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LONDON -- Leaders from around the world have been congratulating Presiden adidas campus t-elect Donald Trump, as they try to figure out what his victory means for Americarsquo role in the world, and their own relations with Washington. Gen. Hayden on President-elect Trump s foreign policy 04:40 When Trump promised that voting day would be like Brexit plus plus plus, he wasnrsquo;t just predicting a surprise victory, but a chance to shake up the establishment. And CBS News correspondent Charlie Drsquo;Agata says the shockwaves are already being felt around the globe.From Tokyo to London, the stunned world awoke to the results of a U.S. election more closely watched than any in modern history adidas samba . Irsquo;m a bit lost for words, one Londoner said on his way to work Wednesd nike dunk high ay. Irsquo;ve been up since 4:30 actually, watching the election results. Itrsquo not so much of a surprise after what happened with Brexit here, you know.Russians revel in Trumprsquo victory, but Americarsquo allies are anxious Putin: We hope to cooperate with President-elect Trump 02:48 Though Americarsquo next Csaa Princess Diana s black sheep sweater sells for $1.143 million at auction
George Mitchell, the Obama administration s Middle East envoy, hoped on Sunday his new round of talks in Damascus with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad mdash; their second in a month mdash; would breathe new life into the faltering peace process, Washington s ultimate goal in the Middle East. AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi I have just completed a very candid and positive conservation with President al-Assad, Mitchell said in a statement from Damascus. I discussed with him the prospects for moving forward stanley bottles on our goal of comprehensive peace in the region and improved bilateral relations between Syria and the United States. I told President al-Assad that President Obama is determined to facilitate a truly comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace. That peace means between Palestinians and Israelis, between Syria and Israel, and between Lebanon and Israel. And of course, ultimately, the full normalization of relations between Israel and all of the countries in the region. This is what the Arab Peace Initiative calls for, and it is the ultimate aim of the effort we are undertaking, the U.S. official added.The Obama administration had a series of meetings with Syria, and hopes the diplomatic outreach will encourage Damascus to play a positive role in both the Middle East peace process and also in I stanley tumblers raq.Mitchell s visit to Syria follows two separate trips in the stanley canada past few months by senior U.S. officials Jeffrey Feltman, acting assistant secretary of state, and Daniel Shapiro, a Middle East

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Kyiv, Ukrainemdash; Russia fired 31 ballistic and cruise missiles at Kyiv before dawn Thursday in the first attack on the Ukrainian capital in six weeks, officials said. Air defenses shot down all the incoming missiles, though 13 people including a child were injured by falling wreckage, they said. Residents of Kyiv were woken up by loud explosions around 5 a.m. as the missiles arrived at roughly the same time from dif salomon xt 6 ferent directions, said Serhii Popko, head of the Kyiv City Administration. Ukraine s air force s hoka schuhe aid Russia launched two ballistic missiles and 29 cruis hoka laufschuhe e missiles against the capital. Kyiv has better air defenses than most regions of the large country. The missile interception rate is frequently high, rendering Russian attacks on the capital significantly less successful than during the early days of the war. Even so, Ukrainian officials warn that they need considerably more Western weapons if they are to prevail against Russia s invasion. Ukraine vows to keep fighting Russia amid stalled U.S. aid effort 03:37 Russian President Vladimir Putin had threatened Wednesday to respond in kind to Ukrainian aerial attacks in recent days on Russia s Belgorod region near the border with Ukraine. At an event in the Kremlin, Putin said Russia can respond in the same way regarding civil Heeo Pope Francis opens up about personal life, health in new memoir
Nothing in the demeanor of Slobodan Milosevic s main challenger reflects the daunting task he has completed: the defeat of one of the world s last autocratic leaders.Yet President-elect Vojislav Kostunica has done what seemed impossible in the run-up to Sunday s general stanley mug elections: rekindled hope for the future now that Milosevic has stepped down.Kostunica s campaign convoy zigzagged Yugoslavia s main republic Serbia, trekking more than 3,000 miles and electrifying crowds at every stop.When 150,000 people flooded Belgrade s Main Square, gone were the former law professor s monotones. Instead, his clear vo stanley trinkflaschen ice ignited many to chant with passion: Kostunica, save us from this madhouse! May God help us to have enough courage and enough wisdom to win freedom, he replied.An unlikely presidential candidate in the turbulent Balkans, where charismatic leaders are idolized, the down-to-earth Kostunica s attraction is hard to define. He is low-key and unassuming. His honesty is probably what warmed the hearts of average citizens outraged by endemic corruption and the regime s record of bloodshed and wars. The no-frills Kostunica, 56, pursued an academic career until he was kicked out of Belgrade Law School in 1974 for his anti-communist stance.Active in Serbia s fledgling opposition movement in early 1990s, Kostunica founded his own Democratic Party of Serbia in 1992 and has led it since. He lives wit stanley mug h wife Zorica, a fellow law school graduate, in a middle-class Belgrade apartm

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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Pentagon said Saturday it would offer condolence payments to survivors and families of those killed in an airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan. The Oct. 3 strike in the northe yeezy rn city of Kunduz killed at least 22 people. The Department of Defense believes it is important to address the consequences of the tragic incident at the Doctors Without Borders hospital, af1 Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said in a statement. Obama apologizes for Afghan hospital bombing 02:17 Funds for repairing the hospital with also be provided. The compensation will be handled t crocs badelatschen hrough the already existing Commanders Emergency Response Program in Afghanistan, and if necessary additional authority will be sought from Congress, Cook said.On Wednesday, President Obama called the Afghan president to personally apologize and express his condolences for what the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan called a mistake. Meanwhile, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has appointed a team of investigators to look into the circumstances leading to the Taliban s brief capture of Kunduz as well as the hospital airstrike, his office said Saturday. The five-man delegation appointed by presidential decree will leave soon for Kunduz to conduct a province-wide probe into how the insurgen Eepi North Korean heir s uncle plays key role
TIJUANA, Mexico 151; Two purported drug dealers were arrested Thursday on suspicion of decapitating a man who owed them money and hanging his severed head from a bridge in the border city of Tijuana.Baja California state prosecutor Fermin Gomez said the suspects, Joel Barriga and Alfredo Avila, were captured with seven assault rifles and acknowledged killing the victim.Ramses Mendoza, 30, was reported missing last week. His bullet-ridden head was found dangling from a bridge Monday, fastened with nylon rope and a metal ring.Also Thursday, two men were found shot to death in the trunk of a car parked outside the General Hospital in Tijuana. Their hands and feet were bound and their bodies bore signs of torture, according to a state police report.Gunmen later attacked three men driving past a shopping mall, killing one and wounding t stanley cup usa he other two. Cartel-style violence largely abated in Tijuana after the January 2010 capture of Teodoro El Teo Garcia Simen stanley cup usa tal, one of two reputed crime bosses allegedly caught up in a bloody turf war in the city across from San Diego.But Tijuana has seen a series of beheadings, bridge hangings and shootings since President Felipe Calderon visited in October and touted the city as a success story in his four-year-old stanley cup drug war.Still, violence remains below levels in 2008, when the turf war reached its peak, and Tijuana is calmer than Mexican cities along the northeastern border.In the northeastern city of Monterrey, gunmen sprayed a prison

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DOHUK, Iraq -- A spokesman for the governor of Iraq s Anbar province said Monday that about 500 people -- both civilians and Iraqi soldiers -- are estimated to have been killed over the past few days as the city of Ramadi fell to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS .The estimate yeezy slide s follow a shocking defeat as ISIS seized control of the Anbar provincial capital on Sunday, sending Iraqi forces fleeing in a major loss despite the support of U.S.-led airstrikes targeting the extremists.While Iraqi officials admit ISIS claim to hold the city is legitimate, a Pentagon official said Sunday that ISIS merely has the ad adidas campus damen vantage in the capital of Anbar Province. What the news did make clear, is that after nine months of U.S.- led airstrikes in Iraq, ISIS is still capable of seizing new territory.Bodies, some burned, littered the streets as local officials reported the militants carried out mass killings of Iraqi security forces and civilians. Online video showed Humvees, trucks and other equipment speeding out of Ramadi, with soldiers gripping onto their sides. Fighti samba og ng ISIS 34 photos We do not have an accurate count yet, said the spokesman, Muhannad Haimour. We estimate that 500 people have been killed, both civilians and military, and approximately Dzfe Flowers galore in Chelsea, London
Rebels rolled into the capital Monday and were greeted by thousands of jubilant residents, then met in a hotel with members of the political coalition that had opposed former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.Attending the meeting was rebel leader Guy Philippe and Evans Paul, a former mayor of Port-au-Prince and a top opposition figure. Louis-Jodel Chamblain, a former military de stanley cup ath squad leader who also leads the rebels, was seen smoking a cigarette outside.Reporters wer stanley cup e barred from attending, but Paul mdash; as he left the parley at one point mdash; had positive words to say about Philippe. He has played an important role, Paul said. Aristide left Haiti for Africa on Sunday as the rebels closed in on the capital.Before Aristide s ouster, the rebels and political opposition had denied any links. After a rebel convoy arrived in the capital from the western town of Gonaives, thousands danced in the streets and cheered Aristide s ouster. But not everyone was joyful as the rebels drove past. Some watched indifferently, their arms folded. At one point, the convoy stopped and rebels jumped out, aiming their weapons from side to side, then moved on.Scores of U.S. Marines and French forces, meanwhile, prepared to fan out from Port-au-Prince s stanley cup airport and protect key sites mdash; the vanguard of a multinational force approved by the U.N. Security Council.Fewer than 100 Marines that arrived Sunday night took up defensive positions around the capital s airport to prepare for

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BEIJING -- At the end of December, a popular television series chronicling China s most famous empress suddenly went on a four-day hiatus. When it returned on New Year s Day, the low-cut necklines and squeezed bosoms had vanished.Instead, the screen was filled with close-up shots showing only the heads of the female characters in the period piece, which depicts the seventh-century Tang Dynasty, an era when a woman s beauty was defined partly by plumpness. The Big Bang Theory censored by Chinese government air force one 03:40 No one has claimed responsibility for the awkward cropping, but it is widely believed to be the work of the country s prudish censors. Last May, CBS News correspondent Seth Doane reported that American sitcom The Big Bang Theory was censored by the Chinese government.The changes have drawn a wave of mockery from the public f adidas samba og ed up with ham-handed censorship. Chinese have lit up social media with complaints and jokes, with some posting cropped photos of celebrities and drawings that add in the missing cleavages to show the absurdity of the cuts. It was not a public issue, but has become one after shameless officials wielded their powerful administrative p dunk panda owers, Ren Zhiqiang, a businessman who has been outspoken on social issues, wrote on his microblog. What people are concerned about is Nkej Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to resign due to deteriorating health
SEOUL, South Korea South Korea and the United States began annual military drills Monday despite North Korean threats to respond by voiding the armistice that ended the Korean War and launching a nuclear attack on the U.S.After the start of the drills, South Korean officials said their northern counterparts didn t answer two calls on a hotline between the sides, apparently following through on an earlier vow to cut the communication channel because of the drills.Japanese media we stanley kubek re cit stanley thermobecher ing a story in the Monday edition of North Korea s ruling party newspaper as saying the armistice is no longer in effect. Anti-war demonstrators turned out near the U.S. Embas stanley quencher sy in the South Korean capital of Seoul to protest the start of the drills.Pyongyang had launched a bombast-filled propaganda campaign against the drills, which involve 10,000 South Korean and about 3,000 American troops, and against last week s U.N. vote to impose new sanctions over the North s Feb. 12 nuclear test. Analysts believe much of that campaign is meant to shore up loyalty among citizens and the military for North Korea s young leader, Kim Jong Un. Pyongyang isn t believed to be able to build a warhead small enough to mount on a long-range missile, and the North s military has repeatedly vowed in the past to scrap the 1953 armistice. North Korea wants a formal peace treaty, security guarantees and other concessions, as well as the removal of 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea.U.N. approves new san

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BEIJING -- The United States is facing mounting tensions with China as the communist nation announces plans to expand its military footprint outside i nike dunk ts borders.CBS News correspondent Seth Doane says Beijing has laid out the most detailed plans for its military dunk pand in two years. Those plans include a greater role in the South China Sea, which the White House says is cri yeezy tical to American national security.China is preparing for a maritime military struggle, and is expanding the strength and scope of its navy, says Doane.Why China is pushing its neighbors buttonsChina policy a difficult balancing act for U.S.China s rise rattles neighbors, rivals alikeA document published by the State Council, the equivalent of a Chinese government cabinet, illustrates the strategy which refocuses the Chinese air force from defense to both defense and offense. The document laying out China s new defense posture comes as tensions rise in the South China Sea, where satellite images have revealed Beijing is reclaiming reefs to create islands in territory also claimed by Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Vietnam.The U.S. government says the tiny islands will host Chinese airstrips and military installations. What you have is a China that is growing in power, says senior CBS News national security analyst Juan Zarate. It s willing to flex its muscles and certainly doesn t want to be dictated to by the U.S. or other powers in the region. It is going to grow in power military, po Rfxv Olympics shine light on repression of athletes in Belarus
An overloaded motorboat carrying about 150 passengers on a lake in Ghana has sunk and 110 people are missing and feared dead, police said Monday.Only 40 people are known to have survived the accident Saturday afternoon on Ghana s Lake Volt stanley thermobecher a, and hopes are dimming that more will be found, said Akwasi Anyidoho, a police official in the region. Search efforts are continuing, he said.The motorboat was carrying passengers across the vast lake to the mainland, where they were moving their homes after the island was designated a natural reserve.The boat struck something submerged in the water and sank, Anyidoho said by telephone from the region. He said cups stanley the boat had exceeded its legal passenger capacity.In Africa, a vast continent with poor road and rail systems, river or ocean routes are used to transport goods to market, and many Africans rely on often rickety vessels. Few captains keep proper passenger manifests and the exact death tolls from many accidents are never known. Some 1,863 died when the MS Joola capsized off the coast of Senegal on Sept. 26, 2002, a more deadly accident than the Titanic. Only about 60 people survived. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 { display: none; } inline-recirc-item--id-981fe212-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item- stanley uk -id-981fe212-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d { display: none; } inline-recirc-item--id-981fe212-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 { display:

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WARSAW, Poland -- Two men appeared on Polish TV Friday saying they are the finders of a Nazi train said to be laden with gold - a claim that came as the Polish military inspected the alleged site in southwestern Poland. dunk panda Search for Nazi gold keeps treasure hunters stoked in Poland 02:35 Identifying themselves as Andreas Richter and Piotr Koper, the men appeared on TVP.INFO. Contacted by The Associated Press by phone, Richter confirmed he had found the train.Authorities in the southwestern city of Walbrzych said last month that two men had contacted them through lawyers claiming they had found an armored train that possibly contains valuables and weapons. The report sparked a gold rush around Walbrzych, where tales have circulated since World War II that the Nazis hid a train full of gold from the Soviet Arm adidas samba y in early 1945. As the finders of a World War II armored tra chanclas yeezy in, we, Andreas Richter and Piotr Koper, declare that we have legally informed state authorities about the find and have precisely indicated the location in the presence of Walbrzych authorities and the police, Koper said, reading a statement on TV with Richter sitting at his side. We have irrefutable proof of its existence. Their knowledge is based on information from witnesses and on their own research, carried out with their own equ Vudq Israeli PM Netanyahu facing quiet rebellion in tight election
Election authorities began delivering ballots with U.N. assistance across Afghanistan on Thursday, as hurried preparations for the Nov. 7 runoff in the insurgency-plagued nation s presidential election got under way.International election monitors called on authorities to avert the widespread fraud that marred the first round of voting in August. Scores of election staff accused of misconduct have been axed, and new personnel need to be hired.President Hamid Karzai will face former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah in the runoff. Abdullah announced Wednesday that he was ready to take part, one day after Karzai bowed to intense U.S. pressure and acknowledged he fell short of the 50 percent threshold needed for victory in the Aug. 20 election. U.N.-backed auditors threw out nearly a third of Karzai s votes because of fraud.CBSNews Special Report: AfghanistanIn Washington, U.S. stanley cup officials said a power-sharing arrang water bottle stanley ement between Karzai and Abdullah to avoid a runoff was still possible, although it would be up to the Afghans. Organizing the ballot in a little stanley cups more than two weeks poses a huge challenge. The preparations come amid a growing Taliban insurgency and ahead of mountainous Afghanistan s winter snows, which begin in much of the country around the middle of November.U.N. planes were providing logistic support to the country s Independent Election Commission, or IEC, flying ballots and voting kits and to provincial capitals, from where they will be delivered by elect

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Kabulmdash; Afghanistan is starving. The country is in the grips of what the United Nations says is the world s worst humanitarian crisis. An estimated 90% of its households don t have enough food to eat, and as CBS News correspondent Imtiaz Tyab reports, the country s youngest are among those suffering the most.Malnourished infants from across Afghanistan are brought to Kabul s Indira Ghandi children s hospital for specialized treatment. One mother there told Tyab that her 4-month-old son Murtaza weighed just six-and-a-half pounds. We are so worried, she said. Life inside Afghanistan after 1 year of Taliban rule 02:32 Hunger has plagued Afghanistan for decades, but since the Taliban s takeover one year ago, things have gone from bad to catastrophic. With the extremist group running the country, the Biden administration has frozen billions of dollars in Afghan national bank assets. In adidas samba og ternational donors, who d funded almost 80% of the country s economy, have pulled their financial support.Those moves were all aimed at d nike af epriving the terror group of cash, and foreign governments and organizations continue to withhold the money, pointing to the Taliban s dramatic crackdown on basic freedoms and its brutality. yeezy Cack India bus crash kills almost 40 as passengers plunged 600 feet down gorge in country s mountainous north
The police oversight group investigating the shooting death of a Brazilian man mistaken for a bomber last month accused London police Thursday of resisting an independent investigation i stanley quencher nto his death.The sharp comments came after lawyers for Jean Charles de Menezes family met the watchdog group, demanding answers amid allegations of a police cover-up mdash; a charge that Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair denied Thursday.John Wadham, chairman of the Independent Police Complaints Commission, said the Metropolitan stanley cup Police initially resisted us taking on the investigation but we overcame that. Menezes, 27, was shot seven times in the head on July 22 by police who had tailed him to the station the day after four bombs were carried stanley cup onto London s transit system but failed to detonate fully. The attacks came two weeks after four suicide bombers killed 52 commuters on the London Underground and a bus.Pressure on police has been growing after news reports, citing leaked documents and closed-circuit TV footage, called into question initial reports about what happened. Lawyers for the Brazilian man s family also accused authorities of trying to intervene and delay the investigation into how Menezes had become a victim of the shoot-to-kill policy. This has been a chaotic mess, said lawyer Gareth Peirce, one of the attorneys representing the Menezes family. One of the things we asked the police commission to investigate is: Are there lies that have been told Who told them Pe

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RIO DE JANEIRO Two American journalists known for their investigations of the United States government said Saturday they ve teamed up to report on the National Security Agency s role in what they described as a U.S. assassination program.Glenn Greenwald, the Rio-based journalist who has written stories about U.S. surveillance programs based on document adidas samba s leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, is now working with Jeremy Scahill, a contributor to The Nation magazine and the New York Times best-selling author of Dirty Wars. Report: NSA maps out a person s social connections The connections between war and surveillance are clear. I don t want to give too much away but Glenn and I are working on a project right now that has at its center h air force one ow the National Security Agency plays a significant, central role on the U.S. assassination program, said Scahill, speaking to moviegoers in Rio de Janeiro, where the documentary based on his book made its Latin American debut at the Rio Film Festival. There are so many stories that are yet to be published that we hope will produce actionable intelligence, or information that ordinary citizens across the world can use to try to fight for change, to try to confron airforces t those in power, said Scahill. Dirty Wars the film, directed by Richard Rowley, traces Scahill s investigations into the Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC. The movie, which won a prize for cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival, follows Scahill as h Yeol NATO airstrike accused of killing Afghan civilians
AP QUETTA, Pakistan - Gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on Shiite Muslims in southwest Pakistan on Monday, killing six in an apparent sectarian attack, police said.Three other Shiites were wounded in the attack on a shoe store in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, said police officer Hamid Shakil. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.Sunni militants with ideological and operational links to al Qaeda and the Taliban have carried out scores of bombings and shootings agai stanley thermosflasche nst minority Shiites in recent years. The past year has been especially bloody in Baluchistan.The Sunni-Shiite schism over the true heir to Islam s Prophet Muhammad dates back to the seventh century.$10M bo stanley flask unty signa stanley mug ls shift in terror landscapePakistan militants vow to stop U.S. supply routeU.S. enemies in Pakistan getting organizedPakistan is a majority Sunni Muslim state, with around 15 percent of the population Shiite. Most Sunnis and Shiites live together peacefully in Pakistan, though tensions have existed for decades. In the 1980s and 1990s, Pakistan became the scene of a proxy war between Shiite-majority Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia, with both sides funneling money to sectarian groups that regularly targeted each other.The level of sectarian violence has declined somewhat since then, but attacks continue. In recent years, Sunni attacks on Shiites have been far more common. ponent--type-recirculation .i

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The dissident Belarusian journalist and opposition activist who was arrested after his airline flight was diverted to Minsk wept Thursday in an interview on state television, saying he was fully cooperating with investigators and declaring that he respects the authoritarian president he opposed for years.The broadcast was the second appearance in two days by 26-year-old Raman Pratasevich, whose arrest on May 23 was denounced in the West. By showing him on TV as cowed and repentant, Belarus could aim to counter that criticism.But the Belarusian opposition said Friday he was coerced into appearing.Pratasevich was a founder of a messaging app channel that was a key information conduit for opponents of President Alexander Lukashenko, whose election to a sixth term last year set off months of protests, many of them attracting 100,000 people or m air force 1 or adidas originals damen e.Pratasevich was arrested after his flight from Athens to Vilnius, Lithuania, was diverted following an alleged bomb threat. Western countries say the move amounted to air piracy by Belarus. In this handout photo released by ONT channel on W airforces ednesday, June 2, 2021, dissident journalist Raman Pratasevich speaks in a video from a detention center in Minsk, Belarus. ONT channel via AP At the end of the 90-minute interview, in which Pratasevich sat on a stark black set, he said, I am cooperating absolutely fully and openly ... and live Kvaj Food Ship Arrives In Umm Qasr
President Bush said Saturday that he has made no decision on bringing more U.S. troops home from Iraq, and that the ultimate decision lies with the top commander in Iraq. My attitude is if h stanley cup e didn t want to continue the drawdown, that s fine with me, Mr. Bush said.Meeting with General David Petraeus at a U.S. military base in Kuwait, President Bush said the withdrawal of surge troops from Iraq is on track. But as CBS News White House correspondent Bill Plante reports, he cautioned that all decisions about returning troop levels to where they were before the surge will be made by his top commander based on conditions on the ground. I made it clear to the general that I need to know his considered judgment about what it takes to keep t stanley becher he security gains we have achieved in place, he said. The only thing I can tell you is we re on track for what we ve said was going to happen, Mr. Bush said, referring to plans to withdraw some 30,000 surge troops from Iraq by July. However, later Mr. Bush said he is open to the possibility of slowing or stopping altogether any plans to bring home more U.S. troops from Iraq, defying demands among a majority of Americans to speed the withdrawals. Mr. Bush said the U.S. presence in Iraq will outlast his presi stanley cup dency.General Petraeus and the American Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, are due to give Congress another progress report in March. The president also defended the Iraqi government, which has made little progress in