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SANAA, Yemen --Hundreds of cars lined the main roads of Yemen s capital after the rebels who control the city ordered fuel stations to close Wednesday, accusing merchants of taking advantage of a Saudi blockade to hike prices.A Saudi-led military coalition tightened its blockade in Yemen this week after a ballistic missile fired by Houthi rebels was intercepted near the Saudi capital. Aid groups say the measures will exacerbate an already severe humanitarian crisis in the impoverished, war-torn country.Fuel prices have spiked by 50 percent since Monday. Hassan al-Zaydi, a spokesman for the Houthi-run Oil Ministry, said merchants had refused orders to keep prices fixed, prompting authorities to shut the fuel stations down. Yemen s civil war fuels cholera outbreak 01:26 A U.N. official said aid agencies were given no prior notice of the Saudi decision to shut down all land, air and seaports in the country, and had learned about it from media. It will aggregate the already dire humanitarian situation, said George Khoury, the head of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Yemen. We want to be crysta nike dunk low l clear to adidas originals mujer the internatio af1 nal community. Any disruption will have catastrophic consequence on the lives of hundreds of thousands people and children, he said. Later in the da Rfpj Putin: No revote in fraud-tainted elections
A plume of radiation from Japan s stri stanley cup cken nuclear reactors is expected to reach the U.S. Friday. Computer models show the jet stream carrying those radioactive tars touching the Aleutian Islands before hitting the California coast. Scientists say the plume will lose its radiation concentration and won t be a threat to people in the West, something President Barack Obama reiterated in a White House statement Thursday. On Friday, deputy U.S. Energy Secretary Daniel Poneman echoed those assurances and downplayed concerns about trace amounts of radiation detected on flights arriving at U.S. airports.Complete coverage: Disaster in JapanVideo: Obama says radiation shouldn t reach U.S. Racing against the clock , Japan asks for help We are continuously monitoring the situation. We have monitors in the U.S., [and] we have been sending flights over in Japan to monitor the situation there, Poneman told CBS The Early Show. So rest assured that as any new data comes in, we re going to be analyzing it. Poneman stressed that U.S. is providing extensive and stanley cup ongoing aid to its Japanese ally, stanley cup but that the nuclear crisis is, at heart, a Japanese problem. Smoke rises from Japan s stricken nuke plantAs foreigners flee Tokyo, Japanese lament lack of info This is a situation that developed in Japan. The reactors are in Japan, and it s their responsibility. They are understandably focused on addressing the situation of the reactors, he said. We ve done everything we can from the Dep

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North Koreahas launched its first ballistic missile in 10 weeks, the Pentagon confirmed Tuesday.Pentagon spokesman Col. Robert Manning said that U.S. officials detected the launc adidas campus h at about 1:17 p.m. ET, and that an initial assessment indicates it was an intercontinental ballistic missile ICBM .Manning said the missile was lau adidas sambarose nched from Sain Ni, North Korea, and traveled around 1,000 kilometers, o nike dunks panda r about 620 miles, before landing in the Sea of Japan. He added that the launch did not pose a threat to North America, our territories or our allies. A U.S. intelligence official told CBS News the U.S. was not surprised by the launch, and said there were plenty of recent indications of a possible launch.The South Korean news agency Yonhap first reported the missile launch, citing South Korea s Joint Chiefs of Staff. The report said the unidentified missile flew eastward and the South Korean military was analyzing details with the U.S. The launch marks the country s first since Sept. 15, when it fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile over theJapanese island of Hokkaido. President Trump addressed the missile launch in televised remarks Tuesday. We will take care of it, Mr. Trump said. We have [Secretary of Defense James Mattis] in the room with us to have a discussion on it. It is a situation that we will handle. Mattis said the ballistic missile went higher than any previous shot North Korea has taken, and that in response, South Korea had fired pinpoint missile Tjuw Sarkozy Collapses While Jogging
Britain, Japan and Australia joined the United States on Friday in voicing concern about the rising militarization of space after China successfully carried out a test of an anti-satellite weapon.But Russia expressed skepticism about the Jan. 11 test, in which an old Chinese weather satellite was destroyed by a ballistic missile.In Beijing, meanwhile, a foreign ministry spokesman said Friday he was unaware of such a test. The spokesman, Liu Jianchao, added that China was against the militarization of space.In Washington, deputy stanley deutschland White House press secretary Dana Perino said Chinese officials had not yet responded to the concerns expressed by the United States. We do want cooperation on a civil space strategy, so until we hear back from them or have more information, I don t have any more to add, she said. Analysts said China s weather satellites travel at about the same altitude as U.S. spy satellites, so the test represented an indirect threat to American defense systems.Officials in Japan, Britain and Australia immediately demanded China explain its actions. We must use space peacefully, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters. We are asking the Chinese government about the test. Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso criti stanley cups cized Beijing for failing to give advance notice. He also said debris from the test could scatter in the atmosphere. We told China that we d stanley cup oubt if we could call this a peaceful use, Aso said at a news conference.A spokesman for

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BANGKOK -- It was showtime Thursday for the 12 boys and their 25-year old soccer coach, who shared their drama of being trapped for almost three weeks in a flooded cave in northern Thailand at a public exhibition in one of Bangkok s largest malls. The exhibition featuring members of the Wild Boars soccer team also shows a reproduction of the cave with simulated sounds of water dripping. Equipment used by rescuers and other memorabilia are on display.Psychologists had counseled that the boys after their rescue in July should be given a six-month resp air force one ite from being pressed to recount their experience for the sake of their mental health. But Thailand s military government, eager to share the glory of the good-news story, has trotted them out for public appearances and interviews.Other efforts to promote adidas campus 80s their story have included construction of a museum and the anointing as a national hero of a former Thai navy SEAL who di af1 ed while diving in the cave delivering oxygen tanks. Boy rescued from Thai cave says he s very happy now 02:35 One exception to the feel-good vibe has been an ongoing feud between tech entrepreneur Elon Musk and a British caving expert, Vernon Unsworth, whose advice and experience were considered crucial to the rescue operation.Unsworth in an interview had criticized as showboating Slhi Russians are several days behind their goal in Ukraine, Pentagon assesses
Bomb attacks and a firefight killed four U.S. service members in the past 24 hours in Afghanistan, NATO forces said Monday.Three of the Americans died in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, the military force said in a statement. Two of them were killed in a bomb attack and the third in a separate firefight.The military said the fourth U.S. service member died in the east Monday in a bomb explosion.The deaths bring the number of Americans killed in stanley cup Afghanistan in November to 15. October was the deadliest month for U.S. troops in the eight-year war, with 58 dead. stanley cup CBSNews Special Report: Afghanistan Meanwhile, Afghan officials said three Afghan army soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in southern Helmand province.The Interior Ministry said the bombing occurred on Sunday in Musa Qala district. It did not give further details and it was not clear if there was any connection between the Afghan deaths and the American deaths.In Brussels, NATO said Monday it wants allied nations to commit more forces to Afghanistan ahead of a U.S. decision on whether to send more troops.NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is in stanley cups the midst of intense consultations on getting more troops, equipment, funding and other resources for the newly established NATO Training Mission, spokesman James Appathurai said. NATO currently has about 71,000 troops in Afghanistan, nearly half of them American. The U.S. military also has another 36,000 soldiers in Afghanistan who serve outside NA

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Eight Indonesian fishermen are feared drowned and another 11 have been rescued after spending almost a week without food or water on a barren island off the northwest Australian coast in the wake of a powerful tropical cyclone, authorities said Wednesday.Two primitive wooden Indonesian fishing boats were caught in the path of Cyclone Ilsa, which made landfall Friday as Australia s most powerful storm in eight years, with winds gusting at an apparent record of 180 miles per hour.One of the boats, Putri Jaya, sank in extreme weather conditions early on April 12 while Ilsa was gathering strength over the Indian Ocean and heading toward the coast, Australian Maritime Safety Authority said in a statement, citing survivors. In this photo provided by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, fishermen fr adidas samba adidas om Indonesia stand on a beach on Bedwell Island, 194 miles west of Broome, Australia, on Monday, April 17, 2023. / AP The other boat, Exp adidas yeezy ress 1, ran aground with 10 men aboard around the same time on Bedwell Island, a sandy outcrop some 200 miles west of the Australian coas adidas originals forum tal tourist town of Broome, the authority said. The only known survivor from the Putri Jaya spent 30 hours floating in the water tied to a fuel can for buoyancy before swimming to the same island, officials said.The authority said the 11 survivors had spent for six days on the island without food and water b Qkfz Gunmen in speedboats abduct dozens of women and children from migrants dinghy off Libya, aid group says
TRIPOLI, Libya - Libyan rebels fought Saturday for control of a major supply road to the capital, seizing a border crossing with Tunisia and strengthening their hold on the oil-rich countr stanley quencher y as they hunt for Muammar Qaddafi.Controlling the road from the Tunisian border to Tripoli would help ease growing shortages of fuel and food, particularly in the battle-scarred capital. Mahmoud Shammam, information minister in the rebels transitional council, said the rebels already control most of the road, but that regime fighters are shelling it in the area of the city of Zwara, midway between Tripoli and the Tunisian border. Rebels had captured the border crossing known as Ras Ajdir, the gateway to the road to Tripoli. We hope to be able to control the road today, he told reporters.In Qaddafi s hometown of Sirte, one of the regime s remaining bastions, rebels are trying to negotiate a surrender with the loyalists who still control the town, Shammam said. We don t want more bloodshed, and we had a very stanley cups good response, he said, adding that he hoped the standoff would be resolved very soon.Libya rebe stanley termosy ls push on, bodies pile upTunnels of Qaddafi s underground city revealedComplete coverage: Anger in the Arab World However, Fadl-Allah Haron, a rebel commander from the eastern city of Benghazi, said the talks had failed and opposition forces were positioned to the east of Sirte in Bin Jawwad waiting for NATO to carry out more airstrikes to destroy Scud missile launching sites and

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KHART nike dunk OUM, Sudan -- A Sudanese Christian woman whose death sentence for apostasy was overturned has been freed again after being detained on accusations of forging travel documents.Eman Abdul-Rahman, the lawyer for 27-year-old Mariam Ibrahim, told The Associated Press that she was released on Thursday from a police station after foreign diplomats pressed the government to free her. She was detained Tuesday at Khartoum chanclas yeezy s airport while trying to leave the country with her family.Ibrahim, whose father was Muslim but who was raised by her Christian mother, was convicted of apostasy for marrying a Christian. Sudan s penal code forbids Muslims from converti air force one ng to other religions, a crime punishable by death. A higher tribunal overturned the ruling and ordered her release. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-b0e8e298-d934-4130-a800-96f2a77629e4, right-rail-recirc-item--id-b0e8e298-d934-4130-a800-96f2a77629e4 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-b0e8e298-d934-4130-a800-96f2a77629e4 ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block; Qcql U.S. reports record number of new COVID-19 cases
In a rare video posted Tuesday on the Internet, al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musa stanley cup b al stanley cup -Zarqawi accused the West and the United States of waging a crusader war against Islam but said Muslim holy warriors were standing firm.He also said the recent formation of a new government in Baghdad was an attempt to help the United States get out of what he called the dilemma it now faces in Iraq. When the enemy entered into Iraq, their aim was to control Iraq and the area, al-Zarqawi said in the video. But here we have been fighting them for the last three years. In the past, al-Zarqawi has made statements only through audiotapes posted on the Web, although photos of him obtained by the U.S. government have been widely circulated.The video opens with an appeal to all followers of Islam in various areas of Iraq, followed by a brief prayer and an appeal to the public, CBS News reports. I am addressing you with a talk that contains no deceptions, in the hope that I may gain from you, listening ears and discerning hearts; for the leader never lies to his folk, al-Zarqawi said. Watch images of al-Zarqawi s video appearance and hear a CBS Radio News report.In the v stanley termosy ideo, al-Zarqawi, who wears a beard and mustache, sat dressed in black, with ammunition cases hung from his neck and an automatic rifle propped against the wall to his right.He wore a black scarf wrapped on his head and around his neck, while the black flag of his group, al Qaeda in Iraq, was superimposed on the screen. In

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BERLIN -- A former guard at the Majdanek death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland has been charged in Germany with being an accessory to murder for allegedly serving there during a period when at least 17,000 Jews were killed, Frankfurt prosecutors said Friday.The 96-year-old Frankfurt resident, whose name wasn t released under German privacy regulations, is alleged to have serv air max 1 ed at the death camp near the Polish city of Lublin between August 1943 and January 1944.Far-right German party wants to bring back Nazi-era phraseProtesters block neo-Nazi march to prison where Rudolf Hess diedSign stolen from Nazi death camp Dachau returned to siteProsecutors allege that as a 22-year-old member of the SS s Death s Head division, the man worked as a perimeter guard and in the camp s guard towers. According to the known ev salomon gtx idence, the suspect, as well as all other SS members of the camp, knew of the cruel and organized mass murder, prosecutors said in a statement.In particular, the indictment accuses the man of supporting the so-called Operation Erntefest - Operation Harvest Festival - on November 3, 1943. Accountant of Auschwitz sentenced to prison 02:12 On that day, at least 17,000 Jewish prisoners from the Majdanek camp and othe mizuno rs who were being used as forced laborers in and around Lublin were shot in ditc Fcfj Actor dressed up as Hitler: Germans greeted me warmly
Iranian state television said Tuesday that issue of the Americans who strayed into Iran is being used as propaganda against the Islamic republic.The Arabic language Al-Alam television quoted the deputy governor of Iranian Kurdistan province as saying the three American hikers were being held on the outskirts of Marivan district and an investigation is underway.Reuters news agency reported that, according to Iran s state media, authorities were interrogating the three travelers.A breaking news announcement on the English l stanley deutschland anguage Iranian Press TV also said Tuesday that the Americans had been arrested for illegal entry at the Malakh-Khor on the border.The three Americans were believed to have been hiking along the m stanley website ountainous border area between Iraqi and Iranian Kurdish areas when they inadvertently crossed the frontier and were detained. Little has been learned about the fate of the three, despite efforts by Swiss diplomats to obtain details from the Iranian Foreign Minister.U.S. Secretary of State H stanley termohrnek illary Rodham Clinton also has appealed to Iran for information about freelance journalist Shane Bauer, who had planned to cover the elections in northern Iraq s self-ruled Kurdish region, and two others.Friends and family say Bauer, his girlfriend, Sarah Shourd, and a third companion, Joshua Fattal, were adventuresome travelers who accidentally stumbled into the wrong place at the wrong time.Pacific News Service Executive Director Sandy Close, who hired Bauer to cover t

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Benghazi, Libya -- Forces loyal to the United Nations-backed government in western Libya repelled on Friday a rival leader s attempt to seize the capital, Tripoli, raising fears of renewed civil war in the oil-rich nation. Militiamen commanded by renegade general Khalifa Hifter were pushed back from a key checkpoin mizuno volleyballschuhe t less than 17 miles from Tripoli, the seat of the government backed by most of the Western world.Amid fears of a new full-scale conflict in the divide yeezy slide d North African nation, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres shuttled between the two sides, trying to broker a peace.Libya, a nation dividedSince the 20 adidas originals damen 11 civil war that led to the toppling and murder of longtime Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, Libya has been divided in two, with rival governments in east and west. An array of mostly Islamic extremist groups, along with criminal gangs, have all capitalized on the chaos for almost a decade, carving out small fiefdoms and running weapon and human trafficking rings. Thousands of refugees from the rest of Africa and beyond have made their way to Libya s coast in hopes of making the relatively short boat crossing to Italy, and thousands have died trying. Reports of migrant slave trade in Libya 12:13 Hifter, with his Libyan National Army LNA defenders, is based in the eastern city of Torbr Cwdi Nazi guard Accountant of Auschwitz dies before he can be jailed
Updated at 12:28 a.m. ETNEW YORK - Nearly a million revelers crowded New York s Times Square to witness the traditional dazzling ball drop, fireworks lit up Australia s Sydney Harbor and communist Vietnam held a rare Western-style countdown to the new year as the world usher stanley cup ed in 2011.Happy New Year! U.S. Revelers Greet 2011Special Section: Year in Review 2010New Year s 2011The huge expected gathering in Times Square always presents challenges for security officials and 2010 was no differen stanley kubek t, reports CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller. It was only last May when homegrown terror suspect Faisal Shahzad allegedly tried to blow up an SUV in the heart of Times Square. The problem of homegrown extremism and radicalization is now vaulted to the top of the list in terms of concerns in the homeland, CBS News national security analyst Juan Zarate said.In Europe, Greeks, Irish and Spaniards partied through the night to help put a year of economic woe behind them, and Japanese revelers released balloons carrying notes with people s hopes and dreams.In New York, a crystal ball with 32,000 lights descended at midnight, setting off a wild and noisy confetti-filled New Year s celebration - the country s largest - at the crossroads of the world. And it all happened just days after a debilitating blizzard paralyzed the city and the surrounding area.Rebekah Allen, an administrator at Oxford University in England, flew to New Yo stanley thermobecher rk for the festivities. It s a once in a l

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Tehran, Iranmdash; An Iranian scientist imprisoned in the U.S. and acquitted in a federal trade secrets case is on his way back to Iran after being deported, the country s foreign minister said Tuesday. Sirous Asgari was in the air on a flight back to Iran, Mohammad Javad Zarif said in an Instagram post. Congratulations to his wife and his esteemed family, Zarif wrot adidas campus e.Iran s state-run IRNA news agency later reported the news, citing Zarif. Asgari, a professor at Iran s Sharif University of Technology, was indicted in April 2016, accused by federal prosecutors of trying to steal secret research from Case Western Reserve University. The Cleveland school had been working on a project for the U.S. Navy Office of Naval Research to create and produce anti-corrosive stainless steel. Asgari ultimately was acquitted in November after U.S. District Judge James Gwin tossed out the prosecutors case. adidas samba adidas Ken Cuccinelli, the acting deputy Homeland Security secretary, earlier told The Associated Press that the DHS had started to try to deport Asgari on Dec. 12 following his acquittal. However, he said, Iran refused to recognize him as legitima adidas campus homme tely Iranian and provide him with a valid passport until late February. Once Asgari received the passport, DHS made several attempts to fly him back to Iran, purchasing tickets for flights on March 10, March 18, March 23, April 1 and May 1, according to Cuccinelli. Each of those flights was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, he said. As Qqfo India bridge collapse leads to arrest of 9 people as rescuers recount traumatic Diwali disaster
Updated at 4:02 p.m. ETSANAA, Yemen - Yemen s president on Tuesday called in the U.S. ambassador and told him he would sign a deal to step down, a U.S. official said. The embattled leader, who has made that pledge sever cups stanley al times before, spoke as violence shook his capital.President Ali Abdullah Saleh informed Ambassador Gerald Feierstein of a new cease-fire, but clashes on the stre stanley cups ets threw that into doubt. Activists said seven protesters were killed and 10 wounded.It was the first meeting between Saleh and a U.S. ambassador since Saleh returned from Saudi Arabia last month, said U.S. State Department spokeswoman Diane Nuland. Saleh left Yemen after an attack on his compound in early June left him badly wounded.Special Section: Anger in the Arab WorldU.N. calls for power transfer in Yemen18 dead in renewed clashes in Yemen Nine months of mass protests calling for his resignation have moved his powerful Arab neighbors, with U.S. backing, to propose a plan allowing Saleh to step down in exchange for immunity from prosecution. That reflected a reversal for the U.S., which up to then had backed Saleh as an ally in its fight against al Qaeda in Yemen.Nuland said Saleh confirmed he would sign the Gulf Cooperation Council plan for him to step down 151; a claim he has made several times this year but then backed down at the last minute, infuriating both opponents and former allies.She also said that Saleh confirmed that a cease-fire had been arranged with the opposition stanley tumblers demon

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A senior U.S. official says the Obama administration is aware of frequent contacts between President-elect Donald Trumprsquo top national security adviser and Russiarsquo ambassador to the United States, and Trump transition spokesman Sean Spicer revealed samba og what was talked about on some of the calls. Trump s national security team taking shape 03:38 The administration official said the contacts happened on adidas samba og the dayPresident Obama expelled dozens of Russian officials from the U.S. and imposed sanctions as punishment for election-related hacking, Dec. 29.Who is Michael Flynn The Washington Postrsquo David Ignatius first reported in a column Friday that Trump adviser Michael Flynn phoned Russ adidas sambarose ian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak several times on Dec. 29. An official told the Associated Press that the administration is also aware of contacts between Trump adviser Flynn and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at other times as well.During a phone call Friday morning, Trump transition spokesman Sean Spicer said that Flynn had contacted the Russiarsquo ambassador on Dec. 25 to wish him a Merry Christmas. Spicer also mentioned another contact on Dec. 28, which was the day before the sanctions were announced. He said that on Dec. 28, Flynn texted and called Kislyak to discuss the logistics of setting u Ihqs Zimbabwe cuts indecent scenes from Fifty Shades of Grey
AP BANGKOK - A grandson of the creator of the Red Bull energy drink has been arrested for driving a Ferrari that struck a police officer and dragged his dead body down a Bangkok street in an early-morning hit-and-run, police said.Police took Vorayuth Yoovidhya, 27, for questioning after tracing oil streaks for several blocks to his family s gated estate in a wealthy neighborhood of the Thai capital, officials said Monday.He was facing charges of causing death by reckless stanley becher driving and escaping arrest but was released on 500,000 baht $15,900 bail.Vorayuth admitted he drove the charcoal gray sports car but said the police officer s motorcycle abruptly cut in front of his vehicle, said police Maj. Gen. Anuchai Lekbamroong.Bangkok s top police official, Lt. Gen. Comronwit Toopgrajank, said he took charge of the investigation after the local police superintendent tried to cover up the crime by turni stanley quencher ng in a bogus suspect. Comronwit personally led a team of officers who searched the compound of late Red Bull founder Chaleo Yoovidhya, one of Thailand s wealthiest men before he passed away this year, and confiscated a Ferrari with a badly damaged front bumper and broken windshield. The victim, Sgt. stanley tumbler Maj. Wichean Glanprasert, 47, was killed during a motorcycle patrol before dawn. Thai media reported that the car dragged the officer and his motorcycle for several dozen meters feet as it sped through the residential neighborhood.Comronwit said he suspended the police superinten

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America s military edge is diminished, and in some cases erased ndash; just as rival countries are getting savvier, stronge yeezy r and more aggressive, according to a new analysis by a panel of former security officials and military experts. The stark conclusion: America could lose the next war it fights. America s ability to defend its allies, its partners and its own vital interests is increasingly in doubt, the report s authors wrote. It might struggle to win, or perhaps lose, a war against China o adidas samba adidas r Russia. The panel is called the National Defense Strategy Commission, and is made up of 12 former national security officials and experts. It was tasked one year ago with evaluating the nation s defenses, and reviewing the National Defense Strategy, a comprehensive planning document by the Defense Department that lays out military objectives. Listen to this episode on Stitcher Russia and China are challenging the United States, its allies and its partners on a far greater scale than has any adversary since the Cold War s end, the authors wrote. If the United States had to fight dunks shoes Russia in a Baltic contingency or China in a war over Taiwan, the report warned. Americans could face a decisive military defeat. Adversaries have studied U.S. military strategies post-9/11 ndash; and learned how to counter them, said commission co-chair Eric Edelman, in an interview withIntelligence Mattershost and CBS News senior national security contributor Rdje Australian leader expects to get on fine with Trump
Fidel Castro spent nearly five decades railing against even the tiniest of capitalist reforms in the Western Hemisphere s only communist country.Some Cubans are hoping his brother, Raul, would embrace free markets and more if he becomes president Sunday - perhaps moving Cuba to something more like Vietnam or China, which also have communist leaders who control all things political, but let markets largely rule their economies. China is a communist country but the people are free to earn a lot and buy cars, cell phones, said Alberto, who rolls cigars in a government factory for $15 a month. Why can t Cuban communism be like that The answer could start to emerge Sunday when Cuba s parliament meets to choose new leaders. While Raul Castro is likely to be named president, the choices for 30 other lawmakers on the Council of State, including his No. 2, could indicate how far the island s supreme stanley kubek governing body is wil stanley cup ling to go toward opening the economy.Fidel, 81 and ail stanley cup ing, took himself out of the running Tuesday for the top spot but may continue to wield enough power as Communist Party chief to stifle any major changes. Raul, 76, has already tantalized many reform-seekers while serving as acting president for 19 months. He has urged unspecified structural changes in Cuba s communist system, acknowledged that state salaries don t meet basic needs, and called on Cubans to complain openly when government control of the economy flounders - although, so far, there have be