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An explosion at a political r adidas campus ally on Pakistan s border with Afghanistan killed at least 44 people and wounded nearly 200 in a Sunday attack that a senior leader said wanted to weaken Pakistani Islamists.The Bajur district near the Afghan border was a stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban mdash; a close ally of Afghanistan s Taliban government mdash; before the Pakistani army drove the militants out of the area. Supporters of hardline Pakistani cleric and political party leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman, whose Jamiat Ulema Islam generally supports regional Islamists, were m air force one eeting in Bajur Sunday in a hall close to a market outside the district capital. Party officials said Rehman was not at the rally but organizers added tents because so many supporters showed up, and party volunteers with batons were helping control the crowd.Officials were announcing the arrival of Abdul Rasheed, a leader of the Jamiat Ulema Islam party, when the bomb went off in one of Pakistan s bloodiest attacks in recent years. There was dust and smoke around, and I was under some injured people from where I could hardly stand up, only to see chaos and some scattered limbs, adidas originals damen said Adam Khan, 45, who was knocked to the ground by the blast around 4 p.m. and hit by splinters in his leg and both hands.The Pakistan Taliban, or TTP, said in a statement sent to The Associated Press that the bombing was aimed at setting Islamists against each other. Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Afghan Taliban, said on the s Zalo U.S.: China 1-Child Policy Harsh
Suspected Tiger rebels attacked a crowded bus Thursday in northern Sri Lanka, triggering a pair of hidden explosives that killed at least 64 people in the worst violence since a 2002 cease-fire, officials said. The government quickly launched retaliatory air strikes against rebel-held positions.With peace talks largely abandoned and leaders of both sides trading accusations, Thursday s violence, which injured at least 78 people, pushed this tropical island nation further toward outright war.The dead included at least 15 schoolchildren, their blue uniforms coated wit stanley kubek h blood and gore as authorities lined up corpses on the floor of a nearby hospital so relatives could identify them.The rebels, a secretive but highly organized and well-armed movement that has been fighting for two decades to create a homeland for the country s stanley flask minority Tamils, denied any responsibility for the attack, suggesting it was done by shadowy forces they say are trying to create unrest.But officials insisted Liberation Ti stanley us gers of Tamil Eelam rebels were responsible. This is a barbaric act of the LTTE, said government spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella. Their aim is to provoke a backlash. The blast was caused by a pair of mines hanging from a tree and detonated from a remote position, said military spokesman Brig. Prasad Samarasinghe. Rigging explosives to trees or bicycles is a common Tiger tactic, officials say, done so the ground does not absorb as much of the force of a blast.Police said most of

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Britain s government said Monday stanley cup the man accused of trying to bomb a U.S. airliner was placed on a U.K. watch list after he was refused a student visa.Home Secretary Alan Johnson added that police and security services are looking at whether Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was radicalized in Britain. We don t know yet wheth stanley polska er it was a single-handed plot or there were other people behind it - I suspect it s the latter rather than the former, Johnson told the BBC.Abdulmutallab received a degree in engineering and business finance from University College London last year and later applied to re-enter Britain to study at another institution. Johnson said Monday he was refused entry because officials suspected the school was not genuine and they then put his name on the list.Johnson says that people on the list can transit through the U.K. but cannot enter the country. He said U.S. authorities should have been informed that Abdulmutallab had been placed on the list and believed all procedures had been followed correctly. The use of bogus schools to secure student visas has been identified as a weakness in Britain s immigration system. In April, one of several suspected terrorists arrested in raids in northern England was found to have a visa issued with the help of a fake college, prompting opposition lawmakers to call for a crackdown. Last week Britain s immigration m stanley cup inister Phil Woolas boasted that the government had closed some 2,000 fraudulent schools.More Coverage from CB

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RIO DE JANEIRO Pope Francis spoke the language of Brazil s soccer-mad youth Saturday, telling them that being yeezy foam a good Catholic is like training to play soccer. Only he added a seemingly blasphemous twist, telling them Jesus offers them something more than the World Cup. salomon xt Pope Francis opens arms to the faithful in Brazil 01:35 In the land of Pele that will host the World Cup in 2014, the joke might have gone over poorly coming from a pope from Argentina, Brazil s nemesis on the pitch.But the crowd on Copacabana beach for the World Youth Day vigil cheered with delight. In order to enjoy soccer, you ve got to have beer, you ve got to have beautiful women and maybe drugs. How many beer cans do you see around here said Douglas Junior Segatini, a 35-year-old nurse from Sao Paulo state and lifelong fan of the Santos soccer team. None, and that s because Christ is better than any alcohol, better than any drug, better than any match. Francis is a lifelong fan of the Buenos Aires club San Lorenzo and has been a member ID No. 88235 since 2008. On this trip he has added to his already sizeable collection of soccer jerseys given to him by the faithful.When he gets back to Rome, he ll be treated to mizuno laufschuhe a friendly on Aug. 14 between Argentina and Italy organized in honor of his election. Ogcg Neo-Nazis Clash With Prague Protesters
Pakistan successfully tested an indigenous short-range, nuclear-capable missile on Saturday, the military said.The surface-to-surface Abdali ballistic missile mdash; with a range of 125 miles mdash; was launched from an undisclosed location inside Pakistan. The missile can carry all types of warheads, the military said in a statement issued from Rawalpindi, a garrison city near the capital, Islamabad.The military did not provide any further details, but Pakistan and its nuclear-armed rival, neighboring India, routinely test missiles.Meanwhile, fighting between local and foreign militants Friday killed 52 people, bringing to more than 200 the number of dead in recent days in a conflict between Pakistanis and suspected al Qaeda-linked extremists, a senior official said.Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao said 45 Uzbek militants and seven tribesmen died in battles in South Waziristan, a lawless region used as a rear base by Taliban militants fighting in Afghanistan and where the United States fears that al Qaeda is regrouping. Pakistani officials say the clashes have vindic stanley cups uk ated controversial agreements signed last year between the government of Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the military ruler, and tribal elders in the border region, reports CBS News Farhan Bokhari. Those agreements allowed the government to withdraw military troops from the area in return for promises that the tribesmen will stop anyone from venturing stanley bottles into Afghanistan to fight a stanley fr longside that country s resu

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North Korea test-fired a barrage of short-range missiles Friday, the communist nation s latest apparent angry response to the new South Korean government s tougher stance on Pyongyang.The launches came as the North issued a stern rebuke to Washington over an impasse at nuclear disarmament talks, warning that the Americans attitude could gravely affect the continuing disablement of Pyongyang s atomic facilities.The missile tests were part of routine training, South Korean presidential spokesman Lee Dong-kwan said, declining to give further details on the type of rockets fired. He told reporters Seoul was closely stanley thermosflasche monitoring the situation. I believe North Korea would also not want a s stanley cup website train in inter-Korean relations, Lee said.South Korea s Yonhap news ag stanley becher ency reported that North Korea launched three ship-to-ship missiles at around 10:30 a.m. 9:30 p.m. EST Thursday , citing unidentified government officials. South Korea s Defense Ministry said it would not be commenting on the launches, which came a day after Seoul withdrew officials from a joint industrial zone with North Korea at Pyongyang s request.That move was prompted by the North s anger over South Korean statements that any expansion of the project in the border city of Kaesong would only happen if the North resolved the international standoff over its nuclear weapons.South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, a conservative who took office last month, had said he would take a harder policy line on the North - a ch

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Doctors treating an American who was released earlier this week by North Koreasaid he suffered severe injuries to all areas of his brain while he was in captivity.Speaking at a press conference Thursday, Otto Warmbier s doctors said he is breathing on his own but does not consistently respond to verbal cues. Warmbier, who was in a coma when he was released, suffered extensive loss of brain tissue in all regions of the brain, one of his doctors said. air max 1 Otto Frederick Warmbier, center, is taken to North Korea s top court in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this photo released by Kyodo on March 16, 2016 adidas campus beige . Reuters Warmbier, 22, was released by North Korea on Tuesday and arrived at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center the same day. His family was unaware of his condition until he was released.Doctors Daniel Kanter, Jo adidas originals rdan Bonomo and Brandon Foreman briefed reporters on Warmbier s condition.The doctors would not comment on Warmbier s prognosis or his chances of fully recovering, citing his parents wishes. They described his current condition as being in a state of unresponsiveness wakefulness. Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years hard labor in March last year after traveling to North Korea while he was a student at the University of Virginia. He was freed this week after State Department officials traveled to North Korea and demanded his release on humanitarian groun Rxdw Cheney Surprise Visit To Iraq
Rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called Monday for his followers across Iraq to end fighting against U.S. and Iraqi forces, an al-Sadr aide said. He has called for a halting of all military operations in Iraq, and we are studying the idea of joining the political process, said Naim Al-Kaabi, an al-Sadr aide in Baghdad.Meanwhile, Iraqi oil exports came to a halt after a rash of insurgent attacks on the country s petroleum infrastructure, the country s main source of income, senior oil company officials said.Al-Sadr s Mahdi Army militia fought against U.S. and Iraqi forces in the holy city of Najaf for nearly three weeks before a peace deal ended the crisis there Friday.That fighting had spread to other Shiite communities throughout Iraq, and violence continued in other areas despite the Najaf peace agreement. The government of interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has demanded al-Sadr disband the Mahdi Army and join politics, which the cleric had resisted.The announcement came as al stanley kubek -Sadr aides were trying to negotiate a peace agreement to end fighting in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City.In other recent developments: stanley cups A roadside bomb exploded as a U.S. military convoy passed by on a road in northern Iraq, killing one American soldier and wounding two others, the Army said Monday. The bomb exploded Sunday just s stanley termosy outh of Mosul, 225 miles northwest of the capital, the military said in a statement. The injured soldiers were evacuated to the U.S. Army combat support hospital in

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MELBOURNE, Australia -- Eugenie Bouchard - the unwitting protagonist of an Australian Open saga that has been dubbed Twirlgate - would prefer if people just focused on her tennis.For the record, Bouchard said Friday she was not offended by the male interviewer who asked her to twirl for the crowd earlier in the week. I think it was just kind of funny, the Wimbledon runner-up said after advancing to the fourth round in Melbourne. I m fine with being asked to twirl if they ask the guys to flex their muscles. This is not the first time the Australian Open has offered up a headline-grabbing sideshow that has nothing to do with tennis.In previous years, two-time champion Victoria Azarenka s former boy adidas originals samba friend, the rap star Redfoo who was a regular front-row fixture, got as much press as she did. In 2011, former No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki told a colorful tale about getting into a fight with a kangaroo and showed a scratch to prove it. She later retracted the story, saying she had bumped into a treadmill but wanted to spice up a adidas originals dull news conference. This year, the season s opening Grand Slam tournament has Twirlgate, a term being used by Australian media and as a hashtag on Twitter.It started Wednesday when Bouchard, one of the rising stars of women s tennis, was asked by a male interviewer to give us a twirl and show off her tennis dress after winning her second-round match. Noticeably embarrassed, Bo mizuno volleyballschuhe uchard complied with a laugh and later said, it was very unexpected. Omuq Yemeni rebels press offensive despite Saudi-led airstrikes
The European Union on Thursday agreed to lift its diplomatic sanctions against Cuba, but imposed tough conditions on the communist island to maintain sanction-free relations, officials said.The U.S., wh stanley tumbler ich has maintained a decades-long trade embargo against Cuba, criticized the move, saying there were no significant signs the communist island was easing a dictatorship. An independent analyst predicted it would have no affect on U.S. policy toward the Caribbean island.EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said the bloc felt it had to encourage changes in Cuba after Raul Castro took over as the head of the country s government from his ailing brother Fidel. There will be very clear language also on what the Cubans still have to do ... releasing prisoners, really working on human rights questions, she told reporters at an EU summit. There will be a sort of review to see whether indeed something will have happened. The largely symbolic decision takes effect Monday. The diplomatic sanctions, which banned high-level visits to EU nations by Cuban officials, have not been in force since 2005. They were imposed in 2003 following the arrests of dozens of dissidents but suspended two years later. In Havana, state television mentioned the EU s decision briefly but did not give any government reaction.Leading Cuban d stanley cup issident Oswaldo Paya said he hopes the move does not signify the EU approval of Raul Cast stanley flask ro s government. This regime has not announced any chan