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ZURICH -- Sepp Blatter was re-elected as FIFA president for a fifth term on Friday, chosen to lead world soccer despite separate U.S. and Swiss criminal investigations into corruption.The 209 FIFA member federations gave the 79-year-old Blatter another four-year term after Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan conceded defeat after losing 133-73 in the first round.Prince Ali s promise of a clean break from FIFA s tarnished recent history was rejected despite the worst scandal in the organization s 111-year history. FIFA boss Sepp Blatter remains yeezy defiant in face of scandal 01:44 I like you, I like my job, Blatter said to cheering voters. I am not perfect, nobody is perfect, but we will do a good job together I am sure. The election went ahead Friday after U.S. and Swiss federal investigations struck at the heart of Blatter s football family chanclas yeezy this week. Two FIFA vice presidents and a recently elected FIFA executive committee member were still in custody Friday as the votes were counted.Still, soccer leaders worldwide stayed loyal to their embattled president of 17 years, even though Pr adidas originals samba ince Ali pushed the election to a second round by getting a surprising 73 votes. Before the second round started, Prince Ali stood before the congress and conceded. I want to thank all of you who were brave eno Eyof Debate over prisoner swap that freed Bowe Bergdahl intensifies
Updated at 6:29 a.m. Eastern.Rescuers digging by hand through mud in a remote Chinese town Tuesday found a man who had been trapped for more than 50 hours, as crews in three countries across Asia struggled to reach survivors from flooding that has afflicted millions of people.The 52-year-old had been stuck inside a leveled apartment building following landslides in the northwestern province of Gansu that have killed hundreds and left more than 1,000 missing, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. Rescuers with sniffer dogs discovered the man, who was in weak condition but breathing normally.In Pakistan, thousands of people fled a major central city as authorities warned that swollen rivers could soon submerge the area, adding to the worst natural disaster in the nation s history stanley canada . Asia Flooding Is Now Massive Humanitarian Crisis Pakistan FloodsPakistanis Trapped by Deadly Floods And rescuers in the desert mountainsides in Indian-controlled Kashmir recovered more bodies, with the death toll rising to 165 from flash floods. T stanley polska housands of army and paramilitary soldiers continued clearing roads and removing the debris of hundreds of homes flattened in the Ladakh stanley quencher region by Friday s powerful thunderstorms.About 200 remained missing around Ladakh, said Lt. Col. J. S. Brar, an army spokesman. With the road links being restored, nearly 300 people who fled to higher ground have returned to their homes, he said.In China, the death toll jumped to 702 on Tuesday after Sunday s

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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea -- Jamie Anderson defended her title in Olympic women s slopestyle snowboarding, surviving blustery and treacherous conditions at Phoenix Snow Park to give the United States its second gold medal at the Pyeongchang Games.SEE MORE: Complete coverage of the Winter Games from CBSSportsAnderson was one of the few riders in the final to navigate nike air force the tricky series of rails and jumps safely as the wind wreaked havoc on the field.Winter Olympics: Chris Mazdzer wins silver, the first-ever U.S. medal in men s singles lugeAnderson posted a score of 83.00 in the first of her two runs, then watched it hold up as rider after adidas samba rider either crashed or bailed. Even Anderson wasn t immune. She washed out in her second run with the gold medal alre adidas campus 80s ady wrapped up.Winter Olympics 2018: How to watch on TV and without cable online Laurie Blouin of Canada finished second, with Finland s Enni Rukajarvi third. Anderson is the first woman to win multiple gold medals in women s snowboarding at the Olympics. The best of the 2018 Winter Olympics: Week 1 68 photos Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics More Qzqh U.S. goes after $1.5B allegedly pilfered by foreign leader
Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, in Islamabad stanley cup quencher , spoke by phone with Benazir Bhutto on Friday in the highest-level U.S. contact with the Pakistani opposition leader since President Pervez Musharraf imposed a state of emergency, the State Department said. He wanted to hear from her how she viewed the political situation in Pakistan, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said, as part of Negroponte s hastily arranged checkup mission on the fast-changing developments involving a ke stanley quencher y U.S. ally.Negroponte is expected to speak to Musharraf on Saturday, McCormack said.Negroponte underscored Washington s opposition to Musharraf s extraconstitutional actions and its desire to see Bhutto, who was under house arrest until earlier Friday, and other opposition figures set free to peacefully participate in Pakistan s political sphere, McCormack said.Negroponte, the second-highest ranking U.S. diplomat, arrived in Islamabad on Friday to press Musharraf and stanley cup his government to quickly end the state of emergency, set a date for free and fair legislative elections in January and release opposition leaders. The United States also wants Musharraf to give up his position as army chief and Negroponte made those points clear in his conversation with Bhutto and a face-to-face meeting with Pakistan s national security advisor, McCormack said.He declined to comment on whether the United States would like to see Bhutto, a former prime minister, and Musharraf resume discussions on a po

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Wellington mdash; A New Zealand airport has imposed a three-minute limit on farewell hugs, sparking a worldwide debate over how long to cling on for a cuddle. Bosses at the international airport in the southern city of Dunedin say they were surprised by t adidas campus shoes he viral response to their new rule in the car drop-off zone. To keep things moving smoothly, we ve installed new signage, including the Max hug time 3 minutes sign, said airport chief executive Daniel De Bono. It s our way of bei adidas campus herren ng a little quirky and reminding people that the drop-off zone is for quick farewells. And don t worry, added De Bono, just a 20-second hug is enough to release oxytocin and serotonin, the happy hormones that boost well-being, so three minutes is ple adidas originals donna nty of time to say goodbye and get your dose of happiness. A sign informing of a time limit for visitors to the passenger drop-off area outside Dunedin International Airport, in Momona, New Zealand, Oct. 8, 2024. Sarah Soper/AP People who want a longer hug can use the parking lot, where the first 15 minutes are free, he added. The hug restriction made headlines worldwide mdash; and prompted a divided online response. I m just glad there s no minimum hug time. A see ya soon suffices, one woman commented on the airport s Facebook page. Hug Police! This is just weird! Hugs are proven to have many benefits not to mention mental h Thdw Asia underwater cable cut slow internet
Palestinian gunmen killed three young sons of a senior Palestinian intelligence officer Monday, pumping dozens of bullets into their car as it passed through a street crowded with schoolchildren in an apparent botched assassination attempt that could ignite widespread factional fighting.There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the drive-by attack, which l stanley becher eft the schoolbags and a small plastic bag with a sandwich covered in blood. I have no words. Words stop at the extent of this crime, the boys fat stanley cup her, Baha Balousheh, told The Associated Press. I am a father who has lost his children. Senior officials in the intelligence service, which is loyal to the Fatah Party of President Mahmoud Abbas, blamed the Islamic militant group Hamas for the shooting. Balousheh, a Fatah member, was a lead interrogator in a crackdown on Hamas a decade ago. The attack marked the the first time children have been targeted, reports CBS News correspondent Robert Berger from Jerusalem. Hamas denied involvement and denounced the bloodshed. While dozens have been killed in Gaza s escalating lawlessness since Hamas defeated Fatah in January parliamentary elections, the death of the children was especially shocking and was likel stanley cup y to trigger widespread confrontations at a time Hamas and Fatah were at loggerheads over the creation of a national unity government.The shooting has raised fears of a Palestinian civil war, Berger reports.At midday, thousands of angry Fatah supporters joined a

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BEIJING -- Beijing has no idea why the U.S. harbors such a feeling of insecurity, a Chinese spokesman said Wednesday, responding to an American government report singling out China as among the countries posing the greatest cyber threats.The U.S. remains the world s top major power, with unparalleled military strength, foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters at a regularly scheduled news briefing. I do not know where the severe feeling of insecurity in the United S adidas yeezy tates came from, Geng said. But I want to emphasize that in this world there is no such thing as absolute security. One country s security can t be put before another country s security. Global battle brewing over big data 08:14 air force one We hope the U.S. will discard the zero-sum mindset, stop viewing big power relationship from the perspective of confrontation, follow the trend of times of peaceful development and work with Russia and China to joi adidas samba ntly ensure the world peace and stability, he said.The U.S. report also listed Russia, Iran and North Korea as posing major cyber threats. National Intelligence Director Dan Coats said Tuesday that the U.S. must craft responses to minimize attacks.U.S. officials have accused China -- including its military -- of operating a sweeping hacking operation targeting the Pentagon, defense Odah Decision to halt joint military exercises with South Korea very reversible, Winnefeld says
OSLO, Norway - The Arab Spring is the focus of speculation over this year s Nobel Peace Prize, with an Afghan human rights activist and the European Union as possible outsiders.The Norwegian Nobel Committee gives no clues ahead of the Oct. 7 announcement, but judging by previous selections, the rebellion sweeping across North Africa and the Middle East would appear to tick all the right boxes. It would be consistent with their effort to give attention to high-profile and extremely important, potentially breakthrough developments by movements and by people, said Bates Gill, director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.The challenge would be to identify a person or group that embodies the non-violent spir stanley cup it of the revolution, and doesn t turn out to be less deserving of the prestigious $1.5 million award once the final chapters of the still-unfolding Arab Spring have been written. It s particularly hard in the context of these protests where there hasn t always been an identifiable leadership, said Kristian Berg Harpviken, the director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, and a prominent voice in the Nobel guessing game.Complete coverage: Anger in the Arab WorldHis top picks are Egyptian activists Israa Abdel Fattah, Ahmed stanley flask Maher and the April 6 Youth Movement, a pro-democracy Facebook group they co-founded in 2008. They played an instrumental role in the mobilization of protests on both the Internet and on the street, Harpviken stanley cup said. His second c

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Testifying about mass expulsions by Slobodan Milosevic s troops, a Kosovo Turk told the U.N. war crimes tribunal Monday his village was forced to ferry thousands of ethnic Albanian refugees to stanley website the Albanian border.Saqir Thac, 48, said within days of the start of the air war by NATO against Yugoslavia in 1999, his calm and quiet village of Mamusa in Kosovo s southwest was overwhelmed by 30,000 refugees. He said the village, mostly populated by ethnic Turks, normally had a population of about 6,000. We opened our doors to them at night and they came to save their lives, said Thac.On March 27, a few days after the NATO bombing began, Serb troops rolled in with tanks and ordered everyone to assemble in the village center. The villagers were told to bring out their trucks and drive the refugees to the border.The soldiers threatened stanley mug to burn homes if villagers resisted. That night, some 30 houses at the end of the village went up in flames and seven men mdash; three Turks and four ethnic Albanians mdash; were killed, Thac said. A week later, Serbian police ordered a dozen Turks to drive their trucks to Malisevo, about 12 miles north, and ferry more refugees to the Albanian border. The kubki stanley y told us to take these people straight to Albania, there was nothing else we could do, said Thac, who was among the 12 drivers.The convoy halted 4 miles from the border in the village of Zur because the roads were jammed with other refugees. From there, the ethnic Albanians continued on foo

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Struggling aga stanley canada inst wilting heat, Pope John Paul II declared the mystic 20th century monk Padre Pio a saint on Sunday to wild cheers from one of the Vatican s biggest crowds ever - hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who jammed St. Peter s Square and the nearby streets.Many pilgrims arrived hours before the 10 a.m. ceremony to secure a seat. They waited as the temperature climbed toward a forecast 91 degrees and hi stanley flask gh humidity made the air suffocatingly heavy.Red Cross volunteers said that more than 100 people, many of them after fainting or stanley cup suffering sun stroke, were taken to hospitals.As the pope began reciting opening prayers, paramedics led away a hysterical young Italian man crying out that he couldn t handle the pressing crowd.Trying to keep people cool, Rome sanitation workers hosed down the crowd which overflowed from St. Peter s Square down a wide boulevard to the Tiber. Streets leading to the square were packed with people and some gave up trying to reach a place where they could watch the pope, who looked weak as he sat in a chair under a canopy shielding him from the sun. We inscribe in the roll of saints, and we declare in the entire Church that he be honored with devotion among the saints, the pope said in Latin, canonizing Pio.Rome s police headquarters said there were about 300,000 pilgrims and Romans who came out for the ceremony, but tens of thousands of them gave up trying to fight the crowds and watched the action from a nearby square where a giant TV

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A dead whale with almost 100 pounds of plastic in its stomach washed up ashore in the Philippines, raising concerns from environmental activists. Researchers from D Bone Collector Museum -- an NGO that retrieves dead animals and preserve adidas campus 80s s them -- recovered the young male curvier beaked whale s corpse in Davao City and said it had the most plastic we have ever seen in a whale. The museum workers wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday th air force 1 at the whale they found had 88 pounds worth of adidas samba og plastic bags in its stomach, including 16 rice sacks, four banana plantation-style bags and multiple shopping bags. The museum will release a full list of the items found in the whale over the next couple of days. It s disgusting, the organization said. Action must be taken by the government against those who continue to treat the waterways and ocean as dumpsters. In this photo taken on March 16, 2019, Darrell Blatchley, director of D Bone Collector Museum Inc., shows plastic waste found in the stomach of a Cuvier s beaked whale in Compostela Valley, Davao on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. - / AFP/Getty Images A2015 reportby environmental campaigner Ocean Conservancy and the McKinsey Center for Business and Environment said that more than 50 percent of plastic that ends up in our oceans comes from five countries: Indonesia, China, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.The abundanc Rhez Afghanistan probes mistaken U.S. airstrike on Afghan army base
MILAN - Silvio Berlusconi and the Moroccan teenager at the center of an underage prostitution probe targeting the Italian premier both denied any sexual contact in separate comments Wednesday.Berlusconi taped a video message 151; the second time in a few days -- to defend himself from the probe by Milan prosecutors into his encounters with the teenager, nicknamed Ruby Rubacuori Ruby the Heart-Stealer .The 74-year-old leader charged that the stanley thermos prosecuto stanley website rs used methods worthy of a Mafia criminal and said he would not respond to a summons by the prosecutors this weekend because he does not want to give credence to an investigation he called illegitimate and politically driven. There s nothing I should be ashamed of, Berlusconi said. I would like to go on trial immediately 151; but with impartial judges, not with prosecutors who want to use this case as a means of political fight. Berlusconi Sneers at Teen Prostitution Probe Prosecutors allege Berlusconi paid for sex with the girl, then a minor, and used his office to cover it up. They have forwarded 389 pages of material, including wiretaps, to parliament to get special permission to search some of Berlusconi s properties. Examining the documents will take at least a week, news repor stanley cup ts said.Hours before Berlusconi s video statement, the teenager appeared on a talk show aired on the Mediaset network that the premier founded.Appearing composed during most of the two 20-minute segments, Ruby said she never worked as a p

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Prince Harry said he and Meghan Markle expect to have two children maximum, citing concerns for the future of the planet. The Duke of Sussex revealed his family plans in the September issue of British Vogue, guest edited by Duchess Meghan.Speaking with activist and renowned primatologist Jane Goodall, Harry opened up about his recent climate change activism. What we need to remind everybody is: these are things that are happening now, Harry saidabout the climate crisis. We are already living in it. We are the frog in the water and it s already been brought to the boil. Which is terrifying. Harry also told Goodall that his views towards environmentalism have shifted since the birth of his first child, baby Archie, in May. Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, with their newborn son, Archie, on May 8, 2019. Dominic Lipinski af1 /Pool via AP I view it differently now, without question, he said. But I ve always wanted to t adidas originals ultraboost ry and ensure that, even before having a child and hoping to have childrenhellip; Not too many! Goodall interrupted, laughing. Two, maximum! Harry replied. But I ve always thought: this place is borrowed. And, surely, being as intelligent as we all are, or as evolved as we all are sup adidas original campus posed to be, we should be able to leave something better behind for the next generation. Harry has spoken out about climate change in the past, and the cou Xwzf U.K. Looks To Crack Down On Prostitution
AP MEXICO CITY - After working months with U.S. intelligence, the Mexican navy said it believed it had nabbed a big prize in a known Guadalajara narco-haven: the son of Mexico s top fugitive drug lord.But it turned out they got the wrong man.The man arrested Thursday as the presumed son of Joaquin El Chapo Guzman is really Felix Beltran Leon, 23, and not Alfredo Guzman Salazar, as the Mexican Navy had presented him, the Attorney General s Office said Friday. The stocky, baby-faced suspect had been presented as the son of Guzman, the chief of the Sinaloa Cartel, and a Navy official described him as a rising operator in the international drug trafficking organization.But Beltran Le stanley cup on s wife, Karla Pacheco, said he is the father of a toddler and works with his mother-in-law at a used car dealership. The Attorney General s Office said that necessary tests had proved that he wasn t the drug lord s son, but said he would remain under investigation for the guns and money found during his arrest. There is total confusion, said Beltran Leon s lawyer Veronica Guerrero, ... which is having a serious effect on their personal and family situation. Alleged Mexican drug queen bound for U.S. court after judges OK extraditionViolence in Mexico little discussed by presidential candidatesKidnapping by Mexican police caught on videoThe Attorney General s Office issued a statement earlier Friday stanley mugs saying the original informa water bottle stanley tion on his identity came from the United States.

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U.S. officials are pointing the finger at elite Iranian military forces for the sabotage attacks on oil tankers near the Persian Gulf.A week after claiming Iranian preparations for possible attack on U.S. forces in the region, the U.S. has ordered most State Department personnel out of neighboring Iraq.U.S. and Iranian officials insist nobody wants a war, and President Trump has denied plans to send 120,000 troops to the region.T adidas campus 80s he U.S. military has refuted a senior British commander s assessment that there has been no increased threat from Iranian-backed forces in Iraq and Syria. U.S. officials have said they believe Iranian combat divers were behind the attacks on four oil tankers near the Persian Gulf over the weekend, and they tell CBS News senior national security correspondent David Martin there s still no sign Iran is backing off purported plans to attack Americans in the region.Martin said American officials have him there is cred dunk homme ible and urgent intelligence that Iran has ordered Shiite militias in Iraq to prepare to conduct attacks against U.S. troops and diplomats in the country.On Wednesday the State Department ordered all non-emergency staff and their families to leave Iraq, a nation on Iran s southern border in which the Iranian government backs various militia groups which have fought U.S. troops before. U.S. citizens in Iraq are at high risk for violence and kidnapping. Numerous terrorist and insurgent groups are active in Ir asics outlets aq and regularly attack both Lfou Traditional New Year s food proves deadly again in Japan
At the ire of the foreign minister, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak held secret talks with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, according to officials. Israel radio reported that they discussed negotiations for a peace treaty, which resumed this week after a long stalemate. David Ziso, stanley termohrnek Barak s spokesman, confirmed that a meeting took place, but would give no details. The radio report said the meeting lasted several hours Thursday night. Both leaders like to work late at night. The secret session followed the announcement that Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo will head the Palestinian negotiating team for the treaty talks. Israel has yet to name the head of its delegation. Resumption of the negotiations is part of the latest interim agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, signed Sept. 5 at Sharm el-Sheikh, an Egyptian resort. Under the accord, Israel is to turn over another 11 percent of the West Bank to Palestinian civilian control, bringing the total to 40 percent, as peace treaty talks proceed. Israel carrie stanley mugs d out the first of three transfers, handing over 7 percent of the territory. The Palestinians, obligated to control violent extremists and reduce the size of their police force, handed the Israelis a list of their police officers. Foreign Minister David Levy said he wasn t informed about the meeting, but endorsed the idea. He said that Barak and Arafat should meet often, not just in crisis situations, to increase trust between t

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Before President Donald Trump sits down with a third-generation North Korean autocrat, he will face what may well turn out to be a tougher crowd mdash; some of America s oldest allies.With his new tariffs increasing U.S. isolation, Mr. Trump heads to Canada on Friday for a meeting of the Group of Seven industrialized nations. The White House is expecting a chilly reception from Canada and West European countries, already frustrated over Mr. Trump s withdrawal from the Paris climate accord and the Iran nuclear agreement.German Chancellor Angela Merkel previewed the dynamics on Wednesday, telling the German parliament that it is apparent that we have a serious problem with multilateral agreements here, and so there will be contenti air force 1 ous discussions. Anticipating a tense two days in Quebec, Mr. Trump has complained about having to attend the summit, particularly since it comes just before his high-stakes meeting in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said two people with knowledge of his thinking. But the White air force one House has signaled no change in plans. The president wants to go on the trip, Larry Kudlow, Mr. Trump s top economic adviser, said of the summit in Canada. The president is at ease with all of these tough issues. There may be disagreements, Kudlow added. I regard this as much like a family quarrel. Mr. Trump also is set to hold a series of one-on-one meeti air max 1 ngs, including with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macro Qgrd Syria touts election boycotted by opposition, dismissed by U.S.
Whipping winds and walloping waves lashed weste stanley uk rn Cuba and the communist country s tobacco-growing region Monday, as Hurricane Ivan str stanley mug engthened to a Category 5 storm - the most powerful mdash; and barreled along on a new course toward the U.S. Gulf Coast.The wall of Hurricane Ivan s eye brushed the tip of Cuba at about 6:45 p.m. as it moved through the Yucatan Channel on its way to the Gulf of Mexico, the island s top meteorologist reported. The slow-moving storm, carrying 160 mph winds, has already killed at least 68 people in the Caribbean and Venezuela and could hit the Florida Panhandle, Louisiana or Mississippi by Wednesday.The hurricane hit hours after President Fidel Castro stopped to discuss preparations in Pinar del Rio city, where residents shouted Fidel! Fidel! We are so happy to have him close to us, said 7 stanley mug 8-year-old Elsa Ramos, when Castro visited the tobacco-growing town of San Juan y Martinez. Fidel protects us from all bad things. Other feared for their lives. Last night, the wind blew like it was the end of the world, said Odalys Lorenzo, a community official at a shelter in southwest Cuba. With Hurricane Charley, people thought they would lose all their possessions, but with this one, they were afraid of losing their lives, he said. As Ivan moved in, Cuban state television reported waves up to 15 feet crashing onto the southern coast of the Isla de Juventud southwest of the main island. Ham radio operators reported downed trees and power lin