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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The crush and stampede that struck the hajj last month in Saudi Arabia killed at least 2,121 pilgrims, a new Associated Press tally showed Monday, after officials in the kingdom met to discuss the tragedy.The toll keeps rising from the Sept. 24 disaster outside Mecca as individual countries identify bodies and work to determine the whereabouts of hundreds of pilgrims still missing. The official Saudi toll of 769 people killed and 934 injured has not change adidas samba d since Sept. 26, and officials have yet to address the discrepancy.Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif bin Abdul Aziz, who is also the kingdom s interior minister, oversaw a meeting late Sunday about the disaster in Mina, according to the official Saudi Press Agency. The agency s report nike dunk did not mention any official response to the rising death toll. The crown prince was reassured on the prog nike air max ress of the investigations, the SPA report said. He directed the committee s members to continue their efforts to find the causes of the accident, praying to Allah Almighty to accept the martyrs and wishing the injured a speedy recovery. Deadly stampede at hajj pilgrimage 19 photos King Salman ordered the investigation into the disaster, the deadliest in the history of the annual pi Qtjl Putin: Change Russian Tax Code
PHNOM PENH, CambodiaNorodom Sihanouk, the revered former king who was a towering figure in Cambodian politics through a half-century of war, genocide and upheaval, died Monday. He was 89.Sihanouk abdicated the throne in 2004, citing his poor health. He had been getting medical treatment in China since January and had suffered a variety of illnesses, including colon cancer, diabetes and hypertension.Prince Sisowath Thomico, a royal family member who also was Sihanouk s assistant, said the former king suffered a heart attack at a Beijing hospital. His death was a grea stanley cup t loss to Cambodia, Thomico said, adding that Sihanouk had d stanley quencher edicated his life for the sake of his entire nation, country and for the Cambodian people. Sihanouk s successor, Norodom Sihamoni, flew with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen to Beijing on Monday to retrieve the body, said Col. Chhay Bunna, a senior police officer in charge of security at Phnom Penh s international airport. State flags flew at half-staff, and Cambodian government spokesman Khieu Kanharith said an official funeral will be held once the former king s body is repatriated.In January, Sihanouk requested that he be cremated in the Cambodian and Buddhis stanley cup t tradition, asking that his ashes be put in an urn, preferably made of gold, and placed in a stupa at the country s Royal Palace.Sihanouk saw Cambodia transform from colony to kingdom, U.S.-backed regime to Khmer Rouge killing field and foreign-occupied land to guerrilla war zo

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The only surviving attacker from the 2015 terrorist massacre at the Bataclan theater and other sites in Paris has been convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole mdash; the most severe sentence possible in France, and very rare. Salah Abdeslam was the chief suspect in an exceptional trial over the 2015 attacks, which killed 130 people and were claimed by the Islamic State group.The judge in a special terrorism court Wednesday found him guilty of murder and attempted murder in relation to a terrorist enterprise. The court found that his explosives vest malfunctioned, dismissing his argument that he ditched the vest because he decided not to follow through with his attack.A special French court on Wednesday also found 19 other men guilty of involvement in the attacks on the Bataclan theater, Paris cafes and France s national stadium in the deadliest peacetime attacks in French history.Presiding judge Jean-Louis Peries read the verdicts in a cour air max 96 thouse surrounded by unprecedented security, wrapping up a nine-month trial. This is a an undated handout image made available by Belgium Federal Police of Salah Abdeslam who is wanted in connection to the November 13 attacks in Paris. Belgium Federal Police via AP adidas samba Of the defendants besides Abdeslam, 18 adidas originals samba were handed various terrorism-related convictions, and one was convicted on a lesser fraud Zezr North Korea uses cyberattack earnings to advance nuclear and missile development, U.N. panel reports
President Barack Obama plans a major speech on Iraq after his return to Washington, according to a senior administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity Sunday because details were being finalized. CBS News has confirmed the information. The speech will come shortly after Obama returns to the White House on Aug. 29 from his Martha s Vineyard vacation.Meanwhile, Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said that it would take a complete failure of the Iraqi security forces for the U.S. to resume combat operations there, as the final U.S. fighting forces prepared to leave the country.Face The Nation: U.S. Might Return if AskedIraq Withdrawal: What are Non-Combat Troops NYT: U.S. Contractors to Fill Iraq VoidJust When Can a President Take a Vacation With a major military milestone in sight, Odierno said that any resumption of combat duties by American forces is unlikely. We don t see that happening, Odierno said. The Iraqi security forces have been stanley cup doing so well for so long now that we really believe we re beyond that point. About 50,000 U.S. troops will remain in the country until the end of 2011 to serve as a training and assistance force, a dramatic drawdo stanley website wn from the peak of more than 170,000 during the surge of American forces in 2007.U.S. involvement in Iraq beyond the end of 2011, Od stanley cup ierno said, probably would involve assisting the Iraqis secure their airspace and borders.While Iraq forces can handle internal security and protect Iraqis, Od

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China s nike air force government is investing unprecede adidas originals nted resources in a range of disinformation, surveillance and censorship tactics it uses in efforts to shape international narratives in its favor among foreign audiences around the world, a newreportreleased Thursday by the State Department said. As the [People s Republic of China] has grown more confident in its power, it appears to have calculated that it can more aggressively pursue its interests via information manipulation, thereport, compiled by the department s Global Engagement Center, said.It warned that some of the methods Beijing has honed and is spending billions on annually are deceptive and coercive, use false or biased claims, or involve technologically-enabled tracking or suppression techniques to stifle criticism of its policies or political leadership. The report, which relied on publicly available information, as well as information collected by the U.S. government, listed as examples the Chinese Communist Party s CCP use of automated bot networks to amplify Chinese diplomats own posts or attack those of critics , its use of state media employees posing as social media influencers to reach foreign audiences and its acquisition of satellite and telecommunications technologies to monitor and control information online. Chinese state media routinely amp adidas campus shoes lified pro-Kremlin or anti-NATO propaganda in the wake of Russia s invasion of Ukraine, including boosting Moscow s claims there were secret biological wea Yswd Dog pounces on suicide bomber to save wedding party
The death toll from a boat accident in northern India rose to 52 on Tuesday as rescue workers conti stanley cup nued to pull bodies from the Ganges river.Police initially said the crowded vessel that capsized Monday was carrying about 70 passengers, well above its capacity of 30.However, it appeared the boat was ferrying at least 100 people, mostly women and children, according to local magistrate P.K. Misra.By Tuesday morning, search-and-rescue workers had pulled out 52 bodies, said Surendra Srivastava, a police spokesman. Twenty-five people managed to swim to safety.The accident occurred in Uttar Pradesh state, 250 miles 400 kilometers southeast of Lucknow, the state capital. Boat tragedies are common in the impoverished state. Vessels used to ferry passengers are generally rickety and overcrowded, and people seldom use life jackets. stanley mug ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-992c23dc-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-992c23dc-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; stanley cup inline-recirc-item--id-992c23dc-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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A Turkish court on Friday opened the trial in absentia of two former aides of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and 18 other Saudi nationals over the 2018 killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Turkish prosecutors have indicted the 20 Saudi nationals over Khashoggi s grisly killing at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul that cast a cloud of suspicion over Prince Mohammed. They are seeking life prison terms for the defendants, who have all left Turkey. Saudi Arabia rejected Turkish demands f nike sb dunk or the suspects extradition and put some of them on trial in Riyadh. The proceedings were widely criticized as a whitewash and Khashoggi s family later announced that they had forgiven his killers. The trial in Turkey will be closely watched for possible new information or evidence into the killing, including the whereabouts of Khashoggi s remains. Jamal Khashoggi in undated photo. CBS News The Turkish prosecutors have charged the prince s former advisers, Saud al-Qahtani and Ahmed al-Asiri hoka wanderschuh , with instigating a premeditated murder with the intent of causing torment through fiendish instinct. Prosecutors are also seeking life prison sentences for 18 other Saudi nationals charged with carrying out a premeditated murder with the intent of causing torment through fiendish instincts. Khashoggi, who was a resident o adidas campus donna f the U.S., walked into his country s consu Vkku 84 Children Perish In India Fire
Prime Minister Tony Blair, trying to defuse a row over Iraq a week before Britain s general e stanley mugs lection, released his attorney general s advice on the legality of the U.S.-led war on Thursday mdash; something he had long refused to do.The announcement came after a TV channel said it had obtained a leaked copy of a memo sent to Blair from Attorney General Lord Goldsmith in which he warned the invasion could be deemed illegal without a second U.N. Security Council resolution specifically authorizing military action.The document again thrust the ferocious debate about the U.S.-led invasion and Blair s integrity to the forefront of the election campaign. Blair accused the Conservatives of trying to defle stanley cup ct attention away from issues like the economy, health and education.He also insisted he did not lie about the legal case for war in Iraq, but the opposition Conservative Party said the document proved he did.The full text of the memo, which had been leaked to Channel 4 news, was released on the prime minister s Web site. You have probably got it all anyway. I see no reason not to publish it, Blair told reporters.The prime minister has insisted that Goldsmith, the government s top legal adviser, was unequivocal in written advice to Parliament on March 17, 2003, that invading Iraq would be stanley quencher legal without a further U.N. resolution.But in Goldsmith s confidential memo to Blair, written 10 days earlier, the attorney general warned that an invasion could be deemed illegal without

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KABUL, Afghanistan --A Taliban suicide bomber struck the entrance to the Afghan parliament on Monday and gunmen tried to storm the heavily guarded compound, setting off a gunbattle with police that left two people dead as lawmakers were meeting inside to vote on the appointment of a new defense minister.CBS News Charlie D Agata reports, live television showed the moment the explosion from a massive air force 1 car bomb rocked the parliament building filling the room with smoke and panic.Afghan security forces managed to repel the attack, killing all seven gunmen and ensuring that no members of parliament were harmed. But the audacious assault came as the Taliban captured two districts in as many days in the country s north, displaying their ability to operate on multiple fronts.Karimi, the police spokesman, told CBS News 28 people were injured in the attack, including 19 men and nine women and children. He said two people, a woman and a child, were killed. The casualties were caused by the car bomb blast, he said.Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said the attack began with a car bomb exp adidas samba losion near the entrance to parliament. Gunmen then attempted to storm the compound but were pushed back by security forces and eventually corralled into a nearby building that was under construction. Sediqqi later said all seven attackers were killed by police and that no members of parliament wer yeezy e harmed. Kqnc Turning Tables On Berg Killers
Egypt has demanded that Hamas immediately release a captured Israeli soldier to avoid a worsening crisis in the violence-battered Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials and Arab diplomats said.Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres on Wednesday accused Hamas exiled leadership in Syria of blocking a deal for the release of the soldier.Egypt has been mediating talks for the release of Cpl. Gilad Shalit in exchange for Israel s release of Palestinian prisoners. He was captured June 25 in the Gaza Strip.Meanwhile, an Israeli court on Wednesday released the Palestinian deputy prime minister, the highest ranking Hamas official to be freed following a crackdown on the stanley mug Islamic militant group. But the court temp stanley thermoskannen orarily banned him from going to his government office in the city of Ramallah, his lawyer said.In other developments:The Israeli human rights group B Tselem says Israel s bombing of a Gaza power plant this summer was disproportionat stanley thermos mug e and constitutes a war crime, reports CBS News correspondent Robert Berger audio . The attack affected hospitals and food supplies, and damaged water and sewage systems. Israel said it was legitimate self-defense, but B Tselem said it was an act of vengeance that is forbidden by international law. A U.N. rights expert in Geneva said that rights situation for Palestinians has deteriorated to a new low, and blamed the United States, Canada and Europe for contributing to the tragic situation. However, John Dugard, a South African, said Israel is largely res

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ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan s interior minister says a blacklisted American citizen will be deported once a joint interrogation team completes its work.Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan sa yeezy slide id in Is adidas campus 80s lamabad Friday that Matthew Barrett submitted incorrect information in a visa application at the Pakistani consulate five years after his previous deportation.Barrett, a 33-year-old Alabama native had lived in Pakistan for four years, married a Pakistani woman and had two children. He was expelled from the country in 2011 after being found near a sensitive military installation.Khan said Barrett was not considered a spy, but was involved in wrong doings. He did not elaborate.After re-entering the country Barrett was arrested last week from an Islamabad guest house. The minister suspended airport immigration staff and ordered a probe into the incident. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-7837f1fa-e9b1-4d0e-8751-7ea7b96103a9, right-rail-recirc-item--id-7837f1fa-e9b1-4d0e-8751-7ea7b96103a9 display: adidas originals none; inline-recirc-item--id-7837f1fa-e9b1-4d0e-8751-7ea7b96103a9 ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block; In: Pakistan Tkvv North Korea fires projectiles hours after offering to resume talks with U.S.
Attackers fired on a bus carrying Iraqi national guard members west of Baghdad on Friday, kidnapping 15 guardsmen and leaving the bus in flames, a guard official said.Witnesses said attackers opened fire mdash; apparently with rocket-propelled grenades mdash; as the guard members were heading to a local U.S. military headquarters. The attack happened near Baghdadi, about 90 miles west of the capital.A Baghdadi guard official who identified himself only as Lt. Col. Hesham said 15 were kidnapped.Witnesses reported unspecified casualties. Hesham said no bodies were found, but he had no other information.Iraqi security forces mdash; with less armor and more exposure than U.S. forces mdash; increasingly are leading targets of Iraqi insurgents. In other developments:The U.S. military reported the deaths of three U.S. troops in two provinces feared to be too violence-wracked for the Jan. 30 vote. Two Marines of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force died in action Thursday in the western province of Anbar, the U.S. military said in a statement. And a 1st Infantry Division stanley cup soldier died while supporting Task Force stanley cup Olympia operations around the volatile northern city of Mosul the same day, the military said. American forces gave no details.An Iraqi bus collided with a U.S. tank that was on patrol Friday, killing six of the bus passengers and injuring eight, the U.S. military said. The minibus carrying Iraqi passengers had moved into the lane for oncoming traffic to try to pass a

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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan s intelligence service says the second-highest figure among militants loyal to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria IS adidas campus beige IS in the country was killed in an airstrike.Abdul Hassib Sediqi , spokesman for the National Security Directorate, said Tuesday that Gul Zaman and six other militants were killed in a strike the day earlier in the Achin district of the eastern province of Nangarhar. He would not say who carried out the strike.The government says ISIS, rooted in Iraq and Syria, is making inroads into Afghanistan and is active in at least three provinces. Th crocs badelatschen e Taliban, at war with the government for nearly 14 years, have warned ISIS to stay out. Both groups want Islami adidas yeezy c rule but the Taliban do not recognize ISIS self-styled caliphate. The Fight Against ISIS More 7 U.S. troops hurt in raid targeting Islamic State group militants in Iraq CIA deputy says Taylor Swift plotters hoped to kill tens of thousands Lkzi Saudi king goes on rare domestic tour amid Khashoggi scandal
Come, eat my bread and drink the wine I have prepared for you, the pope said, at the start of a special luncheon with the homeless, quoting from the Old Testament. It was a rare day for 200 homeless and the poor. They had lunch with Pope John Paul II, i stanley uk n Vatican City. According to CBS News Reporter Sabina Castelfranco, t stanley termoska he guests menu included ravioli with ricotta cheese, veal roast with baked potatoes, fresh mozzarella cheese brought up from southern Italy, fruit, wine, champagne and coffee. Food they never dreamed of eating. Three organizations, the Sant Egidio Catholic group, Caritas Italiana and nuns from the order founded by the late Mother Teresa of Calcuta, chose the poor people w stanley canada ho came dressed in the best they could afford. The poor people, who included non-Christians and non-Italians and a few gypsy women with their children, ate with the pope and his top aides in the foyer of the Vatican s audience hall. Down but dignified, most of them sat at 11 round tables with a cardinal or archbishop at each one in the foyer that was transformed into a smart dining hall. Eight lucky people flanked the 80-year-old pontiff at a rectangular table. One who sat next to him, an old woman with wiry hair and a craggy face, said she sleeps on the street. They are extremely excited, some of them did not sleep last night, said Archbishop Crezenzio Sepe, secretary of the Vatican s Committee for the 2000 Holy Year. The poor people, most of whom frequent Rome s cha

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MOSUL, Iraq --Fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, launched counterattacks Saturday against Iraqi special forces in easternMosul, emerging from populated areas deeper in the city to target the troops with mortars and suic adidas originals ide car bombs in clashes that raged late into the night.Artillery shelling thundered across the city as snipers traded fire from rooftops and civilians emerg yeezy 350 ed from the front lines waving white flags. There were fresh indications that other residents were being held back by the militants to be used as hum adidas campus 80s an shields. Suicide bomber narrowly misses CBS News crew 01:35 The seesawing battle highlights the challenges ahead for Iraqi forces as they press into more densely populated neighborhoods of the countryrsquo second largest city, where they will not be able to rely as much on airstrikes because of the risk of killing civilians. Daesh is in the city center and we must be very careful as our forces advance, said Maj. Gen. Sami al-Aridi of the Iraqi special forces, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS. The special forces entered the Gogjali district, on the eastern edge of Mosul, on Tuesday, marking their first major foray into the city itself after more than two weeks of fighting in its rural outskirts. ISIS fought back Saturday, pushing Katm Malaysia Airlines crash site is contaminated : Expert
The current stalemate over agricultural subsidies and other issues could cause global trade talks to collapse unless progress is made at a World Trade Organization meeting in Hong Kong next month, Asia Pacific countries are warning.A draft statement being discussed by senior officials from the 21-member Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, obtained Sunday by The Associated Press, strongly backs the WTO s current agenda for reducing subsidies and other barriers to free trade. We all agree that the Hong Kong ministerial meeting will be a critical step in achieving this goal, the draft says. Yet, we are all seriously conc stanley cups uk erned that the current impasse in the negotiations may lead to a potential failure of the round. APEC leaders, including U.S. President George W. Bush, Chinese premier Hu Jintao and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, are expected to sign off on the statement at the end of their annual summit on Friday and Saturday, though the final wording may change.The United States, Australia and some other APEC members have demanded greater cuts to subsidies that protect European farmers from outside competition. The European Union has refused, and the stand-off threatens to paralyze the current round of talks at the WTO. The APEC statement says that while the stanley cup initial expectations of the Hong Kong meeting may not be achieved, we should nonetheless not compromise the level of am stanley becher bition for the whole round set out in the 2001 Doha Declaration, named for

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British authorities on Friday said they had found more than 12,500 pounds of cocaine hidden in a shipment of bananas, shattering the r adidas sambarose ecord for the biggest single seizure of hard drugs in the country.The National Crime Agency said5.7 tons of cocaine were found in a container of bananas at the port of Southampton on England s south coast on Feb. 8. The haul of drugs airforce had an estimated street value of $568 million, the agency said.Before the massive bust, the previous largest seizures of drugs in the U.K. was a 3.7-ton haul of cocaine found in Southampton two years ago, and before that, 3.2 tons discovered on a tug boat in Scotland in 2015, the agency said.The packages of cocaine found this month were concealed in a cargo of bananas which had been transported from South America, and officials believe the drugs were headed to Hamburg, Germany, for onward delivery. The National Crime Agency said that 5.7 tons of cocaine were found in a container of bananas at the port of Southampton on Feb. 8, 2024. National Crime Agency Thi adidas samba adidas s record-breaking seizure will represent a huge hit to the international organized crime cartels involved, denying them massive profits, NCA Director Chris Farrimond said in a statement. While the destination for the consignment was continental Europe in this case, I have no doubt that a significant proportion would have ended up back here in the U.K., Jsnn Putin: The Unknown President
ROME - A visit to Rome s main synagogue. Diplomatic relations with Israel. A handwritten plea asking forgiveness for Christian persecution left at Judaism s holiest site in Jerusalem.With his landma stanley website rk actions, Pope John Paul II strove throughout his 27-year papacy to overcome the tortured two-millennia history of Catholic-Jewish relations.In a sign of appreciation for those efforts, some in the crowd at his beatification Sunday in St. Peters s Square will be Jews, including an Israeli Cabinet minister who lost most of his family in the Holocaust but was hidden by a Belgium family who raised him as a Christian. We have a high respect, a unique respect stanley cup for John Paul, Yossi Peled, a retired Israeli general, said Friday. He is not just another pope for us. The preparations for the stanley cups beatification 151; the last formal step before possible sainthood 151; got under way in an official capacity Friday morning when John Paul s tomb was opened and his sealed casket removed for public viewing starting Sunday in St. Peter s Basilica.The simple white marble tombstone that had marked John Paul s resting place in the grottoes underneath the basilica will be sent to a new church dedicated to him in Krakow, the Vatican said.Eighty-seven official delegations have confirmed their presence at the ceremony, including 16 heads of state, six heads of government and members of five royal houses, Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said.Peled, a minister in Prime Minister Benjamin

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TOKYO -- Anne Frank s The Diary of a Young Girl and scores of booksabout the young Holocaust victim have been vandalizedin Tokyo public adidas samba og libraries.Dozens of pages were ripped in the books. The librarieshave counted 265 damaged books at 31municipal libraries since the end ofJa af1 nu mizuno handballschuh ary. An official at one library said all the bookscould have been found using the keywords AnneFrank in an online database.The motive is unclear. Police areinvestigating.At least one library moved Anne Frank-relatedbooks behind the counter forprotection.Anne Frank wrote the diary while hiding from theNazis. After her family was betrayed, she died in a concentration camp at age15. Her diary has become the most widely read document to emerge from theHolocaust. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-7a112b3b-9bee-41e6-bd26-a9160b74f027, right-rail-recirc-item--id-7a112b3b-9bee-41e6-bd26-a9160b74f027 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-7a112b3b-9bee-41e6-bd26-a9160b74f027 ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block; Eodc Activists: Syrian troops target second town in widened shelling despite U.N. observer mission
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