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BELIZE CITY, Belize -- Belizean authorities are investigating the suspicious death of an American tourist who was vacationing in the town of Benque Viejo del Carmen on the Belize-Guatemala border.Police say 39-year-old Anne Swaney was a guest at the Nabitunich resort in the Cayo district when she was reported missing Thursday.CBS affiliate WBBM reported Swaney worked as the executive producer of online operations for ABC 7 in Chicago. Police Superintendent Daniel Arzu says that members of a tour group that Swaney should have been part of returned to the resort and couldn t find her. Swaney s belongings were found on a deck by the riverside where she had gone to do yoga exercises.Her body was located Friday morning, though Arzu did not say where. Injuries to her head and bruises around the neck have authorities treating the death as a homicide. Police found Swaney s half-naked body face-down in the river, adidas campus 00s Arzu told WBBM. She had bruises on her neck, and lacerations on both sides of her head, indicating she might have been strangled. That led us to believe that she was murdered, he said. We also suspect that she might have been sexually violated. WBBM spoke with colleagues at the ABC station, where Swaney was being remembered as a newsroom leader with a passion for getting it right. Anne was one of those folks, she made everybody around her better. She made everybod yeezy slide y around her air max 98 smile. She was a fierce advocate for getting things right, and a fierce advocate f Bdnl The Gap sorry for T-shirts with China map that omits Taiwan
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JOHANNESBURG -- A South African prison that once held Nelson Mandela is being evacuated after two prisoners died from a disease carried by rats, authorities said on Wednesday.More than 4,000 prisoners will be moved from Cape Town s Pollsmoor Prison due to a af1 rat infestation, provincial spokesman Simphiwe Xako said.The inmates, both men and women, will be relocated to other prisons around the Western Cape province in the next few weeks, Xako said. The prison will be fumigated once it is empty.Two prisoners died from leptospirosis, a disease spread by rodents, Xako said. No other prisoners have shown symptoms of the disease, he said. Pollsmoor is a very old facility, said Xako. adidas campus 00 There have always been rats. Nelson Mandela s unlikely friendship in prison 02:59 adidas campus damen South Africa s late former President Mandela was held at the Pollsmoor Prison from 1982 to 1988. The prison was built to hold 4,000 inmates, but is overcrowded by more than 250 percent, said Xako. After an inspection, South Africa s National Institute for Communicable Diseases said in a statement that overcrowding, inadequate waste management and blocked drains contributed to the infestation.Leptospirosis is spread when humans come into contact with infected rodent urine, the institute said. The disease has non-specific symptoms, such as Adit Typhoon leaves 2 dead, thousands displaced in Philippines
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Hillary Clinton is responding to fallout from her explosive comments on the Ukraine crisis. The former secretary of state says she didn t mean to compare Russia s government to the Nazis, but insists President Vladimir Putin is making a huge mistake in Ukraine. Clinton has a unique perspective on Putin in that she dealt with him and his administration for four years as secretary of state, CBS News Nancy Cordes reported. The comments were originally made at a private fundraiser, but once they became public, she moved quickly to clarify her rema adidas samba uomo rks.In a speech at UCLA, Clin adidas samba ton commented publicly for the first time on the growing crisis in Ukraine. She said, Putin is squandering the potential of such a great nation, the nation of Russia. She also tried to clarify comments she made on Tuesday at a closed-door fundraiser where she likened Putin s actions to an early Adolph Hitler. She said at the time, Now if this sounds familiar, it s what Hitler did back in the 30s. Hitler kept saying, They re not being treated right. I must go and protect my people -- and that s what s gotten everybody so nervous. After a tape of her remarks surfaced, Clinton said she had only been trying to provide historical context. I m not making a comparison certainly, but I am recommending that we perhaps can learn from this tactic that has been used before, she said. And, she joked ab adidas originals uomo out Putin s personality. I know we are dealing with a tough guy with a thin skin, she said. I ve Fuwn Baghdad Tense After Bombing
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Moscowmdash; Russia s parliament ploughed ahead on Wednesday to ratify a bill extending the New START nuclear arms control treaty with the United States after the first phone call between President Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin announced on Tuesday that Russia and the U.S. had struck a deal to extend the treaty salomon zapatillas mdash; th nike dunk e last arms control pact between the world s two biggest nuclear powers mdash; which is set to expire on February 5. Then-Vice President Joe Biden, left, shakes hands with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia in a March 10, 2011, file photo. Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP But Russia s eager declaration that an agreement had been reached on our terms appeared to get slight adidas originals hamburg ly out ahead of the Biden administration s assessment of circumstances. The White House did not immediately react to the vote in the Russian parliament. A readout of the Biden-Putin phone call provided by the White House on Tuesday, however, said only that the presidents had discussed both countries willingness to extend New START for five years, agreeing to have their teams work urgently to complete the extension by February 5. There was nothing after that statement from the White House to confirm that any agreement had been reached, suggesting the Biden administration could have at least been expecting a few more days of negotiation with Moscow before Txmt Revolutionaries, coffee, and the fall of Qaddafi
Updated 3:36 PM ET CBS/AP UNITED NATIONS - Egypt s new President Mohammed Morsi, making his debut on the global stage at the United Nations, said Wednesday that he will not rest until the civil war in Syria is brought to an end.He called the fighting there, which opposition groups say has killed at least 30,000 people, the tragedy of the age and one that we all must end. And he invited all nations to join an effort to stop the bloodshed that began about 18 months ago when opposition figures rose up against President Bashar Assad s regime.President Morsi on the U.S. and Egypt: We are not enemies Morsi, an Islamist and key figure in the once-ban stanley tumbler ned Muslim Brotherhood, opened his remarks to the U.N. General Assembly by celebrating himself as Egypt s first democratically elected leader who was swept into office after what he called a great, peaceful revolution. Watch a CBS This Morning interview with Mohammed Morsi:He said the first issue for the world body should be certifying the rights of the Palestinian people. The fruits of dignity and freedom must not r stanley cup emain far from the Pal stanley becher estinian people, he said, adding that it was shameful that U.N. resolutions are not enforced. He decried Israel s continued building of settlements on territory that the Palestinians claim for a future state in the West Bank.On another subject, Morsi condemned as an obscenity the video produced in the United States that denigrated Islam s Prophet Muhammad. He insisted that freedom of

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke to his Russian counterpart, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Friday for the first time since Russia initiated its invasion of Ukraine.According to a readout from the Pentagon, during the conversation with Shoigu, Austin urged an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and emphasized the importance of maintaining lines of communication. The call is the first time the two officials have spoken since Feb. 18, before Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24.A readout from the Russian Ministry of Defense said the call was initiated by the U.S, and the two leaders discussed topical international security issues, including the situation in Ukraine. A U.S. senior defense said the call lasted about an hour and confirmed that Austin had requested the call. Since mid-February, the Pentagon has consistently been reaching out for calls with Russian counterparts, but the Russians had previously shown no inter adidas yeezyslide est. It s unclear now why Shoigu agreed to Friday s call. The official characterized the tone of the call as yeezy foam professional, and said that while having the call and keeping open lines of communication is important, the call itself did not resolve any specific issues adidas originals or alter Russia s offensive in Ukraine.The call took place as the Pentagon assessed that the Russians are two weeks behind their own schedule of where they expected to be positioned in the south and east of Ukraine by now.For the past two weeks, the Pentagon has described the Ru Irkk Gov. Of Baghdad Assassinated
Central Command said Wednesday it was investigating allegations that U.S. aerial assaults may have killed civilians in Baghdad and Hillah mdash; two incidents on a slowly growing list of reports of civilian casualties.In the Baghdad incident, the Red Crescent society reported that a maternity hospital was struck.There were conflicting reports of what allegedly caused civilian deaths in Hillah. Iraqi officials said 33 people were killed in a helicopter attack, but some reporters alleged that cluster bombs had killed several civilians. The Pentagon acknowled stanley becher ged that it had dropped six cluster bombs on ce stanley mugs ntral Iraq on Tuesday. The International Red Cross said one of its teams saw 280 wounded civilians stanley cups in a Hillah hospital. It appears that this was the result of heavy fighting and bombardment in the course of the previous 48 hours in and near the town of Hindiya near Hillah, a statement said.The allegations could test the assertion, which the Pentagon has made daily and initial evidence from the field appears to support, that the bombing campaign is targeted solely at government targets and strives to avoid civilian casualties. Central Command says all the munitions used in the campaign so far have been laser- or satellite-guided. We are very deliberate hellip; about our targeting, about our weapon selection to achieve a desired effect, Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, a Central Command spokesperson, said. The strikes have been precision strikes throughout. Central Comman

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Stephen Hawking warned in his final book that the greatest threat facing the world was climate change, according to Vox. The scientist, who died in March at 76, wrote that humanity was behaving with reckless indifference to our future on planet Earth, the online news outlet reported Tuesday.In his book Brief Answers To The Big Questions, Hawking wrote that it was almost inevitable that either a nuclear confrontation or environmental catastrophe will cripple the Earth at some point in the next 1,000 years. Should humanity find a way to avoid the consequences of such an event, the demise of Earth s species will be on our conscience as a race, Hawking wrote.On Monday, Hawking spoke from beyond the grave to warn the world that science and education are under threat around the world. His words were broadcast at a London launch event for his book.Hawking warned that education and science are in dan asics ger now more than ever before. He cited President Trump s election and Britai air max n s 2016 vote to leave the European Union as part of a global revolt against experts and that includes scientists. British theoretical physicist professor Stephen Hawking gives a lecture during the Starmus Festival on the Spanish Canar nike dunk high y Island of Tenerife on Sept. 23, 2014. Desiree Martin/AFP/Getty Images Acknowledging that science had yet to overcome major challenges for the world mdash; includ Jvcr Volcano Ash Cloud Still Menacing U.K. Airways
If you don t kill the criminals, they will all come back, a Haitian police officer shouts over a loudspeaker in the country s most notorious slum, imploring citizens to take justice into their own hands.The call for vigilantes comes as influential gang leaders who escaped from a heavily damaged prison during stanley thermoskannen the country s killer earthquake are taking advantage of a void left by police and peacekeepers focused on disaster relief.Special Report: Devastation in HaitiIn the sprawling Cite Solei stanley mug l slum, gangsters are settling into the haunts they dominated before being locked up and resuming struggles for control that never really ended once they were inside the walls of the city s notorious main penitentiary. The trouble is starting, said Jean-Semaine Delice, a 51-year-old father from Cite Soleil. People are starting to leave their homes to go stanley cup website to others. As police urged residents to fight criminals themselves, Delice said, I think it s a message we should listen to. There is the potential for violence in any disaster zone where food and medical aid are unable to keep up with fast-growing hunger and mass casualties. But the danger is multiplied in Haiti, where self-designated rebels and freedom fighters 151; or simply neighborhood toughs 151; have consistently threatened the country s fragile stability with a few weapons, some spare money for handouts and the ire of disaffected throngs. Even as we are digging bodies out of buildings, they are trying to attack our o

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UNITED NATIONS -- The United States and Russia have circulated rival U.N. resolutions on extending the work of experts seeki adidas yeezy ng to determine who is responsible for chemical weapons attacks in Syria.Russiavetoed a U.S.-sponsored Security Councilresolution on Oct. 24 that would have renewed the mandate of the experts from the U.N. and the international chemical weapons watchdog for a year.Two days after Russia s veto, the Joint Investigative Mechanism JIM released a report blamingSyria s government for a sarin nerve gas attack last April on the town of Khan Sheikhoun that killed more than 90 people and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS extremist group for a mustard gas attack at Um Hosh in Aleppo in September 2016.The inspectors of the JIM, who were unable to visit Khan Shaykun, based their findings on sufficient credible and reliable evidence of Syrian aircraft that dropped munitions, the crater that was caused by the impact of the aerial bombing, interviews with victims, and their finding that sarin identified in the samples taken from Khan Shaykhun was most likely been made with a precursor DF from the original stockpile of the Syrian Arab Republic, CBS News Pamela Falk reports.Unless a new agreement is struck to extend the mandate of the inspectors before mid-November, Falk reports, Russia s October veto will adidas campus donna prevent inspectors from adidas samba doing their job and investigating chemical weapons attacks in Syria, but it is likely that, with duelling resolutions, there will Werx Deadly accident kills dozens in scene of devastation
Three soldiers were killed in separate fighting around Baghdad and four U.S. Marines died as a result of enemy action in western Anbar province, the military said in two statements Tuesday.The four members of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force were killed Monday while conducting security and stabilization operations, it said. It gave no other details.Anbar province s most-populous city is Fallujah, which hundreds of Marines have surrounded, ready to launch a crackdown on insurgents after a mob killed four Americans and mutilated their bodies last week. The province stretches from Baghdad to the Jordani stanley mug an and Syrian borders.The three slain soldiers, members of the 1st Armored Division, were all killed in northern Baghdad s Khazimiya district.One was killed Monday when a U.S. convoy was attacked with small-arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire. A second soldier died later the same day when his vehicle was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade during a firefight. The third died after his Bradley vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade Tuesday. U.S. forces have battled followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in clashes around Baghdad in the past two days.Al-Sadr, who radical Shiite cleric sought by U.S. forces said Tuesday h stanley cup e has left the fortress-like mosque where he has been holed up for days, surrounded by armed supporters. Muqtada al-Sadr, in a statement released by his office, did not say where he had gone.The United States declared al-Sadr an o

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TORONTO Rob Ford said Tuesday he loves his job and will stay on as mayor of Toronto despite admitting for the first time that he smoked crack.Ford earlier acknowledged he smoked crack probably a year ago when he was in a drunken stupor, but balked at growing pressure on him to resign. I was elected to do a job and that s exactly what I m going to continue doing, Ford said. On Oct. 27 of 2014, I want the people of this great city to decide whether they want Rob Ford to be their mayor. The allegations that the mayor of Canada s largest city had been caught on video smoking crack surfaced in news reports in May. Ford initially insisted the video d air force one idn t exist, sidestepped questions about whether he had ever smoked crack and rebuffed growing calls on him to step down.The mayor was forced to backtrack after police said last week they had obtained a copy of the video in the course of a drug in adidas samba donna vestigation against a friend of Ford s. Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine, Ford told reporters earlier outside his office. There have been times when I ve been in a drunken stupor. That s why I want to see the tape. I want everyone in the city to see this tape. I don t even recall there being a tape or video. I want to see the state that I was in. Police have said the video adidas originals ultraboost , which has not been released publicly, does not constitute enough evidence to charge the mayor with a crime.Police spokesman Mark Pugush said Ford s acknowledgement of crack use will be passed on t Uydu Israel Bombing Rattles Nerves
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