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Iraq government and allied forces battled Sunni militants threatening a major military air base in Balad, north of Baghdad, military officials said Wednesday. The militants had advanced into the nearby town of Yathrib, just three miles fr air max 2 om the former U.S. base, which was known as Camp Anaconda. The offi asics outlets cials insisted the base was not in immediate danger of falling into the hands of the militants.Underling the persistent danger of Iraq being swept up again by sectarian bloodletting, a suicide bomber blew himself up at an outdoor market in a Shiite area of Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 15 people and wounding 30, police and hospital officials said. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but it bore the hallmarks of Sunni militants who have for years targeted security forces and Shiite civilians. Shiite volunteers mobilize behind religious air max 1 leader in Iraq 02:33 Mortar shell also slammed into different areas in the city, killing six more people and wounding 11, the officials said.And in the northern oil-city of Kirkuk, a suicide bomber struck a checkpoint manned by Kurdish security forces, killing six people, including four civilians, the city s deputy police chief Maj. Gen. Torhan Abdul-Rahman Youssef said.Earlier Wednesday, Sunni militants launched a dawn raid on a key Iraq Rtcp A Snowless Winter
U.N. inspectors entered a once-secret uranium enrichment facility with bunker-like construction and heavy military protection that raised stanley mugs Western suspicions about the extent and intent of Iran s nuclear program.The visit Sunday by the four-member International Atomic Energy Agency team, reported by state media, was the first independent look inside the planned nuclear fuel lab, a former ammunition dump burrowed into the treeless hills south of Tehran and only publicly disclosed last month. The inspectors are expected to study plant blueprints, interview workers and take soil samples before wrapping up the three-day mission.No results from the inspection are expected until the t stanley uk eam leaves the country, but some Iranian officials hailed the visit as an example that their nuclear program was open to international scrutiny. IAEA inspectors visit to Fordo s stanley termohrnek hows that Iran s nuclear activities are transparent and peaceful, the official IRNA news agency quoted lawmaker Hasan Ebrahimi as saying.Another test of Iran s cooperation is fast approaching, however. Iran has promised to respond this week to a U.N.-brokered deal to process its nuclear fuel abroad - a plan designed to ease Western fears about Iran s potential ability to produce weapons-grade material. The current inspection of Iran s second enrichment site came about a month after Tehran disclosed its existence in a letter to the IAEA, the U.N. s nuclear watchdog. The notification to the U.N. agency came just days befor
Iraq government and allied forces battled Sunni militants threatening a major military air base in Balad, north of Baghdad, military officials said Wednesday. The militants had advanced into the nearby town of Yathrib, just three miles fr air max 2 om the former U.S. base, which was known as Camp Anaconda. The offi asics outlets cials insisted the base was not in immediate danger of falling into the hands of the militants.Underling the persistent danger of Iraq being swept up again by sectarian bloodletting, a suicide bomber blew himself up at an outdoor market in a Shiite area of Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 15 people and wounding 30, police and hospital officials said. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but it bore the hallmarks of Sunni militants who have for years targeted security forces and Shiite civilians. Shiite volunteers mobilize behind religious air max 1 leader in Iraq 02:33 Mortar shell also slammed into different areas in the city, killing six more people and wounding 11, the officials said.And in the northern oil-city of Kirkuk, a suicide bomber struck a checkpoint manned by Kurdish security forces, killing six people, including four civilians, the city s deputy police chief Maj. Gen. Torhan Abdul-Rahman Youssef said.Earlier Wednesday, Sunni militants launched a dawn raid on a key Iraq Rtcp A Snowless Winter
U.N. inspectors entered a once-secret uranium enrichment facility with bunker-like construction and heavy military protection that raised stanley mugs Western suspicions about the extent and intent of Iran s nuclear program.The visit Sunday by the four-member International Atomic Energy Agency team, reported by state media, was the first independent look inside the planned nuclear fuel lab, a former ammunition dump burrowed into the treeless hills south of Tehran and only publicly disclosed last month. The inspectors are expected to study plant blueprints, interview workers and take soil samples before wrapping up the three-day mission.No results from the inspection are expected until the t stanley uk eam leaves the country, but some Iranian officials hailed the visit as an example that their nuclear program was open to international scrutiny. IAEA inspectors visit to Fordo s stanley termohrnek hows that Iran s nuclear activities are transparent and peaceful, the official IRNA news agency quoted lawmaker Hasan Ebrahimi as saying.Another test of Iran s cooperation is fast approaching, however. Iran has promised to respond this week to a U.N.-brokered deal to process its nuclear fuel abroad - a plan designed to ease Western fears about Iran s potential ability to produce weapons-grade material. The current inspection of Iran s second enrichment site came about a month after Tehran disclosed its existence in a letter to the IAEA, the U.N. s nuclear watchdog. The notification to the U.N. agency came just days befor
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PALO ALTO, Calif. -- On crowded city streets, few things are more hated than parking tickets. That has made 19-year-old Joshua Browder a bit of a her salomon hombre o to thousands of drivers, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone. Joshua Browder CBS News Almost overnight it went from 40 people -- which I was very proud of -- to a few thousand, and then it just built up from there, Browder said.He s talking about his website, DoNotPay.co.uk, which uses artificial intelligence to beat parking tickets. In his case, necessity was the mother of invention. After about the fourth ticket, my parents said to me, You re on your own, we re not going to help you out anymore. And I didn t have the money to pay for these tickets, Browder said.What he did have was computer programming skills he began l dunk panda earning when he was just a kid -- skills he used to create a robot lawyer, also known as a bot. The way it works is the bot asks a few questions about your ticket. For example, it will say, Were the signs easy to understand ... And once it finds out the issue from those responses it takes down a few details and then places all of these details into a challenge letter which is sent to the local authorities, Browder said. Browder, who just finished his freshman year at Stanford, launched DoNotPay last September in England. It has already saved adidas originals drivers an estimated $4 Rgmj Russia Wants Iran Nuke Promise
Israel s attorney general on Wednesday rejected a police recommendation to try former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges, clearing the way for the popular hard-liner to challenge Prime Minister Ehud Barak.In a 22-page statement distributed to news organizations, Elyakim Rubinstein cited difficulties with the evidence that made a conviction of Netanyahu and his wife Sara unlikely. Police suspected the couple of conspiring with a government contractor in a kickback scheme, illegally keeping gifts, and obstructing justice. I have decided t stanley quencher o close the file against Mr. Netanyahu concerning the suspicions attributed to him because of evidence insufficient for stanley becher a criminal trial, Rubinstein said.The announcement comes at a sensitive time for Barak, who soundly defeated Netanyahu in May 1999 elections. Barak s far-reaching peace proposals have lost him majority support in Parliament, and Netanyahu s hard-line Likud party hopes to force him out once Parliament reconvenes Oct. 30.Recent polls indicate that Barak would handily defeat Netanyahu s successor as party leader, Ariel Sharon, but the same polls show Barak and Netanyahu in a dead heat. Netanyahu is slated to arrive in Israel on Thursday from the stanley canada United States, and aides have strongly hinted that he will announce his return to the political fray before the Jewish New Year, which starts Friday afternoon. I think that any person who can contribute -- and Benjamin Netanyahu can contribute a lot -- to th
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- On crowded city streets, few things are more hated than parking tickets. That has made 19-year-old Joshua Browder a bit of a her salomon hombre o to thousands of drivers, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone. Joshua Browder CBS News Almost overnight it went from 40 people -- which I was very proud of -- to a few thousand, and then it just built up from there, Browder said.He s talking about his website, DoNotPay.co.uk, which uses artificial intelligence to beat parking tickets. In his case, necessity was the mother of invention. After about the fourth ticket, my parents said to me, You re on your own, we re not going to help you out anymore. And I didn t have the money to pay for these tickets, Browder said.What he did have was computer programming skills he began l dunk panda earning when he was just a kid -- skills he used to create a robot lawyer, also known as a bot. The way it works is the bot asks a few questions about your ticket. For example, it will say, Were the signs easy to understand ... And once it finds out the issue from those responses it takes down a few details and then places all of these details into a challenge letter which is sent to the local authorities, Browder said. Browder, who just finished his freshman year at Stanford, launched DoNotPay last September in England. It has already saved adidas originals drivers an estimated $4 Rgmj Russia Wants Iran Nuke Promise
Israel s attorney general on Wednesday rejected a police recommendation to try former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges, clearing the way for the popular hard-liner to challenge Prime Minister Ehud Barak.In a 22-page statement distributed to news organizations, Elyakim Rubinstein cited difficulties with the evidence that made a conviction of Netanyahu and his wife Sara unlikely. Police suspected the couple of conspiring with a government contractor in a kickback scheme, illegally keeping gifts, and obstructing justice. I have decided t stanley quencher o close the file against Mr. Netanyahu concerning the suspicions attributed to him because of evidence insufficient for stanley becher a criminal trial, Rubinstein said.The announcement comes at a sensitive time for Barak, who soundly defeated Netanyahu in May 1999 elections. Barak s far-reaching peace proposals have lost him majority support in Parliament, and Netanyahu s hard-line Likud party hopes to force him out once Parliament reconvenes Oct. 30.Recent polls indicate that Barak would handily defeat Netanyahu s successor as party leader, Ariel Sharon, but the same polls show Barak and Netanyahu in a dead heat. Netanyahu is slated to arrive in Israel on Thursday from the stanley canada United States, and aides have strongly hinted that he will announce his return to the political fray before the Jewish New Year, which starts Friday afternoon. I think that any person who can contribute -- and Benjamin Netanyahu can contribute a lot -- to th
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BRUSSELS -- Galvanized by the recent terror attacks in France, European Union leaders on Thursday debate a range of ambitious steps to better protect their 28 nations, including exchanging airliner passenger manifests, tightening controls at the border and combating extremism on the Internet. Europe is facing an unprecedented, diverse and serious terrorist threat, Gilles de Kerchove, the bloc s counter-terrorism coordinator, told EU member governments in a report last month.Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics, whose nation holds the EU s six-month revolving presidency, said Tuesday the often fractious members had reached broad consensus on what actions to take, and share the strong will to implement them.But Wednesday, an EU official, briefing journalists on condi air max 2 tion he not be identified by name or function, said work was still going on to fin adidas original campus alize the list of recommended actions to be submitted to the leaders at the summit for their approval.EU terror chief urges rehab, not prison, for jihadisDo European police need more firepower 1st charges in Paris terror attacksCounter-terrorism policy shot to the top of the EU agenda following the Jan. 7-9 terror attacks in Paris against a satirical weekly, a policewo adidas campus 80s man and a kosher grocery store that claimed a total of 17 victims. The three gunmen, who proclaimed allegiance to al Qaeda in Yemen and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS , were also shot dead by French police. The attacks stunned Europe and mobilize Jxwp Migrants and refugees caught up in Belarus-EU hybrid warfare are freezing to death in no man s land
AP ROME 151; An explosive device went off outside a high school in southern Italy named after a slain anti-Mafia prosecutor as stanley thermobecher students arrived for class Saturday, killing one of them and wounding seven others, officials sai stanley water jug d.The device went off just before 8 a.m. in the Adriatic port town of Brindisi just as students milled outside, chatting and getting ready for class at the vocational institute named after the slain anti-Mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone and his wife.Falcone and his wife were killed by a Mafia blast in Sicily exactly 20 years ago this weekend, but it was unclear if there was an organized crime link to Saturday s explosion.There were no immediate claims of responsibility.Just three days ago, government officials announced security was being stepped up throughout the country, following a shooting which wounded a nuclear energy official and several threats or explosions of devices at offices of a tax collection agency. In Brindisi, local civil protection agency official Fabiano Amati said a female student died of her wounds after being taken to a hospital and seven other students were hospitalized.Sky TG24TV said the victim was a 16-year-old girl.Officials initially stanley kubek said the device was in a trash bin outside the Morvillo-Falcone school, but later the Italian news agency ANSA, reporting from Brindisi, said the device had been placed on a low wall ringing the school.Public high schools in Italy hold classes on Saturday mornings. The bombin
BRUSSELS -- Galvanized by the recent terror attacks in France, European Union leaders on Thursday debate a range of ambitious steps to better protect their 28 nations, including exchanging airliner passenger manifests, tightening controls at the border and combating extremism on the Internet. Europe is facing an unprecedented, diverse and serious terrorist threat, Gilles de Kerchove, the bloc s counter-terrorism coordinator, told EU member governments in a report last month.Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics, whose nation holds the EU s six-month revolving presidency, said Tuesday the often fractious members had reached broad consensus on what actions to take, and share the strong will to implement them.But Wednesday, an EU official, briefing journalists on condi air max 2 tion he not be identified by name or function, said work was still going on to fin adidas original campus alize the list of recommended actions to be submitted to the leaders at the summit for their approval.EU terror chief urges rehab, not prison, for jihadisDo European police need more firepower 1st charges in Paris terror attacksCounter-terrorism policy shot to the top of the EU agenda following the Jan. 7-9 terror attacks in Paris against a satirical weekly, a policewo adidas campus 80s man and a kosher grocery store that claimed a total of 17 victims. The three gunmen, who proclaimed allegiance to al Qaeda in Yemen and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS , were also shot dead by French police. The attacks stunned Europe and mobilize Jxwp Migrants and refugees caught up in Belarus-EU hybrid warfare are freezing to death in no man s land
AP ROME 151; An explosive device went off outside a high school in southern Italy named after a slain anti-Mafia prosecutor as stanley thermobecher students arrived for class Saturday, killing one of them and wounding seven others, officials sai stanley water jug d.The device went off just before 8 a.m. in the Adriatic port town of Brindisi just as students milled outside, chatting and getting ready for class at the vocational institute named after the slain anti-Mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone and his wife.Falcone and his wife were killed by a Mafia blast in Sicily exactly 20 years ago this weekend, but it was unclear if there was an organized crime link to Saturday s explosion.There were no immediate claims of responsibility.Just three days ago, government officials announced security was being stepped up throughout the country, following a shooting which wounded a nuclear energy official and several threats or explosions of devices at offices of a tax collection agency. In Brindisi, local civil protection agency official Fabiano Amati said a female student died of her wounds after being taken to a hospital and seven other students were hospitalized.Sky TG24TV said the victim was a 16-year-old girl.Officials initially stanley kubek said the device was in a trash bin outside the Morvillo-Falcone school, but later the Italian news agency ANSA, reporting from Brindisi, said the device had been placed on a low wall ringing the school.Public high schools in Italy hold classes on Saturday mornings. The bombin
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SEOUL -- Momoland is the new sensation in the world of Korean popular music, the $5-billion-a-year genre known as K-pop. Momoland s latest song, Boom Boom, is a hit with their legions of fans.It s also an unlikely weapon against North Korea, where K-pop is reportedly banned. The South Korean military blasts music across the border to let North Koreans know what they re missing. K-pop group Momoland is a hit in South Korea CBS News South Korean pop culture is a big export in Asia, and is even making inroads in the West. There s also K-drama, which are blockbuster South Korean soap operas. They re officially prohibited in No salomon xt rth Korea, as is the internet. Instead there s a diet of government propaganda and Stalinist entertainment. But some North Koreans manage to get their hands on black-market copies of South Korean soap operas.For Kim Hak-Min, a North Korean defector turned busi nike air force nessman, they were proof the regime was lying to him. His adidas campus 80s favorite was Lovers in Paris. It was fantastic in my life, he said. Flash drives containing soap operas are put in bottles with hopes they ll float to North Korea CBS News Hoping other North Koreans will see the light, one aid group called No Chain for North Korea, puts flash drives containing soap operas and movies inside bott Htnp Indian girl says she was raped by same 5 men 3 years apart
Officials say a huge explosion near the Danish embassy in Pakistan s capital has killed at least four people, wounded several more and badly damaged the embassy.CBS News Farhan Bokhari reports that Asmatullah Marwat, an emerg gourde stanley ency official with Islamabad s ambulance service, put the death toll at eight, and said one of those killed appeared to be a Westerner. My relief staff have taken away eight bodies including one who looked like a foreign man, he told CBS News.However, according to other official sources, four people wer stanley cups uk e killed in the blast. Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller said the bomb had killed an embassy worker and injured three others. He said the explosion killed a Pakistani cleaner and seriously injured a handyman at the embassy. Two office workers were also injured. Moeller said the Danish government did not know who was behind the blast but that they were in touch with Pakistani officials.An Associated Press correspondent at the scene said people were in a state of panic after the explosion rocked Islamabad at around 1 p.m. Monday.Police officer Jamal Khan said ea stanley canada rlier that at least three people were dead and eight others wounded.Pakistani state television also said at least eight people had died in the blast, and showed extensive damage in the area surrounding the embassy. Shattered glass, fallen masonry and dozens of wrecked vehicle littered the area.Interior Ministry secretary Kamal Shah confirmed there had been a blast outside th
SEOUL -- Momoland is the new sensation in the world of Korean popular music, the $5-billion-a-year genre known as K-pop. Momoland s latest song, Boom Boom, is a hit with their legions of fans.It s also an unlikely weapon against North Korea, where K-pop is reportedly banned. The South Korean military blasts music across the border to let North Koreans know what they re missing. K-pop group Momoland is a hit in South Korea CBS News South Korean pop culture is a big export in Asia, and is even making inroads in the West. There s also K-drama, which are blockbuster South Korean soap operas. They re officially prohibited in No salomon xt rth Korea, as is the internet. Instead there s a diet of government propaganda and Stalinist entertainment. But some North Koreans manage to get their hands on black-market copies of South Korean soap operas.For Kim Hak-Min, a North Korean defector turned busi nike air force nessman, they were proof the regime was lying to him. His adidas campus 80s favorite was Lovers in Paris. It was fantastic in my life, he said. Flash drives containing soap operas are put in bottles with hopes they ll float to North Korea CBS News Hoping other North Koreans will see the light, one aid group called No Chain for North Korea, puts flash drives containing soap operas and movies inside bott Htnp Indian girl says she was raped by same 5 men 3 years apart
Officials say a huge explosion near the Danish embassy in Pakistan s capital has killed at least four people, wounded several more and badly damaged the embassy.CBS News Farhan Bokhari reports that Asmatullah Marwat, an emerg gourde stanley ency official with Islamabad s ambulance service, put the death toll at eight, and said one of those killed appeared to be a Westerner. My relief staff have taken away eight bodies including one who looked like a foreign man, he told CBS News.However, according to other official sources, four people wer stanley cups uk e killed in the blast. Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller said the bomb had killed an embassy worker and injured three others. He said the explosion killed a Pakistani cleaner and seriously injured a handyman at the embassy. Two office workers were also injured. Moeller said the Danish government did not know who was behind the blast but that they were in touch with Pakistani officials.An Associated Press correspondent at the scene said people were in a state of panic after the explosion rocked Islamabad at around 1 p.m. Monday.Police officer Jamal Khan said ea stanley canada rlier that at least three people were dead and eight others wounded.Pakistani state television also said at least eight people had died in the blast, and showed extensive damage in the area surrounding the embassy. Shattered glass, fallen masonry and dozens of wrecked vehicle littered the area.Interior Ministry secretary Kamal Shah confirmed there had been a blast outside th
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Moscow mdash; A Russian film crew was getting reacclimated to life on Earth on Tuesday after a land mizuno laufschuhe mark first-ever nike dunk motion picture shooting session aboard th nike sb dunk e International Space Station. The crew returned safely to Earth on Sunday after spending 12 days on the ISS shooting scenes for the movie.Actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko landed in Kazakhstan early Sunday morning and were still undergoing rehabilitation in the Star City space training center near Moscow on Tuesday.Both of them participated in a news conference on Tuesday, and Shipenko revealed that the crew had managed to record about 30 hours of material while in space mdash; about 30 minutes of which he said would likely make it into the final cut of the movie, which has the working title The Challenge. Actress Yulia Peresild is seen on October 19, 2021, during a broadcast of a news conference with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and filmmaker Klim Shipenko after completing their space mission. Getty Images The plot, which has been kept largely under wraps mdash; along with its budget mdash; revolves around a surgeon, played by Peresild, who s sent to the ISS to help save a cosmonaut.The shoot was not without setbacks. As the film crew approached the space station earlier this month, the flight commander was forced to dock their Soyuz spacecraft manually due to a system malfunction. Days la Cbps U.S. veterans use art to help female Afghan soldiers who fled their country process their pain
Japanese police evacuated 34 people from an apartment building Wednesday after a man apparently killed himself by mixing chemicals and inhaling the stanley thermos mug deadly fumes, the latest in a string of similar suicides nationwide.Police said they were called to the scene in Kanazawa City, western Japan, when a resident found a sign on the door of an apartment warning of dangerous gases. After residents noticed a strange smell coming from the apartment, police moved them to a local community center.The body of a man was found in the apartment, along with cleaning and agricultural chemicals that produce deadly gasses when mixed, police officer Hiroshi Sakashita said.Japan has long battled a high s stanley cup uicide rate relative to other developed nations, and it is now in the grip of a wave of deaths from mixing commonly available chemicals to form hydrogen sulfide gas. The gas can form noxious clouds and also affect those who happen to be nearby, often triggering mass evacuations.Government data showed at least 84 such suicides throughout Japan in May. Police have begun cracking down on popular Web sites that give specific instructions for mixing the chemicals a stanley termohrnek nd encourage suicides. A total of 32,155 people killed themselves in 2006 in Japan, giving the country the ninth-highest suicide rate in the world, according to the government.Tokyo has earmarked $220 million for anti-suicide programs to help those with depression and other emotional problems.
Moscow mdash; A Russian film crew was getting reacclimated to life on Earth on Tuesday after a land mizuno laufschuhe mark first-ever nike dunk motion picture shooting session aboard th nike sb dunk e International Space Station. The crew returned safely to Earth on Sunday after spending 12 days on the ISS shooting scenes for the movie.Actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko landed in Kazakhstan early Sunday morning and were still undergoing rehabilitation in the Star City space training center near Moscow on Tuesday.Both of them participated in a news conference on Tuesday, and Shipenko revealed that the crew had managed to record about 30 hours of material while in space mdash; about 30 minutes of which he said would likely make it into the final cut of the movie, which has the working title The Challenge. Actress Yulia Peresild is seen on October 19, 2021, during a broadcast of a news conference with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and filmmaker Klim Shipenko after completing their space mission. Getty Images The plot, which has been kept largely under wraps mdash; along with its budget mdash; revolves around a surgeon, played by Peresild, who s sent to the ISS to help save a cosmonaut.The shoot was not without setbacks. As the film crew approached the space station earlier this month, the flight commander was forced to dock their Soyuz spacecraft manually due to a system malfunction. Days la Cbps U.S. veterans use art to help female Afghan soldiers who fled their country process their pain
Japanese police evacuated 34 people from an apartment building Wednesday after a man apparently killed himself by mixing chemicals and inhaling the stanley thermos mug deadly fumes, the latest in a string of similar suicides nationwide.Police said they were called to the scene in Kanazawa City, western Japan, when a resident found a sign on the door of an apartment warning of dangerous gases. After residents noticed a strange smell coming from the apartment, police moved them to a local community center.The body of a man was found in the apartment, along with cleaning and agricultural chemicals that produce deadly gasses when mixed, police officer Hiroshi Sakashita said.Japan has long battled a high s stanley cup uicide rate relative to other developed nations, and it is now in the grip of a wave of deaths from mixing commonly available chemicals to form hydrogen sulfide gas. The gas can form noxious clouds and also affect those who happen to be nearby, often triggering mass evacuations.Government data showed at least 84 such suicides throughout Japan in May. Police have begun cracking down on popular Web sites that give specific instructions for mixing the chemicals a stanley termohrnek nd encourage suicides. A total of 32,155 people killed themselves in 2006 in Japan, giving the country the ninth-highest suicide rate in the world, according to the government.Tokyo has earmarked $220 million for anti-suicide programs to help those with depression and other emotional problems.
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Dr. Jarno Limneacute;ll is Professor of Cyber Security at Aalto University in Finland. He holds a Doctor of Military Science degree from Finland s National Defense University.The speed and certitude with which the United States fingered North Korea in the Sony Pictures hack has unnerved dubious cyber experts worldwide. The attack was ostensibly motivated by Pyongyang s fury over The Interview. But cyber conflict is a 21st century hall of mirrors, and as doubts mount investigators might find another flick more instructive: You Only Live Twice. In the 1967 James Bond blockbuster, the U.S. and Soviet Union are each made to think the other is capturing their space probes. Tension escalates. Nukes are readied. The actual perpetrator, though, is SPECTRE -- the Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion -- playing the superpowers against each other. A shadowy SPECTRE client wants to spark World War II yeezy slide I.It is up to 007 to unmask SPECTRE, avert Armageddon, and of course blow up Ernst Stavro Blofeld s secret base. In today s sadly 007-free world we have American officials explicitly blaming North Korea for histor nike dunk y s biggest corporate cyber attack There is no credible information to indicate that any other individual is responsible for this cyber incident, said th adidas originals e FBI . North Korea s slim Internet connections went mysteriously dark, with Washington coy about its possible role. Kim s regime has returned racist invective, saying President Obama a Jxwu Tropical Storm Harvey makes landfall in Belize
GENEVA - The U.N. human rights office says the return of former stanley termohrnek Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Baby Doc Duvalier stanley termosy to his native country increases the chance that he could be charged with atrocities committed during his 15-year rule.Duvalier has been living in France for t stanley mugs he past quarter-century after a popular rebellion drove him into exile. He returned home on Sunday.Haiti: The Road to RecoveryRupert Colville, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said Tuesday that it would be easier to bring charges against Duvalier in Haiti because the alleged crimes occurred there.But he cautioned it is unclear whether Haiti s fragile judicial system is in a position to mount a case. Duvalier s secret police tortured and murdered political opponents during his rule. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-9963821e-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-9963821e-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-9963821e-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;
Dr. Jarno Limneacute;ll is Professor of Cyber Security at Aalto University in Finland. He holds a Doctor of Military Science degree from Finland s National Defense University.The speed and certitude with which the United States fingered North Korea in the Sony Pictures hack has unnerved dubious cyber experts worldwide. The attack was ostensibly motivated by Pyongyang s fury over The Interview. But cyber conflict is a 21st century hall of mirrors, and as doubts mount investigators might find another flick more instructive: You Only Live Twice. In the 1967 James Bond blockbuster, the U.S. and Soviet Union are each made to think the other is capturing their space probes. Tension escalates. Nukes are readied. The actual perpetrator, though, is SPECTRE -- the Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion -- playing the superpowers against each other. A shadowy SPECTRE client wants to spark World War II yeezy slide I.It is up to 007 to unmask SPECTRE, avert Armageddon, and of course blow up Ernst Stavro Blofeld s secret base. In today s sadly 007-free world we have American officials explicitly blaming North Korea for histor nike dunk y s biggest corporate cyber attack There is no credible information to indicate that any other individual is responsible for this cyber incident, said th adidas originals e FBI . North Korea s slim Internet connections went mysteriously dark, with Washington coy about its possible role. Kim s regime has returned racist invective, saying President Obama a Jxwu Tropical Storm Harvey makes landfall in Belize
GENEVA - The U.N. human rights office says the return of former stanley termohrnek Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Baby Doc Duvalier stanley termosy to his native country increases the chance that he could be charged with atrocities committed during his 15-year rule.Duvalier has been living in France for t stanley mugs he past quarter-century after a popular rebellion drove him into exile. He returned home on Sunday.Haiti: The Road to RecoveryRupert Colville, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said Tuesday that it would be easier to bring charges against Duvalier in Haiti because the alleged crimes occurred there.But he cautioned it is unclear whether Haiti s fragile judicial system is in a position to mount a case. Duvalier s secret police tortured and murdered political opponents during his rule. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-9963821e-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-9963821e-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-9963821e-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;
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WASHINGTON --The Obama administration may soon tell foreign governments and banks they can start using the dollar in some instances to facilitate business with Iran, officials told The Associated Press, describing an salomon speedcross arcane tweak to U.S. financial rules that could prove significant for Tehran s sanctions-battered economy.While no decision is final, U.S. officials familiar with internal discussions said the Treasury Department is considering issuing a general license that would permit offshore financial institutions to access dollars for foreign currency trades in support of legitimate business with Iran, a practice that is currently illegal.Several restrictions would apply, but such a license adidas campus homme would reverse a ban that has been in place for several years and one the administration had vowed to maintain while defending last year s nuclear deal to skeptical U.S. lawmakers and the public. Iran nuclear deal goes into effect 02:04 The United States and other world powers reached agreement wit air force 1 h Iran last summer to give the Islamic Republic billions of dollars in sanctions relief in exchange for its promise to curtail programs that would allow it to develop nuclear weapons.Because of its status as the world s dominant currency, the dollar often is used in money conversions. For example: If the Iranians want Puzv Blair Denies Secret Deal With Bush on Iraq
The U.N. nuclear watchdog won t take any immediate action on Friday, the deadline for Iran to prove its atomic program is peaceful, because it is still analyzing documents handed over by the Iranian government, a spokeswoman said T stanley kubek hursday.The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency ordered Iran to prove by Friday that its nuclear activities are not aimed at building a weapons arsenal, as the United States contends.In response, Tehran last week handed over a dossier with information about the program. But the agency can t yet judge whether the country has complied with its demands because it has not yet been able to fully verify the report, spokeswoman Melissa stanley tumbler Fleming told The Associated Press. There s not going to be any action on Friday when the deadline expires, she said.A complete analysis could take weeks, Fleming said, adding it was difficult to say when it would be finished. The process will not necessarily be completed by Nov. 20, when the IAEA s board meets to assess the situation, she said. As a signatory of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, Iran is prohibited from developing nuclear weapons. The Iranians have stated that they have already turned over a full and complete declaration of their past nuclear activities, Fleming said. The I stanley cup quencher AEA is intensively working to scrutinize that declaration and verify the claims made. There was no expectation that that work would be done by Friday. IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei said in an intervie
WASHINGTON --The Obama administration may soon tell foreign governments and banks they can start using the dollar in some instances to facilitate business with Iran, officials told The Associated Press, describing an salomon speedcross arcane tweak to U.S. financial rules that could prove significant for Tehran s sanctions-battered economy.While no decision is final, U.S. officials familiar with internal discussions said the Treasury Department is considering issuing a general license that would permit offshore financial institutions to access dollars for foreign currency trades in support of legitimate business with Iran, a practice that is currently illegal.Several restrictions would apply, but such a license adidas campus homme would reverse a ban that has been in place for several years and one the administration had vowed to maintain while defending last year s nuclear deal to skeptical U.S. lawmakers and the public. Iran nuclear deal goes into effect 02:04 The United States and other world powers reached agreement wit air force 1 h Iran last summer to give the Islamic Republic billions of dollars in sanctions relief in exchange for its promise to curtail programs that would allow it to develop nuclear weapons.Because of its status as the world s dominant currency, the dollar often is used in money conversions. For example: If the Iranians want Puzv Blair Denies Secret Deal With Bush on Iraq
The U.N. nuclear watchdog won t take any immediate action on Friday, the deadline for Iran to prove its atomic program is peaceful, because it is still analyzing documents handed over by the Iranian government, a spokeswoman said T stanley kubek hursday.The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency ordered Iran to prove by Friday that its nuclear activities are not aimed at building a weapons arsenal, as the United States contends.In response, Tehran last week handed over a dossier with information about the program. But the agency can t yet judge whether the country has complied with its demands because it has not yet been able to fully verify the report, spokeswoman Melissa stanley tumbler Fleming told The Associated Press. There s not going to be any action on Friday when the deadline expires, she said.A complete analysis could take weeks, Fleming said, adding it was difficult to say when it would be finished. The process will not necessarily be completed by Nov. 20, when the IAEA s board meets to assess the situation, she said. As a signatory of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, Iran is prohibited from developing nuclear weapons. The Iranians have stated that they have already turned over a full and complete declaration of their past nuclear activities, Fleming said. The I stanley cup quencher AEA is intensively working to scrutinize that declaration and verify the claims made. There was no expectation that that work would be done by Friday. IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei said in an intervie
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SALVADOR, Brazil - The margin of victory in the World Cup knockout rounds has been razor thin and Saturday s quarterfinal matchups were no different. But the favorites managed to advance again to set up another marquee semifinal. In the first match, Argentina striker Gonzalo Higuain ended a four-game scoreless streak, netting in the eighth minute against Belgium and giving his team all they would need to advance. The Netherlands, off their dramatic comeback against Mexico in the round of 16, were taken to the limit by Costa Rica before finally triumphing on penalties, 4-3, after 1 adidas samba 20 minutes of nike sb dunk scoreless soccer. The two sides will square off Wednesday to decide who will play for the g adidas campus donna ame s ultimate trophy. Brazil and Germany match up against each other Tuesday. In another stroke of tactical genius at this year s World Cup, Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal pulled Jasper Cillessen moments after the Ajax goalkeeper had kept his team in the match by saving a shot from Marcos Urena in extra time. Krul looked super confident during the shootout, saving the second and fifth penalties.When Krul stopped Ruiz s penalty, Cillessen, watching from the sideline, punched the air in celebration.Costa Rica goalkeeper Keylor Navas had kept his team in the match with a string of saves in the first half and again in extra time. When Wesley Sneijder twice beat him late in regulation and again in the second half of extra time, the woodwork made the stop.Sneijder hit the post with a free kick Bhbs What N. Korea s coverage of the Trump-Kim summit tells us
Chicago was among four cities picked as finalists Wednesday for the 2016 Summer Olympics, setting the stage for a high-profile bidding contest between candidates from the United States, Europe and Asia.Also making the IOC shortlist were Madrid, Spain; Tokyo, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Eliminate stanley cups uk d from the race were Doha, Qatar; Prague, Czech Republic, and Baku, Azerbaijan.The final field was selected by the International Olympic Committee executive board.The big four - Chicago, Madrid, Tokyo and Rio - all virtually were assured of advancing to the final stage. The main issue had been whether Doha also would make the cut. It s a very competitive field, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley said. The competition begins now. In the end, Doha was left out even though it tied for third with Chicago and was ahead of Rio in an IOC evaluation report assessing the overall technical merits of the bids.The IOC said Doha s proposal to hold the Olympics in October, rather than July or August, to avoid the searing summer heat was the decisive factor.The board unanimously decided not to grant this exception as it conflicts with the international sporting calendar and would therefore be bad for the athletes and for sports fans, IOC spokeswoman Giselle Davies said. It would disrupt athletes training programs and overload the sports schedule at an already busy time of the year. Today the executive board felt it would be a disservice to Doha to take them int stanley mugs o the next round. Ther
SALVADOR, Brazil - The margin of victory in the World Cup knockout rounds has been razor thin and Saturday s quarterfinal matchups were no different. But the favorites managed to advance again to set up another marquee semifinal. In the first match, Argentina striker Gonzalo Higuain ended a four-game scoreless streak, netting in the eighth minute against Belgium and giving his team all they would need to advance. The Netherlands, off their dramatic comeback against Mexico in the round of 16, were taken to the limit by Costa Rica before finally triumphing on penalties, 4-3, after 1 adidas samba 20 minutes of nike sb dunk scoreless soccer. The two sides will square off Wednesday to decide who will play for the g adidas campus donna ame s ultimate trophy. Brazil and Germany match up against each other Tuesday. In another stroke of tactical genius at this year s World Cup, Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal pulled Jasper Cillessen moments after the Ajax goalkeeper had kept his team in the match by saving a shot from Marcos Urena in extra time. Krul looked super confident during the shootout, saving the second and fifth penalties.When Krul stopped Ruiz s penalty, Cillessen, watching from the sideline, punched the air in celebration.Costa Rica goalkeeper Keylor Navas had kept his team in the match with a string of saves in the first half and again in extra time. When Wesley Sneijder twice beat him late in regulation and again in the second half of extra time, the woodwork made the stop.Sneijder hit the post with a free kick Bhbs What N. Korea s coverage of the Trump-Kim summit tells us
Chicago was among four cities picked as finalists Wednesday for the 2016 Summer Olympics, setting the stage for a high-profile bidding contest between candidates from the United States, Europe and Asia.Also making the IOC shortlist were Madrid, Spain; Tokyo, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Eliminate stanley cups uk d from the race were Doha, Qatar; Prague, Czech Republic, and Baku, Azerbaijan.The final field was selected by the International Olympic Committee executive board.The big four - Chicago, Madrid, Tokyo and Rio - all virtually were assured of advancing to the final stage. The main issue had been whether Doha also would make the cut. It s a very competitive field, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley said. The competition begins now. In the end, Doha was left out even though it tied for third with Chicago and was ahead of Rio in an IOC evaluation report assessing the overall technical merits of the bids.The IOC said Doha s proposal to hold the Olympics in October, rather than July or August, to avoid the searing summer heat was the decisive factor.The board unanimously decided not to grant this exception as it conflicts with the international sporting calendar and would therefore be bad for the athletes and for sports fans, IOC spokeswoman Giselle Davies said. It would disrupt athletes training programs and overload the sports schedule at an already busy time of the year. Today the executive board felt it would be a disservice to Doha to take them int stanley mugs o the next round. Ther
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The cosmos are concluding a spectacular month of celestial events with a double feature: two meteor showers peaking at the same time. As comet Neowise makes its way back toward the outer solar system, next week bri air max 1 ngs the peak of not only the Southern Delta-Aquariids, but also the alpha Capricornids. What are the southern Delta-Aquariids and alpha Capricornids The southern Delta-Aquariids are active every year from around July 12 to August 23, according to NASA. This year the meteor shower is peaking on Monday, July 27 into salomon xt Tuesday and Wednesday.Under ideal conditions, skywatchers can expect to see about 25 meteors per hour.Delta Aquariid meteors appear to radiate from the constellation Aquarius the Water adidas campus beige Bearer, which, as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere, arcs across the southern sky. The radiant point aligns with the star Skat Delta Aquarii mdash; giving the shower its name.Meteors are leftover comet particles and bits from broken asteroids. The comet astronomers suspect is responsible for the meteor shower is called 96P/Macholz, which was discovered in 1986 by Donald Machholz and orbits the sun about once every five years. According to the American Meteor Society, the alpha Capricornids are active from July 2 through August 10, also peaking early next week.This meteor shower is much less active, producing only about 3 meteors per hour. The average alpha Capricornid meteor is relatively slow, but the shower does bring with it stunning fireballs.The meteors appe Aubd Monaco s 2008 Rose Ball
North Korea released new photographs of Kim Jong Il touring a factory following reports earlier this week that the 67-year-old leader has pancreatic cancer and fewer than five years to live.Wearing sunglasses and a short-sleeved shirt, Kim appeared generally OK in the images released Tuesday night - thin but no worse than in other recent photographs. He has grown frailer over the past year after reportedly suffering a stroke last summer.In some of the images, carried by North Korean TV and the offici stanley mug al Korean Central News Agency, Kim was walking around a newly built tile factory, smiling broadly. The photos were undated, but stanley cup KCNA had sent a text report about the tour on Monday without specifying the date of the visit.Other photos, however, showed Kim sitting in a chair during an outdoor briefing by factory officials while a soldier held a sunshade over him. Such images are unusual and could suggest his health may not be good, the Yonhap news agency said.But South Korea s Unification Ministry spokesman Chun Hae-sung said Wednesday that it is not the first time the North has released photos of Kim sitting during his field-guidance trips. Only by looking at yesterday s photos, it s difficult to determine Kim s health, the spokesman said.Kim s health has been the focus of intense media speculation because he rules absolutely and some analysts have said there could be a power struggle in the North if he wer stanley us e to die without naming a successor.On Monday, Seoul s YTN televis
The cosmos are concluding a spectacular month of celestial events with a double feature: two meteor showers peaking at the same time. As comet Neowise makes its way back toward the outer solar system, next week bri air max 1 ngs the peak of not only the Southern Delta-Aquariids, but also the alpha Capricornids. What are the southern Delta-Aquariids and alpha Capricornids The southern Delta-Aquariids are active every year from around July 12 to August 23, according to NASA. This year the meteor shower is peaking on Monday, July 27 into salomon xt Tuesday and Wednesday.Under ideal conditions, skywatchers can expect to see about 25 meteors per hour.Delta Aquariid meteors appear to radiate from the constellation Aquarius the Water adidas campus beige Bearer, which, as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere, arcs across the southern sky. The radiant point aligns with the star Skat Delta Aquarii mdash; giving the shower its name.Meteors are leftover comet particles and bits from broken asteroids. The comet astronomers suspect is responsible for the meteor shower is called 96P/Macholz, which was discovered in 1986 by Donald Machholz and orbits the sun about once every five years. According to the American Meteor Society, the alpha Capricornids are active from July 2 through August 10, also peaking early next week.This meteor shower is much less active, producing only about 3 meteors per hour. The average alpha Capricornid meteor is relatively slow, but the shower does bring with it stunning fireballs.The meteors appe Aubd Monaco s 2008 Rose Ball
North Korea released new photographs of Kim Jong Il touring a factory following reports earlier this week that the 67-year-old leader has pancreatic cancer and fewer than five years to live.Wearing sunglasses and a short-sleeved shirt, Kim appeared generally OK in the images released Tuesday night - thin but no worse than in other recent photographs. He has grown frailer over the past year after reportedly suffering a stroke last summer.In some of the images, carried by North Korean TV and the offici stanley mug al Korean Central News Agency, Kim was walking around a newly built tile factory, smiling broadly. The photos were undated, but stanley cup KCNA had sent a text report about the tour on Monday without specifying the date of the visit.Other photos, however, showed Kim sitting in a chair during an outdoor briefing by factory officials while a soldier held a sunshade over him. Such images are unusual and could suggest his health may not be good, the Yonhap news agency said.But South Korea s Unification Ministry spokesman Chun Hae-sung said Wednesday that it is not the first time the North has released photos of Kim sitting during his field-guidance trips. Only by looking at yesterday s photos, it s difficult to determine Kim s health, the spokesman said.Kim s health has been the focus of intense media speculation because he rules absolutely and some analysts have said there could be a power struggle in the North if he wer stanley us e to die without naming a successor.On Monday, Seoul s YTN televis
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SEOUL, South Korea - A civilian diver involved in searches for dozens of missing people from a South Korean ferry disaster died Tuesday, as other divers helped by better weather and easing ocean currents were picking up efforts to retrieve bodies from t mizuno volleyballschuhe he sunken ship. The Sewol carried 476 people, most of them students from a single high school, when it sank off South Korea s southern coast on April 16. Only 174 survived, including 22 of the 29 crew members. The sinking left 260 people dead, with about 40 others still missing. South Korean president meets with families of ferry victims 01:36 adidas originals damen adidas yeezyslide On Tuesday, one civilian diver died at a hospital after becoming unconscious, government task force spokesman Ko Myung-seok said in a statement. According to other task force team officials, the 53-year-old diver was pulled to the surface by fellow divers after losing communication, he said. In searching for the missing, divers have been working their way into the last three unopened rooms, next to a snack bar on the ferry s third floor, Ko told reporters. WATCH: Cellphone video shows S.Korean students final moments 03:04 Siok Pope To Be Released From Hospital
BEIJING - A U.S. government team flew to North Korea to assess food shortages Tuesday, while the country s reclusive leader Kim Jong Il reportedly traveled to an eastern China city on a visit aimed at studying Beijing s economic reforms.The delegation led by Robert King, U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, departed Beijing for Pyongyang for a five-day visit to verify food supply surveys conducted by the United Nations and U.S.-based charities and see if there are ways to monitor aid distribution.North Korea asked for food assistance in January after summer floods and during a bitter winter that hit staple crops. While humanitarian organizations stanley bottles say aid is urgently needed, the U.S., like other international donors, dis stanley becher trusts the secretive North Korean government, which has pursued illicit nuclear weapons and missile programs despite its dire food shortages.A U.N. World Food Program assessment released two months ago found more than 6 million of North Korea s 23 million people were in urgent need of aid. It said the North s public distribution system would run out of food between May and July.Video: Saving North Kore stanley cup quencher an orphans South Korea is skeptical that North Korea s situation is so dire and suspects the government is stockpiling food secretly ahead of the 2012 centennial of the birth of the communist nation s founder, Kim Il SungWhile King s trip was announced well in advance, virtually nothing is known about the agenda for Kim s visit to his cou
SEOUL, South Korea - A civilian diver involved in searches for dozens of missing people from a South Korean ferry disaster died Tuesday, as other divers helped by better weather and easing ocean currents were picking up efforts to retrieve bodies from t mizuno volleyballschuhe he sunken ship. The Sewol carried 476 people, most of them students from a single high school, when it sank off South Korea s southern coast on April 16. Only 174 survived, including 22 of the 29 crew members. The sinking left 260 people dead, with about 40 others still missing. South Korean president meets with families of ferry victims 01:36 adidas originals damen adidas yeezyslide On Tuesday, one civilian diver died at a hospital after becoming unconscious, government task force spokesman Ko Myung-seok said in a statement. According to other task force team officials, the 53-year-old diver was pulled to the surface by fellow divers after losing communication, he said. In searching for the missing, divers have been working their way into the last three unopened rooms, next to a snack bar on the ferry s third floor, Ko told reporters. WATCH: Cellphone video shows S.Korean students final moments 03:04 Siok Pope To Be Released From Hospital
BEIJING - A U.S. government team flew to North Korea to assess food shortages Tuesday, while the country s reclusive leader Kim Jong Il reportedly traveled to an eastern China city on a visit aimed at studying Beijing s economic reforms.The delegation led by Robert King, U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, departed Beijing for Pyongyang for a five-day visit to verify food supply surveys conducted by the United Nations and U.S.-based charities and see if there are ways to monitor aid distribution.North Korea asked for food assistance in January after summer floods and during a bitter winter that hit staple crops. While humanitarian organizations stanley bottles say aid is urgently needed, the U.S., like other international donors, dis stanley becher trusts the secretive North Korean government, which has pursued illicit nuclear weapons and missile programs despite its dire food shortages.A U.N. World Food Program assessment released two months ago found more than 6 million of North Korea s 23 million people were in urgent need of aid. It said the North s public distribution system would run out of food between May and July.Video: Saving North Kore stanley cup quencher an orphans South Korea is skeptical that North Korea s situation is so dire and suspects the government is stockpiling food secretly ahead of the 2012 centennial of the birth of the communist nation s founder, Kim Il SungWhile King s trip was announced well in advance, virtually nothing is known about the agenda for Kim s visit to his cou