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ISLAMABAD 151; Gunmen opened fire on Shiite Muslim pilgrims riding in a bus in southwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 25 of them in an apparent sectarian attack, officials said.The pilgrims were traveling through Mastung district in Baluchistan province on their way to the Iranian border when the attack occurred, said Saeed Umrani, a senior district official.Two motorcycles blocked the path of the bus and three gunmen stormed the vehicle, opening fire on the roughly 40 pilgrims inside, said local tribal p stanley quencher oliceman Dadullah Baluch after interviewing survivors and eyewitnesses.At least 25 people were killed and more than a dozen wounded, Baluch said. The dead and wounded were being taken to the provincial capital of Quetta, abou stanley tumblers t 35 miles to the north, he said. Pakistan is a majority Sunni Muslim state. Although most Sunnis and Shiites in Pakistan live together peacefully, extremists on both sides often target each other s leaders and activists.The Sunni-Shiite schism over the true heir to Islam s Prophet Muhammad dates back to the seventh century. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline stanley flasche -recirc-item--id-99a8d1ac-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-99a8d1ac-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-99a8d1ac-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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A shark attacked a British tourist on Friday in the southeastern Caribbean, prompting the government of Trinidad Tobago to close seven beaches and a marine park. The man was hospitalized in an intensive care unit following the attack, officials said.The closure included beaches along the northwestern coast of the island of Tobago. The attack occurred at Turtle Beach along Great Courland Bay.The BBC identified the victim as Peter Smith, 64, who was on the Caribbean island with wife Jo and friends when he was attacked. His wife said he suffered damage to his left arm and leg, pun crocs badelatschen cture wounds to the abdomen and injuries to his right hand.This weekend, she said her husband is aware of what is happening and is able to communicate a little, although he is still under strong medication, according to the BBC.Officials said the incident involved a bull shark estimated to be eight adidas campus 80s to 10 fe adidas samba og t long, the BBC reported. The government said in a statement that shark sightings were reported in the Grafton area and the Buccoo Reef Marine Park. Officials said the closures will allow the Coast Guard and Department of Fisheries to investigate the incident and neutralize the shark threat, if possible. Eyewitness Orion Jakerov, a water sports manager at the nearby Starfish resort, said other people in the water were physically trying to fight off the shark. I don t think they saw it. They were about waist height in the water so they weren t out of their depth, he told the local br Enlb Israel Readying Anti-Missile System
In this undated photo provided by Alma mater Studiorum Universita di Bologna, a document that an Italian expert says to be the oldest known complete Torah scroll. AP Photo/Alma Mater Studiorum Universita di Bologna ROME An Italian expert in Hebrew manuscripts said Wednesday he had discovered the oldest known complete Torah scroll, a sheepskin document dating from 1155-1225. It was ri stanley thermos mug ght under his nose, in the University of Bologna library, where it had been mistaken stanley tumbler ly catalogued a century ago as dating from the 17th century.The find isn t the oldest Torah text in the world: the Leningrad and the Aleppo bibles - both of them Hebrew codexes, or books - pre-date the Bologna scroll by more than 200 years. But this is the oldest Torah scroll of the Pentateuch, the five books of Moses, according to Mauro Perani, a professor of Hebrew in the University of Bologna s cultural heritage department.Such scrolls - this one is 40 yards long and 64 centimeters 25 inches h stanley cup igh - are brought out in synagogues on the Sabbath and holidays, and portions are read aloud in public. In a telephone interview Wednesday, Perani said he was updating the library s Hebrew manuscript catalogue when he stumbled upon the scroll in February. He said he immediately recognized the scroll had been wrongly dated by the last cataloguer in 1889, because he recognized that its script and other graphic notations were f

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PARIS -- Five months ago, a 3-year-old Syrian boy s corpse on a Turkish beach galvanized public action for refugees. Now, strikingly similar images are generating little more than a collective shrug. af1 A paramilitary police officer carries the lifeless body of Aylan Kurdi, 3, after a number of migrants died and a smaller number were reported missing after boats carrying them to the Greek island of Kos capsized, near the Turkish resort of Bodrum Sept. 2, 2015. DHA/AP It s partly about timing, circumstance and the exceptional power of last September s photos of Aylan Kurdi.But it s also because sensitivities are growing dull. Boats arrive on Europe s shores daily, or sink on the way - like the one that capsized off Turkey s coast on Saturday, killing at least 37 people including babies and other young children. adidas samba schuhe Denmark reveals controversial migrant policy 02:12 Images from the latest tragedy, including the bodies of children, failed to generate the same level of shock.Fears -- that refugees will stage extremist attacks or molest women -- threaten to displace compassion. And Europe has yet to find the magic solution to its migrant dilemma. The public seems to be kind of immunized. Th nike air max ey don t want Vrve Mueller to interview top-level White House officials as part of Russia probe
Israel moved closer to invading Gaza, saying Thursday it had wrapped up preparations for a broad offensive after Palestinian militants fired about 100 rockets and mortar shells across the border in two days.Israel s foreign minister brushed off stanley cup a call for restraint from Egypt s president, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak made a direct appeal to Gaza s people to pressure their leaders to stop the barrages. But the attacks showed no signs of ending. By nightfall, three rockets and 15 mortar shells had exploded in Israel.Olmert issued his appeal in a rare interview with the Arabic language satellite channel al-Arabiya, saying Israel would not hesitate to respond with force if the attacks continued. I am telling them now, it may be the last minute, I m telling them stop it. We are stronger, he said.Thursday s rocket fire was far less than the barrage of 80 rockets the previous day, and there were no reports of injuries. But Israeli leaders said the continued fire - the most intense since Egypt brokered a cease-fire last June - was unacceptable. One of the mortar shells landed at Israel s passenger crossing with Gaza just as a group of Palestinian Christians was going t stanley cup hrough on their way to the West Bank town of Bethlehem for Chris stanley us tmas celebrations, the military said. Another rocket exploded after nightfall in an industrial park south of the coastal city of Ashkelon, police said.Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak invited Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to Cairo to

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Iran s foreign minister said Wednesday the United States is not in a position to launch a war against Iran because American taxpayers are already saddled with the very costly war in Iraq.Nonetheless, Manouchehr Mottaki accused U.S. President George W. Bush s administration of engaging in a psychological war and raising the option of a military strike every six months over the last two years.At some point during each six-month period, he said, we were receiving information which looked very exact - in some specific hour and date the strike will take place. While the United States maintains that all options including a military attack remain on the table, Mottaki said Our analysis is clear. U.S. is not in a position to impose another war in our region against their taxpayers. Mottaki said Iran warned the United States two years ago that it would retaliate if the U.S. administration made a mad decision to attack. But he refused to say what action Iran would take, saying it would be disclosed at the appropriate time by the relevant people. On the final day of the U.N. General Assembly s ministe stanley quencher rial session, the Iranian minister told stanley mug a news conference that his country is trying to avoid any confrontations and wants a peaceful solution to concerns abo stanley us ut its nuclear activities.The Bush administration and others in the West have repeatedly voiced concern over Iran s uranium enrichment program, arguing that it is aimed at producing nuclear weapons. Iran has vigorously r

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Rescue workers were searching through rubble for a missing doctor after two buildings collapsed in the northern Fren mizuno laufschuhe ch town of Lille on Saturday. We are almost certain that this person is in the rubble, said fire service Lieutenant Colonel Stephane Beauventre, in a message broadcast by the CODIS emergency operations centre. His phone is not answering, his car is in the car park... and he has not taken his duty rota, he added.Two small adjoining houses collapsed on Saturday in a shopping street in the city center. Firefighters inspect a collapsed building as they search for victims in the city of Lille, northern France, on Nov. 12, 2022. SAMEER AL-DOUMY/AFP via Getty Images At first the collapses did not appear to have caused any casualties. The homes were evacuated during the night as a precautionary measure after a resident warned that one of the walls was warped, police said. Officials visited neighboring houses on Saturday to check for cracks or gas leaks following the collapse. We heard a noise for a air max 2 few seconds, very softly at first. We thought it was the scaffolding falling, Ludovic Ficher, 30, who works in an adjoining building, told AFP. When we realised that the whole building was colla nike air force psing, we all ran out, he added. I was scared to death. Lille is located in the far northeast corner of France, near the Belgian border. Nnyt Islamists dealt major blow in Egyptian politics
Taiwan s opposition candidate cruised to victory in the presidential election Saturday, promising to expand economic ties with China while protecting the island from being swallowed up politically by its gian stanley cups uk t communist neighbor.Fireworks lit up the sky over Ma Ying-jeou s headquarters, and cheering supporters put up victory posters be stanley mugs fore the former Taipei mayor climbed on stage and declared victory. People want a clean a government instead of a corrupt one, said Ma, also a former justice minister. They want a good economy, not a sluggish one. They don t want political feuding. They want peace stanley tumbler across the Taiwan Strait. No war. Across town, a crying crowd gathered at the campaign office for ruling party candidate Frank Hsieh, a former premier. Don t cry for me today, Hsieh said in his concession speech. Although we lost the election, we have a more important mission. The torch of democracy should not be extinguished. Ma won 58 percent of the votes compared to 41.5 percent for his challenger, according to the Central Election Commission. Turnout was 76 percent, the commission said.Ma and Hsieh have both said they want a less confrontational relationship with China. But they were divided on how best to deal with Beijing, which presents both a huge opportunity for the island s powerful business community and a looming threat to its evolving democracy.Ma said he favors stronger economic ties between China and Taiwan, but that he wants to maintain the status quo politi

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An oceanographic institution has released over an hour of footage from the 1986 dive exploring the wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic that has mostly not been seen by the public before.The footage was shared Wednesday adidas campus eveningby the Woods Hole Oceanic Institutionin honor of the 25th anniversary of James Cameron s Academy Award-winning movie, Titanic, which has been re-released in theat samba og ers adidas campus homme around the country.The wreckage of the Titanic was first found by researchers from the WHOI, working in partnership with a French institute, in 1985. That expedition was led by Dr. Robert Ballard. In June 1986, the team returned to the wreck site with a human-occupied submersible called Alvin and a remotely operated vehicle ROV called Jason Junior. That mission marked the first time humans set eyes on the ill-fated ship since its sinking in 1912, according to the institution. The remotely-operated vehicle Jason Jr. on the deck of the Titanic in 1986. WHOI Archives /copy;Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The rare, uncut and mostly unnarrated footage was uploaded to the WHOI s YouTube channel Wednesday. The video includes images of the Alvin submersible approaching the ship and parking on its deck.The footage also provides a look at interior shots of the wreck, including a look inside a chief officer s cabin and footage of debris on the ocean floor. Alvin visits the wre Dknr China Issues Most Wanted List Of Rioters
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Canada announced Monday that it will begin letting fully vaccinated U.S. citizens into Canada on August 9, and those from the rest of the world on S adidas samba og eptember 7.Officials said the 14-day quarantine requirement will be waived as of August 9 for eligible travelers who are currently residing in the U.S. and have received a full course of a COVID-19 vaccine approved for use in Canada.Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, who said he spoke with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Friday, said the U.S. has not yet yeezy slide indicated any plan to change current restrictions at the land border. Canadians are able to fly into the U.S. with a negative COVID-19 test.Asked in Washington if the U.S. would reciprocate, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said, We are continuing to review our travel restrictions. Any decisions about resuming travel will be guided by our public health and medical experts. ... I wouldn t look at it through a reciprocal intention. U.S. Democratic Congressman Brian Higgins, whose district includes Buffalo and Niagara Falls, said the U. adidas samba og S. has neglected to give reopening the northern border the serious attention it deserves, and there is no excuse. CBS News poll shows unvaccinated Americans less concerned about Delta variant than vaccinated Americans 08:30 Canadian officials a Pkgb 24 Dead In Venezuela Crash
Children growing up in single-parent families are twice as likely as their counterparts to develop serious psychiatric illnesses and addictions later in life, according to an important new study.Researchers have for years debated whether children from broken homes bounce back or whether they are more likely than kids whose parents stay together to develop serious emotional problems.Experts say the latest study, published this week in The Lancet medical journal, is important mainly because of its unprecedented scale and follow-up mdash; it tracked about 1 million children for a decade, into their mid-20s.The question of why and how those children end up with such problems remains unanswered. water bottle stanley The study suggests that financial hardship may play a role, but other experts say the research also supports the view that quality of parenting could be a factor.The study used the Swedish national registries, which cover almost the entire population and contain extensive socio-economic and health information. Children stanley kubek were considered to be living in a single-parent household if they were living with the same single adult in both the 1985 and 1990 housing census. That could have been the result of divorce, separation, death of a parent, out of wedlock birth, guardianship or other reasons. About 60,000 were living with their mo stanley cup price ther and about 5,500 with their father. There were 921,257 living with both parents. The children were aged between 6 and 18 at the start of the study, with h

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Microsoft said it s investigating problems with its online services on Wednesday, including its Teams messaging platform and Outlook email system, after users around the world reported outages. In a status update, the tech company reported service degradation for a number of its Microsoft 365 services.Thousands of users reported problems with Teams, Outlook, the Azure cloud computing service and XBox adidas original campus Live online gaming service early Wednesday on the Downdetector website, which tracks outage reports. By later in the morning, it showed the number of reports adidas yeezy had dropped considerably. Many users took to social media to complain that the services were down, noting that the problems were affectring their work. By 8 a.m. ET, it appeared that service had been restored, however. No Azure issues detected at this time, crocs hausschuhe Microsoft said on a status page. @MicrosoftTeams How long will it take to restore the Outlook and TeamsIt s severely impacting our Work MicrosoftTeams Microsoft365mdash; Anirudh Garg @anirudhgarg_ January 25, 2023 We ve isolated the problem to a networking configuration issue, and we are analyzing the best mitigation strategy to address it without causing additional impact, the Microsoft 365 Status Twitter account said earlier that morning. It added that a network change that was suspected to be causing the problem was rolled back and that it was monitoring as the rollback takes effect.A day earlier, Microsoft reported that its quarterly profit fell 1 Kuna Survivors pulled out days after deadly India building collapse
I m Barry Petersen and this Letter from Asia comes from Beijing. The history of AIDS starts with neglect. The first case in the mid 1980s was a tourist from Argentina, and officials here proclaimed that AIDS was a foreigner s disease. Of course, they were horribly wrong. Harvard-educated Professor Jing Jun is a sociologist who tracked AIDS from China s initial reaction: denial. He told me that in China s culture, when it was about sex, ignorance was bliss. A lot of Chinese parents do not want their children to be aware of sexuality so early because they... B stanley cup elieve that if they know about it, they might do it, says Jun. The battle against AIDS was also complicated by China s push for rapid growth, which made medical care, once open to all, part of the new make-money model. We try to follow the U.S. Medical model, says Jing. In other words, doctors should make money. Medical institutions should make money. So all of a sudden, the cost of medicine went up so fast that 50 percent of rural people cannot afford to be hospitalized anymore. Then Ch stanley canada ina turned to its rural population for blood supplies, afraid that foreign blood was tainted. But blood donations in villages were mixed together basically in big pots. After plasm stanley trinkflaschen a was extracted, the unneeded and sometimes contaminated red-cells were injected back into groups of donors. The ten people, if one person has HIV-AIDS, the other nine people get it, says Jing.The wake-up call was SARS. China virtually shut down in fear a

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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- All right, good night were the final words heard by air traffic controllers from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight before it vanished over the South China Sea five days ago, relatives of the passengers were told Wednesday. Capt. Sullenberger gives pilot perspective on Flight 370 mystery 03:44 News of the last communication came as Malaysia defended its handling of the hunt for the missing Boeing 777 but acknowledged it is still unsure which direction the plane was headed when it disappeared, highlighting the massive task facing the international search. Government officia nike air max ls said they asked India to join in the search near the Andaman Sea, suggesting they think the jetliner and the 239 people on board might have reached those waters after crossing into the Strait of Malacca, some 250 miles from the flight s last known coordinates. The mystery over the pl adidas samba uomo ane s whereabouts has been confounded by confusing and occasionally conflicting statements by Malaysian officials, which h yeezy ave led to allegations of incompetence or even cover-up, adding to the anguish of relatives of those on board the flight, two thirds of them Chinese. There s too much information and confusion right now. It is very hard for us to decide whether a given piece of information is accurate, Chi Zfpl Calm - Then Sudden Death in Afghan War
AP TOKYO - A baby giant panda died at a Tokyo zoo on Wednesday, less than a week after becoming the first to be born at the facility in 24 years. The birth had created excitement across Japan, and the nation was mourning the baby s death stanley uk .Tokyo s Ueno Zoo said the male panda, who had not been named yet, died of pneumonia Wednesday stanley deutschland morning. A zookeeper found the baby, who was born last Thursday, lying belly up, without breathing, on his 7-year-old mother s chest.He was pronounced dead an hour later, after resuscitation efforts failed.Video: Tokyo zoo celebrates birth of baby pandaIn a news conference broadcast live, Yutaka Fukuda, the zoo s chief panda keeper, said milk had accidentally entered the baby s airway while his mother, Shin Shin, was breast-feeding. Autopsy results found traces of milk in the baby s bronchial tube. The baby panda had been kept in an incubator for three days before being sent back to Shin Shin on Tuesday. First panda born at Tokyo zoo since 1988 16 photos cups stanley They peacefully spent the night and the baby was doing fine just this morning, Fukuda said, tears welling up in his eyes. It happened so suddenly, and it s such a pity. The panda was the first to be born at the zoo since 1988 and was conceived naturally. Giant p

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In our series The World of Mothers, we look at what motherhood means around the globe. In this installment, we look at a community i adidas originals mujer n Kenya healing from tragedy. In a part of Kenya where women are often culturally regarded as second-class citizens, there is a village where women rule. Samburu is an extremely rural part of Kenya where there is rampant poverty and unemployment. The infant mortality rate is over 35 percent. It s hard enough to be a woman in Samburu, but without a child there, you are regarded as nothing, reports CBS News Debora Patta. Diana Lekanta proved her worth by having three children ndash; including 6-month-old baby Tau. Like so many women in African countri nike sb dunk es, where there is poverty, children are your riches. It can come at a cost though. Lekanta s husband beat her constantly. No longer able to stand it, she fled to Umoja mdash; the village where men are banned. Is it better to be a mother without a man Patta asked her. Fantastic, Lekanta said. No stress. More from The World of Mothers: It costs less than $60 to have a baby in Finland. How Mothers grapple with unpaid maternity leave as lawmakers eye a changeStress-free is a word y yeezy slide ou hear often in Umoja. What it really means is that these women no longer have to fear the men who hurt them. In Samburu a woman has a 95 percent chance of being beaten by her husband. Judy Lelumbe was 12 when she was forced to marry a 50-year-old man. He was beating me again, Lelumbe said. Hcnr Petraeus: Taliban may now split with al Qaeda
Explosive experts on Monday defused a large bomb in a van parked next to the heavily guarded U.S. Consulate in this southern Pakistani city, saving it from big destruction, police said.It was not immediately clear who planted the device, though Islamic extremist groups have repeatedly targeted Westerners and minority Christians since the government threw its support behind the U.S.-led war on terrorism.Meanwhile, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said Monday that a Libyan member of al Qaeda was behind two assassination attempts against him in December. M stanley tumbler usharraf, who escaped the attacks unhurt, did not name the Libyan suspect, who he said funded Islamic militants to carry out the bombings.The thwarted attack came just two days ahead of a scheduled visit to Pakistan by Secretary of State Colin Powell. He was due to arrive in the country on Wednesday, but was stanley cup not scheduled to visit Karachi. The man or men who left this van near the U.S. Consulate building wanted to blow it up, Pakistan s Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told The Associated Press in Islamabad.Officials said a paramilitary ranger guarding the consulate had spotted a Suzuki van with one or two people inside parked about 16 feet from its perimeter wall. Before they could be questioned properly, the men were picked up in a car and fled.The van, which contained a large blue water tank filled with explosives, was stanley france moved to a safe place and police bomb experts disconnected a timer and detonators attache