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BEIJING -- Chinese were seeing in the Year of the Sheep on Thursday, but with fortune-tellers predicting accidents and an unstable economy and some parents-to-be fretting over the year s reputation for docile kids, it wasn t exactly warming everyone s heart.This animal sign, which comes once every dozen years, can be said to have an identity crisis. Known variably as the Year of the Goat, Sheep o adidas campus r Ram, the sign s confusion stems from its Chinese character, yang, which broadly describes any of the ruminating mammals, with or without horns.Many Chinese prefer to translate it as the Year of the Sheep because sheep are more cute and cuddly, and large sheep figures have appeared around the capital s shopping areas in recent weeks.The goat, however, is more likely to be the original meaning because it was a popular farm animal among Han Chinese who started the zodiac tradition, Huang Yang, a researcher on the roles of sheep and goats in Chinese culture, was quoted by the offic nike air max ial Xinhua News agency as saying.Still, Xinhua is going with Year of the Sheep in its English-language reports rather th adidas campus homme an Year of the Goat. During the seven-day holiday that started Wednesday, the world s second-biggest economy largely shuts down.Many mainland Chinese tuned into the annual New Year s Eve TV gala Wednesday evening, and this year s mascot managed to achieve the problem-solving feat of not being clearly a sheep or a goat. A golden statue of a goat is displayed for t Ulqi Hidden images revealed in 500-year-old Mexican manuscript
A judge said controversial sound cannons can be used by police during the G20 summit, but with restrictions.The stanley thermoskannen ruling today means the voice function of the devices is OK to use, but only at lower decibels; protesters say the devices can damage hearing permanently.Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair said his officers will abide by the court s ruling.Before today s ruling police had said they would only use them as megaphones to broadcast pre-recorded voice messages to crowded demonstrations.Also this morning Blair defended a law passed by the Ontario government to give police special detention powers during the G-8 and G-20 summits. The regulation gives police the power to arrest anyone coming within five yards of the security fences erected around the summit site in Toronto if they ref stanley mug use to identify themselves.Blair said the regulat stanley cup ion was passed under the Ontario Public Works Protection Act that dates back to 1939, and was simply extended to the G-20 security perimeter for one week.Blair adds it was not a secret because it was published on the Internet as soon as it was passed. If you google Public Works Protection Act, Ontario, it s there, he said.But New Democrat assembly member Peter Kormos called is a serious black eye to the province s Liberal government. Kormos said despite a lot of talk about democracy and openness, the cabinet passed the new regulation June 2 without any debate in the legislature.The law went into effect on Monday and will expir

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The Trump administration has quietly stopped its controversial practice of holding migrant children in hotels before expelling them from the southern border, though it says these minors can still be quickly removed from U.S. soil under emergency coronavirus restrictions.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE has not held migrant minors in border-area hotels since September 11, an agency spokesperson told CBS News on Thursday. The confirmation of the previously undisclosed policy shift follows a court declaration, signed on September 17, in crocs which ICE official Mellissa Harper said the number of chanclas yeezy migrant minors who were awaiting expulsion at a hotel had dwindled to zero.Despite this shift, unaccompanied children and families with minors who cross or arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border without documents mdash; just like single adults mdash; can still be expelled from the country under a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC directive issued in March, Customs and Border Protection CBP spokesperson Matthew Dyman told CBS News on Thursday. The CDC order allows for everyone to be amenable to expulsion, Dyman said. Anyone can be infected with COVID. ICE quietly stopped holding migrant children in border hotels on Sept. 11.But CBP says unaccompanied minors and adidas campus families with children can still be expelled from the US, without an opportunity to seek asylum, under COVID restrictions. @CBSNews. 1/https://t.co/v5z8z2zCptmdash; Camilo Montoya-Galvez @camiloreports Jxjs Iran claims technical ability to build a nuclear bomb
Queen Elizabeth II underwent a successful operation on Monday to remove a torn cartilage from her right knee, Buckingham Palace said.The 76-year-old monarch was expected to be fully active again within a few weeks, said the palace, after the operation at the King Edward VII Hospital in central London. There is no cause for concern, a palace spokesman told The Associated Press, speaking on stanley cups customary condition of anonymity.Great Britain always holds its breath when the queen or other major royals go to the hospital, reports CBS News Correspondent Steve Holt, but in this case, the queen is generally in excellent health, and hadn t be stanley kubek en hospitalized in over 20 years.Queen Elizabeth II, who recently led nationwide ceremonies to celebrate her 50 years on the throne, has been hospitalized for two previous ailments: in 1994 when she broke an arm and in 1982 when she had a wisdom tooth removed.Although the queen was placed under a general anesthetic during the 45-minute operation, a temporary acting regent was not appointed to replace her during the procedure, the palace said. Last month, the palace said the queen had strained a ligament in her right knee and was using a cane to walk. The palace said the monarch had hurt herself during a visit to Newmarket, in Suffolk, eastern England, before Christmas.The palace said the queen was admitted to the p stanley uk rivate hospital on Sunday night. The minor operation was conducted by a team led by the queen s orthopedic surgeon, Roger Vicke

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When federal agents arrested eight Tajikistan nationals with alleged ties to the Islamic State terror group on immigration charges back in June, U.S. officials reasoned that coordinated raids in Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia would prove the fastest way to disrupt a potential terrorist plot in its earliest stages. Four months later, after being de mizuno laufschuhe tained in Immigration and Customs Enforcement airmax plus ICE facilities, three of the men have already been returned to Tajikistan and Russia, U.S. officials tell CBS News, following removals by immigration court judges.Four more Tajik nationals ndash; also held in ICE detention facilities ndash; are awaiting removal flights to Central Asia, and U.S. officials anticipate they ll be returned in the coming few weeks. Only one of the arrested men still awaits his legal proceeding, following a medical issue, though U.S. officials speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive proceedings indicated that he remains detained and is likely to face a similar outcome.The men face no additional charges ndash; including terrorism-related offenses ndash; with the decision to immediately arrest and remove them through deportation proceedings, rather than orchestrate a hard-fought terrorism trial in Article III courts, born out of a pressing short-term concern about public safety.Soon after the eight foreign na yeezy tionals crossed into the United States, the FBI learned of the potential ties to the Islamic State, CBS News previously Khww Richard Branson s Virgin Orbit to cut 85% of its workforce
Updated 3:18 p.m. ESTDubai police appea stanley quencher led for an international manhunt Tuesday after releasing names and photos of an alleged 11-member European hit squad accused of stalking and killing a Hamas commander last month in a plot that mixed cold precision with spy caper disguises such as fake beards and wigs.The case 151; as presented by Dubai authorities 151; rings of clockwork espionage and detailed planning that included suspects riding the same elevator as Mahmoud al-Mabhouh before he was slain in an ambush-style attack in a luxury hotel room that took no more than 10 minutes.But questions emerged about the list of suspects after Dubai authorities released pictures, names and passport photos identifying them as six Britons, three Irish and one each from France and Germany.Ireland said the three alleged Irish citizens on the wanted list do not exist. In Germany, officials said the passport number give by Dubai for the lone German suspect is either incomplete or wrong. Other elements also challenged the narrative presented by Dubai authorities, including how investigators pieced together the evidence pointing to an alleged European assassin team. Or why such an apparently well-planned operation would forget about the country s wide-ranging security cameras.At least stanley website three people who live in Israel share names with suspects identified by Dubai police, Israel s Channel 2 news reported. Another man named as a suspect holds dual British-Israeli citizenship. Those connect

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HONG KONG - Pro-democracy protests expanded in Hong Kong on Monday, a day after demonstrators upset over Beijing s decision to limit political reforms defied onslaughts of tear gas and appeals from Hong Kong s top leader to go home.And with rumors swirling, Hong Kong s Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying reassured the public that speculation that the Chinese army might intervene was untrue. I hope the public will keep calm. Don t be misled by the rumors. Police will strive to maintain social order, including ensuring smooth traffic and ensuring the public safety, said the Beijing-backed Leung, who is deeply unpopular. He added, When they carry out their duties, they will use their maximum discretion. The city s transport department said that besides road closures in areas such as Causeway Bay, Wan Chai and Admiralty - where the protests have been focused - main roads have also been blocked by demonstrators in Mong Kok.More than 200 bus routes have been canceled or diverted in a city dependent on public transport. Subw adidas sambarose ay exits have also been closed or blocked near protest areas. The mass protest, which has gathered support from high sch adidas originals hamburg ool students to seniors, is the strongest challenge yet to Beijing s decision to limit democratic reforms for the semi-autonomous city.The scenes of billowing tear gas and riot police outfitted with long-barreled weapons, rar yeezy 350 e for this affluent Asian financial hub, are highlighting the authorities inability to assuage public discontent ove Okhe Taking Shot At Avoiding Iraq Duty
Text from President Barack Obama s speech commemorating the 65th anniversary of D-Day, at the American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France:Good afternoon. Thank you, President Sarkozy, Prime Minister Brown, Prime Minister Harper, and Prince Charles for being here today. Thank you to our Secretary of Veterans Affairs, General Eric Shinseki, for making the trip out here to join us. Thanks also to Susa stanley cup price n Eisenhower, whose grandfather began this mission 65 years ago with a simple charge: Ok, let s go. And to a World stanley canada War II veteran who returned home from this war to serve a proud and distinguished career as a United States Senator and a national leader: Bob Dole.I m not the first American President to come and mark this anniversary, and I likely will not be the last. This is an event that has long brought to this coast both heads of state and grateful citizens; veterans and their loved ones; the liberated and their liberators. It s been written about and spoken of and depicted in countless books and films and speeches. And long after our time on this Earth has passed, one word will still bring forth the pride and awe of men and women who will never meet the heroes who s stanley thermos it before us: D-Day. Why is this Of all the battles in all the wars across the span of human history, why does this day hold such a revered place in our memory What is it about the struggle that took place on the sands a few short steps from here that brings us back to remember year afte

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Australia s Senate passed legislation Wednesday that, once signed by the country s leader who has strongly endorsed it,will ban children under the age of 16 from using most social media platforms. The new law will give Australia the tightest restrictions of any democracy in the world on children s use of hugely popular social media apps.The Senate passed the bill by 34 votes to 19 on Thursday, a day after Australia s House of Representativespassed the same bill by a sweeping margin of 102 votes to 13.Australia s major parties in the House all supported the bill, which will see social media companies such as TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram face fines of up to 50 million Austr adidas campus alian dollars $33 million for failing to preve air force 1 nt people under 16 from creating accounts on their platforms.Tech giant Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and Th adidas campus 80s reads, has called for the bill to be delayed. In astatementposted online Tuesday, Meta said it was concerned the government is rushing this legislation without adequate consultation or evidence and there are still many unknowns with respect to its implementation. The Government s approach will likely require each app provider to collect personal identification or biometric data from all Australians in order to prevent under 16s from accessing their services, an inefficient and burdensome process for everyone, a Meta spokesperson said. Meta also pointed to a policy it introduced earlier this year on its Instagram plat Ylri Afghan opium production hits record high, U.N. says
The humble farmers in one remote, dusty mountain village have managed to get by up until now despite two years of little rainfall. But if relief food does not arrive soon, residents of Giset could go from being hungry to starving. As Earth Day 2000 approaches, the U.N. World Food Program says they are representative of millions threatened by food shortages in the Horn of Africa who are in danger of being forgotten. While attention has been focused on Ethiopia, where 7.7 million are threatened with starvation, the WFP estimates that 8 million more are in danger in nine other countries in eastern Africa. Catherine Bertini, U.N. special envoy to the Horn of Africa, on Sunday visited Giset, 90 miles northwest of the Eritrean capital, Asmara. She expressed disappointment with the lack of response to a WFP appeal this month for $7.9 million to feed 212,000 Eritreans. This is exactly the kind of situation we are talking about in much of stanley thermoskannen the region, said Bertini, who is also the head of the WFP. She is on a weeklong tour of Ethiopia, Djibouti, Eritrea and Kenya. These people have been able to cope until now but their own resources have almost gone. Squatting in front of her small thatched hut, Fatima Adam said men had already left stanley fr Giset in search of work after their harvests had failed and their livestock died or was sold to buy food. There was no rain last year, she said. There is nothing. I am waiting for food distribution. My hus stanley cup band cannot work

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RABAT, Morocco The U.S. raid that seized an al Qaeda suspect from the Libyan capital will not hurt Libya s relations with Washington, the country s prime minister said Tuesday, though he insisted Libyans have the right to be tried at home for any cri adidas samba adidas mes.Prime Minister Ali Zeidan s comments were his first since U.S. special forces abducted Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, known by his alias Abu Anas af1 al-Libi, on Saturday. He is alleged to be a senior al Qaeda member and is wanted by the United States in connection to the bombing of American embassies in Uganda and Kenya in 1998, with a $5 million bounty on his head.The raid has angered powerful Islamic extremist groups in Libya, who say the U.S. violated Libyan sovereignty and accuse the Libyan government of colluding with the raid -- or at least turning a blind eye. That has put the government in a delicate position, wary of appearing too weak to defend a Libyan citizen while reluctant to criticize its needed ally, the United States. Immediately yeezy after the raid, the government issued a statement saying the raid was carried out without its knowledge and asking Washington for clarifications about the operation. The Tripoli government remains weak, two years after the fall of longtime dictator Muammar Qaddafi, unable to extend its authority around the country, while armed militias -- including Islamic extremists -- hold sway in many areas. We emphasize that Libyan citizens should be judged in Libya and Libya does not surrender Pwxo Kerry, Lavrov pin hopes for Syria peace process on chemical weapons talks in Geneva
The following is the full text of the Irish Republican Army s statement of May 6, 2000.The leadership of the IRA is committed to a just and lasting peace. We have sustained that commitment despite th stanley water bottle e abuse of the peace process by those who persist with the aim of defeating the IRA and Irish republicans. Republicans believe that the British Government claim to a part of Ireland, its denial of national self determination to the people of the island of Ireland, the partition of our co stanley cup untry and the maintenance of social and economic inequality in the Six Counties are the root causes of conflict. The maintenance of our cessation is our contribution to the peace process and to the creation of a future in which the causes of conflict are resolved by peaceful means. For our part, the IRA leadership is committed to resolving the issue of arms. The political responsibility for advancing the current situation rests with the two governments, especially stanley cup the British government, and the leadership of the political parties. The full implementation, on a progressive and irreversible basis by the two governments, especially the British government, of what they have agreed will provide a political context, in an enduring political process, with the potential to remove the causes of conflict, and in which Irish republicans, and unionists can, as equals pursue our respective political objectives peacefully. In that context the IRA leadership will initiate a process that will completely a

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Investigat adidas yeezy ors have released a sketch of a person of interest in the murder of an American woman and her Australian boyfriend. The young couple was wrapping up a two-week-long road trip through north adidas originals hombre ern British Columbia when they were found shot to death last Monday by their broken-down van.Authorities in British Columbia are also searching for two missing teens. While looking for them, they found a man s body on the side of the road. Police are investigating whether any of these cases are connected, as families of the young couple are grieving.Stephen Fowler is sending a desperate plea for information surrounding the deaths of his son Lucas, and Lucas girlfriend, North Carolina native Chynna Deese. Two young people, who had everything ahead of them, tragically murdered, Fowler said. Surveillance video shows Chynna Deese and Lucas Fowler hugging at a gas station two days before their bodies were discovered. samba rose CBS News Newly released surveillance video shows the couple hugging at a gas station two days before their bodies were discovered. Police also released a sketch of a person they say was seen talking to Fowler. About 300 miles south in the same province several days later, police found a burning car belonging to two missing Canadian teenagers. During that investigation, the body of an older man was found a little over a mile away. Wfju Iran Finds Positives In U.S. Nuke Plan
Iraq s main Sunni Arab political party on Wednesday demanded an international investigation into allegations that security stanley cups forces illegally detained and tortured suspected insurgen stanley flask ts at secret jails in Baghdad.The political demands follow an acknowledgement by Iraq s prime minister Tuesday that 173 Iraqi detainees mdash; malnourished and showing signs of torture mdash; were found at an Interior Ministry detention center seized by U.S. forces in the heart of the capital. Sunnis have long complained of such abuse by the Shiite-controlled ministry.Omar Heikal of the Iraqi Islamic Party said it was now clear that majority Shiites in the U.S.-backed government were trying to suppress minority Sunnis ahead of the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections. Our information indicates that this is not the only place where torture is taking place, he said, reading an official party statement. The party calls on the United Nations, the Arab League and humanitarian bodies to denounce these clear human rights violations, and we demand stanley kubek a fair, international probe so that all those who are involved in such practices will get their just punishment. The unprecedented U.S. raid on an Iraqi detention facility filled with malnourished torture victims appears aimed in part at scoring points among Sunni Arabs, whose participation in next month s parliamentary election is key to an American exit Iraq. In related developments:In continuing insurgent violence near Baghdad, three U.S. Army soldiers we

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There is a crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, with an average of 2,500 men, women and children crossing into El Paso, Texas every day. That number could soon skyrocket with the expiration of Title 42, a pandemic-era rule that made it easier to turn back migrants mdash; many who are fleeing poverty and persecution in their home countries.A ruling on the expiration is expected Friday. Along the point where El Paso, Texas, meets Mexico, hundreds of refugee adidas campus herren s and migrants are awaiting an uncertain future. They know next week marks an important date. If Title 42 ends on Wednesday, the lines to enter the U.S. will get longer, and their chances to stay in the U.S. may be brighter. Migrants walk across the Rio Grande to surrender to U.S. Border Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Dec. 13, 2022. adidas originals mujer HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP via Getty Images Despite some doubts, some at the border are hopeful. The joy of one child, Gladys, almost masked her parents exhaustion after a 20-day journey from Ecuador, where they say criminal gangs extorted adidas samba uomo them and threatened to harm her. She said she hopes to have a good future mdash; to study and, one day, have a good job. Gladys and her family were at the final stretch of their journey to enter the United States. Several times a day, Border Patrol opens up the gates to let dozens of migrants in to be processed, and many Lish Deaths mount as typhoon churns over Philippines
BEIRUT - A Red Cross spokesman says the group has evacuated nearly 30 people from a besieged neighborhood in the Syrian city of Homs to a hospital elsewhere in the city.Hicham Hassan said Friday seven were taken from the neighborhood of Baba Amr in southeast Homs to the al-Amin hospital. The International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC later said that an additional 20 people had been evacuated from Baba Amro.ICRC chief spokeswoman Carla Haddad said she hoped the operation would continue Saturday. But two wounded foreign journalists, whose plight has captured international attention, were not among those evacuated, Haddad said.The effort to evacuate the reporters -- who were injured in a government attack that killed American war correspondent Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik -- is part of a wider international push to bring aid to people in the areas hardest stanley cups uk hit by Syria s efforts to quash the uprising against President Bashar Assad s rule.Hicham Hassan of the International Committee of the Red Cross said Friday that the ICRC and its local Syrian branch have been work stanley flasche ing in the Baba Amr neighborhood of Homs since Friday afternoon. The Syrian Arab Red Crescent team wa stanley cup s negotiating with both Syrian authorities and opposition in an attempt to evacuate all persons in need of assistance with no exception, he said, meaning local residents and foreign journalists.French journalists Edith Bouvier and William Daniels have asked for help leaving the embattle

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo s speech on Monday detailing U.S. demands on Iran in the wake of the U.S. exiting the nuclear deal was met with formidable opposition among European allies, who worry renewed sanctions could harm European businesses.Pompeo declared that Iran is set to face strongest sanctions in history and laid out an extensive laundry list of conditions the Iranian regime would need to satisfy -- including ending support for all Middle East terror groups -- to enter into a new deal with the U.S. Pompeo reiterated the Trump administration s position that Iran s behavior in the region must be combatted forcefully and collectively, in contrasts to the 2015 nuclear agreement, which dealt air max plus only wit adidas samba og h Iran s nuclear program.Under the deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action air force 1 JCPOA , the U.S. and other world powers offered sanctions relief in exchange for Iran giving up its nuclear capability. President Trump announced in early May the U.S. would withdraw from the accord.Reacting to Pompeo s speech, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson committed to shielding European companies from renewed sanctions. We are going to do everything we possibly can, Johnson said of protecting European companies. I m not totally pessimistic about the situation. Johnson said a new jumbo Iran negotiation would not be very easy to achieve. British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson at Palacio San Martin during the G20 foreign ministers meeting on May 21 Smhe 12 Decapitated Bodies Found In Mexico
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday expressed readiness to make tangible changes in the West Bank, telling Palestinian President Mahmoud that he understands that their months of peace talks must be accompanied by action on the ground, an Israeli official said.The two leaders met for two hours in Jerusalem, a day after U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Israel to do more to improve living conditions in the West Bank.Olmert and Abbas greeted each other warmly at the stanley cupe start of the meeting, held at Olmert s official residence. The men embraced, Abbas signed the guest book, and Olmert bantered with Abbas aides about European soccer teams before the beginning of the meeting at Olmert s Jerusalem residence.Despite the appearance of a friendly atmosphere, Abbas aides said Monda stanley cups uk y the Palestinian leader is consi stanley cups dering resigning if sufficient progress isn t made in the coming months.Rice left the region hours before the meeting, wrapping up her latest diplomatic mission aimed at prodding the sides closer to a deal. During her visit, Rice criticized Israel s military checkpoints and settlements in the West Bank. Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Abbas pressed Olmert on the settlement issue during Monday s meeting.Abbas has sounded increasingly disheartened in recent weeks.He says continued settlement construction on lands the Palestinians claim, and Israel s refusal to remove roadblocks and ease other travel restrictions are undermining the negotiation

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BERLIN - In the space of two months, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has gone from being portrayed as the heartl asics gel ess villain in Europe s debt crisis to the heroine of those flooding in to find refuge on the continent.But while different crises have triggered contrasting perceptions of the German leader, Merkel s behavior has appeared consistent: a first-unhurried, then decisive approach to the challenge; an insistence that Europe must adidas samba donna abide by international rules; an eye on public opinion at home; and hope that German leadership will help bring about a European solution. Migrant crisis 71 photos Merkel hasn t pleased everyone in Europe with her approach to either crisis. Several countries that backed her insistence on tough conditions for Greece s new bailout, such as the Baltic nati adidas yeezy ons and Slovakia, are now on the other side of the argument over whether to welcome refugees to Europe.But the 61-year-old is undaunted, and her enduring domestic popularity is holding up as she approaches her 10th anniversary in office in November. That longevity has been based partly on her knack for convincing Germans that she is on top of complicated crises and taking account of their worries - something that has earned her the nickname Mutti, or Mom. Her insistenc Dvvi China Flood Toll Rises; Hope of Survivors Fades
Heavy fighting raged stanley cups in Liberia s besieged capital Wednesday despite rebel declarations of a cease-fire, with President Charles Taylor s troops battling rebels trying to advance on his downtown stronghold.Mortar shells crashed into neighborhoods of tin-roof shacks overnight, killing at least one person and wounding eight adults and a dozen children on the government-controlled side of the capital, aid workers said.Taylor s forces fired volleys of rocket-propelled grenades at the rebel-held port area. There is no stanley cup thing like a cease-fire here, said Kate Wright, a downtown resident who spent a sleepless night cowering in a basement-level business center with neighbors.Other people slept on city beaches, feeling safer in the soft sand than in their own homes. Stray bullets from fighting near two bridges hit far into the capital, pinging into the neighborhood around the U.S. Embassy and scattering a crowd gathered there to draw water from a stream.Taylor s military chief, Gen. Benjamin Yeaten, said rebels were attempting to cross the stanley mug bridges into central Monrovia despite a pledge late Tuesday to stop fighting and pull back to the port to await the arrival of a long-awaited international peace force. The fighting is still heavy here, Yeaten said from his headquarters overlooking the bridges. We are in a fierce exchange of fire with enemy forces. Rebel leaders could not be reached for comment. Under pressure from the Bush administration, which has been insisting