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A Christie s salomon speedcross auction house staff member displays for the media a giant diamond nicknamed The Rock , in Dubai on March 25, 2022, ahead of an auction where, Christie s says, it s expected to attract to $30 million. KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images A giant diamond nicknamed The Rock went on display for the first time in Dubai on Friday ahead of an auction where it s expected to fetch up to $30 million. The 228.31-carat pear-shaped gem, which was mined and polished in South Africa more than 20 years ago, is the largest white diamond ever to come to auction, said auction house Christie s. After making its debut at Christie s Dubai, where it will be display dunk panda ed from March 26-29, The Rock wil air max 98 l travel to Taipei, New York and Geneva, where it will be auctioned on May 11. The Middle East has always had such a great appreciation for important jewels and gemstones, Rahul Kadakia, international head of jewelry at Christie s, observed to AFP. We thought it would be nice for us to launch the diamond in an area where there are so many great collectors for important gems of this nature. A Christie s auction house staff member holds for the media a giant diamond nicknamed The Rock , in Dubai on March 25, 2022, ahead of an auction where it s expected to lure up to $30 million. KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images Dfmi Mideast Peace Talks Round Concludes with No Deal
The son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi admitted in an interview with Al-Jazeera TV that the Bulgarian medics jailed on charges of infecting children with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, were tortured during captivity, the pan-Arab network said on its Web site Thursday.The five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor were released last month and have maintained that their confessions were extracted through torture. Yes, they the medics were tortured by electricity and they were threatened that their family members would be targeted. But a lot of what the Palestinian doctor has claimed are merely lies, Seif al-Islam Gadhafi was quoted as saying in the Al-Jazeera interview, initially broadcast Wednesday.Dr. Ashraf al-Hazouz, an Egyptian-born Palestinian, told Dutch television last month that Libyan authorities drugged him, shocked him by attaching electrodes to his feet and genitals, and set dogs on him. He also said they tied his arms and legs to a bar and spun him repe stanley becher atedly, like a chicken on a rotisserie.L stanley tumbler ibyan authorities refused to comment Thursday on al-Islam s interview. stanley quencher Al-Hazouz and the nurses were accused in 1999 of deliberately infecting more than 400 Libyan children with HIV; 50 of the children died. The medical workers were sentenced to death based on their confessions, but were released into Bulgarian custody last month after the sentences were commuted to life imprisonment. They were immediately granted a presidential pardon in Bulgaria and freed

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ERCIS, Turkey - Rain and snow on Thu stanley cup rsday compounded difficulties for thousands rendered homeless in the powerful earthquake that hit eastern Turkey, and the government said the death toll has gone up to 534.The prime minister s center for crisis and emergency management said 2,300 people were injured and 185 were rescued from the rubble.Meanwhile, a moderate earthquake, measuring 5.4 according to Turkey s Kandilli seismology center, hit the neighbor stanley termosy ing province of Hakkari on Thursday, sending people rushing out of buildings in fear and panic. No damage was reported but NTV television said some people were slightly injured while trying to escape through windows.That temblor was centered 90 miles south of the epicenter of Sunday s devastating quake.Turkish authorities delivered more tents after acknowledging initial problems in the distribution of aid for survivors of the 7.2-magnitude quake that shattered at least 2,200 buildings on Sunday. Man loses mother, wife, 4 kids in Turkey quakeTurkish rescue stanley cup rs pull 3 more from quake rubbleAftershock sparks Turkish prison riot2-week-old baby rescued amid Turkey rubbleForeign assistance also began arriving after Turkey said it would accept help to house survivors through the winter. Israel, which has a troubled political relationship with Turkey, sent emergency housing units, blankets and clothing. Germany also dispatched supplies, including tent heating units. Britain said it was dispatching 1,000 tents to shelter some 5,500 pe

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Sharm al Sheikh, Egypt Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in the Egyptian resort of Sharm al-Sheikh on Friday to attend a summit meant to shore up in adidas campus vestment in the economically troubled Arab nation. The visit to the Sinai town is a rare public show of support for Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al Sisi, whose relationship with the Obama administration has been rocky since he came to power in a 2013 military coup and cracked down on political opponents. Yet the administration now wants to encourage al Sisi to continue to take meaningful steps to jumpstart the economy, which it hopes will help polit adidas originals ically and financially stabilize Egypt.By appearing at the Egyptian summit, the administration hopes that Kerry will help encourage reluctant investors to open up their pocket books. Unemployment is high in this country of nearly 90 million Egyptians, many of whom rely on government subsidies. The al Sisi government recently cut some of the agriculture-related subsidies, changed the tax code and made other re mizuno handballschuh forms in an effort to strengthen state finances. That will require what one U.S. diplomat referred to as a significant influx of private capital. Kerry s visit to an American Chamber of Commerce event in Sharm al Sheikh attracted executives from Coca-cola, petroleum company BP, and tourism industry leaders.Why Europe should worry about ISIS in Libya Egyptian leader calls for UN coalition in Libya The perception of political instability in Egypt undermi Wcsb 8203;British designer Thomas Heatherwick s brand of provocation
The Bush administration underscored its newly positive stance on Syria Monday with praise for Syria s closing its border with Iraq and stopping Iraqi diplomats from boarding flights to Damascus.With Secretary of State Colin Powell planning to go to Syria in early May bearing an offer to get involved in Mideast peace talks, the administration s line on a country it recently accused of sponsoring terrorism and aiding Saddam Hussein continued to change.President Bush on Sunday said there were positive signs that Syria would expel all Iraqi leaders seeking refuge there. I believe it when they say they want to cooperate with us, Bush said.On Monday, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said there had been some progress on closing the border to everything but humanitarian shipments and getting them to take seriously our concerns about individuals who have ended up in Syria. And, Boucher said, Syria had refused to permit Iraqi diplomats to board Syria s airline o stanley becher r other fights bound for Damascus.However, the spokesman also said all Iraqis given haven in Syria had not been identified and that the United States with the cooperation of other nations was trying to make sur stanley cup e the border is closed.He also said there had been no agreement yet for Syria to return Iraqis wanted for prosecution. This is an issue that we ll continue to take up with the stanley cupe Syrian government. Our embassy has been very active in this regard, he said.And, Boucher said, that, after years of monito

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TANNA ISLAND, Vanuatu -- Th air force 1 ousands of people left homeless by a fierce cyclone remained stuck in s asics gel helters across Vanuatu on Friday, waiting for relief and longing for a return to normalcy as the death toll from the disaster rose by two to 13.Australian and French troops arrived on the South Pacific nation s hard-hit island of Tanna, where shaken residents were waiting for help after their villages were flattened by Cyclone Pam s 168-mile-per-hour winds last Saturday. The aftermath of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu 01:17 The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, citing figures from Vanuatu s National Disaster Management Office, upgraded the number of confirmed deaths to 13 from 11. Among the dead were seven people from Tafea Province, which includes Tanna, and six from Shefa Province, which includes the main island of Efate.Still, given the immense power of the storm, the relatively low death toll is a testament to the residents experience in dealing with cyclones. In many villages, people found shelter in special structures built with sturdy walls that can withstand heavy winds.Vanuatu s government authorized the distribution of emergency food and water supplies to affected areas, and was working on a complete damage assessment report before beginning a wider distribution of rel nike dunk high ief ite Gwng 3 U.S., 1 French Dead in Afghanistan
AP OSLO, Norway - After testifying for five days, Anders Behring Breivik listened silently Tuesday as others described the mayhem caused by his bombing of Oslo s government district, a scene one witness described as a war zone. Forensic experts explai stanley cup ned the massive injuries to four of the eight vict stanley flask ims stanley termoska killed by the 950-kg 2,100-pound fertilizer bomb on July 22. Breivik admits to the bombing and a subsequent shooting massacre at a Labor Party youth camp that left 69 people dead, most of them teenagers. More than 100 body parts were found in the government district, said Ole Morten Stoerseth, a police official tasked with identifying the blast victims.Relatives of those killed sobbed and embraced during the autopsy presentations. Pictures of the victims injuries were not shown in court but distributed to the judges, prosecutors and defense lawyers as well as the psychiatrists who are examining Breivik during the trial.Breivik claims racist plot to cast him as insaneBreivik describes hunting down panicked teensBreivik claims the attacks were necessary and that the victims had betrayed Norway by embracing immigration. As he has for most of the trial, now in its seventh day, the far-right fanatic remained mostly expressionless during the hearing Tuesday. But he smiled when a security guard, who was inside the government high-rise when the bomb exploded, called Breivik s motive for the attacks totally absurd. Describing the confusion that followed the blast, po

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Women s rights groups in South Africa expressed outrage Thursday and criticized police for perceived failures after charges were dropped against 14 men accused of gang raping and robbing female members of a film crew at an abandoned mine in Krugersdorp, west of Johannesburg.State prosecutors said there was insufficient evidence against the men to proceed with the case.The men, believed to be illegal miners, were arrested during a police raid at the mine after at least eight women were attacked and raped while they were filming a music video in July.Reports of the rapes sparked violent protests in townships around Krugersdorp as community members accused the small-sca nike air force le miners working in the abandoned mine shafts of committing the crimes.Lisa Vetten, director of Tshwaranang, which campaigns to end violence against women, and who has spoken to some of the victims, told the BBC that the dropped charges will add to existing cynicism against police and courts in their handl adidas campus ing of sexual violence cases. Having this sort of thing happen can be a massive setback in believing or trying to believe that you can be safe again, she told the BBC. ActionSA members pr nike dunk otest outside Krugersdorp Magistrate s Court on August 03, 2022 in Krugersdorp, South Africa. This comes after eight women who were filming a video at an unused mine dump in West Village were allegedly raped and robbed. Fani Mahuntsi/Gallo Images via Eahq Army Sgt. La David T. Johnson fought to end after ambush in Niger, wasn t caught or executed: Military report
German gay and lesbian couples exchanged rings, cut cakes and sipped champagne on Wednesday as a new law came into force allowing official registration of same-sex partnerships despite fierce conservative opposition.Angelika Baldow and Gudrun Pannier, both 36, were the first couple to exchange vows at the town hall in Berlin s Schoeneberg district, long a center for Germany s lesbian and gay community. I feel great. This is v stanley cups uk ery symbolic 151; a message that Berlin is a tolerant city, Gudrun Pannier said af stanley us ter the ceremony. It is the fulfillment of a dream, but it is just the beginning. We haven t got equal rights yet. Wearing matching tailcoats and white bow ties, the couple kissed as district registrar Gisela Assmann formally sealed their new status as Frau and Frau Pannier. Cameras flashed as the two cut a three-tier chocolate cake topped with two marzipan brides and a rainbow flag of the gay pride movement. I am delighted. We don t need to hide anymore. We are no longer seen as sick or criminal, said Martin Beer, a rector and long-time friend of the happy couple w stanley cup ho met six years ago. Berlin s reputation for tolerance goes back to the 1920s when meeting places and clubs for gay men and women flourished alongside the city s racy cabarets.That way of life was brutally suppressed after Adolf Hitler s rise to power in 1933. Gays were persecuted and sent to concentration camps.Gay life rebounded in Berlin after the war, although male homosexuality was not decriminal

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BRUSSELS - About 100 cars and trucks wereinvolved in three pile-ups at a highway in western Belgium in a dense morningfog Tuesday, leaving at least one dead and 54 injured.Medical workers were working to freeinjured passengers from the twisted metal of their vehicles hours after thecrash, and the fog is making the emergency rescue by helicopter impo air force 1 ssible.The provincial governor, Carl Decaluwe,said one person had died, and that among the 54 injured, five were inlife-threatening condition, 11 suffered serious injured while 38 walked awaywith minor injuries.But Dirk Cardoen, mayor of Zonnebeke,where the crashes happened, said two had died.The highway linking the regionalindustrial hub of Kortrijk to nearby Ieper was strewn with debris in threelocations close to one another. Initial photos from the scene showseveral wrecked cars, yeezy slide some overturned and a truck slammed against the side ofthe road - all shrouded in thick fog. air max 1 A truck with feed had overturned in aditch, slumping next to several cars crumpled together like paper balls.With temperatures hovering close tofreezing, thermal blankets were handed out to people who were still caught intheir cars.In 1996, a similar pile-up nearby hadleft 10 people dead. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-8cf0b06c-195b-4093-9a28-90a73212dd0a, right-rail-recirc-item--id-8cf0b06c-195b-4093-9a28-90a732 Qinx Russia: Syrian plane carrying legal radar parts
U.S. Army National Guardsmen scan the U.S.-Mexico border on June 22, 2011 in Nogales, Arizona. John Moore/Getty Images MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- The story splattered across Mexican newspapers looked painfully familiar --a government official was found guilty of betraying the trust of the public and moonlighting for the drug cartels that have torn this country apart.But the official who was on Wednesday sentenced to 17 years in prison had not worked for the Mexican government like so many other policemen, pen-pushers or politicians who have taken narco money.Luis Enrique Ra stanley quencher mirez was an agent for the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol or CBP.A judge in Brownsville, Texas, handed Ramirez the sentence after he pleaded guilty to waving dozens of cars laden with cocaine over the bridge from Mexico into stanley uk the United States over three years.In total, Ramirez is alleged to have collected $500,000 in narco bribes for his handiwork. The conviction is part of a U.S. government drive to clean up the CBP amid allegations that hundreds of agents could have been tempted by the glitter of gangster gold.The revelations have caused strains on both sides of the border amid a drug cartel war that has claimed 40,000 lives here since 2006.A U.S. Senate subcommittee held a special hearing on the issu stanley cup e last month, in which it was reported that gangs such as Los Zetas are becoming increasingly involved in system

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Terrorists have changed their management style, and it s making them harder to fight, a top European intelligence official told CBS News. Decisions once left to a top-down hierarchy are now made by the collective swarm, a shift he said has been fueled by social media.What happens when western fighters return from SyriaIn an interview with CBS News, Rob Bertholee, the head of Dutch Intelligence said that up until recent years, jihadi groups operated through vertical communication. yeezy Rob Bertholee heads the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service CBS News adidas campus 00s The leader spoke to his followers and then they would all do what he said, Bertholee told CBS N adidas samba adidas ews Correspondent Clarissa Ward. Now, he said, social media and the internet have driven the rise of horizontal communication in these groups. So what we see now is what you could call a group dynamics, swarming, or the idea of swarming, where many individuals, without a visible leader, actually lead themselves and decide on themselves which way they go, Bertholee said. You know they all fly in a swarm, there s no leader there. There s nobody who says yeah we have a map and we have to go this way. But amazingly they all go the same way. That is what we see. The prevalence of social media among jihadist militants has worried Western observers for years. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria paired a brutal Ebuy Blair In The Hot Seat
Britain s Queen Elizabeth II will address the United Nations General Assembly in New York this summer, the first time she has done so in more than 50 years, Buckingham Palace announced Friday.The monarch will make her speech on July 6, following a royal tou stanley fr r of Canada, the palace said.Elizabeth last addressed the General Assembly in 1957, when she highlighted the U.N. s importance and expressed her wish that it would carry out the ideals set out in its founding charter.The palace didn t say what the topic of the queen s new U.N. speech would be. She will address the global organization as head of state of the U.K. and 15 other U.N. member states, including Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. The queen will be accompanied on the trip by her husband, Prince Philip. stanley mug ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-9906a4f4-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-9906a4f4-8c stanley cupe 88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-9906a4f4-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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Stargazers in Africa, Asia and parts of the Middle East looked to the skies Sunday to witness a partial solar eclipse. It was known as a ring of fire because the moon covered most, but not all, of the sun. It occurred during the daytime hours Sunday in areas that saw the spectacle, lasting from 11:45 p.m. EDT Saturday and until 5:34 a.m. EDT Sunday. Millions from Dubai to Taiwan to Japan to India watched the solar spectacle. A solar eclipse is seen over Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Su adidas samba nday, June 21, 2020. Jon Gambrell / AP In Dubai, people could see over 85% of the sun covered by the moon, with photographers taking stunning photos of the eclipse over the Burj Khalifa building.It was a sight that will not be possible in the country for another 14 years nike dunk , according to Chief Executive Officer of Dubai Astronomy Group Hasan al-Hariri. A figure on a roof eave of the historic Bell Tower is silhouetted by the sun during a partial solar eclipse in Beijing, Sunday, June 21, 2020. Mark Schiefelbein / AP Al-Hariri said while the coronavirus asics sneaker pandemic had halted their plans for a gathering to see the rare phenomena, the group has turned to the internet to help people observe the partial eclipse, providing a live feed of the moon as it passes between the earth and the sun. Sdhy China s Greenhouse Gases
Rene Preval took a strong lead Thursday in Haiti s presidential election, with most of the first votes counted going stanley quencher to the former president who is seen as a champion of the poor.Preval, t stanley cup he former protege of deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, won 61.5 percent of 282,327 votes counted, Haiti s electoral council said. It refused to say what percentage of the total votes cast these figures represented. According to the United Nations, a majority of Haiti s 3.5 million eligible voters cast ballots.The council said of the next two highest vote getters, Leslie Manigat had 13.4 percent and Charles Henri Baker had 6.1 percent.There was no immediate reaction from the candidates, and the streets of Port-au-Prince were quiet after the results were announced.Vote counting was to resume on Friday, but election authorities said it might be Saturday until enough ballots are counted to draw conclusions about the race. Manigat, however, said early returns tallied by his party kubki stanley members showed Preval might win a majority of votes that would give him outright victory.If the winning candidate lacks a majority of votes, he and the second-place finisher would go against each other in a March runoff. There is a tiny chance that we will have a second round, but I fear Preval has made a clean sweep of the votes, Manigat said.Standing on the porch of his family home in Marmelade, a rural northern town, Preval said he was marking time and catching up on sleep until official results are ou

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Indonesian rescuers and firefighters on Saturday searched for more than a dozen missing under the rubble of charred houses and buildings, after a large fire spread from a fuel storage depot in the capital and killed at least 18 people.The Plumpang fuel storage station, operated by state-run oil and gas company Pertamina, is near a densely populated area in the Tanah Merah neighborhood in North Jakarta. It supplies 25% of Indonesia s fuel needs.At least 260 firefighters and adidas originals samba 52 fire engines extinguished the blaze just before midnight on Friday after it tore through the neighborhood for more than two hours, fire adidas samba adidas officials said.Footage showed hundreds of people running in panic as thick plumes of black smoke and orange flames filled the sky. Residents walk though the rubble at a neighborhood affected by a fuel depot fire in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, March 4, 2023. A large fire broke out at the fuel storage depot in Indonesia s capital Friday, killing multiple people, injuring dozens of others and forcing the evacuation of thousands of nearby residents after spreading to their neighborhood, officials air force 1 said. Tatan Syuflana / AP A preliminary investigation showed the fire broke out when a pipeline ruptured during heavy rain, possibly triggered by a lightning strike, said Eko Kristiawan, Pertamina s area manager for the western part of Java. Residents living near the d Wtfy Chechens: We Pulled Moscow s Plug
Military engineers used a controlled explosion Friday to safely destroy a giant, rusting World War II-era bomb that was discovered during construction for the 2012 Summer Olympics, the British army said.The 2,000-pound German bomb, which the Metropolitan Police said was the largest fo stanley mugs und in London in three decades, was uncovered Monday in east London as construction workers prepared a site for the games, authorities said.If the b stanley cup omb had exploded, it would have created a large crater and sent fragments flying more than a half mile, said Maj. Matt Davies of the army s Royal Engineers. His team destroyed the bomb.Service on two nearby subway lines was suspended Friday as a precaution while the bomb was being defused before the controlled explosion.Davies said the bomb disposal officer who disabled the device had worked under a high level of stress. We re all very well trained but on something like this, where it s rusting, you can t always identify what you ve got, there are so many variables, Davies said.Nazi planes dropped thousands of bombs on east London during World War II and unexploded devices are found from time to time, particularl stanley france y at construction sites.An unexploded 2,000-pound bomb is very rare in Britain, although weapons as heavy as 4,000 pounds were dropped, according to Zetica, a consulting firm that analyzed risks in the Olympic area for the London Development Agency.Government statistics indicate most unexploded bombs found between October 1940 and May

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A scathing report from the State Department reveals the poor treatment of dogs sent from the U.S. to Jordan to aid in bomb detection.The report includes photos of malnourished Explosive Detection Canines EDCs , whose bones are protruding through thin skin and fur. Several of these dogs have died.Officials launched an investigation after receiving a complaint on the Office of the Inspector General OIG hotline. CVC discovered this underweight canine in Jordan in April 2018. OIG These allegations also included reports that dogs were dying due to various medical conditions, lack of veterinary care, and poor working conditions, according to the repo crocs winterstiefel rt. As a result, OIG initiated this evaluation to determine mizuno laufschuhe whether the Department effectively managed the health and welfare of dogs in the Explosive Detection Canine Program EDCP . The EDCs are trained in the U.S. and sent abroad as part of a counterte nike dunk high rrorism assistance program. According to the report, the complaint alleged that the State Department provided the dogs without proper follow-up to ensure their well-being.The State Department s antiterrorism assistance program has provided EDCs to foreign countries to enhance the ability of their law enforcement to deter and counter terrorism, the report states. While the Department used to run the program along with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, it has rece Soqx As hope for avalanche survivors fades, tragedy strikes again
In an Easter message pinned to church bulletin boards around the country, Zimbabwe s Roman Catholic bishops called on President Robert Mugabe to leave office or face open revolt from those suffering under his government.The letter, titled God Hears the Cries of the Oppressed, was the most critical pastoral message since Zimbabwe won independence from Britain in 1980 and Mugabe assumed leadership of the country stanley becher for the first time.Once prosperous, the country is reeling under hyperinflation of more than 1,700 percent, 80 percent unemployment, shortages of food and stanley cup usa other basic goods and one of the world s lowest life expectancies. As the suffering population becomes more insistent, generating more and more pressure through boycotts, strikes, demonstrations and uprisings, the state responds with ever harsher oppression through arrests, detentions, banning orders, beatings and torture, the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference said in a pastoral message pinned up at churches throughout the country.The majority stanley us of Zimbabwe s Christians mdash; including Mugabe mdash; are Roman Catholics. Several thousand worshippers who packed the cathedral in Harare clustered around the bulletin boards to read the message after morning Mass on Sunday. Many people in Zimbabwe are angry, and their anger is now erupting into open revolt in one township after another, the nine bishops wrote. In order to avoid further bloodshed and avert a mass uprising, the nation needs a new people-driv