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A massive explosion rocked Beirut on Tuesday, flattening much of the city s port, damaging buildings across the capital and sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky. More than 70 people were killed and 3,000 injured, with bodies buried in the salomon xt rubble, officials said. Hours later, ambulances were carrying away the wounded as army helicopters helped battle fires raging at the port. A soldier at the port, who asked not to be named, told AFP: It s a catastrophe inside. There are corpses on the ground. Ambulances are still lifting the dead. It was not clear what caused the blast, which struck with the force of a 3.5 magnitude earthquake, according to Germany s geosciences center GFZ, and was heard and felt as far away as Cyprus more than 180 miles across the Mediterranean. Lebanon s interior minister said it appeared that a large cache of ammonium nitrate in the port had detonated. Aftermath of Beirut s deadly blast 26 photos air force 1 The sudden devastation overwhelmed a country already struggling with both the coronavirus pandemic and an economic crisis: Beirut hospitals quickly filled bey adidas originals damen ond capacity, pleading for blood supplies and generators to keep their lights on.Interior Minister Mohammed Fahmi told a local TV station that it appeared the blast was c Jqpz Europe floods leave 8 dead, 9 missing as water levels hit highest points in 70 years
U.S. Vice President-ele stanley us ct Joe Biden was told Saturday that thousands of new American troops expected in southern Afghanistan will need more helicopters and other support to beat back surging Taliban violence, an official said.Biden and South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham met with U.S. Gen. David McKiernan, head of the NATO-led force in Afghanistan, said Col. Greg Julian, a U.S. military spokesman. Later, the visiting senators will meet with President Hamid Karzai. Gen. McKiernan explained the current situation and talked about the incoming troops and the need for additio stanley thermos mug nal enablers ... things like helicopters, engineers, military police, transportation assets, Julian said. As we expand in the south we will need those additional enablers to cover for the troops, he said.The U.S. is rushing up to 30,000 American troops over to Afghanistan, some of whom will go to its volatile southern provinces, to combat a Taliban insurgency that has sent violence to record level stanley cup s. In 2008, 151 American troops died in the country, more than in any other year since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion to oust the Taliban.President-elect Barack Obama campaigned on a platform of ending the war in Iraq and refocusing American s military efforts on the Afghanistan region.Obama has called Afghanistan an urgent crisis, saying it s time to heed the call from U.S. commanders for significantly more U.S. troops. Biden s visit is a clear signal that Obama s new administration plans to make the

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Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty Images The conceptual artist Christo has made it possible for regular folks to walk on water with his latest project, The Floating Piers, on picturesque Lake Iseo in northern Italy.The project, his 23rd, creates a nearly 2-mile undulating runway connecting the mainland with a pair of islands, one inhabited and towering above the lake. And people have been flocking to it in droves since it opened June 18, 2016. So much so that officials were forced to limit access by closi adidas samba adidas ng the installation down from midnight to 6am to protect it, though it was originally meant to stay open 24 hours a day. Since the opening at least 270,000 peopl adidas campus e have visited.In this photo, people walk on the monumental installation on Iseo Lake on June 18, 2016. Some 200,000 floating cubes create a 3-kilometer runway connecting the village of Sulzano to the small island of Mont adidas samba e Isola on the lake, 60 miles from Milan, for a 16-day outdoor installation. The Floating Piers Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty Images People walk on the monumental installation entitled The Floating Piers created by artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff.Christo is best known for Wrapped Reichstag in Berlin in 1995, which attracted five million people, and The Gates in New York City s Central Park in 2005, which drew two million visitors. The Gbor Iran couple reportedly sentenced to decade in prison after posting dance video on Instagram
AP Photo/Roberto Guzman A resident watches the sea surge along a beach covered by debris after the passing of Hurricane Irene in Nagua, on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. Hurricane Irene was still lashing the northern coasts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, where crews have begun cleaning up debris and the government warned of flooding. It was stanley termohrnek forecast to pass over or near the Turks and Caicos Islands and the southeastern Bahamas by Tuesday night and be near the central Bahamas early Wednesday. AP Photo/Martin Meissne A dog named Mo sits on the front seat of a car with his owner as they leave a supermarket parking in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. His owner put pilot s goggles on Mo to protect him from the wind. Germany faces a very hot and humid late summer day with temperatures up to 35 degrees Celsius 95 degrees Fahrenheit . stanley cup AP Photo/Saurabh Das stanley trinkflaschen India s anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare drinks water in front of a giant portrait of Mahatma Gandhi on the eighth day of his hunger strike in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. The government called Tuesday for India s political parties to reach consensus on drafting anti-corr

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DAMASCUS, Syria - Air strikes and shelling pounded Aleppo for a third straight day on Sunday, killing two young siblings and at least 24 others in the country s largest city and former commercial capital in the latest sad chapter in Syria s bloody civil war.The northern city has been bitterly contested between insurgents and government forces since 2012. Opposition groups control the eastern part of the city but have come under intense strain as the government has choked off all routes to the area except a narrow and perilous passage to the northwest.At leas adidas samba adidas t 10 people were killed by rebel shelling on government-held areas in the city, according to activists and Syria s state news agency, SANA. Rockets struck schools and residential areas, SANA reported. The Britain-based Sy adidas originals mujer rian Observatory for Human Rights said two young siblings were among the dead.Air strikes on the opposition side of the city killed 16, including a mother and her daughter, the Observatory said.A video posted on social media by the Syrian Civil Defense first responder group, known as the White Helmets and which operates in opposition-held areas, suggests some of the strikes hit a market in the yeezy 350 neighborhood of Sakhour, with footage showing overturned vegetable carts strewed among the wreckage. The opposition High Negotiations Committee, which suspended its formal participation in peace talks with the government in Geneva last week, called the strikes an attack on the Geneva process that is the only Hqwi Turkey warns Syria: The oppressed will win
Thailand s prime minister has declared a state of emergency at the country s two biggest airports to allow police to clear them of protesters.Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat said in a televised address Thursday that the siege of the airports by anti-government demonstrators is very harmful to the country. The protest group seized Suvarnabhumi Airport on Tuesday in its efforts to oust Somchai. It took the smaller airport at Don Muang on stanley water bottle Wednesday. Flights in and out of Bangkok have ceased and thousands of passengers are stuck in the capital.Somchai said navy personnel would help police in clearing Suvarnabhumi international airport. The air force will assist at Don Muang. He did not say when the authorities would act.An emergency decree gives the military the right to restore order, allows the suspension of civil liberties, bans public gatherings of more than five people and bars the media from reporting news that causes panic. Thousands of anti-government protesters are occupying the terminals of both airports, forcing the cancellation of all flights in and out of the capital. There was speculation in the Thai media that Wongsawat might remove the powerful army chief, Anupong Paochinda, who called Wednesday for the diss stanley cups olution of Parliament and new elections to resolve the deepening political crisis.Protesters, who are demanding the resignation of the prime minister, have occupied Bangkok s international airport since T stanley cup uesday night, forcing the cancellation of all f

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An Australian surfer known to his friends as Jaws says he had a one in a million enco dunks unter while out on the water this week. Jason Breen was filming himself wing-foiling in Sydney s Mona Vale Beach when a whale suddenly jumped out of the ocean mdash; and slammed right into him. It just started to come up out of the water and I knew it was a whale, Breen told 9News Today in Australia. Video he captured on his GoPro of the encounter shows Breen wing-foiling mdash; a sport similar to windsurfing that involves standing on a board and holding onto a wind-powered wing mdash; when all of a sudden, a whale jumps out of the water, right into Breen s body. I m in trouble, Breen thought as he saw the whale coming, he told 9News.The video adidas samba og shows Breen immediately getting knocked off his board and getting dragged underwater. He eventually got back on the board, and managed to film himself saying: I just got hit nike af by a whale. When it came down on top of me it got caught in my leg rope. So as it dived down, I was getting dragged down, the 55-year-old said, telling the news outlet that the whale took him down about 30 feet. Luckily, I felt the leash break and from there I got released from under the whale s body and was able to come to surface, and thank my lucky stars that something that s not supposed to break broke and ringed the webbing out. A man wind foiling in Australia got body slammed by a whale earlier this week and survived relatively unscathed after bein Zmng Strike on Syria may unleash more turmoil, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns
Updated at 2:06 p.m. Eastern FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Emergency workers forced to retreat from a tsunami-stricke stanley becher n Japanese nuclear power plant when radiation levels soared prepared to return Wednesday night after emissions dropped to safer levels. Complete coverage: Disaster in JapanWeather hampers U.S. relief flights over JapanExpert: Japan botching nuke crisis managementThe pullback cost precious time in the fight to prevent a nuclear meltdown, further escalating a crisis spawned by last week s devastating earthquake and tsunami that pulverized Japan s northeastern coast and likely killed more than 10,000 people. Japan hikes nuke workers legal radiation doseStocks fall on weak economic reports, J stanley cup apan crisisAmerican thought found in Japan still missingOfficials for Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant and also known as Tepco, said at a late night press conference Wednesday that four out of the five vehicles pumping seawater into the plant s reactors are operational. One pump vehicle each has been assigned to reactors No. 1 and No. 3. Reactor No. 2 has two pump vehicles. As of midnight Thursday, a new pump vehicle was being prepared to start working on reactor No. 4. Meanwhile, the U.N. s nuclear watchdog confirmed core damage in reactors Nos. 1, 2 stanley website and 3 in a news conference Wednesday. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano called the situation in Japan very serious but said the plant s reactor vessels seem

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Just 10 miles away from the center of Iraq s second largest city, Mosul, which was overrun by jihadist militants last week, is Bartella, a Christian town living in fear.On the road nike af to Mosul, CBS News Holly Williams stopped at the last checkpoint before territory now controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS . The militants have vowed to impose strict Islamic law in Mosul, and they ve allegedly massacred doze adidas campus shoes ns of non-Sunni Muslims in their advance. Who s running ISIS 01:42 Just outside the militants control, and desperately vulnerable to attack an attack by ISIS, sits Bartella. Williams says Christians have inhabited the town for almost 2,000 years. The locals still pray in Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus.The Iraqi government soldiers who were supposed to be protecting this area ran away from the Islamic extremists. Now, Bartella is defended by about 600 lightly armed Christian militiamen.Captain Firaz Jacob is in charge, and he told CBS News everyone in the town is frightened. When asked what they will do if the militants attack Bartella, Jacob responded with trepidation. I don t know, but maybe they ll do what they ve done in other places and kill us. adidas originals hombre ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 Jgzx H.R. McMaster defends Trump, calls conversation with Russians wholly appropriate
Hijackers forced a plane carrying about 70 Eritreans from Libya to land in the Sudanese capital on stanley website Friday before surrendering to security forces, according to a U.N. refugee agency official.The plane left southern Libya bo stanley kubek und for Eritrea when unidentified hijackers forced the passenger plane to land in Sudan, said Michael Lindenbauer, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees deputy representative in Khartoum. We know the hijacking is over because they surrendered to au stanley mugs thorities, Lindenbauer told The Associated Press in Egypt during a telephone interview.The plane landed at a Khartoum airport at about 2 p.m. and the hijacking ended soon after, said Lindenbauer before interviewing the Eritreans to determine their situations, particularly if they were deportees.Tarek Abu Saleh, a Sudanese Foreign Ministry official who was at the airport at the time, said 20 Eritreans aboard a Libyan aircraft allegedly threatened the crew and forced it to land at Khartoum. He said one crew member was slightly injured. He said the 20 suspected hijackers were now in Sudanese custody and the plane has departed. He had no other details.Abu Saleh was at the airport to escort U.S. political activist Jesse Jackson on a fact-finding mission to Darfur, the region in Western Sudan where Arab militants, possibly supported by the government, have killed an estimated 30,000 African farmers. Western governments have been pressing Sudan to rein in the militias, called janjaweed.The conflict bet

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A man died after an unauthorized helicopter flight in Queensland, Australia ended in a crash on a hotel roof early Monday morning, af1 prompting the evacuation of hundreds of people from the building as flames engulfed the aircraft.Authorities in the city of Cairns said that they had not confirmed the identity of the pilot, his reason fo yeezy slide r making the flight or how the tourist helicopter was able to take off from Cairns Airport. This frame grab taken from video footage provided by Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC via AFPTV shows a piece of the helicopter lying on a roadside after a helicopter crashed into the roof of a Hilton hotel in Cairns on August 12, 2024, killing the pilot and igniting a blaze on the building s roof. -/Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC /AFP via Getty Images crocs absatz A couple staying at the hotel was hospitalized suffering from smoke inhalation and have now been discharged, Queensland Police Service Acting Chief Superintendent Shane Holmes told reporters. No one else on the ground was hurt.Holmes said it was not known if the man flying the helicopter held a pilot s license or if he worked for the company that owned the craft, Nautilus Aviation. There is no further threat to the community, and we believe this is an isolated incident, Holmes said. Nautilus Aviation said in an unattributed written statement that the flight was unauthorized Yend U.S. Drops E-Bomb On Iraqi TV
Pakistan s coup leader outlined the policies of his military regime today, promising to decentralize power, announcing the formation of an accountability bureau and guaranteeing freedom of the pr stanley water bottle ess.He wants to rejuvenate the country s ailing economy and alluded to alleged cups stanley corruption in the ousted government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Never before so few have plundered so many, Gen. Pervaiz Musharraf told reporters in his first news conference since he ousted the elected government on October 12. He said he had formed a National Accountability Bureau, which has already started scrutinizing records. The accountability process will be across the board and will start from the top ... Special speedy courts will decide the cases, he said. Let me assure you he Sharif will get a fair trial. Musharraf, who overthrew Sharif in a bloodless coup, has accused him of relentless corruption, destroying institutions and undermining the constitution. A number of opposition parties have been pressing for quick action against Sharif and his close aides, who are under the army s detention. They complain the military regime is moving too slowly. But Musharraf asked his critics to be patient. Just bear with us and we will do the job, he said. Most Pakistanis, frustr stanley quencher ated by years of political instability, rampant corruption and a surge in political and religious violence, have welcomed the removal of Sharif s government. Despite tremendous intern

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A day before Wednesdayrsquo Syria peace conference in Switzerland, a new report by former war crimes prosecutors contains photographic evidence that seems to show a mass killing by the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. According to the report, some of the victims were beaten, some were strangled, and others were starved. One of the report s authors described it as killing on an industrial scale. One of the report s authors described it as killing on an industrial scale. The pictures come from a defector who worked for Syria s military police as a photographer. He told i nike air max nvestigators his job was to photograph the bodies of dead prisoners after they were taken to a military hospital. Thousands of his images were examined by an international legal and forensic team who found his account believable, and concluded there is clear evidencehellip; of systematic torture and killing of detained persons by the agents of the Syrian Government. They estimate the photographs document the tort nike dunk donna ure and execution of 11,000 people over a two and a half year period during the Syrian conflict. Sir Desmond De Silva and the report s other authors are experie salomon zapatillas nced former war crimes prosecutors. CBS News cannot independently verify the images. The report was funded by the Qatari Government, which supports the Syrian opposition.But the authors are experienced former war crimes prosecutors, including Sir Desmond Gsgc 3 U.S. Army special operations commandos killed in central Africa
After a poor result in a first round of parliamentary stanley thermos elections, France s Socialists sought to limit the damage Monday, chasing alliances in the face of a likely crushing victory by President Nicolas Sarkozy s conservatives in the final round.For the first time in nearly three decades, French voters look set to return to power the current legislative majority, a resounding endorsement of Sarkozy s push to reform Europe s third-largest economy.In Sunday s first round, his UMP party won 39.6 percent of the vote, while the opposition Socialists had 24.7 percent. The results give the conservatives a strong advantage heading into the deci stanley cups sive runoff next Sunday, putting them on track to expand their absolute majority in the 577-seat parliament.Socialist Segolene Royal, who lost the presidency to Sarkozy last month, said Monday she would seek an alliance with centrist Francois Bayrou for the second round in a last-ditch attempt to avoid a crushing UMP majorit stanley quencher y.Control of the National Assembly is central to Sarkozy s agenda for pulling France out of its doldrums and making it more globally competitive by stripping some labor protections and cutting taxes. Bayrou, who came in a strong third place in the presidential race, was not able to repeat his success in Sunday s legislative race. Squeezed relentlessly by Sarkozy s camp, his fledgling MoDem party won 7.6 percent. Still, it is well-placed to influence the outcome of the runoff in several key districts. It is necessary in

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A violent gang in Haiti has released three more hostages, while another 12 remain abducted, a religious group based in Ohio announced Monday. The statement from Christian Aid Ministries said the people were released on Sunday in Haiti and are safe and seem to be in good spirits. The group provided no further details.On November 21, the religious organization announced that the 400 Mawozo gang had released the first two hostages of a group of 17 kidnapped in mid-October. There are 12 adults and five children in the group of 16 U.S. citizens and one Canadian, i hoka winterschuhe ncluding an 8-month-old.The leader of the 400 Mawozo gang has threatened to kill the hostages unless his demands are met. Authorities have said the gang was seeking $1 million per person, although it wasn t immediately clear that included the children in the group. We are thankful to God that three more ho adidas samba stages were released last night, said the statement from Christian Aid Ministries, an Anabaptist missions organization based in Berlin, Ohio. As with the previous release, we are not able to provide the names of the people released, the circumstances of the release, or any other details. The group reiterated its request for supporters to devote Monday through Wednesday as days of prayer and fasting to intercede for those who are still being held as well as those who have been released. In this Thursday, Oct. 21, 2 mizuno handballschuh 021, a man and woman hold children as they walk on the grounds of the Christian Aid Mini Humz Eyewitnesses describe deadly attack at Tunisia resort
Yasser Arafat s body arrived in Egypt on Thursday as authorities prepared for a strictly controlled and brief military funeral where dignitaries from around the world will pay their respects.But the people mdash; among whom Arafat was popular mdash; will be mostly shut out of Friday s funeral.A plane carrying Arafat stanley termoska s body arrived at Cairo airport late Thursday after a flight from France.The 25-minute ceremony at a military club in a northern stanley mug Cairo suburb, near the airport, scheduled for late Friday morning, reflects concern for security at an event that will draw dozens of statesmen and foreign ministers.The burial will also be Friday in Ramallah on the West Bank. Analysts say Egypt also sought to avoid an outpouring of public emotion that might either get out of control or show that the late Palestinian leader enjoyed more support than other Arab leaders.Arafat, who forced his people s plight into the world spotlight but failed to achieve his lifel stanley cup ong quest for Palestinian statehood, died early Thursday after more than a week in a French hospital and several days in a coma.Hundreds of Palestinians threw rocks at Israeli cars and burned tires Thursday as demonstrators in the West Bank vented their outrage over the death of Yasser Arafat, the army said.Israeli troops used rubber-coated metal bullets and fired tear gas to break up the rally of about 400 people at Beit Umar, a village near the West Bank city of Hebron, the army said. In Bethlehem, dozens of

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Oksana Chusovitina, a gymnast from Uzbekistan, competed in her eighth Olympic Games this week. The record-setting 46-year-old received a standing ovation after competing in what she said would be her last Olympics.The Olympian has attended the games since the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, representing the Commonwealth of Independent states after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. That team, also know as the Unif af1 ied Team, comprised representatives from former Soviet republics. View this post on Instagram A post shared by USA Gymnastics @usagym Both the men s and women s Unified teams earned team all-around gold medalsin gymnastics at the Barcelona games.Chusovitina later represented Uzbekistan and Germany at subsequent Summer Olympics.She became a German citizen in 2006 and won a silver medal for the country at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. She had moved to Germany in 2002, when her son Alisher was diagnosed with leukemia and received treatment there, according to the Olympicswebsite. hoka wanderschuh In 2013, she began competing for Uzbekistan again. Her husband, Bakhodir Kurbanov, is also an Olympian, representing Uzbekistan in Greco-Roman wrestling in 1996 and 2000.During the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Chusovitina became first gymnast to appear at seven Olympic Games, according to the Olympicswebsite. Uzbekistan s Oksana Chus crocs absatz ovitina reacts after competing in the artistic gymnastics vault event of the women s qualification duri Lgmx Ado Campeol, the Italian man known as the father of tiramisu, has died
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UNITED NATIONS -- North Korea s leadership has cracked down further on human rights as tensions have escalated over its nuclear missile tests, including beefing up restrictions on movements and making horrific prison conditions more severe, the U.N. rights chief said Monday. Zeid Ra ad al-Hussein told the Security Council that the international security crisis sparked by North Korea yeezy slide n leader Kim Jong Un s military actions is inseparable from concerns about the human rights situation of the ordinary people in the country. A chronic lack of food, partly due to resources which are diverted to the military, has made humanitarian aid provided by the U.N. and others literally a lifeline for some 13 million acutely vulnerable individuals, he said. Zeid urged the Security Council to assess the human rights impact of sanctions mdash; including controls over international banking transfers mdash; that have slowed aid deliveries and to minimize the humanitarian consequences. This was the fourth year the Security Council has discussed human rights in the Democratic People s Republic of Korea, or DPRK, the country s official name. As in previous years, the meeting only went ahead air force 1 aft adidas campus 80s er a procedural vote in the 15-member council where at least nine nations are required to support having the session. On Monday, the human rights meeting was approved by 10 council members and opposed by Russia and China, with Egypt and Ethiopia abstaining. China s deputy U.N. Ambassador Wu Haitao, whos Exhq U.S. races to close intel gaps in Iraq as it hunts for militants
LONDON A British couple s round-the-world cycling odyssey ended in tragedy when both of them were killed in a road accident in Thailand.Peter Root and Mary Thompson, who had been chronicling their journey in a blog, died Wednesday when they were hit by a pickup truck in a province east of Bangkok, Thai po stanley cup lice said Monday.The couple, both 34 and from Guernsey in the Channel Islands, left Britain in July 2011 and had cycled through Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and China. The trip was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for the couple, who met in art school and spent six years saving money and planning their journey, Peter s father Jerry Root told the Associated Press in an stanley cup interview. They were both inspirational, Jerry Root said. They didn t just talk about it, they did it. I couldn t be prouder of them. He said they were both experienced cyclists who knew the rigors and risks of extended bicycle travel. They were camping wild, as they called it, he said. What helps me is to think of how happy they were with each other. They were leading the life they wanted to. It was the happiest, the most fruitful of lives. The couple had been posting photos and details of their trip on the website Two on Four Wheels. At 17.00 on the 12th July 2011 we took a ferry from Guernsey to France with loads of stuff, two bikes and the intention to cycle east around the World, the website reads.They also had many followers on Twitter and Facebook who stanley kubek were tracing their jo