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DAMASCUS -- The Syrian regime of Bashar Ass salomon xt 6 ad is close to controlling all of Damascus for the first time in about five years. Hundreds of rebel fighters have evacuated the last part of Syria s capital city held by the opposition.CBS News correspondent Seth Doane says there are reminders everywhere that President Assad is in control in the heart of the city. For a regime that does not shy away from propaganda, one of the biggest victories may be closer than ever: controlling not just the center of Damascus, but the outskirts, too.Dozens more civilians allegedly killed in U.S.-led strikes Inside Syria s capital 01:53 Assad s army has been bombarding the suburbs of Damascus -- destroying parts of his own capital to root out the opposition.Those who weren t killed were given the chance to surrender. Thousands of rebels and civilians boarded buses near Damascus over the weekend, destined for other opposition- adidas yeezy held areas. An estimated 400,000 people are believed to have been killed in this war. It makes scenes from the main souk in Dam hoka laufschuhe ascus, just about four miles from the front line, seem surprisingly normal. Residents there may have security, but the war has still affected them. Abu Mohammed has been selling tamarind juice out of an elaborate contraption for nine years, and prices have skyrocketed Ftxd Deserted French village goes on the auction block
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A handful of states, including California and Texas, are set to receive a di adidas samba og sproportionate number of the tens of thousands of Afghans evacuated to the U.S., while adidas originals uomo other states are expected to resettle fewer than a dozen evacuees or none at all, according to government data obtained by CBS News.The Biden administration this week notified state authorities of the number of Afghan evacuees each state could receive in the coming weeks as part of the first phase of a massive resettlement operation that is slated to place nearly 37,000 refugees from Afghanistan in U.S. communities.California is expected to receive 5,225 Afghan evacuees, the most of any state. Texas is set to receive 4,481 Afghans, followed by Oklahoma, which is expected to host 1,800 evacuees. Washington state and Arizona are each slated to receive more than 1,600 evacuees.The other states set to receive more than 1,000 Afghan evacuees during the first resettlement phase are Maryland, Michigan, Virginia, Missouri, New York, Georgia, North Carolina and Florida, according to the government statistics that were first reported by The Associated Press.Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana and North Dakota are all set to resettle fewer than 100 Afghans. Alabama and Mississippi are expected to receive just 10 evacuees. Hawaii, W chanclas yeezy yoming, West Virginia and South Dakota are not currently slated to resettle any evacuees from Afghanistan. The 37,000 Afghans expected to be resettled in comm Rqll Tel Aviv readies bomb shelter amid Iran tensions
CBS/AP MOSCOW - Vladimir Putin scored a decisive victory in Russia s presidential election Sunday to return to the Kremlin and extend his hold on power for six more years. His eyes brimming with tears, he defiantly proclaimed to a sea of supporters that they had triumphed over opponents intent on destroying Russia s statehood and usurping power. Putin s win was never in doubt as many across the vast country still see him as a gu stanley romania arantor of stability and the defender of a strong Russia against a hostile world, an image he has carefully cultivated during 12 years in power.CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips reports there were widespread accounts of vote-rigging. There was ballot box stuffing. There were all sorts of manipulation of the election commissions at the local level. So it was not a good report card, election observer Spencer Oliver told CBS News.The accounts of extensive vote-rigging looked set to strengthen the resolve of opposition forces, whose unp stanley france recedented protests in recent months have posed the first serious challenge to Putin s heavy-handed rule. Another huge demonstration was set for Monday evening in central Moscow. Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, has tears in his eyes as he emotionally reacts at a massive rally of his supporters at Manezh square outside Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, March 4, 2012. cups stanley AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev

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ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan -- A plane belonging to Pakistanrsquo national carrier crashed and burst into flames on Wednesday with 48 people on board, killing all of them, the airline chairman and police said. According to senior police officer Khurram Rasheed, the plane crashed in a village in the district of Abbottabad, 45 miles northwest of the capital, Islamabad. The small twin-propeller aircraft was travelling from the city of Chitral to Islamabad when it crashed shortly after takeoff. He said the rescue work is over and that they had transported the remains of the passengers to a local hospital, where doctors were performing DNA tests to identify the victims. According to Daniyal Gilani, the spokesman for Pakistan International Airlines PIA , the plane had lost touch with the control tower prior to the crash. He said the plane was carrying 42 passengers, five crew members and a ground engineer. Two Austrians and a Chinese citizen were among the dead, he said. Villagers retrieved remains of passengers killed in a p crocs lane crash and placed them in shawls and covered bodies with cloth near Havelian, Pakistan, De adidas originals mujer c. 7, 2016. Daily Akhbar Abbottabad PIA has released names of passengers, who included Junaid Jamshed, a famous singer-turned-Islamic-preacher. There are no survivors. All passenge adidas originals hamburg rs and members of crew are dead, Azam Sehgal, chairman of the PIA Jyhf Saudi police thwart capital city protests
Last Updated at 10:14 a.m. ET AP OSLO, Norway - With a defiant closed-fist salute, a right-wing fanatic admitted Monday to a bomb-a stanley becher nd-shooting massacre that killed 77 people in Norway but pleaded not guilty to criminal charges, saying he was acting in self-defense.On the first day of his long-awaited trial, Anders Behring Breivik rejected the authority of the court as it sought to assign responsibility for the July 22 attacks that shocked Norway and jolted the image of terrorism in Europe.Dressed in a dark suit and sporting a thin beard, Breivik smiled as a guard removed his handcuffs in the crowded court room. The 33-year-old then flashed his salute before shaking hands with prosecutors and court officials. I don t recognize Norwegia stanley bottles n co stanley mugs urts because you get your mandate from the Norwegian political parties who support multiculturalism, Breivik said in his first comments to the court. Reporters attend the opening of the trial of right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik third from left , who admits to killing 77 people in twin attacks in Norway last year, at Oslo district courtroom on April 16, 2012. HEIKO JUNGE/AFP/Getty Images Eight people were killed in Breivik s bombing of Oslo s government district and 69 were slain in his shooting massacre at the left-leaning Labor Party s youth camp on Utoya island outside the capital. Breivik has said the attacks were necess

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The following is a transcript of an interview with Zalmay Khalilzad, Former U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation that aired Sunday, October 24,2021, on Face the Nation. MARGARET BRENNNAN: The chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban s victory there has left many questions about whether Americans are actually safer now. Until a few days ago, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad wa nike dunk high s the Biden administration s top en nike air max voy, negotiating directly with the Taliban. He brokered the Trump era deal with the Taliban, in which the US promised to withdraw all U.S. forces, and he joins us now for his first television interview. Welcome to the program.FMR. US ENVOY FOR AFGHANISTAN ZAL KHALILZAD: It s great to be with you, MARGARET.MARGARET BRRENNAN: The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, said this was a strategic failure, the end of America s longest war. He said, The enemy is now in charge in Kabul. Do you share that view KHALILZAD: Well, I think there is a lot of anger and a lot of resentment about what has happened there. I think with regard to terrorism, we largely have achieved that objective. On the issue of building a democratic Afghanistan - I think that- that did not succeed. The struggle goes on. The Talibs are a reality of Afghanistan. We did not defeat them. In fact, they w adidas samba adidas ere making progress on the battlefield even as we were negotiating with them. And the reason we negotiated with them was because militarily things were not g Twqo Friends and foes in ISIS fight even more muddled
Authorities stanley mug are sounding the alarm about an influx of assault rifles, armor-piercing pistols and fragmentation grenades from the United States, weapons that they say a stanley cups uk re increasingly being used to kill police and soldiers fighting drug cartels.U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials report a sharp increase in both the flow and firepower of U.S. weapons across the border. Particularly worrisome are assault rifles and cop-killer pistols.Mexico has strict firearms laws, few gun stores stanley thermosflasche and a mere 4,300 private licensed gun holders among its 105 million people. The United States, with nearly as many guns as people, has more than 100,000 licensed gun sellers, an industry that makes about 2.8 million small arms a year mdash; and gun laws so loose that arms traffickers easily pick up any weapons they need.Despite Mexico s gun control laws, criminals have long smuggled guns in from the United States. The problem is getting bigger because the illegal possession of arms, and their clandestine introduction to our country, combines with narcotics trafficking, said a government report to Mexico s Senate in June. It said 99.4 percent of the weapons in the hands of Mexican criminals are suspected of coming from the United States.At least 11,752 U.S.-sold guns have been found in Mexico since January 2003 mdash; a tiny fraction of what remains on the streets, according to the report.It did not give figures for previous years. But one indicator of a new gun glut is the fact that

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MOSCOW -- On Russian President Vladimir Putin s request, the upper house yeezy slide of Russia s parliament on Wednesday canceled a resolution allowin yeezy slide g the use of military force in Ukraine.The vote comes a day after Putin asked lawmakers to rescind his earlier request for using troops in Ukraine. He said that his move is intended to help support peace process in Ukraine, which began a weeklong cease-fire Friday. Obama warns Russia: More sanctions if provocations continue 01:32 Putin needs to show his support for Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko s peace plan ahead of Friday s European Union summit to avoid further Western sanctions. The EU has warned it could introduce new sanctions that would target entire sectors of the Russian economy if Moscow fails to help de-escalate the crisis.On Tuesday, Putin urged Ukraine to extend the truce and sit down for talks with the rebels. He argued that the Ukrainian demand that the insurgents lay adidas campus down their weapons within a week was unrealistic, explaining that they would be reluctant to disarm for fear of government reprisals. He also called on Ukraine to adopt constitutional amendments and other legal changes that would protect the rights of Russian-speakers in the east. Fnow Deadly crane collapse at Saudi Arabia s Grand Mosque
AP CANBERRA, Australia - Australia s highest court upheld the world s toughest law on cigarette promotion on Wednesday despite protests from tobacco companies that argued the value of their trademarks will be destroyed under new rules that will strip all logos from cigare stanley cup tte packs.The decision by the High Court means that starting in December, tobacco companies will no longer be able to display their distinctive colors, brand designs and logos on cigarette packs. The packs will instead come in a uniformly drab shade of olive and feature graphic health warnings and images of cancer-riddled mouths, blinded eyeballs and sickly children. The government hopes the new packs will make smoking as unglamorous as possible. This is a victory for all those families who have lost someone to a tobacco-related illness. For anyone who has ever lost someone, this is for you, Attorney General Nicola Roxon and Health Minister Tanya Plibersek said in a joint statement stanley cup . No longer when a smoker pulls out a packet of cigarettes will that packet be a mobile billboard. British American Tobacco, Philip Morris International, Imperial Tobacco and Japan Tobacco International are worried that the law will set a global precedent that could slash billi stanley cups ons of dollars from the values of their brands. They challenged the new rules on the grounds that they violate intellectual property rights and devalue their trademarks.The cigarette makers argued that the government would unfairly benefit from the

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LONDON --Westminster Bridge attacker Khalid Masood sent a WhatsApp message that canrsquo;t be accessed because it was encrypted by the popular messaging service, a top British security official said Sunday.British press reports suggest Masood used the messaging service owned by Facebook just minutes before the Wednesday rampage chanclas yeezy that left three pedestrians and one police officer dead and dozens more wounded.London attack victim identified as Utah manAs controversy swirled over the encrypted messages, police made another arrest in Birmingham, England, where Masood had lived. The 30-year-old is one of two men now in custody over possible links to the attack. Neither has been charged or publicly named.Masood was shot dead on the grounds of Parliament. London attack 29 photos Home Secretary Amber Rudd used appearances on BBC and Sky News to urge WhatsApp and other encrypted services to make their platforms accessible to intelligence services and police trying to carrying out lawful eavesdropping. We need to make sure that organizations like hoka schuhe WhatsApp -- and there are plenty of others like that -- donrsquo;t provide a secret place for terror adidas sambarose ists to communicate with each other, she said.Rudd did not provide any details about Masoodrs Hjdo After 16 Years in Caves, Fugitive Caught
Updated at 2:50 p.m. ETLONDON - Lawyers from the U.S. and Britain said Friday they are looking to see if American courts can take up a case against Rupert Murdoch s News Corp. on behalf of British phone hacking victims.If a case is filed, it would broaden the scope of a scandal that has shaken the media mogul s empire and potentially expose it to gre stanley cup ater financial penalties.Special Section: Murdoch in CrisisUK police drop newspaper hacking source demandPerry and Murdoch have dinner togetherBritish attorney Mark Lewis revealed few details but suggested the legal action could begin by taking depositions from News Corp. officials and focus on alleged corrupt practices. He said he had retained U.S. lawyer Norman Siegel, who represents families of many Sept. 11, 2001, attack victims, to take on News Corp. But while Lewis predicted the first hearing could occur within two or three months, Siegel downplayed the prospect of immediate action, telling The Associated Press that he d only been asked stanley cup to explore whether there s legal options. Lewis asked us to do the research. That s what we re doing, Siegel said.News Corp. declined comment. Its stock price dipped slightly in early morning trading but bounced back up to about $15.80 a share in New York.The media conglomerate is best known in the United States for its properties such as Fox News Channel, The New York Post and The Wall Street Journal. But it s been under pressure in Britain since July over revelatio stanley becher ns that its fl

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After being overruled by the White House, outgoing Secretary of Defense James Mattis signed an order on Monday to commence the withdrawal of the roughly 2,000 American troops fighting ISIS in Syr adidas samba ia, CBS News confirmed.Citing strong rifts with President Trump s foreign policy agenda and his treatment of historic U.S. allies, Mattis announced on Thursday that he would be leaving his post in February. Mr. Trump, however, said Sunday that the Pentagon chief would depart by Jan. 1 and be replaced by his deputy and longtime Boeing executive, Patrick Shanahan.The White House s abruptdecision to order the full departure of U.S. ground forces in Syriaon Wednesday provoked a flurry of criticism from Republicans and Democrats. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, called it a colossal mistake, while Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, said it was a sign of American weakness. Brett McGurk, the special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to DefeatISIS,announced his resignationon Friday due to his opposition adidas og to the troop withdrawal.Defending his unexpected, controversial decision, the president proclaimed in a Twitter video, we have won against ISIS. American forces have been engaged in the ongoing convoluted war in Syria -- which involves President Bashar Al-Assad s Russian-backed military, moderate rebel g air force one roups, Iranian-backed Hezbollah cells and ISIS fighters -- since President Obama s tenure. More from Buhb Assange: Palin An Idiot Trying to Make a Name
Asian and European nations urged North Korea on Sa stanley cup turday to return immediately to nuclear disarmament talks as concerns grew that the communist state was preparing to test an atomic bomb.Pyongyang could expect the security assurance and financial assistance it seeks in return for a decision to abandon nuclear weapons development and return to six-nation negotiations, South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon said at a news conference.The ministers, wrapping up a two-day Asia-Europe Meeting in Japan, called on North Korea to return to the negotiating table of the six-party talks without any further delay ... to achieve the denuclearization of the peninsula in a peaceful manner through dialogue. Those talks include the two Koreas, the United States, China, Japan and Russia.A U.S. defense official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said Friday that photos by U.S. spy satellites show North Korea making moves that could be construed as preparations for an underground nuclear test. Japan s Defense Agency a stanley quencher lso said it had information that the communist nation might be preparing for a nuclear test.Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura stressed that Tokyo had not confirmed whether the preparations were real but acknowledged that the communist country posed an increasing threat. It is very diff stanley cup icult to ascertain any of this, he said. In the meantime, nuclear and missile development has likely been proceeding steadily, since North Korea broke off the talks last

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A U.S. military official said Tuesday night that the team of U.S. and Nigerien af1 forces ambushed earlier this month had been asked to look into the physical sit crocs winterstiefel e of where a high-value target had been, although they were not asked to be a part of a mission to capture the individual.U.S. forces had been interested adidas campus 80s in the village, Tongo-Tongo, because of recruitment efforts by Adnan al Sahraoui, the leader of the only local militia to have pledged allegiance to Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS . Sahraoui also goes by Adnan Abu Walid al Sahrawi or al Sahraoui. An image taken from video posted online in Nov. 2016 by ISIS shows Mali-based militant commander Adnan al-Sahraoui pledging allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The investigation remains fluid, but there is also some indication that the 12 U.S. soldiers and 30 Nigerien forces had been on a reconnaissance mission for nearly 24 hours. Investigators want to know if soldiers were set up by villagers in Niger 02:23 A U.S. official told CBS News that the patrol wanted to speak with the elders about countering ISIS expansion. The villagers delayed the troops departure, and when the soldiers left, they were diverted from their intended route for unknown reasons. At this point, they were ambushed by 50 e Qlss Has Bitcoin inventor revealed his true identity
AP OTTAWA, Ontario - A porn actor is wanted in a gruesome case of dismembered body parts that were mailed to different places including the headquarters of the Conservative Party of Canada, police said Wednesday.Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, is wanted for homicide, Montreal police said at a news conference.According to an official close to the investigation Magnotta worked as a porn actor and there is video of the crime. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk publicly about those details. cups stanley The Globe and Mail in Toronto describes him as a male model and adult-film performer...Mr. Magnotta has a long electron gourde stanley ic trail on the Internet, including modeling pictures and allegations he suffocated kittens. Magnotta, believed to originally be from Toronto, was renting an apartment in a working-class Montreal neighborhood. It was behind that building that police found a man s torso in a suitcase in a heap of garbage Tuesday, police said. That same day, a foot was found in a package mailed to the Conservative party headquarters in Ottawa, and a hand found at postal warehouse in the Can stanley cups adian capital. The package with the hand was addressed to the Liberal party of Canada. Early testing shows the three body parts come from the same man, police said. Some police officers have never witnessed a crime such as this, Montreal Police Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere said.Severed human foot mailed to Canada s Conservative Party officeLafreniere said they are investiga

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QUITO, Ecuador -- Ecuadorean officials say theyrsquo;ve found the body of a U.S. businessmen buried beneath a house.The prosecutorrsquo office says a woman under investigation in the January disappearance of Jonathan Charles Gilchrist led them to the body of the 65-year-old, which was found beneath concrete about 6 feet deep at a house in the city of Guayaquil.Prosecutor Santiago Rivadeneira said Friday that two residents of the house have been detained.He says Gilchrist was a well-do-do man with propertie airforces s in several parts of Ecuador.Hersquo;dbeen living in the beach resort of Salinas, about 80 miles west of Guayaquil adidas campus and 215 miles southwest of Quito, the capital. Mo adidas originals re from CBS News Crocodile kills woman despite coworker s attempt to save her Missing U.S. climbers gear found on New Zealand s highest peak House task force holds final hearing on Trump assassination attempts Record number of unaccompanied minor children in Xtni Meet Thailand s elephant whisperer
Even before the Olympic games get under way, the choice of a host city is a competition all its own.With a corruption scandal widening around Salt Lake City s bid to host the Winter Olympics, some are questioning whether Nagano organizers unfairly enticed the IOC to win the bid, reports CBS News Correspondent Barry Peter stanley mug sen.The Olympic flame that was lit in Nagano was not the only fire there. Another fire burned 90 books of reco stanley uk rds on how the Japanese wined, dined, and won over the members of the International Olympic Committee in the early 1990s, especially the more than 60 who traveled to Nagano.The look at Nagano comes in the midst of a widening corruption scandal sparked by Salt Lake City s bid to lure the winter Olympics wth hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, scholarships, and gifts to IOC members and their relatives.Samikazu Yamaguchi, a senior member of the Nagano bid committee who quietly ordered records burned in 1992, says they wanted details of their stanley cup trips kept secret. He insists there was nothing to hide. By burning the books, the Nagano bid committee comes out ahead on two points. First, it can keep claiming that everything it did was right. Second, those alleging wrongdoing will find it all but impossible to prove allegations, such as a charge that IOC members were treated to free department store shopping sprees. However, there were plenty of freebies allowed by IOC rules, starting with first-class plane tickets to Japan. IOC members and their wiv

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Londonmdash; Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Wednesday announced her intention to resign, saying that part of serving in politics is knowing when it s time to make way for someone else. Speaking at a news conference at her official residence in Edinburgh, Bute House, Sturgeon said she wrestled with the decision, but that the pressure of the job was relentless and that she is a human being as well as a politician. In my head and in my heart I know that that time has now come, Sturgeon said. Nicola Sturgeon speaks during a press conference at Bute House in Edinburgh, Feb. 15 2023. Jane Barlow/AP Sturgeon, who has led the country s devolved gov af1 ernment and the Scottish National Party for eight years, has faced months of controversy over a law that makes it simpler for people to change their gender on official documents, the BBC reported Wednesday. The decision caught political observers by surprise, despite the ongoing controversy over the gender recognition measure. She had vowed to take the British government to court over its decision to block the law and argued that the Conservative U.K. governm adidas samba damen ent was making a profound mistake by vetoing the Gender Recognition Reform Bill.Montana to allow transgender people to change gender on birth certificatesHailed as a landmark by transgender rights activists, the bill would allow people age 16 or older in Sc yeezy otland t Afyp Report: Aspiring rapper racks up $465 seafood bill, attempts ocean getaway
The Malaysian government has refused to release 10,000 Bibles confiscated for using the word Allah to refer to God, a banned translation in Christian texts in this Muslim-majority country, an official said Wednesday.An official from the Home Ministry s publications unit said the government rejected pleas by church officials to allow the Bibles, imported from Indonesia, into the country. Christians say the Muslim Malay-dominated government is violating their right to practice their religion freely.Such religious disputes are undermining Malaysia s reputation as a harmonious multiethnic, moderate Muslim nation. About 30 percent of the country s 28 million people practice Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism or other faiths.A Home Ministry official said the government told the imp stanley flask orter last mo stanley polska nth to return the Indonesian-language Bibles, which are still with customs. Actually the publications, the Bibles are already banned, said the official, refusing to elaborate. He declined to be named because he is not authorized to make public statements. The Bibles contain the stanley water bottle word Allah, which is banned by the government for use by non-Muslims in an apparent bid to appease Muslims.Church officials say the word Allah has been used for centuries to refer generally to God in both Indonesian and Malaysian languages, which are similar. The Roman Catholic Church is challenging the ban in court.The government maintains that the Arabic-origin word Allah is an Islamic word and its use