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A small Italian island is being overrun by goats ndash; in fact, there are six times the amount of the animals than there are people. Riccardo Gullo, the mayor of Alicudi, which is just off the coast of Sicily, is now trying to give away goats as the island becomes inundated with the animals.Alicudi only has 100 inhabitants but 600 goats, Gullo said in a post on social media. The goats usually graze on the mountains and cliffs of the island but as they ve grown in population, they ve infiltrated residential areas, according to BBC News.Since the goats are damaging gardens, Gullo came up with an Adopt A Goat program to give them away. Adoption applications are due on Wednesday, BBC News reports. The small Italian island of Alicudi is being overrun by goats/ Mayor Riccardo Gullo Alicudi is one of seven islands that make up the Aeolian Archipelago, and there is a farmer on a nearby island, Vulcano, who adidas originals forum produces cheese and would like to take some of the goats, Gullo told the Guardian.In an interview with local publication Fanpage, Gullo said he is an animal rights activist and has never ev adidas originals en caught a fish. In my belief, we must always intervene in nature with soft feet, Gullo s adidas yeezyslide aid. I hope, and in this I am comforted by the experts, that we have made the best possible choice and that these goats will live a happy life. He has thought about the possibility of allo Cnvw Russia formally appeals doping ban at Rio Olympics
MITTERFIRMIANSREUT, Germany - A church built entirely of ice and snow has opened in Bavaria 151; a century after villagers first built a snow chu stanley cup website rch in an act of protest.The church at Mitterfirmiansreut, near the Czech border, is more than 65 feet in length and boasts a tower. It s made up of some 49,000 cubic feet of snow.The structure was bathed in blue light as it opened Wednesday eveni stanley us ng with a blessing from Dean Kajetan Steinbeisser.But when the ancestors of today s villagers built the first snow church in 1911, they weren t thinking just of architectural achievement.Steinbeisser says: It was meant as an act of provocation 151; believers from the village got together and built a snow church because they didn t have a church here. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; stanley mug inline-recirc-item--id-99c4b322-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-99c4b322-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-99c4b322-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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American-born pole vaulter Armand Mondo Duplantis broke a world record for a ninth time at the Paris Olympics on Monday and brought home a gold medal for Sweden.The Louisiana-born 24-year-old athlete cleared 6.25 meters Monday, beating the mark of 6.24 meters he set in the Xiamen Diamond League in China in April, launching higher than a giraffe on each record-breaking vault. Silver went to Sam Kendricks of the U.S. with a vault of 5.95 meters and Greece s Emmanouil Karalis took bronze with a vault of 5.90 meters.Duplantis has been breaking world records since February 2020. In addition to Olympic gold in Paris and in Tokyo, he s won four World Championships mdash; two indoors and two outdoors. The Olympics compared Duplantis dominance in the world of pole vaulting to swimmer Katie Ledecky s skills in the 1,500 meter freestyle and Simone Biles skills in gymnastics. Gold medalist Armand Duplantis of Sweden celebrates after setting a new world record during the Men s Pole Vault Final on day 10 of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Stade de France on Aug. 5, 2024 in Paris, France. Patrick Smith / Getty Images nike dunk high Both of Duplantis parents are athletes and his father pole vaulted in the U.S. According to the Olympics, the elder Duplantis pole vault personal best was 5.80 meters in 1993.Though Du hoka laufschuhe plantis was born in the U.S. and went to college in Louisiana, he adidas originals forum competes for Sw Jcdd Stan Wawrinka upsets Novak Djokovic to win French Open
Relatives care for Mohammed Obed, who is recovering in a hospital after being captured and allegedly tortured by Syrian Army stanley cup soldiers, in Idlib, March 7, 2012. The man said he was tortured, then released in the street but in need of hospital treatment. AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd CBS News Human Rights Watch today called on the United Nations Security Council to refer the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad to the International Criminal Court, for crimes that include the illegal detention and torture of hundreds of men, women and children. It also demanded that international monitors be given access to detention facilities in Syria where mistreatment has been documented, both by former detainees and the families of those detained and by defectors from the Assad regime s security forces. The New York-based rights organization issued a report Tuesday, Torture Archipelago, based on more stanley canada than 200 interviews conducted since the beginning of anti-government demonstrations in March 2011. Human Rights Watch spoke with former detainees, families of detainees, and members of Syrian security forces gourde stanley who have defected and who actively participated in or witnessed the abuse and torture of prisoners. The report details specific known detention centers throughout the country run by the government s four intelligence agencies Department of Military Intelligence, Political Security Directorate, Genera

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One U.S. soldier was killed as American Special Forces conducted a raid in support of with Kurdish Iraqi forces to free dozens of hostages held in Northern Iraq, U.S. defense officials said Friday.About 70 hostages were rescued in the operation, including more than 20 members of the Iraqi Security Forces.The operation was a raid on a prison run by militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS near the city of Hawija, in the largely Kurdish province of Kirkuk. American Special Forces took part nike af in support of Kurdish Peshmerga troops, not Iraqi national army soldiers.Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said Thursday that the rescue mission was carried out after receiving information that the hostages faced imminent mass execution by ISIS militants. He said the U.S. provided helicopter lift and accompanied Iraqi Peshmerga forces to the compound, but did not characterize it as a joint raid.U.S. to Iraq asics gel : If Russia helps you fight ISIS, we can tGen. Dunford flies to Iraq, says Russian help not neededTurkey warns U.S. over support for Syria s KurdsThe American soldier died of a gunshot wound sustained during a firefight. He was airlifted to Irbil. There were no other American injuries. Cook said the rescue opera salomon zapatillas tion was a unique circumstance and not a change in U.S. policy in the fight against ISIS, which currently precludes the deployment of ground troops. It was authorized consistent with our counter-ISIL effort to train, advise, and assist Iraqi forces, Cook sa Fzjn Iraq Downplays Torture Charges
I m Barry Petersen, and this Letter From Asia comes from Beijing. American politicians like to talkhellip;loudly most of the timehellip;about the threat from a rising China. Usually this comes down to blaming China for its success because its currency is valued too low or it pays its workers too little.I want to reach out to Americans and sayhellip;wake up!So it was interesting to hear a different take from James McGregor, who worked in China as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and then went into the business world here. Experiences that led to a book One Billion Customers.What I like is that McGregor sees beyond stanley cup the normal reasons for China s risehellip;and sees how we Americans stanley quencher are contributing to our own potential decline by focusing on the wrong things. We talk about feeding tubes, he says. We talk about abortion. We talk about church and state. China is talking about building roads an stanley cup d highways and ports and new universities and working on new science and new science research centers. The fact is, we Americans are hooked on Chinahellip; it s the reason everything from t-shirts to TV sets cost less these days because China makes them for less.But China also represents a saving grace for American companieshellip;like General Motors. Back in the U.S. they re laying off workers and closing plants. Not here - their factory in Shanghai runs full speed, making cars considered cool and high quality. Some day, China may be GM s biggest market.Oddly

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Kyiv mdash; Ukrainian troops have made sweeping gains, raising their flag again in multiple tow adidas originals ns and villages in the northeast of the country that were, until recently, occupied by Russia adidas samba adidas s invading forces. The Ukrainian military says it s reclaimed an area the size of Rhode Island since the beginning of September alone.As CBS News correspondent Debora Patta reports, the Ukrainians recent battlefield successes around their country s second largest city of Kharkiv have been among their most significant since they crushed the bid by Vladimir Putin s military to seize capital Kyiv near the start of the war. Their counteroffensive, focused largely around Kharkiv, has a adidas campus lready taken back about 1,000 square miles of the territory that Ukraine had lost since Putin launched his invasion on February 24.Last reactor at Ukraine s front-line nuclear plant shuts downUkrainian forces have swept through the northeast at breath-taking speed, and as Patta reports, they re being greeted like conquering heroes, with civilians rushing to offer flowers, embraces, and tears of joy. Ukrainian ambassador vows forces will liberate all Ukraine amid counteroffensive 07:00 Ukraine s blue and yellow flag once again flies high in liberated towns and villages across the region, as the country s advancing troops push north, j Qbit Report: U.S. Overestimated Afghan Police, Army
Taliban militants launched a suicide attack on Afghanistan s national peace conference Wednesday as President Hamid Karzai interrupted his opening remarks to reassure nervous delegates heari stanley thermos mug ng the thump of rockets and rattle of gu stanley mugs nfire outside.It was supposed to be the first meeting of peace and re stanley tumbler conciliation among Afghanistan s many varied tribes and factions, reports CBS News correspondent Mandy Clark, but just minutes after Karzai began his opening address to some 1,600 dignitaries, the attack began with rocket fire.No delegates were harmed but at least two attackers were killed in fighting with Afghan security forces near the giant tent erected for the three-day gathering, officials said.The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in a phone call to The Associated Press.The conference, known as a peace jirga, continued. Karzai hopes it will bolster him politically by endorsing his strategy of offering incentives to individual Taliban fighters and reaching out to the insurgent leadership, despite skepticism in Washington about whether the time is right for an overture to militant leaders. But the attack underscored the weak grip of Karzai s government in the face of the Taliban insurgency, which has strengthened despite record numbers of U.S. forces in country. My dear Taliban, you are welcome in your own soil. Do not hurt this country, and don t destroy or kill yourselves, Karzai told the some 1,600 delegates in his opening address, which was broadcast nati

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TEHRAN, Iran -- Iranian search and rescue teams on Monday reached the site of a plane crash the previous day that authorities say killed all 65 people on board, Iran s Press TV reported. The nation s aviation administration, however, would not immediately confirm the report that the wreckage had been located.The Aseman Airlines ATR-72, a twin-engine turboprop used for short-distance regional flying, went down on Sunday in foggy weather, crashing into Mount Dena in southern Iran. The ai adidas og rliner said all on board Flight EP3704 were killed, including six crew members.The crash of the aircraft, brought back into service only months ago after being grounded for seven years, was yet another fatal aviation disaster for Iran, which for years was barred from buying necessary airplane parts due to Western sanctions over its contested nuclear program, forcing Iranians to fly in aging aircraft. In this photo provided by Tasnim News Agency, family members of a plane crash victims weep in the village of Bideh, at the area that the plane crashed, southern Iran, Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018. An Iranian commercial plane crashed Sunday in a foggy, adidas samba adidas mountainous region of southern Iran, and officials said they feared all people aboard were killed. AP Press TV said search teams reached the crash sit air max 1 e before dawn on Monday. The station said the weather had improved though it was still windy.The TV bro Wevb Palestinians trapped in Syria facing starvation, U.N. says
Two Myanmar fishermen who claimed to have survived on rainwater and fish regurgitated by birds while lost at sea for 25 days remained in Australian detention Wednesday as officials tried to verify their story.Ko Ko Oo, 22, and Haung Htaik, 24, were rescued by helicopter from the waters off northern Australia on Saturday after being found floating in a bathtub-sized cooler. They were treated for dehydration at an Australian hospital and released Tuesday.The pair told authorities that they had been drifting since their fishing boat sank on Dec. 23 with the likely loss of 18 Thai and Myanmar crew.Immigration Department spokesman Sandi Logan said Wednesday the pair would remain in immigration detention while officials interview them to determine their identities and the circumstances that led them to Australia. I m aware of the doubts that have been expressed in the media about their claims, but I don t think there s any doubt that they were found floatin stanley quencher g at sea in an ice box, he said. Logan would not speculate on whether the pair might apply for asylum in Australia, rather than be returned to Myanmar, also known as Burma, which is co stanley quencher ntrolled by a military junta.Oo told Wednesday s edition of The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper that he and Htaik ate nothing for the first 10 days of their ordeal. Then two big seabirds came and vomited some small fish - about six or seven little fish, and that s all, Oo told stanley thermoskannen the newspaper through an interpreter.In its Wednesday edition, T

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An American tourist who s facing over a decade behind bars in the Turks and Caicos islands after ammunition was found in his luggage said Monday he s trying to FaceTime with his children back home as much as possible in case he ultimately goes to prison. I ve been told that there s, you know, quite a bit of restricted communication while you re in prison, and so I m just trying to soak up as much of that as I can, Ryan Watson, a 40-year-old father of two from Oklahoma, told CBS News.Watson is out on bail, but he said he can t leave the country and has to check in at a local police station twice a week. He s facing a potential mandatory minimum sentence of 12 years behind bars.Tourists aren t allowed to possess guns or ammunition in Turks and Caicos. They ve been allowed to pay a fine in the past, but a court order in February mandated that tourists be subjected to prison time. It s something that I m deeply, deeply sorr salomon zapatillas y for, Watson said Monday. I completely respect their laws and, you know, stand behind what they re trying to accomplish with their gun laws, but I just still pray that there s some consideration that there was zero intent behind this and this was 100% a mistake and an accide hoka trekkingschuhe nt. Watson said he didn t intend to break any laws while visiting the country with his wife earlier this month. I don t see how imprisoning me is going to help them in any way, you know, but, yeah, that s not my decision yeezy to make unfortunately, he told CBS News.Watson was arreste Ydde What does South Dakota have to offer NATO
German police briefly deta stanley cup ined a man of Lebanese descent Thursday on suspicion that he may a member of an Islamic extremist terrorist group, the Federal Prosecutor s Office said.The man, a German citizen, was taken into custody in Hanover Thursday m stanley cup orning after authorities received a tip, said the office s spokeswoman, Frauke Scheuten. She refused to identify the suspect or to give further details.The office said Thursday evening that the man was released after being questioned by federal investigators, adding in a statement that they are still examining the case.Scheuten said the man s apartment had been searched, but that so far no connection had been established to a terror cell based in Hamburg that included three stanley water bottle of the suicide pilots in the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. If the question is whether this person is supposed to have been involved in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the answer is no, Scheuten said. Three of the Sept. 11 hijackers lived in Hamburg, but only one arrest directly connected to the attacks has been made in Germany.German police arrested a Moroccan man, Mounir El Motassadeq, at his Hamburg apartment in November on charges he controlled an account used to bankroll several of the Sept. 11 hijackers and had intensive contacts with the Hamburg terrorist cell. He remains in custody.Germany has issued international arrest warrants for three other men believed to have helped plot the attacks before leaving the country 151; Ramzi Binalshibh

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Washington mdash; The U.S nike dunk . will accept up to 100,000 Ukrainians who have fled the violence and attacks on their home country by Russian forces in the weeks since it invaded, the White House said Thursday.News of the Biden administration s plans to welcome the Ukrainians into the U.S. came as President Biden meets with allies in Brussels as part of broader efforts with NATO and European Union partners to continue its coordinated response to Russia s ongoing war in Ukraine.More than 3.6 million refugees have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded the country in late February, and more than half of the country s children have been displaced, according to United Nations refugee and child adidas originals damen ren s agencies. More than 2.1 million people have flooded into Poland seeking to escape the bombardment by Russian forces, while another more than 500,000 left for Romania.The war has prompted the fastest-growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.To bolster its humanitarian efforts, the U.S. will also contribute another $1 billion in aid to assist displaced Ukrainians, according to the White House, and commit $11 billion over the next five years to address global fo adidas originals hamburg od security concerns due to the war s potential impacts on agricultural production. The U.S. is also imposing new sanctions on the more than 300 members of Russia s State Duma, its parliament, and over 40 Russian defense companies, the White House said. The latest economic penalties from the Biden administration will align Unmz Length of tennis ban is key to Sharapova s brand value
A Palestinian a stanley cup ttacker killed three Israeli soldiers and himself Sunday when his bomb detonated amid a struggle with soldiers at a gas station just outside the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel.The assailant came from the nearby city of Nablus mdash; a city Israel s military has kept under strict curfew for months in an attempt to prevent Palestinian attackers from slipping out and reaching Israeli targets.In Nablus, Israeli troops shot dead two armed Palestinians several hours after the bomb attack, though the two sides disagreed on the circumstances. The army said soldiers were attempting to make arrests when they came under fire and shot back, killing the pair. Palestinian witnesses said soldiers killed the two men, both known militants, and then fled in an unmarked van.The latest violence came as the Israelis and Palestinians were attempting to resolve their own political dramas.The Palestinian legislature, which effectively forced Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to dissolve his Cabinet on Sept. 11, will meet Monday in the West Bank city of Ramallah and decide whether stanley mugs to approve the new proposed Cabinet. On the Israeli side, a government coalition crisis was stanley cup usa brewing. Israel s moderate Labor Party has threatened to reject the government s budget proposal and pull out of the coalition headed by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Such a move could lead to a collapse of the coalition.In the West Bank bombing, the attacker walked or was driven the 10 miles across the roc

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New Delhi mdash; The coronavirus is spreading much faster in India than in any other country in the world, worrying experts about the threat posed to the rest of the world.India has been reporting an average of nearly 150,000 new case airforce s daily over the past week. On Tuesday, the country reported nearly 162,000 new infections mdash; slightly lower than an all-time high of 168,912 fresh cases from a day earlier, raising the total number of cases in the country to nearly 13.6 million.Experts believe the surge of hoka winterschuhe infections in India poses a threat to other parts of the world because international travel hasn t been significantly restricted. The high infection rate in India is worrying both because it indicates that in the absence of movement restrictions, and with significant vaccination, the virus continues to pose a serious threat, Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan, founder and director of the Washington-based Center fo yeezy slide r Disease Dynamics, Economics Policy told CBS News. But because of India s size, it is unlikely that the world would be done with Covid unless we are able to stop the epidemic here. India is now only behind the U.S., which has reported more than 31 million cases. Brazil at number three has 13.4 million cases. The U.S. and Brazil have been adding an average of around 70,000 new cases daily for the past week mdash; a number that India now doubles. More than 171,000 people in India have died from the virus, 879 of them on Monday.Professor K. Srinath Reddy, p Yuch U.S. plans to send additional troops to northeastern Syria to protect oil fields from ISIS, Pentagon says
MOSCOW - Russian authorities should annul the results of the parliamentary vote and hold a new one, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev urged Wednesday as popular indignation grew over widespread allegations of election fraud.The call for an entirely new vote by the last president of the Soviet Union was a remarkable development for an election that had not generated muc stanley cup website h interest during the campaign. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had wanted to see his United Russia party do well to pave the way for his return to th stanley trinkflaschen e presidency, but few Russians seemed to care about the vote, with many saying they assumed the results would be manipulated anyway.United Russia won less than 50 percent of Sunday s vote, a steep fall from the 64 percent it won four years ago. But opposition parties and independent observers say even that result was inflated by vote-rigging, including alleged ballot-box stuffing and false voter rolls.Gorbachev told the Interfax news agency that authorities must hold a fresh election or deal with a rising tide of discontent. More and more people are starting to believe that the election results are not fair, he told Interfax. I believe that ignoring public opinion discredits the authorities and destabilizes the situation. Surprisingly, thousands of Russians have rallied in Moscow and St. Petersburg in the last two days, facin stanley cup g off against tens of thousands of police and Interior Ministry troops. Hundreds of protesters have been detained in both cities.

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Getty Images Bangladeshi Buddhists celebrate their annual boat festival during Probarona Purnima in Ramu, Bangladesh, Oct. 20, 2013. Ahmad Aboud/AFP/Getty Images Rebel fighters hold a position on the front line in the Syrian city of Deir Ezzor Oct. 24, 2013. Dario Lopez-Mills/AP Clowns raise their official clown rule book while others without the rule book raise an imaginary one as they stand in line to register on the first day of the 17th International Clown Convention in Mexico City Oct. 21, 2013. Anjum Naveed/AP Pakistani boys who were displ nike dunk high aced with their families from Pakistan s tribal areas due adidas campus to fighting between the Taliban and the army pose for a photograph adidas originals forum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Oct. 23, 2013. Andy Wong/AP Chinese soldiers and officers from the People s Liberation Army line up in preparation for a welcome ceremony for visiting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Oct. 23, 2013. Ggry As Europe Frets, Greece Flops
Britain s judicial system is stepping into the 21st century; 140 cha stanley cup price racters at a time.Freedom-of-information advocates on Wednesday hailed a judge s decision to allow journalists to communicate by Twitter from the bail hearing for WikiLeaks founder Julia stanley thermos n Assange, saying it opens a door to texting and blogging live proceedings from Britain s traditionally communications-shy courts. It is a landmark, said David Allen Green, a keen tweeter who heads the media practice at London law firm Preiskel. It s the first time I ve ever known there to be express permission for electronic communications from the courtroom. Steeped in tradition and resistant to quick change, British courts place strict restrictions on communications. Cameras and recording equipment are banned, phones are usually prohibited, and even court artists are barred stanley thermosflasche from sketching in the courtroom; they must make notes and then go outside to draw.In response to a request from a journalist, District Judge Howard Riddle announced at the start of Tuesday s hearing in London that he would allow tweeting as long as it was quiet and did not interfere with court business. At least two journalists, Pennsylvania-born transparency campaigner Heather Brooke and Alexi Mostrous of The Times newspaper, proceeded to tweet the news that Riddle had granted Assange bail; and that Sweden had appealed that decision.CableGate Live Updates Special Report: WikiLeaksJournalists have been surreptitiously e-mailing and texting from

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JERUSALEM -- Hamas and other Gaza militant groups said Tuesday they have accepted an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire after launching hundreds of rockets into Israel over the past 24 hours and weathering a wave of punishing Israeli airstrikes. There was no immediate word from Israel on whether it had accepted a deal to halt the heaviest exchange of fire with Gaza s Hamas rulers since a 2014 war.The cease-fire was announced by a group of Gaza militant groups, including Hamas, whose leader Ismail Haniyeh earlier signaled a readiness to halt yeezy 350 the latest round of fighting. He said the Islamic militant group would stop its rocket fire if Israel halts its airstrikes.The terms of the deal appeared to be modest. Daoud Shehab, a spokesman for the Islamic Jihad militant group, said each side would promise quiet i adidas samba og n exchange for quiet.Just an hour before the militants made their declaration, the Israeli Security Cabinet said it had ordered the military to continue operations as needed, following a six-hour meeting. How this wave of violence startedThe rocket fire was triggered by a botched Israeli military raid in Gaza on Sunday. Undercover troops, apparently on a reconnaissance mission, were discovered inside Gaza, setting of yeezy f a battle that left seven militants, including a Hamas commander, and a senior Israeli military officer dead. Hamas then fired a guided missile that struck a bus from which soldiers had just disembarked, marking an upgrade over its typical inaccurate projectiles. Ohcz New U.S. Sanctions Draw Iranian Ire
TIMBUKTU, Mali Troops from France and Chad moved into Kidal in an effort to secur stanley quencher e the strategic north Malian city, a French official said Tuesday, as the international force put further pressure on the Islamic extremists to push them out of their last major bastion of control in the north.Some 1,800 Chadian troops are holding Kidal city and an unspecified number of French troops were stanley website further securing the Kidal airport so that they can bring in more forces, a French military official said Tuesday. The official was not authorized to be publicly named according to French military policy. Troops have had control of the airport stanley flasche for several days.The French-led military intervention against advancing Islamic fighters started more than three weeks ago and has pushed quickly into Mali s north. France s government fears the region could become a haven for international terrorists.France bombs 20 sites in northern MaliTimbuktu celebrates defeat of Islamist extremistsMali desert nomads reenter fight against militantsThe French last week began a campaign of air strikes on Islamic rebel outposts around Kidal and Tessalit. French Mirage and Rafale fighter jets have flown 135 sorties since Thursday and targeted 25 sites, primarily fuel and logistics depots, the French Defense Ministry said. And France ramped up its presence in Mali to 4,000 troops as of Tuesday, the official said. That s about the same number as France had at the height of its 11-year military presence in Afghanistan.While