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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria Islamic militants have driven 19,000 rice farmers from their land in northeast Nigeria while a military crackdown is preventing thousands more from working their fields, raising fears of imminent food shortages, officials w adidas originals samba arned Tuesday.Food shortages would add immeasurably to the misery in northeast Nigeria. The area abandoned by farmers is a fertile one in the semi-arid Sahel, a regional bread basket created by the receding waters of Lake Chad. We anticipate general hunger this year because all roads linking the cities to the farming hinterlands have been closed down, the agriculture co yeezy 350 mmissioner for Borno state, Usman Zannah, told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday. Farmers have been locked out of their farm adidas originals damen lands while those in the hinterland cannot come to the city for tractors or laborers to get their farms tilled for the next cropping. Nigerian President vows to rein in Boko Haram threatNigeria opens secret prison for Islamist militant group Boko HaramNigerian flooding displaces 2 million peopleThe violence continued with the military reporting that 13 people, including high school students and teachers, were killed when extremists attacked a boarding school in Damataru, state capital of Yobe state, during a five-hour shootout on Sunday night.A student who survived by hiding under a dormitory bed said dozens of fighters who identified themselves as Boko Haram; which means Western education is sacrilege ; ordered students to take them to Zivc The missing submersible was run by a video game controller. Is that normal
Authorities pledged Monday to tighten inspection on the capital s high-rise building sites, a day stanley cups after a powerful earthquake sent two cranes crashing down from a Taipei skyscraper under construction, killing five workers.Meanwhile, two moderate earthquakes, of magnitudes 4.8 and 4.5, shook eastern Taiwan Monday. The quakes, centered off the northeastern coastal town of Ilan, were among the more than 100 aftershocks following Monday s magnitude 6.8 tremor, seismologists said.Monday s quakes triggered landslides but no injuries were reported.Two crane operators and three other construction workers were killed when Sunday s quake dislodged two cranes from the top of the 60th floor of the unfinished Taipei Financial Center, which will be Taiwan s tallest building when completed at 101 stories.The cranes brought steel beams and chunks of cement down as they fell, and debris injured about 10 people and smashed several cars. Six of them are still hospitalized but were in stable condition, officials said. Some 220 people were injured across the island in Sunday s quake. An 8-year-old boy was in a coma after being hit in the head by a falling rock in the eastern coastal city of Hualien, but most othe stanley water jug r injuries were m stanley flask inor, the Disaster Control Center reported.Two leading chipmakers reported slight damage from the quake. Semiconductor production is delicate and can easily be disrupted by ground movement.Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said it lost about half a day s silic

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U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton was set to depart Turkey on Tuesday without meeting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in an apparent snub over disagreements about Kurdish fighters in Syria. A U.S. official had said over the weekend that the two were expected to have consultations on Tuesday about the fate of Kurds allied with the United States in Syria as part of discussions about Presiden air force one t Donald Trump s troop draw-down from the country.National Security Council spokesman Garrett Marquis said U.S. officials were told Erdogan cited local ele salomon mujer ction season and a speech to parliament for not meeting with Bolton.In the speech to parliament Tuesday, Erdogan criticized the U.S. position that the Kurds must be protected, reiterating his government s position that they are a terrorist group.Turkey cannot make any concessions Erdogan said Turkey s preparations for a new military offensive against what he called the terror groups in Syria were, to a large extent complete.Erdogan made the comments just hours after Bolton met with Turkish officials seeking assurances that Turkey won t attack the U.S-allied Kurdish militiamen and women in Syria. Turkey s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he delivers adidas yeezyslide a speech to MPs of his ruling Justice and Development Party AKP at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Jan. 8, 2019. AP Erdogan called Bolton s remarks that the Kurds Ctis Dirty Bombs Missing Near Russia
A 13-year-old American boy became the youngest climber to reach the top of Mount Everest on Saturday, surpassing the previous record set by a 16-year-old Nepalese.Jordan Romero called his mother by satellite phone from the summit of the world s highest mountain, 29,035 feet above sea level. He is now one climb away from his quest to conquer the highest peaks on all seven continents. He says, Mom, I m calling you from the top of the world, Leigh Anne Drake told The Associated Press from California, where she had watched her son s progre stanley cups ss on a GPS tracker online. There were lots of tears and I love you! I love you! Drake said. I just told him to get his butt back home. The teenager with long curly hair - who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa when he was 9 years old - says he was inspired by a pa stanley cup inting in his school hallway of the seven continents highest summits. Every step I take is finally toward the biggest goal of my life, to stand on top of the world, Jordan said earlier on his blog.The former record for the youngest climber to scale Everest had been held by Temba Tsheri of Nepal. He reached the peak at age 16.Also Saturday, officials said a Nepalese Sherpa who lives in the Salt Lake City suburb of Draper broke his own world record by climbing Everest for the 20th time. Apa, who goes by one name, went up with fellow climbers on a mission also to collect garbage, a growing e stanley cup price nvironmental problem on the mountain. Mountaineering Department offici

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While Rex Tillerson is on his first overseas trip as Secretary of State, his aides laid off staff at the State Department on Thursday.Much of seventh-floor staff, who work for the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources and the Counselor offices, were told today that their services were no longer needed.These staffers in particular are often the conduit between the secretaryrsquo office to the country bureaus, where the regional af1 expertise is centered. Inside the State Department, some officials fear that this is a politically-m adidas originals donna inded purge that cuts out much-needed expertise from the policy-making, rather than simply reorganizing the bureaucracy.There are clear signals being sent that many key foreign policy portfolios will be controlled directly by the White House, rather than through the professional diplomats.Not a single State Department official was included in the White House meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week. Trumprsquo son-in-law, Jared Kushner - who has no regional expertise or diplomatic experience - had a samba shoes greater role in the meeting than the Senate-confirmed secretary of State. Watch: Pres. Trump and Israeli Prime Minister hold press conference 27:04 Rex Tillerson was absent Wednesday but did join Kushner and Netanyahu for dinner the ni Kwft Turkey-Dutch relations deteriorate after Turkish visits banned
There has been a drumbeat of criticism in Japan that the U.S. has failed to apologize sufficiently for the death of nine people who were killed when an American nuclear submarine sank a Japanese high school s training ship.The U.S. has moved with a vengeance to silence its Japanese critics with a series of apologies. I m here to request in the most humble and sincere manner that you accept the apology of the people of the United States and the U.S. Navy, as a personal representative of President Bush, Adm. William J. Fallon told relatives gathered at the U.S. ambassador s residen stanley mug ce in Tokyo.The submarime saga has thrown a spotlight on the checkered history of national apologies offered by the two nations. On the same day the U.S. was profusely apologizing for the submarine tragedy, a Chinese man who survived the bubonic plague stood up in a Tokyo court and insisted that Japan and apologize for conducting germ warfare against Chinese villages during World War II. Chen Zhi-fa, 68, was testifying in a lawsuit that claims at least 2,100 people were killed in biological experiments - including live vivisections - conducted by Japan s China-based Unit 731 and its affiliates. Chen, a retired railway worker from Zhejian province who lost his father and brother, said: All we are asking for is to acknowledge the wrongdoing and apologize. Day-to-day politeness requires Japanese people to apologize for m stanley cup inor infractions a dozen or more times every day 150; but the ancestor-wor

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It turns out Prince Harry and Meghan Markle aren t the only public figures warming hearts in the British countryside this week. A dog named Fred, who lives in Essex -- less than 100 miles from Sussex, the historic county of which Harry and Meghan were just asics named duke and duchess -- has catapulted to internet stardom for starting a modern family of his own.Fred, a 10-year-old Labrador, decided to adopt 9 little ducklings -- and the brood is adorable. Fred is looking after the chicks at Mountfitchet Castle, a tourist attraction near the town.When the ducklings were discovered on the castle grounds, their mother was nowhere in sight. But then Fred took them in as if they were his own. Now, th nike dunk e 9 ducklings love to ride on Fred s back and cuddle up to him. And because ducks need to swim, Fred often takes them to the castle s moat for a dip. The ducklings love to ride on Fred s back and he often takes them for a swim. Mountfitchet Castle The castle is home to a number of rescued animals, but Fred is the resident dog, the BBC reports. He s got a lovely nature and has grown up around rescued animals, said Fred s owner, Jeremy Goldsmith. So, it was a natural step for Fred to take the yeezy slide ducklings under his wing -- or rather, paw. Dear old Fred 10084; 65039; ducklings orphanedanimals dogsofinstagram essex dogs cute stansted A post shared by @ mountfitchetcastle Qlvr Grisly Saint Death cult killings over 3-year span lead to charges filed against 8 suspects in Mexico
One w stanley quencher as a star student, her report card full of perfect grades. One was like a kid brother to all his classmates, loving to argue to prove stanley cups his point. Another was ill, but nonetheless stud stanley flask ied Spanish to prepare for a school trip to the Mediterranean coast.That trip ended in a fiery death for them and 42 other schoolchildren from Russia s republic of Bashkortostan when their plane collided with a cargo jet over Germany.Grieving teachers at the Gymnasium No. 3 school in the center of Bashkortostan s capital, Ufa, looked over school files, old class photos and pictures of holiday celebrations with girls in satin pink dresses dancing to mark World War II Victory Day.Seven of the dead students had attended the school, one of a few elite institutions in the region where all pupils study English and either German or French, along with choosing specialties in either humanities, math or science.One of the school s brightest was Karina Urazlina, 16, who would have entered her final year Sept. 1. Principal Leilya Sharafutdinova went through a file on her desk of Karina s numerous award certificates and her latest report card mdash; filled with rows of fives, the highest grade. Karina had specialized in chemistry and was the best student in the subject, teachers said. On a videotape of another student s presentation, the dark-haired Karina sat in the front row and applauded enthusiastically. She had won an award in a science competition for a report called Ozone and its influence

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MELBOURNE, Australia -- Australian Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Vatican official to be charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis, must stand trial on charg adidas originals ultraboost es that he sexually abused multiple victims decades ago, a magistrate ruled Tuesday. Magistrate Belinda Wallington dismissed around half of the charges that had been heard in the four-week preliminary hearing in Melbourne but decided the prosecution s case was strong enough for the remainder to warrant a trial by jury. The number of charges has not been made public.When she asked Pell how he pleaded, the cardinal said in a firm voice, Not guilty. Wallington gave the 76-year-old permission not to stand, which is customary.When the magistrate left the room at the end of the hearing, many people in the packed public gallery broke into applause.Pell s plea marked the only words he spoke in public. Wearing a cleric s collar, white shirt and dark suit, he was silent as he entered and left the downtown courthouse with his lawyer, Robert Richter. More than 40 uniformed police officers maintained order on the crowded sidewalk outside. What led to Cardinal George Pell s abuse charges 01:07 Lawyers for adidas campus Australia s highest-ranking Catholic had argued that all the accusations were u adidas originals hombre ntrue, could not be proved and should be dismissed. P Jzgu U.N. agency reveals if Iran met nuke deal commitments
The rebels in Syria are up against a trained well-armed military. Their elite forces are led by the dictator s brother. So what do the rebels have CBS News correspondent Clarissa Ward has been with the rebels inside Syria twice in recent weeks. Evening News anchor Scott stanley cup Pelley spoke with Ward reporting from Lebanon Friday. A transcript follows.Pelley: Clarissa tell us, what do the rebels have to fight back with Ward: Well Scott, the group that we were with which called itself the Syrian Liberation Army had a very modest selection of light weaponry, Kalashnikovs, rocket propelled grenades -- also some very crudely-fashioned homemade bombs. But they are desperate for more weapons. They told us their only funding comes from the Syrian Diaspora, but because the supply is so limited and the demand is so high, the price of weapons has gone through the roof. They said that a Kalashnikov is about $2,50 stanley bottles 0 and that is roughly five times the world average.Pelle stanley cup website y: A Kalashnikov being an AK-47, the standard machine gun that is prevalent in that area. I wonder how are arms getting smuggled in to the rebels. You were deep inside Syria, when you were with them last Clinton blasts China, Russia over SyriaPro-Assad crowd tries to storm Syria meeting Ward: There are two ways. Some weapons are being confiscated from attacks on the Syrian army and are being bought on the black market inside Syria itself. And some are being smuggled through from bordering countries. But at least one of

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A shocking confession has confounded lovers of the Swedish meatball. For centuries the beloved staple was considered Sweden s signature dish. But a simple tweet changed that. Turns out it maybe from another country.When you think of Sweden, perhaps ABBA comes to mind, or maybe it s IKEA s build-it-yourself furniture.But if you re a food lover, it s probably Swedish meatball. They re Sweden s national dish, traditionally served with mashed potato and sweet lingonberry sauce.But last month, Sweden s government confessed a terrible secret via Twitter: Swedish meatballs, it said, are a air max 1 ctually Turkish, imported 300 year asics outlets s ago by Swedish King Charles XII. Meatballs are ours, said Bronte Aurell, owner of Swedish cafe Scandi Kitchen. Of course! Swedish meatballs are Swedish! Aurell is joking, as did other Swedes when they heard the news -- one jested that his whole life had been a lie.The truth, of course, is that good food travels. I mean noodles came originally from China and then came to Italy and you know they have pasta! So it doesn t make Italian pasta Chinese! Aurell said.But in Turkey, the confession left some people feeling they d been robbed. At Alibaba s Meatball Joint in Istanbul, Turkish diners told us they were happy to share their meatballs, but not the credit for their invention. adidas originals damen Don t call it Swedish meatballs, because it s not, said one diner.But now there s a new twist to the story, a Swedish food expert told us it s fake news because the orig Cill Mexico Uncovers Massive Meth Lab
A powerful car bomb destroyed a five-storey hotel in stanley cup central Baghdad on Wednesday night, killing 27 people and injuring at least 41, according to the U.S. military. The blast came just three days before the one-year anniversary of the start of the U.S.-led war to topple Saddam Hussein.Flames and heavy smoke burst skyward from the Mount Lebanon Hotel, torching nearby homes, offices and shops along with palm and eucalyptus trees. Rescuers pulled bodies from the rubble and searched for other victims. Americans, Britons, Egyptians as well as other foreigners were staying at the hotel, said Baghdad resident Faleh Kalhan.CBS News Reporter Lisa Barron said the explosion site was a scene of complete chaos, with the building in flames and a large hole blas stanley cups ted in it. Barron said she s seen other car bombings, but this is one of the worst, if not the worst, in terms of chaos and ensuing flames and debris. Army Col. Ralph Baker of the 1st Armored Division estimated that the bomb contained 1,000 pounds of explosives. He said the bomb was a mix of plastic explosives and artillery shells. That was the same mixture of explosives used in the Aug. 19 suicide attack on the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, which killed 22 people.Dazed and wounded people stumbled from the wreckage. A father cradled his young daughter, who was limp in his arms. Coat stanley thermosflasche ed in dust, some rescuers dug through the debris with bare hands as uniformed firefighters fought the blaze and ambulance workers stood by with o

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CIUDAD JUAREZ, MexicoA gunman burst into a home east of the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez where people were celebrating a baseball victory and killed 10 people, authorities said Monday.The killings occurred Sunday night in Loma Blanca, a town in the Juarez Valley. The dead included a 7-year-old girl, her mother, three teenage boys and five adult men, said Arturo Sandoval, spokesman for the Chihuahua state prosecutors office.The bodies were found scattered over a radius of about 12 yards around the home, su adidas campus donna ggesting some had tried to flee when they were gunned down. A trophy from the baseball game was also found at the home. The manager of the local baseball team, the Cardinals, was present at the party and said a total of about 30 people attended, but the others were able to escape by running away. He said he saw only one gunman, who he described as a young man.The manager, who asked not to be identified by name for fear of reprisals, said the killings could have been motivated by resentment over the team s victory; he said there is betting on games in the local league. Over 30 shell casing foun airmaxplus d at the scene indicated that an assault rifle was used in air max the attack. It is premature to talk about a hypothesis or a line of investigation, said Jorge Gonzalez Nicolas, an assistant Chihuahua state prosecutor. He said witness statements cast doubt on a possible drug gang link. That fact it was a lone shooter, and that according to witnesses it was a young Qcnh In Royal Circles
AP BEIRUT - Syrian rebels fired at tanks in Damascus residential districts, armored vehicles blocked the main entrances to a neighborhood and protesters briefly barricaded a main highway into the ci stanley cup ty with bricks and burning tires, leaving hundreds of cars backed up in some of the worst clashes to hit the tightly controlled capital since the uprising began 16 months ago.The scenes from the second straight day of fierce clashes in Damascus, unfolding in amateur videos posted online, were the latest evidence that Syria s conflict is fast devolving into a civil wa stanley kubek r that is moving ever closer to the seat of President Bashar Assad s power.Plumes of black smoke drifted over the city skyline and gunfire could be heard throughout the capital, even in the upscale cafes in downtown frequented by members of Assad s regime. The fighting left many streets deserted in a string of neighborhoods on the city s southwest corner whe stanley cup re the fighting was focused. Many families have fled, and fear grips many who remain behind. It is a war here, a war, said a woman reached by phone in the Midan neighborhood who said her 5-year-old son had not stopped screaming since the clashes started. She didn t give her name for fear of repercussions from Syrian security.Clinton talks Syria with Israeli leadersRed Cross: Syria is in a civil warSyria denies fighting in Tremseh was a massacre It seems there is a new strategy to bring the fighting into the center of the capital, Mustafa Osso, an activist

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- A suicide bomber carried out an attack early Monday near a U.S. diplomatic site in the western Saudi city of Jeddah, according to the Interior Ministry.The ministry said in a statement the attacker detonated his suicide vest when security guards approached him near the parking lot of a hospital. The attacker died and two security men were wounded with minor injuries, according to the statement published by the state-run Saudi Press Agency. Some cars in the parking lot were damaged.Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Mansour al-Turki said in the statement the attacker caught the attention of the security guards, who noticed he was acting suspiciou adidas yeezy sly at an intersection on the corner of the heavily fortified U.S. consulate in Jeddah, located by the Dr. Soliman Fakeeh Hospital. Most of the consulate s staff had reportedly moved offices to a new location adidas campus .The U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia confirmed in a statement for U.S. citizens that there were no casualties or injuries among consular staff. The embassy said it remains in contact with Saudi authorities as they investigate the attack.The Interior Ministry did not specify if the attacker was intending to target the U.S. diplomatic compound, saying an investigation was underway to determine his identity. Three more blasts rocked the area hours later, a witness told the Reuters news agency, which says it a adidas campus ppeared police were carrying out controlled explosions.A 2004 al-Qaeda-linked militant at Oswi Missionary Held in N. Korea Back in U.S.
AP BEIRUT - An explosion in a car wash in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo killed at least five people on Saturday, activists said, while another blast in the capital destroyed nine cars.Bomb attacks have grown more common in Syria s two largest cities as the uprising against President Bashar Assad grows stanley quencher increasingly militarized. Many in the opposition have taken up arms since protesters first took to the street in March 2011 and now regularly clash with government forces around the country.But Aleppo and Damascus have remained largely in Assad s grip, shaken only by bomb blasts that often appear to target buildings associated with the military and security services.The U.N. says more than 9,000 people have been killed since the uprising s start.U.N.: Both sides in Syria are violating the truceSyria s cultural treasures are also conflict victimsSyria accuses U.N. head of encouraging terrorists Saturday s blast in Aleppo, Syria stanley mugs s largest city, hit a car wash and stanley tumbler killed six people, Aleppo activist Mohammed Saeed said via Skype. He said the business in the city s southern Sukari neighborhood is owned by a man who serves in pro-government militias known as the shabiha.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on activists inside Syria, said five people were killed in the attack.The blast follows increasing unrest in the city with university students taking to the streets and being violently dispersed by security forces.A 16-year-old was shot

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BEIJING -- Chinese authorities have refused to release the body of a Tibetan lama who died in a Chinese prison, pro adidas samba mpting a sit-in outside the prison by more than 100 Tibetans, a pro-Tibet rights group said Wednesday.The family was informed Sunday that Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, 65, died 13 years into a life sentence on charges of financing and supporting a series of terrorist bombings and secession activities. His supporters say the charges were trumped up to persecute the man.The prison has not produced the lama s body after two days of negotiations between the police and the monk s immediate family, the New York-based Students for a Free Tibet said Wednesday in a statement. The family wants to perform Tibetan Buddhist funeral rites on the body.Why do Tibetan monks set themselves on fire to protest China Dalai Lama turns 80 27 photos yeezy slide Our only request is to have his body, said Dolkar, the monk s sister, who was in Dazhu county in southwestern Sichuan province, which borders the Tibetan region. Like many Tibetans, she goes by one name.She said the family also was denied access to see the lama s remains, his death certificate and air max 96 medical records.Calls to the prison were unanswered Wednesday. Tenzin Delek was arrested in 2002 in connection with Anmt Ecuador s drug lords are building narco-zoos as status symbols. The animals are paying the price.
Three suspected U.S. missile strikes targeting a militant-riddled tribal region near the Afghan border killed 17 people Tuesday, including at least two who were retrieving bodies from the first attack, Pakistani intelligence officials said.The strikes come in the final days of a year that has seen an unprecedented num kubki stanley ber of such drone-fired attacks as part of a ramped-up U.S. campaign to take out al Qaeda and Taliban fighters seeking sanctuary outside Afghanistan.Around 115 missile strikes have been launched this year - more than doubling last year s total. Nearly all have landed in North Waziristan, a region that hosts several militant groups battling U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, including the feared Haqqani network.The first strike Tuesday hit a house in the Ghulam Khan area of North Waziristan, killing six, the Pakistani intelligence officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.The officials did not know the identities of those killed but said they were militants. About three hours later, as people went to the site to pick up the bodies, more missiles hit the same spot. The intelligence officials said civilians may have been among those killed in the second strike.Later in the day, nine militants were killed when six missiles hit their vehicles as they traveled in the Ghulam Khan area, the officials said. The dead were believed to be insurgents with the Haqqani stanley fr network, which is considered one of

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The search is over for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that vanished nearly three years ago. Investigators overnight officially suspended the effort to find the Boeing 777 with 239 people aboard.The search covered an area larger than Ohio ndash; 46,000 square miles -- in and near the Indian Ocean. Despite the $160 million operation, the planersquo location is unknown and so many questions remain unanswered. And for families of those on board the Malaysian airliner, the conclusion of this investigation offers little comfort, reports CBS News correspondent Kris Van Cleave.Itrsquo just not an acceptable situation. How can they allow something like this to happen and just leave it unresolved said Grace Subathirai Nathan, a daughter of a MH370 victim. Voice 370, a support group for next of kin, said in a statement: Commercial planes cannot just be allowed to disappear without a trace and that ldquo topping at this stage is nothing short of irresponsible.Facing reporters in Kuala Lumpur Tuesday morning, the Ma air max 96 laysian transport minister confirmed what MH370 families had feared for weeks. nike dunk donna New clue in MH370 plane crash 00:36 adidas campus 80s Unfortunately, we are unable to find the plane MH370, Liow Tiong Lai said. We need to suspend the search unti Tojd Holy Celebrations
ZUBAIR, Iraq -- An Iraqi health official says the death toll from a bomb attack on Shiite pilgrims near the southern port city of Basra has risen to 53 people.The head of the Basra provincial health directorate Dr. Riyadh Abdul-Amir says hospitals received 53 killed and 137 wounded after the blast. He says some of the wounded are in serious condition, and warns the death toll may rise further.The explosion was the latest in a series of attacks during Shiite religious commemorations that threaten to further increase sectarian tensions.The attack occurred near the town of Zubair as pilgrims marched toward a Shiite shrine on the outskirts of the town. The governor of Basra province s spokesman, Ayad al-Emarah, said it was not clear whether th stanley trinkflaschen e blast was caused by a suicide attacker or a roadside bomb. But Reuters says it was a suicide bomb attack.Zubair is a predominantly Sunni enclave in Iraq s largely Shiite south.The explosion came as Shiites commemorate the climax of Arbaeen, which marks the end of 40 days of mourning following stanley mugs the anniversary of the death of Imam Hussein, a revered Shiite figure.Majid Hussein, a government employee, was one of the pilgrims heading to the shrine. He said people began running away in panic when they heard a loud explosion. I saw several dead bodies and wounded people, including children on the ground asking for help. There were also some baby stanley deutschland strollers left at the blast site, he said.The attack, which bore the hallmarks o