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They re disinf adidas yeezyslide ecting classrooms in South Korea, keeping a safe distance apart in France, practicing their hand washing in Denmark and having their temperatures checked in Belgium. For children heading back to school around the globe, the coronavirus pandemic means lots of new rules. We can t give hugs anymore, lamented 10-year-old Clara in France. It won t be the same, but at least it can help stop the virus. So far, CBS News correspondent Holly Williams reports the reopening of schools in 22 European countries has not brought any major spikes in infections, though there have been a few hiccups, and some have only been open for a couple weeks.At one school in Belgium, they ve replaced the school bell with the theme tune from Star Wars - an attempt to inject some fun at a stressful time for s mizuno laufschuhe tudents, teachers and parents alike.For many parents, there s still worry, even if coupled with relief. dunks Pandemic underscores Africa s digital divide as schools move online 03:40 More than 1.5 billion students have had their schooling interrupted by the COVID-19 crisis, according to the United Nations. While some have the resources to learn at home, many others are missing out entirely on weeks or even months of education. Danish elementary schools were the first to reopen in Europe, last month, but so Pics Israel Says Turkey Snubbed Its Ambassador
Yasser Arafat s Fatah movement on Monday supported the Cabinet proposed by incoming Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, boosting the team s chances of winning the parliamentary approval required for release of a new peace plan.If the Cabinet is approved Tuesday, the Palestinians will have cleared the last hurdle toward the unveiling o stanley cup f the internationally sponsored plan. The so-called road map envisions full Palestinian statehood within three years.President Bush has linked presentation of the plan to Abbas being installed as prime minister.At the same time, Israel is hardening its position, repo gourde stanley rts CBS New stanley cupe s Correspondent Robert Berger.Two hawkish factions have warned Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that they ll quit the Israeli government if he implements the so-called roadmap. Those parties oppose the plan s demand for a freeze on Jewish settlement activity. As a result, Sharon has decided that Israel will not make concessions until Abbas disarms militant groups. It s highly unlikely that ll happen, so the roadmap s first crisis is just ahead. In West Bank fighting Monday, Israeli troops captured two Palestinians responsible for a suicide bombing in Israel last week and, in a separate incident, killed a 17-year-old gunman while raiding a refugee camp.Meanwhile, Palestinians are complaining that Israeli soldiers have written numbers in ink on the hands of hundreds of Palestinians waiting at a crowded West Bank military checkpoint.Several of the Palestinians with t

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It s official: When Meghan Markle married into the royal family on Saturday, so did her rescue beagle, Guy. And the pup s story -- truly a tail of rags to riches -- is one for the ages.At 3 years old, Guy was found wandering alone in the woods and taken to a high-kill shelter in Kentucky. When no one came to claim him, it appeared he might soon be put down. That s when A Dog s Dream Rescue -- a nonprofit organization that specializes in rescuing beagles in Kentucky an yeezy d Ohio -- swooped in to save him and ushered the little guy off to an adoption event at an Ontario pet store. The very next weekend, he captured the heart of Suits actress Meghan Markle. Well it s official!!! Spring of 2018 will mark the date that one of our rescued Beagles will become part of the ROYAL...Posted by A Dog s Dream Rescue onTuesday, November 28, 2017 From that fateful day in 2015 when she brought him home to the day the palace made her take down her Instagram, Guy made frequent and adorable appearances on the star s social media accounts.The pair -- along with Markle s other rescue dog, a shepherd mix named Bogart -- were pictured cozying up on Markle s couch and gazing lovingly at each other outside on a summer day. The future Duchess of Sussex even posted an air max 1 Instagram of the two spooning in her yeezy bed. Meghan Markle and her beloved rescue beagle, Guy Instagram via Meghan Markle Flash for Vmkw German anti-Islam group defiant in face of threats
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India s national television on Saturday broadcast images of corpses pried from the wreckage of a train collision, hoping victims families would recognize bodies left unclaimed after one of the nation s worst rail accidents.Scores of bodies in wooden coffins were loaded into open trucks and taken for identification or mass cremation. Authorities cleared away the last of the wreckage from the two-train collision and declared a final death toll of 208.Two days after the accident in the northwestern town of Khan stanley flask na, about 80 bodies remained unidentified and unclaimed. Photographers videotaped the corpses and belongings for showing on national television, i stanley cup n hopes that relatives would step forward.Police said they stanley cup quencher would hold the bodies in a mortuary in nearby Patiala for a few days, then any remaining corpses would be cremated together.In pre-dawn mist Thursday, the Calcutta-bound Sealdah Express collided with cars that had uncoupled from the Frontier Mail and toppled into the path of the oncoming train on a parallel track. Train cars crumpled on top of one another, pinning dead and injured under tons of sheared metal. It took more than 24 hours to move giant cranes through the surrounding wheat fields to untangle the cars.The national railway began an investigation into what caused the last four cars of the Frontier Mail to de-couple and separate from the rest of the train.The Pioneer newspaper said Saturday, citing preliminary findings of the Railway Board, that a crack i

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Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said Tuesday she had received a new death threat but will start campaigning in Pakistani cities in the next couple days, avoiding mass rallies.Five days after the suicide bombing that killed at least 136 at her homecoming procession in Karachi, Bhutto said her lawyer received a letter from an unidentified friend of al Qaeda threatening to slaughter her like a goat. Bhutto said the letter was addressed to her lawyer, Farooq Naik, and had been left for him at the Supreme Court in Islamabad. She said Naik was alerting the chief justice of the thr stanley cups uk eat. There are elements who want who to kill us, Bhutto said at her heavily guarded residence in this southern city. They are petrified that the Pakistan People s Party will return to power and that democracy will return. They are trying to derail the democratic process because they know if the people are employed and educated the forces of extremism and terrorism will be weakened, she said. The authenticity of the letter could not be confirmed. Bhutto said the writer claimed to be the head of the suicide bombers and a friend of stanley canada al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. Bhutto returned Thursday from eight years in exile to campaign for parliamentary elections due in January, after months of talks with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf that could see them working side-by-side in the next government.She said that after discussions, her party had decided she should avoid staging mass rallies because o

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MEXICO CITY - The common-law wife of drug lord Joaquin El Chapo Guzman says his health problems have gotten a lot worse because guards at a maximum-security prison rouse him for head counts, interfering with his sleep.Emma Coronel nike air max is the mother of Guzman s twin daughters. She told the Radio Formula station that Guzman is having problems with nervousness and anxiety, because he isn t sleeping at the Altiplano prison west of Mexico City. El Chapo 12:56 Authorities have been waking Guzman every few hours for head counts. He embarrassed authorities by escaping the prison in July 2015 and was recaptured in January.Coronel said she thought authorities were trying to kill Guzman.Coronel q hoka wanderschuh uoted Guzman as saying he wasn t allowed to exercise in open air, but doesn t care and only adidas samba adidas wants to be allowed to sleep. The Mexican prison officials in charge of preventing Guzman from escaping incarceration for a third time aretaking extreme measures, according to a report in the El Universal newspaper.Having made his most recent escape via a tunnel dug directly into his cell at the maximum-security Antiplano prison last year, Guzman is now being moved around the facility on a regular basis. According to El Universal, he was in seven different cells over the course of his first five nights back at Antiplano. Xdkg Was the killing of Osama bin Laden legal
Two suspected Taliban suicide bombers died Thursday when explosives they were strapping to their bodies exploded prematurely in southern Afghanistan, officials said.The blast follows a string of suic stanley cup ide attacks and comes days after a top rebel commander claimed that more than 200 insurgents were willing to kill themselves in assaults on U.S. forces and their allies.Militants also used a roadside bomb to wound two U.S. troops driving in a desert in southern Helmand province Thursday, a military statement said. A purported Taliban spokesman, Qari Mohammed Yousaf, claimed responsibility.The attack came a day after a U.S. soldier was killed and two others wounded in another roadside bombing in mountains in eastern Afghanistan.This year has been the deadliest in Afghanistan since U.S.-led forces ousted th stanley cups e Taliban in 2001 for harboring Osama bin Laden. The fighting has killed more than 1,500 people as militants belonging to the Taliban, al Qaeda and other groups have stepped up attacks. The explosion that killed the two sus stanley mug pected suicide bombers took place at a market place in Waish, 75 miles east of the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, said Abdul Hakim Hungar, deputy police chief of Kandahar province. No one else was hurt.Hungar said the militants were suspected of planning to attack government forces, and the owner of the shop they were in at the time of the blast was arrested. He said the two appeared to be Afghans.Taliban rebels are active along the Afghan-Pakistan borde

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Lawmakers are divided crocs absatz over the U.S. airstrike in Baghdadthat killed Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran s elite Quds military force and one of the most powerful figures in the Islamic Republic. The strike, which drew a warning adidas originals of crushing revenge from Iran and condemnation from Iraq s government, has raised concerns about potential retaliatory attacks from Iran and encroachment by the president on Congress power to declare war.President Trump did not brief all congressional leaders before the airstrike and had not made any direct remarks, except on Twitter by Friday morning. The major military action came as a surprise to many lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner, of Virginia, learned of the strike from the Associated Press wires, according to an aide.Warner told CBS News that he was deeply disappointed that the administration didn t notify the Gang of Eight bipartisan group of Senate leaders beforehand. The Gang of Eight, which includes Warner, is briefed on classified matters by the White House and executive branch.A senior administration official directly involved in congressional outreach adidas originals regarding the strike told CBS News the Gang of Eight briefing mdash; which includes Democratic and Republican leaders and the top Democrats and Republicans on the intelligence committees mdash; will only happen when all the members are assembled in person next week.Warner doesn t dispute that Soleimani Xsng Al-Shabab extremists behead 9 civilians in Kenya
ATHENS, Greece - Warning of a catastrophe that would leave Greeks subsisting on food stamps and the country wallowing in bankruptcy, Greek leaders urged lawmakers Saturday to pass more painful spending cuts on the eve of a crucial vote to qualify for a massive bailout.In a televised address Saturd stanley mugs ay, Prime Minister Lucas Papademos defended the thousands of job cuts, drop in the minimum wage and other austerity measures that would earn the country a euro130 billion $171.6 billion bailout deal and stave off bankruptcy. The deal will ensure our country s future inside the euro. ... A bankruptcy would lead to uncontrollable economic chaos and social explosion, Papademos said. He added that a bankruptcy would lead to Greeks lo stanley us sing their savings; the state being unable to pay salaries and pensions; and shortages in import items such as medicines, fuel and machinery.He and the leaders of parties backing Greece s coalition government -- socialist George Papandreou and conservative Antonis Samaras -- as well as Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos, a socialist -- used stark images of a country under bankruptcy to convince the public and, more importantly, persuade Parliament members debating the measures to vote for the deal.Greek premier: Default would lead to chaos Greeks rail against cuts as EU demands moreHarsh Greek austerity measures OK d by cre stanley france ditors If we do not dare today, we will live a catastrophe, Papandreou said during a parliamentary debate session. What d

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Kyiv, Ukrainemdash; Ukrainian d adidas campus rones struck a large military depot in a town deep inside Russia overnight, causing a huge blaze and prompting the evacuation of some local residents, a Ukrainian official and Russian news reports said Wednesday. The strike came after a senior U.S. diplomat said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy s recently announced but still confidential plan to win the war can work and help end the conflict that s now in its third year. Ukraine claimed the strike destroyed military warehouses in Toropets, a town in Russia s Tver region about 240 miles northwest of Moscow and 300 miles from the border with Ukraine. The attack was carried out by Ukraine s Security Service, along with Ukraine s Intelligence and Special Operations Forces, a Kyiv security official told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the operation. According to the official, the depot housed Iskander and Tochka-U missiles, as well as glide bombs and artillery shells. He said the facility caught fire in the strike and was burning across an area 4 miles wide. Flames rise from an explo mizuno volleyballschuhe sion amid a Ukrainian drone attack on Toropets, in Russia s Tver region, in a screengrab obtained from a social media video posted on Sept. 18, 2024. Social Media/REUTERS Russian state news agency RIA Novo salomon xt 6 sti quoted regional authorities as saying air defense systems were Kvrn Thailand bus and truck collide, leaving at least 19 dead in fiery crash
The Defense Department underestimated its enemy in the Iraq war, failing to predict how resilient Saddam Hussein and his government would be stanley cup usa , the Pentagon s No. 2 civilian said Tuesday.In a rare admission of prewar miscalculations, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz also said it s impossible to say how long a large American military force will have to stay in Iraq after political power is handed to Iraqis on June 30.Wolfowitz spoke at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, the latest called by lawmakers worried about the Bush administration s handling of the war and reconstruction so far and about its plans for the future.Answering a question about miscalculations made to da stanley cup website te in the year-old campaign, Wolfowitz said: I would say of all the things that were underestimated, the one that almost no one that I know of predicted ... was to properly estimate the resilience of the regime that had abused this country for 35 years. In other developments:A memorial was held for stanley france Izzadine Saleem, head of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council who was killed by a suicide bomber Monday. The killing was a major setback to American efforts to stabilize Iraq before the June 30 handover of sovereignty, but L. Paul Bremer, The U.S. governor of Iraq said Tuesday the transfer to Iraqis must go ahead as scheduled despite the killing. U.S. troops killed nine fighters loyal to cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the holy city of Karbala Tuesday, said Mutaz al-Hasani, a witness who saw their b

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LONDON - After all of the flamboyant characters and very public backstabbing in the race to become Britain s next prime minister, the winner turned out to be an understated workhorse who maintained a low profile throughout the campaign.Home Secretary Theresa May, 59, is not well-known internationally, but she has served for six years in one of Britain s toughest jobs, playing an important role in counter-terro yeezy rism policy, and will now take charge of delicate negotiations to separate Britain from the European Union.May will be the first female leader of Britain since Margaret Thatcher, the famously resolute politician - adidas campus - nicknamed The Iron Lady -- who was the leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990, and prime minister from 1979 to 1990, the longest reign of the 20th Century in that post. Britain faces adidas samba og Brexit backlash 04:44 May as a candidate was less visible -- and less talked about as a likely future prime minister -- than Treasury Chief George Osborne and former London Mayor Boris Johnson, but she proved to be the stealth candidate, outmaneuvering both in the intense competition to follow David Cameron after his resignation at 10 Downing Street.In the end, the conservatives were attempting to choose between May and Andrea Leadsom. Leadsom withdrew after a weekend uproar over commen Zsvl Katie Ledecky makes history with first-ever 1,500-meter gold
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