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GENEVA -- The World Health Organization is warning that there could be 3 to 4 million cases of Zika virus in the Americas over the next year.At a special meeting on Thursday, WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan said the virus -- which has been linked to birth defects and neurological problems -- was spreading explosively. Health officials said the estimated number of cases is based on previous numbers of infections of dengue fever, which is also carried by mosquitoes.The WH asics O announced it is convening an emergency committee on Monday to decide if the Zika virus out yeezy break should be declared an international health emergency.Such a declaration would be an important step, CBS News Pamela Falk reports from the U.N., because that is when enormous resources can be mobilized, as they were for Ebola. U.S. doctors prepare as Zika virus spreads 02:14 Chan said although there was no definitive proof that Zika was responsible for a spike in the number of babies being born with abnormally small heads in Brazil, the level of alarm is extremely high. The birth defect, called microcephaly, can result in brain damage. A number of Zika patients in Brazil h crocs badelatschen ave also developed a rare autoimmune condition called Guillain-Barreacute; syndrome, which can cause at least temporary paralysis. The possible lin Elvn China urges North Korea to halt missile and nuclear tests
AP TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - A U.S. Drug Enforcement A stanley mug dministration agent has shot and killed a suspected drug trafficker during a raid in a remote northern area of Honduras known as a destination for illicit flights carrying cocaine from South America, U.S. officials said Sunday.The incident marked the first time that a DEA agent has killed someone during an operation since the agency began deploying specially trained agents several years ago to accompany local law enforcement personnel on drug raids in Latin America, said DEA spokeswoman Dawn Dearden.Saturday s raid was the fourth operation in two months in a stepped-up U.S.-Honduran effort to fight drug trafficking in the sparsely populated areas of the country, where flights from Venezuela land on dirt airstrips and locals are paid to transport the illegal cargo to boats headed to the Caribbean. A similar raid on May 11 killed four people, whom locals claimed were innocent civilians traveling the river at night. Honduran police said the victims were in a boat that fired on authorities. The DEA said none of its agents fired their guns i stanley mugs n that incident. This weekend s operation occurred around 12:30 a.m., when a U.S. agent and Honduran National Police arrested four suspects and seized 792 pounds of cocaine, said U.S. Embassy spokesman Stephen Posivak in Tegucigalpa. He said six other people were a stanley polska rrested later on suspicion of aiding the smuggling operation.Posivak said the U.S. agent opened fire after the suspect rea

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ROME -- The Italian captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner that crashed into a reef in 2012 and capsized, killing 32 people, was headed to a Rome prison after losing his final appeals bid Friday.The Court of Cassation, Italy s highest criminal tribunal, upheld Francesco Schettino s lower court convictions and his 16-year prison sentence.Costa Concordia captain sentenced for deadly wreckWorkers find body of last missing victim while dismantling Costa ConcordiaSchettino was convicted of manslaughter and causing the shipwreck while captaining the luxury liner sailing near Giglio Island off Tuscany. He was also convicted of abandoning the capsizing vessel with passengers and crew still aboard. Time-lapse: Costa Concordia raised from underwater platform 02:29 Finally, Schettino begins to pay for his wrongdoing, Michelina Suriano, one of the lawyers representing passengers, said after the ruling.Defense lawye air force r Saverio Senese called the ex-captain a scapegoat and expressed great bitterness over the final decision. He said Schettino, when told by phone about the verdict, said he respected the decision and was standing outside Rome s Rebibbia Prison on Frida nike dunk high y evening, ready to begin serving his sentence. Senese said he would study the court s rulin salomon g to see if there were grounds to appeal to Mvmh Russia beefs up security after bombings raise Olympic fears
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon brushed off a warning from President Bush not to allow further West Bank settlement growth, indicating Israel would continue to solidify its hold on areas it considers of strategic importance.Sharon, speaking to reporters before flying to Washington for talks Tuesday with U.S. lawmakers and Jewish leaders, said the dispute was decades-old and did not mar the meeting between the two leaders, which he called a great su stanley tumblers ccess.Sharon, who won renewed support for his plan to remove Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank at Monday s joint news conference on Mr. Bush s ranch in Texas, also dampened the president s expectations that the tempo of peace talks would pick up after the withdrawal.At the ranch, the president told Sharon that any furthe stanley mug r building on the settlements would be in violation of the internationally backed road map peace plan, which both the Israelis and the Palestinians have formally accepted, but which has been long dormant with both sides failing to carry out their initial obligations. I ve been very stanley us clear. Israel has an obligation under the road map. That s no expansion of settlements, Mr. Bush said. But later, Sharon said that while U.S. opposition to the settlements dated back to when Israel first captured the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the 1967 Middle East war, Israel has nevertheless continued to build communities to keep a hold on the land. It was not to antagonize the U.S., but to k

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Caracas, Venezuela mdash; Opposition leader Juan Guaidoacute; shrouded the route and timing of his return in secrecy amid concerns he might be detained by Ven air force 1 ezuela s government. Yet he breezed through airport immigration checks and brazenly called for the downfall of President Nicolaacute Maduro at a rally where the presence of security forces was minimal.Guaidoacute; s homecoming Monday was the latest chapter in his struggle with Maduro, who has been warned by the United States and other countries not to move against his adversary and possibly realized arresting his foe could generate more street protests. And, while Guaidoacute; s presence is likely to add at least short-term momentum to his campaign for political change, Maduro has proven resilient and still commands the critical loyalty of top military officers.Venezuela is gripped by a humanitarian crisis that is expected to worsen as U.S. oil sanctions designed to put more pressure on Maduro take their toll. With both political factions holding f air force irm amid increasing deprivation for Venezuelans, some analysts speculate that they might be considering negotiations on an end to the standoff.The fact that Guaidoacute; was not detained, at least so far, reflects the pressure Maduro faces not to intervene, said Luis Vicente Leon, head of the Caracas-based polli adidas samba og ng firm Datanalisis. But it seems to indicate the beginning of a negotiation, local and international, whose details are not yet clear, Leon said in a tweet.Fo Ckrf Deadly flooding in Pakistan created a giant lake visible from space. Photos show just how drastic the change is.
Hundreds of heavily armed fighters riding horses and SUVs launched a brazen attack on a U.N.-African Union patrol in Darfur, killing seven peacekeepers and wounding nearly a dozen others, the U.N. said Wednesday.The ambush was the deadliest attack on the international mission since it deployed this year and highlighted the vulnerability of the short-staffed and under-equipped force.About 200 gunmen on horseback and in SUVs mounted with anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons exchanged gunfire for more than two hours on Tuesday with the peacekeeping force that included 61 soldiers from Rwanda, the U.N. said.Five Rwandan soldiers and two police officers, one from Ghana, the other from Uganda, were killed. Twenty-two pea stanley cup cekeepers were wounded, including at seven who were in serious condition, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon s said. We are outraged by the a stanley cup ttack, Shereen Zorba, deputy spokeswoman of the U.N.-AU mission known as UNAMID, told The Associated Press. We are not part of the conflict, but a tool to alleviate the suffering of civilians. We t stanley thermosflasche ry to establish some level of peace and security in the ground. But to drag us in to be part of the conflict is unjustifiable. Hindered by a lack of crucial equipment, including attack helicopters, the joint force, has struggled to fulfill its mission since deploying in January with about 9,000 soldiers and police officers.The force is authorized to have 26,000 members, but it is faced with chronic shortages of staff and equi

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JERUSALEM -- Israeli border police on Tuesday briefly detained a pair of Washington Post journalists, including the newspaper s bureau chief, as they were reporting on recent violence in east Jerusalem.The men were quickly released and the Israeli government issued an apology.The incident came against the backdrop of a series of tense encounters between Israeli authorities and the international media. Officials have accused the foreign media of anti-Israel bias in coverage of the past five months of violence between Israel and the Palestinians.The Post s Jerusalem bureau chief, William Booth, said he was interviewing Palestinian youths at Damascus Gate, an entrance to Jerusalem s Old City, when he and the paper s West Bank correspondent, Sufian Taha, were detained. The area has been the scene of violence in recen yeezy t days.Booth said that after presenting their government-issued press cards to an officer, he and Taha were airmaxplus taken to a police station and held for roughly half an hour before they were released. He said an officer told them they had been suspected of incitement, but said there had been a misunderstanding and freed them. He said there was no questioning or rough treatment. I thought it was a misunderstanding that would be adidas campus 00s solved in five minutes, but it was a misunderstanding that was solved in 45 minutes, he said.The Israeli police said a passer-by had complained that people in the area were directing Arab youths to stage provocations in the area and that a number Pdzb Bosnian Serb Won t Plea To Genocide Charge
KABUL, Afghanistan 151; A rocket fired during fighting Friday in Pakistan s tribal region landed in eastern Afghanistan, killing four children in an area where militants launch attacks on U.S.-led forces, officials said.The rocket landed in Sirkanay district of Kunar province, an area where more than 100 rockets have landed in the last few days from across the border, provincial police chief Gen. Ewaz Mohammad said.It was unclear who fired the rocket, though Mohammad said there had been Pakistani military airstrikes in the region.Special Section: AfghanistanAn Afghan border police official, Gen. Aminullah Amarkhil, said a neighboring region of Pakistan had seen the military fighting there. Al Qaeda and Taliban militants have found safe haven in parts of the border region since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, attacking both American troops in Afghanistan and targets inside Pakistan.In recent days, the Pakistani army has launched attacks against insurgent hideouts in the country s northwestern Bajur tribal region. The mountainous region borders Kunar province.Meanwhile, NATO said Friday that a bomb attack in southern Afghanistan had killed a coalition service member. The coalition said that the service member died T kubki stanley hursday. NATO provided no other details. stanley termoska Thirty international troo stanley cup ps have died so far this month as the Taliban continues its spring offensive in Afghanistan to regain ground lost during the winter. Fighting has killed 236 coalition members this ye

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Hong Kong mdash; Protesters in Hong Kong ended their overnight siege of police headquarters peacefully Saturday, disappointed that their demands for the territory s leader to formally withdraw a contentious extradition bill and police to apologize for heavy handed tactics have gone unmet. The blockade lasted mor adidas samba uomo e than 15 hours, according to Reuters.By daybreak, police had cleared the streets of barriers set up by protesters to snarl traffic in the Asian financial center and only a few groups in the mostly youthful crowd remained. Many sle nike air force pt outside the legislature.Traffic was again smooth on a major thoroughfare through the government s central complex as the protest movement regrouped to consider next moves.Police said af1 nine female and four male staffers were hospitalized with considerable delay during the blockade. The police statement did not say whether they were injured in clashes or had otherwise become unwell.Around police headquarters, masked and helmeted protesters covered surveillance cameras with masking tape and lashed barriers together with nylon cable ties. They threw eggs at the building and drew graffiti on the walls. Protesters also splashed oil and targeted police officers eyes with laser pointers, according to the police. Police clear barricades which were set up by protesters outside the police headquarters in Hong Kong early on June 22, 2019. Anthony Wallace / AFP/Getty Mgsj Disturbance At U.S. Embassy
Suicide attackers struck again Sunday in Iraq, this time with twin car bombs in the heart of Baghdad that fell short of a hotel full of Americans but stanley cup usa exploded on a busy commercial street, killing six bystanders and wounding dozens, U.S. military and Iraqi officials said.The Pentagon said gunfire from Iraqi guards and U.S. personnel aborted the drivers plan to hit the Baghdad Hotel, home to officials of the U.S.-led occupation author stanley cup ity here and reportedly some memb stanley canada ers of Iraq s interim Governing Council.The hotel itself was not damaged but the explosion blew over at least two sections of the thick concrete barrier outside the hotel, which was put up by the U.S. military to prevent just these types of attacks, reports CBS News Correspondent Lisa Barron.At least one guard was reported among the dead; the two bombers also were presumed killed. One member of the 25-seat Governing Council, Mouwafak al-Rabii, told Al-Jazeera satellite television he suffered a slight hand injury.It was the seventh fatal vehicle bombing in Iraq since early August, attacks that have taken more than 140 lives. All have targeted institutions perceived as cooperating with the U.S. occupation of Iraq, and none has been reported solved. The lunchtime attack sent terror-stricken Iraqis fleeing up Saadoun Avenue, over broken window glass from banks, restaurants and shops and past the bloodied bodies of injured. American helicopters and combat vehicles converged on the chaotic scene as black smoke fro

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New granular detail about the planning of a false flag attack in Ukraine by Russia was among the intelligence items discussed in the Situation Room on Thursday night in an emergency meeting, U.S. officials confirmed to CBS News.That detail was just part of what two U.S. officials described as a broad mosaic of information that has been building since the fall and which has led to the Biden administration s planning for the worst-case scenario of a multi-axis, simultaneous attack on Ukraine by the Russian military.The Washington Postwas the first to report, on Friday, that a false flag operation was among the data points in the new intelligence.National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters Friday that the U.S. is firmly convinced that Russia is looking hard at the creation of a false-flag operation to justify an invasion, something that they generate and try to blame on the Ukrainians as a trigger for military action. Sullivan said that any subsequent attack would likely begin with aerial bombin salomon xt 6 g and missile attacks ahead of the onslaught of a massive f adidas samba orce. Ukrainians take to the streets for anti-war protest 01:56 adidas samba Russian forces are already positioned to send troops pouring across Ukraine s northern border with Belarus and launch a maritime assault from the Black Sea. Moscow is also Xgjh U.S. changes visa policy for same-sex foreign couples
Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened Sunday to send Afghan troops across the border to fight militants in Pakistan, a forceful warning to insurgents and the Pakistani stanley thermosflasche government that his country is fed up with cross-border attacks.Karzai said that Afghanistan has the right to self-defense, and because militants cross ov stanley kubek er from Pakistan to come and kill Afghan and kill coalition troops, it exactly gives us the right to do the same. Therefore, Baitullah Mehsud should know that we will go after him now and hit him in his house, Karzai said, referring to Pakistan s top Taliban leader suspected in last year s assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. And the other fellow, Taliban leader Mullah Omar of Pakistan should know the same, Karzai continued. This is a two-way road in this case, and Afghans are good at the two-way road journey. We will complete the journey and we will get them and we will defeat them. We will avenge all that they have done to Afghanistan for the past so many years. Neither government officials nor a spokesman for the Taliban in Pakistan could immediately be reached for comment. Although Karzai in the past had accused Pakistan of no stanley cup t doing enough to stop militants crossing the border and launching attacks against Afghan and International forces in Afghanistan, it was first time he had threatened to send troops to hunt down militants in Pakistani territory, reports CBS News Fazul Rahim in Kabul.Karzai s comments come

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SAO PAULO --Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Brazil s largest city Sunday for its 22nd gay pride parade, which is considered one of the world s biggest. Waving LGBT rainbow flags in a Carnival-like atmosphere, marchers paraded down Sao Paulo s skyscraper-lined Avenida Pauli adidas samba damen sta to music blasting from 18 sound trucks.Revelers of all ages, many wearing bright wigs, heavy makeup and multicolored costumes, filled more than 10 city blocks.This year s parade focused on Brazil s national elections scheduled for October. The theme was Power fo samba og r the LGBT -- Our Vote, Our Voice, said Claudia Regina, president of the gay rights group that organized the event.Regina said on the event s official Facebook page that the objective is to alert the gay community to the importance of choosing its candidates carefully. We have achieved many rights and there are still many more to be conquered, she said. We cannot lose what we have achieved to political ignorance. Together we can promote a more tolerant and respectful world with less LGBT phobia. A drag queen takes part in the 22nd Gay Pride Parade in Brazil. Getty On top of one sound truck a drag queen known as Tchaka chanted: This year we should punch Congre adidas campus herren ss in the face. The crowd responded by calling for the ouster of Brazil s widely unpopular president, Michel Temer. For participant Camilla Wotton the march wa Twgi North Korea tensions brings Kerry to China seeking support
Iraq has shot down a U.S. spy plane near the southern Iraqi c stanley kubek ity of Basra, the state-run Iraqi News Agency reported Tuesday. Iraqi air defenses have shot down a U.S. spy p stanley canada lane, the news agency said, without citing sources or providing further details.Maj. Brett Morris, spokesman for a U.S.-British military task force in the Gulf, said the coalition force had lost an unmanned aircraft Tuesday similar to a U.S. spy plane lost last month. There was no manned flight today Tuesday , but we have lost contact with our unmanned observation aircraft, Morris said. There is an investigation going on ... with regard to the Predator s disappearance, he added. We are working with the assumption that the plane has gone and are stanley cup trying to figure out why it went down and how it went down. Morris said the plane took off early Tuesday for southeastern Iraq. The unmanned aircraft, which is controlled from land, disappeared later Tuesday morning while patrolling in the area, he said.On Aug. 27, Iraq claimed to shoot down a Predator unmanned reconnaissance plane in the Basra area, 350 miles south of the capital, Baghdad. The U.S. Defense Department acknowledged losing a plane in that area, but said it was unsure whether it had been hit by hostile fire or had crashed on its own.Iraq said Monday that eight civilians were killed in a weekend airstrike by U.S. and British warplanes on southern Iraq.The Pentagon gave no word of casualties. The official Iraqi News Agency said thre

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Hospitals across China, the nation where the COVID-19 pandemic first emerged about four years ago, are grappling with a significant surge in respiratory illnesses among children. This primarily is being seen in Beijing and the northern regions.The rise in cases has been making headlines in China and raising concerns internationally, as Chinese d adidas samba damen octors are working overtime to care for a huge flood of small patients.But health experts say there is no immediate cause for international concern regarding the surge in respiratory illnesses, which include pneumonia. The new cases are not on the scale of the initial COVID-19 outbreak and are not d hoka winterschuhe ue to any new or unusual d yeezy iseases, according to scientists. In the current outbreak of respiratory illness, the reported symptoms are common to several respiratory diseases and, as of now, at the present time, Chinese surveillance and hospital systems report that the clinical manifestations are caused by known pathogens in circulation, the World Health Organization WHO said late last week. Due to the arrival of the winter season, the increasing trend in respiratory illnesses is expected, it added. Dr. Zuo-Feng Zhang, chair of the epidemiology department at UCLA, said the pandemic 2.0 is not there yet, despite concerns about a new major outbreak.Chinese authorities tried to cover up the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, which originated in Wuhan, China, and led to millions of deaths. In contrast, this time, the WHO says China promp Hejf Anti-austerity Greek protests get violent
Updated at 8:35 p.m. EDTA magnitude-5.0 earthquake struck at the Ontario-Quebec border region of Canada on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, and homes and businesses were shaken from Canada s capital in Ottawa on south to an arc of U.S. states.There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.Morgan Moschetti, a seismologist with the USGS, said it was not unusual for an earthquake to be felt 300 miles from the epicenter and noted that the latest quake was felt in the U.S. from Chicago to Maine.Other states that reported feeling tremors were Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey and New York. The epicenter of the quake was in Quebec, about 23 miles north of Cumberland, Ontario, on the Ottawa River, the USGS said.The agency said the quake occurred at a depth of about 12 miles at 1:45 p.m. EDT. The agency initially said the quake had a 5.5 magnitude, but later reduced it to a magnitude-5.0.The tremors, which lasted about 30 seconds, rattled buildings in Ottawa and Toronto, as well as government offices across the Ottawa River in Gatineau, Quebec.The Parliament bu gourde stanley ilding in Ottawa was evacuated, with workers sent home while the building was inspected. Workers also le water bottle stanley ft buildings in Toronto. The quake came just ahead of the weekend summit of G-20 and G-8 world leaders in Toronto and Huntsville stanley cup , Ontario.Melanie Lauzon, a Liberal member of Parliament, said her first thought was that Ottawa had been hit

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Updated at 5:32 a.m. EasternSEOUL, South Korea Seoul decided Friday to withdraw the roughly 175 South Koreans still at a jointly run factory complex in North Korea.The statement Friday by the country s minister in charge of inter-Korean relations raised a major question about the future of the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. Seoul s announcement came hours after North Korea rejected a South Korean demand for talks on the factory park that has been closed for nearly a month. Seoul said it was worried a cups stanley bout its workers not having access to food and medicine. Pyongyang s powerful National Defense Comm stanley bottles ission earlier said Seoul s demand for working-level talks was deceptive and similar future demands would only speed up final destruction of South Korea. Translating North Korea s rhetorical rageNorth Korea: Stories of escapeComplete coverage: North Korea TensionsAn unidentified spokesman for stanley quencher the Commission said in a statement carried by state media that North Korea would guarantee the safety of South Koreans if they decide to leave Kaesong. He also referred to ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills and the spreading of anti-North Korea leaflets at the border as proof of Seoul s insincerity.If the South s puppet group looks away from reality and pursues the worsening of the situation, we will be compelled to first take final and decisive grave measures, the statement said. CBS

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Gunmen opened fire on a police station in the north-central state of Guanajuato Sunday, and several people were killed when police returned fire. Police in the city of Celaya said that several adidas samba attackers had been killed, but did no adidas originals damen t give an exact number. The attack occurred in a town on the outskirts of the city.Celaya police chief Jesuacute Rivera said three police officers had been wounded, but their injuries did not appear to be life-threatening.Guanajuato has the highest number of homicides of any of Mexico s 32 states. In this Feb. 10, 2020 file photo, a policeman drives past town hall in Apaseo El Alto, Guanajuato state, Mexico. Rebecca Blackwell / AP More than 2,100 murders were registered in Guanajuato, a state of six million, between J adidas samba donna anuary and August, according to government figures.Earlier this month, nine people were killed, including waitresses, after gunmen burst into a bar and opened fire in the violence-wracked state. Last month , a dozen people, six of them women, werekilled in an attack on a barin another Guanajuato city. A similar attack on a bar in another town left10 deadin September.The state has been the scene of a years-long turf battle between the Jalisco cartel, and local gangs supported by its arch-rival, the Sinaloa cartel. The Department of Justice considers the Jalisco cartel to be one of the five most dangerous transnational cri Ozni 5 Americans killed in Afghan attack were walking, not driving, official tells AP
Crawling painfully on her hands and knees, Shakira Ehsan moved awkwardly to the doorway of her dim two-room shanty, located just across the street from an abandoned pesticide plant.In 1984 mdash; two years before Shakira was even born mdash; that plant was the site of the world s worst industrial disaster.Twenty years later, she is one of the thousands of child victims who have carried its toxic burden long past their childhoods.Years after her mother was exposed to the cloud of lethal gas which leaked from the Union Carbide plant, Shakira s spindly le stanley quencher gs are too weak to carry her body. Her mind has the abilities of a child. From the time she was born, she s been in stanley thermoskannen and out of the hospital, sighed her mother, Nadira Begum, as 18-year old Shakira stared vacantly away. On the night of Dec. 3, 1984, as the residents of the central Indian city of Bhopal slept, nearly 40 tons of methyl isocyanate leaked from the Union Carbide pesticide plant. Around 10,000 people died from the leak, Indian officials say, and more than half a million people were af stanley thermos fected by the poisonous fumes that spewed out. However, the exact number of victims has never been clear.Most vulnerable were the children.Within a few days of the accident, thousands of children were dead.Many women who pregnant at the time of the leak suffered spontaneous miscarriages, and many who managed to give birth had babies with severe mental and physical problems, said Satinath Sarangi, who runs a local health clinic th