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GRABOVO, Ukraine -- International investigators were still waiting Monday for full access to the 42-square-mile area where the shattered pieces of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and its passengers and crew fell to the ground in eastern Ukraine. Inhibiting their access were the pro-Russian separatists who control the territory, and -- in a twist of fate only an ongoing war could deliver -- also happen to be t airmaxplus he prime suspects in the missile launch which brought the Boeing 777 carrying 298 people down. Ukraine rebels move bodies to trains, take control of black boxes 02:15 As CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips reports, the proverbial foxes have been left in charge of guarding t yeezy slide he hen house. Video shot Sunday appeared to show rebel fighters in possession of the plane s two black boxes, or flight data recorders, which could provide some insig nike af ht into the last moments of the journey and what exactly brought it to such a dramatic end.Highlighting the fight at the root of the tragedy, rebel leaders told the Reuters news agency on Monday that Ukrainian military tanks were trying to penetrate the opposition-held city of Dontesk, about 50 miles west of the vast crash site.The commander in charge of Ukrainian military operations in the nation s east, Vladyslav Seleznyov, said only that an active phase of the Lexp CBS suspends filming of The Amazing Race amid coronavirus outbreak
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A male orangutan on the Indonesian portion of Borneo died after being shot at least 130 times with an air gun and apparently being stabbed and clubbed, in the second known killing of a critically endangered orangutan this year.Villagers spotted the wounded orangutan in a lake in the Kutai Timur district of East Kalimantan provi airmaxplus nce on Sunday.Local police chief Teddy Ristiawan said Wednesday that the great ape was still alive when he was taken Monday to a hospital in the town of Bontang.4 elephants found poisoned to death by poachersA statement from the Center for Orangutan Protection said the orangutan died early Tuesday.An X-ray showed at least 130 air gun pellets in its body, including more than 70 in its head, the center said.It said an autops adidas campus 00s y found the animal had been blinded as a result of the shooting and also had 17 open wounds believed to be caused by sharp objects. It adidas original campus s left thigh, right chest and left hand were bruised from blunt object trauma. Ramadhani, a manager of habitat protection at the center who goes by one name, said the death was a terrible event in the history of conflict between orangutans and humans in Indonesia. The 130 pellets within the body of a primate is a new record, the most ever, he said. Visitors watch an orangutan in an enclosure at the Ragunan Zoo in Jakarta, Sept. 10, 2017. Getty In mid-January, an orangut Gjij Amanda Knox s ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito appears in Italy retrial for murder of British student
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PHOENIX U.S. Sen. John McCain faced tough crowds largely opposed to military action in Syria during a town hall meetings Thursday in Arizona.Th nike dunk e Republican senator repeatedly told about 150 constituents at a morning meeting in Phoenix that there would be no plans to send U.S. troops to retaliate for the chemical weapons attack last month near Damascus. I want to begin by saying to you I am unalterably opposed to having a single American boot on the ground in Syria, McCain said. The American people wouldn t stand for it. Second of all, it would not be anything but counterproductive to adidas originals samba do that. American blood and treasure is too precious to do that. McCain had planned to talk about immigration and other issue dunks s at the gathering at a public library, but Syria dominated the conversation. He was interrupted from the start by someone shouting that his response on the topic wasn t good enough. A few people held up signs from their seats with messages such as Don t bomb Syria and Security thru peace. McCain: Failure to act in Syria gives green light to Iran, N. Korea 01:09 McCain told the audience the American public soon would see irrefutable evidence that Syrian President Bashar Assad was behind the deadly Aug. 21 attack. I have seen the information, and the American people will see more an Estj Rocket Destroys Building In Haifa
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NEW DELHI AP -- India s latest tiger census shows a sharp increase in the number of the endangered cats in the wild, raising hopes that conservation efforts are working, officials said Tuesday.The census conducted in 2014 found at least 2,226 tigers in forests across the country, up from 1,706 counted in 2010.Environment minister Prakash Javadekar described the figure adidas campus 80s as a huge success story and said it was the result of yeezy slide sustained conservation efforts. While the tiger population is falling in the world, it is rising in India. This is great news, Javadekar told journalists in New Delhi. Asia s Tigers Under Siege 10 photos Tigers in India have been threatened by rampant poaching and shrinking habitats from deforestation caused by power projects, roads and human settlements as the country pushes ahead with rapid industrialization and economic development. The disappearance of forests has affected the availability of prey and led tigers to stray into hum adidas campus 80s an habitats.Javadekar said more than 9,700 cameras were used in the massive count and the results are the most accurate in the past few decades. Never before has such an exercise been taken. We have unique photographs of 80 percent of the tigers in the wild, he said.Officials said nearly 380,0 Pcwg Japan Urges Y2K Stockpiles
The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal convicted a wartime leader of Croatia s rebel Serbs of murder, torture and persecution Tuesday and sentenced him to 35 years in prison for a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign of non-Serbs in Croatia.Judges said Milan Martic, 52, was responsible for hundreds of murders from 1991 when Serbs in the Krajina region of northeastern Croatia rebelled and set up a breakaway ministate until 1995 when Croatian forces recaptured the area.He also was convicted of ordering two days of indiscriminate cluster bomb shelling of the Croatian ca stanley cup pital, Zagreb, in May 1995 that killed at least seven civilians and injured more than 200.Most of the crimes were committed against elderly people, persons held in detention and civilians. The special vulnerability of these victims adds to the gravity of the crimes, said presiding judge Bakone Moloto.Martic stood still and showed no emotion as Moloto read ou stanley cups t the stanley deutschland verdict and his sentence. The three-judge U.N. panel said Martic was deeply involved in a criminal plot with other Serb leaders including Slobodan Milosevic, Gen. Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic to carve out an ethnically pure greater Serbia as Yugoslavia crumbled that would include about one third of Croatia. It is clear that Milan Martic endorsed the goal of creating a unified Serb state, said Moloto.Martic was indicted in July 1995, just two months after ordering the shelling of Zagreb.The indiscriminate attack using rockets loaded with cluster bom

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