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WASHINGTON -- Five senior leaders of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS were captured in a joint operation involving U.S. and Iraqi forces. It is the latest defeat for the extremist group, which has lost nearly all the territory it once held in Iraq and Syria.The ISIS commanders confessio asics outlets ns were broadcast on Iraqi television this morning.One by one, men in yellow jumpsuits and handcuffs admitted to being top ISIS leaders. Their capture was the result of an elaborate intelligence operation run by Iraq and the U.S.President Trump tweeted the announcement earlier Thursday. Five Most Wanted leaders of ISIS just captured!mdash; Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump May 10 salomon hombre , 2018 First came the capture of Ismail al-Eithawi, described as a close aide to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. U.S. and Iraqi forces then used an app on Eithawi s mobile phone to lure the other men across the Syrian border and into Iraq where they were arrested.The Iraqi government said information gather during interrogations led to an air strike it claims killed another 40 ISIS terrorists. These guys ... have an understanding of what s happened to ISIS post-caliphate, where the senior leaders are in general ... what their plans might be for going forward, former acting director of the CIA and CBS News senior national security contributor Michael Morrell said.U.S. officials say ISIS leadership ha adidas campus damen s been decimated through airstrikes and ground operations. Vhkh Afghanistan: Taliban gunmen attack Serena hotel in Kabul, killing 9 including kids
AP BONN, Germany - U.N. climate talks ran into gridlock Thursday as a widening rift between rich and poor countries risked undoing some advances made last year in the decades-long effort to control carbon emissions that scientists say are overheating the planet.As so stanley cups often in the slow-moving negotiations, the session in Bonn bogged down with disputes over technicalities. But at the heart of the discord was the larger issue of how to divide the burden of emissions cuts between developed and developing nations. Developing nations say the industrialized world - responsible for most of the emissions historically - should bear the brun stanley cup t of the emissions cuts while developed nations want to make sure that fast-growing economies like China and India don t get off too ea stanley quencher sy. China is now the world s top polluter. There is a total stalemate, said Artur Runge-Metzger, the chief negotiator for the European Union.Climate talks open on ever-rising emissionsThe negotiations in Bonn were meant to build on a deal struck in December in Durban, South Africa, to create a new global climate pact by 2015 that would make both rich and poor nations rein in emissions caused by the burning of oil and other fossil fuels. But on the next-to-last day of two weeks of talks there was little sign of progress, as different interpretations emerged on what, exactly, was agreed upon last year. There is distrust and there is frustration in the atmosphere, Seyni Nafo, spokesman for a group of African countrie

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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico s incoming government denied a report Saturday that it plans to allow asylum-seekers to wait in the country while their claims move through U.S. immigration courts, one of several options the Trump administration has been pursuing in mizuno laufschuhe negotiations for months. The deal was seen as a way to dissuade thousands of Central American migrants from seeking asylum in the U.S., a process that can take years.In effect, Mexican border towns are already acting as waiting rooms for migrants hoping to start new lives in the U.S. due to bottlenecks at the border. There is no agreement of any sor adidas originals hombre t between the incoming Mexican g air force 1 overnment and the U.S. government, future Interior Minister Olga Sanchez said in a statement.Hours earlier, The Washington Post quoted her as saying that the incoming administration of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador had agreed to allow migrants to stay in Mexico as a short-term solution while the U.S. considered their applications for asylum. Lopez Obrador will take office on Dec. 1.The statement shared with The Associated Press said the future government s principal concern related to the migrants is their well-being while in Mexico. The Washington Post reported Saturday that President Trump s administration has won support from the Mexican president-elect s team for a plan dubbed Remain in Mexico. The newspaper also quoted Sanchez as saying: For now, we have agreed to this policy of Remain in Mexico. Sanchez did not explain in the statement wh Vhkn Iconic Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer dead at 104
Updated 6:04 p.m. ET CBS/AP SOFIA, Bulgaria - A bus carrying Israeli youth exploded Wednesday in a Bulgarian resort, killing at least six people and wounding more than 32, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it an Iranian terror attack and promised a tough response.The explosion took place in the Black Sea city of Burgas, some 400 kilometers 250 miles east of the capital, Sofia. TV images showed smoke billowing from the scene -- a parking lot at the local airport, where the Israeli tourists had apparently just landed. Several buses and cars were on fire near the shell of the exploded vehicle.Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, after being briefed by his Bulgarian counterpart, said the explosion was caused stanley mug by a bomb placed on the bus. He said seven people died, bu stanley thermoskannen t by Wednesday night the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry had placed the death toll at six and the number of wounded at 32 people.No group immediately claimed responsib stanley cup ility. But Israelis often have been targeted in attacks outside their country, and Wednesday s bombing coincided with the 18th anniversary of the bombing of a Jewish community center in Argentina that killed 85 people. Unidentified Israeli tourist is helped as she arrives to Bourgas hospital after a bus carrying Israeli tourists in the Bulgarian resort city of Bourgas exploded Wednesday. AP Photo/ Bulphoto Agency

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Late Tuesday, the federal government said there is no specific, credible intelligence of adidas samba schuhe any plots against the United States. But law enforcement is very concerned about what it doesn t know.American cities on alert after Brussels attacksCapitals assess, tighten security after adidas originals Brussels attacks Within hours of the attacks in Brussels, the FBI stepped up surveillance of potential terrorism suspects in the U.S. How could ISIS pull off Brussels attack 02:32 We re gonna ramp up on all of our subjects here. Twenty-four/seven surveillance, and cover them just in the event that there is some type of connection, said Diego Rodriguez, an assistant director of the FBI. And if there is, then at least we will be already on them. Officials are concerned about the potential for ISIS sympathizers to plot attacks in the U.S. There was a similar fear after the Paris attacks in November. Frank Cilluffo, a former White House counter terrorism official, said one concern is the potential for copy cats in the U.S. You always need to be worried about copy cats because there s an old saying: terrorists are not innovators, they re imitators. adidas campus 00s What can the public do to help prevent attacks in U.S. 02 Rsex Trump meets Putin, says it s an honor to be with him
Israel scaled back its 17-day offensive in the Gaza Strip on Friday, after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon heeded the army s warning that a long stay in crowded Palestinian areas is too risky and the United States called for a quick Israeli pullout.Sharon s decision came just hours after he told legislators Thursday that Operation Days of Penitence, meant to stop Palestinian rocket fire on Israeli communities, would continue and even be expanded.The prime minister s apparent zigzag reflected his dilemma. Continue stanley mugs d Palestinian rocket attacks have undermined support for his planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005, while a major milita stanley cup ry offensive invites international criticism because of heavy Palestinian casualties and isn t entirely effective.Since the Sept. 29 start of the Israeli campaign, triggered by a deadly rocket attack on the Israeli border town of Sheroot, 108 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds wounded. Among the dead were dozens of civilians, including 18 children.Israeli tanks and bulldozers have left behind a wide swath of destruction in northern Gaza, damaging houses, tearing up water pipes and knocking down electricity poles as they charge throu stanley kubek gh narrow alleys of densely populated areas. In an 18-page report obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday, the United Nations wrote that Israel has engaged in massive and wanton destruction of property in Gaza. The report, written before the current Gaza operation, said that while some of Israe

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In some 20 minutes, Germany poured on the gas and blew away host nation Brazil in Tuesday s World Cup semifinal. It was a shocking, devastating performance that brought tears t samba og o the faces of Brazilians there to root on their team. It was all the more shocking due to the generally low-scoring nature of soccer games, which are usually hard-fought, low-scoring affairs.Germany crushes Brazil in World Cup semifinal 7-1World Cup: 7 stunning facts about Germany s rout of BrazilThe agony of defeat! Brazil fans go from excitement to tearsDoes World Cup soccer need a mercy rule adidas originals hombre World Cup: Germany blitzes Brazil 27 photos adidas samba The 7-1 result on Tuesday is the heaviest defeat of a host nation in World Cup history. And coincidentally, the most recent blowout - until Tuesday - was also delivered by Germany in the 2002 World Cup, where Germany beat Saudi Arabia 8-0.How does this historic game figure in the pantheon of sports beatdowns Here s a look at other moments in sports where the victors turned mere victory into a classic vanquishing. Super Bowl XXIVOn Jan. 28, 1990, the San Francisco 49ers whooped the Denver Broncos, 55-10. It s all the more painful for occurring in a Super Bowl, where theoretically the season s best two teams square off. Honorable mention: I Irhm Evolution gone weird: Lizards in New Guinea bleed lime green
By CBSNews s Jarrett MurphyTruth is supposed to be war s first casualty. In Iraq, it is missing in action. A year after the first bombs fell, much about the war s purpose, its conduct and its impact remain unclear.Was Iraq a threat stanley us Did Saddam Hus stanley becher sein have weapons of mass destruction Will the war advance the cause of peace in the Middle East Will Iraq splinter into ethnic chaos What will it cost How long will Americans be there The questions stand out from the hard facts of a year of conflict mdash; Saddam is in U.S. custody and at least 564 U.S. soldiers and an estimated 3,200 civilians are dead. And they come after 12 months of reality that have exploded many myths mdash; from an stanley cups Iraqi information minister denying defeat as U.S. troops bore down, to the apparently staged rescue of prisoner of war Jessica Lynch.Opponents of the war predicted a long, bloody fight to defeat Saddam s regime, culminating with close-quarters combat in Baghdad. In fact, the United States drove Saddam from power within three weeks. But most U.S. deaths occurred after President Bush s May 1 speech in front of a sign reading Mission Accomplished. War critics feared the invasion would spur an attack on the U.S., while the White House contended that deposing Saddam would be an important victory in the terror war. A year later, no attacks have taken place against the U.S. homeland. But the country has gone to elevated terror alert at times, and elsewhere in the world mdash; outside of Iraq mdas

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JERUSALEM - An American Christian who faces charges in Israel of trying to blow up Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem denies t samba rose he charges, his lawyer said Wednesday.Illinois-native Adam Everett Livvix, 30, has been charged with possessing weapons that Israel says he planned to use to blow up unidentified Jerusalem holy sites. Israeli police said Livvix also turned down an offer from a Palestinian to assassinate U.S. President Barack Obama during the leader s visit to the Holy Land in 2013.Livvix s lawyer, Gal Wolf, said his client was held for eight days without access to a lawyer following his arrest last month, although he said U.S. Embassy officials did see him. Wolf said Livvix underwent extended interrogations by Israeli security services and that he is being kept separate from other prisoners. He categorically denies the charges in the indictment, Wolf said. He says it is nonsense. Wolf said he last saw Livvix on Monday and described his mood as down. He said that Livvix may have psychological issues that need as salomon zapatillas sessing and could come into play during his trial. Israel s Justice Ministry said Livvix underwent a psychiatric evaluation Tuesday, but Wolf said results had not yet been released. Wolf said Livvix was living with a fiancee when he was arrested. He did not adidas yeezyslide identify the woman but said she was also an American citizen. He did not know if they arrived to Israel together or met here.Israel indicted Livvix on Monday on charges of illegal weapon possession Hekm Day in Pictures
A Palestinian infiltrator shot and killed three Israeli students at an Orthodox Jewish high school in the West Bank settlement of Itamar, near the Palestinian city of Nablus, settlers and rescue service officials said. The attacker was shot and killed.Hezi Katoa, a rescue service worker, told Israel Radio that three students were killed and another wounded by gunfire. We found one stanley cup usa wounded student who had stanley thermos mug been hit by a number of bullets in the chest. An army doctor pronounced him dead, he said. We heard about two other students wounded in the school compound. When we got there we found two of them lying behind the building with bullet wounds all over their bodies. All our efforts to revive them failed. Settlers said the attacker entered the settlement and opened fire near the high school, where teen-agers study and live before entering the Israeli army. The rabbi who heads the school said the students came from a water bottle stanley ll over the country.Meanwhile, Israeli troops swept through Jenin and made more arrests in Bethlehem following almost daily suicide bomb attacks claimed by a militia linked to Yasser Arafat. A top Israeli official said Tuesday s moves in the West Bank do not portend another full-scale assault on Palestinian strongholds. Israeli soldiers also entered Beitunia, a suburb of the West Bank town of Ramallah, and surrounded the house of a Hamas leader, Palestinians said. However, the leader, Hassan Yussuf, was not there. The Israeli military had no comment.A Palestin

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A U.S. surveillance aircraft flying in international airspace over the Mediterranean Sea was intercepted by a Russian fighter jet on Wednesday, the Navy said in a statement. The 6th Fleet said the Russian SU-35 flew within 25 feet of the U. adidas sambarose S. P-8A Poseidon plane in an unsafe high-speed, inverted maneuver, putting t af1 he American pilots and crew at risk. While the Russian aircraft was operating in international airspace, this interaction was irresponsible, the statement said. We expect them to behave within international standards set to ensure safety and to prevent incidents. The Navy said the incident lasted approximately 42 minutes and the crew of the U.S. P-8A aircraft reported wake turbulence following the interaction.Citing the 1972 Agreement for the Prevention of Incidents On and Over the High Seas, the Navy said unsafe actionslrm; increase the risk of miscalculation and potential for midair collisions. Last June, another U.S. aircraft flying over the Mediterranean Sea was intercepted three times by a Russian fighter jet. More from CBS News U.S. slams China for hitting Philippine vessels with water cannons Judge rejects Boeing plea deal over fatal 737 Max chanclas yeezy plane crashe Iphi Cameron: Britain must reverse moral collapse
It was exactly one year ago today that Japan was struck by a disastrous earthquake and tsunami . . . and a nuclear meltdown followed. One year later we ve asked our Bill Whitaker to take stock: All along Japan s northern coast it s shocking to see the vast stretches of emptiness - a lifeless moonscape dotted with mountains of debris. The only activity: Mechanical arms building heaps of debris higher and higher. So much nothingness, one can t help but wonder what s been accomplished over the past year ... until you remember how this a stanley cups uk ll began. The magnitude 9.0 earthquake, the worst ever recorded in Japan, might end up a footnote compared to the black tide it triggered. The tsunami swept in off the Pacific and laid waste to everything in its path. A coast stanley flask line of cities and towns, factories and farms washed away in an instant. Ebisu, the god of good fortune and the sea, was no match. Almost 20,000 people died or still are missing. So much death and destruction it took this country - an economic and technological giant - a whole year to achieve what today looks like . . . nothing. There is so much debris, but it exceeds the capacity of these communities to get rid of it, to incinerate it, to dump it. So it has to go somewhere else. And oth stanley tumbler er communities around Japan have not been raising their hands, said Jeff Kingston, who teaches Japanese history at Temple University Japan. Japan marks somber anniversary of disasterChildren orphaned by tsunami st

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Israeli authorities extradited a woman to Australia this week where she s facing 74 counts of rape and child sexual abuse. Malka Leifer is alleged to have committed the crimes while she was the principal at a Jewish girls school in Melbourne between 2004 to 2008. The victims are absolutely relieved and are ecstatic to achieve their goal, Manny Waks, CEO of VoiCSA, an Israel-based organization dedicated to combating child sexual abuse in the global Jewish community, who is working with Leifer s victims, told CBS News. But let s not forget that this is just start of it. Now their case really begins in Australia. Israeli-born Australian Malka Leifer is brought into a courtroom in Jerusalem in a February 27, 2018 file photo. salomon zapatillas Mahmoud Illean/AP Leifer fought against her extradition for six years. The 54-year-old s defense team cl air max 1 aimed she wasn t asics healthy enough to endure a trial. But last year, an expert panel of Israeli psychiatrists determined Leifer was lying, which triggered her extradition.Leifer s long legal battle included more than 70 court hearings, says Waks. But on Monday, local media showed her boarding a plane in shackles at Israel s Ben Gurion Airport. Her extradition sends a strong message of hope and encouragement to survivors all over the world, Shana Aaronson, Executive Director at Magen for Jewish Communities, an Israeli organization that tracks Americ Ewvo Haiti judge orders release of 2 jailed Americans
Israeli troops dragged sobbing Jewish settlers out of homes, synagogues and even a nursery school Wednesday in a massive evacuation, fulfilling Prime Minister Ariel Sha stanley mug ron s promise to end Israel s 38-year occupation of the Gaza Strip.Soldiers entered Gaza s largest synagogue Wednesday to remove hundreds of worshippers, who had formed long lines and swayed in prayer. In an emotional show of unity, troops wearing flak jackets joined the ranks of the worshippers. Nearly all the settlers taken out of the synagogue were in tears, and CBS News Correspondent Robert Berger reports seeing a squad of women soldiers hugging each other and weeping.Tempers were high elsewhere in Israel, too. In other developments:An Israeli gunman opened fire on Palestinians in the West Bank on Wednesday, killing three and wounding two, Israeli and Palestinian medics said. The gunman grabbed a weapon from a security guard posted at the industrial zone of the West Bank settlement of Shilo, then randomly opened fire on Palestinians nearby. Three Palesti stanley cup nians were killed and at least two wounded.A right-wing West Bank settler opposed to Israel s pullout from the Gaza Strip set herself on fire Wednesday in Netivot, in another part of Israel, suffering life-threatening burns on 70 percent of her body. The 54-year-old woman had been carrying an anti-Gaza pullout sign, Officials have been extremely concerned that there would be some kind of extreme act or acts taken by people stanley quencher who want to stop the pullout, rep

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TOKYO -- An overnight tour bus on its way to a ski resort in central Japan careened off a mountain road early Friday, killing 14 passengers and injuring 27 others.Fire and disaster management officials said the bus veered into the opposite nike af lane near the famous resort town of Karuizawa, in Nagano prefecture, rammed through a guardrail and slid down the mountainside a short distance before coming to a rest on its side against some trees.The chartered bus was carrying 41 people, including two drivers who were taking turns, when it crashed. The drivers were among the dead. There was no snow or ice on the road surface in the area, about 110 miles northwest of Tokyo.Those with injuries are being treated at nearby hospitals. Most had injuries to the head, neck and chest, doctors said.The bus fell about 10 feet down the mountainside and landed on its side, with its front window bashed in, according to Japanese media. An investigator walks beside the wreckage of a bus which crashed after running off a road in Karuizawa, Nagano prefecture, Japan on January 15, 2016. JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images Chief Cabi adidas originals hombre net Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the transport ministry has set up a taskforce and dispatched officials adidas campus 00s to the crash site for investigation. We must thoroughly investigate the cause of the accident so that similar accidents won t be repeated, he said at a regular news con Rqyd Israeli Settlement Attacked
Rivers and ponds were drying up, while wildfires blazed in several countries as Europe staggered through a deadly heat wave forecast to last until September.Belgium s Royal Meteorologi stanley cups uk cal Institute predicted it could reach 104 on Thursday mdash; the highest temperature it has ever forecast since the institute s founding in 1833.The number of deaths blamed on heat or fires rose to 38 Thursday, after Croati stanley mug an po stanley thermos lice reported the death of an officer deployed to guard the U.S. Embassy in a Zagreb suburb.The 41-year-old policeman died Wednesday of a heart failure likely caused by the heat, police said.On Thursday, fires raging across Italy forced officials to close a state road on the Amalfi coast in the south and evacuate some homes as a precaution in Tuscany and the northwestern Liguria regions, the Civil Defense Department said. Scattered blazes were also reported in Lazio. Water-toting helicopters and planes were dousing the flames, which have already destroyed hundreds of acres of woods and Mediterranean bush.Weather experts from Italy s state-funded CNR research center said the heat wave was among the five worst in the last 150 years and would likely last until September.Europe was hit by hot air from northern Africa rather than the usual weather patterns that come in from the Atlantic, said Capt. Alessandro Fuccello, from the Italian air force s meteorology office in Rome.High-temperature records have been broken in several French cities, and London, where betters w

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State and federal authorities in Mexico said Thursday they have arrested a suspected serial killer accused of luring young women on Facebook with false job offers.Authorities said they have surveillance camera footage from two states showing the man meeting with the victims in public places, and in one case driving a victim away on a motorbike. Prosecutorsreleased severa yeezy l of the imageson Wednesday.The suspect is a serial killer of women, and there are at least seven cases of women s killings air max 98 where this person could be involved, said Assistant Public Safety Secretary Ricardo Mejia.Mejia said the most recent case involved the killing a 31-year-old woman in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz after she went for a job interview last month. Viridiana Moreno Vaacute quez left her house in the town of Cardel, Veracruz, and went to the Bienvenido hotel to attend a supposed job interview she had obtained with someone on Facebook, said adidas originals Mejiacute;a. After that she disappeared. Solicitamos su colaboracioacute;n para localizar a la C. Viridiana Moreno Vaacute quez, cualquier informacioacute;n contactar al nuacute;mero y/o correo que aparecen al margen de este boletiacute;n. Cardel LaAntigua Veracruz@botDesaparecidx pic.twitter/b21OclHDKxmdash; Comisioacute;n Estatal de Buacute queda Veracruz @cebver May 21, 2022 Hername was made public by relatives who mounted protests after her disappearance. Her unrecognizable body was found days later, and was identifie Eteu At least 100 elephant deaths in Zimbabwe national park blamed on drought, climate change
BEIRUT - More than 750 civilians have been killed in Syria since an upris stanley flask ing against President Bashar As stanley tumbler sad s regime began in mid-March, a human rights group said Tuesday as the government pressed its efforts stanley canada to end the nationwide unrest.Ammar Qurabi, who heads the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria, told The Associated Press that the group has lists of names, age, cause of death and the area where 757 people died. By comparison, fact-finding investigators said at least 219 people were killed in Tunisia and at least 846 in Egypt in the uprisings that succeeded in toppling their longtime autocratic rulers.Qurabi said thousands of Syrians have been detained in the past two months, including about 9,000 who are still in custody.Complete coverage: Anger in the Arab WorldChildren killed, arrested in Syrian crackdownWitnesses: 30 killed in Syria by security forcesAssad has dispatched troops and tanks to many areas to crush the seven-week uprising that poses the most serious challenge to his family s 40-year rule. Qurabi spoke to The Associated Press as Syrian forces conducted operations in several hot spots throughout the country.Earlier Tuesday, an activist reported that Syrian troops backed by tanks entered several southern villages near the flashpoint city of Daraa. The activist said heavy gunfire was heard when the troops entered Inkhil, Dael, Jassem, Sanamein and Nawa after midnight, but it was not clear if there were casualties.He spoke on condition of ano

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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- High winds were to blame for the toppling of a massive crane that smashed into Mecca s Grand Mosque and killed at least 107 people ahead of the start of the annual hajj pilgrimage, the head of Saudi Arabia s civil defense directorate said Saturday.The disaster during a violent thunderstorm that roared through Islam s holiest city late Friday afternoon was the deadliest incident in years surrounding the hajj, which gets underway in full later this month.Images shared on social media showed a horrifying scene. The crane boom pierced through the roof of the mosque, bringing down slabs of reinforced concrete and leaving bodies lying amid pools of blood on the polished mosque floors as frightened s adidas original campus urvivors screamed in panic. Crane collapses at holy Muslim site 00:55 The director general of civil defense, Suleiman bin Abdullah al-Amro, told satellite broadcaster Al-Arabiya that the unusually powerful winds that toppled the crane also tore down trees and signs as a storm whipped through the area.He denied reports that lightning brought do adidas og wn the red-and-white crane, which was being used for the mosque s expansion, or that some of those killed died in a stampede. The speed of the wind was not normal, he said. There was no way for people to know that the c salomon hombre rane was about to collapse Arfh Russian convicted of spying for U.K. falls ill after exposure to substance, BBC reports
The United States lost a vote at an international conference Tuesday as Asia-Pacific countries rejected the Bush administration s stand against abortion and condom use among adolescents.The vote was held at the end of the U.N.-sponsored Asian and Pacific Population Conference, which adopted a plan of action on population policies in a bid to reduce poverty in the region.U.S. delegates had said some of the wording, including reproductive health services and reproductive rights, could be read as advocating abortion and underage sex. But U.S. demands for changes or deletions were overwhelmingly rejected in a vote that allowed the plan to be adopted as the conference ended Tuesday. We wanted a development oriented conference, but the issue we had a heated debate on was abortion and underage sex, said Kim Hak-Su, executive secretary of the U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.The fifth Asian and Pacific Population conference was attended by UNESCAP s member nations, including the United States, India, Pakistan a stanley flask nd China, as well as several activist organizations. Delegates said the ministerial meetings were often heated, with the United States seeking stanley cup to pressure other countries.Faced with a deadlock, the conference took a vote mdash; highly unusual stanley kubek at United Nations conferences mdash; on two key chapters of the plan. The United States lost the first vote 31-1 with two abstentions, and the second 32-1 with two abstentions.The United States end