stanley tumbler ults reflected public fatigue with Putin s authoritarian streak and widespread official corruption, signaling that his return to the presidency in next March s election may not be as trouble-free as he expected. Public anger against a heavy-handed state interference in the campaign in support of United Russia and evidence of vote fraud prompted thousands of protesters to mar
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Kenya s defense chief and nine other top brass died on Thursday in a military helicopter crash in a remote area o adidas originals hamburg f the country, President William Ruto said. Two officers survived the crash, including the pilot. Today at 2:20 pm, our nation suffered a tragic air accident... I am deeply saddened to announce the passing of General Francis Omondi Ogolla, Ruto told reporters.The president, who had convened an urgent meeting of the National Security Council after news of the accident emerged, said nine other gallant military personnel on board were also killed while two survived. Francis Ogolla in 2012. Khalil Senosi / AP He said the Kenya Air Force has dispatched an air investigation team to establish the cause of the crash, which took place in Elgeyo Marakwet county, about 250 miles northwest of the capital Nairobi.The helicopter crashed shortly after takeoff from Chesegon, where he and his entourage had been visiting a school, Ruto adidas campus damen said. A distinguished four-star general has fallen in the course of duty and in the service of the country yeezy , he said. Our motherland has lost one of her most valiant generals, gallant officers, service men and woman. Ruto announced three days of mourning from Friday, with official flags flying at half mast.He said Ogolla, 61, had left Nairobi on Thursday morning on an air force Huey helicopter to visit troops deployed in the North Rif Ongn April 7: Butler Says Don t Trust Iraq
Pakistani provincial authorities said Tuesday four or five foreign terrorists were killed in the purported U.S. missile strike that has severely strained relations with this Muslim nation, a key ally in President Bush s war on terror.However, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports that Pentagon officials believe the number is more like seven or eight 151; and that most were Egyptians and members of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri s inner circle.The White House Tuesday refused to confirm any U.S. connection to the attack on that Pakistani village, reports CBS News correspondent Peter Maer. It says it doesn t comment on operational matters.Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, on the eve of a trip to Washington, said that despite the importance of ties with the United States, attacks inside Pakistan cannot be condoned. Pakistan has committed to fighting terrorism, but naturally we cannot accept any action within our country which results in what happened over the weekend, Aziz said, referring to the missile strike Friday in the border village of Damadola. Eighteen residents, including women and children, were also killed in the strike, the provincial government said Tuesday.Pakistani intelligence o stanley cups fficials have said the target of the stanley cup attack was al Qaeda s No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, who they said was invited to a dinner celebrating an Isl stanley cup amic holiday in the village but sent aides instead.U.S. counterterrorism officials, however, have not ruled out that
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The White House is taking action against a NATO ally as it scrambles to end Turkey s attacks against Kurdish forces in northern Syria following the president s decision to withdraw U.S. troops hoka from the region. President Trump signed an executive order imposing sanctions against the Turkish government and several Turkish officials, and is sending a delegation led by Vice President Mike Pence and new National Security Adviser Robert O Brien to try to negotiate a ceasefire between the Kurds and Turkey.Turkey s invasion of northern Syria highlights the complicated relationship between the U.S., Turkey, and the Kurds. It s the latest chapter in a long history of tension in the region.The roots of Turkey s offensive against the Kurds date back nearly a century. The Kurds are a largely Muslim ethnic group native to the Middle East. They have their own language, culture and traditions. air force 1 Turkey steps up Syria offensive in spite of Trump s warnings 02:33 At the end of World War I, western powers promised the Kurds an independent state, but that never happened. Instead, the Kurds are among the largest groups of people in the world without a state adidas campus 80s of their own. There are about 20 million of them spread out across a swathe of land that spans parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. But statelessness hasn t kept th Zhbu N. Korea: No Nuke Talks Before Peace Talks
A powerful earthquake struck the mountains of Central Asia, destroying a village in Kyrgyzstan and killing at least 60 people, emergency officials said Monday.The 6.6-magnitude quake near the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan hit the remote village of Nura hard, bringing down dozens of buildings and injuring more than 100 people in addition to the confirmed deaths, Emergency Situations Minister Kamchybek Tashiyev said. What we ve seen is stanley cup website terrible, the village of Nura is completely destroyed 151; 100 percent, Tashiyev said. There are many i stanley kubek njured and we ve counted 60 dead so far, all of them local residents. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties elsewhere.Tashiyev said a helicopter was ferrying the most seriously injured to hospitals in the nearest sizable city, the southern regional center of Osh, more than 60 miles away, and would rush back for more injured after dropping them off. He said the death toll could rise.Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered Russian Emergency Situations Ministry to help Kyrgyzstan respond to the quake.The late Sunday quake s magnitude was 6.6 and the epicenter was in Kyrgyzstan, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It said a 5.1 magnitude quake followed a few hours later on Monday.The Kyrgyz Emergency Situations Ministry said the e stanley water bottle picenter was in Tajikistan. Earthquakes are common in the mountains of former Soviet Central Asia, adding to the troubles for residents of the impoverished area.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - There was no making sense of the 18th day of fier nike dunk ce fighting in Gaza.It s a battle over the 32-mile-long Palestinian homeland. The militant group, Hamas, which controls Gaza, has launched thousands of rockets into Israel demanding that the Israelis lift a 7-year blockade of Gaza. Israel ground assault in Gaza 47 photos Israel launched an offensive to take out the Hamas rockets. Some 864 Palestinians have been killed -- the vast majority civilians. Sixteen were killed when a U.N. school was hit Thursday. CBS News joined Abed Rabu during a quiet graveside moment with his 18-month-old daughter who was killed at the U.N. school Thursday. We asked what was going through his mind. It s like I ve lost part of myself, he said. She used to smile and play -- and then suddenly she was gone. At a local cemetery, all of the new graves are from people who were killed in the U.N. school incident. They had to be buried hurriedly because this is a war zone. Families o nike air force nly had time to write the dead person s name on a piece of cardboard, and attach it to a stick. Palestinian Abed Rabu stands next to the gr asics ave of his 18-month-old daughter, killed Thursday in a rocket attack on a U.N. school in Gaza.0old d Kiue Thousands Flock To Bethlehem
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Moscow -- Protesters once again took to the streets of Moscow Saturday, decrying the exclusion of some independent and opposition candidates for upcoming city council election that has shaken up Russia s political scene. Moscow police detained at least 600 protesters Satur adidas campus day, a monitoring group said, a week after authorities arrested nearly 1,400 people at a similar protest. Law enforcement officers detain Russian opposition politician Lyubov Sobol before a rally calling for opposition candidates to be registered for elections to Moscow City Duma, the capital s regional parliament, in Moscow, Russia August 3, 2019. TATYANA MAKEYEVA / REUTERS Lyubov Sobol, one of the excluded candidates and a driving figure of the current wave of protests, was among those detained. She was grabbed by police in central Moscow and hustled into a police van, loudly demanding to know why she was being held.Demonstrators were aiming to hold a march along the Boulevard Ring, which skirts central Moscow and is a popular locale for people to walk around, despite re mizuno peated warnings that police would take active measures against a protest.Helmeted riot police lined the route and started seizing demonstrators from a scattered crowd on Pushkin Square and pushing them back from another square further along the route. Some of the detentions were harsh, including one young bicyclist nike dunk who was beaten with Zjua Ukrainian training on Patriot missile system begins in Oklahoma
The Russian government confirmed Friday that leaky torpedo fuel mdash; and not a foreign submarine or a World War II land mine mdash; caused the explosions that destroyed the Kursk nuclear submarine, killing all 118 men aboard in one of the country s worst post-Soviet disasters.General Prosecutor Vladimir Ustinov made the announcement after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who ordered the prosecutor to inform the Russian public about what caused the explosion. The disaster occurred at 11:28 and 26.5 seconds Moscow time because of a blank torpedo expl stanley cups osion inside the fourth torpedo tube, which in turn triggered explosions in torpedo charge chambers in the submarine s bow section, Ustinov said, according to remarks shown on Russian television.For two years, the Russian government had been reluctant to admit that its state-of-the-art submarine was destroyed by an internal malfunction. But earlier this month, a commission investigating the August 2000 disaster in the Barents Sea said that had become the only possible explanation.Ustinov said everyone on the Kursk died within eight hours of the explosion. Russia has already pulled from service all torpedoes of the type that malfunctioned, which uses the highly volatile fuel as a propellant a stanley tumblers nd have reportedly been used since the early 1970s. The tor stanley cup pedoes have a higher speed and range than conventional torpedoes powered by electric engines.The Kursk disaster mdash; and especially the government s failed op
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi federal police pushed their way into the perimeter of Mosul International Airport on Thursday, taking control of the runway amid fierce exchanges of fire with Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS militants hunkered down in several airport buildings, police officials s nike dunk high aid.The advance came as part of a major assault that started five days earlier to drive ISIS from the western half o dunks shoes f Mosul, Iraqrsquo second-largest city.Two police official told The Associated Press that after police forces pushed onto the airport grounds and seized the runway, they came under heavy fire from inside the buildings at the site, including the main airport building.The officials would not provide more details but said heavy exchanges were underway. They said troops from the U.S.-led coalition were with the advancing forces, though they didnrsquo;t specify the nationalities of the foreign forces. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters. nike dunk The battle to retake Mosul 44 photos There are currently about 5,000 U.S. troops in Iraq supporting the domestic forces, and President Trump has given his military commanders until next week to present a new plan to expedite the fight against ISIS in both Ira Cqak Orphaned gorillas strike a pose in selfie with park ranger
He s been attempting a comeback. For the first time in months, Boris Yeltsin worked a full five-day week at the Kremlin. The Russian president made a public appearance nearly every day last week, honoring Russia s veterans and meeting foreign dignitaries. He even went on TV to express his annoyance at the repeated calls for his resignation, reports CBS News Correspondent David Hawkins.Yeltsin s increased workload was intended to show that he s healthy, and still in charge. Instead, it s put him back in the hospital with a bleeding stomach ulcer.The Kremlin press service reported that doctors at the Central Clinical hospital performed a gastroscopic examination and want to treat the ulcer further.Yeltsin spokesman Dmitry Yakushkin told the Interfax news agency, the president underwent gastroscopic examination and the docto stanley termoska rs came to the conclusion that the ulcer should be treated in the hospital. The same problem sidelined the 68-year-old Russian leader earlier this year. To treat the relapse, the president s doctor is recommending several days of bed-rest.Yeltsin s never been one to follow doctors orders, though. Against their advice, he flew to Jordan to attend King Hussein s funeral. But he had to be rushed back to Moscow before the burial.He didn t look well then and hasn stanley termosy t since. But his doctor says Yeltsin s condition is stable and his life is not in danger.As if to p stanley mugs rove it, Yeltsin told his prime minister, Yevgeny Primakov, to go on vacation. Afte
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced t adidas originals donna he beginning of military operations to retake the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS -held city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, in a televised address on Sunday night.Iraqi forces are approaching a moment of great victory against ISIS, said al-Abadi, who was surrounded by top military commanders from the Ministry of Defense and the country s elite counterterrorism forces. On the Fallujah front lines in fight against ISIS 01:48 yeezy However, Iraqi forces are expected to face a complicated fight to push ISIS out of Fallujah, which is about 40 miles west of Baghdad, and has been under the militants control for more than two years.Asked about the Iraqi announcement on plans to retake Fallujah, the U.S. State Department and the Pentagon did not immediately comment.During the Iraq War, Fallujah was an insurgent stronghold and the site of the bloodiest battle of the Iraq War. In November 2004, U.S. forces led a coalition attack against several thousand insurgents in Fallujah in which thousands of buildings were destroyed in house-to-house fighting. More than 80 U.S. troops were killed along with an estimated 2,000 insurgents. Al-Abadi s announcement comes at a time when Iraqi ground forces backed adiletten original by U.S.-led coalition air support are gaining Irus Assad: U.S. does not have a single shred of evidence of chemical weapons attack
Rocket and mortar attacks in Iraq have decreased to their lowest levels in more than 21 months, the U.S. military said Monday. In the capital, Iraqi officials said a taxi driver was shot dead by a private security guard hired to protect U.S. convoys.Last month saw 369 indirect fire attacks - the lowest number since February 2006. October s total was half of what it w stanley flasche as in the same month a year ago. And it marked the third month in a row of sharply reduced insurgent activity, the military said.The U.S. command issued the tallies a day after Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said suicide attacks and other bombings in Baghdad also have dropped dramatically, calling it an end of sectarian violence.Despite the drop in violence, the capital remains tense and al-Maliki and other Iraqi and f stanley thermosflasche oreign officials are under heavy protection.Embassy spokesman Philip T. Reeker said the company involved in Saturday s shooting was DynCorp International, one of three firms contracted to protect American officials in Iraq. Reeker could not confirm anyone had died, and he would not say who the seven-vehicle convoy was carrying nor give its stanley termohrnek destination. They reported that a private vehicle approached the convoy, and continued to approach to the point where a member of the PSD used his weapon to disable the vehicle, Reeker told reporters on a regular conference call from Baghdad, using the acronym for private security detail.Iraqis have grown increasingly angry at what they believe are
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