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There are major concerns over Russia s influence in Eastern Europe. B adidas originals samba osnia-Herzegovina remains a deeply divided country despite a decades-old peace agreement that ended a brutal war in the Balkans. The nation remains split between a Bosnian Serb Republic and a Muslim-Croat federation.CBS News contributor Alex Kliment, who writes for Signal, a newsletter produced by GZERO Media, spoke with CBSN s Anne-Marie Green Friday about why Russia s influence in th air max 98 e region is alarming from a geopolitical perspective. It s sort of an alarming example of how local ethnic tensions or rivalries, once they re overlaid with geopolitical tension, can potentially become quite a dangerous problem, said Kliment, who is also Eurasia Group s director of Global Research, Corporates. The Serb section has been getting increasingly nationalistic over the past few years, talking about potential for an independence vote. One of the nike dunk reasons that s happened is that the government of Bosnia has talked about joining the E.U. European Union and has talked about joining NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization . Alex Kliment CBS News According to Kliment, Bosnian Serbs do not want to join NATO given the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia. From a Serb nationalist perspective, this is a red line, he continued. Russia happens to agree with them. Russia also doesn t want another country in the former Eastern B Bubt Remains of pigeon contain message from WWII
Confusion persists within the Baghdad government over how to meet the U.N. Security Council s demand for a complete account of all chemical, biological and nuclear programs in Iraq, even if not weapons-related, a U.N. spokesman said Friday.That report is due just 11 days after international experts resume their inspections of Iraqi sites next week after a four-year suspension in search of sto stanley mug rage or production facilities for weapons of mass destruction. The Iraqis say they no longer have such weapons programs.Chief U.N. inspector Hans Blix said earlier this week Iraqi officials expressed particular concern about reporting on such short notice on the chemical area, a complex industry whose toxic products can in some cases be used as weapons, as well as for peaceful purposes.Some specialists believe the Iraqis retain chemical weapons from earlier years.The mandatory report could prove critically important in the explosive situation surrounding Iraq. But a cautious U.N. spokesman Hiro Ueki would say only, It s up to the Iraqi government to decide what to include in their accounting. The inspectors are back in Iraq under a new Security Council resolution de stanley cup manding the Iraqis give up any weapons of mass destruction or face serious consequences. From 1991 to 1998, U.N. expert teams destroyed large amounts of chemical and biological weapons and longer-range stanley cupe missiles forbidden to Iraq by U.N. resolutions after the Gulf War. They also dismantled Iraq s nuclear weapons pr

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LONDON - Serena Williams insisted she was not focused on No. 22.Said she wouldn t discuss it.Kept coming close without quite getting it.Now she finally has it. And mizuno handballschuh so she can flaunt it.Williams lifted both arms overhead and raised two fingers on each hand right there on Centre Court to show off the magic number after winning her record-tying 22nd Grand Slam title by beating Angelique Kerber 7-5, 6-3 in the Wimbledon final on Saturday. Yeah, it s been incredibly difficult not to think about it. I had a couple of tries this year, Williams said during the trophy ceremony. But it makes the victory even sweeter to know how hard I worked for it. She pulled even with Steffi Graf for the most major championships in the Open era, which began in 1968. Now Williams stands behind only Margaret Court s all-time adidas campus mark of 24. Serena Williams 27 photos This was Williams seventh singles trophy at the All England Club - only Martina Navratilova, with nine, has more - and her second in a row. Her victory at Wimbledon a year ago raised her Grand Slam count to 21, but while she almost had added to that total since, she was not able to.There was a stunning loss to Roberta Vinci in the U.S. Open semifinals in September, mizuno ending Williams bid for a calendar-year G Eayi China Leader to Attend U.S. Nuke Summit
Iraq s parliament has unanimously approved a provincial elections law after weeks of deadlock.The lawmakers voted Wednesday in favor of the measure after overcoming an impasse due to objections over power-sharing issues in the province that includes the oil-rich city of Kirkuk stanley canada .Kurdish, Shiite, Sunni and Turkomen legislators agreed to form a parliamentary committee to review disputes regarding Kirkuk and report to the house by March 2009.Legislators also acknowledged that delays in passing the measure could make it difficult for the electoral commission to organize the elections this year.They voted to push back the deadline for holding the vote to Jan. 31, 2009 stanley cup to provide extra time but said they hoped it wouldn t be needed. On Tuesday, American soldiers accidentally shot and killed the leader of a local U.S.-allied Sunni group Tuesday after coming under attack in a volatile area north of Baghdad, the military said. The shooting comes a week before the Shiite-led Iraqi government begins to assume authority over the Sunni grou kubki stanley ps known as the Sons of Iraq, or Awakening Councils. The military has credited the Sunni revolt against al Qaeda in Iraq as a key factor in the sharp decline in violence over the past year.The head of the group in Siniyah, Jassim al-Garrout, was killed after he rushed to the site of an ambush against U.S. forces in the area, which lies between the northern oil-hub of Beiji and Saddam Hussein s hometown of Tikrit, according to witnesses and police.O

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LEGAZPI, Philippines -- Typhoon Hagupit weakened into a tropical storm Monday, leaving at least 21 people dead and forcing more than a million people into shelters but sparing most of a central Philippin airforces e region still haunted by last year s monster storm.While the worst was over in central island provinces, where the sun peeked Monday after days of stormy weather, Manila and outlying provinces braced as Hagupit, or smash in Filipino, blew nearer with maximum sustained winds of 65 miles per hour and gusts of 84 mph.Forecasters said the storm salomon speedcross was expected to slam into a Batangas provincial town about 68 miles south of Manila by nightfall. Although considerably weaker from its p yeezy foam eak power, the storm remains potentially dangerous and could still whip storm surges that could overwhelm coastal villages, they said. Children play on a boat in a shanty town at the port area in Manila, Dec. 7, 2014 ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Hagupit. Getty While officials expressed relief that the typhoon had not caused major damage, they warned that Hagupit was still on course to barrel into the southern tip of the main northern island of Luzon where Manila is located, before starting to blow away Tuesday into the South China Sea.Hagupit pronounced HA -goo-pit , which made landfall in Eastern Samar late Saturday, was moving slowly at 6 mph and could dump heavy rain that could possibly trig Vahc Bhutto Slaying Roils Pakistan
Hurricane Norbert swept acros stanley cup s Mexico s southern Baja California peninsula on Saturday, tearing off roofs and forcing hundreds of people to flee flooded homes.It hit land near Puerto Charley on Baja s southwest coast as a Category 2 hurricane, but weakened to Category 1 after emerging over the Gulf of California, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami. Norbert was expected to reach mainland Mexico sometime before dawn on Sunday.Baja residents fled to shelters in school buses and army trucks as floodwaters rose in their homes. Winds uprooted palm trees and the water rose knee-high in some streets of the town of Puerto San Carlos. We left our house because we were scared. Our house is pretty poor and the stanley cup water was already coming in, said Maria Espinosa, 54, who arrived at a high school with her daughter and two grandchil stanley tumbler dren. They joined about 60 other people sitting on foam mattresses and blankets.Streets turned into rushing, knee-deep rivers in Ciudad Constitucion, on the southern peninsula. Furniture, car parts and trash cans floated down the roads that were deserted except for a few police patrols and a soaked dog on high ground. More than 2,000 people were in the city s shelters, many of them from coastal villages where nearly all homes had lost their roofs, said Miguel Arevalos, the local Civil Protection director. We came here because our roof is gone, the wind ripped it off, said Luis Mesa, 39, taking shelter at an elementary school after flee

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LONDON -- A video released Tuesday by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS mizuno shows the apparent execution of two men, accused of being spies for Russia, at the hands of a young boy.The seven-and-a-half-minute long video was released by ISIS multi-lingual production wing, al-Hayat, and begins with long television news-style interviews with both men, who confess to being spies against ISIS and working in both Syria and Turkey. The men, who speak Russian in the interviews, are identified by name as agents of Russia s premier spy agency, the FSB. One of them tells the interviewer he was under orders to try and assassinate an ISIS leader, but the name of the ISIS figure in question is edited out of the video.After what appears to be a scripted warning to others who want to come here and spy to repent to Allah now before it s too late, the setting in the video changes to an outdoor location where the men are seen kneeling with their backs to a bearded militant whom CBS News could not identify and a boy, who appeared to be less than 15 years old.Both the adult jihadist and the boy appear to be o nike af f Asian descent. The man recites Quranic verse before saying: Allah has gifted the Islamic State s security agency with the apprehension of these two spies. He says the men are now in the custody of the lion cubs of Khilafah, befo adidas campus re prompting the boy to go ahead with the apparent execution with a pat on the shoulder. The video, which is heavily edited and includes English Xbjh Africa Fights AIDS With Male Circumcision
Kim Jong Il attended a concert by North Korea s state orchestra, state media said Monday, the latest official report to portray the reclusive leader as healthy amid speculation he suffered a stroke in August.The official Korean Central News Agency said that when Kim appeared in the auditorium, the whole audience broke into the rousing cheers stanley cups of hurrah! and enthusiastically welcomed him. It did not say when the performance by the State Symphony Orchestra took place.The North s state media have stepped up a campaign apparently aimed at projecting an image of Kim as healthy and active.South Korea s progressive Hankyoreh newspaper said last week that Kim appeared in public 94 times this year, citing KCNA dispatches. It said the figure was a slight increase from the previous year, without providing exact numbers. Over the past few months, the totalitarian leader s activities have included trips to a soccer match, a mili stanley cup tary unit, a steel plant, a soap factory, and chicken farms.Few of the North s reports, however, have provided specific dates or been accompanied by photos, making them difficult to verify.South Korean and U.S. officials say Kim suffered a stroke in August an stanley mug d underwent surgery. His failure to appear at a September military parade celebrating North Korea s 60th anniversary had sparked speculation about his health.North Korea has denied the 66-year-old leader was ever ill. Kim s health is of keen interest because the Stalinist leader, who inherit

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Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of what appears to be a 4,000-year-old temple and theater in coastal Peru.The discovery was made at the archaeologi dunks shoes cal site La Otra Banda, Cerro Las Animas, located near the city of Chiclayo off the northern coast of Peru, according to anews release from the Field Museum in Chicato.Researchers started digging at the site last month after the local government alerted them to looting happening near the traditional town of Z airmaxplus antilde;a. Scientists needed to study the area before it was destroyed, the local government said.The excavation, led by research scientist Luis Muro Ynontilde;aacute;n, revealed walls of mud and clay just six feet beneath the surface and evidence suggesting that the structure was once home to an ancient temple. It was so surprising that these very ancient structures were so close to the modern surface, said Muro Ynontilde;an in the statement. Archaeologists work on what s believed to be part of a 4,000-year-old ceremonial temple, found buried in a sand dune of northern Peru, in Lambayeque Peru s Pontifical Catholic University/Handout via REUTERS We think that a large temple was built into the side of the mountain, and we ve found one air max 1 section of it, said Muro Ynontilde;an. The Ministerio de Cultura, or Ministry of Culture, in Peru saidspecial ceremonies were held inside the temple. The team also Beri Top Saudi Militant Surrenders
A Shiite legislator said Monday the draft constitution will be presented to parliament on time at 6 p.m. regardless of objections by Sunni Arab members of the committee drafting the document. I confirm that the constitution will be given at 6 p.m. today to the National Assembly, Hassan al-Sunnaid told state-run Iraqiya television. After they receive it, it will be read and members will comment on it. Then it will be ready for the referendum after two months. Al-Sunnaid is a member of Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari s Dawa party. Another Dawa member, Khalid al-Attiyah, said earlier there was a 10 percent chance parliament might try to amend the interim constitution and postpone the Monday deadline.There was no confirmation from the leadership of the drafting committee. There was also no comment from Sunni Arab committee members, who have objected to a range of issues including federalism, the role of the Shiite clergy and power relationships between provinces and the central government.A meeting with leaders from all the main parties, including Sunni Arabs, was planned later in the day, but Shiite leaders again broached the i stanley website dea of extending the constitutional deadline. We hope that an agreement will be reached but if this does not happen we will ask for an extension until Sept. 1, or mid-September, al-Attiyah said, adding that there was a 10 percent chance that a delay would be nec stanley termohrnek essary.An extension w stanley quencher ould require approval of two-thirds of parliament and the pr

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An election campaign poster of the German Alternative fuer Deutschland Alternative for Germany , AfD, party displayed on a road in Berlin, Germany, April 29, 2019. The poster shows the painting Slave Market from 1866, by the french artist Jean-Leon Gerome, and bears the caption: So that Europe won t become Eurabia! AP adidas campus donna Berlin -- An American art museum nike af is demanding that a German far-right party stop using one of its paintings, portraying a 19th-century slave auction, in a campaign poster for the European elections. We are strongly opposed to the use of this work to advance any political agenda, Olivier Meslay, the director of the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, told The Associated Press. We did not supply the painting to the AfD, he said, using the acronym for the party Alternative for Germany.The 1866 oil-on-canvas painting Slave Market, by Jean-Leon Gerome, shows a black, apparently Muslim slave trader displaying a naked young woman w yeezy ith much lighter skin to a group of men for examination.The AfD s Berlin branch said they put up 30 posters of the painting across the German capital with the slogan: So that Europe won t become Eurabia. Steve Bannon backs gladiator school to bolster Europe s far-rightThe party, known for its anti-Muslim stance, said it won t take down any of the posters. Vxng Slain U.K. teens parents may have been hacked
Last Updated 4:18 p.m. ET CAIRO - Ignoring a U.S. threat to cut off aid, Egypt on Sunday referred 19 Americans and 24 other employees of nonprofit groups to trial before a criminal court on accusations they illegally used foreign funds to foment unrest in the country.Egypt s military ru stanley cups lers had already deeply strained ties with Washington with their crackdown on U.S.-funded groups promoting democracy and human rights and accused of stirring up violence in the aftermath of the uprising a year ago that ousted Hosni Mubarak. The decision to send 43 workers from the various groups to trials marks a sharp escalation in the dispute.Egypt and the United States have been close allies for more than three decades, but the campaign against the organizations has angered Washington, and jeopardized the $1.5 billion in aid Egypt is set to receive from the U.S. this year. On Saturday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned Egypt that failure to resolve the dispute may lead to the loss of American aid. The Egyptian minister, Mohammed Amr, responded Sunday by saying the government cannot interfere in the work of the judiciary. We are doing our best to contain this but ... we cannot actuall stanley cup y exercise any influence on the investigating judges right now when it comes to the investig stanley tumbler ation, Amr told reporters at a security conference in Munich, Germany. A few hours later, word of the referral to trials came.The Egyptian investigation into the work of nonprofit groups in the

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EL-ARISH, Egypt -- The top leader of an al Qaeda-inspired group in Egypt s restive Sinai and three of his associates were killed in a drive-by shooting in the peninsula on Thursday, senior Egyptian security officials said.The development deals a heavy blow to the militant group, which has claimed scores of deadly attacks across Egypt since the ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi last July. It is also a boost for Egypt s military-backed authorities ahead of the country s presidential elections next week adidas campus 00s .According to three senior security officials, Shadi el-Manaei, who headed Ansar Beit al-Maqdis -- or the Champions of Jerusalem as the group is also known -- and the three other militants were found dead after unidentified gunmen sprayed their vehicle with bullets on a road in central Sinai.The officials said that according to the police investigation, 15 men in vehicles and armed with automatic weapons attacked el-Manaei s car to avenge the killings of tribesmen by his terror group.The tribesmen were killed after the militants claimed they had cooperated with police against Ansar Beit al-Maqdis. The officials spoke on co adidas samba donna ndition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to adidas samba the media. Ansar Beit al-Maqdis first arose in Sinai, where for years militant groups largely made of up local Bedouin had carried out attacks, lobbing rockets into neighboring Israel and opening fire on soldiers and police officers. Attacks escalated after the 2011 fall of autocrat Enhj Egyptian protesters dig in against new military leadership
The second and last city ever attacked by an atomic bomb marked the 60th anniversary of its devastation Tuesday with a Catholic Mass, a moment of silence and an impassioned plea for a global ban on nuclear arms.About 6,000 people, including hundreds of aging bomb survivors, crowded into Nagasaki s Peace Memorial Park, just a few hundred yards from the center of the blast, for a solemn remembrance and moment of silence.Nagasaki Mayor Iccho Itoh then had some angry words for the leaders of the nuclear powers, and especially the United States. We understand your anger and anxiety over the memories of the horror of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, he said. Yet, is your security enhanced by your government s policies of maintaining 10,000 nuclear weapons, of carrying out repeated sub-critical nuclear tests, and of pursuing the development of new mini nuclear weapons Itoh also urged Japan to get out stanley cups uk from under the U.S. nuclear umbrella. About 50,000 U.S. troops are deployed throughout Japan under a post-World W stanley cup ar II mutual security pact. Soon after, stanley kubek Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, a staunch supporter of the U.S. presence, placed a wreath before the monument to the dead. He vowed to advocate a nuclear ban but kept his comments brief. This is an occasion to remember the victims and pray for world peace, he said.Nagasaki s remembrances began just after sunrise with a special Mass at Urakami Cathedral. Hundreds of worshippers crowded into the church, which at the time of th

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New Delhi -- Did you take any medicine Shahid Lone s mother asked him in a phone call on August 5. Lone, research scholar from Kashmir who is studying in the Indian capital of New Delhi, was dow airmaxplus n with a fever. Before he could answer his mother s question, the phone was disconnected. All phone lines in the part of Kashmir controlled by India were severed at that very moment. The internet was shut down, too.Eight days later, Lone and thousands of other Kashmiris living outside the small, disputed region in the Himalayas still haven t been able to get back in touch with their families. The disconnect, and the worry that comes with it, were felt even more acutely on Monday as India s only predominantly-Muslim region marked the religious festival of Eid al-Adha.Changing Kashmir s statusThe population of about 8 million people in Indian Administered Kashmir remained under a complete communications blackout on Monday, with little or no contact with the outside world, except what they can see on TV.They only learned by watching television, the mornin asics gel g after the communications blackout took effect last week, that the Indian federal government had revoked the region s special status. Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party had promised in their election manifesto to abrogate the special status of the only Muslim-majority state, and they made good on the promise last week, revoking Article 370 and Article 35A of the Indian const salomon xt 6 itution. Together those mea Feca Dems Confident Troop-Rest Bill Will Pass
During a special mass at the Vatican on Sunday, Pope John Paul II took the unprecedented step of asking God s forgiveness for the sins committed by Roman Catholics over the last 2,000 years -- including its treatment of Jews, heretics, women and native peoples. It was the first time in the history of the Catholic Church that one of its leaders has sought such a sweeping pardon. The celebration was designated by Pope John Paul II as the Day of Pardon, reports CBS News Correspondent Allen Pizzey. It mustered all the pomp, ritual and color of the church s 2,000 years. The actual confessions and requests for forgiveness were read by cardinals -- some of whom are listed among the leading contenders to succeed John stanley tumblers Paul II on the throne of St. Peter.They mentioned violence in the service of truth -- Vatican-speak for the treatment of heretics during the Crusades, the Inquisition and the forced conversion of native peoples. For 1,500 years we ve been pushing people around in the name of God and Church and Jesus, and the pope figured the first Sunday in Lent was the time to say, already, all right, stanley cupe enough. We re not going to do it anymore. W stanley cup e re sorry we did it, and there s no room for religious bigotry or oppression in the world today, Father Andrew Greeley told CBS News Early Show Anchor Bryant Gumbel. I think it s a turning point in Catholic history, added Greeley, a syndicated columnist and professor of religion. It may be the most important thing the pope has done

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MANILA, Philippines -- Philippine police said Tuesday that they were trying to confirm the identity and cause of death of a man found dead while sit mizuno volleyballschuhe ting slumped in a yacht that was drifting in the Pacific Ocean and which was apparently owned by a German adventurer.Police Chief Inspector Dominador Plaza said the gray decomposing remains of the man resembled a mummy, adding mystery to his death. His body was discovered near the radio in the cabin of a white yacht found last week by Filipino fishermen off the southeastern province of Surigao del Sur.There were no visible signs of foul play, like a gunshot or stabbing wound, Plaza said. Initially, it looks to us that he died of natural causes, maybe a heart attack, he said by phone. And death appears to have come suddenly because he was still sitting by the table when he passed away. A member of the Philippines coast guard inspects a body aboard the sail yacht Sajo near the shore off Barobo township, Surigao Del Sur province in southeastern Philippines, Feb.26, 2016. AP Plaza said initial estimates show the man had been dead in yeezy the hot enclosed cabin for at least several days, but that authorities were awaiting an autopsy report due this week for nike air force a more accurate finding. The 40-foot-long sailboat s mast was broken, maybe in a storm, police said.Documents found in the yacht showed that it was owned by a German adv Ujds France making COVID pass mandatory for most leisure activities
Despite a stepped up global battle against AIDS, the numbers of stanley tumbler people newly infected with HIV are far and away outpacing the numbers beginning antiretroviral drug treatments, U.N. officials said Monday.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, opening several days of U.N. debate on AIDS prevention, told world leaders that 2.5 million people became infected with HIV last year compared with 1 million who started using important antiretroviral drugs. Unless greater and swifter advances are made in reaching those who need essential services, the epidemic s burden on households, communities and soci stanley cup eties will continue to mount, Ban said.Some 2.1 million people died of AIDS last year and at least 33 million people world wide have the virus, according to U.N. figures. The U.N. s conclusion is that the AIDS epidemic is overwhelming the progress made in treating it, said CBS News foreign affairs analyst Pamela Falk. As the number of AIDS-inf stanley cup ected individuals rises, UNAIDS, the World Health Organization and UNICEF are fighting an uphill battle, added Falk, who is based at the U.N.In addition, people with weakened immune systems from HIV are up to 50 times more likely to develop tuberculosis, U.N. officials say. We cannot separate the fight against HIV/AIDS from the fight against TB, said General Assembly President Srgjan Kerim, who will preside over a two-day meeting on AIDS starting Tuesday.Falk noted that the conference comes on the heels of a report that one in four teen-age girls

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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 Kssv Saudi Arabia accused of undermining Jamal Khashoggi murder probe, holding secret trial
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