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Commercial airlines are being pressed into military service to transport troops as the Pentagon continues its Persian Gulf buildup for a possible war in Iraq.The airlines were flying troops Monday under an order by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld mobilizing the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, a fleet of commercial passenger and cargo planes that can be used to move people and equipmen stanley cup usa t in emergencies.The Defense Department announced late Saturday it was activating the first stage of the fleet, making it only t stanley quencher he second time it has done so in the 51-year history of the program. The measure is necessary due to increased operations associated with the build up of U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf region, it said in a statement.Officials have the authority to call up 78 aircraft mdash; 47 passenger planes and 31 wide-body cargo planes. But for now, Air Force Gen. John W. Handy, commander of the U.S. Transportation Command, has enough cargo planes and is calling only the passenger aircraft, said command spokesman Navy Capt. Steve Honda. There are 11 carriers signed up for this first stage of mobilization, Honda said by pho stanley cup ne from command offices at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois.They are American Airlines, American Trans Air, Continental Airlines, Delta Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, North American Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Omni Air International, United Airlines, US Airways and World Airways.Names of airlines that began flying troops Monday were not immediately available

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For the first time, United Nations members have agreed on a unified treaty to protect biodiversity in the high seas mdash; representing a turning point for vast stretches of the planet where conservation has previously been hampered by a confusing patchwork of laws.The U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea came into force in 1994, before marine biodiversity was chanclas yeezy a well-established concept. The treaty agreement concluded two weeks of talks in New York.The last international agreement on ocean protection was signed 40 years ago in 1982 mdash; the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, according adidas originals ultraboost to BBC News. An updated framework to protect marine life in the regions outside national boundary waters, known as the high seas, had been in discussions for more than 20 years, but previous efforts to reach an agreement had repeatedly stalled. The unified agreement treaty, which applies to nearly half the planet s surface, was reached late Saturday. We only really have two major global commons mdash; the atmosphere and the oceans, said Georgetown marine biologist Rebecca Helm. While the oceans may draw less attention, protecting this half of earth s surf samba shoes ace is absolutely critical to the health of our planet. Fish swim near some bleached coral at Kisite Mpunguti Marine park, Kenya, June 11, 2022. For the first time, United Nations members have agreed on a unified treaty on Saturday, March 4, 2023, to protect biodiversity in the high seas mdash; nearly half the planet Bjor Scotland s independence referendum
ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkish security forces shot dead a suspected Kurdish rebel early Saturday to end a 12-hour hostage drama on a small passenger ferry, and later confirmed that he was wearing plastic explosives.They killed the man in a pre-dawn lightning raid on the Kartepe ferry, which wa stanley cup s anchored off the port town of Silivri, west of Istanbul, after running out of fuel. The 24 passengers and crew were unhurt.Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin identified the hijacker as Mensur Guzel, saying he was the head of the youth wing of the Kurdish rebel group in the northwestern province of Kocaeli.Sahin said the hijacker was born in the Kurdish-dominated southeast in 1984 and joined the rebel group after escaping from the m kubki stanley ilitary in 2009.He said Guzel was wearing 450 grams of A4 plastic explosives on his body. A provincial stanley romania governor earlier had said the man was not armed and wearing empty bottles with some electrical wiring.The hijacker, seeking to attract attention to Turkey s fight against autonomy-seeking Kurdish rebels, claimed to have explosives on his body and took control of the ferry after it set sail from the northwestern port of Izmit on Friday evening.The ferry zigzagged across the inland Sea of Marmara with coast guard boats on its tail before running out of fuel off Silivri. Sahin said Turkish coast guards had successfully forced the ship to head for Silivri 151; a quiet area chosen for the operation.Naval commandos and anti-terror police, who secretly boarded

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BAGHDAD -- The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a series of attacks that rocked different parts of Iraq and killed at least 56 people the night before.The extremist group said a suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden car among Shiite militia members in the Shiite-majority town of al-Khales in the country s eastern Diyala province. Iraqi officials said the attack hit a commercial area, killing at least 32 people and wounding 58 others.It added that militants also detonated a car bomb in Baghdad s northeastern neighborhood of Husseiniya that killed at least 14 people and wounded 25 others.The group also claimed responsibility for an attack on Shiites in Basra s southwest suburb of al-Zubair, killing at least 10 people. The Sunni-dominated al-Zubair is located 50 kilometers 31 miles southwest of Basra.The Associated Press could not immediately verify the authenticity of the statements, issued on different Twitter accounts, but its language and phrasing is consistent with past IS claims of responsibility. ISIS controls large swaths of Iraq s north and west, including its second-largest city of Mosul and most of Anbar province adiletten original . It regularly targets S adidas campus damen hiite neighborhoods and government installations in an effort to destabilize the Shiite-led government in Baghdad.A new ISIS affiliate also struck in Yemen with suicide car bombings that targ adidas campus 00 eted exiled Yemeni officials and the Saudi and Emerati troops backing them. The suicide car bom Vaga Failed Women Suicide Bomber Nabbed
The U.N. says another cyclone in forming near Myanmar, which was devastated by a killer storm less than two weeks ago.U.N. spokeswoman Amanda Pitts couldn t say where the landfall would be or when it would become a full-fledged cyclone. She told reporters Wednesday that the chances of it cyclone happening is good... This is terrible. She said the information about the possible cyclone came from the Joint Typhoon Warning center, which is part of the U.N. s World Meteorological Center.The center said on its Web site that the poten water bottle stanley tial for the development of a significant tropical cyclone within the next 24 hours is good. It said the circulation center of the storm is currently transiting generally northwestward across the Yangon delta region of Myanmar, which refers to the Irrawaddy delta. The May 3 cyclone, which stanley water jug pulverized the Irrawaddy delta, left more than 60,000 people dead or missing. Aid agencies estimate that more than 100,000 people have died, and as many as 1.5 million are at risk of disease and other health problems caused by a lack of fresh food, water and shelter.Despite widespread allegations that they had mishandled the rescue and relief effort, Myanmar s military rulers have apparently told the leader of neighboring Thailand that all is well, and they do not require any support personnel from outside stanley quencher the country.Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said that Myanmar s ruling junta had given him its guarantee Wednesday that there are no disease o

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Sydney Gary the flower-eating goat s graze with Australian police has ended with his comedian owner getting the last laugh in court.A Sydney judge ruled Wednesday that neither the goat nor his owner could be found guilty of vandalism over an August incident when Gary decided to snack on a flowerbed outside a city museum.Police at the time leveled a fine of 440 Australian dollars $465 against owner Jim Dezarnaul, a comedian known as Jimbo Bazoobi.But ma stanley water bottle n and goat got their day in court, with Gary arriving resplendent in a colorful hat on Wednesday. The brown-and-white goat didn t testify, but he had his own lawyer.Owner Dezarnaul said the case serves as a lesson to overzealous authorities, and that s `Don t bite off stanley mug more than you can chew. stanley cup ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-9a3eab50-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-9a3eab50-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-9a3eab50-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had his military chief executed for corruption and other charges, a South Korean official said Thursday.If true, the execution of Ri Yong Gil, chief of the North Korean military s general staff, would be the latest in a series of killings, purges and dismissals since Kim took power in late 2011.Details about North Korea s opaque government are notoriously difficult for outsiders to get, even national governments, and South Korean officials have a spotty record of tracking developments in North Korea. Flash points: Why did North Korearsquo Kim Jong adidas yeezyslide Un execute his defense minister chanclas yeezy 04:31 A South Korean official said that Ri s execution was part of Kim s effort to bolster his grip on power. Other charges Ri faced before his execution were abusing his power and forming a clique, the official said.The official didn t say how the information was obtained and spoke on condition of anonymity because it involv crocs hausschuhe es confidential intelligence on North Korea. The government had previously leaked the details to South Korean media.Ri, an army general who took up the top military job in 2013, had been considered as one of Kim s trusted aides because he frequently accompanied his inspection tours of army units and factories. Speculation about his fate fl Jkvr Israel testing fourth Pfizer COVID vaccine shot
Honduras interim government said Wednesday night it has authorized ousted President Manuel Zelaya to leave the country and go to Mexico, and a Mexican of stanley cup usa ficial confirmed talks were under way on that possibility.Zelaya told Radio Globo he was negotiating what he called a consensual solution to his stay in the Brazilian Embassy, where he has been holed up 151; surrounded by soldiers 151; since sli stanley mugs pping back into Honduras on Sept. 21.Zelaya said he had talked with both Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Dominican President Leonel Fernandez. The talks apparently centered on a dignified solution for Zelaya, who has refused any form of political asylum that might hinder his efforts to stanley france drum up opposition to the forces that removed him from the presidency in a coup June 28.Zelaya said he wanted a negotiated solution ... that respected the law, and respected my office as president.He suggested he wanted a status that would allow me to continue my political actions abroad. He operated a sort of government-in-exile from other Latin American nations after being ousted. I will not accept any political asylum, Zelaya said, adding that he wanted hospitality, as a guest, to continue my actions. A spokesman for the Honduran Foreign Ministry, Milton Mateo, said Mexico had asked for a safe-conduct pass for Zelaya, who has been charged by the interim government with abuse of power. Mateo said the pass had been signed and would be delivered to the Brazilian Embassy, but

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A highly ranked junior water skier died suddenly at the age of 18, according to his water ski te nike air max am.Michael Arthur Micky Geller was a freshman student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where h nike sb dunk e studied kinesiology and was part of the school s Ragin adidas yeezy Cajuns Waterski Team. Gellar was ranked sixth in the world as a junior water skier in the U21 jump, the school said. The water ski team said on Facebook that Gellar was on a full scholarship because of his athletic prowess.Gellar was from Ontario, Canada. Funeral services were held in Ottowa on Thursday, the school said, and flags at the university were flown at half-staff the same day.Gellar s passing was also confirmed by Water Ski Canada. The organization said on Facebook that he had died suddenly, but did not provide other information. Michael Arthur Micky Gellar. University of Louisiana at Lafayette Water Ski Canada called Gellar a valued member of the Ragin Cajuns, the Ontario skiing community, and the organization itself. Gellar skiied for Water Ski Canada in multiple events, including the International Waterski and Wakeboard Foundation s under-17 world championship, the Jr. U.S. Masters Water Ski Tournament, and the 2022 Pan American Championships. As skiers and all the members of our community begin to mourn this great loss, many will acknowledge his amazing work ethic, unending passion, Vgkg Almanac: The English Channel Tunnel
Palestinians on Sunday failed to reach agreement on a truce offer to Israel after three days of talks mired in arguments, delegates said.Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia, who joined the talks in Cairo in the hopes of pulling off a deal, left the Egyptian capital without an agreement in hand. Delegates said a statement will be issued later outlining the results of the meetings. The statement will have no mention of refraining from attacks on civilians, cease-fire or authorizing Abu Ala the Palestinian prime minister , said Samir Ghosheh, head of the Palestinian Struggle Front, one of the more than dozen groups which attended the Palestinian talks.Maher Taher, a senior d stanley cupe elegate from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said disagreements over whether to offer a full cease-fire or a limited truce that would only stop attacks inside Israel could not be bri stanley mugs dged. There are disagreements about the nature of a cease-fire, he told The Associated Press. The factions have different positions on the issue. When asked whether the statement would include reference to halting attacks on civilians, a broader cease-fire or a mandate to the Palestinian Authority to negotiate terms with Israel, he replied: None of th stanley water bottle e above ... and so we will end with a press release. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-975bfed8-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-975bfed8-8c88-11e2

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Hurricane Mariamoved east of the Bahamas on Friday afternoon. The Turks and Caicos Islands and southeastern Bahamas are no longer under hurricane warnings.The Category 3 storm continues to have maximum winds of 125 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. The core of the storm was about 115 miles east asics outlets -northeast of the southeastern Bahamas at 5 p.m. on Friday afternoon.The Turks and Caicos Islands join the southeastern and central Bahamas under tropical storm warnings.Maria was moving north-northwest at 9 mph and the storm is expected to slowly weaken while making a turn toward the north by late Saturday.Puerto Rico was still without power Friday and may have no electricity for months. The U.S. territory s governor said its death toll has risen to 13. The storm has killed at least 30 peop nike air max le across the Caribbean. The northwestern municipalities of Isabela and Quebradill adidas samba og as, home to some 70,000 people, were evacuated with buses Friday because the nearby Guajataca Dam was failing after the storm hit.Friday afternoon, a failing dam prompted emergency evacuations of two towns in northwestern Puerto Rico. The operators of the dam reported that the failure was causing flash-flooding downstream, the weather service in San Juan said. It s a structural failure. I don t have any more details, Gov. Ricardo Rossello said from the capital, San Juan. We re trying to evacuate as many people as possible. Follow along below for live updates on the storm. All times are Eastern unles Aflp South Africa s great white sharks may be headed for extinction
Iranian reformists accused conservatives Monday of employing totalitarian tactics and said they were considering boycotting next month s legis stanley cups lative elections in frustration with a deepening political crisis.The Guardian Council, a powerful, unelected body that supervises elections, on Sunday vetoed legislation seeking to curb its powers and force it to reverse its disqualifications of thousands of candidates in next month s election.The government hinted Monday that it would not hold the elections if those disqualifications wer stanley termosy e not overturned. The government will continue its activities to help form conditions for fair, free and competitive elections ... existence of competition is the main condition for holding the elections, the Iranian Cabinet said in a statement.Students said they planned mass protests against the hard-liners in what has become Iran s worst political crisis in years. Students will join professors of all universities in Tehran today to support disqualified prospective hopefuls and denounce hard-liners who are restricting people s choice, reformist student leader Hossein Baqeri said Monday.The Guardian Council veto likely will provoke a boycott of the Feb. 20 parliamentary elections as reformists have warned th stanley termoska ey would not participate in polls where more than a third of the candidates were prevented from running. The rejection means there is no will on the part of hard-liners to resolve the political crisis through logical methods. It only pushe

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A top U.N. official for housing sent a letter to giant private equity firm Blackstone blast adidas originals forum ing its practices in renting single-family homesBlackstone is the largest such rental operation in the U.S.The firm s practices are having devastating consequences for tenants, the letter said Blackstone said the letter contains adidas campus 80s numerous false claims, significant factual errors and inaccurate conclusions, but it rebuts few of the facts No less an entity than the U.N. is wading into the U.S. housing affordability crisis. In a pair of letters to the U.S. government and Blackstone Group, Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, calls out yeezy slide the role of private equity in the housing market and blasts the federal government for failing to protect the right of people to housing.Blackstone, the world s largest private-equity fund, also owns the largest single-family rental operation in the U.S. through its Invitation Homes unit. It s not the only private equity firm to invest in housing, but Blackstone s large size and concentration in a few metro areas has made it a dominant player in the rental market, where it is having devastating consequences for tenants, the letter said. Blackstone s and its subsidiaries business model is pushing low-income, and increasingly middle-income people from their homes, the rapporteur wrote. Among the tactics it ascribes to Blackstone, drawing on news reports, are purchasing housing for low-income renters and deemi Qkuh Pakistani bride kills 17 in botched plot to poison husband
BAGHDAD More than 40 people were reported killed in fighting in a key city in northern Iraq and gunmen took over a town elsewhere in the country on Thursday, raising concerns that unrest roiling Sunni areas is spreading. Iraq s prime minist stanley quencher er appealed for calm following three days o stanley flask f violence that has left more than 150 dead.Clashes erupted late Wednesday in Mosul between gunmen and police in some districts before security forces managed to bring the situation under control before midday Thursday. Police said 31 militants and 10 police were killed in the fighting in Mosul. Many residents were still staying home out of fear, although the city was largely quiet by evening.The latest unrest began on Tuesday when fighting broke out in the northern town of Hawija during a security crackdown on a protest encampment. Three members of the Iraqi security force and at least 20 other people were killed. The government said gunmen fired on the security forces as they entered the camp to make arrests related to an earlier incident.Clashes at Sunni protest in Iraq kill at least 23Deadly car bombings target mosques in IraqIraqi al Qaeda and Syria militants announce mergerI stanley becher raq war: Was it worth it In his first public comments since the Hawija killings, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appealed for calm, urging Iraqis to unite for the sake of the country and stand up against extremists. We all have to shoulder responsibility after what happened in Hawija and what s going on today in Suleiman Be

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Last summer s sweltering heat broke more than city or regional or even national records. In what they call an alarming finding, scientists say that in the Northern Hemisphere, the summer of 2023 was the h air force 1 ottest in 2,000 years.Global data already showed that last summerwas the hottest on record. Copernicus, the European Union s climate change observation organization, made that determination But a new study, published in Nature on Tuesday, looked even further back using both observed and reconstructed temperatures from centuries past.They found the heat was unparalleled, yeezy slide the researchers said.According to their findings, the Northern Hemisphere experienced its hottest summer over the past 2,000 years by more than 0.5 degrees Celsius.Study co-author Ulf Buuml;ntgen, from the University of Cambridge, said in apress releasethat adidas originals ultraboost last year was exceptionally hot, but that the true extent of that heat is visible when looking back at the historical record. When you look at the long sweep of history, you can see just how dramatic recent global warming is, Buuml;ntgen said, ...and this trend will continue unless we reduce greenhouse gas emissions dramatically. The study also compared the temperatures of June, July and August in 2023 to those in the same months of 536 CE mdash; the year one historian dubbed the beginning of one of the worst periods to be alive, if not the worst year, as it launched the coldest decade in millennia due to major volcanic eruptions. The d Kaob Rice: Iran s President Is Dangerous
Sir Edmund Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest to win renown as one of the 20th century s greatest adventurers, has died, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announce stanley water bottle d Friday. He was 88.The gangling New Zealander devoted much of his life to aiding the mountain people of Nepal and took his fame in stride, preferring to be called Ed and considering himself just an ordinary beekeeper. Sir Ed described himself as an average New Zealander with modest abilities. In reality, he was a colossus. He was an heroic figure who not only knocked off Everest but lived a li stanley kubek fe of determination, humility, and generosity, Clark said in a statement. The legendary mountaineer, adventurer, and philanthropist is the best-known New Zealander ever to have lived, she said.Hillary s life was marked by grand achievements, high adventure, discovery, excitement - and by his personal humility. Humble to the point that he only admitted being the first man atop Everest long after the death of climbing companion Tenzing Norgay. He had pride in his feats. Returning to base camp as the man who took the first step onto the top of the world s highest peak, he declared: We knocked the bastard off. The accomplishment as part of a British climbing expedition even added luster to the coronation of Britain s Queen Elizabeth II stanley tumbler four days later, and she knighted Hillary as one of her first act.But he was more proud of his decades-long campaign to set up schools and health clinic