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Today is the 36th birthday of missing American journalist Austin Tice. Like the last several birthdays, he will not be celebrating with his family.Tice, a Marine Corps veteran, was abducted in Syria on Aug. 14, 2012. He was documenting the intensity of a then-young civil war as a journalist for McClatchy, the Washington Post, CBS News and others. No group has claimed responsibility for his abduction. A video released five weeks after his disappearance showed him alive, but there s been no official sign of him since.CBS News correspondent Jeff Glor and his team met Tice s parents in their hometown of Houston to learn how they re hopeful about their air max 1 son s return. Marc and Debra Tice CBS News It s always there. You can t vacation it away. You can t think it away, father Marc Tice said. It s what prompts us to keep working. Marc and Debra Tice have seven children but Austin is their oldest. They ve made multiple trips to the Middle East; Debra even lived in Damascus for a time trying to secure his release. This administration is all in, fifth gear, Let s bring him home. And that does make a difference in our everyday t adidas campus 00s hinking, Debra said. And that s different from the previous administration Glor asked. The previous administration was committed, and they realized that it was on the to-do list. But they weren t pushing hoka laufschuhe it up the list, Debra said.She said sh Hame Deadly Ghana building collapse traps dozens
London and Tokyo remained the world s the most expensive cities for leasing office space, but Paris, Moscow and Frankfurt have all moved up among the top 10, according to an annual survey released Friday.The study of 45 countries by the Cushman Wakefield and Healey Baker real estate service providers said the costs and occupancy rates of office space have fallen in many cities since the second half of 2001.The survey blamed the downturn in the telecom and high-tech sectors in many economies, the U.S. recession, and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in America, which occurred after a prosperous year that had seen treme stanley cup ndous growth in the prices of office space around the world. There are clearly going to be further areas of weakness in the months ahead, but there are now some more hopeful signs, said David Hutchings, the head of the European Research Group at Healey Baker.Using the rent, property taxes and service charges of office space in prime locations in countries around the world, the study listed the top 10 most expensive cities in 2002 as London, Tokyo, Paris, Moscow, New York, Hong Kong, stanley cup F stanley cup rankfurt, Geneva, Bombay and Milan. That marked a few big changes in the top 10 from the previous year s study, which had seen Paris as No. 5, Moscow as No. 9, Hong Kong as No. 3, Frankfurt as No. 10 and Milan as No. 25.In other findings, Friday s study said: In Europe, the average vacancy rates increased from 3.75 percent to 5.4 percent; overall rents grew ove

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BEIRUT -- A car bomb ripped through a Shiiteneighborhood in southern Beirut on Tuesday, killing at least two people andsetting plumes of smoke over the area in the latest attack targeting supportersof the militant Hezbollah group in Lebanon. samba shoes Middle East power vacuum provides opening for extremists 02:07 A series of attacks have hit Lebanon recentlyas Syria s civil war spills over into its smaller neighbor, targeting both thecountry s Sunnis and Shiites. It nike dunk high has further stoked sectarian tensions that are already running high as each Lebanese community lines up with its brethren inSyria on opposing sides of the war.The sectarian violence has also spilled over into Iraq, with fears mounting that fighting between Shiites and Sunnis in the western Anbar province could spread across the country. Thousands of people flocked to the Beirutneighborhood of Haret Hreik after the explosion shook the area, according tofootage broadcast by the Hezbollah-owned al-Manar television station.The footage sh nike af owed flames furiously engulfingone building, as medics hauled a man on a stretcher out of the area.Lebanese Health Minister Ali Hassan Khalilsaid a man and woman were killed, and 26 people were hospitalized with woundsfrom the bombing. Lebanon s official media said a suicidebomber in a vehicle was behind the at Nqns Tunnel Bomb Kills 4 Israelis
The United States and Iran have set a date for ambassador-level talks in Baghdad on the deteriorating security situation in Iraq, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Sunday.The two sides will sit down together on Tuesday, according to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari and U.S. Embassy spokesman Philip Reeker, amid U.S. allegations that Tehran is supporting violence Shiite militias in the country, but Zebari s comment was the first confirmation of a date. I can confirm that the United States and Iran have agreed to meet on July 24th in Baghdad, Zebari told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. He said the discussions would be at the ambassadorial leve and would stay focused on the situation stanley quencher in Iraq as opposed to U.S.-Iran tensions. Reeker also confirmed the date b stanley water bottle ut said he had no other information to what has previously been announced.Since the last meeting mdash; in Baghdad, in late May mdash; the need to show progress is even more urgent, reports CBS News Dan Raviv. That s one reason for Tuesday s meeting.It won t be easy. The United States claims Iran s special forces gave the green light to smugglers to bring explosives and sophisticated roa stanley france dside bombs into Iraq. Iran has complaints against the United States: charging four Iranian-Americans were sent to Teheran, part of a wider plan to overthrow the Islamic Republic, adds Raviv.Iraq s fragile government has been pressing for another meeting between the two nations with the greatest influence over its f

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Pope John Paul is back at the Vatican, after being released from the Rome hospital stanley cup where he had been treated for ten days for the flu and breathing spasms.The 84-year-old pontiff was placed in the familiar white popemobile and driven along a heavily guarded route lined with hundreds of well-wishers hoping to catch a glimpse of the leader. At times, the pope lifted his arm to wave to the onlookers.This was the latest ailment to strike the pope. He has also dealt for years with Parkinson s disease and crippling hip and knee ailments. At the time of his hospitalization on February first, one Vatican official said his situ stanley kubek ation was serious, very serious. He was declared cured stanley mug of breathing spasms that left him bedridden for 10 days and the debate has resumed about his ability to continue as head of the Roman Catholic Church.Under heavy security, the 84-year-old pope was bundled into the vehicle inside a covered entrance to Rome s Gemelli Polyclinic to shield him from the winter chill. Police sealed off St. Peter s Square to tourists. Beneath a crisp early evening sky, spectators huddled behind barricades set up along a main street running by the Holy See for a glimpse of John Paul in his white robes.The pontiff waved occasionally, making the sign of the cross to the hundreds who lined the the 2frac12;-mile route to the Vatican, reports CBS News Correspondent Lou Miliano. Security guards walked, then jogged, alongside the popemobile.His return mdash; a hastily arrange

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A U.S. Army sergeant stationed in Korea has been detained in Russia, accused of stealing from a woman, two Pentagon officials said Monday.Staff Sgt. Gordon D. Black was arrested on May 2 in Vladivostok. It is unclear how he got there but he was in the process of changing duty stations from Korea to Fort Cavazos Ft. Hood in the U.S. He was not there on official travel.The soldier s mother, Melody Jones, said he was in Russia visiting his girlfriend. Please do not torture him [or] hurt him, Melody Jones said when asked about her message to the Russians.National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters that the U.S. is aware of this case, but he said he couldn t say much about it right now. NBC News firs nike dunk high t reported that a soldier had been detained in Russia over the weekend. The U.S. has long been trying to secure the release of two other Americans who it considers to be wrongfull adidas originals y detained in Russia.Paul Whelan, a former Marine, has been imprisoned in Russia since 2018 after he was accused of spying, which the U.S. and his family have said are sham charges. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2020.Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was jailed in March 2023 on espionage charges, which the U.S., his family and employer all insist are baseless. He is awaiting trial.The State Department said in December that Russia rejected a significant proposal for their release. The U.S adidas yeezy . has warned Americans for months not to travel to Russia Skhz U.N. Bans Conflict Diamonds
Arab countries decided Wednesday to ask the U.N. General Assembly to adopt a resolution calling on Israel to halt threats to expel Yasser Arafat after the United States vetoed the resolution in the Security Council.Aft stanley tumbler er a closed-door meeting, Arab nations agreed to request an emergency special session of the General Assembly, with some diplomats expressing hope it could take place as early as Friday.Syria, the only Arab nation on the Security Council, had pressed for a resolution after Israel decided last week to remove Arafat in a manner and time to be decided. Israel blames Arafat for sabotaging the peace process and doing nothing to prevent terrorist attacks.When the Arab-backed resolution was put to a vote Tuesday, 11 of the 15 Security Council members approved it. Britain, Germany and Bulgar stanley cup ia abstained, but the United States exercised its veto, maintaining the resolution was lopsided because it didn t condemn terrorist groups blamed for suicide attacks against Israel.After a nearly two-hour meeting of Arab envoys on Wednesday, the Palestinian U.N. observer, Nasser Al-Kidwa, said the Arab Group would request a General Assembly vote on the resolution. There will be a slight adjustment of the draft that failed in the Security Council, he said, adding, We hope th stanley cup ere will be broad support. Arab and Islamic nations and the Non-Aligned Group of 116 mainly developing countries had pressed for a Security Council resolution, which is legally binding. General Assemb

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Washington mdash; Federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against senior Hamas leaders for the deaths of at least 43 American citizens in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, according to charging documentsunsealed Tuesday.Hamas-led militants killed more than 1,200 people on Oct. 7, and kidnapped about 250 individuals in Israel. In December, Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department was investigating the attacks. As of the date of this Complaint, at least 43 American citizens were among af1 those murdered, and at least 10 American citizens were taken hostage or remain unaccounted for, the criminal complaint filed Monday said.Prosecutors charged the six defendants for conduct leading up to and following the Oct. 7 attack, including terrorism, murder conspiracy and sanctions evasion. The defendants were identified as Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas; Ismail Haniyeh, the former chairman of Hamas s Politburo; Mohammad Al-M adidas og asri, the commander-in-chief of the al-Qassam Brigades; Marwan Issa, the deputy commander of the al-Qassam Brigades; Khaled Meshaal, the head of Hamas diaspora office; and Ali Baraka, Hamas head of National Relations Abroad.Haniyeh, Al-Masri and Issa are deceased, and the remaining three are at large. Yahya Sinwar, at left, the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, is seen in this 2017 file photo with senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniye yeezy h, who was killed in Tehran in July 2024. Majdi Fathi/N Dibp Worried about cracks in strong wall of opposition to Iran, U.S. hopes for easing of Saudi-led blockade of Qatar
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LONDON -- A military jet taking part in a British airshow crashed into a busy main road, killing seven people and injuring more than a dozen others, police said Saturday.The Hawker Hunter fighter jet, which was participating in the Shoreham Airshow near Brighton in southern England, hit several vehicles on a nearby road as it crashed Saturday afternoon. Witnesses told local TV that the jet appeared to have crashed when it failed to pull out of a loop maneuver.West Sussex Police said seven died nike dunk donna at the scene and one patient with life-threatening injuries was taken to the hospital. A further 14 people were treated for minor injuries.News video and photographs showed a fireball erupting near trees and huge plumes of thick black smoke rising. A witness, Stephen Jones, told the BBC that the pilot had just begun his display. He d gone up into a loop and as he was coming out of the loop I just thought, you re too low, you re too low, pull up. And he flew straight into the ground either on or very close to the A27, w adidas campus donna hich runs p nike dunks panda ast the airport, Jones said. The force said all the casualties were believed to have occurred on the road, and no one on the airfield was believed injured. It was not yet known whether the jet pilot was able to eject or not.The road was closed in both directions Saturday.Crashes at British airshows are rare, but in 2007 the pilot of a World War II Hurricane died at the Shoreham Airshow after performing an unplanned barrel-roll. Wdnc Summer Solstice At Stonehenge
BE stanley cupe IRUT - Syrian troops going house to house have detained more than 3,000 people in the past three days in the rebellious town of Rastan, which saw some of the worst fighting of the 6-month-old uprising recently, activists said Monday.Over the past week, the military fought hundreds of army defectors who sided with anti-regime protesters in Rastan. The fighting demonstrated the increasingly militarized nature of the uprising and heightened fears that Syria may be sliding toward civil war.The activist group Local Coordination Committees said fighting in the town has now stopped after the military operation that left dozens dead. The group and a Rastan-based activist confirmed about 3,000 in the town of 70,000 had been detained. The activist told The Associated Press by telephone that the detainees are being held at a cement factory, as well as some schools and the Sports Club, a massive, four-story compound. Ten of my relatives have been detained stanley cup , said the activist, who asked that he be identified only by his first name Hassan for fear of retaliation. He said he was speaking from hiding in Rastan.Syria s opposition movement has until now focused on peaceful demonstrations, although recently there have been reports of protesters taking up arms to defend thems stanley mug elves against military attacks. Army defectors have also been fighting government troops, particularly in Rastan, the town just north of Homs that government forces retook on Saturday.Security Council divided over Syria sa

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ISTANBUL -- Turkey s president addressed tens of thousands of people Saturday at a ceremony marking the first anniversary of the country s crushed military coup, vowing to rip the heads off of terror groups and of the coup-plotters who tried to end his more than a decade-long rule.Recep Tayyip Erdogan joined the large, flag-waving crowd who took part in a national unity march in Istanbul, converging at the iconic July 15 Martyrs Bridge to remember 250 people who died on July 15, 2016 trying to resist the coup. Accompanied by his family and the families of the deceased, he inaug crocs urated a hollow, globe-shaped monument featuring the names of the victims near the foot of the bridge. Exactly a year ago today, around this hour, a treacherous attempt took place, Erdogan said. People listen to the speech of Turkey s President Tayyip Erdogan during a ceremony marking the first anniversary of the attempted coup at the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, July 15, 2017. Reuters / Osman Orsal The July 15 coup attempt is not the first attack against our country, and it won t be the last, he said, referring to a series of terror attacks that also hit the country. For that reason, we ll first cut the heads off of thes mizuno laufschuhe e traitors. The bridge was the scene of clashes between civilians and soldiers in tanks. At least 30 people died there and more than 2, salomon hombre 000 were injured across Tu Enlf Toronto, plagued by scandal, elects new mayor
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DAVOS, Switzerland - In a char adidas campus herren moffensive to the global political andbusiness elite crocs absatz , Iranian President Hassan Rouhani set lofty ambitions for his country,including becoming one of the world s top 10 economies.The first Iranian leader in a decade to visit the WorldEconomic Forum, Rouhani took top billing Thursday at the World Economic Forum,drawing crowds to hear a speech in which he promised greater engagement withthe world.Touting the potential investment opportunities of theoil-rich land to the business tycoons in the audience, Rouhani said his countrycould, with the gradual easing of sanctions, enjoy an economic boom.And Tehran, he said, is committed to honoring a deal tocurb its nuclear program in the hope that will lead to a permanent lifting ofeconomic sanctions, which have battered the Iranian economy over recent years. I see the status of Iran pursuing policies ofmoderation, prudence and hope in the future global economy, said Rouhani. Iran s econom adidas original campus y has so far the potential to be among the world s top 10 inthe next three decades. For 2012, the International Monetary Fund judged Iran tobe the 21st biggest economy in the world in terms of annual economic income, ornominal gross domestic product. To get into the top 10 it would have toleapfrog the likes of Switzerland, Turkey and Spain.Rouhani s attendance was eagerly awaited as it coincidedwith the lifting of some of the sanctions, as well as the country s exclusionfrom Syrian peace talks being held just a few Kpsw Qaddafi nurse to flee Libya, return to Ukraine
U.S. warplanes and helicopter gunships firing heavy machine-guns, rockets and cannons hammered gunmen as a truce in besieged Fallujah was strained by increasingly i stanley cup ntense battles. With more troops killed, April became the deadliest month for American forces since they set foot in Iraq.Elsewhere, a 2,500-strong U.S. force massed on the outskirts of the Shiite holy Najaf for a showdown with a radical cleric, raising fears of a U.S. attack on the city that would outrage the nation s relatively pro-U.S. Shiite majority. An envoy for the cleric said Muqtada al-Sadr has asked him to convey a set of proposals to U.S. officials, according to CBS News Reporter Lisa Barron.With the announcement of the deaths of four more Marines, at least 87 troops have been reported killed in action in less than two weeks. Previously, November had seen the most deaths, 82. Roughly 680 U.S. troops have died in Iraq. Some 880 Iraqis have been killed this month. Among those are more stanley cup than 600 Iraqis mdash; mostly civilians mdash; killed in Fallujah, according to the city hospital s director.In other developments:A rocket hit the Sheraton Hotel in central Baghdad on Wednesday, where foreign contractors and journalists are staying, breaking glass but causing no casualties. A second rocket failed to fire and remained lying in the street outside.The security situation must improve considerably before Iraqi elections c stanley becher an be held, a United Nations envoy said. But Lakhdar Brahimi says he s confident

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ISLAMABAD A new set of players but the same lingering issues are c salomon zapatillas onfronting John Kerry on his first visit to Pakistan as U.S. secretary of state: the fight against extremism, American drone attacks inside the country and the war in Afghanistan.The Obama administration hasn t sent its top diplomat to Pakistan since 2011, and Kerry s trip is a chance for the former senator to get to know the newly elected prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, who came to power in Pakistan s first transition between civilian governments.Kerry arrived in Islamabad on Wednesday evening, and planned meetings Thursday with civilian and military leaders, including Sharif.Taliban overwhelms Pakistan prison guards, free 25 dangerous terroristsTaliban advises Malala to use your pen for Islam in open letterSenior administration officials traveling with Kerry told reporters that while relations with Pakistan have grown touchy in recent years, there is the prospect of resetting those ties with Sharif s government and working together on major issues - counterterrorism, energy, regional stability, economic reforms, trade and investment. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren t aut adidas campus horized to publicly discuss Kerry s agenda. nike sb dunk Leaked report sheds light on bin Laden s tactics, Pakistani intel failures 03:38 The U Wmug U.N. report finds children comprise nearly a third of trafficking victims
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A suicide vehicle bomb struck a checkpoint in a neighborhood housing United Nations and international aid groups offices in the southern city of Kandahar early Monday, killing four people and severely damaging a U.N. agency s building, Afghan officials said.Gunmen then rushed into the neighborhood and seized control of at least one building, sparking a battle with Afghan and NATO forces, Kandahar police chief Gen. Abdul Razzaq said. The firefight lasted more than two hours before the two insurgents were shot dead, according to a statement from the provincial governor s office.The combined bombing and assault was the second major attack in three days targeting foreigners or NATO troops in the country, and spotlighted the insurgents ability to continue to carry out major attacks despite a 10-year NATO campaign against them. The U.S.-led coalition is gradually handing over security responsibilities to its Afgha stanley cup n counterparts and plans to withdrawing its combat forces by the end of 2014.13 Americans die in Afghan suicide attackPentagon: Sec kubki stanley urity has improved in AfghanistanSpecial section: AfghanistanImmediately after the 6:15 a.m. bomb attack, two insurgents rushed into stanley cup the area and seized control of an animal clinic near the office of the International Relief and Development organization, said provincial police spokesman Ghorzang, who like many Afghans goes by one name. The blast caused extensive damage to the offices of the U.N. s refugee agency

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MORONI, Comoros -- Malaria kills more than half a million people every year, and in the Comoros, a tiny island nation off Africa s east coast, it s been a constant fear. In some villages here, 90 percent of people carried the disease.But a team of Chinese scientists, partnered with the Comoran government, s nike air force ay they ve wiped malaria off the islands with a new, Chinese-made drug given to everyone in the country in a massive, controversial medical experiment. More than 700,000 people were given three d dunks oses of Artequick -- a new combination of anti-malaria drugs which has not been approved for use in humans by any international health body. The scientists behind the project say malaria has been eliminated in the Comoros, and they re setting their sights much wider. The vision is to contribute to the elimination of malaria in the world, Pan Longhua, General Manager of Artequick s maker, Artepharm Co. Ltd., tells CBS News.Malaria: A persistent global killerSpecial coverage: Changing China U.S. and China find some rare common groundThe Chinese scientists say they were studying Artequick s side effects, toxicity and the feasibility of getting literally a whole cou crocs badelatschen ntry to take the medication all at once; the only way the experiment can work as designed. This is very new It is not only a test of a new drug, but a test of an entirely new method of fighting malaria; three administrations of a drug over the course of three months to a large, isolated population, with the goal of Cpbs Iran imposes sanctions on 15 American companies
Canada became the third country to legalize gay marriage Tuesday, as Parlia stanley thermosflasche ment passed landmark legislation allowing same-sex civil unions despite strong opposition from Conservatives and religious leaders.Although gay marriage is already legal in seven provinces, the bill now grants all same-sex couples in Canada the same legal rights as those in traditional union between a man and a wo stanley cup man.The Netherlands and Belgium are the only other nations that allow gay marriage nationwide.The legislation, drafted by Prime Minister Paul Martin s minority Liberal Party government, was expected to easily pass through the Liberal-dominated Senate and become federal law by the end of July. It was the last major piece of legislation before Parliam stanley cup ent recessed for summer and comes on the first anniversary of Martin s leadership.Some of Martin s Liberal lawmakers voted against the bill, and his Cabinet minister for economic development in Ontario, Joe Comuzzi, resigned Tuesday over the contentious legislation. But enough allies rallied to support the bill that has been debated for months. Martin said he regretted losing Comuzzi, but he hailed Tuesday s vote as a necessary step for human rights. We are a nation of minorities, Martin said. And in a nation of minorities, it is important that you don t cherry pick rights. A right is a right and that is what this vote tonight is all about. There are an estimated 34,000 gay and lesbian couples in Canada, according to government statistics.