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The 10 most expensive weather disasters worldwide this year caused more than $170 billion in damage, $20 billion more than in 2020, a British aid group said Monday.Each year, U.K. charity Christian Aid calculates the cost of weather incidents like flooding, fires and heat waves based on insurance claims and reports the results. In 2020, it found the world s ten costliest weather disasters caused $150 billion in damage, making this year s total an increase of 13 percent. Christian Aid said the upward trend reflects the effects of man-made climate change and added that the ten disasters in question also killed at least 1,075 people and displaced 1.3 million. The most expensive disaster in 2021 was Hurricane Ida, which lashed the eastern United States and caused around $65 billion in damages. After crashing into Louisiana at t nike air force he end of August, it made its way northward and caused extensive flooding in New York City and the surrounding area. A kayaker paddels down a portion of Interstate 676 after flooding from heavy rains from hurricane Ida in Philadelphia on September 2, 2021. BRANDEN EASTWOOD/AFP via Getty Images Spectacular and deadly flooding in Germany and Belgium in July was next on the list at $43 billion in losses. A cold snap and winter storm in Te mizuno xas that took out the vast state s power grid cost $23 billion, followed by flooding in China s Hen adidas originals forum an province Gzys The man in the glass booth
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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The birth certificate for the son of Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, reveals that Archie was b adidas samba damen orn in a private hospital in London. The certificate filed Friday makes clear that Meghan did not give birth to the child in the couple s Frogmore Cottage home, as had been rum crocs badelatschen ored. Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor was born at the Portland Hospital in central London on May 6. He is seventh in line for the British throne. Harry and Meghan announced weeks before the birth that they wanted to keep many details of his birth private. There s just going to be so much love for that baby, said makeup artist Daniel Martin, one of Meghan s friends, in a CBS News special -- Meghan and Harry Plus One -- that is airing Friday.Meghan s name is listed on the birth certificate as Rachel Meghan Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Sussex. The occupations for Harry and Meghan are listed as Prince of the United Kingdom and Princess of the United Kingdom. The Royal Baby More Harry and Meghan share video of Archie on his 1st birthday hoka schuhe Esvf Thousands revel in Brazil s gay pride parade
AP BAGHDAD - Insurgents in Iraq unleashed a wave of attacks from before dawn until late at night Thursday, killing 48 people and wounding dozens in a deadly show of force aimed at undermining the government s authority.The bomb and shooting attacks made for the country s deadliest day in more than three weeks, rattling nerves as families prepared to gather for a holiday weekend. More than 140 people have been killed in violence across the country since the start of August, showing that insurgents led by al-Qaida s Iraqi franchise remain a lethal force eight months stanley becher after the last U.S. troops left the country.Four of the attacks accounted for more than half of the casualties. A morning car bomb in Baghdad s northeastern and mostly Shiite neighborhood of Husseiniyah killed seven people and wounded 31.Around midday, another car bomb struck near the headquarters of local security forces in the northern city of Daqouq. As police rushed to the scene, a roadside bomb exploded, killing seven policemen. Another 35 people were hurt, police said. Shortly before sunset, gunmen in cars opened fire on an Iraqi army checkpoint near the town of Mishada, killing seven soldiers and wounding eight. Mishada is 20 stanley deutschland miles north of Baghdad.Then, around 10 p.m., a suicide bomber walked into a teashop and blew himself up in Tal Afar, some 260 miles northwest of the capital. Mayor Abdul-Aal Abbas and local police said t stanley cup hat explosion killed seven and wounded 10.Iraqi officials are tig

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Johannesburgmdash; South African scientists have released early data showing the Omicron variant of the coronavi yeezy slide rus has a robust ability to evade the immunity offered by inoculation. But, as CBS N nike dunk donna ews foreign correspondent Debora Patta reports, it s not all bad news.Pfizer and BioNTech said on Wednesday that while the standard two-dose regimen of their vaccine was significantly less effective at blocking the virus, a booster shot neutralized the Omicron variant in lab tests. The pharmaceutical companies released a statement reporting their latest data as both they and independent researchers race to understand how much of a threat Omicron poses to the world. The news from Pfizer and BioNTech echoed what scientists in South Africa have reported mdash; including that the standard two-dose inoculation may still induce protection against severe disease. Pfizer shot offers partial protection against Omicron variant, study finds 02:20 Alex Sigal nike sb dunk , the researcher behind the latest data from South African trials, said what his team had found was better than I expected, showing that Omicron still relies on the same biological mechanism to attack human cells that previous variants have used. That means the current vaccines mdash; which prompt the body to deploy two weapons against COVID-19 that wor Cjjl Iran: Test-Firing of New Missile Successful
Hardline Islamic parties say they stanley mug have reached an agreement with a pro-democracy bloc and have the parliamentary majority needed to form a coalition government and choose the next prime minister, officials at both parties said Tuesday.The agreement is a blow to President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, but a spokesman for the pro-Musharraf party refused to concede defeat on Tuesday, saying his group was stanley cup still working to form a majority and was confident it would succeed.The religious and pro-democracy parties said they would announce their choice for prime minister later T stanley romania uesday, but officials in both camps say the top spot would likely go to Fazl-ur Rahman, the head of Jamiat-e-ulema Islam, or Party of Islamic clerics. The pro-Musharraf Quaid-e-Azam faction of the Pakistan Muslim League won the most seats in the Oct. 10 elections, but fell short of a majority, and the parties have been jockeying for position ever since.The grouping of religious parties, called the United Action Forum, or Muthida Majlis-e-Amal, came in third on the strength of an anti-American, pro-Taliban platform. We have reached an agreement with leaders of Muthida Majlis-e-Amal to form a coalition government, Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, head of the 15-party Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy, told a news conference in the federal capital, Islamabad, after talks with leaders of the religious grouping. We have a majority to form a coalition government. Azeem Chaudhry, a spokesman for the pro-Musharraf

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Sen. Bernie Sanders issued a sudden live video saying that war with Iran would be many times worse than the Iraq War, in response to reporting by The New York Times saying that the Trump administration is reviewing a plan to send up to 120,000 troops to the Middle East.The idea was reportedly adidas campus shoes spearheaded by John Bolton, the president s national security adviser, who served in the George W. Bush administration at the height of the conflict in Iraq. Sixteen years ago, the U.S. committed one of the worst blunders in history of our country by attacking Iraq, Sanders said in a video recorded live on Periscope and posted to Twitter. He called out Bolton as one of the leading advocates of the war, which he called the biggest foreign policy disaster in modern U.S. history. Now, based on that disaster that he help bring about in Iraq, it appears that John Bolton wants a war in Iran, Sanders said. A war in Iran would, in my view, be many times worse than the Iraq War. The senator said that he was working to build a coalition in Congress to force President Trump to ask Congress for authoriza nike air max tion if he wants to engage in milita yeezy slide ry action in Iran. Congress authorized Mr. Bush to take action in Iraq in 2002, but did not formally declare war. Opponents of the war in Iraq argue that President Bush did not have the constitutional authority to essentially declare war in the country. I am working hard to see if we can get 51 members of the U.S. Senate, as well as a majority in t Oqis U.N. unfreezes assets of 2 Libyan banks
Japan s incoming government named its new Cabinet on Tuesday, keeping key members in pla stanley cup ce as the ruling party looks to revive the moribund economy and restore voter confidence ahead of next month s elections.Prime Minister-elect Naoto Kan, whose administration will officially be sworn in Tuesday evening, chose to maintain the bulk of the existing Cabinet, including the country s powerful foreign and defense ministers. But he added several new faces as he seeks to distance his government from the previous one, which was bogged down by broken campaign promises and financial scandals. With freshness and professionalism, we would like to create a government that is thoroughly clean and accountable, said new Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihito Sengoku.Among the new picks are Renho, a celebrity and former tele stanley canada vision announcer who was featured in the media for her tough stance against bureaucrats in public budget debates last year. The former model goes by one name and will be minister of administrative reforms.Kan, who previously served as finance minister, will be replaced by former subordinate Yoshihiko Noda, who favors financial discipline and is against heavy public spending. Japan s sixth prime minister in four years, Kan was to be officially be sworn in later Tuesday in a ceremony with Emperor Akihito.The plain-spoken Kan, known for his sometimes fiery temper and for exposing a government cover-up of HIV-tainted blood products in the mid-1990s, was elected prime minist

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White House adviser Jared Kushner has begun a round of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders as he resumes efforts to restart peace negotiations.Kushner, who is President Trump s son in law, arrived at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu s office in Jerusalem on Thursday afternoon. He was then to head to the West Bank city of Ramallah to see Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the evening.Video of the meeting pr adidas yeezy ovided by the U.S. Embassy in Israel showed Netanyahu welcoming Kushner. The Israeli prime ministers dunk pand said he thought peace, stability and security in the region were all within our reach. The Trump White House has been relatively silent regarding the overseas trip, only confirming to CBS News that Kushner, Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt and deputy national security adviser Dina Powell had left the U.S. Sunday evening and were in the region on Monday. No details were provided by the White House on which country or countries they visited Tuesday or Wednesday morning after repeated inquiries by CBS News. A U.S. Secret Service official confirmed the delegation was in Qatar Mon nike dunk day. State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert confirmed however, that Kushner and his team met with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on Tuesday.A readout of the visit from the U.S. embassy in Doha confirmed Nauert s statements, saying the team met to discuss advancing President Trump s goal of a genuine and lasting peace between the Israelis and the Palestini Vouc Al Qaeda in Yemen Seeks More Western Recruits
SANAA, Yemen 151; A regional bloc of oil-rich Arab nations along the Gulf, including powerful Saudi Arabia, called on Yemen s president Sunday to step down as part of a deal with the protest movement demanding for his ouster after 32 years.Keeping up the pressure, tens of thousands of protesters complaining of poverty and corruption marched in the capital, Sanaa, on Sunday, a day after renewed clashes between demonstrators water bottle stanley and security forces there. Witnesses said police fired a barrage of tear gas late Saturday and that many demonstrators suffered breathing problems.The statement, by foreign ministers of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council meeting in the Saudi capital, called on President Ali Abdullah Saleh transfer his powers to his vice president in return for promises that neither he nor his family would be prosecuted for any crimes committed under his leadership.Complete coverage: Anger in the Arab WorldProtests, and crackdown, intensif stanley quencher y in YemenThat falls short of protesters demands, which include seeing Sale stanley cup h face justice. And Saleh himself has so far refused to immediately step down, saying he wants to first be certain the country is in safe hands, suggesting the already fragile and impoverished country could fall into serious tumult without him. The transfer of power ought to be in an easy and peaceful manner that would avoid sliding into chaos and violence, and as part of a national consensus, said a final statement from the Gulf council.The embatt

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Tokyo mdash; COVID-19 cases in Tokyo soared to new high of 463, a jump of nearly 100 in just 24 hours. Officials said a third of the infections originated in the city s bustling Shinjuku Ward, home to warrens of cramped clubs where patrons pay to drink with companions mdash; a district that has become practically synonymous with viral transmission.Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Friday that talk of a second national shutdown was premature, but Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike called for adidas originals forum a more aggressive approach. If the infection situation worsens, Tokyo must independently consider declaring a state of emergency, she said, noting that targeted partial business closures will start on Monday.For most of the month of August, bars, restaurants and karaoke parlors will be asked to close at 10 pm; those that comply with the voluntary closure request are eligible for compensation of $1,900. Anticipating a long struggle against the disease, Koike said total shutdowns were not a realistic option nike air max . Koike said the capital will launch its own version of the U.S. Centers for Disease Con adidas campus trol and Prevention in October. Tokyo s CDC would be tasked with convening experts to perform surveys and form policy, and unify a coronavirus response for the city of 14 million. People wearing masks against the spread of the new coronavirus walk at Shibuya pedestrian crossing in Tokyo Friday, July 31, 2020. The Japanese capital confirmed Friday more than 400 new coronavirus ca Xnmg South Africa plagued by cash-in-transit heists
Last updated 10:48 a.m. EST.Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after a powerful earthquake crushed thousands of structures, from schools and shacks to the Nationa stanley cup l Palace and the U.N. peacekeeping headquarters. Untold numbers were still trapped.It seemed clear that the death toll from Tuesday afternoon s magnitude-7.0 quake would run into the thousands. The Roman Catholic archbishop of Port-au-Prince was among the dead, and the head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission was missing.International Red Cross spokesman Paul Conneally said a t stanley mug hird of Haiti s 9 million people may need emergency aid and that it would take a day or two for a clear picture of the damage to emerge. The United Nations said the capital s main airport was fully operational and open to relief flights.Aftershocks continued to rattle the stanley becher capital of 2 million people as women covered in dust clawed out of debris, wailing. Stunned people wandered the streets holding hands. Thousands gathered in public squares to sing hymns. How to Help VictimsBlog: The Latest DevelopmentsComplete Coverage: Devastation in HaitiPeople pulled bodies from collapsed homes, covering them with sheets by the side of the road. Passers-by lifted the sheets to see if loved ones were underneath. Outside a crumbled building, the bodies of five children and three adults lay in a pile.The prominent died along with the poor: the body of Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot, 63, was found in the ruins of h

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London mdash; The people of Great Britain were given the go-ahead on Monday to share a hug, drink a pint with dinner indoors, and return to movie theaters and playhouses. But as the U.K. emerges from the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, the spread of the so-called Indian variant of COVID-19 in England is causing concern, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned people to embrace the easing of restrictions with a heavy dose of caution. England was put under a third nation-wide lockdown in January. The dark, cold winter months were hard for many people as the country hunkered down to get over a deadly wave of infections fueled by holiday gatherings.But restrictions have been easing this spring as the mass-vaccination drive has ramped up. Nearly70% of the adult population in the U.K. has had at least a first shot of a coronavirus vaccine. The number of new infections confirmed daily has fallen fr hoka wanderschuh om almost 70,000 during the winter peak, to an average of around 2,300 over the last week. How to travel sa yeezy 350 fely this summer, the importance of masks 05:58 About a month ago non-essential shops, gyms and beauty salons were allowed to reopen, and restaurants had been allowed to serve food and drinks outdoors for the last month, too, as part of what the government calls the roadmap af1 to freedom. On Monday, soc Eylu New Attack Kills Two Israeli Girls
VATI stanley canada CAN CITY He already has a billion followers.Now, Pope Benedict XVI will join the Twitter-sphere, tweeting from a personal account along with the world s celebrities, leaders and ordinary folk.Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi made the announcement Thursday, saying details about Benedict s handle and other information will come when the Vatican officially launches the account, perhaps before the end of the year.The 85-year-old Benedict sent his first tweet from a Vatican account last year when he launched the Vatican s news information portal, aimed at the world s 1.1 billion Catholics. The new Twitter account will be his own, though it s doubtful Benedict himself will wrestle down his encyclicals, apostolic exhortations and other papal pronouncements into 140-character bites.Bene stanley cup dict, who writes longhand and doesn t normally use a computer, will more li stanley cup kely sign off on tweets written in his name. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-9a27a98c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-9a27a98c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-9a27a98c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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When the massive A68A iceberg snapped off its ice shelf in July 2017, it was the sixth-largest iceberg on record. Now more than half of it is gone.A study published on January 10 in crocs winterstiefel the journal Remote Sensing of Environment shows that the massive block of ice had broken off from Antarctica s Larsen Ice Shelf in 2017 and traveled northeast to South Georgia by 2021. The iceberg once measured roughly 5,719 square kilometers mdash; ne nike dunk arly half the size of Connecticut mdash; but it started to disi adidas campus donna ntegrate once it arrived to the South Georgia island in the Atlantic Ocean.The European Space Agency described it as a mega iceberg, saying it stayed relatively the same size for the first two years of its life as it stayed in the cold waters of the Weddell Sea near the Antarctic Peninsula. Then it started its epic journey across the Drake Passage, ESA said, and everything changed.As of January 2021, it had lost roughly 3,200 square kilometers, or more than half of its area. Now, it s a little bigger than Rhode Island.Researchers from the University of Leeds, Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling and British Antarctic Survey studied the iceberg through satellite imagery and found that throughout those years of travel the iceberg became smaller as it broke apart and gradually melted. Over its three-and-a-half-year journey, it s estimated that the iceberg lost roughly 544 cubic kilometers of its ice, about a third of which was due to basal melting. In the time it s been ar Uxlq Belgian Trains Collide, At Least 18 Killed
U.S. authorities raised the security alert in the heavily guarded Green Zone after an improvised bomb was found in front of a restaurant there, officials said Thursday. Twenty Iraqis were arrested in the north in operations against those suspected of planting bombs against U.S. and Iraqi targets.A loud explosion shook the Green Zone on Thursday afternoon and smoke was seen rising from inside the compound. The U.S. military had no immediate information on the incident. Insurgents regularly fire at the stanley mug compound.Elsewhere, one stanley uk American soldier was killed and two others were wounded when a bomb exploded late Wednesday near their convoy outside the insurgent stronghold Fallujah. Four U.S. Marines and three Iraqi soldiers were reported injured in an operation to crush insurgents south of Baghdad.Since the start of the war, at least 1,061 U.S. troops and three military contractors have died. More than 7,900 service members hav stanley cup e been wounded.In other developments:Contrary to the pre-war assertions of the Bush administration, Saddam Hussein s weapons of mass destruction programs had deteriorated into only hopes and dreams by the time of the U.S.-led invasion last year, the chief U.S. weapons hunter found.The weapons hunter s report also says the Iraqi government manipulated the U.N. oil-for-food program from 1996 to 2003 in order to acquire billions of dollars in illicit gains and to import illegal goods, including parts for missile systems. A top U.N. official may even have accepted

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WARSAW -- The Polish government is urging citizens to go forth and multiply like rabbits.In a country with on nike dunk donna e of the lowest birth rates in Europe, the Health Ministry has put out a short video praising rabbits for producing many offspring.The spot shows rabbits munching on lettuce and carrots while a rabbit narrator reveals the secret of their big families - exercise, a healthy diet and little stress. The brief appearance of a human couple enjoying a romantic picnic hints that a little romance might help, too.Viewers are told: If you ever want to be a adidas campus 80s parent, follow the example of rabbits. It is the latest step by the conservative government in this mostly Catholic country of 38 million to reverse a shrinking population. More from CBS News How to keep your credit card debt low during the holidays Congo investigating mystery flu-like disease that s killed at least 71 4 mortgage interest rate scenarios that could occur in 2025 adidas originals donna Zqmt Bomb Blast At Pakistani Mosque
A senior Iranian envoy abruptly announced Wednesday that last-ditch talks on his country s disputed nuclear stanley cups program were postponed, moving Tehran a step closer to U.N. sanctions after it defied a deadline to freeze uranium enrichment.The talks had been tentatively set for Wednesday in Vienna as a final attempt to see if there was common ground to start negotiations between Iran and the six nations that have been trying to persuade Iran to limit its nuclear program.But while the European Union s Javier Solana stanley cup price had been ready to fly to the Austrian capital at short notice, the talks had been left hanging by uncertainty over whether Iranian nuclear envoy Ali Larijani would come. We will not have the meeting today in Vienna, Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, the chief Iranian envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, told The Associated Press. Both sides are arranging a meeting for a couple of days later. There was no immediate comment from Solana s office in Brussels. But although Soltanieh said the decision to postpone any meeting had been mutual, it appeared that Iranian reluctance to atten stanley mug d had scuttled the chance of Wednesday talks. Soltanieh said a procedural matter had led to the postponement, but offered no details. In Tehran, Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki said only the time and place of any meeting continued to be under discussion by both sides. Iran defied an Aug. 31 deadline by the U.N. Security Council to freeze uranium enrichment.Still, the five permanen

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MOSCOW -- Suggestions by President-elect Donald Trump that sanctions against Russia could be lifted in exchange for a nuclear arms cut attracted a frosty reception in Moscow on Monday.In an interview with the Times of London published on Sunday,Mr. Trump indicated that he could end sanctions imposed on Russia in the aftermath of the 2014 annexation of Crimea in return for a nuclear arms reduction deal.Russia isnrsquo;t so anxious to get the sanctions lifted that it is prepared to ldquo acrifice something, especially in what concerns security, said Konsta adidas samba ntin Kosachev, the Kremlin-connected chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the upper house of parliament. Investigation launched into Russian interference in U.S. election 03:38 Kosachev also told the RIA Novosti news agency that Mr.Trumprsquo comments mizuno to the Times should be treated with caution because it adidas campus 00 wasnrsquo;t an official statement, since Mr. Trump hasnrsquo;t assumed office yet.Washington, along with the European Union, has imposed several rounds of economic sanctions on Russia and travel bans for individuals following Moscowrsquo annexation of Crimea and interference in the conflict in eastern Ukraine. The latest round of U.S. sanctions came at the end of December.President Vladimir Putinrsquo spokesman, Dmitry Wije President-elect Trump has candid 1st meeting with a foreign leader
A law that tightens adoptions was passed by Guatemala s Congress on Tuesday, but i stanley quencher t allowed pending adoptions, mostly to U.S. couples, to go through without meeting the stricter requirements.The new law will help Guatemala comply with the Hague Convention, an international agreement to protect adopted children stanley us from human trafficking. The Central American country sent 4,135 children to the U.S. last year, making it the largest source of babies for American families after China.Many adoptive parents, some of whom had invested their life savings to bring home a Guatemalan baby, feared the changes would leave in limbo about 3,700 children already matched with adoptive parents.But the new law stipulates that pending adoptions need not meet the new requirements.President Oscar Berger is expected to sign the law, which will take effect next year. It is aimed at cleaning up an adoption process that critics claim allows birth mothers to sell their babies for profit. Starting Dec. 31, the busi stanley cup ness of adoptions is over, said lawmaker Rolando Morales, one of the law s biggest supporters.Currently, the adoption process has been handled exclusively by notaries who work with birth mothers, determine if babies were surrendered willingly, hire foster mothers and handle all the paperwork.These notaries charge an average of $30,000 for children delivered in about nine months - record time for international adoptions. The process is so quick that one in every 100 Guatemalan children now