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LONDON -- They came, they saw, they got down to business.Archaeologists announced Wednesday they have discovered hundreds of writing tablets from Roman London - including the oldest handwritten document ever found in Britain - in a trove that provides insight into the city s earliest history as a busy commercial town.Research asics sneaker ers from Museum of London hoka laufschuhe Archaeology uncovered more than 400 wooden tablets during excavations in London s financial district for the new headquarters of media and data company Bloomberg.So far, 87 have been deciphered, including one addressed in London, to Mogontius and dated to A.D. 65-80 - the earliest written reference to the city, which the Romans called Londinium.Sophie Jackson, an archaeologist working on the site, said the find was hugely significant. It s the first generation of Londoners speaking to us, she said.The Romans founded London after their invasion of Britain in A.D. 43. The settlement was destroyed in a Celtic rebellion led by Queen Boudica in A.D. 61, but quickly rebuilt.The documents show that only a few years after it was established, London was already a thriving town of merchants and traders. The records include references to beer deliveries, food orders and legal rulings. This April 2013 still shows the excavation site that s been called the Pompeii of the North. It will eventually be the new European headquarters o adidas originals f The Bloomberg Group. Museum o Itws Big Bang Theory censored by Chinese government
Police on Wednesday discovered leftover explosives stanley mugs hidden in a bag in Mumbai s main train station - a stunning new example of botched security after the deadly rampage that left the government open to accusations it missed warnings and bungled its response.U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Islamabad has a special responsibility to cooperate with the investigation into the attacks, which Indian and U.S. officials have blamed on militant groups based in Pakistan.During a joint press conference with Rice, Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said, there is no doubt the terrorist at stanley polska tacks in Mumbai were perpetrated by individuals who came from Pakistan and whose controllers are in Pakistan. India s defense minister summoned the army, navy and air force chiefs to warn them to be prepared for terror attacks from the air and the sea in the wake of growing criticism about slack security.The bomb squad defused the two 8-pound bombs, said Assistant Commissioner of Police Bapu Domre, but it was not immediately clear why the bombs hadn t been found earlier. The suspected militants sprayed Chhatrapati Shivaji train station with gunfire last Wednesday night, but authorities reopened it and declared it safe Thursday morning. The crowds of commuters quickly returned the station, one of the country s busiest, an stanley cup d it has been serving millions of passengers in the days since.Rice, in New Delhi as part of a U.S. effort to ease tensions in the region following the attacks, said

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Iraqi officials on Thursday condemned an overnight U.S. d yeezy slide rone strike in Baghdad that killed a senior commander of the Iran-backed militia suspected of carrying out the attack on a U.S. base in Jordan that killed three American troops. A spokesperson for the Iraqi Armed Forces called the strike a blatant assassination and said it was an example of the destabilizing influence of U.S. and allied troops in the country.The U.S. military s Central Command confirmed in a statement on Wednesday that it had conducted a unilateral strike in Iraq in response to the attacks on U.S. service members, killing a Kata ib Hezbollah commander responsible for directly planning and participating in attacks on U.S. forces in the region. There are no indications of collateral damage or civilian casualties at this time, the statement said. A car burns following what the U.S. military says was a deadly drone strike on a Kataib Hezbollah commander, in Baghdad, Iraq, Feb. 7, 2024, in this screengrab from social media video obtained by Reuters. S air force one ocial media video obtained by Reuters Yehia Rasool, the spokesperson for the commander in chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces, sharply criticized the U.S., however, accusing it of having conducted a blatant assassination in Baghdad with no regard for civilian lives or international laws. The U.S.-le air force 1 d international military coalition in Iraq, Rasool said Zzqw London mechanic converts classic cars into electric vehicles
For the 11th year in a row, Taiwan failed in its bid to win recognition by the United Nations when the General Assembly rejected an attempt by 17 supporters of Taiwan to put the issue on the U.N. agenda. The question of Taiwan will not come up in the General Assembly, said Michele Montas, spokeswoman for the 191-member General Assembly, after daylong deliberations Wednesday marked by China s stiff resistance.Taiwan, which lost its seat at the United Nations to communist China i stanley termohrnek n 1971, has tried for 11 years to get the General Assembly session to list the question of its readmission on the agenda.The United Nations accepts the communist government in Beijing as the sole legitimate ruler of China. Beijing considers the island a part of China.The United States recognizes Beijing as the only government of China, but its relations with Taiwan have improved markedly under the Bush administration. U.S. policy has be stanley cup website en to keep Taiwan s military preparedness in direct proportion to the perceived threat from China, often angering its communist government. Taiwan is the only country in the world that remains excluded from the United Nations, said a statement by the countries backing it. These were mostly small nations in Africa and the Caribbean region, which are among the 26 countries that have diplomatic relations with Taiwan. No sovereign state in the world would allow one of its provinces or regions to participate in stanley cup price the United Nations, an organization whose membership req

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Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested Tuesday that he could order his troops to try to seize more land in Ukraine to protect bordering Russian territory mdash; a threat with questionable credibility because the Kremlin lacks full control over areas it has already illegally annexed. In some of his most detailed remarks about the war in months, the Russian leader made a rare acknowledgment of shortages of some vital weapons and ammunition, but claimed Ukraine s recently-launched counteroffensive was failing, with Kyiv s forces suffering catastrophic battlefield losses.Putin said Russia was short of af1 high-precision ammunition, communications equipment, aircraft, drones, and so on mdash; despite weapon production having increased over the past year in his country. Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with war correspondents in Moscow, June 13, 2023. GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/SPUTNIK/AFP/Getty He spoke hours before Belarussian autocrat Alexander Lukashenko, one of Putin s few close allies in the region, said the country just nor air max th of Ukraine had started taking delivery of the Russian tactical crocs absatz nuclear weapons that Putin announced weeks ago would be deploy to Belarus.Ukraine quickly denied Putin s claims about its counteroffensive, insisting slow progress was being made along the 600-mile front line that stretches from the country s northern border with Belarus to the Black Bqqs Prosecutor: Breivik expects to spend life in prison
Last Updated 5:37 p.m. ETA U.S.-led coalition has succeeded in scattering and isolating Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi s forces after a weekend of punishing air attacks, Pentagon officials say, and a no-fly zone impl stanley france emented over the eastern part of the country will be extended to the capital, Tripoli. Libyan TV reported that Tripoli had come under a new attack by international airstrikes. Anti-aircraft fire erupted in the city several hours after nightfall Monday as television made the announcement. It was not immediately known what the strikes were targeting. Gen. Carter Ham, U.S. commander in the region, said the American role in the three-day old air assault to degrade Libya s military capability already had begun to decline, with the overwhelming share of Monday s missions flown by pilots from other countries in the coalition. Whereas about 50 percent of the approximately 60 air missions flown on Sunday were by U.S. pilots, the overwhelming share were by non-U.S. pilots on Monday, Ham said.The success of the coalition assault has already produced tangible results, Ham said. Air attacks have succeeded in stopping regime ground forces from advancing to Benghazi, and we stanley mugs are now seeing ground fo stanley deutschland rces moving southward from Benghazi, Ham said. Through a variety of reports, we know that regime ground forces that were in the vicinity of Benghazi now possess little will or capability to resume offensive operations. Ham said coalition jets fired 12 more cruise missil

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WASHINGTON -- America launched airstrikes on Syrian government-backed troops Wednesday after they attacked Syrian opposition forces who were accompanied by U.S. advisers in Deir el-Zour Province, according to U.S. officials. It s a rare strike against forces that support Syrian President Bashar Assad s regime. The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces SDF , aided by coalition su nike dunk pport, are battling Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS militants east of adidas original campus the Euphrates River. Syrian government forces are active on the other side of the river around the city of Deir el-Zour.The U.S. coalition said in a statement that it launched the strikes in self-defense after as many as 500 attackers began what appeared to be a coordinated assault on an SDF headquarters, where the Turkish forces are accompanied by U.S. troops.Civilian deaths mount as Assad s f yeezy foam orces hammer Damascus suburbsNikki Haley accuses Russia of shielding Assad over chemical attacksSafe or not, Syrian refugees start coming home U.S. Special Ops forces on the ground with Syrian fighters 03:09 U.S. officials said no Americans were injured or killed in the attack by the pro-regime forces. They spoke on condition of anonymity as details were still emerging on the attack.Syrian state media said the U.S.-led coalition bombing had left dozens killed Dfef Cuban Plane s Hijacker Surrenders
Russia s first stealth fighter intended to match the latest U.S. design made its maiden flight Friday, boosting th stanley cup e country s efforts to modernize its rusting Soviet-built arsenals and retain its lucrative export market.The Sukhoi T-50 s flight comes nearly two decades after the first prototype of the U.S. F-22 Raptor took to the air, and Russian officials said it will take another five years for the new jet to enter service. Still, the flight marked a major step in Russia s efforts to burnish the faded glory of its aviation industries and strengthen a beleaguered military.The sleek twin-engined jet closely resembling the Raptor flew for 47-minutes from an airfield at Sukhoi s production plant in the Far Eastern city of stanley cup Komsomolsk-on-Amur on Friday. Development of the so-called fifth stanley cup -generation fighter has been veiled in secrecy and no images of it had been released before the flight.Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin hailed the flight as a big step forward, but admitted that a lot remains to be done in terms of engines and armament. Craig Caffrey, an analyst for Jane s Defense Procurement-Military Aircraft, said the new fighter is hugely important, both for modernizing the aging Russian air force fleet and retaining export markets. The T-50 should offer the Russian Air Force a significant boost in its capabilities and ensure that it remains one of the best equipped air forces in the world, he told The Associated Press by e-mail.Caffrey said the new fighter w

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Cannon Falls, Minnesota mdash; The family of a Minnesota man says their son was taken by Russian troops as he was trying to flee Ukraine, reports CBS Minnesota. Tyler Jacob, 28, is from Winona, Minnesota, southeast of Minneapolis, and was in Ukraine when Russian forces invaded the country.His father, John Quinn, of Cannon Falls, is desperate to get Jacob back home. He told CBS Minnesota his son moved from Winona to Ukraine last summer and was teaching English in Kherson. He met a girl over there, fell in love, got married, and now we are in a mess, he said.But after the war started, Quinn said, the family was getting calls in the middle of the night saying bombs are falling, planes nike dunk are fighting in the air. Just stuff you never thought you would want to hear about. Quinn said Jacob got on an evacuation bus f adidas originals mujer or foreigners headed to Turkey on Saturday. But the bus was stopped by Russian soldiers at a checkpoint in Crimea and Jacob was detained. It s heartbreaking that your child would have to go throu adidas campus femme gh something like that, Quinn said.Being the only American on board, and the only one detained, Quinn fears his son is being used as a pawn for Russian propaganda, especially after he showed up on Russian media. They eventually made a video with him as the subject about how well they were treating the prisoners over there; it s heart wrenching, Quinn said.While he doesn t know where Jacob is, he knows he s tired and scared. In a statement, Minnesota Sckw U.S. warns of credible terrorist threat in Democratic Republic of Congo
Islamic Hamas militants have smuggled 40 tons of weapons into the Gaza Strip since the group wrested control of the territory in June, sharply increasin stanley cup g its arsenal, according to the latest Israeli intelligence assessment.A top intelligence official told the Israeli Cabinet on Sunday that Hamas is growing increasingly motivated to carry out attacks on Israeli targets. The Haa stanley mugs retz newspaper reported Monday that security officials fear Hamas exiled leadership in Syria is working to renew suicide attacks against Israel in an effort to derail peace efforts by Israel and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.Israeli officials said Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert are to meet in Jerusalem on Tuesday, in the latest of a series of get-togethers meant to boost the Palestinian leader in his power struggle with Hamas and t stanley polska o lay the groundwork for resuming peace talks. Palestinians have not confirmed the date or venue.Hamas motivation to attack Israel has grown since the Gaza takeover because of the group s international isolation and failure to open Gaza crossings clamped shut by Israel and Egypt, the deputy chief of Israel s Shin Bet intelligence agency told Cabinet ministers on Sunday. The chances of suicide attacks by Hamas are growing, both in Gaza and the West Bank and outside the country, said the official, according to a meeting participant whose name could not be released under Israeli civil service rules. The participant gave no evidence to support the claim, and

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MAID nike dunk high UGURI, Nigeria -- Boko Haram fighters are overrunning villages near the northeastern Nigerian town of Chi yeezy bok, forcing hundreds of people to flee as the insurgents loot and burn in the area where nearly 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped in 2014, local leaders said Tuesday.Chibok is now under Boko Haram siege, the chairman of the Chibok local government area, Yaga Yarkawa, told journalists Tuesday in Maiduguri, the birthplace of Nigeriarsquo homegrown Islamic extremist group some 80 miles northeast of Chibok. Boko Haram kidnapping victim shares heartbreaking story 02:11 The accounts of Boko Haram violence around Chibok, along with multiple suicide bombings in Maiduguri city and attacks on army outposts raise doubts about military and government claims that the 7-year-old insurgency is nearly defeated. Instead, the rebels have stepped up attacks as the rainy season draws to an end, making them more mobile.Nine villages within 16 miles of Chibok town adidas original campus have been razed in the past two weeks with the most recent attack at Thlaimaklama at the weekend, Yarkawa said.Boko Haram is employing scorched earth tactics, rustling livestock, looting crops just ready to harvest, and burning homes and what crops they cannot carry, he said. Contrary to claims by government and security operatives Fwjk Suspects Sought In India Train Blasts
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- A federal judge on Thursday firmly dismissed allegations that Argentine President Cristina Fernandez tried to cover up the involvement of Iranian officials in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center, easing a crisis for her government fed by the death of the prosecutor who brought the case. airmax plus nike air max Massive protests over prosecutor death mystery in Argentina 03:26 Ju hoka trekkingschuhe dge Daniel Rafecas said the documents originally filed by the late prosecutor Alberto Nisman failed to meet the minimal conditions needed to launch a formal court investigation. There is not a single element of evidence, even circumstantial, that points to the actual head of state, the judge said.Nisman had filed the complaint just days before he died on Jan. 18 under mysterious circumstances. Polls show many Argentines suspect officials had some hand in the death, though Fernandez and aides have suggested the death was actually aimed at destabilizing her government.While the decision can be appealed, the judge s scathing wording appears to substantiate government insistence that Nisman s case was baseless, though his death still casts a shadow across the administration. Flash Points: The death of Alberto Nisman Rpdl Rumsfeld Knocks Iraq Inspections
A giant crater nearly 100 feet across and 70 feet deep appeared suddenly in the middle of a central German town early Monday morning. RTV The residents of the quiet, central German town of Schmalkalden got a huge early morning surprise Monday when a crater nearly 100 feet across and 70 feet deep opened up in the middle of a residential area, according to several news reports. None of the town s citizens stanley fr were injured.Wolfgang Peter, a resident, said he was awakened by a roaring sound at 3 a.m., reported Der Spiegel, a German news magazine. First I heard the rushing of water and then it sounded as if a dozen gravel trucks were being emptied, Peter said, adding that when he went outside to investigate he suddenly found himself standing on the edge of a giant crater right next to his house. The Associated Press reports that 25 people and six houses were evacuated from the scene.Although stanley cup authorities have yet to determine the exact cause of the hole, most news reports indicate it was natural causes and not mining that led the soil to stanley termoska collapse. A spokesman for the Environment and Agriculture Ministry in the Thuringia State, which contains the town of Schmalkalden, told Der Spiegel that the region is prone to landslides because of its geological makeup. The spokesman pointed out a similar case in the town of Tiefenort where five houses became uninhabitable when a crater more than 6-an

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BERLIN -- Swiss authorities say a 19- adidas samba schuhe year-old German skie adidas campus r has died near the resort of Grindelwald after falling some 30 meters, about 100 feet, off a ledge. Bern canton [state] police said Monday the skier was with a group Sunday afternoon when she veered off of the marked slope and ended up going over the rocky ledge.Rescue teams and a helicopter were sent to the scene but the skier died of her injuries on the way to the hospital.Police identified the skier as a German living in Switzerland but did not release further details. The incident is under investigation. More from CBS News 3 climbers from U.S., Canada believed dead in fall from New Zealand s highest peak Driver finds highly venomous snake slithering up her leg Man severely injured protecting wife from polar bear attack airforce Iran frees rapper Toomaj Salehi months after death sentence overturned Nifw Bolivian president fears alleged U.S. scheme
British police filed their first charges in the London terror investigations Wednesday, accusing a 23-year-old man of withholding information about the July 21 transit bombers.Police say that in the week after the attack, Ismael Abdurahman of southeast London had information he knew might help police capture suspects involved in the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism. He was charged under antiterrorism legislation and is to attend a hearing in London on Thursday.The charges could mark an important step forward for police seeking to build cases against the 17 people in custody in connection with the July 21 assault, in which bombs planted on three subways and a bus failed to fully detonate.Police also are trying to uncover the larger network that may have supported those attackers, who struck exactly two weeks after four suicide bombers, also on three trains and a bus, and killed 52 victims on July 7. One of the suspected July 21 bombers, Hamdi Issac, has been charged in Italy with association with the aim of international terrorism. Britain is seeking to extradite him. Italy also has two of Issac s brothers in custody, and Britain is holding 14 suspects.No suspects are being detained in connection with the July 7 att stanley kubek acks.Police pursued international links Wednesday to Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Zambia as they hunted for possible conspirators in the bombings and tried to determine whether the two sets of a stanley flask ttackers we kubki stanley re linked.Zambia announced

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TOKYO -- After battling radioactive water leaks for five years at Japan s crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, the utility that ran it says it will need another four to finish the job. We will bring an end to the problem by 2020, says Yuichi Okamura, who led the Tokyo Electric Power Co. team dealing with water at Fukushima fr airforce om the early days to last summer.The contaminated water, now exceeding 760,000 tons and still growing, has been a major challenge that has distracted workers from decommissioning the plant. It is stored in more than 1,000 industrial tanks, covering much of the vast plant grounds.Okamura says TEPCO expects that by 2020, it will have collected and treated all contaminated water pooled around the reactors, and will need to continue processing only the water necessary to cool the reactors. adidas originals uomo Japan building massive ice wall to seal in Fukushima reactor 01:56 TEPCO has managed to reduce the flow of contaminated water and hopes to get regulators approval within a month to activate an underground ice wall that would block out more water. The final step, though, r adidas campus femme emains contentious: Getting permission to release the water into the sea, after it has been treated to remove most radioactive elements. Okamura, now a general manager in TEPCO s on-site nuclear power division, p Gpvl Boat Packed With Haitian Migrants Capsizes
The murder conviction of U.S. student Amanda Knox has not damaged U.S.-Italian relations, despite suggestions the verdict was tainted by anti-American sentiment and negligence by investigators, a top Italian dipl stanley cup omat said Monday.After a tense weekend, the diplomat sought to quell any speculation of a full-blown crisis, saying that no criticism had come from the U.S. secretary of state. Who criticized said Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, answering to reporters in Brussels. Certainly not Hillary Clinton. Let s not create confusion. Clinton herself, speaking Sunday, said she had not looked into the case but would meet with anybody who had concerns. She said she had not expressed concerns to the Italian government.Knox was convicted over the weekend of sexually assaulting and murdering her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, and sentenced stanley france to 26 years in jail. Her co-defendant in the trial and former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito of Italy, was found guilty of the same charges and sentenced to 25 years in prison. All were studying in Perugia at the time of the 2007 slaying.Knox and Sollecito have already been kept behind bars since shortly after the killing. They have mainta stanley tumblers ined their innocence and plan to appeal.The jury in Perugia has not issued the motivations and rationale for their ruling, but must do so within the next 90 days.The verdict shocked the Knox family and other supporters of the 22-year-old from Seattle. They said evidence was scant and blamed t

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Milan, Italymdash; Italy discovered its first COVID-19 infections one year ago. The outbreak led to the first nationwide lockdown outside of China, and it has claimed more than 95,000 lives across the country. But as CBS News correspondent Chris Livesay reports, it s a very different story there now. Life has slowly been returning to normal, and Italians packed the streets over the week salomon hombre end ndash; even in the country s north, which was once the epicenter of its coronavirus epidemic.Beatrice has just turned one year old, and what a year it s been. Two weeks after she was born, her mother noticed a fever.U.K. to embark on cautious reopening plan It used to be that when my kids coughed, we didn t immediately freak out, mom Marta Zaninoni told CBS News. But now in our family, a cough is no longer just a cough. It s really stressful. Beatrice had COVID-19 mdash; the first known case in Europe in a newborn. They immediately put her in an incubator, said Zaninoni. I couldn t even say goodbye. As her tiny body fought the disease in isolation, Beatrice became a symbol of hope for her family s hard-hit home region of B asics ergamo. Italy struggles to find space for bodies despite flattening virus curve 02:29 airmaxplus Many followed her progress in the hospital, and the entire country would soon join Beatri Xlrl Taiwan Key Topic In Talks
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