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Three Kuwaitis have been arrested for planning terrorist attacks on U.S. forces in Kuwait, the country s Interior Ministry said Monday.A government statement said the three men were found with weapons and ammunition.The statement did not say when the men were arrested or if they have been charged.The Interior Ministry statement identified the three detainees as Ahmed Mu stanley termoska tlaq al-Mutairi, 29, Abdullah Mutlaq al-Mutairi, 32, Musaed Horan al-Enezi, 28.It said the men were suspected of planning terrorist attacks on American forces based in Kuwait ahead of a possible U.S.-led attack on neighboring Iraq. No further details were provided.Ameri stanley cup cans have come under attack several times in recent months, as the U.S. military began preparing to use Kuwait as a staging ground for a possible invasion of Iraq.On Oct. 8, two Kuwaiti Muslim fundamentalists opened fire on Marines taking a break from war games on the island of Failaka, killing one and injuring another. Other Marines shot dead the assailants, who reportedly had links to the al Qaeda terror network blamed for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. A policeman later described as mentally unstable also shot at two U.S. soldiers in their civilian car on a highway on Nov. 21. A Kuwaiti civil servant confessed to opening fire on two Americans in Kuwait, killing one and wounding the other, on Jan. 21.Kuwaiti officials have described the attacks as isolated incidents, distancing themselves from any deeper al

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Updated at 2:15 p.m. ETMOSCOW - Firefighters extinguished a massive fire aboard a docked Russian nuclear submarine Friday as some crew members remained inside, officials said, giving assurances that there was no radiation leak and the vessel s nuclear-tipped missiles were not on board.Military prosecutors have launched an investigation into whether safety regulations were breached. President Dmitry Medvedev summoned top Cabinet officials to report on the situation and demanded punishment for anyone found responsible.The fire broke out Thursday at an Arctic shipyard outside the northwestern Russian city of Murmansk where the submarine Yekaterinburg was in dry-dock. The blaze, which shot orange flames high into the air through the night, was put out Friday afternoon and firefighters continued to spray the vessel with water to cool it down, Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu said.Russian state television earlier showed the rubber-coated hull of the submarine still smoldering, with firefighters gathering around it and some stand stanley becher ing on top to douse it with water. Most modern submarines outer hulls are covered with rubber to make them less noisy and more difficult for an enemy to detect. stanley becher Seven members of the submarine crew were hospitalized after inhaling poisonous carbon monoxide fumes from the fire, Shoigu said.An unspecified number of crew remained ins stanley cup ide the submarine during the fire, Defense Ministry spokesman Col. Igor Konashenkov said in a statement. He insi

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American tourists arriving in Brazil must still be photographed and fingerprinted, but those who enter through Rio de Janeiro are getting flowers, jewelry and T-shirts along with the red tape. This is our way of saying that Rio de Janeiro loves American tourists, no matter what, said Fuad Atala, spokesman for the Rio de Janeiro tourism board. It works, said Eric Tillman, a jazz pianist from New York, who arrived in Rio for vacation Tuesday. It s very nice. On Monday, Justice Minister Thomaz Bastos issued an executive order extending the country s policy of photographing and fingerprinting arriving Americans for another 30 days.The practice began on New Year s Day, with Brazilian officials saying stanley flask it was reciprocity for a similar U.S. program aimed at preventing terrorism. The federal order did not sit wel stanley cup l with Rio, a city that thrives on tourism. Brazil received 660,000 American tourists in 2003 and 60 percent of them arrived in Rio, said Robert Dutra, vice president of the Brazilian Incoming Tour Operators Association. We decided to give American tourists an especially friendly reception as a way to help counteract effects of this new type of bureaucracy, Dutra said.On Tuesday, a reception committee of six women greeted Americans as they emerged into the main concourse of Rio s Tom Jobim International Airport. Each tourist received a red rose, a charm bracelet penda stanley quencher nt and a T-shirt saying Rio Loves You. Roger Christensen, a nurse from Los Angeles, said the rece

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One of the most iconic defenders of the Amazon rainforest, indigenous chief Paulinho Paiakan, died after contracting the new coronavirus, activists said Wednesday. His death comes as Brazil is on pace to pass the United States in COVI adidas samba D-19 deaths this summer.Paiakan, who rose to fame leading the fight against the Belo Monte hydroelectric project in the 1980s, died Tuesday at a hospital in the city of Redencao, in northern Brazil, said Gert-Peter Bruch, founder of environmental group Planet Amazon. Indigenous leader Paulinho Paiakan of Kayapo tribe, takes hoka schuhe part a protest against Brazil s president Michel Temer for the violation of indigenous people s rights, in Brasilia, Brazil April 24, 2017. Picture taken April 24, 2017. Ueslei Marcelino / REUTERS He worked all his life to build worldwide alliances around indigenous peoples to save the Amazon, Bruch told AFP. He was far ahead of his time. We ve lost an extremely valuable guide. The Brazilian Indigenous Peoples Association APIB called Paiakan a father, leader and warrior af1 for indigenous peoples and the environment.Paiakan, who was around 65, was a chief of the Kayapo people. He gained international recognition leading the fight against the environmental destruction set to be caused by Belo Monte, a sprawling complex of dams in the Brazilian Amazon.He forged alliances with other indigenous groups, internationa Txny Fourth Day Of Violence For Uzbeks
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CANBERRA, Australia -- A self-styled preacher who wanted to claim his wife s life insurance was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison for persuading her to kill herself in what a judge described as an Australian-first conviction. Graham Morant, 69, was convicted by a Queensland state Supreme Court Jury in October on charges of counselling and aiding his wife Jennifer Morant to suicide at their Gold Coast city home in 2014.BBC News reports the 56-year-old woman was found dead near a petrol generator in her car in November 2014. A note nearby read: Please don t resuscitate me. Australian who encouraged wife s suicide jailed in landmark case https://t.co/XQr1QFGLlZmdash; BBC News UK @BBCNews November 2, 2018 While nike dunk high people have been convicted before of helping someone to suicide, usually in mercy killings, Justice Peter Davi adidas originals s said no one had been convicted in Australia before of persuading someone who would not otherwise have taken his or her own life to suicide.Each conviction carried a potential life prison sentence.The judge sentenced Morant to a total of 10 years in prison on both convictions and ordered him to samba shoes serve five years before he is eligible for parole. Jennifer Morant was suffering from chronic back pain and depression when she took her life.Davis rejected the husband s claim that he had acted through compassion for his wife, finding the motivation was to collect 1.4 million Australian dollars $1 million from three life insurance policies. Pro Ixak Russia Frees U.S. Pastor Jailed For Ammo
President Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao agreed to cooperate more closely on trade and nuclear tensions over Iran and North Korea but failed to break new ground Thursday toward resolving a host of differences. Their meeting was marred by a protest.No breakthroughs had been expected during Hu s first visit to the White House as the president of China. And both he and Mr. Bush acknowledged at a picture-taking session that much work remained to be done and that the two sides would strive for progress in these areas.A welcoming ceremony for Hu on the South Lawn was interrupted by the screams of a woman critical of the Chinese president.CBS News chief White House correspondent Jim Axelrod reports the woman was a protester with the Falun Gong move stanley cup ment, a group that says it is persecuted in China for its religious beliefs. She yelled at President Bush, Stop hi stanley cup m from killing. Stop him from persecuting the Falun Gong. The woman was standing on a bleacher for cameras and reporters. I stanley flask t is unclear how she got up there. She screamed for approximately two minutes before Secret Service officers removed her. She was later identified as Dr. Wang Wenyi, a pathologist based in New York. She received a press credential through a Falun Gong newspaper, a spokesman for the paper said, and had been expected to act as a reporter, not a protester. The Secret Service charged Wang with disorderly conduct. A Secret Service official tells CBS News the U.S. Attorney is weighing a further cha

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PARIS -- The widow of a bodyguard killed at the offices of Charlie Hebdo wants an investigation into what she says were lax security measures at the French satirical newspaper before it was attacked a year ago.Ingrid Brinsolaro said on RTL radio Tuesday that her husband saw dysfunctions and a lack of security in the off air force 1 ice targeted and it was impossible to do his job correctly. Charlie Hebdo releases defiant cover after Paris terror attacks 00:25 asics gel Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said he was open to the idea of an investigation, but also defended the government s efforts to ensure security and fight Islamic extremism.Both spoke as France marked a year since Islamic extremists targeted Charlie Hebdo and a kosher market Jan. 7-9, killing 17 people. French President Francois Hollande was to unveil plaques later Tuesday to honor the victims of the attacks. In a special edition laced with blasphemy, obscenity and profanity, Charlie Hebdo s surviving artists and writers declared that the satirical newspaper is al adidas campus 80s ive, but the murderer is still at large. APAQ leader behind Charlie Hebdo attack killed by U.S. drone strike 03:53 Rupv Kerry: Iran could be days away from complying with nuke deal
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