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ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey s deputy prime minister said Monday the number of Syrian refugees who ve reached his nation in the past four days after fleeing the advance of militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS totaled 130,000. And, he said, that number could rise. Syrian refugees flood into Turkey 16 photos Turkey a key staging ground for ISIS nike af operations 02:50 salomon speedcross The refugees have been flooding into Turkey since Thursday, escaping an ISIS offensive that has pushed the conflict nearly within eyeshot of the Turkish border. More than a million Syrians have been pushed over the border in the past 3frac12; years.The deputy prime minister Numan Kurtulmus said Turkey was faced with a man-made disaster. We don t know how many more villages may be raided, how many more people may be forced to seek refuge, he said.As refugees flooded in, Turkey on Sunday closed a af1 border crossing to Turkish Kurds in a move aimed at preventing them from joining the fight in Syria. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a day earlier that hundreds of Kurdish fi Gcfc Taliban launch attack on UK compound; 8 dead
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JOHANNESBURG --A charter plane crashed in South Africa on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring 20 others. The injuries in Tuesday s crash in the capital of Pretoria range from minor to critical, according to Russel Meiring, a spokesman for paramedic company ER24.The crash occurred near an airport in the Wonderboom area. Video of the plane s takeoff shows smoke streaming behind it.Photographs from the scene of the crash show the damaged aircraft in a field. Martin s Air Charter is written on the side of the fuselage. [UPDATE] - Initial reports from the aircraft crash in Wonderboom has left allegedly 20 people injured, at least one critically. @ewnupdates @eNCA @jour_maine @SABCNewsOnline @_ArriveAlive @FatalMoves pic.twitter/Hnu239Y0Kvmdash; ER24 EMS Pty adidas samba Ltd. @ER24EMS July 10, 2018 Authorities are investigating the cause of hoka laufschuhe the crash.ER24 shared images of the wreckage on Twitter and thanked first responders for their hard work. [UPDATE] - One fatality reported at the Wonderboom crash in Pretoria. pic.twitter/04Ue9fihxbmdash; ER24 EMS Pty Ltd. @ER24EMS July 10, 2018 More from CBS News salomon hombre 3 climbers from U.S., Canada believed dead in fall from New Zealand s highest peak Hong Kong s Cathay Pacific apologizes for showing F Oadb 2 U.S. troops killed fighting ISIS in Afghanistan
Bush administration officials said Friday they were cooperating with a Senate panel s demand for documents and interviews for an inquiry on prewar intelligence on Iraq.The Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee agreed that some agencies had given what I believe is a good-faith response, but Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., criticized the White House for ignoring a noon Friday deadline for turning over materials. I am hopeful that the White House will recognize the importance of the committee s efforts and comply as soon as possible, Roberts said in a statement. I look forward to working with the White House in a cooperative manner in hopes of reaching a satisfactory conclusion. White House spokesman Scott McClellan insisted the administration has been working with the committee and will continue to do so even though the committee has no jurisdiction over the White House. He was noncommittal about the administration s intention to provide spec stanley cup ific assistance. We are talking with th stanley cup em about their request, and we will continue working with them, he said. Roberts and Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, the committee s top Democrat, had set the Friday stanley cup deadline for material it had sought from the White House, CIA, State Department and Pentagon. The last three were notified of the deadline only on Thursday. The noon deadline was really intended not so much as a precise date in history but to put a shot over their collective bows, said Sen. Jay Rockefeller

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Tatan Syuflana/AP A street monkey wears a ba adidas samba donna by doll mask as it performs in a slum in Jakarta, Indonesia, Oct. 24, 2013. Security forces are fanning o yeezy slide ut across Jakarta conducting ra dunks ids to rescue macaques used in popular street masked monkey performances in a move aimed at improving public order and preventing diseases carried by the monkeys. Tatan Syuflana/AP A trained monkey that has had his teeth pulled out reacts as it is being photographed in its cage in a village where many street performers live, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Oct. 24, 2013.The city government will buy back all monkeys used as street buskers for about $90 and shelter them at a 2.5-acre preserve at Jakarta s Ragunan Zoo. The handlers and caretakers will be provided vocational training to help find new jobs. Tatan Syuflana/AP A handler trains a monkey in a village where many street performers live, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Oct. 24, 2013. Animal rights groups have long campaigned for a ban on the shows, which often involve monkeys wearing plastic baby doll heads on their faces. They say the monkeys are hung from chains for long periods to train them to walk on their hind legs like humans. Their teeth are pulled so they can t bite, and Wqbn Pakistan Bomb Hits Handicapped Kids Bus
Math whizzes and other prodigies need not apply unless they can demonstrate dexterity with a pair of chopsticks under new entrance requirements announced by a Japanese girls school on Wednesday.Successful applicants to the Hisatagakuen Sasebo Girls High School in Nagasaki, Japan, must be able to transfer marbles, beads and beans from one plate to another - using chopsticks.That s according to the school s principa stanley flask l, Junko Hisata, who commented in an interview with the Kyodo News Agency.The test aims to judge applicants lifestyle habits through their handling of chopsticks and must be taken by all candidates - aged 15 or 16 years - starting with those wishing to enroll in April, the start of Japan s academic year, the report said.The high school caters to girls aged 16-18 years. The move comes amid concerns that Japanese youth are losing touch with their traditional culinary culture and table manners. Youngsters increasingly wolf down burgers and fried chicken instead of the fish, rice and miso soup of their grandparents generation.Flower arrangement and a traditi stanley thermobecher onal Japanese tea ceremony are also part of the required curriculum at Hisatagakuen, founded in 1902 and known for its emphasis stanley cupe on discipline. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-984d16ec-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-984d16ec-8c88-11e2-b06b-02

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An American tourist had to be rescued on Mount Vesuvius near Naples after he apparently slipped into the Italian volcano s crater while trying to recover his fallen cellphone, news reports and the association of Vesuvius park guides said.The tourist and family members were cited by Carabinieri police because they went off the authorized path to get closer to the crater on Saturday afternoon, apparently to take a selfie, the LaPresse news agency said.The head of the Confesercenti tourism association for Vesuvius, Paolo Cappelli, said four volcano guides responded immediately after one noticed the tourist had fallen into the crater and was in serious difficulty. In a statement, Cappelli said the adidas originals donna guides lowered a rope 15 meters 50 feet into the crater, pulled the tourist out and provided initial first aid, after he suffered abrasions on his legs, arm and back. Carabinieri park police then arrived and brought the American to the police station to file the complaint, Cappelli said. The life of volcanological guides is not simple: they ar adidas campus beige e always on the crater to safeguard the safety of tourists, Cappelli said in a Facebook post. Having spoken directly with the rescuers, I can safely say that last Saturday on Vesuvius they saved a human life. Mount hoka laufschuhe Vesuvius, which erupted in AD 79 and devastated the nearby town of Pompeii, is a popular spot for hiking.Archaeologists are still uncovering extraordinary structures in the region. In 2020, they announced the discovery of an Zxqm Marine Murder Probe Intensifies
Hundreds of thousands of Shiite Muslims clambered aboard buses or began trekking homeward on foot Saturday at the end of Ashoura, a 10-day ritual to cleanse the spirit and scourge the body in honor of their founding saint.The high holy days in Karbala passed absent the slaughter of pilgrims witnessed in the years since the U.S.-led invasion nearly half a decade ago, despite two days of fighting that killed at least 72 people farther south and a series of attacks north of Baghdad.Fearing a spectacular attack on the masses of self-flagellating faithful who marched kubki stanley on the shrines in Karbala, Iraqi authorities flooded the city with 30,000 police and soldiers. Soviet-made tanks guarded approach roads.A relatively uneventful passage of Ashoura had been seen by U.S. and Iraqi officials as a rigorous test of the decline in violence in the country since Washington sent in 30,000 additional troops cups stanley last year and many Sunni insurgents suddenly joined American forces in the fight against al Qae stanley becher da in Iraq.But militants did assault gatherings of Ashoura worshippers elsewhere. A rocket slammed into a busy market in the northern city of Tal Afar on Saturday, killing at least seven people who had completed the ritual and gathered there afterward, according to Najim Abdullah, the mayor.And two bombs hidden under trash blasted an Ashoura procession in Kirkuk, killing at least two, said police Brig. Gen. Burhan Tayeb Taha. Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, has seen a rise in violence as

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An Italian man has been crushed to death under thousands of vast wheels of a Parmesan-style hard cheese, firefighters said Monday.Giacomo Chiapparini, 74, was buried under the cheeses, each of which weighed almost 90 pounds, when a shelf broke in his warehouse in the northern Lombardy region on Sunday, creating a domino effect that brought down thousands of wheels, firefighter Antonio Dusi from Bergamo told AFP.Rescuers had to move the cheeses and the shelves by hand, Dusi said, adding that it took about 12 hours to finally find Chiapparini. Parmesan and Grana Padano cheese age in warehouses in their corresponding regions, as seen in this January 1, 2012 file photo from Fiorenzuola d Arda Piacenza Province , Italy. Massimo Di Nonno/Getty air force one The salomon mujer warehouse, located in the small town of Romano di Lombardia near Bergamo, contained a total of 25,000 wheels of Grana Padano, a hard cheese which resembles Parmesan and is very popular in Italy.Chiapparini had been checking on the ripeni crocs hausschuhe ng wheels, which were stored on metal shelves, the highest of which stood at 33 feet.A local resident told Italian media the collapse sounded like thunder, BBC News reported. Speaking to Italian media, a neighbor described Chiapparini as very supportivehellip; and generous. They said he had lost a child decades ago.Bortolo Ghislotti, a friend of the victim, told NBC News that Chiappar Jbdb Ukrainian Opponents Duel On TV
France and Egypt launched a major pu stanley becher sh Monday to find the fuselage and flight data recorders of the stanley flasche aircraft that crashed into the Red Sea, killing 148 people.The parts of bodies recovered from the sea so far bore no burns, suggesting there was no explosion on the Egyptian stanley deutschland -chartered Boeing 737 that plunged into the sea minutes after takeoff on Saturday, French Deputy Foreign Minister Renaud Muselier said Monday.The French sent a robot submarine to aid the search, but the deployment of the craft was delayed when Egyptian customs held it up at the airport, French officials said. Later Monday, the French Embassy said submarine had cleared customs.The crash came amid worldwide fears that terrorists would use an aircraft to stage an atrocity. But Muselier told France-Info radio, there is no reason to believe there was an attack. He added he thought the crash, which killed 133 French citizens, was an accident.Egyptian officials say the crash of the jet, which had just taken off from Sharm el-Sheik for Paris, appears to have been caused by a mechanical problem. Swiss aviation authorities had banned the carrier, Flash Airlines, after it failed an inspection at Zurich airport in October 2002. The same month, one of Flash s two Boeings was forced to make an emergency landing in Athens after an engine caught fire.The chairman of Flash Airlines, Mohamed Nour, told The Associated Press that the company made the necessary improvements and passed a second Swiss inspection 151; bu

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Saturday that President Trump s move on the Golan Heights does not amount to a double standard. He made the remarks when asked about the U.S. stance on the Syrian territory that Israel officially seized in 1981 compared to U.S. policy on Russia regarding its annexation of Crim adidas campus 00 ea. You imposed sanctions on Russia for annexing Crimea, Hiba Nasr of Sky News said to Pompeo Saturday at the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. Now you are going to recognize the sovereign -- the Israeli sovereignty over t adidas original campus hese territories. Isn t this a double-standard policy No, not at all, Pompeo said. What the president did with the Golan Heights is recognize the reality on the ground and the security situation necessary for the protection of the Israeli state. It s that - it s that simple. He denied that Israel s annexation of the Golan Heights violated United Nations Security Council resolutions, saying the decision the president made will increase the opportunity for there to be stability throughout the region. President Trump made a surprise announcement on Twitter this week that he would recognize Israel s air max 2 sovereignty over the Golan Heights. After 52 years it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israel s Sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which is of critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and Regional Stability! Mr. Trump wrote on Thursday.Israel s annexation of the area is not recognized internationally. S Xdyp Israel election: Exit polls show rocky political future for PM Benjamin Netanyahu
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz acknowledged Thursday that he erred in helping a close female friend get transferred to a high-paying job, and said he was sorry.His apology didn t ease concerns among the bank s staff association, which wants him to resign.The growing controversy has overshadowed major development meetings this weekend and is raising fresh questions about whether Wolfowitz will stay on the job. The White House, however, expressed confidence in the embattled bank president.At issue are the generous compensation and pay raises of a bank employee, Shaha Riza, who has dated Wolfowitz. She w stanley cup as given an assignment at the State Department in September 2005, shortly after he became bank president. In hindsight I wish I had trusted my original instincts and kept myself out of the negotiations, Wolfowitz said. I made a mistake, for which I am sorry. The World Bank Group Staff Association is demanding that Wolfowitz step down. The president must acknowledge that his conduct has compromised the integrity and effectiveness of the World Bank Group and has destroyed the staff s trust in his l stanley kubek eadership, the association said Thursday. He must act honorably and resign. Wolfowitz said he met Thursday morning with the World Bank s stanley quencher board and that members were looking into the matter. He declined to discuss what actions, if any, the board could take. I proposed to the board that they establish some mechanism to judge whether the agreement reached was a reasonable ou

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Kyivmdash; Russia s unrelenting bombing campaign in Ukraine is fueling skepticism about Moscow s claim that it will drastically reduce its military operations in two areas of the country to increase mutual trust and encourage peace talks. Despite the ongoing negotiations, the war continues.As of Wednesday, the United Nations said it had driven more than 4 million people to flee Ukraine, upending their lives and making them refugees. At least 6 million more Ukrainians have been forced to leave their homes to seek safety elsewhere inside the country.As CBS News correspondent Debora Patta reports from the capital city of Kyiv mdash; one of the areas where Russia said it would scale back its assault mdash; U.S. military officials see President Vladimir Putin s latest move more as a repositioning of forces than a retreat, and in Kyiv and elsewhere, the threat remained high on Wednesday.Boardroom discussions like Tuesday s peace talks in Turkey mean little on the battlefield. Patta says Ukrainians are not letting t af1 heir guard down, with soldiers continuing to patrol checkpoints around Kyiv, on high alert as they search for Russian saboteurs. hoka trekkingschuhe Photos: Inside the Russian invasion of Ukraine 60 photos With shelling still heard north of th air force 1 e capital on W Ulng Rights group calls for Saudi Arabia to immediately produce Jamal Khashoggi s body
Last Updated 2:17 p.m. ETMELBOURNE, Australia - Riot police in Australia s second-largest city broke up a demonstration linked to the Occupy Wall Street movement Friday, after a group of around 100 people protesting corporate greed defied an order to vacate a plaza.Around 20 people, including two police officers, suffere stanley cup d minor injuries in the scuffle, Victoria state Police Assistant Commissioner Stephen Fontana said. Several demonstrators screamed and cried as police dragged and carried them away from the city square, where protesters had been camped out for nearly a week.The Daily Telegraph reports more than 50 members of the Occupy Melbourne movement were arrested; Australia s ABC Network reports about 100 arrests.On Saturday several hundred protesters marched peacefully through the city from Federation Square to Trades Hall, followed by a large police contingent. The so-called Occupy movement began last month in New York, where people frustrated with America s stubbornly limp economy have been camped out on Wall Street to protest corporate greed and social inequality. Since then, thousands of people have joined similar protests across the globe, including several cities in Australia. Most of the protests have been stanley us peaceful 151; with the exception of a rally in Rome that turned violent last week when protesters smashed bank wi stanley mug ndows, hurled bottles and set cars on fire.

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Derna, Libya mdash; The United Nations warned Monday that disease outbreaks could bring a second devastating crisis to Libya a week after a huge flash flood shattered the coastal city of Derna, sweeping thousands to their deaths. Local officials, aid agencies and the World Health Organization are concerned about the risk of disease outbreak, particularly from contaminated water and the lack of sanitation , the United Nations said. The flash flood that is confirmed to have killed nearly 3,300 people and left thousands more missing came after the war-scarred North African country was lashed by the hurricane-strength Storm Daniel on September 10. Tens of thousands of traumatized residents are homeless and badly in need of clean wate yeezy slide r, food and basic supplies amid a growing risk of cholera, diarrhea, dehydration and malnutrition, U.N. agencies have warned. A man walks past the rubble of a destroyed building in Libya s eastern city of Derna, Sept. 18, 2023, following deadly flash floods. MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP/Getty Libya s disease control center banned citizens in the disaster zone from drinking water from lo airmaxplus cal mains, warning that it is polluted. There is no life left. Rescue teams from several Europ asics ean and Arab countries kept up the grim search for bodies in the mud-caked wasteland of smashed buildings, crushed cars and uprooted trees. The waters submerged a densely popul Nohr Man allegedly got up to 90 COVID vaccine shots so he could sell the vaccination cards
TUNIS, Tunisia - Thousands of angry demonstrators marched through Tunisia s capital on Friday to demand the resignation of t stanley cupe he country s autocratic leader, and hundreds of foreign tourists were evacuated amid fears of more unrest.Protesters chanted slogans against President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, including Ben Ali, out! and Ben Ali, assassin! One poster read We won t forget, stanley website a reference to the rioters killed, many by police bullets.Pent-up anger at unemployment and at a leadership many see as controlling and corrupt has exploded into protests and clashes with police over the past few weeks. The official death toll in the riots is 23, but opposition figures say dozens more have been killed.U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks have described the corruption in Tunisia, and social networks like Facebook have helped spread the comments. Many ordinary Tunisians who have complained of corr stanley quencher uption for years felt vindicated to see the U.S. cables. Hundreds of police with shields and riot gear blocked the avenue Friday in front of the Interior Ministry, where over the years there have been reports of torture. The march was organized by Tunisia s only legal trade union, which also went ahead with a symbolic two-hour strike.Medical officials told the Associated Press of 13 more deaths late Thursday.Surgeon Fares Belhassen said he had counted 10 dead and 50 wounded at Tunis Charles Nicolle hospital. An employee at Khereddine Hospital, who spoke on condition of anony

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U.S. officials held off on imposing sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin s rumored gi dunks rlfriend, 38-year-old gymnast and Olympic gold medalist Alina Kabaeva, as the me adidas yeezy asure was seen as too drastic, The Wall Street Journal reported adidas samba donna on Sunday.The newspaper cited unnamed officials as saying the 2016 investigation into Russia s interference in U.S. presidential elections revealed that Kabaeva had benefited from Putin s influence and personal wealth. The U.S. government suspected Kabaeva of concealing some of that wealth abroad, the Journal reported, adding that American officials also believe her to be the mother of at least three of Putin s children.Possible sanctions against Kabaeva were eventually halted, however, since the step was considered so personal a blow to Mr. Putin that it could further escalate tensions between Russia and the U.S., the Journal wrote. In this November 4, 2004 file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with gymnast Alina Kabaeva at a Kremlin banquet in Moscow, Russia. ITAR-TASS/AP Rumors have circulated for years about Kabaeva s personal relationship with the Russian leader. Russian tabloids have dubbed her Russia s First Mistress and even the Secret First Lady. In 2008, Russian newspaper Moskovsky Korrespondent reported that Putin had plans to divorce his longtime wife, Lyudmila, to be with Kabaeva. The paper was shut d Efxl Reports Of Civilian Deaths Mount
CBS/AP TOKYO - Fukushima prefecture state has opened its first beach to swimmers since last year s nuclear disaster after judging the water to be safe.About 1,000 people on Monday descended on Nakoso beach, about 40 miles south of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, where three reactors melted down after the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami.The opening was celebrated with beach volleyball games and hula dancers from a nearby spa.Iwaki city official Joji Kimura says negligible radiation was detected in water at the beach. Airborne radiation was measured at 0.08 microsieverts per hour, far below dangerous levels.Swimming had been banned at all beaches in Fukushima prefecture state since last March s disaster. The beach was reopened as tens of thousands of people rallied at a Tokyo park Monday demanding that Japan abandon nuclear power as the country prepares to restart another reactor shut down after last year s tsunami caused meltdowns at the Fukushima power plant.Japan reactor on grid stanley water bottle in 1st post-tsunami restartJapan reactor back online, 1st since FukushimaJapan to switch off last nuclear reactorLed by Nobel-winning novelist Kenzaburo Oe, pop star Ryuichi Sakamoto and visual artist Yoshito stanley cup price mo Nara, the protesters expressed outrage over a report that blamed the Fukushima disaster on Japan s culture of stanley flask reflexive obedience and held no individuals responsible.Japan ordered all its nuclear power plants shut down for safety inspections after last year s March

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Berlinmdash; German pharmaceutical company Bayer said Wednesday it will pay up to $10.9 billion to settle a lawsuit over subsidiary Monsanto s weedkiller Roundup, which has faced numerous lawsuits over claims it causes cancer.In a statement Wednesday, Bayer said it was also paying up $1.2 billion to settle two further cas yeezy es, one involving PCB in water. It said the Roundup settlement would bring closure to approximately 75% of the current 125,000 filed and unfiled claims.Bayer said it would also pay up to $400 million to settle cases involving the weedkiller dicamba having drifted on crocs schuhe to plants that weren t bred to resist it, killing them.The agreement is subject to approval by Judge Vince Chhabria of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.The lawsuit resolves most current claims and puts in place a clear mechanism to manage risks of potential future litigation, Bayer CEO Werner Baumann said in a statement. It is financially reasonable when viewed against the significant financial risks of continued, multi-year litigation and the related impacts to our reputation and to our business. A further payment of up to $820 million will be made to settle most claims for exposure to PCB, a highly carcinogenic substance, that Monsanto produced until 1977 and which has been found in U.S. waters. Bayer to appeal $2 bi asics sneaker llion verdict in Roundup Gcog When Mom Or Dad Is Serving In Iraq
The bride said she was a virgin. When her new husband discovered that was a lie, he went to court to annul the marriage - and a French judge agreed.The ruling ending the Muslim couple s union has stunned France and raised concerns the country s much-cherished secular values are losing ground to religious traditions from its fast-growing immigrant communities.The decision also exposed the silent shame borne by some Muslim women who transgress long-held religious dictates demanding proof of virginity on the wedding night.In its ruling, the court concluded the woman had misrepresented herself as a vi stanley quencher rgin and that, in this particular marriage, virginity was a prerequisite.But in treating the case as a breach of contract, the ruling was decried by critics who said it undermined decade stanley cups s of progress in women s rights. Marriage, they said, was reduced to the status of a commercial transaction in which women could be discarded by husbands claiming to have discovered hidden defects in them. stanley cup The court decision is a real fatwa against the emancipation and liberty of women. We are returning to the past, said Urban Affairs Minister Fadela Amara, the daughter of immigrants from Muslim North Africa, using the Arabic term for a religious decree.The outcry has been unrelenting since word of the April 1 decision in the closed-door trial in Lille was made public last week by the daily newspaper Liberation. In its judgment, the tribunal said the 2006 marriage had been ended based on an