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PARIS -- French police on Monday identified another of the ISIS terrorists who attacked in Paris last month. Seven have not been named. Three are still unidentified.Foued Aggad, a 23-year-old French citizen, left in 2013 to join ISIS in Syria. But then somehow he slipped back into France -- and helped to gun down 90 music fans at a the Bataclan Concert Hall, before being killed at the scene. CBS New Police had no idea who he was, until Aggad s mother got a text message from Syria saying her son had been killed on November 13, the day of the attacks. That let forensics teams to match DNA from the body found in the Bataclan to samples provided by the Aggad family.Only one of the core group of Paris a salomon xt 6 ttackers is still alive. Salah Abdesl adidas campus 00s am escaped --and is presumed to be on the way -- or even already in -- Syria. Salah Abdeslam. CBS News Also still alive and on the wanted list, are all those who provided support, says anti-terrorism consultant Jean Charles Brisard, Probably more than 20 individuals involved in one way or another to provide logistics, support, transportation, financing for this network, he said.One such suspect is Mohammed Abrini -- seen on surveillance video in one of the terrorists cars two days before the attacks.With more than 2,000 property searc mizuno hes in less than Tmuo Kandahar Offensive has Taliban Running
A senior U.S. diplomat said Tuesday that North Korea remains on a list of states that sponsor terrorism, dismissing North Korean claims that Washington has decided to remove the designation. No, they haven t been taken off the terrorism list, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill told Japanese reporters as he arrived in Sydney, Australia, for a meeting of Pacific Rim na water bottle stanley tions. A State Department press officer separately confirmed the remarks.Hill s comments were the first U.S. denial since North Korea s Foreign Ministry, in a statement carried Monday by the country s official news agency, said that Washington decided to scrap the terror designation and, with it, related economic sanctions.The statement said the ch stanley cups ange came during a weekend meeting between Hill and his counterpart in Geneva.Under a deal reached in February after years of tortuous negotiations, North Korea agreed to relinquish its nuclear programs, including one that has produced bomb material. In return, Washington agreed to open talks on normalizing relations with the North - its enemy since the Korean War - and to explore removing the terrorism designation. stanley cup Hill suggested that North Korea needs to go further in dismantling its nuclear programs before the U.S. will take it off the terrorism list. Getting off the list will depend on further de-nuclearization, Hill told reporters later Tuesday after a meeting with Japan s nuclear envoy, who was also in Sydney for a meeting of the Asia Pacif

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An American citizen was among the latest group of hostages released by Hamas Wednesday, President Biden and officials from Israel and Qatar confirmed. Liat Beinin was one of a total of 16 hostages freed on the sixth day of the temporary cease-fire between Israel and the militant group that governs Gaza. I ve got some very good news to report. Liat Beinin is safe in Egypt, she s crossed the border, Mr. Biden said in brief remarks Wednesday afternoon. I talked with her mother and father, they re very appreciative, and, uh, things are moving well. She ll soon be home with her three children. That s all I have to say for right now. The Israeli government listed her name as Liat Binin Atzili, age 49. I am incredibly relieved and grateful that my daughter is alive and will soon be returned to her family, her father, Yehuda Beinin, said in a statement. Although I am overjoyed that she will be reunited with us, I remain committed to the mission of bringing my son-in-law, Aviv, home as well. He thanked President Biden for helping secure the rel adidas originals damen ease of the hostages, and added, We must kee salomon zapatillas p working to bring all of the hostages home. Beinin was part of a group of 1 airforces 0 Israeli and dual-citizen hostages released Wednesday, along with four Thai citizens, according to statements from the Israeli military and the Qatari foreign ministry. A short while ago, Red Cross representatives transferred the 10 Israeli and 4 Thai national released hostages to Egypt. The released hostages are curren Mvru Hunting For Italian Master Caravaggio s Bones
The Army is preparing to publicly release an investigative report saying several members of the 82nd Airborne Division on peacekeeping duty in Kosovo beat, threatened and assaulted civilians, officials said.The formerly classified report also raises questions about the kinds of training these men received in preparation for peacekeeping duty, the officials said Friday. They discussed the matter on condition they not be identified.The central conclusions of the investigative report were publicly disclosed during the trial in Germany of Staff Sgt. Frank Ronghi, who was sentenced in August to life in prison with no chance for parole for the murder, sodomy and rape of an 11-year-old Kosovo Albanian girl.ABC News reported Friday stanley becher that it obtained a copy of the investigative report.The most sensational conclusion of the report 151; that several members of Ronghi s platoon in the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment beat, threatened and illegally detained civilians in Kosovo 151; was publicly disclosed by government attorneys in the Ronghi trial. These acts were accepted as fact by both the prosecu stanley cup tion and the defense, but the report itself was not made public because it contained classified information.The Army has removed the classified material and will release a redacted copy of the report Monday, officials said.The men accused of water bottle stanley the misbehavior were punished 151; though not jailed 151; earlier this year. They are based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.Among the actio

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A music publicist says he set up a meeting between a Russian lawyer and President Donald Trump s eldest son on behalf of a client in Moscow named Emin Agalarov.In a statement to yeezy slide The Associated Press on Monday, Rob Goldstone says the lawyer said she had information about purported illegal campaign contributions to the Democratic National Committee that she thought Donald Trump Jr. might find helpful.Report: Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner met with Kremlin-linked lawyerGoldstone says Trump Jr. agreed to squeeze the meeting into a tight schedule.Agalarov, an Azerbaijani pop star with self-proclaimed rock star good looks and a clutch of adidas campus international music awards , is the son of Azerbaijani-Russian billionaire Aras Agalarov and was once married to the daughter of the president of Azerbaijain, Illham Aliyev. The Agalarov family has a history of ties to the Trump empire, including to Mr. Trump himself, who sent a personal message to the recording artist on his 35th birthday, which Emin re-posted after Mr. Trump s election win. @realdonaldtrump you proved the entire world wrong, it s adidas samba herren just incredible!!! Congratulations Mr. Trump!!!!!! I knew you can do it, now it s your time to change the world for the better 9994; 127996; 9994; 127996; 9994; 127996; A post shared by eminofficial @eminofficial on Nov 10, 2016 at 6:36am PSTMr. Trump even appeared in a music video for one of Agalarov s top hits, In Another Life, back in 2013. The video, which was shot when Mr. Tr Jrxy Source: Russia sending 3 military ships to Syria
A man who accidentally shot himself in the groin after drinking 15 pints of beer and stuffing a sawed-off shotgun down his trousers was jailed for five years Tuesday for illegal possession of a firearm.David Walker, 28, underwent emergency surgery following the March 6 incident in Dinnington, northern England. Tests were continuing to find out how it would affect his fertility and future sexual relationships, his lawyer Gulzar Sye stanley cup d said. He still feels quite severe pain, Syed told Sheffield Crown Court, adding that some pellets remained in Walker s scrotum.Walker admitted to one charge of possession of a prohibited firearm at a previous hearing.Prosecuting lawyer Andrew Hatton told the court how Walker had gone home to get the shotgun after arguing in the pub with lifelong friend Stuart Simpson about whose turn it was to buy a beer. As he was returning to the pub, stanley quencher which had closed by this time, he accidentally fired the weapon. He stanley mugs had it shoved down his trousers, Hatton said. After the shotgun had discharged he placed it in a rubbish bin and crawled back to his home address. Walker told officers he was so drunk he had no idea how he managed to shoot himself and why he went to fetch the weapon.Judge Robert Moore said recent legislation regarding banned guns meant he had to impose the statutory minimum sentence on Walker of five years in prison. The shooting of yourself is plainly an exceptional circumstance which is capable of reducing the sentence, Moor

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LONDON - Tampons have become the latest flashpoint in Britain s troubled relationship with the European Union.EU opponents have joined feminist campaigners to fight Europe s tampon tax on women s sanitary products.Campaigners say tampons should not be subject to sales tax since other products considered to be essentials are exempt, including food, children s clothing, books and newspapers.Britain s opposition Labour Party so adidas samba ught this week to get the government to press Brussels for an exemption. They were backed by anti-EU poli adidas originals mujer ticians who cited the mandatory tampon tax as an egregious example of the bloc s interference in British life. We want to govern ourselves, said Conservative Euroskeptic William Cash. Labour lawmaker Stella Creasy argued that the levy amounted to a tax on women. She noted that essential items that are exempt from sales tax include razors, Jaffa Cake cookies and pita bread. When we start looking at what is described as a necessity and what adidas campus is a luxury, we see the inequalities in this debate, she said.The proposal was defeated in Parliament by a vote of 305 to 287 Monday. But Treasury minister David Gauke said the government sympathized with its aim and promised to press EU authorities for change.Gauke said any change to the law would require a proposal from the European Commission and the support of all 28 member states. Under EU rules, all member states have to agree for a product to be exempted from goods and services ta Hsdc Australian man gets 10 years in prison for persuading wife to kill herself
Crude oil futures hit a record near $140 a barrel Monday as investors shrugged off Saudi Arabia s promise to boost production and instead focused on a weaker dollar.Light, sweet crude for July delivery soared to a trading record of $139.89 before retreating to trade up $2.39 at $137.25 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.Many investors buy commodities such as oil as a hedge against inflation when the dollar falls. Also, a weaker dollar makes oil less expensive to investors dealing in other currencies. Many analysts believe the dollar s protracted decline is a major factor behind oil s doubling in price over the past year.In afternoon European trading, the euro bought $1.5470, up from $1.5354 late Friday in New York.Also supporting prices was an overnight fire at a StatoilHydro ASA drilling rig in the North Sea, which could affect as much as 150,000 barrels of daily oil production, said Addison Armstrong, director of market research at Tradition Energy in Stamford, Connecticut, in a stanley canada research note. Saudi Arabia, the world s largest oil producer, told U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon over the weekend that it would boost output by 200,000 barrels a day, or by 2 percent, from June to July. In May, the kingdom raised production by 300,000 barrels a d stanley mug ay. Speaking to CBS News kubki stanley Foreign Affairs Analyst Pamela Falk, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Sunday that the Saudi oil minister confirmed to him that the government will increase its oil production to 9.7 million barrels a

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LONDON -- Russia s Foreign Ministry said there was a high degree of probability that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in an airstrike at the end of May. Russia first claimed on June 16 that the leader of the so-called Islamic State ISIS was believed to have been killed a strike targeting a meeting of the group s leaders just outside its de facto capital in Raqqa, Syria, but western officials cast doubt on the claim then. U.S. military has no information to confirm al-Baghdadi s death 05:53 On Thursday, U.S. officials told CBS News they still could no adidas campus 00 t confirm the Russians claim, based on what we have. All U.S. government and military officials who spoke to CBS News said they had no reason to believe al-Baghd adidas campus adi was dead.The Kremlin s apparent new level of certainty that al-Baghdadi was killed in the strike came from an interview that Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov gave to state news agency RIA Novosti. According to th nike dunk high e Russian Defense Ministry, it can be said with a high degree of probability that the leader of ISIS, al-Baghdadi, was liquidated as the result of a strike by the Russian military near the end of May. This information is now being verified through various channels, Syromolotov said. It wasn t clear whether Syromolotov was alluding to new intelligence, or Leot More Riots Accompany Greek Teen s Funeral
The Security Council on Wednesday unanimously approved an independent investigation of the U.N. oil-for-food program that U.S. lawmakers have said allowed billions of dollars in illegal oil revenue to flow to Saddam Hussein.Ahead of the vote, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he took allegations of corrupti stanley cup on seriously and he expected the investigation to uncover the truth about the organization s humanitarian program in Iraq.Former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, who will chair the three-man investigative panel, insisted on the resolution setting out the inquiry s aims before he would agree to head the probe. A full, fai stanley cups uk r investigation, as conclusive as we can make it, is in the long-term interest of the U.N. mdash; that s the only reason I m here, Volcker said at a news conference. Whatever it shows, if it shows something bad in the U.N., then they ll clean it up. Yugoslav war crimes prosecutor Richar stanley quencher d Goldstone of South Africa, and Swiss criminal law professor Mark Pieth, will work with Volcker. There are very important accusations made about the U.N., accusations about the administration of the program, accusations about activities outside the U.N., which need to be resolved, Volcker said. The U.N. is an important institution and these questions, once raised, I think have to have a deliberate and full investigation and an answer. Annan wouldn t comment directly on reports that several unnamed U.N. officials could be implicated for taking kickbac

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WASHINGTON - North Korea has built a new testing facility that is probably intended to research how to launch ballistic missiles from submarines or ships, according to a U.S. research institute.The North is still likely years away from fielding such missiles, but the finding will add to concern over its weapons development.The analysis is based on recent satellite imagery at the east coast site of Sinpo, where the institute says North Korea has a naval shipyard and research institute. It shows a 39-foot -high stand on a 98-foot-wide concrete base that is the right size and design for testing how a missile would eject from a launch tube as on a submarine or surface combat ship, according to the ana yeezy lysis published by 38 North, the website of the U.S.-Korea Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced adidas campus 80s International Studies.Nearby the test stand are support buildings protected by berms and what looks like the entrance to an underground facility. This may be an early indication that North Korea is considering basing ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons on submarines in order to hide them and make them more survivable, said Joel Wit, a former State Department official and editor of 38 North. However, Pyongyang would still have a number of difficult technical hurdles to jump before actually fielding an nike sb dunk operational weapon. It remains unclear whether it will be able to do so, he said. Otvu U.S. reportedly still hammering Yemen militants after deadly raid
Beijing China slammed the human rights record of the United States in response to Washington s report on rights around the world, saying that U.S. military operations have infringed on rights abroad and that political donations at home have thwarted the country s stanley cup democracy.The report released Sunday in China 151; which defines human rights primarily in terms of improving living conditions for its 1.3 billion people- also cited gun violence in the U.S. among its examples of human rights violations, saying it was a serious threat to the lives and safety of America s citizens.The Human Rights Record of the U stanley canada nited States in 2012 said t cups stanley he U.S. government continues to strengthen the monitoring of its people and that political donations to election campaigns have undue influence on U.S. policy. American citizens do not enjoy a genuinely equal right to vote, the report said, citing a decreased turnout in the 2012 presidential election and a voting rate of 57.5 percent.The report from the information office of the State Council, or China s Cabinet, which mostly cited media reports, said there was serious sex, racial and religious discrimination in the U.S. and that the country had seriously infringed on the human rights of other nations through its military operations in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen. The U.S. s annual global human rights report issued Friday by the State Department said China had imposed new registration requirements to prevent groups from emerging that m

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Fears ran high Tuesday on an Indigenous reserve in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, as police warned residents that the suspect in a deadly stabbing rampage over the weekend might be nearby.People on the James Smith Cree First Nation reserve were told to stay inside. An Associated Press reporter saw people running and screaming as police shut down roads and surrounded a house with guns drawn.Police later sent out an alert that it was a false alarm and they had determined the suspect was not in the community, but people remained nervous with his whereabouts unknown and a province-wide alert still in effect.It s not clear if the suspect, Myles Sanderson, was actually in the ar salomon gtx ea.Regina Police Chief Evan Bray said Monday that Myles Sanderson s last known sighting had been in Regina, the provincial capital, more than 200 miles away from the scene of the stabbings. Police also said Monday that a vehicle reportedly carrying the suspects had been spotted in the Regina area. Police said Sanderson may be driving a black Nissan Rogue. The fugitive s brother and fellow suspect, Dami crocs en Sanderson, was found dead Monday near the site of the stabbings. Police are investigating whether Myles Sanderson killed his brother. The brothers are accused of killing 10 people and wounding 18. Damien Sanderson, left, and his brother Myles Sanderson. Royal Canadian Mounted Police via AP adidas campus 80s Eqvd Elephant herd attacks group of park employees, killing one
Lahore, Pakistan As Pakistan s politicians focus on Saturday s parliamentary elections, which will mark an unprecedented transfer of power from one elected government to another without the powerful army s involvement, Chaman Masih is worried about the future of his tiny Christian minority. stanley kubek We have no future in Pakistan. We should all leave this country and settle in another country, maybe America, the 75-year-old told CBS News. Masih became embroiled in the latest case testing Pakistan s controversial blasphemy laws when his son Sawan, 26, was recently accused of committing the offense against Islam, which is technically punishable by death in Pakistan. Now settled back into his tiny two-room home in the Joseph Colony, a predominantly-Christian enclave in Pakistan s central city of Lahore, Masih vividly remembers the March 8 ordeal when more than 1,000 Muslim extremists torched hundreds of homes in hi stanley cup s neighborhood. The attacks on the Christians came just three days after Sawan was accused by one of his friends of uttering profanities against Islam. Masih s case once again prompted outcries that Pakistan s small Christian minority is being targeted. Christians form less than two percent of Pakistan s population of 190 million, according to community leader.Pakistan candidate pins hopes on anti-U.S. stanceGunmen abduct candidate at Pakistan election rallyIn Quetta, Osama bin Laden gone but not forgottenOn May 7, a Pakistani provincial stanley cup high court in Lahore granted ba

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BEIJING -- China said Friday it was outraged over U.S. economic sanctions against a Chinese military agency and its director over the purchase of Russian fighter jets and surface-to-air missile equipment. China s foreign ministry demanded the U.S. cancel the measure, as Moscow also lambasted the sanctions and warned that the Trump administration was playing with fire. Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Beiji adiletten original ng had lodged stern complaints with Washington over the action, which triggers a ban on entering the U.S., forbids conducting transactions wi adidas originals th the U.S. financial system and forces the blocking of all property and interests in property within U.S. jurisdiction. adidas campus 80s China is strongly outraged by this unreasonable action by the U.S., Geng told reporters at a daily news briefing. We strongly urge the U.S. to immediately correct its mistakes and revoke the so-called sanctions. Otherwise, it must take all the consequences, Geng said, without giving details.U.S. calls out China, Russia for skirting North Korea sanctionsChina s purchase of the weapons from Rosoboronexport, Russia s main arms exporter, violated a 2017 law, the Countering America s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act CAATSA , intended to punish the government of President Vladimir Putin for interfering in U.S. elections and other activities. Trump signs an executive order on sanctions for election meddlin Tqmf Russian climber Alexander Gukov rescued from Latok peak, expedition partner fell to his death
The Palestinians ruling Hamas group will not enter into a planned coalition govern stanley becher ment if recognizing Israel is a condition, top Hamas officials said Friday, raising new doubts about President Mahmoud Abbas ability to bring a more moderate government to power. I personally will not head any government that recognizes Israel, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said in a mosque sermon in Gaza City on Friday, laying out his group s positions.At the United Nations on Thursday, Abbas indicated that the planned national unity government between Hamas and his Fatah Party would recognize the Jewish state.However, Haniyeh said Hamas is ready to establish a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, areas Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast War, and to honor a long-term tr stanley cup uce with Israel. We support establishing a Palestinian state in the land of 1967 at this stage, but in return for a cease-fire, not recognition, Haniyeh said. In other developments:As the start of Rosh Hashanah approached at sundown, Israelis are entering the new stanley cup year feeling insecure in the wake of the war in Lebanon, reports CBS News correspondent Robert Berger. Polls show that 75 percent of Israelis believe the Jewish state is fighting for its survival. Fifty-three percent believe the biggest danger facing Israel in the coming year is Iran. Israelis have grown increasingly alarmed about Iran s nuclear program since a year ago, when the Iranian president threatened to wipe the Jew

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UNITED NATIONS -- The United States voted against a U.N. resolution condemning America s economic embargo against Cuba on Wednesday, reversing last year s abstention by the Obama administration and reflecting worsening U.S.-Cuban relations.Israel joined the salomon mujer United States in opposing the embargo resolution, which was overwhelmingly approved in the 193-member General Assembly by a vote of 191-2. That was the same vote as in 2015.The anti-embargo Cuba vote is symbolic and unenforceable, but the U.S. vote is significant, CBS News Pamela Falk reports from the U. mizuno laufschuhe N.Last October, then-President Barack Obama s administration abstained for the first time in 25 years on the embargo resolution as the U.S. leader and Cuban President Raul Castro moved forward with the historic warming of relations between the two countries.Diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba were broken in 1961 after Fidel Castro took power and installed a communist government. Raul Castro, his brother, and Obama officially restored relations in July 2016. hoka laufschuhe A look at the Cuban Missile Crisis, 55 years later 04:47 Before Wednesday s vote, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said the United States will continue to oppose the embargo resolution as long as the Cuban people continue to be deprived of their human rights and fundamental fr Kivr Accident at Russia Power Plant Kills 10
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A wave measuring at over 62 feet high in the North Atlantic has broken the record for the tallest wave ever measured by a buoy, the World Meteorological Organizationsaid Tues adidas campus 00s day.The 62.3-foot wave was recorded by a buoy back on Feb. 4, 2013, but has just been publicly reported for the first time. It occurred in the North Atlantic Ocean between Iceland and the United Kingdom after a particularly strong cold front brought intense 50-mph winds into the area.It is a remarkable record, WMO Assistant Secretary-General Wenjian Zhang said in a s adidas originals samba tatement. It highlights the importance of meteorological and ocean observations and forecasts to ensure the safety of the global maritime industry and to protect the lives of crew and passengers on busy shipping lanes.Previously, the record was held by wave measuring 59.96 feet tall, which was detected on Dec. 8, 2007, also in the North Atlantic. The highest waves typically happen in those waters, where wind movement and atmospheric pressure tend to create intense storms. Titans of Mavericks surfing competition 12 photos adidas yeezy Low-tech buoys are still used to monitor the oceans in addition to ship-based measurements and satellite observations that point to potential hazards on the high seas. Eius Bomb, insurgent attacks in Iraq leave 18 dead
The American stanley website military launched a major new offensive of about 2,500 Marines, soldiers and sailors near the Syrian border on Saturday, aimed at destroying an al Qaeda in Iraq network in the region, the U.S. command said.The Operation Steel Curtain offensive in the town of Husaybah in the western province of Anbar will remove insurgents and their safe houses from the area to improve security there ahead of Iraq s parliamentary election on Dec. 15, the military said.The offensive i stanley mug ncluded an unspecified number of Iraq stanley cup i forces. Husaybah is located near the border town of Qaim and is about 200 miles west of Baghdad.The U.S. military said it had killed five senior al Qaeda in Iraq figures during an airstrike last Saturday in Husaybah. The five, including at least one North African, were responsible for bombings against U.S. and Iraqi forces, the announcement said. Operation Steel Curtain marks the first large-scale employment of multiple battalion-sized units of Iraqi army forces in combined operations with coalition forces in the last year, the military said in a statement. The election, an important step in Iraq s democratic reforms, and the training of new Iraqi forces, are aimed at one day allowing U.S. forces to begin withdrawing from Iraq. Operation Steel Curtain included scout platoons recruited from the Qaim region, the U.S. command said.It said al Qaida in Iraq, the country s most feared insurgent group, has used the Husaybah region s porous borders to smuggle