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A young German pilot said Sunday he traced a giant syringe in the sky as a way of marking the start of Germany s roll out of vac crocs hausschuhe cines against the coronavirus. Samy Kramer, a 20-year-old amateur pilot, had carefully plotted out the route he needed to take in advance in order to create the effect in the skies above Baden-Wuerttemberg.The maneuvers included a number o yeezy foam f 90-degree turns during the flight on Wednesday that lasted one hour and 40 minutes and covered around 170 miles.The syringe could be seen on the flightradar24 website. Earlier this week, a pilot in Germany took to the skies to celebrate the availability of a COVID19 vaccine. https://t.co/VQCzEjIz8a pic.twitter/RPAJx74YfAmdash; Flightradar24 @flightradar24 December 27, 2020 I nike dunk wanted to give people food for thought for the day the vaccine became available, Kramer, a student, told AFP on Sunday.Germany launched its official COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Sunday, but the first jabs were actually given the day before, with a 101-year-old resident of an elderly care home becoming the first person in the country to be inoculated.In total, Germany will receive 1.3 million doses before the end of this year and then 11-13 million doses by the end of March. Around 65 percent of Germans said they are prepared to be vaccinated, according to a poll carried out by YouGov for the German news agency DPA. Coronavirus Pandemic Cuxw Iraq Photos: Aug. 23 - Aug. 29
The death toll in southern India due to a two-week heat wave has climbed to at least 490 people.That s according to D.C. Roshaiah, relief commissioner for the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, the hardest hit area. Roshaiah says in addition, at least 100 people have been hospitalized and are being treated for dehydration and sunstroke.Human beings are not the only victims of the heat. The forest department said an elephant died due to dehydration near Kurupam in Vizianagaram district, about 466 miles northeast of the state capital, Hyderabad.The poultry industry has also been hard hit, with 1.4 million chickens dying in the last two days.The Andhra Pradesh Poultry Federation reported that the export of eggs from the state has decreased by 33 percent, from 20 million eggs per day to 12.5 million. Relief offic stanley cup ial Roshaiah said the worst hit districts were in East Godavari and Nalgonda. We have warned the people not to venture out during the peak hours of the day, he said.The town of Hanmakonda in Warangal district, 105 miles north of Hyderabad, reported the hottest temperature Tuesday: 117 degrees Farenheit.C.V. Bhadram, director of the meteorological department, said dry winds fr stanley cup om the no stanley website rth are causing the severe heat. The state of Andhra Pradesh is battling its worst drought in 40 years due to lack of rain last year. Last year, a heat wave killed more than 1,000 people in the state, most of them elderly and unable to bear temperatures that reached up to 122

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As China prepares to return the U.S. underwater drone it seized last Thursday in the South China Sea, one global political risk expert asserts the timing of the incident sends a direct message to President-elect Donald Trump.The fact is that Chinese could have been doing this six months ago, 12 months ago ndash; theyrsquo;re not. The fact that they are doing it now shows that they clearly donrsquo;t like t adidas campus 80s he statements that have been made by President-elect Trump on a host of issues with China, Eurasia Group founder Ian Bremmer said Monday on CBS This Morning. China responds to inaccurate Trump tweet about U.S. drone seizureEarlier this month, Mr. Trump irked China when he spoke on the phone with Taiwanese President Tsai Ying-wen, breaking precedent and becoming the first American president-elect to speak with a Taiwanese president since the U.S. cu adidas og t formal diplomatic ties with the island in 1979.After China and the U.S. agreed t samba shoes he drone would be returned, Mr. Trump tweeted: China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters ndash; rips it out of water and takes it to China in unprecedented act.Later he wrote: We should tell China that we donrsquo;t want the drone they stole back. - let them keep it! We should tell China that we don t want the drone they stole back.- let them keep it!mdash; Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump December 18, 2016 Chinese state media said the countr Lzvk Diamonds from meteorite may be from lost planet, study says
Zardari Pakistan s ties with Saudi Arabia appeared to be under fresh strain on Monday in the wake of revelations from classified documents released by WikiLeaks, which quoted Saudi Arabian King Abdullah calling Pakistan s president Asif Ali Zardari the greatest obstacle to the country s progress. When the head is rotten, it affects the whole body, Abdullah said of Z stanley cups ardari in one of the documents. While Pakistani officials publicly condemned the claim as an attempt to undermine the traditionally close ties between the two countries, western and Arab diplomats warned that the revelations may have finally exposed genuine underlying tensions. Both are prominent Islamic states: Saudi Arabia is the world s largest oil producer and the birthplace of Islam while Pakistan has the distinction of being the world s only Muslim country armed with nuclear weapons. Pakistan s relations with Saudi Arabia predate its birth in 1947, when the country was carved out as an independent state from British colonial India. And many Pakistanis - like Muslims in all countries - feel tied to Saudi Arabia because of the traditional Islamic pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca. But the frictions between King Abdullah and presid kubki stanley ent Zardari appear to be driven by political trends. Though Saudi Arabia itself is battling an al Qaeda-backed terrorist c stanley cup hallenge the Saudi authorities have for years been uncomfortable with Pakistan s practice of handing over milita

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A pregnant woman died and at least 22 people including children are missing, presumed drowned, following a shipwreck in the central Mediterranean, Doctors Without Borders MSF said Tuesday.The crew of the charity s Geo Barents migrant rescue ship did however manage to pull 71 survivors yeezy , including a four-month-old baby, from the sinking rubber boat after it collapsed on Monday, it said. The group posted images of the resc crocs badelatschen ue on Twitter. 128308; GeoBarents team witnesses tragedy in Central Med 128308; Dozens of people struggled to survive in the water. Currently several people are still very weak and looked after by the medical team. All of them are severely traumatized and shocked. pic.twitter/crnE0dY adidas campus O3xmdash; MSF Sea @MSF_Sea June 28, 2022 What we faced yesterday was our worst nightmare coming true, the ship s search and rescue team leader Riccardo Gatti said in an MSF statement. The boat was sinking and many people were already in the sea when the Geo Barents arrived following a distress call from migrant rescue hotline Alarm Phone.The pregnant woman was brought on board but did not survive despite desperate attempts to resuscitate her, MSF said. It said that at least 22 people are missing, according to information being gathered from survivors.Two women had reported losing their children at sea, while another young woman lost her little brother.The baby that was rescued required emergency care before she and her mother were evacuated to Malta, but the o Ynri Which European countries have produced the most ISIS fighters
The U.N. Security Council approved another year of peacekeeping in Sudan s bloodied Darfur region Thursday night, but the U.S. abstained from a vote that reflected sharp divisions over genocide charges against the Sudanese president.The United States, despite support for the struggling peacekeeping mission, did not vote because of its opposition to any delay in efforts to prosecute Sudanese President Oma stanley thermos r Hassan al-Bashir.The resolution that was approved 14-0 carried language that noted an African Union request to freeze the International Criminal Court s prosecution of al-Bashir.Though the measure does not stop the prosecution, U.S. Deputy Ambassador Alejandro Wolff said that the language would sen stanley cup quencher d the wrong signal to al-Bashir and undermine efforts to bring him and others to justice. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, chief prosecutor of the international court, filed 10 charges against al-Bashir on July 14 related to violence in Darfur that the U.N. says has claimed 300,000 lives and driven 2.5 million people from their homes. stanley cups Those who survive are preyed upon by the government-backed janjaweed Arab militia and regular troops, Moreno-Ocampo said. The court could takes months to decide on his request for an arrest warrant.The resolution - drafted by Britain - also emphasizes the need to bring to justice the perpetrators of such crimes and urging the government of Sudan to comply with its obligations in this respect, and reiterating its condemnation of all violations of human r

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CARACAS, Venezuela A Miami Herald journalist was detained by Venezuelan authorities while reporting on politics and the chronic shortages in the South American country, the newspaper said Friday.Jim Wyss, the Herald s Andean bureau chief, was detained initially in San Cristobal, a western city near the border with Colombia, by the National Guard. He was then transferred to the custody of military intelligence, the newspaper said.Executive Editor adidas campus shoes Aminda Marques Gonzalez issued a statement calling for his immediate release. We are very concerned, Marques said. There doesn t seem to be any basis for his detention and we re trying to figure out dunk homme what s going on. The Herald said on a story posted on its we airmaxplus bsite that Venezuelan journalists reported seeing Wyss in custody on Friday but were not permitted to approach him. The paper said Wyss was detained on Thursday. The Inter American Press Association said in a statement Friday night that Wyss had been transferred to Caracas and is being held in solitary confinement.President Nicolas Maduro did not mention the journalist during a four-hour televised speech.Wyss was in Venezuela to report on upcoming municipal elections and the chronic shortages of such staples as milk, toilet paper and automobile parts amid an economic crisis. Economists have blamed the situation on government mismanagement and currency controls set by the late President Hugo Chavez. The government blames the shortages on hoarding and Amqb At 40,000, this is the oldest cave painting of an animal ever found
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A woman s bid to avoid paying a train fare near stanley quencher ly cost her the life of her daughter.A girl is miraculously alive in Argentina after her mother lowered her onto the tracks just as a train was coming into the station, according to surveillance video. Scroll down to watch the video Video released Friday by the commuter rail operator shows the woman guiding the child underneath the platform, apparently trying to hide from ticket collectors. The woman appears set to join the child hiding under the platform when suddenly she sees the train approaching.The woman scrambles back up onto the platform, but her daughter remains below, the video shows. As the train comes to a stop, the woman bends over and peers into the gap between the train and platform, apparently checking for the girl. Other commuters who witnessed the scene cluster around. We quickly cut the electri stanley fr cal current to avoid any accident, said manager Guillermo D Abenigno of Buenos Aires Trains, or TBA for its initials in Spanish. You couldn t hear anything. We feared the worst - that the girl was dead, torn to pieces under the train, he added.TBA workers ultimately were able to c stanley mugs rawl underneath the platform where they found the girl terrified but unharmed, safely ensconced inside a tiny nook. It was a mishap with a little luck, D Abenigno said.The incident took place Tuesday but came to light Friday with the release of the video.Authorities have not given any identifying det

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Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images A photo taken on January 25, 2018 from the city of Legazpi, Albay province, south of Manila, shows a fiery fountain of lava during an eruption of the Mayon volcano. Tens of thousands of residents have evacuated, as heavy rains have stirred fears of mudslides carrying debris spewed by Mayon. Mount Mayon REUTERS The Mayon volcano spews a column of ash during a mild eruption on January 16, 2018. Evacuees REUTERS Soldiers and residents are seen on a military truck departing to evacuation centers after Mayon volcano erupted anew, in Pada yeezy foam ng town, Albay province, Philippines January 16, 2018. Evacuees REUTERS Residents board a truck as they prepare to evacuate after the Mayon volcano spewed ashes, in Ligao city, Albay province, Philippines January 17, 2018. Eruption airmaxplus REU yeezy TERS Students pass through a rice paddy as they flee cascading volcanic materials from the slopes of Mayon Volcano, in Guinobatan, Albay province, south of Metro Manila, Philippines, January 22, 2018. Pydm U.N. to discuss Syria s secret nuclear program
Police fired at a mob trying to set fire to Muslim buildings early Monday, killing two people in the latest Hindu-Muslim violence in the western Gujarat state, where 544 people have died in six days. Six other people reportedly were killed overnight in other towns, but no details were available. Schools remained closed and curfews were imposed in many towns. Some Muslims were too frightened to leave their homes for food or to return to those they fled, even in Ahmadabad, where soldiers enforced a tense peace in the state s largest city with 3.5 million people. Most stanley cup of the bloodshed occurred there. Traffic jams reappeared on Ahmadabad s shady streets Monday as gutted trucks and debris from burned-out shops were pushed aside. Hindus and stanley cup Muslims gathered separately on street corners to survey the damage, and many shops were open. In Danta town in northern Gujarat, police shot at about 100 people trying to torch Muslim homes early Monday, killing two rioters, a police officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity. He said four people were killed in Halad and two in Vijaynagar overnight, but no further details were available. The death toll in India s worst religious rioting in stanley cup a decade includes 84 people killed by police, he said. In Surat city, known for its diamond trade, police fired at mobs in the Limbayat neighborhood Monday, but there were no reports of casualties. Violence has gripped Gujarat since last Wednesday, when Muslims set fire to a train

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The Trump administration is backtracking on its thre air max 2 at to order the Palestinians office in Washington to close.Last week, U.S. officials said the Palestine Liberation Organization mission had to close because the Palestinians had violated a provision in U.S. law. The provision says the office can t stay open if the Palestinians try to get the International Criminal Court to prosecute salomon xt Israelis.But the State Department now says the office can stay open, with restrictions. The United States has told the Palestinians to limit the office s activities to to those related to achieving a lasting, comprehensive peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. The restrictions can be lifted after 90 days if the U.S. and the Palestinians engage in serious peace talks. The State Department says it s optimistic that will happen.Palestinian leaders had blasted the decision to close the D.C. office. The Palestinian foreign minister denounced the U.S. move as an attempt at extortion, and on Palestinians said they would suspend all communication with the Trump administration if th air force one at happens. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson determined that the Palestinians ran afoul of an obscure provision in a U.S. law that says the Palestine Liberation Organization s PLO mission must close if the Palestinians try to get the International Criminal Court to prosecute Israelis for crimes against Palestinians. A State Department official said that in September, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas cross Xhec 10 Years Later, Elian Gonzalez Feels No Anger
Maybe it was the time the taxi dumped him at the Iraq-Kuwait border, leaving him alone in the middle of the desert. Or when he drew a crowd at a Baghdad food stand after using an Arabic phrase book to ask for a menu. Or the moment a Kuwaiti cab driver almost punched him in the face when he balked at the $100 fare.But at some point, Farris Hassan, a 16-year-old from Florida, realized that traveling to Iraq by himself was not the safest thing he could have done with his Christmas vacation.And he didn t even tel stanley cup l his parents.Hassan s dangerous adventure wound down Wednesday with the 101st Airborne delivering the Florida teen to the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, which has promised to see him back to the United States this weekend.It began with a high school class on immersion journalism and one idealistic mdash; perhaps overly earnest mdash; student who s lucky to be alive after going way beyond what any teacher would ask. As a high-school student at Pine Crest School, a prep academy of about 700 students in Fort Laude stanley cup quencher rdale, Florida, Hassan read The New Journalism, an introduction to immersion journalism featuring the work of journalists like John McPhee, a writer who lives the life of his subject in order to better understand it.Diving headfirst into an assignment, Hassan, whose parents were born in Iraq but have lived in the United States for about 35 years, hung out a stanley uk t a local mosque. The teen, who says he has no religious affiliation, spent an entire night until 6 a.m

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Scottish authorities say a female health care worker who just returned from Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola and is being treated in a Glasgow hospital.Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called it the first case of Ebola ever diagnosed inside the United Kingdom.The patient flew to Glasgow via Casablanca and London s Heathrow Airport, arriving late Sunday, the Scottish government said. The health care worker was admitted to a hospital on Monday mor air max 96 ning.Sturgeon said the patient, who is not being identified, had traveled on an internal British Airways flight from London to Glasgow on Sunday night and that passengers on that flight will be contacted.But she said the patient was not yet showing symptoms at the time. People with Ebola are not believed to be contagious until the air force one y start exhibiting symptoms, which include a high fever, diarrhea and vomiting.The patient had been screened for symptoms before leaving at Sierra Leone and again at London Heathrow Airport, Sturgeon said. She called the risk to the public extremely low. We have been preparing for this and have robust procedures in place, she said, adding that the patient would soon be transferred to an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London.The case bore some similarities to that of Dallas nurse Amber Vinson, who took a flight from Cleveland to Dallas the day before she was admitted to the hospital with symptoms of Ebola af1 in October. Vinson recovered, and no one aboard the flight got si Urku American woman apparently strangled in the Dominican Republic
AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia The luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia leans on its side after running aground in the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012. The luxury cruise ship ran aground off the coast of Tuscany, sending water pouring in through a 160-foot gash in the hull and forcing the evacuation of some 4,200 people from the listing vessel early Saturday, the Italian coast guard said. At least th stanley tumbler ree people are dead. AP Photo/Giorgio Fanciulli, Giglionews.it The luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia leans after it ran aground off kubki stanley the coast of Isola del Giglio island, Italy, gashing open the hull and forcing some 4,200 people aboard to evacuate aboard lifeboats to the nearby Isola del Giglio island, early Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012. STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images A photograph taken on January 14, 2012 of the Costa Concordia after the cruise ship with more than 4,000 peo stanley mug ple on board ran aground and keeled over off the Isola del Giglio, an Italian island, last night. Three people died and several were missing Saturday. The ship was on a cruise in the Mediterranean, leaving from Savona with planned stops in Civitavecchia, Palermo, Cagliari, Palma, Barcelona and Marseille, the company

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Moscow shy;mdash; A Russian court has overturned a guilty verdict that saw a transgender woman sentenced to three years in prison last year for sharing several erotic Japanese manga-style drawings featuring nude cartoon characters on social media. The conviction was denounced by human rights advocates who feared for her safety if she was sent to a men s prison. An undated personal photo shows Michelle, a transgender Russian woman who has been jailed on child pornography charges. Family photo The 53-year-old woman, known among friends as Michelle, has been undergoing hormone therapy for a couple years but is still legally male, so would have been sent to a men s prison had the sentence not been thrown out. She was freed Wednesday from a local detention facility for men after an upper court ruled in favor of her appeal, her legal advisor said in comments posted online.Michelle was convicte hoka wanderschuh d last November in her hometown, the provincial city of Bryansk, about 200 miles southwest of Moscow, on child pornography charges for sharing the adidas originals mujer cartoons on her personal VK page, a popular Russian equivalent of Facebook. The investigators said the images Michelle posted were used to meet persons of non-traditional sexual orientation. The verdict has been canceled as unfair, the case was sent for a retrial, lawyer Maksim Olenichev, who was part of the def nike air force ense team, said Wednesday. Swcc New report details Trump effort to seize thousands of acres of private land for border wall
Disagreements between Somali pirates holding a ship laden with tanks and heavy weapons escalated into a shootout and three pirates are believed dead, a U.S. defense official said Tuesday. The pirates denied the report.The U.S. destroyer USS Howard and several other American ships have surrounded the Ukrainian cargo ship Faina, which was hijacked Thurs stanley canada day and is now anchored off the lawless coast of Somalia. The pirates have demanded a ransom of $20 million and the U.S. Navy cordon aims to prevent them from taking any of the weapons ashore.The official in Washington who reported the shootout spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record. He refused to elaborate and said he had no way of confirming the deaths.But the pirate spokesman insisted the report was not true, that his colleagues were just celebrating the Muslim feast of Eid al-Fitr de stanley cup spite being surrounded by American warships and helicopters. We didn t dispute over a single thing, stanley water jug let alone have a shootout, pirate spokesman Sugule Ali told The Associated Press by satellite telephone Tuesday. We are happy on the ship and we are celebrating Eid, Ali said. Nothing has changed. The Islamic feast marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan.Earlier Tuesday, Andrew Mwangura of the East African Seafarers Assistance Program cited an unconfirmed report saying three Somali pirates were killed Monday night in a dispute over whether to surrender. Mwangura said, however, he had not s

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Global cocaine production has soared to record hi nike sb dunk ghs after declining during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report from the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime UNODC . B nike dunk high etween 2020 and 2021, cocaine production jumped 35%, the sharpest yearly increase since 2016, the report says.The report came shortly after a submarine with two dead bodies and nearly three tons of cocaine on board was seized in the Pacific Ocean.The incre adidas campus ase is due to a combination of expansion in coca bush cultivation and improved techniques in making cocaine, the UNODC report said. Suspected cocaine was seized by Canadian authorities at the Blue Water Bridge, which links Port Huron, Michigan, and Sarnia, Canada, December 14, 2022. Canada Border Services Agency Demand for cocaine across the world has grown over the past decade, and while the main markets remain in the Americas and Europe, there is a strong potential for expansion in Asia and Africa, according to UNODC. The surge in the global cocaine supply should put all of us on high alert, UNODC Executive Director Ghada Waly said in a statement. The potential for the cocaine market to expand in Africa and Asia is a dangerous reality. I urge governments and others to closely examine the report s findings to determine how this transnational threat can be met with transnational responses based on awareness raising, prevention, and int Xvgr China forces clash with terrorist gang in Xinjiang region, home to ethnic Uighurs; 21 dead
An Israeli general who played a major role in the Lebanon war has resigned, while human rights groups in Lebanon are collecting evidence that could be used in war crimes trials against Israel.Meanwhile, a controversial prisoner swap could be in the works between Israel and Hezbollah.Maj. Gen. Udi Adam, who was pushed aside by the army chief during the Lebanon war, was the head of northern command, and responsible for the war against Hezbollah. CBS News correspondent Robert Berger audio reports Adam was seen as too cautious and hesitant. Adam is the first senior official to resign amid a growing public perception that stanley flask the army and government mishandled the war. Israelis want to know why the strongest army in the middle East failed to score a decisive victory against Hezbollah.The possible war crimes would be filed under a legal principle known as uni stanley romania versal jurisdiction, which says that war crimes are so serious they can be prosecuted anywhere mdash; not just where they were committed. Israeli aircraft and artillery killed more than 850 Lebanese during the 34-day conflict, m stanley flask ost of them civilians, and left a moonscape of ruin. Hezbollah pummeled northern Israel with thousands of rockets that killed 39 civilians among the total Israeli war dead of 159.In other developments:Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz, responding to Lebanese guerrillas prisoner exchange demands, acknowledged on Wednesday that a Lebanese militant held in a deadly 1979 raid was at the center of t

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Two bodies believed to be the teens wanted for killing three people on remote Canadian roads last month have been found, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police RCMP announced Wednesday afternoon. Police have been on a manhunt searching for Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky over the past two weeks.Royal Canadian Mounted Police Assistant Commissioner Kevin Hackett said in a press conference ther adidas campus 00 e is significant evidence linkingMcLeod and Schmegelskyto the three murders. A North Carolina woman, Chynna Deese, and her Australian boyfriend, Lucas Fowler, were found near their van on the side of the road more than a week ago. Police identified the third victim as University of British Columbia professor Leonard Dyck, 64, of Vancouver. His body was found 300 miles away from where the traveling couple was disc af1 overed, also on a remote Canadian road.Hackett said he was confident that if there were any more offense that were linked, they would have foun air force 1 d it by now. The motive is still unclear. I m confident there is no further risk to the public, Hackett added. Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky Royal Canadian Mounted Police RCMP /Reuters At this time, we are confident that these are the bodies of the two suspects wanted in connection with the homicides in British Columbia, a RCMPnews releasesaid. Autopsies will be conducted in Winnipeg to determine the cause of death.RCMP Tiej U.S. Prepares Allies for Embarrassing Wikileaks
An Iranian nuclear scientist claimed Thursday he suffered extreme mental and physical torture at the hands of U.S. interrogators after disappearing last year, adding to Tehran stanley cup quencher s allegations he was abducted by American agents.The U.S. says he was a willing defector who changed his mind and decided to board a plane home from Washington.Shahram Amiri was embraced by his family - including his tearful 7-year-old son - after arriving in Tehran in the latest spectacle of a puzzling series of events that left Iran and Washington with starkly different accounts.Iran has portrayed the return of Amiri as a blow to American intelligence serv stanley cup ices that were desperate for information on Iran s nuclear program. Iran has sought maximum propaganda value - allowing journalists to cover Amiri s return and having a top envoy from Iran s Foreign Ministry on hand to greet him.Washington described the 32-year-old Amiri as someone who reached out to U.S. officials, but have offered few other details. Speaking to journalists after a flight via Qatar, Amiri repeated his earlier claims that he was snatched while on a pilgrimage last year in the Saudi holy city of Medina and carried off to the United States.He claimed he was under intense pressures during the first few months after his alleged kidnapping. I was under the harshest mental and physical torture, he said at Tehran s international a stanley cup irport, with his young son sitting on his lap.He also alleged that Israeli agents were present during th