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A 69-year-old man drifted in choppy waters for nearly a day while clinging to the bottom of his capsized boat until he was saved by Japan s coast guard, officials said Wednesday. The man, whose name has not been released, was the only one on the boat, the No. 5 Takamaru, when it capsized off the southern Japanese resor adidas campus 80s t island of Yakushima on Saturday, the coast guard said.After receiving a call from his colleagues, coast guard rescuers searched for him for nearly a day before spotting him in rough seas about 18 miles southeast of the place he disappeared, it said.Televised video of the rescue, provided by the coast guard, showed the man, who had a plastic sheet wrapped around him, sitting on the bottom of his capsized boat while cli adidas originals forum nging to its propeller. We are coming! Hold on tight! a team of rescuers called to the man as they approached the boat. An image capture from video shows a man being rescued by Japan s coast guard after he drifted in choppy waters for nearly a day. Japan coast guard via Reuters The man was able to talk and was taken to a hospital after the rescuers brought him back to port. He suffered a minor injury to his left ankle, the Reuters news agency reported. It was unclear what the man was doing at the time of the incident and what caused the boat to capsize.Els air force one ewhere, the coast guard said it received a distress signal on Wednesday saying o Sqzx Photos show reclusive tribe on Peru beach searching for food: A humanitarian disaster in the making
Dandong, China China s patience with North Korea is wear stanley cup ing thin, and a widely-expected nuclear test by the latter could bring that frustration to a head.Beijing signaled its growing unhappiness by agreeing to tightened U.N. sanctions after North Korea launched a rocket in December, surprising China watchers with its unusually tough line, which prompted harsh criticism from Pyongy stanley tumbler ang.And while China isn t expected to abandon its communist neighbor, it appears to be reassessing ties a year after new North Korean leader Kim Jong Un took office. The question is for how long China, itself under new leader Xi Jinping, will continue to back North Korea s n stanley cup ettlesome policies.Space race in Asia heating upIn propaganda video, N. Korea bombs the U.SNorth Korean nuclear test seems imminent Perhaps Kim Jong Un thinks Xi Jinping will indulge him. Perhaps he s in for a surprise, said Richard Bush, Director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C.China is feeling spurned by Kim. Although China welcomed his ascension after his father died in December 2011 and maintained flows of aid and investment, Kim has ignored China s interests in a stable neighborhood with his two rocket launches and nuclear test plan. North Korea announced last month it would conduct a test to protest the toughened U.N. sanctions. At the start, China gave him a warm welcome and, I think, some aid. But we got no gratitude. They take us for granted, said Jin C

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AMSTERDAM adidas campus homme - Investigators nike dunks panda using sniffer dogs recovered more human remains and personal belongings at the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 wreckage site in eastern Ukraine on Saturday, the head of an international recovery mission said.Speaking from the Ukrainian capital Kiev, Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg said 70 Dutch and Australian investigators were able to reach the site for the second consecutive day, despite clashes between pro-Russia separatist rebels and Ukrainian forces nearby. Conflict in Ukraine 06:01 The fighting between separatist rebels and the Ukraine government in eastern Ukraine killed at least nine civilians on Sunday alone, Reuters reports. Diplomatic efforts to end the conflict, in which in the United Nations says more than 1,100 people have been killed, have stalled.Flight 17 was shot down above the village of Hrabove July 17 with what the West says was a Russian-made missile fired by the rebels, killing all 298 passengers and crew, most of them Dutch.Aalbersberg did not give details of the remains recovered. His team is searchi adidas og ng for decomposing remains of approximately 80 victims spread over an area of 8 square miles - a process expected to take weeks. He thanked the warring sides for allowing the mission to proceed, after being delayed most of the week by fighting. This is of g Qgmp 3 defendants die in escape attempt at Russia courthouse
At least 24 people drowned and 11 others were missing after a boat capsized on the Ganges river in northern India early Monday, police said.The crowded vessel was carrying 60-70 people traveling to a temple for a religious function, according to local police of stanley thermos ficial Shi stanley cup vendra Yadav.Passengers on the boat, which was meant to carry about 30 passengers, were mostly women and children from Ujveria village in Uttar Pradesh state, who were going to visit a temple across the river, Yadav said. As the boat entered the midstream it failed to take the weight of the people and collapsed, Yadav said.Twenty-five people managed to swim to safety. Yadav said rescuers had recovered 24 bodies by late Monday afternoon and were still working in the area. stanley cup The rescuers were searching for at least 11 others, Yadav said. Ten of the survivors were still being monitored at a local hospital, he said.The incident took place in Ballia, 250 miles southeast of Lucknow, the state capital of Uttar Pradesh.Boat tragedies are common in the impoverished state. Vessels used to ferry passengers are generally rickety and overcrowded and people seldom use life jackets. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-992bcd10-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-992bcd10-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-992b

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MOSCOW -- At the U.N. Thursday, Russia s ambassador pushed back hard against allegations that Moscow poisoned a former spy and his daughter in the U.K. He said British officials are playing with fire and will be sorry. This comes afte adidas campus donna r Russian state television said it has a new recording of one of the victims.Even for state television, it was a remarkable coup:Yulia Skripal had recovered enough from being poisoned to call her cousin. Everything is fine, Yulia is alleged to have said. The unverified call was presented to a studio audience in Moscow. She also said that her father, Sergei Skripal, who is still in critical condition in a U.K. hospital, was sleeping. Military personnel in protective suits remove a police car and other vehicles from a public car park as they investigate the poisoning of Sergei Skripal on March 11, 2018 in Salisbury, England. Getty Russia state television has been in overdrive ever since Britain accused the Kremlin of poisoning the Skripals using novichok, a Russian nerve agent. One popula yeezy slide r TV host said that blaming Russia dunk homme was like saying if someone s hit in the head with an iPad, you should blame the U.S., since it s an American invention. Which is totally absurd, said Mikael Fishman, the former editor of The Moscow Times. This is how the Russian nation sets its political agenda and sees the world through the Kremlin s eyes. It s still Jhcr Brits Warm To Charles And Camilla
The Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot quoted Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Friday as calling recent peace moves with the Palestinians fantasies and saying Israel would not withdraw from the West Bank for at least five more years.The comments were attributed to Barak in private conversations. If accurate, it s a surprising comment because Barak was once one of Israel s top moderate dove politicians, reports CBS News correspondent Robert Berger. As prime minister seven years ago h stanley us e offered the late Yasser Arafat a Palestinian state. Arafat rejected the deal, and Barak believes the current Palestinian leadership cannot deliver on peace, reports Berger.Ronen Moshe, a spokesman for Barak, called the report baseless, saying Yediot s report made Barak s views seem far more extreme than they were. The defense minister remains committed to the diplomatic process, although his first commitment is to the security of Israel s citizens, Moshe said.The Yediot report quoted Barak as saying, Israelis have healthy intuition. They can t be fed more fantasies about an u stanley water bottle pcoming agreement with the Pal stanley polska estinians. Israel won t be able to pull out of the West Bank before it develops a technological response to rockets fired by Palestinian militants and more advanced missiles from Iran mdash; a process that will take between three and five years, Barak said, according to the report.Palestinian militants regularly launch rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip. But if fired from the West B

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CARACAS,Venezuela -- Seventeen people were killed at a crowded nightclub in Venezuela s capital Saturday after a tear gas device exploded during a brawl and triggered a desperate stampede among hundreds gathered for a graduation celebration, government officials said. Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said the incident at the Los Cotorros club in the middle-class neighborhood of El Paraiso left eight minors dead and five injured. Seven people have been detained, including the individual believed to have set off the tear gas canister. The establishment has been ordered closed, and we are investigating in coordination with the public ministry, which i af1 s directing the criminal investigation, he said.Outside the club, several mismatched shoes, including a sandal with a puckered red lip decoration, lay on the sidewalk. All I know is my son is dead, Nilson Guerra, 43, told local journal adidas original campus ists. More than 500 people were believed to be inside the club when the fight broke out. Photos share adidas campus 00s d online from previous celebrations at the club show a dark interior with wooden tables and a stage upfront where DJs shuffled songs.Outside, a faded sign on the red brick building read, We ve opened! Metal bars covered the doors and windows.Jesus Armas, an opposition councilman who lives in the neighborhood, said the Interior Ministry should explain how a civilian was able to obtain tear gas canisters that should only be utilized by state security forces. He also urged authorities to invest Gqnk Karzai s Brother Reportedly on CIA Payroll
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Italian police have discovered the mummified remains of a 70-year-old woman sitting at a table more than two years after she died, prompting calls for better elder care in the country. Marinella Beretta, who had no living relatives, was found in her house in Prestino, near Lake Como in northern Italy.Police stumbled upon her remains when they made a house call during high winds in Lombardy, which risked uprooting neglected trees in her garden.She had not been seen by neighbors for at least two and a half years, according to Italian media reports. The southern shore of Italy s Lake Como. Di Girolamo Tommaso/AGF/Universal Images Group/Getty What happened to Marinella Beretta in Como, the forgotten loneliness, hurts our consciences, Family Minis adidas originals forum ter Elena Bonetti said on Facebook. We have a duty, as a community that wants to remain united, to remember her life... no one must be left alone. Nearly 40 percent of over 75-year-olds in Italy live alone, according to a 2018 report by the national statistics institute ISTAT .The same number also said they had neither relatives nor friends to turn to in case of need. Be airforces retta was loneliness personified , wrote editorialist Massimo Gramellini on the front page of the Corriere della Sera, Italy s biggest selling daily. Many of us still have memories of the chaotic, branched families of peasant Italy. Instead, the mo samba og dern fam Lxln 2 NATO troops killed in Afghanistan
An Australian cowboy claims he climbed a tree to escape two hungry crocodiles in an Outback swamp mdash; and stayed up there for six nights.David George, the 53-year-old manager of a cattle ranch near Coen in the tropical north of Queensland state, told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio Tuesday he was dazed after falling from his horse Aug. 2. By the time I ... regained my senses, I was in the middle of a swamp, George said.He said it was almost nightfall when he climbed the tree, and he spent the first night among the branches about 8 feet above the ground. George said he was then stalked by two large crocodiles. The next night, I got higher and set up some sticks that I could lie on, he said. George, meanwhile, became the subject of a search-and-rescue operation when his horse wandered home without him.The cowboy said an army helicopter crew that spotted him waving his shirt from his treetop sanctuary Aug. 8 flew him to a hospital in Coen for treatment of minor injuries. He was released after a few hours.Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service officer Mark Read said George had survived a dangerous situation. Mr. George stanley thermobecher was ve stanley termoska ry lucky in terms of having a tree that was the right size and shape to accommodate his body for the length of time he stayed up there, Read told ABC. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-986dcffe-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, stanley cup right-rail-recirc-item--id-986

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BEIJING -- Restaurateurs in a southern Chinese town are holding an annual dog meat festival despite international criticism.Eateries reached by phone in Yulin reported brisk business Sunday during the event marking the summer solstice. They say eating dog meat is traditional, while activists say the festival has no cultural value and was invented to drum up business. Dog meat eating festival 16 photos As many as 10,000 dogs, many of them stolen pe hoka wanderschuh ts, are slaughtered for the occasion held deep in the largely rural and poor Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.Celebrities such as British comedian Ricky Gervais and Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen have called for an end to the festival.Dog is eaten in some parts of China but is not a common dish. Changing China More adidas sambarose adidas yeezy Hong Kong s Cathay Pacific apologizes for showing Family Guy episode Jjeu Israel Threatens to Quit Gaza Flotilla Probe
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday that Libya s crisis is just beginning with the fall of Muammar Qaddafi s government.Chavez has been a staunch defender of Qaddafi throughout the conflict, and he condemned NATO airstrikes and killings of civilians. The drama of Libya isn t ending with the fall of Qaddaf stanley cup usa i s government. It s beginning, Chavez said. The tragedy in Libya is just beginning. stanley cup Libyans hunting Muammar Qaddafi offered a $2 million bounty on Qaddafi s head and amnesty for anyone who kills or captures him as rebels battled Wednesday to clear the last pockets of resistance from the capital, Tripoli.Asked about such efforts to hunt for Qaddafi, Chavez said they reflect a madness let loose. What the Yankee empire and the European powers ... want is Libya s oil, Chavez said.Chavez said his country s embassy in Libya was looted, but the Venezuelan ambassador to Tripoli later corrected that account saying his official residence was looted by armed groups who stole belongings and vehicles. They didn t leave anything in the house and fired some shot stanley cups s into the air, Venezuelan Ambassador Afif Tajeldine told the Caracas-based TV channel Telesur. He called it a violation of international law by armed groups supported by NATO, and therefore by NATO itself.Mercenaries are the backbone of Qaddafi s troopsRebels place bounty on Qaddafi, dead or aliveQaddafi s many hideouts help him elude rebelsMaryland writer held in Tripoli

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GUBAREVICHI, Belarus-- On the edge of Belarus Chernobyl exclusion zone, down the road from the signs warning Stop! Radiation, a dairy farmer offers his visitors a glass of freshly drawn milk. Associated Press adidas samba og reporters politely decline the drink but pass on a bottled sample to a laboratory, which confirms it contains levels of a radioactive isotope at levels 10 times higher than the nation s food safety limits.That finding on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the world s worst nuclear accident indicates how fallout from the April 26, 1986, explosion at the Chernobyl plant in neighboring Ukrainecontinues to taint life in Belarus. The authoritarian government of th nike dunk is agriculture-dependent nation appears determined to restore long-idle land to farm use - and in a country where dissent is quashed, any objection to the policy is thin. Chernobyl: Visit to a nuclear ghost town 14 photos The farmer, Nikolai Chubenok, proudly says his herd of 50 dairy cows produces up to two tons of milk a day for the local factory of Milkavita, whose brand of Parmesan cheese is sold chiefly in Russia. Milkavita officials called the AP-commissioned lab finding impossible, insisting their own tests show their milk supply contains traces of radioactive isotopes w nike air max ell belo Ajrh Syria Blasts U.S. Interference ; Lebanon Tension Flares
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Heino Kalis/REUTERS The streets of the eastern Spanish town of Bunol, near Valencia,are awash once againwith red pulp as thousands of people pelt each other with tomatoes in the annual La Tomatinabattle. Tens of thousands of festival-goers, including many tourists,hurled 170 tonnes of over-ripe tomatoes at each other to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the massive food fight in the small village of Bunol in eastern Spain.The origin of the tomato fight is disputed but most agree it started around 1940, in the early years of General Francisco Francorsquo dictatorship.In this photo, areveler lies in tomato pulp, August 31, 2016. Tomatina Festival Heino Kal nike air max is/REUTERS Festival participants battle with tomato pulp, August 31, 2016. Tomatina Festival Heino Kalis/REUTERS Revelers on a truck throw tomatoes into the crowd, August 31, 2016. Tomatina Festival nike dunk donna Heino Kalis/REUTERS A reveler pours tomato pulp over a couple after the annual Tomatina tomato fight in Bunol, near Valencia, Spain, August 26 crocs , 2015. Tens of thousands of festival-goers hurled 170 tonnes of over-ripe tomatoes at each other Srvh Rudy Giuliani says Kim Jong Un begged for summit with Trump on his hands and knees
LONDON - Scotland has asked Libya s new authorities to help track down those responsible for the 1988 Lockerbie airplane bombin stanley cup g, but the country s transitional justice minister told reporters Monday the case is closed. In Tripoli, Mohammed al-Alagi noted that the only person charged with the bombing 151; former Libyan intelligence officer Abdel Baset al-Megrahi 151; was freed on compassionate grounds in 2009 because of illness.There is no reason to keep dragging the case into court, al-Alagi said.Special section: Anger in the Arab WorldCivilians flee besieged Qaddafi loyalist townMass grave reveals 1996 Libyan massacreBritain stanley tumblers s Foreign Office, however, stressed late Monday that Libyan authorities have assured Prime Minister David Cameron that they would cooperate with the United Kingdom in the investigation. Having spoken with the National Transitional Council this evening, we understand that this remains the case, the Foreign Office said in a statement in response to al-Alagi s remarks.The Scottish prosecutors office said Monday it had written to the National Transitional Council asking for written evidence and witnesses that could aid the inquiry into the bombing of the New York-bound kubki stanley Pan Am plane over the Scottish town killed 270 people, most of them American.The investigation remains an open inquiry, it said.Scottish authorities have said that al-Megrahi s trial had found that he acted in furtherance of the Libyan intelligence services in an act of stat

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New Zealand medical staff were working around the clock Thursday treatin nike af g severely burned survivors of a volcanic eruption. T airmaxplus he enormity of the task facing New Zealand s hospital burn units was clear when Dr. Peter Watson, a chief medical officer, said at a news conference that extra skin has been ordered from American skin banks.Hospital personnel anticipated needing an extra 1,300 square feet of skin for grafting onto the patients, Watson said. Most of the survivors of Monday s eruption suffered critical burns and remain hospitalized.New Zealand officials said they ll begin on Friday to recover eight victims bodies believed to st air max 1 ill be on White Island. Continuing volcanic activity has delayed the retrieval of the eight bodies from ash-covered island, where an eruption occurred Monday as 47 tourists were exploring the landscape. Eight people were confirmed killed and dozens were severely burned in the blast of steam and ash.The towering eruption of scaling steam and ash occurred as 47 visitors explored White Island, the tip of a mostly underwater volcano that s about 30 miles off New Zealand s North Island. Police said Thursday an additional two people had died in the hospital, raising the confirmed toll to eight. Another eight bodies are believed to remain on the ash-covered island, where continuing volcanic activity has delayed their retrieval.New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Thursday some injured Australians had been medically evacuated and such flig Maxr Iraq Photos: Jan. 5- Jan. 11
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How did the fairy-tale romance of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle come so far, so fast Married for only hourshellip;.They already seem like an eternal couple. Yet Harry and Meghan have only known each other two years.Royal Romance: The Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Mark mizuno de l adidas samba herren eIt was on a blind date when Prince Harry says the stars aligned. And he knew, the minute he walked into the room and saw Meghan sitting there, that she could be the one. They are saying it was love at first sight. And-- yes, I mean-- it-- it sounds as though it was, says royal biographer Penny Junor.By the third date, they were sleeping under the stars in one of the few places Prince Harry can escape public scrutiny: Botswana. Prince Harry engagement video: It was fantastic. It was absolutely amazing to get to know her as quickly as I did. Markle returned to Toronto and her job on the TV drama Suits, but they continued to meet every couple of weeks. Amazingly enough, no one leaked their romance to the press -- even though Harry was known to drop by the set. Unfortunately, says actor Wendell Pierce, he missed the prince s big entrance and had to hear about it from one of the guys in the crew. A timeline of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle s romancePrince Harry reportedly dating Suits star Meghan Markle I said hellip; I heard I missed the princ hoka winterschuhe e. I heard he came to the set. Is it true Said, Yeah, yeah. The guy came. Helicopter came, [laughs] you know says Pierce, who plays the father of Me Ipuw U.S. Revives Nuke Talks With North Korea
Kenya s parliament nar stanley cup rowly elected the opposition party s choice as speaker on Tuesday, setting up a new showdown between a president and the rivals who accuse him of rigging his re-election - allegations that have led to weeks of deadly violence.The session was the first time President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga were in the same room since Odinga accused Kibaki of stealing the Dec. 27 vote. More than 600 people have died in rioting and tribal unrest.Odinga has rejected an invitation from Kibaki for direct talks to resolve the dispute, and mediation efforts have stalled.Security was tight, with soldiers deployed around stanley thermos the building and CBS News reporter Katherine Arms reports some roads around parliament were blocked off. Riot police were deployed along nearby thoroughfares.Opposition and government members of parliament greeted each other and stanley cup chatted amicably before the session began, then both sides stood and applauded when Odinga walked in. Kibaki received a cool reception: Odinga and his supporters remained seated, not clapping as the president arrived. Odinga s party spokesman, Ahmed Hashi, said that attending the parliament session convened by the president does not mean recognizing the presidency of Kibaki. The main business of the day was voting for a new speaker.Kenneth Marende, a 52-year-old opposition lawyer, received 105 votes, to 101 for the president s candidate. The speaker cannot directly block the president s agenda, but he can sl