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The European Union slapped a 337.5 million euro $366 million fine Thursday on Chicago-based Mondelez, the confectioner behind major brands including Oreoand Toblerone, for forcing consumers to pay more by restricting cross-border sales. Mondelez, formerly called Kraft, is one of the world s largest producers of chocolate, biscuits and coffee, with revenue of $36 billion last year. The EU fined Mondelez because they have been restricting the cross border trade of chocolate, biscuits and coffee products within the European Union, the EU s competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, said. Oreo cookies packages CBS Boston This harmed consumers, who ended up paying more for chocolate, biscuits and coffee, she told reporters in Brussels. This case is about price of groceries. It s a key concern to European citizens and even more obvious in times of very high inflation, where many are in a cost-of-living crisis, she added.The penalty is the EU s adidas campus damen ninth-largest antitrust fine and comes at a time when food costs are a major concern for European households. Businesses have come under scrutiny for po air max sting higher profits despite soaring inflation following Russia s 2022 invasion of adidas originals hamburg Ukraine, but that has since slowed down.The free movement of goods is one of the key pillars of the EU s single market.Mondelez brands also include Philadelphia cream cheese, Ritz crackers Zxxf Palestinian shelling survivor: There was no warning
BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo A Red Cross official says the death toll has risen to more than 25 people killed after an Ilyushin-76 cargo plane owned by a private Congolese company crashed near the airport in the Republic of Congo s capital.Albert Mberi, secretary-general of the Red Cross in the Republic of Congo, said Saturday they had counted at least 25 people killed from the crash, including six Ukrainian crew members. Officials on Friday said at least three died. Mberi said several people were wounded and had been evacuated to the University Hospital in the capital, Brazzaville. Mberi said the death toll was provisional and could rise.A state radio official put the death toll stanley tumbler at 30.The Republic of Congo is often overshadowed by its much larger neighbor, Congo - the scene of numerous crashes involving aging Soviet planes.The plane belonged to Trans Air Congo and appeared to be transporting merchandise, not people, said an aviation official who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. The plane was coming from Congo s second-largest city, Pointe Noire, cups stanley and tried to land during heavy rain, he said.Ambulances rushed to the scene in the Makazou stanley cup neighborhood, located near the airport, but emergency workers were hampered by the lack of light in this capital, which like so many in Africa has a chronic shortage of electricity.Africa has some of the worst air safety records in the world. In June, a commercial jetliner crashed in Lagos, Niger

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MOSCOW -- The Russian military says major war games set for next month will not threaten anyone.The Zapad West 2017 maneuvers organized jointly by Belarus and Russia have raised NATO concerns. Some alliance mem adidas samba og bers, including the Baltic states and Poland, have criticized Moscow for a lack of t salomon hombre ransparency and questioned Moscow s intentions. Russia-West relations have been badly strained over fighting in eastern Ukrainian.Russia s Deputy Defense Minister, Lt. Gen. Alexander Fomin, told Tuesday s briefing that Russia will yeezy slide invite foreign observers to the drills.With volunteers and U.S. tanks, Estonia tells Russia it s ready to fight Russia decries threat as U.S. troops roll into PolandPutin: Russia s military stronger than any potential foe With U.S. backing, Estonia tells Russia we are ready to fight 03:44 He said the maneuvers in Belarus and Western Russia on Sept. 14-20 will involve 5,500 Russian and 7,200 Belarusian troops, about 70 aircraft, 250 tanks and 200 artillery systems and 10 navy ships.Fomin rejected what he described as Western myths about the so-called Russian threat. In February, U.S. officials said Baltic nations had conveyed their mounting concerns about the looming Zapad drills, saying they believed Putin could mass 100,000 troops along the Belarusian borders; the very edge Prff Libya Major General Khalifa Haftar claims gov t suspended in apparent coup bid; PM insists Tripoli under control
A powerful bomb exploded at a Shiite Muslim mosque packed with worshippers in the southern port city of Karachi on Friday, killing at least 14 people and wounding scores of others, hospital officials said.The attack occurred shortly after 1 p.m. at a mosque inside a government-run religious school, sha stanley flask ttering windows and pocking the walls with shrapnel and splattered blood. Bits of flesh an stanley cup d pools of blood lay all around as rescue workers tended to the wounded.The school, which houses students aged 4-18, has separate mosques for Sunni and Shiite Muslim worshippers. Witnesses said the school had been let out early, as it normally does on Fridays. Most of the victims were adults who came to the mosque for prayers.Sadir Durrani, a police explosives expert at the site, said he had found no timing or radio devices, indicating the blast may have been caused by a suicide bomber. But he said that more investigation was necessary.Some reports said the explosion was a suicide bombing, said the BBC, but other witnesses said a man left a package among the rows of worshippers shortly before the blast. One of the men injured in the blast described the devastation. I was inside the mosque for Friday prayers when a bomb exploded with a huge bang, Kalb e-Abbas, 23, told The Associated Press. Something hit my arm, and I saw blood all over my body. E-Abbas said he could hear the cries of the injured people around him b stanley trinkflaschen efore stumbling out of the building.Aftab Sheikh, a senior politici

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SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea s spy agency said Tuesday it has solved adidas campus homme the mystery of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un s 6-week public absence, which set off a frenzy of wild speculation around the world. dunk pand Kim Jong-un 18 photos The National Intelligence Service told legislators that a foreign doctor operated on Kim in September or October to remove a cys salomon t from his right ankle, according to Park Byeong-seok, an aide for opposition lawmaker Shin Kyung-min. The aide said the spy agency also told lawmakers in a closed-door briefing that the cyst could recur because of Kim s obesity, smoking and heavy public schedule.After last being seen in state media on Sept. 3, Kim reappeared on Oct. 14 hobbling with a cane, but smiling and looking thinner. The speculation during his absence was particularly intense because of the Kim family s importance to impoverished, nuclear-armed North Korea. The family has ruled the country since its founding in 1948.It wasn t immediately clear how the information was obtained by the spy agency, which has a spotty track record of analyzing developments in opaque North Korea.The agency also said North Korea has expanded five of its political prisoner camps, including the Yodok camp, which was relocated to the northwest city of Xrmt G8 Summit in France
Chinese soldiers demonstrate fighting skills in November, 2010. WikiLeaks U.S. diplomatic cables claim China has been less-than-forthright about its military buildup in recent years. AP Photo The public line out of Beijing has always been simple: China s military is for the defense of the homeland.The reality, however, may be more complicated. Newly released leaked U.S. diplomatic cables claim China is probably hiding both the size of its military buildup, as well as, on occasion, its intentions.Australia s national intelligence agency conducted a strategic assessment of China s m stanley cup ilitary spending, and concluded that the communist countries military buildup stanley cup threatens regional stability, reports the Australian daily The Age. A leaked cable states that the agency found that China spent $90 billion on its military in 2006 - double the $45 billion budget publicly announced by Beijing, The Age reports. While this is just a fraction of the nearly $500 billion the U.S. spends annually on its military, it is still noticeable for the fact that the stanley quencher y were probably not publicly forthright about their military spending. China s longer-term agenda is to develop comprehensive national power , including a strong military, that is in keeping with its view of itself as a great power, a copy of the secret assessment provided by Foreign Affairs officials to the US embassy in Canberra said.The ca

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BEIJING -- Chinese police seized 2.4 tons of methamphetamine in one of the country s largest drug busts, authorities in the adidas originals donna eastern city of Shanghai said Thursday. China tightens grip on Internet access 02:24 Twenty-eight people were arrested in the joint operation with police from the southern province of Guangdong, where the drug lab was discovered, Shanghai police said in a statement on their official microblog.They said the hunt began with the discovery of a drug dealer in August and that evidence led police to the lab in Guangdong.Illegal drugs remain a major problem in China despite tough laws, including the death penalty for offenders.Last year, Guangdong police used 3,0 crocs schuhe 00 armed police officers in a drug sweep that seized nearly 3 tons of methamphetamine and 23 tons of raw materials to manufacture the stimulant drug. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-27452599-5722-49e3-bd99-08 nike dunk high ac96f8c72c, right-rail-recirc-item--id-27452599-5722-49e3-bd99-08ac96f8c72c display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-27452599-5722-49e3-bd99-08ac96f8c72c ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block; Admt British woman hiking in Greece attacked, devoured by pack of wolves
India s Cabinet has approved pushi stanley cup ng for the former head of Union Carbide to be extradited over the toxic gas leak in 1984 that killed an estimated 15,000 people.Public ire over the world s worst industrial disaster in the Indian city of Bhopal resurfaced this month after a court convicted seven former employees.They were found guilty of death by negligence and sentenced to two years in prison. Many in India saw the verdict as far too light a punishment for the tragedy.On the morning of Dec. 3, 1984, a pesticide plant run by Union Carbide leaked about 40 tons of deadly methyl isocyanate gas into the air of Bhopal, quickly killing about 4,000 people. Lingering effects of the poison raised the toll to about 15,000 over the next few years, according to government estimates. In all, at least 500,000 people were affected.India will renew an stanley canada extradition request with U.S. authorities for former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson, who was arrested and quickly released when he visited India soon after the tragedy. Anderson s wife, Lillian, told The Associated Press at their Bridgehampton, New York, home last year that her elderly husband was in poor health and had been haunted by the Bh stanley cup opal disaster.The government will also pursue liability claims against Dow Chemical Co., which took over Union Carbide in 2001, seven years after Union Carbide sold its interest in the Bhopal plant.In 1989, Union Carbide paid $470 million in compensation to the Indian government and said offic

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The 2018 World Economic Forumhas just ended in Davos, Switzerland. However, several Chinese state news outlets have insinuated that the conference has been greatly influenced by President Xi Jinping s alternative vision for globalization -- despite the fact that he s not attending.Quartz reportedthat Chinese media reports claim the 2018 forum theme is Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World, which was ripped from Xi s 2017 speech in Davos when he became the first Chinese president to attend the conference of global business leaders.One article, w nike dunks panda ritten by the state-run English newspaper China Daily -- ap adidas originals forum ropagandamouthpiece for the Communist Party -- quotes Davos Mayor Tarzisius Caviezel saying in part: The agenda-setters of the World Economic Forum are responsible for deciding the theme. Of course, they took important points out of President Xi s speech and developed them into the theme of this year s meeting of the World Economic Forum. What is important is that they did not just take one point out. The whole program was developed based on Presiden air max plus t Xi s important thoughts in his speech. According to Quartz, Caviezel s remarks were later changed and fabricated. The mayor s office sent the correct statement to Quartz, which reads in part: The agenda-setters of the World Economic Forum decide on their own about the annual topic of the World Economic Forum. It may be possible that they took important points out of President Xi s speech and developed them into the Gber Anger At Italian Quake Funeral
U.S. and Iraqi forces exchanged fire with suspected Sunni insurgents on Monday, killing two and wounding four of them during a massive search for three missing American soldiers in a volatile area south of Bag stanley mug hdad, the Iraqi army said.An al Qaeda front group, the Islamic State in Iraq, claimed Sunday that it had captured U.S soldiers in a deadly attack on a U.S. convoy the day before in Sunni area south of Baghdad that is known as the triangle of death mdash; a longtime al Qaeda stronghold.Meanwhile, 4,000 U.S. troops backed by aircraft, intelligence units and Iraqi forces were scouring the farming area around Mahmoudiya and the nearby town of Youssifiyah for the third day, as the military promised to make every effort available to find the missing soldiers.Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, said the military could not verify the claim by the Islamic State of Iraq but it would not surprise me i stanley quencher f ... al Qaeda in Iraq is involved in this because there are similarities to what they ve done before. He pointed out that the terror network also had claimed responsibility for killing two U.S. so stanley cups ldiers whose mutilated bodies were found after they went missing in the same area last year. Referring to the two soldiers killed last year, former Marines Capt. Nathaniel Fick told CBS The Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith that a similar situation for the three soldiers currently missing is unfortunately terribly likely. Fick added that soldiers in

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WASHINGTON -- Fierce fighting over the Syrian border town of Kobani has allowed the U.S.-led coalition to take out large numbers of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria fighters that have been pouring in to try and take over the community, the top commander in the Middle East said Friday. adidas campus Fighting for Kobani 31 photos salomon Gen. Lloyd Austin, head of U.S. Central Command, said that militants with ISIS, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, have clearly decided to make the capture of Kobani their main effort. My goal is to defeat and ultimately destroy ISIL, said Austin during a rare appearance in the Pentagon briefing room.Austin said it s still possible that Kobani will fall, but the more insurgents are taken off the battlefield there, the fewer there will be to fight elsewhere. adidas yeezy U.S. launches most powerful airstrikes in Syria so far 00:27 Austin said he believes ISIS has decided Kobani would be its main effort, and as long as ISIS is pouring legions of forces there into that area, the U.S-led coalition will focus on its defeat. State extremists Rubi U.S.: Iraq Rocket, Mortar Attacks Hit Low
Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet - the archetypal Cold War military ruler - was declared mentally unfit to stand trial Monday for political killings shortly after his 1973 coup, probably ending efforts to prosecute him.The Appeals Court ruled 2-1 that Pinochet, 85, suffers from such severe dementia that he cannot be prosecuted on charges of covering up 75 murders by a notorious Caravan of Death, an army hit squad that toured northern Chile by he stanley cup licopter eliminating his political foes stanley canada after Pinochet ousted Marxist President Salvador Allende in 1973.Prose stanley quencher cution lawyers said they would seek a reversal of the ruling. This ruling is the result of political pressures over the court, said lawyer Eduardo Contreras. But Pinochet will still go into history as having been indicted on human rights charges, Contreras said. The trial was only suspended because he is allegedly ill or crazy. The trial against Pinochet could theoretically resume if the general s health improves. But that possibility is considered remote. Court rulings are to be respected, not to be commented on , said President Ricardo Lagos. The government is not satisfied or unsatisfied. Pinochet suffers from high blood pressure, diabetes and arthritis, has a pacemaker and has had at least three mild strokes since 1998, according to his doctors.Pinochet, who ruled until 1990, has denied responsibility for the deaths. Chilean law only exempts from penal responsibility those pronounced mad o

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Landsli stanley mug des slammed into three mountain hamlets in western China early Tuesday, killing 17 people and leaving 44 missing, while crews drained a fast-rising reservoir in another part of the country following heavy rains.The landslides swept through three different areas before dawn, state media said. In the worst-hit town of Xiaohe in Yunnan province, four died and rescuers were searching for 42 others, the official provincial newspaper Yunnan Daily reported on its website. Another 38 were injured.In neighboring Sichuan province, seven died and one person was missing in Yandai village, while rescuers recovered six bodies and were searching for one person in Sima village, the Xinhua News Agency reported.Meanwhile, the waters in a reservoir near the far western city of Golmud began to subside Tuesday after hundre stanley water jug ds of workers and soldiers finished digging a diversion channel, an official at the Qinghai province water bureau said.The reservoir at one point swelled to almost four feet more than a meter above its warning level, the Golmud city government website said. Over the weekend, about 10,000 residents were evacuated as soldiers transported sandbags, rocks and dirt and used bulldozers to dig the emergency waterway, the website said. Still, parts of Golmud, a transport and mining hub on the edge of the Tibetan plateau, were alre kubki stanley ady under six feet two meters of water, Xinhua reported.Usually prone to drought, Qinghai has seen increasingly heavy rainfalls in recent yea

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WASHINGTON -- The special counsel has not concluded its collusion investigation, but the Democratic National Committee DNC isn t waiting. The DNC filed a civil suit in federal district court in Manhattan on Friday. It argues the Trump campaign conspired with WikiLeaks and Russia to hack and disseminate DNC emails in 2016 and seeks millions in damages. The defendants are a who s who of the Trump campaign. Do hoka nald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the Russian Federation are all accused by the DNC of previously unimaginable treachery. We re seeking justice and we re seeking deterrence, DNC Chairman Tom Perez said.The 66-page lawsuit accuses russian hackers of stealing tens of thousands of documents and emails from the DNC and outlines all the known contacts between Russians and the Trump campaign.In April of salomon hombre 2016, for instance, Trump foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos met with a Kremlin-tied agent who told him about the DNC breach just four days after it happened. Throughout the summer and fall of 2016, Mr. Trump s associates continued to secretly communicate with Russian agents and WikiLeaks as the embarrassing email leak rocked the Democratic National Convention.The Trump campaign dismissed the suit Friday as a frivolous last-ditch effort to substanti af1 ate the baseless Russian collusion allegations by a nearly-bankrupt Democratic Party. Your critics say this is just a stunt to try to raise money, CBS News Mncf Singapore Zoo celebrates 40 years
Updated 2:41 p.m. ETPARIS - Paris police say a bomb alert at the Eiffel Tower has been lifted and the monument is being reopened to visitors.Police and tower officials said a suspicious package and phoned-in bomb threat prompted the Eiffel Tower to evacuate nearly 4,000 tourists from the Paris landmark on Wednesday.A police official said a thorough check of the site found no explosives, and the alert was lifted.Tourists were allowed back on the sandy plaza beneath the tower after a little more than two hours, and the ticket office is being reopened. A Paris police official said nearly 4,000 tourists were evacuated from the site after an anonymous caller warned that the Paris monument would be blown up at 1700 GMT. Other officials at the tower site then spotted a suspicio stanley cup usa us package on the ground-level plaza.Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity, saying the situation is still being investigated.The site is occasionally evacuated because of threats. In the most recent major incident, a similar bomb threat caused the tower to be evacuated last September.The tower is France s most popular landmark, drawing more t stanley us han 6.6 million people last year. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-99762f9a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-99762f9a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; stanley cup inline-rec

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At first glance, the mascot for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games may look like a red triangle with arms, but it s actually a Phrygian c samba og ap mdash; a symbol of freedom in France s history.The mascot for both the Olympics and Paralympics was announced in 2022 with a mission of showing the world that sport can change everything and that it deserves to have a central role in society, according to the Olympics website. We wanted mascots that would embody our vision and be able to share it with the French people and the world, 2024Paris GamesPresident Tony Estanguet said at the launch. Rather than an animal, our mascots represent an ideal. The Phrygian cap is a symbol of liberty. Since it is familiar to us and appears on our stamps and the pediments of our town halls, it also represents French identity and spirit. The Phryges, pronounced free-jes, are also meant to encourage people to get active.Where did the Phrygian cap come from The Phrygian cap was worn in present-day Turkey as early as 800 B.C., according to Architect of the Capitol. It was viewed as a mark of free men in classical Greece, where freed slaves wore the hat. The peaked red hat has been a part of French history for centuries and was widely popularized by French revolutionaries, donned during the French Revolution of 1789. It can be seen on adidas campus 00s busts of Marianne, a woman considered the embodiment of the air force one French Republic, according to Olympics organizers. An image from the French Revolution show Wsrl Past 8 years were the warmest on record, U.N. agency says
WASHINGTON - The military intervention in Libya has cost the Pentagon an extra $550 million so far, mostly for bombs and missiles, officials said Tuesday.The figure is not a full picture of the price tag for the operation in that it does not include such money as pay for U.S. sailors, airmen and other forces, who would have been deployed somewhere in the worl stanley cup d anyway, officials said. But it is the first official figure released on the cost of setting up the no-fly zone in the North African nation and protecting civilians from strongman Moammar Gadhafi as he resists a movement to oust him.Of the $550 million in added spending through Monday, about 60 percent was for munitions, the remaining costs are for higher operating tempo of U.S. forces and of getting them there, Cmdr. Kathleen Kesler, a P stanley cup entagon spokeswoman, said Tuesday.Complete coverage: Anger in the Arab WorldAs of Monday, the 10thday of the intervention, the U.S. had launched 192 long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles from naval positions in the Mediterranean Sea 151; at a cost of about $1 million to $1.5 million each. The U.S. also had flown 983 sorties, 370 of those bombing missions against Gadhafi military sites and forces and the rest for surveillance, refueling and so on. The spending only addresses the U.S. part of the costs in Libya, where an international coalition has been operating and NATO is now taking over command. Future costs ar stanley cup e highly uncertain, Kesler said. But officials estimate that they

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In the short run, a truce in the trade conflict between the United States and China has lightened tensions, halted the immediate threat of U.S. tariffs on China s goods and cheered stock markets. The long-run picture may not be so sunny. The outcome of last weekend s talks upset supporters of President Trump s American First policies, left key differences untouched and kept alive the risk of a destructive trade war between the world s two biggest economies.A vague statement the two countries released said next to nothing about the issue at the heart of the dispute between Washington and Beijing: The hardball tactics China uses to challenge U.S. technological supremacy. Those tactics include outright cyber theft of trade secrets and demands that American companies han chanclas yeezy d over some of their technology in exchange for access to th nike sb dunk e Chinese market. They failed to drill down on the biggest frictions facing U.S. businesses and on those where we are most able to move the Chinese, said Mary Lovely, a Syracuse University economist who specializes in trade.In exchange for the United States agreeing to hold off on tariffs on up to $150 billion in Chinese goods, Beijing did agree to substantially reduce America s huge trade deficit with China. But Beijing made no specific commitment.Treasury S hoka ecretary Steven Mnuchin sdeclaration that the American tariffs would be suspended contributed to a sense of relief in global markets that the two countries had stepped back from the brink. The cele Mxad Ships, aircraft search for 3 U.S. sailors missing in crash
Afghanistan opposition forces said on Tuesday they had ousted the ruling Taliban from the strategic township of Yakawlang in the central province of Bamiyan after fierce fighting. But the sides issued contradictory reports about fighting in the far north of Afghanistan, with the opposition denying Tal stanley cups iba stanley thermos mug n claims they had captured a key area needed to mount an attack on the main remaining opposition stronghold of Badakhshan. Opposition spokesman Mohammad Habeel said fighters poured into the township of Yakawlang from the west si stanley thermobecher de and flushed out the Taliban after a heavy overnight battle. Fighting has intensified and since early morning the Taliban have failed so far to take this place back, Habeel said. He added that the Taliban had suffered a high death toll and were forced to flee to surrounding mountains, but the purist Islamic group had launched counterattacks, including aerial bombardments. Details of the clashes were sketchy, with both sides denying each other s claims. The fighting, which involved aerial bombardment and artillery exchanges, was the heaviest in Afghanistan in at least a month.The Taliban Islamic militia controls 95 percent of the country and is fighting the opposition to capture the remaining five percent. The civil war, combined with the worst drought in 30 years, has displaced hundreds of thousands of people and given Afghanistan the world s worst refugee problem.Opposition leaders said at least 100 Taliban fighters died in the fight