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TRIPOLI, Libya -- Multiple suicide car bombings struck an eastern Libyan town, killing at least 45 people on Friday not far from a main base of the Libyan offshoot of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS . The group claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it came in retaliation for recent Egyptian airstrikes that avenged the beheading of 21 Christian hostages by Libyan Islamic State militants.The massive bombings rocked the town of Qubba, which is under control of the country s internationally recognized government and about 30 kilometers 19 miles from Darna - a stronghold of Libya s Islamic State branch. In a statement posted on social networking sites, the group said two of the Caliphate s knights carried out adidas originals uomo the bombings, targeting what they described as a Libyan army operations room. Egypt airstrikes target ISIS camps in Libya after mass beh mizuno eadings 01:30 The deadliest bombing was carried by an attacker who rammed an explosives-packed ambula nike af nce into a gas station where motorists were lined up, army spokesman Mohammed Hegazi said. Imagine a car packed with a large amount of explosives striking a gas station; the explosion was huge and many of the injured are in very bad shape while the victims bodies were torn into pieces, Hegazi said.Two other bombers detonated vehicles next to Bxqi Gas hike protests in Mexico
A fire at a kindergarten dormitory early Tuesday killed 13 children, the oldest just 4 years old, the official Xin stanley flasche hua News Agency reported.The blaze in Nanchang, capital of the southern province of Jiangxi, started when a burning coil of mosquito repellent set fire to bedding, Xinhua said. Such coils, whose smoke drives away insects, are widely used throughout China.The dead included seven boys and six girls from the Jiangxi Radio and Television Arts Kindergarten, all 3 or 4 stanley us years old, the report said. There was no indication why children so young were staying in a dormitory.The report said 304 people were staying at the school, including 30 teachers, when the fire broke out, but that no teacher or caretaker was on duty in the dormitory. An employee had placed three burning mosquito coils in the dormitory Monday night.Xinhua said 17 children were sleeping in the dorm on the second floor of a three-story building. One boy ran to safety and three were carried out by rescuers. Most of the victims died of smoke inhalation, Xinhua said.A man who answered the phone at the Nanchang fire department said he couldn t give out information without official clearance.Jiangxi was the scene of one of China s worst school disasters when an explosion March 6 leveled a schoolhouse in the village of Fang Lin, killing 42 teachers and students.The government blamed the explosion on a d stanley termohrnek eranged bomber, but parents said the students had been forced to make fireworks by school administrators.
TRIPOLI, Libya -- Multiple suicide car bombings struck an eastern Libyan town, killing at least 45 people on Friday not far from a main base of the Libyan offshoot of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS . The group claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it came in retaliation for recent Egyptian airstrikes that avenged the beheading of 21 Christian hostages by Libyan Islamic State militants.The massive bombings rocked the town of Qubba, which is under control of the country s internationally recognized government and about 30 kilometers 19 miles from Darna - a stronghold of Libya s Islamic State branch. In a statement posted on social networking sites, the group said two of the Caliphate s knights carried out adidas originals uomo the bombings, targeting what they described as a Libyan army operations room. Egypt airstrikes target ISIS camps in Libya after mass beh mizuno eadings 01:30 The deadliest bombing was carried by an attacker who rammed an explosives-packed ambula nike af nce into a gas station where motorists were lined up, army spokesman Mohammed Hegazi said. Imagine a car packed with a large amount of explosives striking a gas station; the explosion was huge and many of the injured are in very bad shape while the victims bodies were torn into pieces, Hegazi said.Two other bombers detonated vehicles next to Bxqi Gas hike protests in Mexico
A fire at a kindergarten dormitory early Tuesday killed 13 children, the oldest just 4 years old, the official Xin stanley flasche hua News Agency reported.The blaze in Nanchang, capital of the southern province of Jiangxi, started when a burning coil of mosquito repellent set fire to bedding, Xinhua said. Such coils, whose smoke drives away insects, are widely used throughout China.The dead included seven boys and six girls from the Jiangxi Radio and Television Arts Kindergarten, all 3 or 4 stanley us years old, the report said. There was no indication why children so young were staying in a dormitory.The report said 304 people were staying at the school, including 30 teachers, when the fire broke out, but that no teacher or caretaker was on duty in the dormitory. An employee had placed three burning mosquito coils in the dormitory Monday night.Xinhua said 17 children were sleeping in the dorm on the second floor of a three-story building. One boy ran to safety and three were carried out by rescuers. Most of the victims died of smoke inhalation, Xinhua said.A man who answered the phone at the Nanchang fire department said he couldn t give out information without official clearance.Jiangxi was the scene of one of China s worst school disasters when an explosion March 6 leveled a schoolhouse in the village of Fang Lin, killing 42 teachers and students.The government blamed the explosion on a d stanley termohrnek eranged bomber, but parents said the students had been forced to make fireworks by school administrators.
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Margaret Mackie is not your average pop star mdash; she did it her way. Mackie has dementia and lives in a senior care facility, but last month, she released her first single, a cover of Frank Sinatra s My Way. It all started when she and her caregiver, Jamie Lee Morley, sang the song together at the care home s Christmas party.On YouTube, Morley wrote that he never thought he d be able to work at a senior care home because he s such a big softie. But what an amazing few months it has been, his YouTube post continued. Last night I was asked to sing and host the Christmas party for the residents... and I have never been so emotional on stage my entire time of doing what I love. Margaret Me 128149; Dementia Awareness Music Singing Passion FoxNews trending Worldwide by Jamie Lee Morley on YouTube Morley, who is also a musician, poste adidas campus shoes d a video from the Christmas party of himself and Margaret singing the song, which holds a special meaning to them. Every day in work we sing this song together and I do what ever I can to brighten her day and all the other residents, Morley wrote. yeezy For those close to me will know this was my Grandad s funeral song who our family sadly lost to Alzheimer s last year, he continued. I ve n yeezy slide ever really sang this song as it s a classic, but I knew how much Margaret and her family would love it. The caregiver said Margaret s family was there for the party, and as expected, they loved her perform Lmxc Hamed Sinno: Gay, Arab musician tackles inequality, marginalization and Orlando shooting
An interna stanley bottles tional mine ban treaty, widely regarded as part of Princess Diana s legacy, took effect Monday. But the United States is among several military powers that have refused to sign it, reports CBS News Correspondent Richard Roth.A bell-ringing outside London s Westminster Cathedral marked the treaty s launch, though campaigners against landmines say it should be heard as a warning that mines are still killing or maiming civilians every day.The late Princess of Wales was the highest-prof stanley thermobecher ile public advocate of the treaty outlawing the manufacture, use, and stockpiling of anti-personnel mines. The pact has now been signed by more than 160 nations.In Bosnia a month before her death, Diana met Muzita Gubelyich, whose right foot was badly injured by a mine. Today, the Bosnian woman says, Mines should be banned. We don t need them at all. But the U.S. and a large group of countries including China and Russia disagree, and have refused so far to sign the treaty. Even where the treaty has been formally approved, mine clearance is a slow gourde stanley , costly process, sometimes foiled by politics.Angola was among the first to sign up at Diana s urging but is already reportedly among the first to violate it.The U.S. wanted an exemption in the treaty for mines planted along the tense border between North Korea and South Korea. Washington s position is that it hopes to find an alternative to landmines, replace them within seven years, and then sign the treaty. Reported by Richard R
Margaret Mackie is not your average pop star mdash; she did it her way. Mackie has dementia and lives in a senior care facility, but last month, she released her first single, a cover of Frank Sinatra s My Way. It all started when she and her caregiver, Jamie Lee Morley, sang the song together at the care home s Christmas party.On YouTube, Morley wrote that he never thought he d be able to work at a senior care home because he s such a big softie. But what an amazing few months it has been, his YouTube post continued. Last night I was asked to sing and host the Christmas party for the residents... and I have never been so emotional on stage my entire time of doing what I love. Margaret Me 128149; Dementia Awareness Music Singing Passion FoxNews trending Worldwide by Jamie Lee Morley on YouTube Morley, who is also a musician, poste adidas campus shoes d a video from the Christmas party of himself and Margaret singing the song, which holds a special meaning to them. Every day in work we sing this song together and I do what ever I can to brighten her day and all the other residents, Morley wrote. yeezy For those close to me will know this was my Grandad s funeral song who our family sadly lost to Alzheimer s last year, he continued. I ve n yeezy slide ever really sang this song as it s a classic, but I knew how much Margaret and her family would love it. The caregiver said Margaret s family was there for the party, and as expected, they loved her perform Lmxc Hamed Sinno: Gay, Arab musician tackles inequality, marginalization and Orlando shooting
An interna stanley bottles tional mine ban treaty, widely regarded as part of Princess Diana s legacy, took effect Monday. But the United States is among several military powers that have refused to sign it, reports CBS News Correspondent Richard Roth.A bell-ringing outside London s Westminster Cathedral marked the treaty s launch, though campaigners against landmines say it should be heard as a warning that mines are still killing or maiming civilians every day.The late Princess of Wales was the highest-prof stanley thermobecher ile public advocate of the treaty outlawing the manufacture, use, and stockpiling of anti-personnel mines. The pact has now been signed by more than 160 nations.In Bosnia a month before her death, Diana met Muzita Gubelyich, whose right foot was badly injured by a mine. Today, the Bosnian woman says, Mines should be banned. We don t need them at all. But the U.S. and a large group of countries including China and Russia disagree, and have refused so far to sign the treaty. Even where the treaty has been formally approved, mine clearance is a slow gourde stanley , costly process, sometimes foiled by politics.Angola was among the first to sign up at Diana s urging but is already reportedly among the first to violate it.The U.S. wanted an exemption in the treaty for mines planted along the tense border between North Korea and South Korea. Washington s position is that it hopes to find an alternative to landmines, replace them within seven years, and then sign the treaty. Reported by Richard R
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LONDON -- A political storm is brewing ahead of Pri dunk pand nce Harry s and Meghan Markle s May 19 wedding over whether to crack down on homeless people and beggars in the well-to-do English town of Windsor, where the wedding is taking place. Borough council leader Simon Dudley kicked off the controversy by tweeting over the Christmas holidays about the need to clean up Windsor s streets. He then wrote to police and Conservative Prime Minister Theresa nike dunk low May suggesting that action be taken to reduce the presence of beggars and the homeless. Dudley referred to an epidemic of homelessness and vagrancy in Windsor and suggested many of those begging in the town are not really homeless. He said the situation presents a beautiful town in a adidas yeezy n unfavorable light. The prime minister said Thursday she does not agree with Dudley s call for police action, emphasizing that local councils like the one Dudley heads must act to help the homeless. I think it is important that councils work hard to ensure that they are providing accommodation for those people who are homeless, said May. The Changing of the Guard takes place outside Windsor Castle, west of London, on December 8, 2017. Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images Homeless charities reacted angrily Thursday to his suggestion that homelessness should be treated as a police matter so Windsor can make a positive impression on visitors during the royal Fuem Motive sought for mass shooting at Prague university that left more than a dozen dead
The term entered the language in Britain more than five years ago, reports CBS News Correspondent Richard Roth, as traffic was getting bad enough to threaten a national reputation for courtesy: Bad manners behi stanley cup nd the wheel became road rage. Road rage is when people actually lose control, says Conrad King, a psychologist with the Royal Automobile Club. It s kind of lik stanley quencher e having a temper tantrum. But you are having the tantrum when you are in control of a lethal weapon 150; which is what a car is. In Scotland, Robbie Crawford says he became a devil in his white sedan. I can t believe I let myself get in that situation, says Crawford. Road rage That s it. That s exactly what it was. But while losing his temper, he found inspiration: an invention into which he has now poured his life savings. It s a message board for motorists that he s selling for $60, now lighting up rear windows in a handful of cars -- with a limited built-in vocabulary designed to appease.You push the button for sorry and you can get away with almost anything, says Crawford. It s incredible -- it instantly deflates anything that s stanley thermobecher going on. A dashboard control means he never has to say he s sorry; he just sends a message, apologetic or grateful.Now he hopes it will help bring calm to the road, make him a millionaire and, if the need arises, get him out of trouble. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-96d144b4-8c8
LONDON -- A political storm is brewing ahead of Pri dunk pand nce Harry s and Meghan Markle s May 19 wedding over whether to crack down on homeless people and beggars in the well-to-do English town of Windsor, where the wedding is taking place. Borough council leader Simon Dudley kicked off the controversy by tweeting over the Christmas holidays about the need to clean up Windsor s streets. He then wrote to police and Conservative Prime Minister Theresa nike dunk low May suggesting that action be taken to reduce the presence of beggars and the homeless. Dudley referred to an epidemic of homelessness and vagrancy in Windsor and suggested many of those begging in the town are not really homeless. He said the situation presents a beautiful town in a adidas yeezy n unfavorable light. The prime minister said Thursday she does not agree with Dudley s call for police action, emphasizing that local councils like the one Dudley heads must act to help the homeless. I think it is important that councils work hard to ensure that they are providing accommodation for those people who are homeless, said May. The Changing of the Guard takes place outside Windsor Castle, west of London, on December 8, 2017. Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images Homeless charities reacted angrily Thursday to his suggestion that homelessness should be treated as a police matter so Windsor can make a positive impression on visitors during the royal Fuem Motive sought for mass shooting at Prague university that left more than a dozen dead
The term entered the language in Britain more than five years ago, reports CBS News Correspondent Richard Roth, as traffic was getting bad enough to threaten a national reputation for courtesy: Bad manners behi stanley cup nd the wheel became road rage. Road rage is when people actually lose control, says Conrad King, a psychologist with the Royal Automobile Club. It s kind of lik stanley quencher e having a temper tantrum. But you are having the tantrum when you are in control of a lethal weapon 150; which is what a car is. In Scotland, Robbie Crawford says he became a devil in his white sedan. I can t believe I let myself get in that situation, says Crawford. Road rage That s it. That s exactly what it was. But while losing his temper, he found inspiration: an invention into which he has now poured his life savings. It s a message board for motorists that he s selling for $60, now lighting up rear windows in a handful of cars -- with a limited built-in vocabulary designed to appease.You push the button for sorry and you can get away with almost anything, says Crawford. It s incredible -- it instantly deflates anything that s stanley thermobecher going on. A dashboard control means he never has to say he s sorry; he just sends a message, apologetic or grateful.Now he hopes it will help bring calm to the road, make him a millionaire and, if the need arises, get him out of trouble. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-96d144b4-8c8
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan-- Afghan and international military officials said a group of insurgents withsmall arms and suicide bombers attacked a coalition base insouthern Afghanistan Monday, killing one coalition soldier.A suicide bomber firstdetonated an SUV packed with explosives at the gate of the base and then eight otherarmed militants with suicide vests and small arms stormed the base in Zharidistrict, in eastern Kandahar province. According to Javid Faisal,spokesman for the provincial governor, one soldier from the InternationalAssistance Force-Afghanistan ISAF and all nine attackers were killed in the ensuingfirefight.The U.S.-led ISAF confirmed that one troop was killed in a suicide car bombing agains airforce t one ofits bases in southern Afghanistan.ISAF did not confirm whichnation was based at the compound in Zhari, or the nationality hoka wanderschuh of the slain troop. One Afghan official, who asked notto be identified, nike sb dunk said it was an American base. Zhari is located west of the provincial capital,Kandahar city.The Taliban, who have intensified their campaignagainst Afghan and international forces as foreign troops withdraw this year,claimed responsibility for the attack.The southern province of Kandahar is thebirthplace of the extremist Islamic movement. Afghanistan: The New Reality More Jxyq Egypt permanently opens Gaza border crossing
AP TOULOUSE, France - A g stanley cup website unman on a motorbike opened fire on three French paratroopers at a bank machine in southern France, killing two and critically wounding one of them Thursday, officials said. It was the second such attack in a week targeting French soldiers in a public place.E stanley cup arlier, the Defense Ministry had issued a statement saying all three paratroopers had died, but a local police official and a Defense Ministry official later said one of them was in critical condition.The three uniformed soldiers had been standing at a bank machine in the town of Montauban when a helmeted assailant arrived on a motorbike and opened fire, then fled, the police official said.Defense Minister Gerard Longuet expressed his condolences to the soldiers, their families and their regiment in a statement. They all three served with the 17th paratrooper combat engineering regiment, based nearby.On Sunday, a 30-year-old soldier was fatally shot near a gymnasium in the southern city of Toulouse by an unidentified attacker also on a motorbike. Neither the defense minister nor police announced any link between the two attacks, and the motives remain unclear. Officials tell the BBC that they are considering a number of mot stanley becher ives, including the possibility that both shootings were the result of a personal dispute.The police official said the two soldiers killed Thursday were 24 and 26 years old. ponent--type-recirculatio
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan-- Afghan and international military officials said a group of insurgents withsmall arms and suicide bombers attacked a coalition base insouthern Afghanistan Monday, killing one coalition soldier.A suicide bomber firstdetonated an SUV packed with explosives at the gate of the base and then eight otherarmed militants with suicide vests and small arms stormed the base in Zharidistrict, in eastern Kandahar province. According to Javid Faisal,spokesman for the provincial governor, one soldier from the InternationalAssistance Force-Afghanistan ISAF and all nine attackers were killed in the ensuingfirefight.The U.S.-led ISAF confirmed that one troop was killed in a suicide car bombing agains airforce t one ofits bases in southern Afghanistan.ISAF did not confirm whichnation was based at the compound in Zhari, or the nationality hoka wanderschuh of the slain troop. One Afghan official, who asked notto be identified, nike sb dunk said it was an American base. Zhari is located west of the provincial capital,Kandahar city.The Taliban, who have intensified their campaignagainst Afghan and international forces as foreign troops withdraw this year,claimed responsibility for the attack.The southern province of Kandahar is thebirthplace of the extremist Islamic movement. Afghanistan: The New Reality More Jxyq Egypt permanently opens Gaza border crossing
AP TOULOUSE, France - A g stanley cup website unman on a motorbike opened fire on three French paratroopers at a bank machine in southern France, killing two and critically wounding one of them Thursday, officials said. It was the second such attack in a week targeting French soldiers in a public place.E stanley cup arlier, the Defense Ministry had issued a statement saying all three paratroopers had died, but a local police official and a Defense Ministry official later said one of them was in critical condition.The three uniformed soldiers had been standing at a bank machine in the town of Montauban when a helmeted assailant arrived on a motorbike and opened fire, then fled, the police official said.Defense Minister Gerard Longuet expressed his condolences to the soldiers, their families and their regiment in a statement. They all three served with the 17th paratrooper combat engineering regiment, based nearby.On Sunday, a 30-year-old soldier was fatally shot near a gymnasium in the southern city of Toulouse by an unidentified attacker also on a motorbike. Neither the defense minister nor police announced any link between the two attacks, and the motives remain unclear. Officials tell the BBC that they are considering a number of mot stanley becher ives, including the possibility that both shootings were the result of a personal dispute.The police official said the two soldiers killed Thursday were 24 and 26 years old. ponent--type-recirculatio
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People block a street near the house of Law and Justice leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski during a protest against imposing adidas campus homme further restrictions on abortion in Warsaw, Poland October 23, 2020. yeezy foam AGENCJA GAZETA / REUTERS nike dunk Hundreds of people took to the streets in cities across Poland on Thursday night, protesting against the tightening of the country s abortion laws, which were already among the strictest in Europe. Police met the protesters with pepper spray in some places, and at least 15 demonstrators were arrested.Clashes between protesters and the police turned violent in the capital city of Warsaw after a ruling by the Constitutional Court left virtually all abortions banned in the conservative country.The court ruled that ending the life of a fetus with congenital defects was unconstitutional, meaning abortions are now only legal in Poland in cases of rape, incest or a threat to the mother s health. Those cases make up only about 2% of the pregnancy terminations carried out legally in the country in recent years. Battle rages over abortion laws in Poland 01:49 According to The Associated Press, Health Ministry figures show that most of the 1,110 legal abortions performed last year were due to fetal genetic defect Sjlr Captured al-Baghdadi wife revealed lots of information about ISIS, source says
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People block a street near the house of Law and Justice leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski during a protest against imposing adidas campus homme further restrictions on abortion in Warsaw, Poland October 23, 2020. yeezy foam AGENCJA GAZETA / REUTERS nike dunk Hundreds of people took to the streets in cities across Poland on Thursday night, protesting against the tightening of the country s abortion laws, which were already among the strictest in Europe. Police met the protesters with pepper spray in some places, and at least 15 demonstrators were arrested.Clashes between protesters and the police turned violent in the capital city of Warsaw after a ruling by the Constitutional Court left virtually all abortions banned in the conservative country.The court ruled that ending the life of a fetus with congenital defects was unconstitutional, meaning abortions are now only legal in Poland in cases of rape, incest or a threat to the mother s health. Those cases make up only about 2% of the pregnancy terminations carried out legally in the country in recent years. Battle rages over abortion laws in Poland 01:49 According to The Associated Press, Health Ministry figures show that most of the 1,110 legal abortions performed last year were due to fetal genetic defect Sjlr Captured al-Baghdadi wife revealed lots of information about ISIS, source says
President Bush said Wednesday he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week in Russia to try to break a logjam between the two nations over a proposed U.S. missile defense system.Bush is accepting Putin s invitation for a meeting in the Black Sea resort city of S stanley cup ochi on April 6, to come at the end of the president s trip that starts Monday to Ukraine, Croatia and the NATO summit in Bucharest, Romania. It stanley cup will likely be the last meeting between Bush and the Russian leader before Putin leaves office. Putin s successor as Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, takes office at the beginning of May.Bush announced the visit during a pre-trip interview with foreign journalists. He said he and Putin would discuss the missile defense system that the United States plans to base in Central Europe. It would involve 10 interceptor m stanley cups issiles based in Poland and a tracking radar system in the Czech Republic.Moscow has been vehemently opposed to the idea, saying the intent is to weaken its nuclear deterrent. The United States denies that, saying the facilities are being designed to protect Europe against a potential missile attack - or even just nuclear blackmail - by Iran.The dispute has become heated, with increasingly confrontational rhetoric coming from Moscow. But there have been signs of cooling recently and Bush told reporters that he saw an opportunity to build on that. Talks in Moscow between high-level Russian officials and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and
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News crews can t show the bomb craters and shrapnel-scarred buildings that surround Ukraine s most secretive soccer field. Sharing its location risks giving away the game to Russian spotters.As Ukrainian forces continue a long-awaited counteroffensive against their Russian invaders, some soldiers have found a small but welcome reprieve from the constant strain of battle with this soccer game, played on a field just a few miles from the front lines.T asics gel he area was even hit by Russian fire on the same day CBS News reporters visited. That hasn t scared away the Kupiansk Battalion of the Kharkiv Territorial Defense Brigade, hardened warriors who have fought some of the most brutal combat missions in the war, including on the battlefields of Bakhmut.The soccer game allows players to remember civil life amid the horrors of war, said a captain identified only as Dmitriy. Players on the field. CBS Saturday Morning It s some kind of a situati nike dunk on when you close your eyes and forget abo yeezy ut the war, said Dmitriy, an accountant by trade. The soldiers are a tight-knit bunch even off the field, and these breaks make it easier to get through the grueling, intense counteroffensive. The war won t last forever, all these men will go back to their normal lives, said a deputy commander named Yuri, who has been fighting Russians and Russian separatists since 2014. Soccer is one of the Zsjx Massive iceberg breaks off from Greenland glacier
Some mullahs in Afghanistan are distributing condoms. Others are quoting the Quran to encourage longer breaks between births. Health experts say contraception is starting to catch on in a country where one in eight women dies during pregnancy.Afghanistan has one of the world s highest fertility rates, averaging more than six babies per woman despite years of war and a severe lack of medical care. Awareness of, and access to, contraceptives remains low among many couples, with UNICEF estimating 10 percent of women using some form of birth control.But use of the pill, condoms and injected forms of birth control rose to 27 percent over eight months in three rural areas - up to half the woman in one area - once the benefits were explained one-on-one by health workers, according to the report published Monday in Bulletin, the World Health Organization s journal. The main take-home point is that for women who do not want to be pregnant now, it can be a doubl stanley quencher e tragedy for her to die from a pregnancy she did not want - especially when we could have helped her, said lead author Dr. Douglas Huber, who conducted the study for U.S.-based stanley cup nonprofit Management Sciences for Health. The fastest, cheapest, easiest way to reduce maternal deaths in Afghanistan is with contraception. Afghanistan s mate stanley us rnal death rate of 1,800 per 100,000 live births is topped only by Sierra Leone worldwide, according to UNICEF. The U.S. rate is 11 per 100,000 births. Quotes were used from the Quran to p
News crews can t show the bomb craters and shrapnel-scarred buildings that surround Ukraine s most secretive soccer field. Sharing its location risks giving away the game to Russian spotters.As Ukrainian forces continue a long-awaited counteroffensive against their Russian invaders, some soldiers have found a small but welcome reprieve from the constant strain of battle with this soccer game, played on a field just a few miles from the front lines.T asics gel he area was even hit by Russian fire on the same day CBS News reporters visited. That hasn t scared away the Kupiansk Battalion of the Kharkiv Territorial Defense Brigade, hardened warriors who have fought some of the most brutal combat missions in the war, including on the battlefields of Bakhmut.The soccer game allows players to remember civil life amid the horrors of war, said a captain identified only as Dmitriy. Players on the field. CBS Saturday Morning It s some kind of a situati nike dunk on when you close your eyes and forget abo yeezy ut the war, said Dmitriy, an accountant by trade. The soldiers are a tight-knit bunch even off the field, and these breaks make it easier to get through the grueling, intense counteroffensive. The war won t last forever, all these men will go back to their normal lives, said a deputy commander named Yuri, who has been fighting Russians and Russian separatists since 2014. Soccer is one of the Zsjx Massive iceberg breaks off from Greenland glacier
Some mullahs in Afghanistan are distributing condoms. Others are quoting the Quran to encourage longer breaks between births. Health experts say contraception is starting to catch on in a country where one in eight women dies during pregnancy.Afghanistan has one of the world s highest fertility rates, averaging more than six babies per woman despite years of war and a severe lack of medical care. Awareness of, and access to, contraceptives remains low among many couples, with UNICEF estimating 10 percent of women using some form of birth control.But use of the pill, condoms and injected forms of birth control rose to 27 percent over eight months in three rural areas - up to half the woman in one area - once the benefits were explained one-on-one by health workers, according to the report published Monday in Bulletin, the World Health Organization s journal. The main take-home point is that for women who do not want to be pregnant now, it can be a doubl stanley quencher e tragedy for her to die from a pregnancy she did not want - especially when we could have helped her, said lead author Dr. Douglas Huber, who conducted the study for U.S.-based stanley cup nonprofit Management Sciences for Health. The fastest, cheapest, easiest way to reduce maternal deaths in Afghanistan is with contraception. Afghanistan s mate stanley us rnal death rate of 1,800 per 100,000 live births is topped only by Sierra Leone worldwide, according to UNICEF. The U.S. rate is 11 per 100,000 births. Quotes were used from the Quran to p
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Stonehenge, the prehistoric stone circle in southern England, is one of the most distinctive and mysterious monuments in the world. The monument, which attracted more than one a samba og nd a half million visitors last year, is thought to be up to 5,000 years old, and the heaviest stone weighs 38 tons.No one really knows how the stones got there, or the reason the air max 2 y look the way they do ndash; but a piece removed from one of the stones six decades ago could bring some answers. A core taken from mizuno Stonehenge CBS News At first glance, the new discovery mdash; a cylinder of rock mdash; might look unremarkable. But for Lewis and Robin Phillips, it meant one thing: their dad, Robert.In 1958, Robert Phillips worked on a major restoration project commissioned by the British government. The goal was to make the monument safer, and help historians better understand what Stonehenge was and why it was there. The team drilled through the largest of the sarsen rocks, removing three stone cores. Robert Phillips was gifted one as a souvenir; the other two are believed to have been discarded.At the time, the core sample was considered to be waste material, Lewis said. I think that the standards of the day, in conservation, were a bit different to what they are now, Robert added. Six decades later, Robert mdash; who s now in his 90s mdash; asked his sons to return the waste mat Itgr Ben Rhodes, White House defend Iran deal after magazine profile
MEXICO CITY - An alleged drug trafficker suspected of helping abduct and kill 20 Mexican tourists has been arrested in the resort city of Acapulco, federal police said Tuesday.Moises Montero Alvarez, nicknamed The Korean, was captured Monday along with a 21-year-old and two teenagers believed to be accomplices. Alvarez is suspected of being a leader in the local Independent Cartel of Acapu stanley thermosflasche lco.20 bodies found in Northern Mexico ma stanley cup ss graveAlvarez, 42, is accused of helping to carry out the Sept. 30 kidnapping of 20 vacationing men from Michoacan state. Some of the men s decomposed bodies were later identified in a mass grave by relatives.Authorities believe the tourists had been mistaken by drug traffickers for members of the rival La Familia cartel. Alvarez is also suspected of ordering the killings of rival cartel members at in the port of Acapulco, the kidnapping of police officers and the April 7 burning of a supermarket that left at least one man dead. He was previously arrested in 1999 on extortion charges, police said.Federal police have reported more than a dozen killings have been reported in the area stanley fr in the last two days. In one case, a 35-year-old man s torso and right arm found on a busy street near the 23-story beachfront Grand Hotel Acapulco. In another, a taxi was found with the bodies of three men in their 20s killed with assualt rifles.At least five women in their 30s and 50s were also reported killed in that period, several in outlying areas of the su
Stonehenge, the prehistoric stone circle in southern England, is one of the most distinctive and mysterious monuments in the world. The monument, which attracted more than one a samba og nd a half million visitors last year, is thought to be up to 5,000 years old, and the heaviest stone weighs 38 tons.No one really knows how the stones got there, or the reason the air max 2 y look the way they do ndash; but a piece removed from one of the stones six decades ago could bring some answers. A core taken from mizuno Stonehenge CBS News At first glance, the new discovery mdash; a cylinder of rock mdash; might look unremarkable. But for Lewis and Robin Phillips, it meant one thing: their dad, Robert.In 1958, Robert Phillips worked on a major restoration project commissioned by the British government. The goal was to make the monument safer, and help historians better understand what Stonehenge was and why it was there. The team drilled through the largest of the sarsen rocks, removing three stone cores. Robert Phillips was gifted one as a souvenir; the other two are believed to have been discarded.At the time, the core sample was considered to be waste material, Lewis said. I think that the standards of the day, in conservation, were a bit different to what they are now, Robert added. Six decades later, Robert mdash; who s now in his 90s mdash; asked his sons to return the waste mat Itgr Ben Rhodes, White House defend Iran deal after magazine profile
MEXICO CITY - An alleged drug trafficker suspected of helping abduct and kill 20 Mexican tourists has been arrested in the resort city of Acapulco, federal police said Tuesday.Moises Montero Alvarez, nicknamed The Korean, was captured Monday along with a 21-year-old and two teenagers believed to be accomplices. Alvarez is suspected of being a leader in the local Independent Cartel of Acapu stanley thermosflasche lco.20 bodies found in Northern Mexico ma stanley cup ss graveAlvarez, 42, is accused of helping to carry out the Sept. 30 kidnapping of 20 vacationing men from Michoacan state. Some of the men s decomposed bodies were later identified in a mass grave by relatives.Authorities believe the tourists had been mistaken by drug traffickers for members of the rival La Familia cartel. Alvarez is also suspected of ordering the killings of rival cartel members at in the port of Acapulco, the kidnapping of police officers and the April 7 burning of a supermarket that left at least one man dead. He was previously arrested in 1999 on extortion charges, police said.Federal police have reported more than a dozen killings have been reported in the area stanley fr in the last two days. In one case, a 35-year-old man s torso and right arm found on a busy street near the 23-story beachfront Grand Hotel Acapulco. In another, a taxi was found with the bodies of three men in their 20s killed with assualt rifles.At least five women in their 30s and 50s were also reported killed in that period, several in outlying areas of the su
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MOSCOW -- PresidentVladimir Putin tightened hiscontrol over Russia s media on Monday by dissolving the main state news agencyand replacing it with an organisation that is to promote Moscow s image abroad.The move to abolish RIA Novosti and create anews agency to be yeezy slide known as Rossiya Segodnya is the second in two weeks strengtheningPutin s hold on the media as hetries to reassert his authority after protests against his rule.Most Russian media outlets are already loyalto Putin, and opponents getlittle air time, but the shake-up underlined their importance to Putin keeping power and the Kremlin sconcern about the president s ratings and image.The head of the new agency, to be built fromthe ashes of RIA Novosti, is a conservative news anchor, Dmitry Kiselyov, who oncecaused outrage by saying the organs of homosexuals should not be used intransplants. The main focus of ... Rossiya Segodnya Russia Today is to highlight abroad the state policy and public life of theRussian Federation, said a decree signed by Putin. Sergei Ivanov, the head of the presidentialadministration, told reporters that the changes were intended to save money andimprove the state media.But the new organisation ha af1 s strongsimilarities to APN, a Soviet-era news agency whose role included writingarticles about the social-economic and cultural life of the Soviet peopleand items ref adidas campus lecting Soviet society s point of view on important internal andinternational events .RIA said in an English-language article Ovbi Questions About Saddam s Threat
Officials from North and South Korea have concluded four days of talks, during which North Korea s nuclear weapons program figured prominently.During the talks, North Korea resi stanley quencher sted an American and South Korean demand that it immediately end its nuclear weapons program, saying only stanley mugs that it will try to resolve the dispute through dialogue, South Korean pool reports said.The delegates held a series of meetings in Pyongyang, the North s capital, seeking a last-minute deal and postponing the departure of a chartered plane at a Pyongyang airport to take the South Korean officials back to Seoul.But North Korean negotiators would not give a firm commitment to honoring its agreements with the U.S., South Korea and the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency, which requ stanley kubek ire it not to develop or possess nuclear weapons, the pool reports said, quoting an unnamed Southern delegate.South Korean journalists said North Korean officials were reluctant to include in a joint statement any reference to the principle of negotiating a solution to the nuclear issue. A chartered South Korean airplane arrived in the North s capital to take the South Korean officials back to Seoul, the reports said.In Seoul, President Kim Dae-jung again urged North Korea to scrap its nuclear weapons program, saying that it can never be pardonable. It is a matter on which our national survival and world peace hinge, Kim said. The North s development of weapons of mass destruction must be scrapped not only fo
MOSCOW -- PresidentVladimir Putin tightened hiscontrol over Russia s media on Monday by dissolving the main state news agencyand replacing it with an organisation that is to promote Moscow s image abroad.The move to abolish RIA Novosti and create anews agency to be yeezy slide known as Rossiya Segodnya is the second in two weeks strengtheningPutin s hold on the media as hetries to reassert his authority after protests against his rule.Most Russian media outlets are already loyalto Putin, and opponents getlittle air time, but the shake-up underlined their importance to Putin keeping power and the Kremlin sconcern about the president s ratings and image.The head of the new agency, to be built fromthe ashes of RIA Novosti, is a conservative news anchor, Dmitry Kiselyov, who oncecaused outrage by saying the organs of homosexuals should not be used intransplants. The main focus of ... Rossiya Segodnya Russia Today is to highlight abroad the state policy and public life of theRussian Federation, said a decree signed by Putin. Sergei Ivanov, the head of the presidentialadministration, told reporters that the changes were intended to save money andimprove the state media.But the new organisation ha af1 s strongsimilarities to APN, a Soviet-era news agency whose role included writingarticles about the social-economic and cultural life of the Soviet peopleand items ref adidas campus lecting Soviet society s point of view on important internal andinternational events .RIA said in an English-language article Ovbi Questions About Saddam s Threat
Officials from North and South Korea have concluded four days of talks, during which North Korea s nuclear weapons program figured prominently.During the talks, North Korea resi stanley quencher sted an American and South Korean demand that it immediately end its nuclear weapons program, saying only stanley mugs that it will try to resolve the dispute through dialogue, South Korean pool reports said.The delegates held a series of meetings in Pyongyang, the North s capital, seeking a last-minute deal and postponing the departure of a chartered plane at a Pyongyang airport to take the South Korean officials back to Seoul.But North Korean negotiators would not give a firm commitment to honoring its agreements with the U.S., South Korea and the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency, which requ stanley kubek ire it not to develop or possess nuclear weapons, the pool reports said, quoting an unnamed Southern delegate.South Korean journalists said North Korean officials were reluctant to include in a joint statement any reference to the principle of negotiating a solution to the nuclear issue. A chartered South Korean airplane arrived in the North s capital to take the South Korean officials back to Seoul, the reports said.In Seoul, President Kim Dae-jung again urged North Korea to scrap its nuclear weapons program, saying that it can never be pardonable. It is a matter on which our national survival and world peace hinge, Kim said. The North s development of weapons of mass destruction must be scrapped not only fo
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The World Cup kicked off in Brazil this week, and a number of protests were staged around the country over the billions spent on hosting the events. Brazil is deeply conflicted over the increasing controversy. At a Sao Paulo demonstration, protesters chanted in Portuguese, We want the end of the military police. The small group gathered to protest the $11 billion in government spending on the World Cup, which they said could have been spent asics sneaker on housing and education. On the opening day of the cup, a Sao Paulo demonstration escalated quickly. Police met protesters salomon mujer early in the day, firing tear gas and percussion bombs into the crowd. World Cup 2014 66 photos The police s show of force was frustrating for demonstrators who said they were not being listened to and people were fed up. I was in the eye of the hurricane, said Carlos Weis, a public defender employed by the state but tasked with protecting the interests of the people. He wa adidas samba og s at the opening day protests to observe police tactics and was hit by rubber bullets.Under the Brazilian constitution people have a right to peacefully protest. But this has gone too far, according to Weis. This kind of police action is completely against the law, Weis said. An official note from Kcru North Korea: American citizen detained for crime
DAKAR, Senegal - Voters booed Senegal s president as he went to cast his ballot in elections Sunday, the latest sign of how his decision to seek a third term in office has caused his popularity to plummet and divided a country long considered a model of tolerance.The unrest has threatened the reputation of this normally unflappable republic on Africa s western coast, which has been held up as one of the continent s most mature democracies.In choosing to run again, the 85-year-old President Abdoulaye Wade is contradicting the term limits he himself introduced into the constitution. He argues that those restrictions should not apply to him since he was elected before they went into effect, and the deadly riots that have rocked the country began last month when the nation s highest court agreed with him.He has predicted that he will win with a crushing majority, but the scene inside the polling station where he has voted for decades shocked even longtime observers of this country, where respect for the elderly is deeply ingrained. Wade was jeered and insulted when he arrived to vote, and the normally loquacious leader didn t give his customary post-vote press conference, as his bodyguards whisked him back into his motorcade. I feel sad because our stanley flask democracy doesn t deserve this, said the president s daughter Syndiely Wade, who stanley cup stayed back in the polling station in the neighborho stanley us od of Point E to talk to reporters. My father doesn t deserve this. The protests that began
The World Cup kicked off in Brazil this week, and a number of protests were staged around the country over the billions spent on hosting the events. Brazil is deeply conflicted over the increasing controversy. At a Sao Paulo demonstration, protesters chanted in Portuguese, We want the end of the military police. The small group gathered to protest the $11 billion in government spending on the World Cup, which they said could have been spent asics sneaker on housing and education. On the opening day of the cup, a Sao Paulo demonstration escalated quickly. Police met protesters salomon mujer early in the day, firing tear gas and percussion bombs into the crowd. World Cup 2014 66 photos The police s show of force was frustrating for demonstrators who said they were not being listened to and people were fed up. I was in the eye of the hurricane, said Carlos Weis, a public defender employed by the state but tasked with protecting the interests of the people. He wa adidas samba og s at the opening day protests to observe police tactics and was hit by rubber bullets.Under the Brazilian constitution people have a right to peacefully protest. But this has gone too far, according to Weis. This kind of police action is completely against the law, Weis said. An official note from Kcru North Korea: American citizen detained for crime
DAKAR, Senegal - Voters booed Senegal s president as he went to cast his ballot in elections Sunday, the latest sign of how his decision to seek a third term in office has caused his popularity to plummet and divided a country long considered a model of tolerance.The unrest has threatened the reputation of this normally unflappable republic on Africa s western coast, which has been held up as one of the continent s most mature democracies.In choosing to run again, the 85-year-old President Abdoulaye Wade is contradicting the term limits he himself introduced into the constitution. He argues that those restrictions should not apply to him since he was elected before they went into effect, and the deadly riots that have rocked the country began last month when the nation s highest court agreed with him.He has predicted that he will win with a crushing majority, but the scene inside the polling station where he has voted for decades shocked even longtime observers of this country, where respect for the elderly is deeply ingrained. Wade was jeered and insulted when he arrived to vote, and the normally loquacious leader didn t give his customary post-vote press conference, as his bodyguards whisked him back into his motorcade. I feel sad because our stanley flask democracy doesn t deserve this, said the president s daughter Syndiely Wade, who stanley cup stayed back in the polling station in the neighborho stanley us od of Point E to talk to reporters. My father doesn t deserve this. The protests that began
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A bus plunged into a sinkhole on a city street in northwestern China, killing at least six people and leaving four missing, authorities said. Some 1,000 emergency workers and 30 vehicles were sent to the site, the emergency management bureau in the city of Xining said. A crane was called in to lift the bus above the sinkhole so rescue workers could look for victims. Video apparently shot by security cameras just after the accident showed the bus gradually settling into the hole while people nearby scrambled for safety. In this image made from CCTV video, a bus plunges into a sinkhole in the center of a downtown street, Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, in Xining, Qinghai province, China. AP adidas samba uomo Other video showed the bus tipped more than halfway into the chasm that had opened up at a bus stop just outside a health clinic. Light and smoke were coming to the surface, possibly as a result of the rupture of gas or electricity lines. Workers using backhoes, dump trucks and other equipment excavated earth around the collapse. nike dunk Giant sinkholes 39 photos The collapse Monday afternoon left 16 people in the hospital. The emergency management bureau s nike sb dunk aid the bus had been Lzve Remembering Bob Simon: Joy in the Congo
Me stanley france mbers of the British naval crew seized by Iran were detained in solitary confinement, Britain s defense ministry confirmed Thursday.Lt. Col. Andy Price said some of the naval personnel had been left alone at points during their captivity, but said he would not elaborate until officials had held further talks with the sailors.It followed a claim from the family of one of the crew that a sailor had been kept in solitary detention while the 15 sailors and marines were held.Britain s defense ministry said the sailors were being debriefed about their 13 days in captivity, including questions about their treatment. A ministry stanley thermos spokeswoman said the debriefing sessions would continue Friday. There were times when they were left alone, but we will not go into any further detail until tomorrow, Price said. He said the personnel were spending time with their families and were in good spirits, eating and drinking at a military base cafeteria. The 15 Royal Navy sailors a stanley cup nd marines returned home early Thursday to a nation relieved at their freedom but outraged that they were used for propaganda by Tehran.Prime Minister Tony Blair called for continued international pressure on Iran, blaming elements of the Iranian government for backing militants in Iraq, where four British soldiers and a translator were slain in an ambush hours before the freed crew touched down. On the one hand we are glad that our service personnel return safe and unharmed from their captivity, but on the ot
A bus plunged into a sinkhole on a city street in northwestern China, killing at least six people and leaving four missing, authorities said. Some 1,000 emergency workers and 30 vehicles were sent to the site, the emergency management bureau in the city of Xining said. A crane was called in to lift the bus above the sinkhole so rescue workers could look for victims. Video apparently shot by security cameras just after the accident showed the bus gradually settling into the hole while people nearby scrambled for safety. In this image made from CCTV video, a bus plunges into a sinkhole in the center of a downtown street, Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, in Xining, Qinghai province, China. AP adidas samba uomo Other video showed the bus tipped more than halfway into the chasm that had opened up at a bus stop just outside a health clinic. Light and smoke were coming to the surface, possibly as a result of the rupture of gas or electricity lines. Workers using backhoes, dump trucks and other equipment excavated earth around the collapse. nike dunk Giant sinkholes 39 photos The collapse Monday afternoon left 16 people in the hospital. The emergency management bureau s nike sb dunk aid the bus had been Lzve Remembering Bob Simon: Joy in the Congo
Me stanley france mbers of the British naval crew seized by Iran were detained in solitary confinement, Britain s defense ministry confirmed Thursday.Lt. Col. Andy Price said some of the naval personnel had been left alone at points during their captivity, but said he would not elaborate until officials had held further talks with the sailors.It followed a claim from the family of one of the crew that a sailor had been kept in solitary detention while the 15 sailors and marines were held.Britain s defense ministry said the sailors were being debriefed about their 13 days in captivity, including questions about their treatment. A ministry stanley thermos spokeswoman said the debriefing sessions would continue Friday. There were times when they were left alone, but we will not go into any further detail until tomorrow, Price said. He said the personnel were spending time with their families and were in good spirits, eating and drinking at a military base cafeteria. The 15 Royal Navy sailors a stanley cup nd marines returned home early Thursday to a nation relieved at their freedom but outraged that they were used for propaganda by Tehran.Prime Minister Tony Blair called for continued international pressure on Iran, blaming elements of the Iranian government for backing militants in Iraq, where four British soldiers and a translator were slain in an ambush hours before the freed crew touched down. On the one hand we are glad that our service personnel return safe and unharmed from their captivity, but on the ot