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HARARE, Zimbabwe - Cyanide poisoning has killed 22 elephants in Zimbabwe s Hwange National Park, the Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority said on Monday. This brings to 62 the number of elephants poisoned by poachers in this southern Africa country in October.Rangers found the carcasses of the elephants in Hwan adidas og ge park s Sinamatella area on Monday morning, national parks spokeswoman Caroline W adidas sambarose ashaya-Moyo told T air max 1 he Associated Press. Again, it is cyanide poisoning, said Washaya-Moyo, who said the poachers got away with three ivory tusks. Despite outrage, wildlife hunting could be necessity in Zimbabwe 02:00 We are now trying to check how many elephants had fully developed tusks because babies are among those killed, she said. The rate at which we are losing animals to cyanide is alarming. Many other species are also dying from the cyanide used by poachers to target elephants. We are appealing to people in communities close to national parks to cooperate with authorities. In early October, the parks reported three incidents in which 40 elephants were killed by cyanide poisoning. Three were killed in the Kariba area of cyanide put in oranges. The rest were killed in Hwange park.In 2013, more than 200 elephants died from cyanide poisoning in Hwange. Washaya-Moyo said the parks age Jkgg Iraq: Basra Attacks
AP Photo/Mansoor Ahmed Pakistani officials reacted angrily Thursday night to U.S. Secretary o stanley becher f State Hilary Clinton s remarks earlier in the day in which she said, she found it hard to believe that no one in Pakistan s government, including the country s military security establishment, knew where al Qaeda leaders were hiding. Left: Secretary of State stanley cupe Hillary Rodham Clinton is escorted by Pakistani Rangers at the Iqbal Memorial in Lahore, Pakistan, Oct. 29, 2009. Clinton is on a three-day state visit to Pakistan. The controversy could overshadow Clinton s first visit to the country as Secretary of State, especially as her remarks will be seen questioning the sincerity of the influential military, Pakistani officials said. If we are going to have a mature partnership where we work together then there are issues that not just the United States but others have with your government and with your military security establishment, Clinton was quoted telling senior Pakistani journalists in Lahore. I find it hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they al Qaeda leaders are and couldn t get them if they really wanted to, she said. Pakistani officials said Clinton s remarks on the military security establishment probably referred to the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence ISI , the counterespionage agency. In the past, Western officials, stanley website including U.S. officials, have claimed that the ISI has nurtured Islamic militants to stage proxy insurgency campai

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United Nations mdash; The coronavirus has claimed more than 2.5 million lives and infected almost 115 million people globally, but it s having a far wider impact on almost all of the world s children. The United Nations is trying to highlight the damage done by widespread school closures by givi asics ng it visual representation on the grounds of U.N. headquarters in New York, and urging countries to reopen classrooms. In the Rose Garden of the U.N. campus in Manhattan, the Pandemic Classroom exhibit was unveiled on Tuesday evening to highlight what U.N. children s education agency UNICEF calls the COVID-19 education crisis. The installation features 168 empty desks, each seat representing one million children living in countries where schools have been almost entirely closed since the onset of lockdowns, according to a newUNICEF report on the pandemic s impact on education. With every crocs hausschuhe day that goes by, these children will fall further behind and the most vulnerable will pay the heaviest price. School desk nike dunk s are setup as part of a UNICEF Pandemic Classroom, each seat representing one million children living in countries where schools have been entirely closed for almost a year, outside the UN Headquarters in New York on March 2, 2021. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Robert Jenkins, UNICEF s Global Chief of Education, told CBS News that U.N. agencies including UNICEF, the Pyus White House Condemns WikiLeaks Document Release
The Dutchman charged with killing a 21-year-old Peruvian woman and suspected in the disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway has acknowledged extorting money from Holloway s parents and says he did it to get back at them.In an interview published Monday, the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf quoted Joran van der Sloot as confessing to taking money from the family of the American in return for revealing the location of her body. He was indicted in the U.S. in June for extortion after being caught in an FBI sting, though the place he indicated as her burial site turned out to be bogus.Holloway was last seen alive with him on the Caribbean resort island of Aruba in 2005, and he has publicly said he killed her and then retracted stanley becher his confession several times. I wanted to get back at Natalee s family - her parents have been making my life tough for five years, the paper quoted him as saying from prison in Peru. When they offered to pay for the girl s location, I thought: Why not Van der Sloot Photoshoot Causes StirVan der Shoot Appeals Ruling to Uphold Con stanley cup fessionVan der Sloot Movie in Works U.S. prosecutors say in the sting earlier this year, Natal stanley cups uk ee s mother sent $10,000 in cash to Van der Sloot through an FBI witness, and a wire transfer of $15,000 to Van der Sloot s bank account in the Netherlands. He took the money and flew to Latin America.He has been charged with killing Stephany Flores in his hotel room in Lima, Peru, on May 30 - five years to the day after

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North Korea on Sunday fired two suspected ballistic missiles into the sea, South Korea said, calling it very inappropriate at a time when the world is battling the coronavirus pandemic.South Korea s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected the pr airforces ojectiles flying from the North Korean eastern coastal city of Wonsan into the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan on Sunday morning.The projectiles flew about 143 miles 230 kilometers at a maximum altitude of 19 miles 30 kilometers , the statement said.South Korean and U.S. intelligence authorities were analyzing more details of the launches.The military described them as very inappropriate because they occurred while the world is grappling with the coronavirus outbreak. It urged North Korea to stop such military action. In recent weeks, North Korea has fired a slew of missiles and artillery shells in an apparent effort to upgrade its military capability amid deadlocked nuclear talks with the United States. The talk air max 1 s remain stalled since the breakdown of a second summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Tr yeezy ump in Vietnam in early 2019.The weapons launched recently were all short range and didn t pose a direct threat to the U.S. homeland. North Korea hasn t carried out nuclear or long-range missile tests since it began nuclear diplomacy with the United States in 2018. A resumption of a major weapons test by North Korea could completely disrupt the negotiations, some experts say.North Ko Fown Russia plans tactical nuclear weapons drills near Ukraine border, citing provocative statements from NATO
The weapons inspectors will be back at the United Nations this morning, reporting to the Security Council on whether they believe Iraq is complying with U.N. resolutions on disarmament.And while President Bush won t be in New York as the inspect stanley cup quencher ors deliver their report, he s already set the stage for that event.At a rare prime time news conference at the White House last night, Mr. Bush - preparing Americans for the possibility of war - said the U.S. will drive Iraqi President Saddam Huss stanley bottles ein from power if it comes to war in Iraq - with or without support from France, Germany and other skeptical allies. It s time for people to show their cards and let people know where stanley cups they stand in relation to Saddam, said Mr. Bush.President Bush said he had not decided whether to invade Iraq but that it was only a matter of days before a U.N. Security Council vote on a U.S.-backed resolution authorizing force. Our mission is clear in Iraq, the president said. Should we have to go in, our mission is very clear: disarmament. It will mean a regime change. No doubt there s risks in any military operation. I know that. Mr. Bush insisted that he had not decided whether to invade Iraq and said it was up to Saddam: It s his choice to make whether or not we go to war. He s the person that can make the choice of war or peace. Thus far he s made the wrong choice. The U.N. Security Council is to hear today from chief weapons inspector Hans Blix and his counterpart, Mohamed ElBaradei - both r

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An undated police handout shows Norwegian Anne-Elisabeth Falkevik Hagen, who is the wife of real estate investor Tom Hagen, and has been kidnapped according to police in Norway. NTB SCANPIX/REUTERS Copenhagen, Denmark -- Norway s police said Wednesday the missing wife of one of Norway s richest men has been abducted, and that her suspected kidnappe asics sneaker rs have demanded a ransom. Chief investigator Tommy Broeske said 68-year-old Anne air force one -Elisabeth Falkevik Hagen has been missing since Oct. 31. Her husband Tom Hagen -- a real estate investor and owner of power facilities -- is number 172 on a list of the country s 400 most wealthy people published by Norway s financial magazine Kapital. His fortune in 2018 amounted to nearly 1.7 billion kroner $2 billion , according to Norwegian ne adidas campus beige ws agency NTB.Police said a note found in the couple s house, east of Oslo, described what would happen to her if the demanded ransom wasn t paid in the cryptocurrency Monero.Police did not give a figure for the ransom amount, but Norway s VG newspaper reported it was 9 million euros $10.3 million. The newspaper reported that the note said Falkevik Hagen would be killed if police were involved. Broeske declined to comment other than saying the threats in the note were of a very serious character. The reason for us to go public with this case now is that despite a broad and extensive investigation, we need Qiei Progress Seen In Postwar Recovery
Police have arrested five men accused of dozens of murders, including two mass killings at drug treatment centers in this northern Mexico border city.Police say the men were members of the Sinaloa cartel, a violent gang entrenched in a brutal turf war for control of drug routes to the United States.The men are accused of 45 different executions in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico s most violent city. They were arrested by law enforcement agents during a routine street patrol stanley cup , according to a statement released Friday stanley water bottle by federal police.Police said the arrests solve two high-profile attacks that shocked even this violence-plagued city. On Sept. 2, gunmen lined patients against a wall at a rehabilitation center in Ciudad Juarez and then riddled them with bullets, killing 18. Two weeks later, gunmen burst into another drug treatment center and killed 10 people.The executions prompted the authorities to close at least 10 unregistered drug rehabilitation centers in Ciudad Juarez out stanley cups of concern that the facilities were serving as cover or recruiting grounds for drug trafficking gangs. Police said with Friday s arrests, officials have accounted for 292 of the 1,720 murders in Ciudad Juarez so far this year.President Felipe Calderon sent thousands more troops and federal police to Ciudad Juarez earlier this year, but the surge has done little to stem the raging violence. As CBS News producer Susana Seijas reported earlier this month, the president has had to sacrifice millions in public sp

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Iran went to the United Nations highest court Monday in a bid to have U.S. sanctions lifted following President Donald Trump s decision earlier this year to re-impose them, calling the move naked economic aggression. Iran filed the case with the International Court of Justice in July, claiming that sanctions the Trump administration imposed on May 8 breach a 1955 bilateral agreement known as the Treaty of Amity that regulates economic and consular ties between the two countries.At hearings that started Monday adidas originals at the court s headquarters in The Hague, Tehran is asking judges at the world court to urgently suspend sanctions to protect Iranian interests while the underlying case challenging their legality is being heard -- a process which can tak adidas original campus e years.Mr. Trump said in May that he would pull the United States out of a 2015 agreement over Iran s nuclear program and would re-impose sanctions on Tehran. Washington also threatened other countries with sanctions if they don t cut off Iranian oil imports by early November.Iranian representative Mohsen Mohebi told the court that the U.S. decision was a clear breach of the 1955 treaty yeezy as it was intended to damage, as severely as possible, Iran s economy. Trump warns trading partners to not do any business with Iran 05:45 Iran Joxp Saddam Lawyers Call For Trial Delay
Finance ministers from the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations said in a draft communique Saturday that global economic growth is strong, but warned of dangers posed by high energy prices and global imbalances. Global growth remains strong and is gradually becoming more broadly based, said the ministers, who met in St. Petersburg in the run-up to next month s summit of the G-8 leaders. However, downside risks from high and volatile energy prices and widening global imbalances remain. The ministers called for promoting greater transparency and reliability in energy market data through developing a global common standard for reporting oil reserves.Finance ministers had been expected to discuss how the United States is dealing with its huge trade deficit and what policies other countries are pursuing to stanley uk bolster domestic growth as a way of supporting U.S. exports. Without referring directly to the United States, the draft called the task of addressing economic imbalances a shared responsibility. The U.S. Commerce Department said Friday that the trade deficit r stanley mugs ose to $63.4 billion in April after two months of rare declines, pushed higher by surging oil prices and a flood of imported furniture, televisions and toys from China. In the face of calls in Europe to diversify energy supplies away from a strong reliance on Russia, which currently supplies a quarter of European energy, Russia has insisted that predictable markets for its oil and gas are a key stanley mug part of en

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Day four of the 2018 FIFA World Cup opened with Costa Rica defeating Serbia 1-0 in Group E on Sunday thanks to Aleksandar Kolarov s curling fr air max 2 ee kick. The goal drew comparisons to Cristiano Ronaldo s kick two days prior that helped Portugal score a 3-3 draw with Spain.In Group F, Mexico shocked the world by defeating Germany 1-0 in one of the most anticipated matchups of the opening stages. Hirving Lozano scored his team s lone goal in the 35th minute Sunday. Meanwhile, Brazil tied Switzerland 1-1 in their Group E matchup. 2018 World Cup Standings After the opening two days of play, the standings are as follows. Teams are awarded three points for a win and one for a tie. win - loss - adiletten original tie Group A Standings Russia 1-0-0 3 pointsUruguay 1-0-0 3 pointsEgypt 0-0-1 0 pointsSaudi Arabia0-0-1 , 0 points Group B Standings Iran 1-0-0 , 3 pointsPortugal 0-1-0 1 pointSpain 0-1-1 pointMorocco 0-0-0 0 points Group C Standings France 1-0-0 3 pointsDenmark 1-0-0 3 pointsPeru 0-0-0 0 pointsAustralia 0-0-0 , 0 pointsGroup D StandingsCroatia 1-0-0 3 pointsArgentina 0-1-0 1 pointIceland 0-1-0 1 pointNigeria 0-0-1 0 pointsGroup E StandingsSerbia 1-0-0 3 pointsBrazil 0-1-0 1 pointSwitzerland 0-1-0 1 pointCosta Rica 0-1-0 0 pointGroup F StandingsMexico 1-0-0 3 adidas campus beige pointsSouth Korea 0-0-0 0 pointsSweeden 0-0-0 0 pointsGermany 0-0-0 0 pointWorld Cup matches Sunday*all times Eastern Serbia defeats Costa Rica 1-0 Group E Costa Rica and Serbia are facing a tough group with Pdur 7 killed, 15 wounded in Dutch mall shooting
British authorities confirmed the discovery of foot-and-mouth disease Wednesday at a farm on the outski stanley mug rts of London, sparking concerns of another outbreak only days after it was believed eradicated.The highly contagious disease was found on a farm in Surrey, a county that borders London, Britain s chief veterinary officer Debby Reynolds said. The strain or origin of the disease has not been identified, she said. The situation remains uncertain, and I urge all animal keepers to be vigilant for signs of disease, practice stringent biosecurity measures, including the movement ban and licensing conditions, Reynolds said.The affected farm is only 30 miles from where the last outbreak was found. Cattle on the farm are being slaughtered.The British Broadcasting Co stanley thermos mug rp. reported that a second suspected case of stanley uk the disease was being investigated in Scotland. Officials were not immediately available to comment on the report. Interviewed by the BBC, Reynolds said there had been reports of a third possible outbreak of the disease on a pig farm in Norfolk, east of London. It can t be ruled out. It s not strongly suspected, but it can t be ruled out, she said. Officials have set up a six-mile control zone, barring all animal movement around the affected area in Surrey, a county on the southwest outskirts of London. A narrow path leading into a stretch of farmland around Egham was closed off, and police said they were going to cordon off area roads.A ban on the movement of all catt

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Weapons bought by the Un adidas samba donna ited States for Afghanistan s security forces are at risk of falling into the hands of insurgents, according to an audit report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.The two primary information systems used to track weapons sent to the Afghan National Security Forces are plagued by inefficient weapons controls and discrepancies, the SIGAR report released Monday said.The report indicate adidas originals forum s that 43 percent of the 474,823 serial numbers recorded in OVERLORD, the system that tracks the weapons the Afghan military receives, had missing or duplicate inf adidas originals uomo ormation.Meanwhile, SCIP, the system used to monitor the weapons that are shipped from the U.S., had nearly 60,000 weapon serial numbers with no shipping or receiving dates, the report said.SIGAR also found weaknesses in the inventory management systems used by the Afghan National Security Forces. U.S. military officials said the data in one of the systems cannot be relied upon for accurate information. Poor record keeping limits the Department of Defense s ability to monitor weapons after they have been transferred to the Afghans, the report says. SIGAR The Department of Defense supplies weapons to the Afghan National Security Forces in an effort to train and equip the Afghan National Army and the Afghan National Police. The Defense Department is responsible for regulating the Wcuc This Notre Dame redesign would turn the cathedral roof into a solar-powered urban farm
Mexican President Vicente Fox said on Sunday that drug trafficking, immigration, energy and economic development will be the priorities of his first formal meeting with Presi cups stanley dent Bush.Mr. Bush is slated to meet with Fox on Friday at the latter s ranch in the central highlands state of Guanajuato. The White House has said the trip, Bush s first official foreign visit, signals Washington s renewed focus on Latin America.CBS News Correspondent Bill Whitaker reports that for Fox, the meeting is one step in his ambition to build the North American Free Trade Agreement into a European-like Common Market, with open borders.With five days to go before his meeting with the former Texas governor, Fox called on the United States to work with Mexico to redu stanley cups ce the drug trade flowing across the two countries porous 2,100-mile border. The United States has shown a grand inability to reduce drug consumption, it has shown a grand inability to prevent drugs from entering, Fox told reporters at his ranch. And the same is happening to us in Mexico, we haven t been able to control drug trafficking, we haven t been able to control the production, Fox added.The 58-year-old former Coca-Cola executive repeated that he would seek to end the annual certification process by which the United States approves of a nation s efforts to fight drug trafficking.Each year the United States weighs the decertification, or blacklisting, of nations that are home to illegal drug activity kubki stanley . Decertified n

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- The mayor of Argentina s capital said Thursday that the Buenos Aires zoo will be turned into an ecological park.Mayor Horacio Rodriguez Larreta said the zoo will gradually relocate most of its 1,500 animals to sanctuari hoka wanderschuh es in Argentina and abroad because they are not living in adequate conditions.Larreta said Argentina is following a global trend of turning zoos into parks and animal sanctuaries. He said the animals should live in their habit and not surrounded by buildings and noise. This situation of captivity is degrading for the animals, it s not the way to take care of them, Rodriacute;guez said, at a ceremony on Thursday. What we have to value is the animals. The way they live here is definitely not the way to do that. The mayor said that the new eco-park will be a place where children can learn how to take care of and relate with the different species. The Buenos Aires zoo was inaugurated in 1875 in what used to be the outskirts of the Argentine capital. It is now the Palermo neighborhood near busy avenues and buildings. The site asics sneaker is expected to close soon so work on the ecological park can begin. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-fc50c65f-d515-4793-acea-3cdea3681258, right-rail-recirc-item--id-fc50c65f-d515-4793-acea-3cdea3681258 display: none; adidas samba schuhe inline-recirc-item--id-fc5 Qqyt The incredibly loud roar of Mount Everest avalanche
An Army reservist wh stanley becher o appeared in several of the most infamous abuse photos taken by guards at Abu Ghraib prison was sentenced Tuesday to six months in prison for her role in the scandal that rocked the U.S. military s image at home and abroad.Th stanley termohrnek e sentence for Spc. Sabrina Harman came a day after she was convicted on six of the seven counts she faced for mistreating detainees at the Baghdad lockup in late 2003. She faced a maximum of five years in prison, though prosecutors asked the jury to give her three years.With credit for time served, Harman s actual sentence will be just more than four months.Harman, 27, of Lorton, Va., was the second U.S. soldier tried and convicted in the scandal.During Tuesday s sentencing hearing, she tearfully apologized for mistreating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. As a soldier and military police officer, I failed my duties and failed my mission to protect and defend, Harman said, her voice cracking. I not only let down the people in Iraq, but I let down every sin stanley cup gle soldier that serves today. My actions potentially caused an increased hatred and insurgency towards the United States, putting soldiers and civilians at greater risk, she continued. I take full responsibility for my actions ... The decisions I made were mine and mine alone. The jury of four Army officers and four senior enlisted soldiers deliberated for less than four hours Monday before convicting Harman on one count of conspiracy to maltreat detainees, four counts of

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A New York City woman who was on Caribbean island of St. Martin during Hurricane Irma told CBSN says she and her friends are now trapped without a way to get off the island. We are just ask chanclas yeezy ing that not just for ourselves -- please, please call your local electives, call your assemblymen, call your senators, call your embassies and tell them you have citizens who are stranded here, Anguilla, St. Bart s and we just need to go home, Tiffany Bender told CBSN.Caribbean island of Barbuda reduced to rubble by Hurricane IrmaBender and three of her friends were staying at an Airbnb, but the the hosts just af1 told us to cross our fingers when we asked her about the best practices for the storm. She said they contacted the embassy, who gave them a list of hotels that still had power. She said that at the Airbnb they had left, the roof caved in from the storm. Hurricane Irma 86 photos One of the hotels that we could have went to were actually across the street is completely wiped away, Bender said. Every single floor was completel adidas samba y dismantled, so it s really luck of the draw that we picked the hotel that we did. She described the conditions at the hotel when Irma hit. She said the storm hit at about 2 a.m., and at 4 a.m., they realized the 7th floor of the h Town Afghan Election Hampered by Fear, Disenchantment
The U.S. government conducted a series of secret war games in 1999 that anticipated an invasion of Iraq would require 400,000 troops, and even then chaos might ensue.In its Desert Crossing games, 70 military, diplomatic and intelligence officials assumed the high troop levels would be needed to keep order, seal borders and take care of other security needs.The documents came to light stanley cupe Saturday through a Freedom of Information Act request by the George Washington University s National Security Archive, an independent research inst stanley cup itute and library. The conventional wisdom is the U.S. mistake in Iraq was not enough troops, said Thomas Blanton, the archive s director. But the Desert Crossing war game in 1999 suggests we would have ended up with a failed state even with 400,000 troops on the ground. There are currently about 144,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, down from a peak of about 160,000 in January. A spokeswoman for U.S. Central Command, which sponsored the seminar and declassified the secret report in 2004, declined to comment Saturday because she was not familiar with the documents.The war games looked at worst case and most likely scenarios after a war that removed then-Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from power. Some are si kubki stanley milar to what actually occurred after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003: A change in regimes does not guarantee stability, the 1999 seminar briefings said. A number of factors including aggressive neighbors, fragmentation along religious

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PYONGYANG, North Korea -- Former NBA starDennis Rodman arrived in North Koreaon Thursday to help train af1 the national team and renew his friendship with theNorth s young leader, Kim Jong Un, a visit unaffected by the recent executiono asics sneaker f Kim s uncle in a dramatic political purge.Rodman was met at Pyongyang sairport by Vice Sports Minister Son Kwang Ho. He made no public comments, buttold a mob of reporters earlier at Beijing s airport that he expected, as onprevious visits, to meet with Kim and make final arrangements for a Jan. 8exhibition game in Pyongyang marking the leader s birthday. I know Kim is waiting for me to comeback. So hopefully we will have some conversation about some things that sgoing to help the world, Rodmansaid.His visit comes less than a week after NorthKorea announced the execution of No. 2 official Jang Song Thaek, anunprecedented fall from grace of one of the most powerful figures in thecountry.Jang s execution marks North Korea s mostserious political upheaval in decades and has sent North Korea watchersspeculating over the stability of the Kim dynasty. However, Rodman s visit - should it proceeduneventfully - could be a sign that Kim is firmly in charge and unconcernedwith any potential challenges to his rule. Asked about the execut salomon mujer ion, Rodman said that had nothing to do with hisvisit. He said he wasn t worried about his personal safety in the North,despite the recent detentions of two Americans there, one of whom, Kenneth Bae,has been held fo Durf Austrian woman allegedly switched at birth to be paid $100K from hospital
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice criticized former Presi stanley cup dent Carter on Friday for his reported plans to meet the exiled leader of the militant Palestinian group Hamas during a visit to Syria.Carter has not confirmed the plans to meet Khaled Mashaal, but Hamas has said the former Democratic president sent an envoy to Damascus requesting a meeting with the militant group s officials. I find it hard to understand what is going to be gained by having discussions with Hamas about peace when Hamas is, in fact, the impediment to peace, Rice said at a press event with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.Rice was responding to a question about Carter s plans but did not mention him by name. Hamas is a terrorist organization, she said, repeating the Bush administration s explanation for why it will not meet with members of the group. The State Department says it twice advised Carter against meeting any representative of Hamas. A Carter-Mashaal meeting would be the first public contact in two years between a prominent American stanley deutschland figure and Hamas officials.A press release from the Ca stanley flasche rter Center said the former president was to lead a study mission to Israel, the West Bank, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan as part of his ongoing effort to support peace, democracy and human rights in the region. Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his work in mediating conflicts while in office and his humanitarian travels for the Carter Center since. One of his