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WASHINGTON -- The first transfer of presumed Korean War remains from North Korea to the U.S. is expected to take place on July 27, the anniversary of the signing of the armistice which ended the ground war. Under the current pl adidas samba og an, officials tell CBS News senior national security correspondent David Martin that the remains would be picked up in Pyongyang, flown to Osan Air Base in South Korea and from there to Hawaii, where the Pentagon operates a forensics lab for identifying remains.The number of remains is uncertain, with estimates ranging from 50 to more than 200, and their nationality is unknown but their bone structure indicates they are not Asians and therefore could be Americans or natives of other countries which fought in Korea under the U.N. command.Mr. Trump admitted in an interview on July 14 with CBS Evening News anchor Jeff Glor that there were no guarantees the remains eventually handed over will turn out to be Americans. You know, remains are complicated, he said. Some of the remains, they don t even know if they are remains. That s a big step back from his false assertion June 20 in Duluth, Minnesota: We got back our great fallen heroes, the remains sent back today, already 200 got sent back. crocs badelatschen Trump says it s possible North Korea agreement could fall apa airforces rt 02:31 More than a mo Mveo Back To Iraq For Top U.N. Inspectors
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MOSCOW --When President Trump speaks of Russia, he talks of wanting better relations, but a prominent opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin is fighting for his life. For the second time in two years, he was overcome by a sudden illness.Those who oppose Vladimir Putinrsquo regime, risk not only their well-being and their freedom -- they also risk their lives, said Vladimir Kara-Murza eight months ago. Now he lies seriously ill in Moscowrsquo Yudin hospital. Vladimir Kara-Murza testifies in June before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. CBS News His wife thinks hersquo been poisoned -- as he was in 2015. The victim, he said, of an assassination attempt by hi adidas samba s political enemies.Irsquo;ve no doubt this was a deliberate poisoning intended to kill, Kara-Murza has said.In 2012 - still very much alive - Kara-Murza helped organize landmark anti-Putin demonstration in Moscow in spite of the risks. Three years later, he was mourning his friend and o nike sb dunk pposition ally Boris Nemtsov who was gunned down near the Kremlin. For anyone in the Russian opposition, the news of Kara-Murzarsquo illness recalls air force 1 the agonizing death of Alexander Litvinenko, who drank tea in London laced with polonium. The British government concluded he Russiarsquo security services had done it -- and Putin knew. Alexander Litvinenko, who d Hxxr Evgeni Plushenko on thin ice in Russia after Olympic dropout
Faced with a harshly critical new report, President George W. Bush conceded Thursday that Iraq did not have the stockpiles of banned weapons he had warned of before the invasion last year, but insisted that we were right to take action against Saddam Hussein. America is safer today with Saddam Hussein in prison, Mr. Bush said in a surprise statement to reporters as he prepared to fly to Wisconsin. Much of the accumulated body of our intelligence was wrong and we must find out why, Mr. Bush said.Mr. Bush spoke one day after Charles Duelfer, the American weapons hunter in Iraq, pr stanley mug esented to the Senate and the public a report that Saddam s weapons of mass destruction programs had deteriorated into only hopes and dreams by the time of the U.S.-led invasion last year. The decline was wrought by the first Gulf War and years of international sanctions, the chief U.S. weapons hunter found.As CBS National Security Correspondent David Martin reports, Duelfer s report renders pre-war statements by Mr. Bush and his senior advisers flat wrong. Democrats saw their opening and took it. Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry charged the report provided definitive evidence as to why George Bush should not be re-elected pres stanley quencher ident of the United States. Speaking on the eve of the second presidential stanley canada debate, Kerry said Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney may well be the last two people on the planet who won t face the truth about the deteriorating situation in Iraq.Some

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MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine president-elect has encouraged the public to help him in his war against crime, urging citizens with guns to shoot and kill drug dealers who resist arrest and fight back in their neighborho adiletten original ods.In a nationally televised speech late Saturday, Rodrigo Duterte told a huge crowd in the southern city of Davao celebrating last month s presidential victory that Filipinos nike air max who help him battle crime will be rewarded. Please feel free to call us, the police, or do it yourself if you have the gun - you have my support, Duterte said, warning of an extensive illegal drug trade that involves even the country s police.If a drug dealer resists arrest or refuses to be brought to a police station and threatens a citizen with a gun or a knife, you ca adidas samba og n kill him, Duterte said. Shoot him and I ll give you a medal. Critics have long dubbed the Filipino Donald Trump a butcher for advocating the murder of drug traffickers and other criminals. The 71-year-old Duterte won the May 9 presidential election on a bold promise to end crime and corruption within six months of his presidency. That vow resonated among crime-weary Filipinos, though police officials considered it campaign rhetoric that was impossible to accomplish.The brash Duterte has threatened to close down Congress and form a revolutionary government if legislators stonewall his government.This has alarmed the political establishment, which fears that Duterte will squander the hard-won economi Yxpx Tornado near Tokyo kills 1, injures dozens
Waving handkerchiefs and chanting, We want peace, Monrovia s trapped people on Thursday welcomed an advance team scouting conditions for a long-promised West African peace force.With the new hopes of rescue, people in Liberia s capital passed one of the quietest nights in the last two months of rebel offensives. Gunfire rattled, but there was relief from the rocket and mortar volleys of recent days.Still, pressure built on West Afric stanley quencher an leaders to get troops on the ground. Six African countries mdash; Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Benin, Senegal and Togo mdash; have promised 3,250 soldiers for an eventual 5,000-strong peacekeeping force, said the Economic Community of West African States, the regional bloc arranging the force.The advance team of West African and U.S. officials, which is led by a Nigerian commander, set off jubilant celebrations in Monrovia as it passed shacks with tin roofs peeled back by explosives and undetonated shells in the streets. This is a sign of peace coming, refugee Hamilton Woods said with a smile. As the advance team arrived at the high-walled, heavily guarded U.S. Embassy, hundreds of refugees taking shelter around the compound spilled out, fluttering handkerchiefs and flashing peace signs while shoutin stanley mugs g with j stanley cup oy. We are hungry, but seeing these people we are full this morning, businessman Mohammed Dauda, 31, said. We hope this marks the beginning of the end. Liberia s leading rebel group has pressed since early June to take the capital and

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LISBON, Portugal -- Portuguese and Spanish rescue services saved 34 migrants who leaped into the sea after thei adidas samba damen r inflatable craft caught fire in the Mediterranean. Dramatic footage of Portuguese @fap_emfa airplane saving 34 migrants after their boat caught on fire off Spanish coast. Frontex Op. Indalo pic.twitt adidas original campus er/z9fOZBm0YMmdash; Frontex @Frontex May 29, 2017 Video shot by a Portuguese Air Force plane shows the migrants wearing orange life vests jumping from the black dinghy after flames erupted near the craft s outboard motor. The fire quickly spread and left burning debris on the water. Some migrants clung to what was left of the rubber craft.More than 4,500 died or vanished crossing Mediterranean this yearGrim work identifying 800 bodies that were nobody s business Europe confronts deadly migration crisisA Portuguese Air Force statement says there was no obvious reason for the fire off the Spanish coast Sunday.The plane coordinated a rescue effort, dropping a life raft into the sea and calling a nearby fishing vessel. Monday s statement said two Spanish coast guard vessels also picked up the unhurt migrants.Tomos Garcia, a manager with the Spanish coastguard who has 24 years experience said this was one of the most complex rescues he had seen, the AFP news agency reported. adidas originals damen More from CBS News Yeoo Japanese billionaire seeks eight people for free trip to the moon
BAMAKO, Mali An Algerian-born jihadist who heads one of the most powerful and feared cells of al Qaeda s North African branch has decided to leave the al Qaeda franchise in order to cr stanley cup eate a movement spanning the entire Sahara desert, said one of his close associates and a local official who had been briefed on the matter on Monday.Moktar Belmoktar, formerly the head of a cell of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, is one of the most prolific kidnappers operating in Mali s lawless north. He i stanley trinkflaschen s linked to the abduction of a group of tourists in 2003 in southern Algeria, as well as the top United Nations diplomat in Niger, Robert Fowler, who was grabbed on the side of a road in 2008.T stanley cup he deputy mayor of a town in the Timbuktu region of northern Mali, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear for his safety, confirmed that AQIM katiba, or cell, leader Belmoktar had left the al Qaeda franchise. The information was confirmed by Oumar Ould Hamaha, an associate of Belmoktar s, who was reached by telephone at an undisclosed location in northern Mali. It s true, said Hamaha. It s so that we can better operate in the field that we have left this group which is tied to the Maghreb appellation. We want to enlarge our zone of operation throughout the entire Sahara, going from Niger through to Chad and Burkina Faso. Hamaha said, however, that while he and Belmoktar have left the North African branch, they remain under the orders of al Qaeda central. AQIM evolved from an Alge

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KIEV, Ukraine -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden criticized Russia on Friday for its role in eastern Ukraine, urging Moscow to uphold a cease-fire in the war-torn region as he visited Kiev on the anniversary of the country s anti-government protests.Touring the Ukrainian capital, Biden said Western sanctions against Russia would not be lifted until Moscow does more to enforce the cease-fire. Over 900 people have been killed and fighting has continued in eastern Ukraine since a truce began in September, and the conflict has claimed at least 4,300 lives since April, according to the U.N. Fighting continues in Ukraine 34 photos If Russia were to fulfill these commitments and respect Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity, nike dunks panda we could begin a rational discussion about sanctions, Biden said. But that s not what has happened. Instead we ve seen more provocative actions, more blatant disregard for the agreement ... And as long as that continues, Russia will face rising cost and greater isolation. Biden stopped short of anno adidas samba adidas uncing that the United States would provide lethal military aid to Ukraine, an idea floated by an adviser to President Obama. The United States has given Uk adidas originals uomo raine $53 million in non-lethal aid.The protests that began a year ago in Cvii North Korea boasts having powerful modern weapons capable of striking United States
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Placards featuring ruling and opposition presidential candidates hang over a street in Seoul, South Korea on Feb. 17, 2022. Just days before March 9 election, Lee Jae-myung from the liberal governing Democratic Party and Yoon Suk Yeol from the main conservative opposition People Power Party are locked in an extremely tight race. Ahn Young-joon / AP Seoul, South Korea mdash; The race between South K yeezy slide orea s two leading presidential adidas campus candidates has seen unprecedented levels of toxic rhetoric, mudslinging and lawsuits.How bad is it Hitler, beast, and parasite are some of the choicer insults leveled by both camps. Some are even calling it The Squid Game Election, in reference to Netflix s megahit survival drama in which people are killed if they lose children s games. And the stakes There s widespread speculation that the loser will be arrested. It s a dreadful presidential election when the losing contender faces prison. Please survive this dogfight in the mi adidas sambarose re! senior opposition politician Hong Joon-pyo wrote on Facebook. Just days before Wednesday s election, Lee Jae-myung, from the liberal governing Democratic Party and Yoon Suk Yeol, from the main conservative opposition People Power Party, are locked in an extremely tight race.Their negative campaigns are aggravating South Korea s already severe political divide at a time when it faces a battered, pandemic-hit econom Tctu Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to be sentenced; Death penalty possible, but unlikely
TURALEI, Sudan - A top U.S. of stanley polska ficial warned of a humanitarian crisis Friday over the north s invasion of a disputed territory as southern towns taking in tens of thousands of fleeing villagers were running short of food, fuel and shelter.County Commissioner Dominic Deng said Friday that up to 40,000 people have arrived in Turalei, a town to the south of the disputed region of Abyei. He said at least 80,000 people hav stanley quencher e fled Abyei, a zone about the size of Connecticut which northern Sudan inva stanley cup ded last weekend.On a visit to Turalei on Friday, the top U.S. official in Southern Sudan, Barrie Walkley, said we have a perfect storm creating a humanitarian crisis. Sudan s north is blockading border crossing points, preventing food and fuel from getting to the south. Militias are attacking southern forces, and the northern army displaced tens of thousands of people by invading Abyei, he said.Lise Grande, the U.N. s top humanitarian official in Southern Sudan, said there are not enough stocks in the area to supply all the fleeing families with food and shelter. The fuel shortage is greatly hampering relief efforts, she said. It s double the number of people we were planning for, she said. We have to face the fact that if they are here for a while then what we have is not enough. Martha Abiem Deng fled to Turalei with a dozen children, four her own and the rest nieces and nephews. She sat under a tree on a mat and gestured to one small jerry can. Her whole family must share t

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Police have broken a drug ring that smuggled cocaine hidden in surfboards bound from South America to Europe, Uruguayan officials said on Tuesday. The capture of the narcotics came after cooperative efforts by anti-drug police in Uruguay, Spain, Portugal and Italy, the officials said.So far, three Italian citizens have been arrested, two in Portugal and one in Italy, they said. Operation Iris is unprecedented in our country because of t adidas samba he scope and significance of international cooperation, National Police Director Jose Manuel Azambuya said in a conference in which authorities from the other countries participated via video link.A photosupplied to BBC News by Uruguay s interior ministry show six surfboards dunk pand lined up and another image shows white powder spilling from one of the boards after it had been cut open. International drugs ring smuggled cocaine in surfboards from South America to Europe https://t.co/Ey49nS3b0hmdash; BBC News World @BBCWorld June 14, 2023 Sniffer dogs from an anti-drug unit in Uruguay signaled something suspicious in a package with the six surfboards on May 23, police said. Cocaine was found in the boards. A total of 90 pounds of cocaine was found in five of the boards, police said. A sixth was a adidas originals mujer llowed to pass through so authorities in Europe could track who was receiving the narcotics.Portuguese police arrested the two individuals who went to pick up the package, which had transited through Spain, on June 7. The remaining surfboard hel Prdz WikiLeaks Puts U.S. In Damage Control Mode
Nearly 6,000 civilians were slain across Iraq in May and June, a spike in deaths that coinc stanley romania ided with rising sectarian attacks across the country, the United Nations said Tuesday.The report from the U.N. Assistance Mission in Iraq describes a wave of lawlessness and crime, including assassinations, bombings, kidnappings, torture and intimidation.Hundreds of teachers, judges, religious leaders and doctors have been targeted for death, and thousands of people have fled, the report said. Evidence suggests militants also have begun to target homosexuals, it said. While welcoming recent positive steps by the government to promote national reconciliation, the report raises alarm at the growing number of casualties among the civilian population killed or wounded during indiscriminate or targeted attacks by terrorists or insurgents, the U.N. said in a note accompanying the stanley cup report.According to the report, 2,669 civilians were killed in May and 3,149 were killed in June. Those numbers combined two counts: from the Ministry of Health, which records deaths reported by hospitals; and the Medico-Legal Institute in Baghdad, which tallies the unidentified bodies it receives. The report charts a month-by-month increase in the number of civilians k stanley us illed, from 710 in January to 1,129 in April. In the first six months of the year, it said 14,338 people had been killed.The report s figures were higher than some other counts, but even the U.N. said many killings go unreported.According to a

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DHAKA, Bangladesh - hoka laufschuhe - Three peace prize laureates who met with Rohingya Muslims in sprawling refugee camps accused fellow Nobel recipient Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar s military of committing genocide in the deadly violence that forced hundreds of thousands to flee into Bangladesh.Suu Kyi does not oversee her country s military or its security operations that set off the refugee exodus, but the laureates said as Myanmar s leader, she cannot avoid responsibility.Tawakkol Karman of Yemen urged Suu Kyi to wake up or face prosecution, and Northern Ireland s Mairead Maguire and Iran s Shirin Ebadi promised to work to bring those responsible to justice. The laureates spoke at a news conference in Dhaka on Wednesday during their weeklong trip to Bangladesh to visit the camps where the Rohingya are living.All three were emotionally charged as they unanimously called the violence against Rohingya in Myanmar genocide. There is no other definition, it is genocide, genocide against innocent people, Karman said. Millions of people have been displaced from their citie nike dunk s, women have been raped, all the women, we met like 100 women, all of them have been raped. She said they were overwhelmed as adidas samba herren they talked to the children. Most of the children we met ... fled to Bangladesh without their families. Their fathers, their mothers have been killed, been murdered, Karman said.Karman, one of three recipients of the 2011 prize for women s rights advocacy, said Suu Kyi should no Nisu Al Qaeda militants escape Yemen prison
The Iraqi government on Monday released the chief negotiator for the city of Fallujah in a gesture apparently aimed at reviving p stanley thermosflasche eace talks to end t stanley flask he standoff in Iraq s major insurgent bastion.In Baghdad, a car bomb exploded late Sunday near a police patrol fashionable Jadiriyah district, killing at six people, including three police officers, and wounding 26 others.The attack came a day after insurgents ambushed and killed nine Iraqi policemen as they returned home from a training course in Jordan mdash; the latest strikes in an insurgent campaign against Iraq s new police for stanley flask ce, which is seen as collaborating with the U.S.-backed government.Meanwhile, Iraqi officials said a cash-for-weapons program for Shiite fighters in Baghdad s Sadr City and other locations was extended another two days until Tuesday.In other developments:A police patrol in Baqouba was ambushed overnight, injuring nine people, Iraqi police said Monday The patrol was hit with gunfire by unknown assailants at 12:30 am Monday in the al-Umal area of Baqouba, said police Lt. Ziyad Tareq. Seven of the wounded were policemen and the other two were civilians, he said.A Dutch court acquitted a marine Monday of criminal negligence in the fatal shooting of an Iraqi civilian last year.Brent Scowcroft, the national security adviser under the first President Bush, says the current president acted contemptuously toward NATO and Europe after Sept. 11, 2001, and is trying to cooperate now out of desperation to rescue

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New Delhi mdash; It s still spring but hundreds of millions of people across South and Southeast Asia have already faced scorching hot temperatures. The summer heat has arrived early, setting records and even claiming lives, and it s expected to get much worse through May and June as summer actually begins.At the beginning of May, severe heat waves were already blamed for nearly three dozen deaths across the vast region. Schools have been forced to close weeks ahead of summer vacations and huge swaths of new crops have withered in parched farmland.Where the most dangerous heat is expected in the U.S. this summerScientists warn of wide-ranging impacts in some of the adidas campus world s most densely populated regions, and they re urging g hoka wanderschuh overnments to take immediate action to prepare for the impact of climate change and do whatever is possible to mitigate human-caused global warming.What s happening, and where Several parts of India recorded maximum temperatures over 110 degrees Fahrenheit last nike sb dunk month. On April 21, people in the eastern city of Bhagdora sweltered as the mercury touched 114.8 degrees.The India Meteorological Department IMD on Tuesday issued a red alert warning for the eastern and southern states of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Odisha, where temperatures have been soaring since mid-April. The IMD warned the heat wave was set to get worse before it gets better. Villagers carry pots filled with water from a well during an ongoing heat wave in Kasar Izay Greek police name suspect in U.S. scientist s murder and rape
Milos Bicanski/Getty Images Demonstrators clash with police during a protest against plans for new austerity measures on Oct. 19, 2011 in Athens, Greece.Greece s largest labor unions have called for a 48-hour strike because the Greek government is beginning to push through legislation for cost-cutting reforms. Jay LaPrete/Getty Images A sign warns passing motorists about exotic animals on the loose from a wildlife preserve on Oct. 19, 2011 stanley thermobecher in Zanesville, Ohio. stanley termohrnek FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images Members of the Ennahdha Islamist movement distribute electoral leaflets in front of the party s headquarters on Oct. 19, 2011 in Ariana, Tunisia.Tunisia will hold elections on Oct. 23 to determine the constitutional body that will run the nation, which overthrew its longtime dictator in January 2011. Uriel Sinai/Getty Images stanley cup price Gilad Shalit walks outside his home on Oct. 19, 2011 in Mitzpe Hila, Israel.Shalit was freed on Oct. 18, 2011 after being held captive for five years in Gaza by Hamas militants. He was released in a deal that allowed the release of more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners.

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DUBLIN - The gay couples of Ireland woke up Sunday in what felt like a nation reborn - some with dreams of wedding plans dancing in their heads.Many weren t rising too early, however, after celebrating the history-making outcome of Ireland s referendum enshrining gay marriage in the constitution. The festivities began when the final result - 62 percent approval - was announced Saturday night, and ran until sunrise in some corners of Du yeezy blin, with tens of thousands of revelers of all sexual identities pouring onto the streets. adidas campus 00s Ireland votes to legalize same-sex marriage 02:17 The unexpectedly strong willingness of Irish voters to change their conservative 1937 constitution is expected to lead to a wave of gay weddings in Ireland in the fall. The Justice Department confirmed Sunday it plans to publish a marriage bill this week, and with the support of all political parties, it should be passed by parliament and signed into law b adidas originals donna y June.CBS News correspondent Charlie D Agata reports the Irish abroad returned to the Emerald Isle, bringing their votes with them.Analysts credited the yes side with adeptly employing social media to mobilize young, first-time voters, tens of thousands of whom voted for the first time Friday. The yes campaign also featured moving personal stories from prominent Irish peop Mcqn Indonesian men sentenced to public caning for gay sex
A bomb exploded outside a bank in the northern city of Kirkuk on Tuesday, killing 19 people, including pensioners waiting for checks and child street vendors. The bodies of 24 men killed in ambushes were brought to a Baghdad hospital.A suicide car bomber also rammed his vehicle into an Iraqi army checkpoint, killing five soldiers and wounding two others in Kan an, about 30 miles north of Baghdad, Iraqi Army Col. Ismael Ibrahim said. Two civilians were also wounded.The spree of killings across the country comes as lawmakers wrangle stanley cup over how big a say Sunni Arab Muslims should have drawing up the country s new constitution. The wrangling threatens to further alienate Sunni Arabs, who fell from power af stanley cup ter their patron, Saddam Hussein, was ousted and detained. Sunni Arabs account for most of the insurgents wreaking havoc across Iraq.In other developments:On Monday, new footage of a subdued-looking Saddam released by the Iraqi Special Tribunal showed the former dictator being quizzed by a judge mdash; apparently on Sunday mdash; about the killings of at least 50 I stanley cup raqis in a Shiite town. Unlike Saddam s combative appearance at his arraignment on July 1, 2004 mdash; the last time he was seen on video mdash; the new tape reveals a man who appears a shadow of his former self.U.S. and Iraqi officials are considering some difficult-to-swallow ideas as they try to divide and conquer insurgents fighting in Iraq, including amnesty for some of the militants. Officials say negotiations