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BAG asics sneaker HDAD -- Clashes broke out Tuesday between Iraqi security forces and militants on the outskirts of Tikrit, a local official and a resident said, a day after the Iraqi and Kurdish troops backed by U.S. airstrikes dislodged the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq ISIS from a strategic dam in the country s north.The United Nations refugee agency, meanwhile, said it is launching one of its largest aid pushes aimed at helping close to a half million people who have been forced to flee their homes by the violence in Iraq.The clashes began on the southwestern outskirts of the militant-held city of Tikrit, located about 80 miles north of the capital, when a military convoy was travelling along the main highway that links Baghdad with the northern provinces, they said. Iraqi, Kurdish forces re-take Mosul dam from ISIS 01:30 CBS News Charlie D Agata, standing atop the Mosul Dam on Tuesday, reported that while Kurdish peshmerga forces were in control of the facility, they said they were going to need continuing U.S. air power to wa yeezy rd off any attempts by ISIS to launch a air max counter-attack.Fighting resumed in the area around the dam complex on Tuesday morning, with U.S. jets seen in the skies above, but D Agata and his team said it did not appear to be too close to the compound.D Agata said there wasn t much st Fmto Jews For Justice In Darfur
AP MOSCOW - Vladimir Putin took the oath of office in a brief Kremlin ceremony on Monday, while on the streets outside thousands of helmeted riot police prevented hundreds of demonstrators from protesting his return to the presidency.Putin, 59, has ruled Russia since 2000, first as president and then during the past four years as prime minister. The new, now six-year term will keep him in power until 2018, with the option of running for a fourth term. I cons stanley cup ide stanley thermos mug r service to the fatherland and our nation to be the meaning of my life, Putin said in addressing 3,000 guests in a glittering Kremlin hall.Despite unprecedented security measures in the center of Moscow, where streets were closed to traffic and passengers prevented from exiting subway stations, at least 1,000 opposition activists tried to protest along the route Putin s motorcade took to the Kremlin. Many wore the white ribbons that are a symbol of the anti-Putin protest movement.More than 400 arrested at anti-Putin protestsRussia ups rhetoric over missile shieldVideo: Mike Wallace challenges Putin on democracy The demonstrators, separated into several groups, were met by helmeted riot police. A total of 120 were detained, including stanley cup opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.Putin s inauguration came a day after an opposition protest drew more than 20,000 people, fewer than the mass demonstrations in the months that preceded his March election but still a sign that the anger over Putin s return to the Kremlin has not

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MOSCOW -- Accusing the West of encouraging an unconstitutional coup in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Moscow reserves the right to use its military to protect Russians there but voiced hope it won t need to do so. The Russian leader s first comments on Ukraine since its fugitive yeezy president fled to Russia came just as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Kiev to meet with adidas originals forum Ukraine s new government. Putin declared that Western actions were driving Ukraine into anarchy and warned that any sanctions the West places on Russia for its actions in Ukraine will backfire. Both the U.S. and the 28-nation European Union have raised the possibility of sanctions against Russia. Russian troops fire warning shots in Ukraine 02:07 The U.S. government, meanwhile, announced an aid adidas campus femme package Tuesday of $1 billion in energy subsidies to Ukraine, which is scrambling to get international loans to fend off looming bankruptcy. It s finance minister says Ukraine needs $35 billion to get through this year and next. Tensions remained high Tuesday in Crimea, with troops loyal to Moscow firing warning shots to ward off protesting Ukrainian soldiers. Russia took over the peninsula on Saturday, placing its troops around the peninsula s ferry, military bases and border posts. Yet world mark Icmp Colombian navy finds shipwrecked boat with over 750 kilos of drugs floating nearby
The African Union has objected to a proposal for a 23,000-strong AU-U.N. force to help end the bloodshed in Sudan s troubled Darfur region because it would give the United Nations command and control, U.N. diplomats said.The African Union wants joint control of the force, the final phase of a three-stage U.N. plan to bolster the beleague kubki stanley red 7,000-strong AU force currently on the ground in Darfur, U.N. diplomats said Fr stanley flask iday, speaking on condition of anony stanley thermosflasche mity because negotiations to resolve the dispute are private.The United Nations announced on May 24 that the AU and U.N. had agreed on the proposal for the hybrid force, and it was handed to Sudan s U.N. Ambassador Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem Mohamad the following day. But on Friday Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was forced to backtrack.He told reporters after briefing the Security Council that it was unfortunate that the African Union has problems with the hybrid force proposal, which he didn t disclose. There was very close consultation between the African Union and the United Nations on this joint proposal, Ban said. We are now working to have clarifications on some elements of the draft. It was unfortunate that the African Union has come back with some changes after the Security Council has adopted and issued a presidential statement. But I think on the basis of a spirit of cooperation and unity in working and addressing this Darfur situation, I am quite confident that the African Union and the U.N. will find comm

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EL-ARISH, Egypt -- At least 14 people, mostly Egyptian policemen, were killed Sunday in separate operations when militants attacked a police station in the provincial capital of Egypt s northern Sinai, and detonated a roadside bomb against a passing armored vehicle, officials said.Northern Sinai has witnessed a series of complex and successful attacks targeting Egyptian security forces, many of which have been claimed by a local affiliate of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS . Twitter accounts affiliated with the group claim adidas samba schuhe ed responsibility for the Sunday attack yeezy slide s.In the largest of the day s attacks, a suspected car bomber detonated his vehicle at the entrance of a large police station in el-Arish, the capital of North Sinai province, killing at least six, including five policemen, and injuring several civilians, t adidas sambarose he Interior Ministry said. Egypt takes on ISIS with airstrikes 02:04 By nightfall, Health Ministry Spokesman Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar in Cairo said at least eight bodies were pulled from the rubble, while 45 people were injured, including some in critical condition.The blast left a deep crater in the residential area, and damaged several homes nearby. Officials said rescue crews were still searching through the rubble for survivors and the death toll was expected to rise.The explosion Dvgb In Libya, unrest sparks panic over oil supplies
Iran on Monday charged a detained Iranian-American academic with seeking to topple the ruling Islamic establishment, state-run television reported.Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program at the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, has been held at Tehran s notorious Evin Prison since early May.Esfandiari, 67, came to Iran in December to visit her 93-year-old mother and, after her passports were stolen at knifepoint by masked men, was prevented from leaving the country when she tried to go home.According to information supplied by the Wilson Center, she was subjected to weeks of interrogation, intimidation and threats by agents of Iran s Ministry of Intelligence to make a false confession or to falsely implicate the Wilson Center in activities in which it had no part. In a statement released earlier this month, her arrest and incarceration was called entirely unjustified. State stanley cups uk TV said she and the Wilson Center were conspiring together to topple the government by setting up a network against the sovereignty of the country. This is an Americ stanley quencher an-designed model with an attractive appearance that seeks the soft-toppling of the country, state TV said.The announcement was the first time Iran said it stanley termohrnek had officially charged Esfandiari with seeking to overthrow the ruling establishment, a severe security crime. It was not immediately clear when Esfandiari will stand trial or if the trial will be public.The broadcast said Esfandia

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Iran hit back on Tuesday morning after an angry warning from President Trump. Mr. Trump said in a Sunday tweet that Iranian President Hasan Rouhani would SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE, if he threatens the United States.As CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports, on Tuesday a spokesman for Iran s Foreign Ministry said there would be equal countermeasures if the U.S. pushes ahead with attempts crocs badelatschen to block Iranian oil exports. To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!mdash; Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump July 23, 2018 If America wants to take a serious step in this direction it will definitely be met with a reaction and equal countermeasures from Iran, foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said according to Iran s state-run news agency IRNA.The same news agency quoted Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri as saying U.S. threats would draw a strong, unimaginable and regrettable response from Iran, according to yeezy slide Reuters. Tensions have escalated enough since Sunday to draw a warning from the United Nations Security Council, the current leader of which told CBS News on Monday that the exchange of threats is the opposite of what is nee asics sneaker ded to mai Eiau Guantanamo detainees subjected to ongoing cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, U.N. investigator says
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland - A ruling on Maria Sharapova s appeal of her two-year doping ban has been postponed until September, ruling her definitively out of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.The Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Monday that Sharapova and the International Tennis Federation agreed to defer the decision, which had been due to be issued by next Monday.CAS, the highest court in sports, said both parties wanted more time to prepare their case and also cited scheduling conflicts. A verdict is expected by Sept. 19, the court said. Three top sponsors drop Maria Sharapova 01:57 Sharapova, a five-time Grand Slam champion and former No. 1-ranked player, tested positive for meldonium at the Australian Open in January and received a two-year adidas campus ban from the ITF. Shara adidas campus femme pova, who faced up to a four-year suspension, lost all ranking points and prize money she earned in Melbourne. She filed an appeal last month, seeking to overturn or reduce the sanction. She has called the decision to ban her for two years an unfairly harsh punishment to the Court of Ar airmaxplus bitration for Sport.The parties agreed then to an expedited procedure that would allow CAS to issue its ruling this month. Had the suspension been annulled, that would have made Sharapova eligible for the Olympics in August.The decision to p Ahpd U.N. Renovation Cost Jumps $400M
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BERLIN - The defense team for former SS Sgt. Oskar Groening, convicted of 300,000 counts of accessory to murder for his service in Auschwitz, has filed an appeal in his case.Groening was convicted last week and sentenced to four years in prison, but will remain free until his appeals are heard.His lawyers say he deserves a sentence reduction for the amount of time it took to bring him to trial. adidas samba og Accountant of Auschwitz sentenced to prison 02:12 Attorney Hans Holtermann filed the appeal Monday, arguing that judges incorrectly rejected reducing the sentence because 94-year-old Groening was only brought to trial this year even though his case has been known for decades, the dpa news agency reported.Kathrin Soefker, a spokeswoman for Hannover prosecutors, says her office has not yet decided whether to file its own appeal.Gr air max plus oening has testified that he guarded prisoners baggage after they arrived at Auschwitz and collected money stolen from them. Prosecutors said that amounts to helping the death camp function, and CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips rep samba og orts that contention made this case a test of new German legal standards for what constitutes guilt. His duties have seen him dubbed the bookkeeper or accountant of Auschwitz. Zgrf Russian diplomats vacate 3 compounds in U.S., State Department says
BAGHDAD - The political party loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for the dissolution of Iraq s parliament and new elections in another move that could escalate the country s growing sectarian crisis.The anti-American Sadrist bloc is a partner in the Shiite-dominated gover stanley website nment of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Bahaa al-Aaraji, th stanley cup e head of the Sadrists stanley water bottle bloc in parliament, said Monday that the elections are needed because of instability in the country and problems that threaten Iraq s sovereignty. The political partners cannot find solutions for the problems that threaten to divide Iraq, he said.Iraq plunged into a new sectarian crisis last week, just days after the last American troops withdrew at the end of a nearly nine-year war.The new political crisis has been accompanied by a new wave of attacks on the Iraqi capital by suspected Sunni insurgents linked to al Qaeda. A suicide bomber set off a car bomb Monday at a checkpoint leading to the Interior Ministry, killing seven people and injuring 32, officials said. Police and hospital officials said the bomber struck during morning rush hour, hitting one of many security barriers set up around the ministry s building. Al-Maliki is in a political showdown with the country s top Sunni political figure, Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, after the government issued an arrest warrant for al-Hashemi on allegations his bodyguards ran hit squads targeting government officials.Video: Multiple suicide bombings