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UNITED NATIONS --In the annual Secretary General Report on Children and Armed Conflict, the United Nations placed the Saudi Arabia-led military coalition on its blacklist, accusing it of involvement in the deaths and injury of almost 700 children in Yemen.The U.N. report, produced after extensive consultations with Saudi Arabia, also said that the coalition had taken steps to improve their actions in the ongoing war, in which 10,000 people have been killed.Famine and cholera have also plagued Yemen in whi adidas campus 00s ch the Houthi rebels and several other groups have fought the government of President Abd-Rabu Mansour Hadi. Yemen s civil war fuels cholera outbreak yeezy 01:26 Steacute;phane Dujarric, spokesman for the Secretary-General, said the Secretary General is appalled that more than 8,000 children were killed and maimed in conflict situations in 2016, referring to conflicts around the world including in Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen and by extremist groups including Boko Haram and al-Shabab. The highest number ever recorded in Afghanistan, which includes over 3,000 child deaths.Several human rights groups heralded the decision to include the Saudi coalition on the list, since air force one it had initially been placed on the list then removed from it in 2016, under the direction of a previous Secretary General.Thereport Lnvp N. Korea Pledges To Cooperate
Updated at 1:38 p stanley flask .m. ESTBombs and booby traps slowed the advance of thousands of U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers moving Saturday through the Taliban-controlled town of Marjah - NATO s most ambitious effort yet to break the militants grip over their southern heartland.NATO said it hoped to secure the area in days, set up a local government and rush in development aid in a first test of the new U.S. strategy for turning the tide of the eight-year war. The offensive is the largest since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan.The Taliban appeared to have scattered in the face of overwhelming force, possibly waiting to regroup and stage attacks later to foil the alliance s plan to stabilize the area and expand Afghan government control in the volatile south.NATO said two of its soldiers were killed in the first day of the operation - one American stanley cup and one Briton, according to military officials in their countries. Afghan authorities said at least 20 insurgents were killed. More than 30 transport helicopters ferried troops into the heart of Marjah before dawn Saturday, while British, Afghan and U.S. troops fanned out across the Nad Ali district to the north of the mudbrick town, long a stronghold of the Taliban.Maj. Gen. Gordon Messenger told reporters in London that British forces have successfully secured the area militarily with only sporadic resistance from Taliban forces. A Tal stanley cup iban spokesman insisted their forces still controlled the town.Other Taliban officials d
UNITED NATIONS --In the annual Secretary General Report on Children and Armed Conflict, the United Nations placed the Saudi Arabia-led military coalition on its blacklist, accusing it of involvement in the deaths and injury of almost 700 children in Yemen.The U.N. report, produced after extensive consultations with Saudi Arabia, also said that the coalition had taken steps to improve their actions in the ongoing war, in which 10,000 people have been killed.Famine and cholera have also plagued Yemen in whi adidas campus 00s ch the Houthi rebels and several other groups have fought the government of President Abd-Rabu Mansour Hadi. Yemen s civil war fuels cholera outbreak yeezy 01:26 Steacute;phane Dujarric, spokesman for the Secretary-General, said the Secretary General is appalled that more than 8,000 children were killed and maimed in conflict situations in 2016, referring to conflicts around the world including in Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen and by extremist groups including Boko Haram and al-Shabab. The highest number ever recorded in Afghanistan, which includes over 3,000 child deaths.Several human rights groups heralded the decision to include the Saudi coalition on the list, since air force one it had initially been placed on the list then removed from it in 2016, under the direction of a previous Secretary General.Thereport Lnvp N. Korea Pledges To Cooperate
Updated at 1:38 p stanley flask .m. ESTBombs and booby traps slowed the advance of thousands of U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers moving Saturday through the Taliban-controlled town of Marjah - NATO s most ambitious effort yet to break the militants grip over their southern heartland.NATO said it hoped to secure the area in days, set up a local government and rush in development aid in a first test of the new U.S. strategy for turning the tide of the eight-year war. The offensive is the largest since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan.The Taliban appeared to have scattered in the face of overwhelming force, possibly waiting to regroup and stage attacks later to foil the alliance s plan to stabilize the area and expand Afghan government control in the volatile south.NATO said two of its soldiers were killed in the first day of the operation - one American stanley cup and one Briton, according to military officials in their countries. Afghan authorities said at least 20 insurgents were killed. More than 30 transport helicopters ferried troops into the heart of Marjah before dawn Saturday, while British, Afghan and U.S. troops fanned out across the Nad Ali district to the north of the mudbrick town, long a stronghold of the Taliban.Maj. Gen. Gordon Messenger told reporters in London that British forces have successfully secured the area militarily with only sporadic resistance from Taliban forces. A Tal stanley cup iban spokesman insisted their forces still controlled the town.Other Taliban officials d
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VIENNA -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced he was pulling back on Friday from talks on Iran s nuclear program in Vienna, but then scheduled an evening meeting with his Iranian counterpart, suggesting some hope of movement with less than four days to deadline.The official Iranian news agency IRNA said Kerry had made new proposals to t air force one he Iranians meant to bridge differences standing in the way of a deal.A U.S. statement earlier in the day said Kerry was heading for Paris and his future travel schedule is still being finalized, and we have not yet determined when he will return to Vienna. That suggested that he was waiting to see whether there was enough momentum to warrant his rejoining the talks.But he was still in Vienna, as the day turned into evening Friday. A new U.S. statement said he had scheduled another meeting tonight with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and former EU foreign policy chief Cat adidas originals uomo herine Ashton.It is unclear when Kerry will depart but he will stay in Vienna overnight, CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan reports.Iran s ayatollah and Obama pen pals Iran claims repli crocs ca U.S. stealth drone airborneU.N. finding throws Iran nuke deal into doubt Flash Points: Will the latest round of nuclear talks with Iran yield a deal 04:46 Iranian officials and media Oslj Floods continue to soak Britain
AP Photo/B.K.Bangash Vice President-elect Joe Biden was in Pakistan for talks Friday with the leaders of the country at the heart of the fight against Islamic extremists, the U.S. Embassy confirmed.Biden was due to meet president Asif Ali Zardari and prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, said a senior Pakistani government official, who said a third meeting was likely to take place with Gen. Ashfaq Kiyani, stanley mugs the army s chief of staff.Biden s visit came just hours after a U.S. counterterrorism official told CBS News water bottle stanley correspondent Bob Orr that an American missile strike had killed two senior al Qaeda figures in Pakistan. The men were identified as Usama al-Kini, al Qaeda s operations chief in Pakistan, and Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan, a top lieutenant.A senior Pakistani security official confirmed the killing of the two militants, saying Pakistan had, knowledge of the killing, but declining to give further details on the grounds that it would compromise important secur stanley canada ity information. Al Kini and Swedan, were very high on our list of people that we U.S. and Pakistan wanted to catch, said the Pakistani security official. A Senior Western diplomat said it was important to note that confirmation of the killings coincided with Biden s visit. It s not the first time the arrest or killing of important terror suspects linked to Pakistan has come just as senior U.S. officials visit the country. The Pakistanis will be keen to impress Mr. Biden, who will be a key figure in the nex
VIENNA -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced he was pulling back on Friday from talks on Iran s nuclear program in Vienna, but then scheduled an evening meeting with his Iranian counterpart, suggesting some hope of movement with less than four days to deadline.The official Iranian news agency IRNA said Kerry had made new proposals to t air force one he Iranians meant to bridge differences standing in the way of a deal.A U.S. statement earlier in the day said Kerry was heading for Paris and his future travel schedule is still being finalized, and we have not yet determined when he will return to Vienna. That suggested that he was waiting to see whether there was enough momentum to warrant his rejoining the talks.But he was still in Vienna, as the day turned into evening Friday. A new U.S. statement said he had scheduled another meeting tonight with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and former EU foreign policy chief Cat adidas originals uomo herine Ashton.It is unclear when Kerry will depart but he will stay in Vienna overnight, CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan reports.Iran s ayatollah and Obama pen pals Iran claims repli crocs ca U.S. stealth drone airborneU.N. finding throws Iran nuke deal into doubt Flash Points: Will the latest round of nuclear talks with Iran yield a deal 04:46 Iranian officials and media Oslj Floods continue to soak Britain
AP Photo/B.K.Bangash Vice President-elect Joe Biden was in Pakistan for talks Friday with the leaders of the country at the heart of the fight against Islamic extremists, the U.S. Embassy confirmed.Biden was due to meet president Asif Ali Zardari and prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, said a senior Pakistani government official, who said a third meeting was likely to take place with Gen. Ashfaq Kiyani, stanley mugs the army s chief of staff.Biden s visit came just hours after a U.S. counterterrorism official told CBS News water bottle stanley correspondent Bob Orr that an American missile strike had killed two senior al Qaeda figures in Pakistan. The men were identified as Usama al-Kini, al Qaeda s operations chief in Pakistan, and Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan, a top lieutenant.A senior Pakistani security official confirmed the killing of the two militants, saying Pakistan had, knowledge of the killing, but declining to give further details on the grounds that it would compromise important secur stanley canada ity information. Al Kini and Swedan, were very high on our list of people that we U.S. and Pakistan wanted to catch, said the Pakistani security official. A Senior Western diplomat said it was important to note that confirmation of the killings coincided with Biden s visit. It s not the first time the arrest or killing of important terror suspects linked to Pakistan has come just as senior U.S. officials visit the country. The Pakistanis will be keen to impress Mr. Biden, who will be a key figure in the nex
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Kurdish peshmerga forces battling the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS in northern Iraq say their lives depend on getting military supplies from the U.S, reports CBS News correspondent Holly Williams.The peshmerga are foot soldiers facing off with the extremists on a 600-mile long frontline in Sinjar province. They have the best track record of defeating the militants, but they re massively out-gunned. How politics could affect the fight against ISIS 15:24 The Kurdish forces say they ve clawed back 1,500 square miles of territory from ISIS since December, and they ve done nearly all their fighting relying on small-caliber weapons. We have lost more than 1,000 peshmergas, and somewhere around 5,000 have been wounded, Kurdish national security adviser Masrour Barzani said. Barzani told CBS News 70 percent of those deaths could hav adidas samba og e been prevented if the U.S. would give the peshmerga the hundreds of armored vehicles they want. So far, they ve received just 25. Will Arab nations commit ground troops to anti-ISIS fight air force 1 What the fighters facing ISIS want from the U.S. 02:49 salomon zapatillas Of course they all praise the peshmerga a Osfu Ukraine: Fighter jet shot down by missile
Defying expectations, OPEC plans to cut its oil production target by 3.5 percent beginning in November, Kuwait s oil minister said Wednesday.The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries still must approve the cut, which would reduce the cartel s output ceil stanley tumbler ing by 900,000 barrels a day to 24.5 million barrels. The group s delegates were to meet later in the day to ratify their output decision.Kuwaiti Oil Minister Sheik Ahmad Fahad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah confirmed the plan after the 11-member group broke up for lunch following informal talks at OPEC headquarters in Vienna. OPEC will cut 900,000 barrels a day from November 1, he told reporters.OPEC President Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah wouldn t confirm the planned cut but said the group would meet again Dec. 4 to reassess market conditions. OPEC had been widely expected to keep its daily production ceiling at 25.4 million barrels. However, a recent slide in prices and OPEC s expectations of a surge in oil inventories among major importing countries have raised fears about a further softening of the market.OPEC pumps about a thir stanley termoska d of the world s oil, and its policies can have a significant impact on retail prices for heating oil and gasoline.OPEC wants to keep the price of its benchmark blend o stanley becher f crudes stable within a targeted range of $22-$28. The benchmark price stood at $25.14 on Tuesday, the most recent day for which OPEC calculated it.OPEC included Iraq in its informal policy discussions for the first time since th
Kurdish peshmerga forces battling the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS in northern Iraq say their lives depend on getting military supplies from the U.S, reports CBS News correspondent Holly Williams.The peshmerga are foot soldiers facing off with the extremists on a 600-mile long frontline in Sinjar province. They have the best track record of defeating the militants, but they re massively out-gunned. How politics could affect the fight against ISIS 15:24 The Kurdish forces say they ve clawed back 1,500 square miles of territory from ISIS since December, and they ve done nearly all their fighting relying on small-caliber weapons. We have lost more than 1,000 peshmergas, and somewhere around 5,000 have been wounded, Kurdish national security adviser Masrour Barzani said. Barzani told CBS News 70 percent of those deaths could hav adidas samba og e been prevented if the U.S. would give the peshmerga the hundreds of armored vehicles they want. So far, they ve received just 25. Will Arab nations commit ground troops to anti-ISIS fight air force 1 What the fighters facing ISIS want from the U.S. 02:49 salomon zapatillas Of course they all praise the peshmerga a Osfu Ukraine: Fighter jet shot down by missile
Defying expectations, OPEC plans to cut its oil production target by 3.5 percent beginning in November, Kuwait s oil minister said Wednesday.The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries still must approve the cut, which would reduce the cartel s output ceil stanley tumbler ing by 900,000 barrels a day to 24.5 million barrels. The group s delegates were to meet later in the day to ratify their output decision.Kuwaiti Oil Minister Sheik Ahmad Fahad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah confirmed the plan after the 11-member group broke up for lunch following informal talks at OPEC headquarters in Vienna. OPEC will cut 900,000 barrels a day from November 1, he told reporters.OPEC President Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah wouldn t confirm the planned cut but said the group would meet again Dec. 4 to reassess market conditions. OPEC had been widely expected to keep its daily production ceiling at 25.4 million barrels. However, a recent slide in prices and OPEC s expectations of a surge in oil inventories among major importing countries have raised fears about a further softening of the market.OPEC pumps about a thir stanley termoska d of the world s oil, and its policies can have a significant impact on retail prices for heating oil and gasoline.OPEC wants to keep the price of its benchmark blend o stanley becher f crudes stable within a targeted range of $22-$28. The benchmark price stood at $25.14 on Tuesday, the most recent day for which OPEC calculated it.OPEC included Iraq in its informal policy discussions for the first time since th
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London mdash; A sculpture of King Tut s head was sold at Christie s for $6 million Thursday. However, Egypt claims the relic of the famed pharaoh was stolen.After 3,000 years it s showing some wear a crocs winterstiefel nd tear, but it s definitely the face of the world s most famous pharaoh. As you can see here, the eyes, the eyebrows, are completely carved and the lips are extremely sensual, said Laetitia Delaloye of Christie s.If only those lips could talk. Maybe he could explain how he found himself on an auction block at Christie s. They never tell us about the origin, about how they bought it from Egypt, who has ownership of this piece. They have no evidence of that but we do think that this is a part of our heritage, said former Egyptian antiquities minister Zahi Hawass.The story begins in the 1920 s, when British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered King Tut s tomb. Christie s contends the bust has been under the ownership of a private collection in Germany since 1985 after passing through several hands since the 1960 s. Up close it s exquisite, adidas samba uomo and instantly recognizable as the face of King Tut. Christie s says ancient objects like this, by their nature, are impossible to trace back thousands of years. Delaloye said the auction house has done everything it could to prove its adidas yeezy provenance. Christie s is at the forefront of the protection of historical objects. This piece has been widely published and exhibited, it s a very well-known piece so there hasn t been any claim on the Dvtf Dozens killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza overnight amid fears of widening conflict
Updated 5:43 PM ETT stanley thermobecher ORONTO Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied Friday that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict after a video purported to show him using the drug. The mayor of Canada s largest city did not say whether he has ever used crack.Ford did not take questions from reporters at a news conference at City Hall held after a week of silence and after close allies released a let stanley cups uk ter urging him to address the video. The video apparently shows Ford smoking crack. I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine, he said before going on to criticize the media.Ford had been ducking the media and his only comments before Friday on the scandal came a week ago, a day after the story broke, when he called the crack smoking allegations ridiculous and said the Toronto Star newspaper was out to get him.Ford said he had kept quiet on the advice of his lawyer. The video has not been released publicly and its authenticity has not been verified. Reports on gossip website Gawker and in the Toronto Star claimed it was taken by men who said they had sold the drug to Ford. The Associated Press hasn t seen the video.The Star reported that two journalists had watched a video that appears to show Fo stanley water jug rd, sitting in a chair, inhaling from what appears to be a glass crack pipe. The Star said it did not obtain the video or pay to watch it. Gawker and the Star said the video was shown to them by a drug dealer who had been trying to sell it for a six-figure sum.The St
London mdash; A sculpture of King Tut s head was sold at Christie s for $6 million Thursday. However, Egypt claims the relic of the famed pharaoh was stolen.After 3,000 years it s showing some wear a crocs winterstiefel nd tear, but it s definitely the face of the world s most famous pharaoh. As you can see here, the eyes, the eyebrows, are completely carved and the lips are extremely sensual, said Laetitia Delaloye of Christie s.If only those lips could talk. Maybe he could explain how he found himself on an auction block at Christie s. They never tell us about the origin, about how they bought it from Egypt, who has ownership of this piece. They have no evidence of that but we do think that this is a part of our heritage, said former Egyptian antiquities minister Zahi Hawass.The story begins in the 1920 s, when British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered King Tut s tomb. Christie s contends the bust has been under the ownership of a private collection in Germany since 1985 after passing through several hands since the 1960 s. Up close it s exquisite, adidas samba uomo and instantly recognizable as the face of King Tut. Christie s says ancient objects like this, by their nature, are impossible to trace back thousands of years. Delaloye said the auction house has done everything it could to prove its adidas yeezy provenance. Christie s is at the forefront of the protection of historical objects. This piece has been widely published and exhibited, it s a very well-known piece so there hasn t been any claim on the Dvtf Dozens killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza overnight amid fears of widening conflict
Updated 5:43 PM ETT stanley thermobecher ORONTO Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied Friday that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict after a video purported to show him using the drug. The mayor of Canada s largest city did not say whether he has ever used crack.Ford did not take questions from reporters at a news conference at City Hall held after a week of silence and after close allies released a let stanley cups uk ter urging him to address the video. The video apparently shows Ford smoking crack. I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine, he said before going on to criticize the media.Ford had been ducking the media and his only comments before Friday on the scandal came a week ago, a day after the story broke, when he called the crack smoking allegations ridiculous and said the Toronto Star newspaper was out to get him.Ford said he had kept quiet on the advice of his lawyer. The video has not been released publicly and its authenticity has not been verified. Reports on gossip website Gawker and in the Toronto Star claimed it was taken by men who said they had sold the drug to Ford. The Associated Press hasn t seen the video.The Star reported that two journalists had watched a video that appears to show Fo stanley water jug rd, sitting in a chair, inhaling from what appears to be a glass crack pipe. The Star said it did not obtain the video or pay to watch it. Gawker and the Star said the video was shown to them by a drug dealer who had been trying to sell it for a six-figure sum.The St
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ROME -- Italian police took a suspect into custody Tuesday in the death of an American college student who was about adidas samba donna to begin summer classes in Rome. News of the young man s death has hit home for families of Americans who study overseas. Italian police arrest homeless man after U.S. student s body found 02:26 Beau Solomon was last seen early Friday morning at a bar with a group of friends just hours after arriving in Rome. After he failed to show up the next morning for orientation, Solomon s roommate alerted university officials.Police tell CBS N dunks shoes ews they believe Solomon got into a fight with the suspect, Massimo Galioto, who is homeless.A woman who identified herself as Galioto s companion told Italian TV Solomon approached them saying he had just been robbed. She claims Solomon and Galioto then got into an angry scuffle.Police believe Solomon was pushed into the Tiber River, where his body was found days later close to the bar. Family members say the boy s credit card had purchases made on it after his disappearance. Missing American student found dead in Rome 01:38 Fellow students in adidas campus Rome are shocked by his su Rtkh Iraq Arrests 43 People After Shooting
Nepal s Parliament voted to strip King Gyanendra of his right of veto and power over the legislature, in the latest move to turn the monarch into a figurehead leader after he was forced to give up absolute rule, officials said Sunday.The new law, endorsed by legislators late Saturday, scraps the king s right to reject bills and laws passed by Parliament, according to a Parliament notice published Sunday.Lawmakers also will no longer need to seek the approval of the king before signing a bill into law, it said. The concept stanley cup of king in Parliament has been abolished through law, said Ram Baran Yadav, a legislator of the Nepali Congress, the country s largest party. We are now free to criticize the king and the royal family members in Parliament, said Laxmi Shakya, a lawmaker from the Communist Party of Nepal. The move is the latest in a string of laws enacted by Parliament to dramatically cut Gyanendra s powers and turn him into a figurehead leader after weeks of protests against his dictatorial rule forced him to relinquish powers in April.Last month, Parliament voted unanimously in favor of a resolution that stripped Gyanendra of his command over the army, legal immunity, and freedom from paying taxes. The resolution must be voted on as a series of laws.The king also lost his official position stanley thermos as head of the Himalayan nation, changing traditio stanley mugs nal references to His Majesty s government to simply the Nepal government.
ROME -- Italian police took a suspect into custody Tuesday in the death of an American college student who was about adidas samba donna to begin summer classes in Rome. News of the young man s death has hit home for families of Americans who study overseas. Italian police arrest homeless man after U.S. student s body found 02:26 Beau Solomon was last seen early Friday morning at a bar with a group of friends just hours after arriving in Rome. After he failed to show up the next morning for orientation, Solomon s roommate alerted university officials.Police tell CBS N dunks shoes ews they believe Solomon got into a fight with the suspect, Massimo Galioto, who is homeless.A woman who identified herself as Galioto s companion told Italian TV Solomon approached them saying he had just been robbed. She claims Solomon and Galioto then got into an angry scuffle.Police believe Solomon was pushed into the Tiber River, where his body was found days later close to the bar. Family members say the boy s credit card had purchases made on it after his disappearance. Missing American student found dead in Rome 01:38 Fellow students in adidas campus Rome are shocked by his su Rtkh Iraq Arrests 43 People After Shooting
Nepal s Parliament voted to strip King Gyanendra of his right of veto and power over the legislature, in the latest move to turn the monarch into a figurehead leader after he was forced to give up absolute rule, officials said Sunday.The new law, endorsed by legislators late Saturday, scraps the king s right to reject bills and laws passed by Parliament, according to a Parliament notice published Sunday.Lawmakers also will no longer need to seek the approval of the king before signing a bill into law, it said. The concept stanley cup of king in Parliament has been abolished through law, said Ram Baran Yadav, a legislator of the Nepali Congress, the country s largest party. We are now free to criticize the king and the royal family members in Parliament, said Laxmi Shakya, a lawmaker from the Communist Party of Nepal. The move is the latest in a string of laws enacted by Parliament to dramatically cut Gyanendra s powers and turn him into a figurehead leader after weeks of protests against his dictatorial rule forced him to relinquish powers in April.Last month, Parliament voted unanimously in favor of a resolution that stripped Gyanendra of his command over the army, legal immunity, and freedom from paying taxes. The resolution must be voted on as a series of laws.The king also lost his official position stanley thermos as head of the Himalayan nation, changing traditio stanley mugs nal references to His Majesty s government to simply the Nepal government.
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Updated 6:20 a.m. ETKABUL, Afghanistan Gunmen in northern Afghanistan assassinated a district intelligence chief while he was on his way to work Monday as authorities in Romania said two of their soldiers serving with NATO died in a roadside bombing in the east.In the north, attackers ambushed the district official, Abdul Hussian, and sprayed his body with bullets as he was riding on his motorcycle near the city of Kunduz, the capital of the province with the same name, according to local police chief, Ghulam Mohayuddin.Hussian, who was salomon hombre heading to his work in Chardara district died of his wounds, said the police chief. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, and Mohayuddin said an investigation was under way.The Taliban have been behind scores of similar attacks, especially since they stepped up assaults on officials and government employees during their spring offensive this year. In Bucharest, the defense ministry said two Romanian soldiers died after stepping on an impro adidas originals uomo vised explosive device during a patrol in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday. The two were transported by helicopter to a military hospital at Bagram, where they died of their injuries later in the day.Defense Minister Mircea Dusa said in televised comments Monday that other soldiers were killed in the explosion but provided no further details. The two Romanians were identified as Vasile Popa, 28, on his second mission to Afghanistan, and Adrian adidas campus 00s Postelnicu, 34, who was on his first missi Vlvo Zarqawi Calls For Civil War In Iraq
Julian Assange and Bradley Manning CBS/AP Commentary by CBSNews produ stanley france cer Ken MillstoneIt s hard to make heads or tails of Time magazine s Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. Such definitive proclamations move web traffic and ever-dwindling newsstand sales, but the list should really just be entitled 100 interesting people. How else to explain the absence of most of the world s elected leaders Surely Chinese President Hu Jintao is more influential than erstwhile Gossip Girl star Blake Lively. Even Manmohan Singh, the prime minister of tiny, 1.2 billion-person India likely wields more influence than Tiger Mother author Amy Chua.And how else do explain the inclusion of motormouth Saif al-Islam Qaddafi but not his father, who has wielded power in Libya for three decades and his holding off both a rebel insurgency and a growing international assault aimed at bringing him down We don t know because Time doesn t explain its process or rationale for identifying the most influential people in the world except to say that the list was largely the work of assistant managing editor Radhika Jones and is meant to reflect the democratization of influence, as evidenced by recent revolutions in the Middle East, according to a short essay by managing editor Richard Stengel. stanley cup Pictures: The Time 100However, Stengel s professed admiration for the democratizatio
Updated 6:20 a.m. ETKABUL, Afghanistan Gunmen in northern Afghanistan assassinated a district intelligence chief while he was on his way to work Monday as authorities in Romania said two of their soldiers serving with NATO died in a roadside bombing in the east.In the north, attackers ambushed the district official, Abdul Hussian, and sprayed his body with bullets as he was riding on his motorcycle near the city of Kunduz, the capital of the province with the same name, according to local police chief, Ghulam Mohayuddin.Hussian, who was salomon hombre heading to his work in Chardara district died of his wounds, said the police chief. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, and Mohayuddin said an investigation was under way.The Taliban have been behind scores of similar attacks, especially since they stepped up assaults on officials and government employees during their spring offensive this year. In Bucharest, the defense ministry said two Romanian soldiers died after stepping on an impro adidas originals uomo vised explosive device during a patrol in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday. The two were transported by helicopter to a military hospital at Bagram, where they died of their injuries later in the day.Defense Minister Mircea Dusa said in televised comments Monday that other soldiers were killed in the explosion but provided no further details. The two Romanians were identified as Vasile Popa, 28, on his second mission to Afghanistan, and Adrian adidas campus 00s Postelnicu, 34, who was on his first missi Vlvo Zarqawi Calls For Civil War In Iraq
Julian Assange and Bradley Manning CBS/AP Commentary by CBSNews produ stanley france cer Ken MillstoneIt s hard to make heads or tails of Time magazine s Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. Such definitive proclamations move web traffic and ever-dwindling newsstand sales, but the list should really just be entitled 100 interesting people. How else to explain the absence of most of the world s elected leaders Surely Chinese President Hu Jintao is more influential than erstwhile Gossip Girl star Blake Lively. Even Manmohan Singh, the prime minister of tiny, 1.2 billion-person India likely wields more influence than Tiger Mother author Amy Chua.And how else do explain the inclusion of motormouth Saif al-Islam Qaddafi but not his father, who has wielded power in Libya for three decades and his holding off both a rebel insurgency and a growing international assault aimed at bringing him down We don t know because Time doesn t explain its process or rationale for identifying the most influential people in the world except to say that the list was largely the work of assistant managing editor Radhika Jones and is meant to reflect the democratization of influence, as evidenced by recent revolutions in the Middle East, according to a short essay by managing editor Richard Stengel. stanley cup Pictures: The Time 100However, Stengel s professed admiration for the democratizatio
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Kyiv, Ukraine mdash; Multiple regions of Ukraine, including its capital, faced a massive Russian missile attack Thursday, the biggest wave of strikes in weeks targeting national infrastructure. Air raid sirens rang out across the country.Russia dispatched explosive drones to selected regions overnight before broadening the barrage with air and sea-based cruise missiles launched from strategic aircraft and ships in the morning, the Ukrainian air force reported. It called the attack massive, according to French news agency AFP.The widespread attack was the latest in a series of Russian strikes targeting vital infrastructure across Ukraine. Moscow has launched such attacks on a weekly basis since October as its ground forces got bogged down and even lost ground. After earlier attacks, the Ukrainian military reported shooting down incoming Russian missiles and explosive drones, but some still reached their targets, damaging power and water supplies and increasing the suffering of the population amid freezing temperatures.In a new development that could rised escalating tension in the region, a social media chann adidas campus beige el linked to Belarus presidential press service said a Ukrainian S-300 air defense missile had landed on Belarusian soi adidas originals damen l early Thursday. It said the missile may have landed in Belarus accidentally and there were no casualties, but the Belarusian Defense Ministry said later that it had been shot down by Belarusian air defenses over the western Brest regio crocs absatz n. Be Qsff European doctor who helps Americans get abortions says she s receiving 4,000 inquiries a day since Roe v. Wade overturned
Dozens of gunmen mounted rare and apparently coordinated attacks targeting two army garrisons in northern Mexico, touching off firefights that killed 18 attackers.The attempts to blockade soldiers inside their bases - part of seven near-simultaneous attacks across two northern states - appear stanley us ed to mark a serious escalation in Mexico s drug war, in which cartel gunmen attacked in unit-size forces armed with bulletproof vehicles, dozens of hand grenades and assault rifles.While drug gunmen frequently shoot at soldiers on patrol, they seldom target army bases, and even more rarely attack in the force displayed during the confrontations Tuesday in the border states of Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon stanley termosy - areas that have seen a surge of bloodshed in recent months.The violence mainly involves a fight between the Gulf cartel an gourde stanley d its former allies, the Zetas, a gang of hit men. The cartel - which has apparently formed an alliance with other cartels seeking to exterminate the Zetas - has been warning people in the region with a series of banners and e-mails that the conflict would get worse over the next two to three months.Gunmen staged seven separate attacks on the army, including three blockades, Gen. Edgar Luis Villegas said Wednesday. He called the attacks desperate reactions by criminal gangs to the progress being made by federal authorities against Mexico s drug cartels. Villegas said gunmen parked trucks and SUVs outside a military base in the border city of Reynosa trying to
Kyiv, Ukraine mdash; Multiple regions of Ukraine, including its capital, faced a massive Russian missile attack Thursday, the biggest wave of strikes in weeks targeting national infrastructure. Air raid sirens rang out across the country.Russia dispatched explosive drones to selected regions overnight before broadening the barrage with air and sea-based cruise missiles launched from strategic aircraft and ships in the morning, the Ukrainian air force reported. It called the attack massive, according to French news agency AFP.The widespread attack was the latest in a series of Russian strikes targeting vital infrastructure across Ukraine. Moscow has launched such attacks on a weekly basis since October as its ground forces got bogged down and even lost ground. After earlier attacks, the Ukrainian military reported shooting down incoming Russian missiles and explosive drones, but some still reached their targets, damaging power and water supplies and increasing the suffering of the population amid freezing temperatures.In a new development that could rised escalating tension in the region, a social media chann adidas campus beige el linked to Belarus presidential press service said a Ukrainian S-300 air defense missile had landed on Belarusian soi adidas originals damen l early Thursday. It said the missile may have landed in Belarus accidentally and there were no casualties, but the Belarusian Defense Ministry said later that it had been shot down by Belarusian air defenses over the western Brest regio crocs absatz n. Be Qsff European doctor who helps Americans get abortions says she s receiving 4,000 inquiries a day since Roe v. Wade overturned
Dozens of gunmen mounted rare and apparently coordinated attacks targeting two army garrisons in northern Mexico, touching off firefights that killed 18 attackers.The attempts to blockade soldiers inside their bases - part of seven near-simultaneous attacks across two northern states - appear stanley us ed to mark a serious escalation in Mexico s drug war, in which cartel gunmen attacked in unit-size forces armed with bulletproof vehicles, dozens of hand grenades and assault rifles.While drug gunmen frequently shoot at soldiers on patrol, they seldom target army bases, and even more rarely attack in the force displayed during the confrontations Tuesday in the border states of Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon stanley termosy - areas that have seen a surge of bloodshed in recent months.The violence mainly involves a fight between the Gulf cartel an gourde stanley d its former allies, the Zetas, a gang of hit men. The cartel - which has apparently formed an alliance with other cartels seeking to exterminate the Zetas - has been warning people in the region with a series of banners and e-mails that the conflict would get worse over the next two to three months.Gunmen staged seven separate attacks on the army, including three blockades, Gen. Edgar Luis Villegas said Wednesday. He called the attacks desperate reactions by criminal gangs to the progress being made by federal authorities against Mexico s drug cartels. Villegas said gunmen parked trucks and SUVs outside a military base in the border city of Reynosa trying to
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The Biden administration on Thursday offered tens of thousands of Ukrainians living in the U.S. a temporary humanitarian protection from deportation due to the ongoing Russian military offensive in Ukraine.Department of Homeland Security DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas created an 18-month Temporary Protected Status TPS program for Ukrainians who have lived in the U.S. since March 1, allowing eligible people to apply for work permits and deportation protections. Russia s premeditated and unprovoked attack on Ukraine has resulted in an ongoing war, senseless violence, and Ukrainians forced to seek refuge in other countries, Mayorkas said in a statement. In these extraordinary times, we will continue to offer our support and protection to Ukrainian nationals in the United States. The TPS designation is expected to benefit 75,100 Ukrainians adidas samba in the U.S., according to a DHS estimate, including those on temporary student, tourist or business visas, which could lapse while fighting continues between the Russian military and forces defending Ukraine. Ukrainians who are in the U.S. without legal permission could also qualify.Approximately 4,000 Ukrainians are facing U.S. deportation proceedings, including nearly 3,000 asylum-seekers, according to immigration court data compiled by researchers at Syracus adidas originals hombre e University. Designed for foreigners from countr chanclas yeezy ies plagued by war, natural calamities or other crises, TPS does not grant beneficiaries permanent U.S. status. It also onl Mrch Death Stirs Anti-U.S. Feeling
As part of our continuing coverage of Afghanistan: the Road Ahead, - CBS News correspondent Terry McCarthy follows the Third Battalion, First Marines at home, gourde stanley and abroad in Afghanistan. The commander of 3/1 Third Battalion, First Marine Division , Lieutenant Colonel Ben Watson, hasn t had a lot of sleep lately. You can see it in his face. He has been in Afghanistan for barely a week, and has been in meeting after meeting with local Afghan officials and members of the battalion he is replacing, trying to understand the area he and his Marines will be operating in for the next seven months. He will formally take over command in the Garmsir district from the preceding battalion, 2/2 Second Battalion, Second Marine Division , from Camp Lejeune, in the next week or two. Thundering Third DeployCBS News Special Report: The Road AheadFirst crisis: Almost as soon as he arrived, the governor of the province of Helmand fired the local Garmsir district governor, a respected former mujahideen fighter who was well-liked by the local elders and tribal leaders. He was replaced by a young man who is not from the area and who has little political exper stanley cup ience. Both the Marines and the elders went to the governor in the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, to try to get the decision reversed, but to no avail. stanley cup website For Watson, who wants to legitimize the Afghan government in the face of the locals, it is going to be difficult when the most senior representative of the governm
The Biden administration on Thursday offered tens of thousands of Ukrainians living in the U.S. a temporary humanitarian protection from deportation due to the ongoing Russian military offensive in Ukraine.Department of Homeland Security DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas created an 18-month Temporary Protected Status TPS program for Ukrainians who have lived in the U.S. since March 1, allowing eligible people to apply for work permits and deportation protections. Russia s premeditated and unprovoked attack on Ukraine has resulted in an ongoing war, senseless violence, and Ukrainians forced to seek refuge in other countries, Mayorkas said in a statement. In these extraordinary times, we will continue to offer our support and protection to Ukrainian nationals in the United States. The TPS designation is expected to benefit 75,100 Ukrainians adidas samba in the U.S., according to a DHS estimate, including those on temporary student, tourist or business visas, which could lapse while fighting continues between the Russian military and forces defending Ukraine. Ukrainians who are in the U.S. without legal permission could also qualify.Approximately 4,000 Ukrainians are facing U.S. deportation proceedings, including nearly 3,000 asylum-seekers, according to immigration court data compiled by researchers at Syracus adidas originals hombre e University. Designed for foreigners from countr chanclas yeezy ies plagued by war, natural calamities or other crises, TPS does not grant beneficiaries permanent U.S. status. It also onl Mrch Death Stirs Anti-U.S. Feeling
As part of our continuing coverage of Afghanistan: the Road Ahead, - CBS News correspondent Terry McCarthy follows the Third Battalion, First Marines at home, gourde stanley and abroad in Afghanistan. The commander of 3/1 Third Battalion, First Marine Division , Lieutenant Colonel Ben Watson, hasn t had a lot of sleep lately. You can see it in his face. He has been in Afghanistan for barely a week, and has been in meeting after meeting with local Afghan officials and members of the battalion he is replacing, trying to understand the area he and his Marines will be operating in for the next seven months. He will formally take over command in the Garmsir district from the preceding battalion, 2/2 Second Battalion, Second Marine Division , from Camp Lejeune, in the next week or two. Thundering Third DeployCBS News Special Report: The Road AheadFirst crisis: Almost as soon as he arrived, the governor of the province of Helmand fired the local Garmsir district governor, a respected former mujahideen fighter who was well-liked by the local elders and tribal leaders. He was replaced by a young man who is not from the area and who has little political exper stanley cup ience. Both the Marines and the elders went to the governor in the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, to try to get the decision reversed, but to no avail. stanley cup website For Watson, who wants to legitimize the Afghan government in the face of the locals, it is going to be difficult when the most senior representative of the governm
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Dibyan adidas yeezy gshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images Indian social activists and children release ribbons and balloons during an event to mark World AIDS Day in Kolkata on December 1, 2014. According to the UN AIDS program, India had the third-largest number of people living with HIV in the world at the end of 2013 and it accounts for more than half of all AIDS-related deaths in the Asia-Pacific region.Since 1987 people around the world have marked Dec.1 as a day to raise awareness for HIV/AIDS. Guatemala Johan Ordonez/AFP/Getty Images Relatives of victims of HIV/AIDS attend a vigil on December 1, 2014 in Guatemala City to mark World AIDS Day. Thailand Damir Sagolj/Reuters A terminally ill patient raises his arm in a hospice for those dying of AIDS adidas samba at the Buddhist temple Wat Prabat Nampu in Lopburi province, north of Bangkok Nov. 30, 2014.Since 1992, the temple has provided housing for HIV positive patients and palliative care for those in the final stages of the AIDS disease. December 1 is World AIDS Day. airmax plus Thailand Damir Sagolj/Reuters Terminally ill patients rest in their beds in a hospice for those dying of AIDS at the Tmig Polls Show Netanyahu Slipping
Last Updated 1:40 p.m. ETPolice evacuated 273 people from a Pakistani jet diverted to Stockholm due to a bomb alert Saturday and briefly detained a passenger after C stanley cup anadian authorities received a tip-off that he was carrying explosives.However, no explosives were found on the man, who was released after questioning by police, or on the Boeing 777 from Pakistan International Airlines, which had been bound from Toronto to Karachi, Pakistan.The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said it was investigating whether the incident was a terrorism hoax. If the information is deemed to be a hoax, the person who passed along that information can be charged for public mischief, said spokeswoman Sgt. Julie Gagnon in Ottawa. stanley tumblers All passengers - except the suspect - were allowed back on the plane at Stockholm s Arlanda airport nine hours later.It took o stanley deutschland ff for Manchester, England, from where the passengers would continue their journey to Karachi, said Jan Lindqvist, a spokesman for airport operator Swedavia.Swedish police described the suspect as a Canadian citizen born in 1982. Initially they said he was of Pakistani background but later said they were not sure.A spokesman for the state-owned Pakistan International Airlines said the suspect was a 25-year-old Canadian national. A prosecutor decided to release the man after questioning, and police were trying to help him continue his journey to Karachi either late Saturday or Sunday, police spokesman Erik Widstrand said, adding th
Dibyan adidas yeezy gshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images Indian social activists and children release ribbons and balloons during an event to mark World AIDS Day in Kolkata on December 1, 2014. According to the UN AIDS program, India had the third-largest number of people living with HIV in the world at the end of 2013 and it accounts for more than half of all AIDS-related deaths in the Asia-Pacific region.Since 1987 people around the world have marked Dec.1 as a day to raise awareness for HIV/AIDS. Guatemala Johan Ordonez/AFP/Getty Images Relatives of victims of HIV/AIDS attend a vigil on December 1, 2014 in Guatemala City to mark World AIDS Day. Thailand Damir Sagolj/Reuters A terminally ill patient raises his arm in a hospice for those dying of AIDS adidas samba at the Buddhist temple Wat Prabat Nampu in Lopburi province, north of Bangkok Nov. 30, 2014.Since 1992, the temple has provided housing for HIV positive patients and palliative care for those in the final stages of the AIDS disease. December 1 is World AIDS Day. airmax plus Thailand Damir Sagolj/Reuters Terminally ill patients rest in their beds in a hospice for those dying of AIDS at the Tmig Polls Show Netanyahu Slipping
Last Updated 1:40 p.m. ETPolice evacuated 273 people from a Pakistani jet diverted to Stockholm due to a bomb alert Saturday and briefly detained a passenger after C stanley cup anadian authorities received a tip-off that he was carrying explosives.However, no explosives were found on the man, who was released after questioning by police, or on the Boeing 777 from Pakistan International Airlines, which had been bound from Toronto to Karachi, Pakistan.The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said it was investigating whether the incident was a terrorism hoax. If the information is deemed to be a hoax, the person who passed along that information can be charged for public mischief, said spokeswoman Sgt. Julie Gagnon in Ottawa. stanley tumblers All passengers - except the suspect - were allowed back on the plane at Stockholm s Arlanda airport nine hours later.It took o stanley deutschland ff for Manchester, England, from where the passengers would continue their journey to Karachi, said Jan Lindqvist, a spokesman for airport operator Swedavia.Swedish police described the suspect as a Canadian citizen born in 1982. Initially they said he was of Pakistani background but later said they were not sure.A spokesman for the state-owned Pakistan International Airlines said the suspect was a 25-year-old Canadian national. A prosecutor decided to release the man after questioning, and police were trying to help him continue his journey to Karachi either late Saturday or Sunday, police spokesman Erik Widstrand said, adding th
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LA PAZ, Bolivia The plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales home from Russia was rerouted to Austria on Tuesday after France and Portugal refused to let it cross their airspace because of suspicions that NSA leaker Edward Snowden was on board, the country s foreign minister said.Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca denied that Snowden was on the plane, which landed in Vienna, and said France and Portugal would have to explain why they canceled authorizat salomon ion for the plane. We don t kn nike dunk ow who invented this lie. We want to denounce to the international community this injustice with the plane of President Evo Morales, Choquehuanca said from La Paz. Morales had earlier met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit of major gas exporters in the Kremlin.Intel chief apologizes for erroneous answer on NSA dataEdward Snowden seeks asylum in 20 nations, but gets no immediate takersEcuadoran president appears to punt on Edward Snowden s fateIn an interview with Russia Today television, Morales said that his South American country would be willing to consider granting asylum to Snowden. Leaks by Snowden, a former NSA systems analyst, have revealed the NSA s sweeping data collection of U.S. phone records and some Internet traffic, though U.S. intelligence officials have said the programs are aimed at targeting foreigners and terrorist suspects mostly overseas.He is believed to be in a Moscow airport transit area, seeking asylum from one of more than a dozen cou adidas campus herren ntries. Awrq Russia will free nearly 100 captive whales from prison after public outrage
Afghanistan President Hami stanley termohrnek d Karzai AP GlobalPost s Jean MacKenzie writes about the bank crisis in Afghanistan, with President Karzai stepping into fray, blaming the Western press and insisting that the government is in control of the situation. KABUL, Afghanistan - President Hamid Karzai has tried to reassure his worried countrymen that their dep stanley termosy osits in the troubled Kabul Bank are safe, blaming any panic on the Western media. The Western press is ... printing out our decisions in a negative way and in a provocative way, he told a press conference Thursday evening. It s sad to hear that. It s unfortunate. Kabul Bank, one of the country s largest, is in deep trouble. With just over $1 billion in assets, according to its latest audited statement from 2009, it has more than $990 million in liabilities. It is also facing potential losses of close to $300 million, according to government officials. The central bank, known as Da Afghanistan Bank, stepped in on Tuesday to try and bring some order out of the deepening chaos, removing the bank s chairman, Sherkhan gourde stanley Farnood, as well as its chief executive officer, Khalilullah Ferozi. Both men were major stakeholders in the bank, each holding slightly more than 28 percent of the stock. Third on the list was Mahmoud Karzai, brother of the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, who held 7 percent.Amid allegations of mismanagement and corruption, b
LA PAZ, Bolivia The plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales home from Russia was rerouted to Austria on Tuesday after France and Portugal refused to let it cross their airspace because of suspicions that NSA leaker Edward Snowden was on board, the country s foreign minister said.Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca denied that Snowden was on the plane, which landed in Vienna, and said France and Portugal would have to explain why they canceled authorizat salomon ion for the plane. We don t kn nike dunk ow who invented this lie. We want to denounce to the international community this injustice with the plane of President Evo Morales, Choquehuanca said from La Paz. Morales had earlier met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit of major gas exporters in the Kremlin.Intel chief apologizes for erroneous answer on NSA dataEdward Snowden seeks asylum in 20 nations, but gets no immediate takersEcuadoran president appears to punt on Edward Snowden s fateIn an interview with Russia Today television, Morales said that his South American country would be willing to consider granting asylum to Snowden. Leaks by Snowden, a former NSA systems analyst, have revealed the NSA s sweeping data collection of U.S. phone records and some Internet traffic, though U.S. intelligence officials have said the programs are aimed at targeting foreigners and terrorist suspects mostly overseas.He is believed to be in a Moscow airport transit area, seeking asylum from one of more than a dozen cou adidas campus herren ntries. Awrq Russia will free nearly 100 captive whales from prison after public outrage
Afghanistan President Hami stanley termohrnek d Karzai AP GlobalPost s Jean MacKenzie writes about the bank crisis in Afghanistan, with President Karzai stepping into fray, blaming the Western press and insisting that the government is in control of the situation. KABUL, Afghanistan - President Hamid Karzai has tried to reassure his worried countrymen that their dep stanley termosy osits in the troubled Kabul Bank are safe, blaming any panic on the Western media. The Western press is ... printing out our decisions in a negative way and in a provocative way, he told a press conference Thursday evening. It s sad to hear that. It s unfortunate. Kabul Bank, one of the country s largest, is in deep trouble. With just over $1 billion in assets, according to its latest audited statement from 2009, it has more than $990 million in liabilities. It is also facing potential losses of close to $300 million, according to government officials. The central bank, known as Da Afghanistan Bank, stepped in on Tuesday to try and bring some order out of the deepening chaos, removing the bank s chairman, Sherkhan gourde stanley Farnood, as well as its chief executive officer, Khalilullah Ferozi. Both men were major stakeholders in the bank, each holding slightly more than 28 percent of the stock. Third on the list was Mahmoud Karzai, brother of the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, who held 7 percent.Amid allegations of mismanagement and corruption, b