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China threatened to take resolute countermeasures if the leader of the small, democratically governed island of Taiwan meets U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy next week during her transit visit through the United States. It was the latest warning from Beijing amid escalating tension between the U.S. and China over T adidas campus 80s aiwan, which some analysts consider the most dangerous standoff between global superpowers, even as the war in Ukraine rages.Here s what you need to know about where things stand, and how we got here:Why is there tension between Taiwan and China Taiwan is an island about 100 miles off the east coast of mainland China. It s only a little larger than Maryland, but while that U.S. state is home to about 6 million people, Taiwan h dunk pand as a population of around 24 million. Mainland China and territory controlled by the Chinese government is show in yellow, while territory claimed by, but not controlled by Beijing, including Taiwan, is depicted in brown on this map. Getty/iStock For decades leading up to the end of World War II, Taiwan was controlled by Japan. Then it became part of the Republic of China, a country ruled at the time by nationalists known as the Kuomintang.In 1949, after China s civil war, Mao Zedong and his communist forces took over the Chinese mainland and the Kuomintang movement, led by command air force 1 er Chiang Kai-shek, fled to Taiwan, where they set up Zity American ISIS bride who left for Syria now wants to come home
A car bomb exploded outside the U.S. Embassy in Lima, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens in an audacious late night attack just three days befo stanley cup re President Bush visits the Andean capital. U.S. officials said Thursday that Shining Path rebe stanley flask ls were suspected.Bush planned to go ahead with his visit to Lima, saying Thursday he would not be dissuaded by two-bit terrorists. Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo, promising to apply all the weight of the law, cut short a visit to a U.N. summit in Mexico to rush home after the blast.The Wednesday night explosion left the upscale street outside the embassy strewn with rubble, shattered glass and the bodies of the dead mdash; including at least two police officers and an 18-year-old man wearing roller skates. No Americans were among the at least nine people confirmed dead.There was no claim of responsibility. But some U.S. officials pointed to Shining Path, a rebel movement that killed thousands of people in a campaign of bombings, assassinations and massacres in the 1980s and 1990s. Many Peru stanley cup vians feared the bombing meant a resurgence of violence by Shining Path, which was largely crushed by the late 1990s.Bush said he would still go to Lima, where he is scheduled to arrive Saturday for a meeting with Toledo and leaders from Colombia, Bolivia and Ecuador. I m sure the president there did everything he can to make Lima safe for our trip, Bush said in the Oval Office. You know, two-bit terrorists aren t going t

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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A car bombing during a local security force operation and an insurgent ambush killed 10 people across Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday.The deadliest attack, the car bombing, struck Afghan soldiers during an operation targeting the hideout of suspected suicide bombers in the eastern province of Khost late Tuesday night, according to a statement from the provincial governor s office.Soldiers killed three suspected suicide bombers, including a woman, during the assa crocs badelatschen ult, the statement said. After the assault, a car bomb in the compound exploded, killing eight soldiers and wounding five, it said. The statement did not say why or how the bomb exploded.Khost province is one of Afghanistan s eastern provinces bordering Pakistan where suicide bombers and other militants, including the Haqqani network, are active.In Helmand province Tuesday night, gunmen ambushed and killed Nad Ali district chief Mohammad Anwar Khan and his dunk panda guard, said Omar Zwak, a spokesman for the provincial governor. Zwak said the attack also wounded six police officers. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the killings, bu adidas samba adidas t Taliban insurgents have stepped up their attacks against Afghan government officials across the country ahead of most foreign troops withdrawing at the end of the year.Nad Ali is one of the districts in Helmand in which Taliban have a strong presence and use as a base to launch attacks elsewhere in the province. Ddzk Ukraine war prompts new efforts by Europe and U.K. to find and freeze Russian oligarchs hidden money
TOKYO - Levels of radioactivity have risen sharply in seawater near a tsunami-crippled nuclear plant in northern Japan, signaling the possibility of new leaks at the facility, the government sai stanley cups d Saturday.The announcement came after a magnitude-5.9 earthquake jolted Japan on Saturday morning, hours after the country s nuclear safety agency ordered plant operators to beef up their quake preparedness systems to prevent a recurrence of the nuclear crisis.There were no reports of damage from the earthquake, and there was no kubki stanley risk of a tsunami similar to the one that struck the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant March 11 after a magnitude-9.0 earthquake, causing Japan s worst-ever nuclear plant disaster.Complete coverage: Disaster in JapanSince the tsunami knocked out the plant s cooling systems, workers have been spraying massive amounts of water on the overheated reactors. Some of that water, contaminated with radiation, leaked into the Pacific. Plant officials said they plugged that leak on April 5 and radiation levels in the sea dropped. But the government said Saturday that radioactivity in the seawater has risen again in recent days. The level of radioactive iodine-131 spiked to 6,50 stanley cup 0 times the legal limit, according to samples taken Friday, up from 1,100 times the limit in samples taken the day before. Levels of cesium-134 and cesium-137 rose nearly fourfold. The increased levels are still far below those recorded earlier this month before the initial leak was plugged.The new r

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KABUL, Afghanistan-- Armed militants inAfghanistan staged a coordinated assault on a key government security agency in the capital Tuesday morning, killing at least 28 people and wounding more than 320. The Taliban has claimed responsibility.The attack, including a suicide car bombing, appears to have targeted an agency similar to the U.S. Secret Service, providing personal protection for high-ranking government officials.Gen. Abdul Rahman Rahimi, the Kabul police chief, said that at least 28 people were killed in the attack, which began when a suicide car bomber struck near the agency compound s gates. After the explosion, armed gunmen stormed the compound and waged a prolonged battle with government security forces. Security officials confirmed that the battle has ended.Punishments issued for U.S. strike on Af adidas yeezyslide ghan hospitalAfghan boy who fought Taliban killed on chanclas yeezy way to schoolU.S. airstrike targets ISIS in AfghanistanIsmail Kawasi, spokesman for the Public Health Ministry, said so far 327 wounded, including women and children, have been brought to area hospitals. An Interior Ministry statement said that doz airforces ens of civilians were killed and wounded in the attack. The casualty figures are expected to rise. This was one of the most powerful explosions I have ever heard in my life, said Obaidullah Tarakhail, a police commander who was present when the attack began. Tarakhail said he couldn t see or hear anything for 20 minutes after the initial explosion. All around was dark and Lael Televised child MMA fights in Russia draw criticism
ISLAMABAD - Desperate to win hearts and minds in Pakistan, the U.S. has begun pushing aid organizations working in the country s most dangerous region along the Afghan border to advertise that they receive American assistance.The new requirement cups stanley has disturbed aid groups, which fear their workers providing food, water, shelter and other basic needs to Pakistanis will come under militant attack if they proclaim their U.S. connection. This fear exists throughout Pakistan but is especially acute in the tribal region, which is the main sanctuary for Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in the country.But U.S. officials in Pakistan are under increasing pressure from Washington to increase the visibility of the country s aid effort to counter rampant anti-American sentiment that can feed support for militants targeting the West.The focus on branding has become even more intense in the wake of the U.S. Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden in a Pakistani garrison town on May 2. The covert operation infuriated Pakistanis and strained the relationship so much that the U.S. decided to suspend $ stanley cup 800 million in military aid to Pakistan.The decision does not affect civilian aid and makes the effort to win hearts and minds through that assistance even more important. The U.S. has earmarked $7.5 stanley cup quencher billion in civilian aid for Pakistan over five years, but it will do little to sway public opinion if Pakistanis don t know where the money is coming from. And there are growing questions in Congress ab

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In joining with China Saturday to veto a United Nations resolution that would have supported kubki stanley a peaceful transition of power in Syria, Russia has decided to stand with a dictator rather than support the Syrian people, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said. Saturday s veto by Russia and China came just hours after Syrian s armed forces launched an attack on the city of Homs, which has been a flashpoint of dissent in the 10-month u stanley kubek prising against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Activists said 200 people were killed in the massacre. The Syrian government rejects the charge. According to the United Nations, more than 5,400 people have been killed since the uprising began last March. Syria: After U.N. vote fails, now what Russia, China veto UN resolution against SyriaAppearing Monday on CBS This Morning, Rice accused Moscow of protecting Assad somebody whose days are numbered instead of the Syrian people who are protesting peacefully for their basic universal rights. What happened on Saturday was really, as Secretary Clinton said, a travesty, Rice t stanley cup old Charlie Rose. The entire Security Council - 13 countries less China and Russia - were ready to pass a resolution that would have been quite important, in that it would have supported the Arab League plan and that plan entailed a democratic transition in which President Assad would have to delegate his authority and responsibility to his vice president to negotiate the terms of a trans

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BRAN, Romania - A Canadian brother and sister are passing Halloween night curled up in red velvet-lined coffins in the Transylvanian castle that inspired the Dracula legend, the first time in 70 years anyone has spent the night in the gothic fortress.The siblings from Ottawa bested 88,000 people who entered a competition hosted by Airbnb to get the chance to dine and sleep yeezy at the c adidas campus damen astle in Romania.Events manager Tami Varma and her brother Robin, a PhD student, are the grandchildren of Devendra P. Varma, a scholar of English gothic tales and an expert in vampire lore who visited the castle in 1971.They were asked in the competition: What would you say to Dracula if you met him and Tami Varma answered that their late grandfather was the worldrsquo leading expert in Gothic Literature, and was considered to be an expert in Dracula. ... We would do just about anything to stay as a guest with the original vampire who inspired him.Adding to the eerie atmosphere Monday, light snow fell on the 14th-century ca dunk pand stle where Vlad the Impaler, the prince who inspired Bram Stokerrsquo Dracula novel, is believed to have stayed. The pair arrived in a stagecoach drawn by two black horses as a buzzing drone filmed the event. The nerves are kicking in. Itrsquo becoming real, really fast, Tami, 31, exclaimed, climbing down from the stagecoach in a slinky red dress and boots.She told castle manager Alex Priscu she was overwhelmed. Thi Qwbx Iran leader Hassan Rouhani blasts U.S. for ldquo;rude and offensive rdquo; ongoing threat of military action
Protesters stoned buses and burned tires in Peru s capital Wednesday in the first national strike against President Alberto Fujimori since he took power nearly a decade ago. Soldiers with automatic weapons guarded public buildings and armored troop carriers patrolled streets. Police fired tear gas at protesters burning tires in downtown Lima near the headquarters of the populist Aprista Party of former President Alan Garcia. The government ordered 20,000 policemen into the streets to protect workers who defied the strike call. For the first time since he took office nearly a decade ago, Fujimori faced a powerful national strike organized by leftist-led unions and supported by a broad range of groups, including opposition parties and even business organizations. The strike has been respected by 70 percent of the workers at the nat stanley cups ional level, said Jose Risco, leader of Peru s largest labor organization, the Gene stanley cupe ral Confederation of Peruvian Workers. Fujimori labeled the strike o stanley uk rganizers as communists and Labor Minister Pedro Flores declared the strike illegal. Only those who have full wallets have the luxury of not working, Flores said, warning workers that their pay would be discounted if they did not show up for their jobs. Orange-uniformed street cleaner Zenobia Solorzano, a 45-year-old widow with three small children, was one of the workers who showed up because she could not afford to lose a day s pay of $4.50 or worse her job. I work for

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An Afghan official says an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS suicide bomber has killed 20 people in northern Afghanistan, including a Taliban commander. Abdul Qayuom Baqizoi, provincial chief police of northern Sar-i-Pul province, said the attack Tuesday took place as village elders met with Taliban officials in the area.In northern Afghanistan, Taliban and the ISIS faction in the country have been waging bit yeezy 350 ter battles in recent days. As many as 100 insurgents from both the Taliban and ISIS have perished in recent battles, said Baqizoi.Provincial council chief Mohammed Noor Rahman said the explosion occurred in a mosque as a funeral was taking place. Reports from regional journalists also spoke of a bombing in neighboring Jawzjan province targeting Taliban elders.The area is remote and it was impossible to reconcile the differing accounts. nike air max Pompeo touts Trump administration strategy in Afghanistan 02:47 yeezy slide Last month an ISIS suicide bomber blew himself up in eastern Afghanistan as mostly Taliban fighters gathered to celebrate a three-daycease-firewith Afghan government forces marking the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr. That blast killed at least 25 people, according to local officials. The two Islamic extremist groups have been at each others throats in Afghanistan for several years, batt Iynf Arrests In 1985 Air India Bombing
VATICAN CITY An Italian man gave up his protest atop the St. Peter s Basilica on Wednesday evening, after more than 24 hours perched on the 426-foot-high dome to demonstrate against government reforms.Two firefighters helped pull Marcello De Finizio inside the basilica a full day after he had eluded Vatican security to scale the dome and unfurl a banner reading: Help! Enough Monti! 151; referring to President Mario Monti, the architect of Italy s economic reforms.De Finizio was taken directly to the Rome police station, but told The Associated Press by cellphone that it was a ` formality and he did not expect to face any charges.It was the second time in three months that De Finizio had scaled the dome. His previous protest at St. stanley cups uk Peter s in July lasted only four hours, he said, and nothing came of it.He also spent three nights on stanley quencher a 70-meter-tall 230-foot metal structure in Trieste earlier this year, and said a judge cleared him of charges of causing an alarm. De Finizio said he did not suffer any particular discomfort during the latest protest, which he ended after stanley quencher Tourism Minister Piero Gnudi agreed to meet with a delegation of beach concession owners to discuss new rules governing the sector.U.S. hopes buoy markets despite Spain uncertaintiesIssue brief: Global financeEurozone unemployment stuck at record 11.4 percentAt issue are government reforms that will force an open bidding process for existing establishments and limit the length of the licenses.The gov

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Spain has a population of 46 million people and 6,315 confirmed cases of coronavirus. Now, the country is going on lockdown.The Spanish government said Saturday that they are implementing restrictions on movements throughout the country as air force 1 part of a two-week state of emergency, according to The Associated Press. All restaurants, bars, hotels, schools and other non-essential businesses are now closed. People will only be allowed outside of their homes for essential activities, such as purchasing food and medicine, going to work, visiting medical centers and banks, or traveling to help take care of those who are young or elderly. From now we enter into a new phase, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Saacute;nchez said in a television address to the country. We won t hesitate in doing what we must to beat the virus. We are putting health first. Saacute;nchez also said that all police are now under the orders of the Interior Minister and that the country will deploy armed forces if deemed necessary. As of Saturday, the country has 6,315cases of coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University. At least 191 people have died from COVID-19 in Spain, and at least 517 people have recovered from the virus. According to AP, Spain health authorities said that half of the cases are in Madrid, the nike dunk count yeezy foam ry s capital.Since the first case was confirmed in Spain on January 31, an average of 146 people a day have been infected with the virus. Saacute;nchez said the number of infections may soo Qoga Nepal s King Stripped Of Veto Power
Updated 10:47 PM ETNEW DELHI Indian police have charged six men with murder, addin stanley website g to accusations that they beat and gang-raped a woman on a New Delhi bus two weeks ago in a case that shocked the country.The murder charges were laid Saturday, hours after the woman died in a Singapore hospital, where she had been flown for treatment.New Delhi police spokesman Rajan Bhagat said the six face the death penalty if convicted, in a case that has triggered protests across India for greater protection for women from sexual violence, and raised questions about lax attitudes by police toward sexual crimes.The tragedy has forced India to confront the reality that sexually assaulted women are often blamed for the crime, forcing them to keep quiet and discouraging them from reporting it to authorities for fear of exposing their families to ridicule. Police often refuse to accept complaints from those who are courageous enough to report the rapes, and the rare prosecutions that reach courts drag on for years.Indian gang rape victim dies in hospital Police in India clamp down on protests over gang rapeIndian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he was aware of the emotions the attack has stirred, adding it was up to all Indians to ensure t stanley becher hat the young woman s death will not have been in vain. The victim passed away peacefully early Saturday at Mount Eli stanley quencher zabeth hospital in Singapore with her family and officials of the Indian Embassy by her side, Dr. Kevin Loh, the chief executive of

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama and Jordanian King Abdullah II vowed not to let up in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS Tuesday, as Jordanians mourned the death of yeezy slide a military pilot held captive by the militants.Obama hosted Abdullah at the White House for a hastily arranged meeting, hours after a video emerged online purportedly showing 26-year-old Lt. Muath Al-Kaseasbeh burned to death by the militant group. ISIS video shows Jordanian p air max 1 ilot being burned to death 02:30 Abdullah, who was on a previously scheduled trip to Washington, arrived after nightfall and made no remarks to reporters as he and Obama sat side by side in the Oval Office.In the meeting, Obama offered his deepest condolences to the king over the pilot s death, the White House said. The president and King Abdullah reaffirmed that the vile murder of this brave Jordanian will only serve to steel the international community s resolve to destroy ISIL, said White House spokesman Alistair Baskey, using another acronym for the extremist group. Al-Kaseasbeh, who fell into the hands of the militants in December when his Jordani yeezy an F-16 crashed in Syria, is the only pilot from the U.S.-led coalition to have been captured to date.His death sparked outrage in Jordan, where the country s participation in Ovna Cleric Agrees To Give Up Shrine
Serious street clashes erupted between rioting youths and police in central Athens Thursday as tens of thousands demonstrated during a nationwide strike against the cash-strapped government s austerity measures.Hundreds of maske stanley cup d and hooded youths punched and kicked motorcycle stanley website police, knocking several off their bikes, as riot police responded with volleys of tear gas and stun grenades.The violence spread after the end of the march to a nearby square, where police faced off with stone-throwing anarchists and suffocating clouds of tear gas sent patrons scurrying from open-air cafes.Police say 16 suspected rioters were detained and two officers were injured.Rioters used sledge hammers to smash the glass fronts of more than a dozen shops, banks, jewelers and a cinema. Youths also set fire to rubbish bins and a car, smashed bus stops, and chopped blocks off marble balustrades and building facades to use as projectiles. Organizers said some 60,000 people took part in the protest. But an unofficial police estimate set the crowd at around 20,000 - including those that took part in a separate, peaceful march earlier Thursday. Police do not issue official crowd estimates for demonstrations.Thursday s strike - the second in a week - brought the country to a virtual standstill, grounding all flig stanley kubek hts and bringing public transport to a halt. State hospitals were left with emergency staff only and all news broadcasts were suspended as workers walked off the job for 24 hours to protes

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WASHINGTON -- President Obama said Tuesday that the U.S. would do everything possible to help Nigeria find nearly 300 teenage girls missing since they were kidnapped from school three weeks ago by an Islamic extremist group that has threatened to sell them. Mr. Obama said the immediate priority was finding the girls, but that in the longer term, the Boko Haram group must also be dealt with. dunks shoes Obama: U.S. has been monitoring Boko Haram 00:50 Speaking to CBS News Tuesday, Mr. Obama said the U.S. was sending in a team of our military, law enforcement and other experts and we re really glad that Nigeria has accepted the help. CBS News correspondent Margaret Brenna adidas originals samba n said Secretary of State John Kerry first told Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday that the U.S. would send in the team, which would include hostage negotiators and intelligence experts, to help in the search. We remain deeply concerned about the welfare of these young girls, and we want to provide whatever assistance is possible in order to help for their safe return to their families, said Kerry.The technical experts heading to Nigeria will include U.S. military and law enforcement personnel skilled in intelligence, investigations, hostage negotiating, information sharing and victim assistance, as well as officials with e adidas originals x Tfez 12-year-old girl dies from coronavirus in Belgium: An emotionally difficult moment
A Kenyan court ha stanley tumbler s convicted and sentenced seven Somalis of piracy to five years in jail, a defense lawyer said Tuesday.A court in the Kenyan port town of Mombasa found the Somalis guilty of attacking a German naval supply ship in the Gulf of Aden on March 29 last year, said Jared Magolo, their lawyer. He said his clients plan to appeal the verdict made Monday. Even thoug stanley mugs h we believe that the verdict was not very heavy, but the conviction was not proper, said Magolo.T stanley termoska he European Union anti-piracy task force said it welcomes the court s decision.The judgment marks an important step in the cooperation between EU and Kenya in the repression of acts of piracy and armed robbery off the coast of Somalia, said Maj. Gen. Buster Howes, the force s operation commander. Riding in a single skiff, the seven pirates opened fire on the FGS Spessart, a German Navy tanker, mistaking it for a commercial vessel. They were repelled by ship s security and later captured by the German frigate FGS Rheinland-Pfalz. The pirates were handed over to Kenyan authorities in April last year.Before Monday, Kenyan courts had convicted 28 Somalis of piracy since 2006, when the first piracy case was concluded in the East African nation.Somalia has been mired in anarchy and chaos since 1991, and the lawlessness has allowed piracy to thrive off its Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden coastlines. Somali pirates are able to make multimillion dollar ransoms from their hijackings.

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Tokyomdash; Usain Bolt would not recognize what went down on the Olympic track he used to own.On the night of the 100-meter gold medal race that once belonged to the Jamaican superstar, a Texas-born Italian with dunk pand a deeper history in long jumping than outdoor sprints won the race that has long defined Olympic royalty.At the Tokyo Olympics, Marcell Jacobs is The World s Fastest Man.The Italian crossed the line in 9.8 seconds Sunday night, the first medal ever for the country in the 100 meters. Pietro Mennea won the 200 in 1980 and Livio Berruti won that race at the 1960 Games in Rome.Even in a race with no clear favorites mdash; American Ronnie Baker was a candidate and China s Su Bingtain ran a shocking 9.83 in the semis mdash; Jacobs was a surprise. Jacobs topped America s Fred Kerley and Canada s Andre DeGrasse to take the spot Bolt had commandeered since 2008. Lamont Marcell J air max plus acobs of Italy celebrates after winning the men s 100-meter final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on August 1, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. MICHAEL STEELE / Getty Images I really don t know anything about him, Kerley said of the new gold medalist. He did a fantastic job. Jacobs victory came only moments after his countryman, Gianmarco Tamberi, tied Qatari high jumper Mutaz Essa Barshim for gold in the high jump.Tamb adidas campus 80s eri, writhing on the ground, kicking his feet up in jubilation after his craz Xvjj U.S. Rebuilding Money Finally Heads to Haiti
Masked gunmen ambushed a bus carrying election workers in stanley cups southern Iraq on Monday, killing two of them including an official known for resisting interference by Shiite religious extremists, authoriti stanley us es said.Also Monday, a suicide car bomber blasted a police checkpoint in the western city of Ramadi, killing seven policemen, an official said.The two incidents in widely separated parts of the country illustrate the dangers still facing Iraq despite a sharp decline in violence over the past year.The attack on the bus occurred when gunmen opened fire as their car passed it in the Abu al-Khasib area south of Basra, police and election officials said. A third election employee was wounded.The dead included the head of a local government committee preparing for provincial elections, Maath Wahab, and his deputy, Jassim Mohammed, according to Hazim al-Rubaie, director of Basra electoral committee. No group claimed responsibility and no arrests have been made. But local officials said Wahab was known for resisting interference in the electoral process by Shiite religious extremists.The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they feared for their own safety.Provincial elections are expected late this year and will likely redistribute power among Iraq s political and ethnic groups. No date has been stanley becher set because legislation has been stalled in the national parliament, but preparations have begun nationwide.Control of polling places would enable parties to manipulate the re