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JERUSALEM - Israel and Hamas on Monday accepted an Egyptian cease-fire proposal meant to halt a monthlong war, signaling an end to the bloodiest round of fighting between the bitter enemies could finally adidas campus 00s be approaching.The sides said a preliminary 72-hour truce was to begin at 8 a.m. 1 a.m. EDT Tuesday. Egypt was then set to host indirect talks crocs to work out a long-term truce over the next three days. At 8 a.m. local time tomorrow a cease-fire starts and Israel will cease all military operations against terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip, said Israel yeezy i government spokesman Mark Regev. Israel will honor the cease-fire and will be watching to see if Hamas does to. Fighting in Gaza continues 18 photos A delegation of Palestinian officials from various factions, including Hamas, has been negotiating with Egypt in recent days. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said the group had accepted the plan. It s clear now that the interest of all parties is to have a cease-fire, said Bassam Salhi, a member of the Palestinian delegation. It s going to be tough negotiations because Israel has demands too. Several previous cease-fires have collapsed, including a similar plan for a 72-hour truce that broke down last Friday in heavy fighting. Both sides blamed each o Vopd Pyongyang Talks War, US Holds Drills Off Korea
Jorge Mario Bergoglio - who will be now known as Pope Francis - has spent nearly his entire career at home in Argentina, overseeing churches and shoe-leather priests. The 76-year-old archbishop of Buenos Aires reportedly got the second-most votes after Joseph Ratzinger in the 2005 papal election, and he has long specialized in the kind of pastoral work that some say is an essential skill for the next pope. He is the first Jesuit to be elected pope. Pope Francis 26 photos In a lifetime of teaching and leading priests in Latin America, which has the largest share of the world s Catholics, Bergoglio has shown a keen political sensibility as well as t stanley becher he kind of self-effacing humility that f stanley cup ellow cardinals value highly. Papal expert Christopher Bellitto told CBSNews said he was surprised by Bergoglio s election but noted that the new pope s credibility and simplicity will serve the church well. He looks like he can sit on the park bench with a lot of people along the ideological spectrum - and that I think is critical, Bellitto said. Bergoglio is known for modernizing an Argentine church that had been among the most conservative in stanley cup quencher Latin America.Bergoglio is known to be conservative on spiritual issues. He opposes abortion, same-sex marriage a

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Londonmdash; The head of the main public health body for the African Union, Africa CDC, has told CBS News that the coronavirus epidemic is an existential war for the continent. What s keeping me up at night is two things, Dr. John Nkengasong told CBS News Debora Patta: That Africa will be hit in a significant way, just as we see is happening in Europe, and we don t have the capacity to respond. There have been 5,954 reported cases of the COVID-19 disease across Africa thus far, according to CBS News p nike dunk artner network BBC News, and 204 people are confirmed to have died of it. But th crocs hausschuhe ere are concerns among experts that the virus could spread rapidly among people living in deprived, cramped conditions like refugee camps and prisons, and that many countries don t have the health infrastructure to cope. Extremely devastating for us My biggest fear is that the situation we are seeing in Europe, in the United States, and what we saw in China, will be in play in Africa, and that will be extremely devastating for us. Given that health systems are weak, given that we don t have enough health care workers to take care of this s adidas samba cenario, and also given what we are dealing with, with respect to a shortage of supplies for basic prevention and even testing, Nkengasong told CBS News.He said the scarcity of key supplies hitting other parts of the world was being felt acutely in Africa, as basics like swabs to carry out coronavirus tests were running out. We really have to conduct Gvun Russia establishes new foothold in Syria amid spike in violence
As West African peacekeeping forces drove into Liberia s rebel-besieged, famished capital on Thursday to deafening cheers from the city s people, President Charles Taylor announced his successor.The announcement is a step toward his much-anticipated resignation and toward ending two months of bloody warfare in Monrovia that has killed at least 1,000 people.In a letter to Congress, Taylor said he would hand power to his vice president, Moses Blah. Lawmakers approved the decision, paving the way for Taylor s stepping down Monday, as promised.Earlier Thursday, more than 100 Nigerian troops blew kisses and waved handkerchiefs as they traveled 30 miles from their airport base stanley fr into Monrovia in white armored personnel carriers, trucks and sports utility vehicles.It was not clear when the Nigerian peacekeepers would begin patrolling the streets of Monrovia, but, as CBS News reports, their very presence has brought new hope to a land broken by 14 years of war. Thousands of Liberians crammed the shoulders of the roads alo stanley cup ng the way, chanting, We want peace, no more war. I m going with them, said Prince Phillip, one young man running alongside the convoy. We need to eat, we re tired of this war. There is going to be a big change, it is going to be a great thing for Liberia and I see it as prosperity and a blessing on L stanley termosy iberia, onlooker Mayvne Pyne told CBS News. The city s desperate people have been clamoring for rescue by peacekeepers, meant to come between the warri

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Washington mdash; Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, testified to the House committees leading the impeachment inquiry that Rudy Giuliani, President Trump s personal attorney, worked to have her removed from her post.According to a transcript of her testimony October 11 released Monday, Yovanovitch testified she learned in late 2018 that Giuliani and former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko had plans to do things, including to me. She said Lutsenko and Giuliani had several me hoka laufschuhe etings, and Lutsenko sought to remove her in retribution for the embassy s efforts to rid the prosecutor general s office of corruption.She and other State Department officials had concerns about Giuliani s role in Ukraine, according to her testimony, but they did not feel they could stop Giuliani s efforts. Giuliani spread rumors about Yovanovitch, including allegations she opposed Mr. Trump and was standing in the way of investigations into alleged Ukrainian interference in the 2016 elections and the Bidens.The longtim yeezy e ambassador said she never directed, suggested, or in any other way asked, for any government or government official in Ukraine or elsewhere to refrain from investigating or prosecuting actual corruption. She said she wanted Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to put out a statement in support of her, but that such a statement never materialized. Yovanovitch said there was concern that the rug would be pulled out from underneath the Stat yeezy e Department if the Watf Heathrow cancels 260 flights, thanks to snow
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A suicide attacker on a motorcycle blew himself up in a market in a Pakistani town close to the Afghan border on Friday, killing 23 Shiite Muslims and wounding 50 people, officials said.After the blasts in Parachinar town in Kurram region, security officials fired on people who took to the streets to protest, killing three of them, said local government administrator Wajid Ali.Violence by Sunni extremists against Shiites is common in Pakistan, a Muslim country dominated by Sunnis but home to a sizable Shiite minority. Kurram is the only region along the Afghan bord stanley cup er that has a majority of Shiites, and has seen bloody outbreaks of sectarian violence in recent years.Sunni extremist groups such as al Qaeda and the Taliban often believe Shiites are infidels and stanley us that it is permissible or even praiseworthy to kill them. The emergence of those groups in the country over the last 10 years has added to the frequency and viciousness of attacks against Shiites.Local government administrator Wajid Ali said the bomber struck in a market in the northwestern town of Parachinar. Many of the 23 dead were shoppers or people with stalls in the market, he said.Al-Shabab, al Qaeda alliance a desperate bid Divisions within Taliban make peace elusiveU.S. report: Taliban s strength, resolve intactA local stanley flask Taliban commander, Fazal Saeed Haqqani, claimed responsibility for the attack in a call to local journalists.He justified the attack by saying that Shiites had been atta

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A woman who snuck onto a Delta Air Lines flight from New York City to Paris without a boarding pass last week was removed from a return flight Saturday after creating a disturbance prior to takeoff. CBS News has confirmed that the stowaway created a disruption Saturday on Delta Flight No. 265, bound from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to John F. Kennedy International Airport. She was removed by French law enforcement, causing a delay of more than two hours before the flight s eventual departure. She remained in French custody, CBS News learned, and was still in Paris as of Tuesday.A person familiar with the matter told CBS News Tuesday that the woman was basically in limbo at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport.French authorities had escorted her t adidas samba o the plane but were not traveling with her. She became disruptive while on board and police were called to remove her. Although her name has not been released by authorities, two people familiar with the matter identified the woman to CBS News Saturday as 57-year-old Svetlana Dali.The woman has a driver s license showing nike dunk she is a Philadelphia resident. She is in the U.S. on a green card, according to a person familiar who did not immediately know what her native country was. The French Ministry of the Interior identified her as a Russian national. The situation initially unfolded on Nov. 26, when the woman boarded Delta Flight No. 265 from JFK Airport to Paris without a boarding pass. The flight was not s nike af old out, and she wa Twgd Report: Afghan girl from iconic National Geographic photo freed on bail
Five U.S. soldiers were killed and five wounded in an ambush in Baghdad when unknown assailants attacked a U.S. Army patrol near the Shiite district of Sadr City. Sadr stanley thermos City, a Shiite slum, is one of the strongholds of Muqtada al Sadr, the firebrand cleric who slammed the Iraqi interim government.The 10 soldiers were members of Task Force Baghdad, which is made up primarily of the Texas-based 1st Cavalry Division.Reports from the scene described the wreckage of a Humvee engulfed in flames and smoke as U.S. troops cordoned off the area and evacuated the wounded. As soldiers tried to drag victims from the burning wreckage, gunmen opened fire, reports CBS News Correspondent Charles D Agata. Also Friday, the U.S. military and Shiite militia loyal to a radical cleric agreed Friday to withdraw from areas around holy shrines south of Baghdad and turn over security to Iraqi police, an Iraqi official said. In a televised address to the nation, the new prime minister, Iyad Al water bottle stanley lawi, said that a rapid U.S. withdrawal from Iraq after the handover of sovereignty would be a major disaster since Iraqis are not ready to handle t stanley water jug heir own security.The reported agreement with cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr in the twin cities of Najaf and Kufa is broadly similar to the accord that ended the bloody, three-week Marine siege of Fallujah, a Sunni insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad. The Marines struck a deal there to lift the siege and hand over security to an Iraqi force commanded by former officers

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Scientists say the hole in the Earth s protective ozone layer over the Southern Hemisphere is larger than usual this year and already surpasses the size of Antarctica.The European Union s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service said Thursday that the so-called ozone hole, which appears every year during the Southern Hemisphere spring, has grown considerably in the past week following an average start. This image, provided on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021 by the European Space Agency ESA shows a map of the ozone hole over the South Pole on September 16, 2021. / AP Forecasts show that this yearacute hole has evolved into a rather larger than usual one, said Vincent-Henri Peuch, who heads the EU s satellite monitoring service. We are looking at a quite big and potentially also deep ozone hole, he said.Atmospheric ozone absorbs ultraviolet light coming from the sun. Its absence means more of this high-energy radiation reaches the Earth, where it can harm living cells. Peuch noted that last year s ozone hole nike air max also started out unremarkably but then turned into one of the longest-lasting ones on record. 127760;What s going on with the Antarctic Ozon adidas original campus eHole It has considerably grown in the last weeks at present it is in the 25% largest in nike dunk high our data record since 1979. Can you see it form grow over the last few months in this animation CAMS ozone monitori Sbpe North Korea responds to Sony hack attack allegations
Three separate blasts in Iraq killed 15 people Wednesday, as the three year anniversary of Saddam Hussein s capture by U.S. forces passed barely noticed amid the raging sectarian violence.In the first and most deadly blast, a car bomb exploded near a crowded bus stop in eastern Baghdad during morning rush hour, killing 11 people and wounding 27 in a mostly Shiite area, police said.The blast in Kamaliyah neighborhood also occurred about 50 yards from the Shiite al-Rasoul mosque but did not damage t stanley cup he s stanley cup quencher mall building, said police Capt. Mohammed Abdul-Ghani and police Maj. Mahir Hamad. A Volkswage stanley cup n car exploded right near the bus stop, hitting a group of people, including women and children who were waiting to take a bus to a fruit and vegetable market, said one witness, Abu Haider al-Kaabi.The poor area of Baghdad appeared to be the latest target of widespread sectarian violence in the capital involving Sunni Arabs and Shiites. On Nov. 23, suspected Sunni insurgents carried out the deadliest single attack of the Iraq war by using bombs and mortars to kill 215 people in the capital s Shiite slum of Sadr City. In other attacks in Iraq, men armed with guns and explosives destroyed a small Shiite shrine in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, early Wednesday, causing no injuries, and gunmen killed a nine-member Shiite family in an attack on their house in Hasna village south of the capital, police said.Iraqi troops also opened fire on two suicide car bombers who drove up

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The Islamic militants holding James Foley emailed his family a week before his execution, threatening that the journalist would be killed soon in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes in Iraq.GlobalPost, the Boston-based online publication that employed Foley, said Thursday it decided to post the entire text of the email in the interest of transparency and to fully tell Jim s story. It said it had rece salomon ived permission from Foley s parents, John and Diane Foley of Rochester, New Hampshire.Foley s parents received the email on Aug. 12. The message from the Islamic Sate of Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS, was addressed to the American government and their sheep like citizens. Remembering James Foley 02:03 The group expressed anger at not having their demands met, which included a ransom of $132.5 million from Foley s parents and political concess nike dunk ions from the United States. The militants also said they were taking revenge for U.S. airstrikes on I salomon hombre SIS fighters in northern Iraq: You do not spare our weak, elderly, women or children so we will NOT spare yours! You and your citizens will pay the price of your bombings! The first of which being the blood of the American citizen, James Foley! He will be executed as a DIRECT result of your transgressions towards us! Itsm Taliban Declares Truce Worthless
An American airman has died of his injuries after a helicopter carrying a wounded Af stanley cup website ghan election worker crashed in western Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Thursday.Technical problems mdash; not hostile fire mdash; brought the HH-60 helicopter down in Herat province late Wednesday stanley thermosflasche , spokeswoman Lt. Col. Pam Keeton said. Two other airmen were injured, one of them critically, she said.The election worker had been accidentally shot by a guard earlier in the day and the helicopter had been transporting him out for medical treatment. He suffered no further injuries in the crash.Interim leader Hamid Karzai, meanwhile, appeared even more likely to win Afghanistan s landmark presidential poll with nearly two-thirds of the vote counted mdash; but his margin looked slightly narrower as tallies rose for other candidates.The Oct. 9 election, hoped to usher in peace after two decades of war, was a setback to Taliban rebels who failed to deliver on threats to derail the vote. Yet they continued to launch sporadic attacks in the lawless south and east of the country. A homemade bomb destroyed two American Humvee vehicles in southeastern Paktika province near the Pakistan border, wounding three U.S. soldiers, one critically, and their Afghan interpreter, a U.S. militar water bottle stanley y statement said.All the wounded were taken to Camp Salerno, a U.S. military base in neighboring Khost province, for treatment.Paktika Gov. Gulab Mungal said Afghan forces later arrested a suspect in the attack, wh

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Russia admitted two years into its invasion of Ukraine on Friday that it was in a state of war, as it launched a massive wave of missile and drone attacks on its neighbor s territory. The admission marks an escalation in official language used to describe the conflict, which the Kremlin initially referred to as a special military operation. Russia fired almost 90 missiles and more than 60 Iranian-designed kamikaze drones, damaging dozens of energy facilities, including power stations, in what Ukrainian officials said was an attempt to cripple the country s electricity and heating network.As Ukraine aid languishes, 15 House members work on end run to approve fundsAt least three people were killed and more than 20 injured, according to the adidas originals interior ministry and nike af local officials. We are in a state of war, K salomon gtx remlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview given to a pro-Kremlin newspaper, published Friday. Yes, it started as a special military operation, but as soon as this bunch was formed there, when the collective West became a participant on Ukraine s side, for us it already became a war, Peskov said.Moscow often accuses the West of direct participation in the conflict by supplying Ukraine with weapons. Later on Friday, Peskov elaborated on his remarks to journalists. This is a special military operation, nothing has changed. I m saying that essentially after the collective West entered, it turned into a war for us. This is not related to any legal changes. T Bzty Cult leader rsquo daughter may upend South Korea presidency
The United States and Britain are pushing for a quick vote on a new Iraq resolution, but France and Germany are backing an amendment to ensure that Iraq s new interim government can veto major operation stanley mugs s by the U.S.-led multinational force.U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte said a revised draft mdash; the fourth in two weeks mdash; will be introduced on Monday. The United States is hoping to finalize the text Monday night, with the idea of voting on it on Tuesday afternoon or Tuesday evening, he said.Approval of the resolution would take debate over its contents off the agenda at the Group of Eigh stanley cup t summit, which President Bush is hosting starting on Tuesday. If the good will generated in Europe by the President over the weekend is extended to find a solution, then everyone walks away with a diplomatic success with the U.N. playing the lead role in a sovereign Iraq, said CBS News Foreign Affairs Analyst Pamela Falk. But on the weekend, differences surfaced over the command of multinational forces: France proposed language late Sunday that would give Iraq authority to decide on sensitive offensive operations while the Bush administration has proposed a compromise which has U.S. troops under U.S. command but allows the new Iraqi government to ask foreign military forces to leave, Falk added. A lot of credibility is resting on the optimistic foreca stanley flask sts that members of the Bush Administration foreign policy have made about agreement at the U.N., Falk said, but the lang

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WASHINGTON -- A senior U.S. military official for the first time says the U.S.-led coalition has killed 50,000 militants with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, in the last two years in Iraq and adidas originals uomo Syria. The Battle for Mosul 11:37 The official said it was a conservative estimate, but itrsquo a bit more than what others have stated before. U.S. leaders have expressed reluctance to disclose specific numbers, and note that ISIS has been able to replace fighters rapidly, particularly early on.In August, Lt. Gen. Sean MacFarland said about 45,0 yeezy 00 combatants have been taken off the battlefields.The official says coalition airstrikes could be more aggressive in places like Mosul, where Iraqi troops are battling to retake the city, but civilian casualties are a risk. The official wasnrsquo;t authorized to discuss the matter publicly so spoke on condition of anonymity.The official said the U.S. was concerned about ISIS fighters going into hiding, CBS Radio News correspondent Cami McCormick reports. These are the guys that went to ground before when they were under a lot of pressure in the 2009-2010 time frame. Literally went to ground in the sanctuary of eastern Syria and western Iraq - Anbar, Ninewah - and then in two y samba rose earsrsquo; time came back manifested as ISIL, the off Pllx Former hostage of Iran wants Biden to make prisoner release a priority
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in an interview published Thursday that creation of a Palestinian state is a vital Israeli interest, and that failure to reach a peace agreement could plunge Israel into a South African-style apartheid struggle.Such a scenario, he said, would mean the state of Israel is finished. While Olmert has long said that the region s demography is working against Israel, the comments published in Haaretz were among his strongest as he prepares a skeptical public for the renewed peace talks launched a stanley cups uk t this week s conference in Annapolis, Md.It will be a hard sell, reports CBS News correspondent Robert Berger: two polls show that 42 to 50 percent of Israelis beli stanley cup quencher eve Annapolis was a failure.Olmert s reference to apartheid was particularly explosive because Israeli officials have long rejected any comparison to the racist system once in place in South Africa. Olmert was en route back to Israel at midday Thursday, and his o stanley becher ffice could not immediately confirm the accuracy of the published comments in Haaretz.In other developments: Israeli police on Thursday recommended that prosecutors drop their investigation into whether Olmert illegally intervened in the government s sale of a bank, citing a lack of evidence, police said. The decision gave Olmert an important boost as he prepares to relaunch peace talks with the Palestinians. The threat of indictment has cast a cloud over Olmert for months. In a closed-door session during the Mideast summit, Israel

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Former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan speaks from insid air force 1 e a defendants cage during a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, June 20, 2019. adidas originals hamburg REUTERS Moscow mdash; A Russian court has upheld an earlier ruling allowing the extended detentionof a former U.S. Marine jailed in Moscow on espionage charges. Moscow s appellate court rejected Paul Whelan s appeal Tuesday against the ruling last year that granted Russian authorities permission to keep him in custody until March 29, pending a trial. Whelan, 49, was arrested in a Moscow hotel room more than 13 months ago. Russian investigators claim he was caught red-handed after receiving a USB computer drive containing classified information. He denies the allegations and insists he was framed. Whelan s family says he came to Russia to attend a friend s wedding, and believed the USB drive handed to him by an acquaintance contained vacation photos.The hearing on Tuesday was held behind closed doors and media were only allowed inside the courtroom to hear the verdict, without phones or cameras. Whelan was banned from speaking to the reporters. After reading the ruling, the presiding judge asked through a court translator if it was clear to Whelan. hoka I knew the decision before I came here today, he replied from behind the glass of the enclosed defendant s cage. He was smiling and asked the judge if he could have a cake for his 50th birthday next month. Maov Collin Morikawa, 24, wins British Open for his second major championship
AP stanley cup Israeli investigators search for evidence at the site of a suicide bombing in northern Israel. A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at a bus stop, killi stanley cups ng a policeman. This act of terror brought a six-week lull in stanley polska attacks on Israelis to an end. Umm el-Fahm, Sept. 18 AP Israeli border police officers secure the area as Israeli Arabs look on at the site of the suicide attack. Umm el-Fahm, Sept. 18 AP Israeli police investigators search for evidence in a damaged police van. Umm el-Fahm, Sept. 18 AP Israeli volunteers carry the remains of a body as others in the background search for evidence at the site of the explosion. Ramallah, Sept. 19 AP A hospital morgue medic examines the body of 12-year-old Abd El-Salam Fawzi. A witness claimed that the Palestinian boy, who was breaking curfew to buy cigarettes for his father, was killed by Israeli army fire. The army is looking into the killing. Ramallah, Sept. 19

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The cleanup from the earth stanley cup quake that hit southern Mexico Thursday began almost as soon as the earth finally stopped shaking, CBS News Correspondent Bob McNamara reports.More than 3,000 buildings were damaged, cars were crushed and most of the 20 confirmed deaths -- including an 18-year-old woman -- were the result of falling debris from century-old buildings.Teresa de Jesus Garcia, 18, died when she ran out of the stationery store where she worked and was hit by fallin stanley canada g bricks. Since her weekly pay, the equivalent of $3.20, was her family s main income, friends appealed for help for the girl s mother and grandmother.Schools across the state of Oaxaca were closed until Monday to allow time for authorities to evaluate damage. The quake s magnitude registered more than stanley us seven on the Richter scale. And, while the death and damage it brought to Mexico was hardly on the scale of recent killer quakes in Taiwan and Turkey, the magnitude of fear it registered in Oaxaca was widespread. It just didn t stop, it kept going, remembers Oaxaca resident Milton Sanders. Shaking one way and then the other. The quake struck as Oaxaca s governor met with scores of school children. As ripples went out from the epicenter, located between the Pacific resorts of Puerto Escondido and Huatulco, utility poles and palm trees swayed nearly 300 miles away in Mexico City.Understanding Earthquakes:One of the more frightening and destructive phenomena of nature is a severe earthquake and its terrible