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BERLIN -- A former Auschwitz death camp guard s final bid to avoid serving his sentence as an accessory to murder has been rejected by German prosecutors, according to German media. Former Nazi guard asks God for forgiveness at trialAttorneys for Oskar Groening, 96, filed the appeal with prosecutors in Lueneburg, where he was convicted in 2015 as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 Jews. He was sentenced to four years in prison, but hasn t yet spent any time behind bars because of the appeals process. Accountant of Auschwitz sentenced to prison 02:12 According to Spiegel and other German media outlets, prosecutors in the city of Lueneburg adidas campus ruled against adidas originals the clemency request on Wednesday after consultation with the panel of judges who convicted Groening.A doctor had previously declared Groening fit to go to prison so long as there is appropriate medical care.Groening exhausted his last chance at legal appeals in December when the country s highest court rejected his attorneys argument that imprisoning him would violate his constitutional right to life and physical safety. The Federal Constitutional Court noted, however, that German law allows for prison sentences to be interrupted if a prisoner s health deteriorat adidas samba og es significantly. Bofh U.S. not looking to arm Libya opposition
Five car bombs targeted U.S. and Iraqi troops in the capital Friday, killing at least 10 Iraqi civilians and stanley cup security personnel a day after guards captured a would-be suicide bomber near the entrance to the heavily guarded Green Zone.Two U.S. Marines died Thursday in a blast near the Jordanian border, the U.S. military reported Friday.Eight Iraqis mdash; civilians and security personnel mdash; were stanley canada killed when a suicide car bomber attacked an army base in the Shaab neighborhood in northern Baghdad, according to Maj. Khazim al-Tamimi.Two Iraqi soldiers died and six were wounded when a suicide attacker detonated a car bomb near an Iraqi patrol in Andalus Square in central Baghdad, Col. Salman Abdul Karim said.A car bomb also exploded near a U.S. convoy in the Rustamiyah area of southeastern Baghdad, witnesses said, but there was no comment from U.S. authorities on the Rustamiyah blast. A suicide car bomb exploded on the old Defense Ministry building in northern Baghdad, causing an undet stanley quencher ermined number of casualties, a policeman said on condition of anonymity.One car bomb exploded in eastern Baghdad, wounding five civilians, police said. Witnesses said the bomber missed a U.S. patrol.In other developments: Mortar shells exploded Friday near the headquarters of an Iraqi commando battalion in the Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah of north Baghdad, police said. Three mortars also fell across the Tigris River in the Shiite district Kazimiyah, police added. No casualties nor dam

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LONDON A year ago, Malala Yousafzai was a 15-year-old schoolgirl in northwest Pakistan, thinking about calculus and chemistry, Justin Bieber songs and Twilight movies.Today she s the world-famous survivor of a Taliban assassination attempt, an activist for girls education -- and a contender to win the Nobel Peace Prize later this week.It s air force 1 easy to forget she is still a teenager, and now a long way from home.The memoir I Am Malala goes some way toward redressing that balance. Published around the world on Tuesday, the book reveals a girl who likes Ugly Betty and the cooking show Masterchef, worries about her clothes and her hair, but also has an iron determination that comes from experience beyond her 16 years. Malala Yousafzai addresses United Nations 01:55 The book, written with the British journalist Christina Lamb, recounts Malala s life before and after the moment on Oct. 9, 2012, when a gunman boarded a school bus full of girls in Pakistan s Swat Valley and asked dunk pand Who salomon zapatillas is Malala Then he shot her in the head. The shooting is described briefly but vividly in the book, which is briskly written but full of arresting detail. The air smelt of diesel, bread and kebab mixed with the stink from the stream where people still dumped their rubbish, Malala remembers. One of her friends t Xeuu Egypt interim president sets timetable for elections, constitution reform
Israeli aircraft blasted the Palestinian prime minister s office early Sunday during the fifth straight night of airstrikes aimed at winning the freedom of an Israeli soldier held captive by Hamas militants in Gaza.An Israeli Cabinet minister said the attack was aimed at harming the Hamas government s abil stanley cupe ity to rule, reports CBS News correspondent Robert Berger in Jeruslaem.The attack on Ismail Haniyeh s empty office came amid continued diplomatic efforts involving Egypt and other regional players to end the standoff, which have been under way since Cpl. Gilad Shalit, 19, was seized a week ago in a cross-border raid.Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz were to meet with security officials later Sunday to discuss whether to give diplomacy more time or to escalate the military operation. Late last week, Olmert called off plans to broaden the stanley mugs Israeli incursion from southern Gaza to the coastal strip s north in a nod to the diplomatic activity.On Sunday, he hinted at possible escalation when he said his government had instructed the military to do all it can to return Shalit safely. Palestinians said two missiles fired by attack helicopters set Haniyeh s office ablaze, but it was stanley cup quencher empty because of the late hour, witnesses said. One bystander was slightly injured.Inspecting the wreckage, Haniyeh called the attack senseless. They have targeted a symbol for the Palestinian people, he said.The Israeli military said, however, it would employ

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British film, television and stage actress Helen McCrory has died aged 52 from cance air max r, her husband and fellow actor Damian Lewis said on Friday. McCrory died peacefully at hom adidas samba e surrounded by a wave of love from friends and family , Lewis wrote on Twitter, calling his late wife beautiful and mighty. We love her and know how lucky we are to have had her in our lives. She blazed so brightly, the actor added, explaining she had died after an heroic battle with cancer. Actors Helen McCrory, left, and husband Damian Lewis appear at the premiere of Once Upon adidas campus A Time in Hollywood, in London on July 30, 2019. McCrory has died at the age of 52, Lewis said Friday, April 16, 2021. Joel C Ryan/AP McCrory was best known as a star of hit BBC crime drama Peaky Blinders and for the role of Narcissa Malfoy in the Harry Potter films, as the mother of the boy wizard s school-aged rival.She played Cherie Blair, the wife of former British prime minister Tony Blair, twice in both the The Queen 2006 and The Special Relationship 2010 , and played fictional British interior minister Clair Dowar in the the James Bond film Skyfall 2012 .Born in Paddington in west London in 1968 to a Welsh mother and Scottish-born father, McCrory was the eldest of three children. She attended school in southeast England and spent a year living in Italy before studying acting at London s D Nkph Fighting Looters, Building A New Iraq
Soldiers reinforced patrols and checkpoints Friday following a rare nighttime curfew imposed by authorities seeking to quell escalating clashes between factions suppo stanley cup rting the Western-backed government and Hezbollah protesters trying to bring it down.The order to clear the streets mdash; lifted just before dawn mdash; came after rival groups turned a university campus into a battle zone on Thursday with at least three people killed when mobs faced off with homemade clubs and stones.Army officers reported snipers opening fire during the melee, stanley cup but there was no clear indication of whether the gunmen were acting on orders from any of the stanley france leaders locked in the deepening standoff or saboteurs seeking to inflame the situation.Yet all sides recognized that the country could be stumbling dangerously in the direction of civil war. Government officials and Hezbollah s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, appealed for calm and allowed security forces to enforce the first blanket curfew in the Lebanese capital in 11 years.Walid Jumblatt, a senior pro-government politician, called on the Hezbollah-allied speaker of parliament to reconvene lawmakers in an attempt to restore dialogue between the feuding sides. Talks between the Shiite Muslim-led Hezbollah and the government of Prime Minister Fuad Saniora broke down in November over Hezbollah s demands for greater power mdash; riding their near hero status in Lebanon after humbling far superior Israeli ground forces in last summer s war.Hezbo

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WASHINGTON - Russia s Vladimir Putin won t be on the guest list when President Barack Obama and other world leaders assemble in Germany next week, as part of the punishment for alleged Kremlin-supported aggression in Ukraine.Yet the Russian adidas originals damen president remains a central player in international affairs, including the U.S.-led nuclear talks with Iran, even with the pledge by Western leaders to try to isolate Putin while the crisis in Ukraine persists.Just this month, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was in Moscow for talks with Putin and Secretary of State John Kerry went to Sochi to confer with him. Putin and British Prime Minister David Cameron spoke by telephone in recent days and agreed to resume talks aimed at ending Syria s civil war, where Putin s cooperation also is crucial. salomon zapatillas Conflict in Ukraine reignites 18 photos U.S. officials say the engagement is limited to areas where Moscow and the West have shared interests. Outreach to Putin on such matters, officials argue, should n adidas yeezy ot be seen as a sign that the West has accepted the status quo in Ukraine, where pro-Russian separatists continue to stoke instability. It makes sense to cooperate where there is a clear mutual interest as long as you re not being asked to back off matters of principle that ma Pdnn Russia tables new Ukraine resolution at U.N.
SYDNEY - A British woman who survived fierce storms and a near-drowning on her journeys across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans set off from Australia on Wednesday for a rowing adventure across the Indian Ocean with a new worry on her mind: pirates.Roz Savage rowed out of the port city of Fremantle, in Western Australia, to begin a four-month trip in her 23-foot purple rowboat, Sedna, named after the Inuit goddess of the ocean. If she completes the 4,00 stanley cup 0-mile trip, Savage will be the first woman to row across three oceans, according to the Ocean Rowing Society, a London-based group that tracks such feats.Despite her years of experience at sea, the 43-year-old environmentalist acknowledged that this trip 151; which takes her through an area known for pirate attacks 151; has her on edge. She axed her original plan to row to Mumbai, which would have taken her through a pirate-riddled region off the Somali coast, and is now keeping her exact route and final destination a secret for security reasons. It s something that I think about in the wee hours of the night, Savage told The Associated Press. I ve done everything I can to reduce the risk, so now I try and just tell mys stanley thermos elf that yeah, there s nothing more I can do. Her pirate prepare stanley quencher dness plan included seeking advice from shipping companies in the region and taking with her a good luck charm 151; Woody, a tiny toy pirate named for his little wooden peg leg. Savage uses her long-distance rowing adventures to prom

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MANILA, Philippines -- The notor adidas campus donna iously foul-mouthed leader of the Philippines lashed out Wednesday at Kim Jong Un, warning that the North Korean maniac was threatening all of Asia with nuclear war by playing with dangerous toys. Speaking at a separate event just before hosting an ASEAN Regional Forum of Southeast Asian leaders in his country, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte lashed out at Kim in a speech, saying he has a kind-looking face but is really a fool, a son of a bit mizuno de ch, and disturbed.N. Korean ICBM flew dangerously close to passenger jet s flight path U.S. weighing all options after latest North Korean missile launch 05:27 He s a maniac. If he commits a mistake, then the Far East will become an arid land, Duterte told people at the Philippines internal revenue service. It must be stopped, this nuclear war. The ASEAN foreign ministers were expected to express their grave concern over North Korea s recent intercontinental ballistic missile ICBM tests at Monday s ASEAN summit, a security-focused gathering also attended by their U.S., Russian, Chinese, South and North Korean and Japanese counterparts.The U.S. military continued early Wednesday morning to demonstrate the readiness of its own nuclear-capable lo adidas yeezy ng-range missile arsenal in the wake of the North s second ICBM test on Iebc Source: Russia sending 3 military ships to Syria
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The four Indigenous children who survived 40 days in the Amazon jungle after their plane crashed have shared limited but harrowing details of their ordeal with their family, including that their mother survived the crash for days before she died.The kids, aged 13, 9 and 4 years and 11 months, are expected to remain for at least two weeks in a hospital receiving treatment after their rescue Friday, but some are already speaking and wanting to do more than lying on a bed, according to family members.Manuel Ranoque, father of the two youngest children, told reporters outside th adidas originals hamburg e hospital af1 Sunday that the oldest of the four surviving children mdash; 13-year-old Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy mdash; told him their mother was alive for about four days after the plane crashed on May 1 in the Colombian jungle. Manuel Ranoque, father of the four Indigenous children who were found alive after being lost for 40 days in the Colombian Amazon rainforest following a plane crash, speaks to the media before arriving at the Military Hospital, where the children were hospitalized, in Bogota on June 11, 2023. RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP via Getty Images Ranoque said before she died, the mother likely would have told them: go away, apparently asking them to leave the wreckage site to survive. He provided no more details.Fidencio Valenc nike dunks panda ia, a child s uncle, told media outlet Noticias Caracol the childre Aiui American couple confirmed killed in Brussels attacks
Robert Zoellick, a seasoned player in international financial and diplomatic circles, won the unanimous approval of the World Bank s board on Monday to become the poverty-fighting institution s next president.Zoellick will succeed Paul Wolfowitz, whose last day is Saturday, ending a stormy two-year tenure. The new president will take the reins Sunday, the first day of his five-year term.Wolfowitz courted controversy from the start because of his role in the Iraq war when he was deputy defense secretary. However, it was his role in arrangin stanley mug g a hefty pay raise for Shaha Riza, his girlfriend and bank employee, that forced his upcoming departure. That prompted a staff revolt and calls by Europeans and others for Wolfowitz to resign.President Bush turned to Zoellick mdash; his former top trade envoy and No. 2 diplomat- t stanley cup o the heal wounds and mend the relationships strained by the Wolfowitz episode.Zoellick, 53, brings to the World Bank years of experience in the foreign and economic policy arenas under three Republican presidents, starting with Ronald Reagan. Zoellick left the Bush administration last year to become an executive at the Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs. The board, in a brief statement, said Zoellick brings strong leadership and managerial qualities as well as a proven track record in international affairs and the drive required to enhance the credibility and effectiveness of the bank. As World Bank chief, he ll have his work cut out for him. He ll need to r

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BEIJING, China -- A migrant worker was pulled out alive W adidas yeezyslide ednesday after he was buried for more than 60 hours in a massive landslide that swept through part of a major manufacturing city in southern China.Rao Liangzhong of the Shenzhen Emergency Response Office said that the man, Tian Zeming, w yeezy as rescued around dawn on Wednesday. He said Tian was from Chongqing in southwestern China. The survivor had a very feeble voice and pulse when he was found alive buried under debris, and now he s undergoing further checks, Dr. Wang Yiguo told a news conference in Shenzhen, according to a transcript posted by the district government that covers the area. Chinese capital being choked by smog 01:30 State broadcaster CCTV reported t hoka wanderschuh hat Tian later underwent surgery for a broken hand and on his foot, which had been wedged against a door panel. It said he had been trying to get out of his room when the building collapsed, and the door panel created a space for him to survive.When they found him, Tian told rescuers his name and that there was another person buried near him, according to the transcript. Another neurosurgeon, Dai Limeng, told the news conference that he had gone into the rubble and confirmed that the second person had not survived.More than 70 people are still missing from the landslide that happened Obht U.N. agency: Iran rapidly expanding nuclear work
An Iraqi investigating magistrate on Sunday convened the first criminal hearing in the case of Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein, who has been held by the U.S. military without charges for nearly 20 months.Hussein was present for most of the nearly seven-hour, closed-door proceeding in the Central Criminal Court of Iraq before magistrate Dhia al-Kinani. It was the first time Hussein or his lawyers have seen any of the materials gathered by the U.S. military against him since his arrest in Ramadi on April 12, 2006.Al-Kinani, however, issued an order that the proceedings and details of the material presented remain secret.Hussein s defense attorney, Paul Gardephe, said no formal charges were lodged. Gardephe was permitted to see some material during the proceeding but was forbidden from taking any copies with him to aid in building hi stanley cups s defense.In the past, Pentagon spokesmen have alleged that Hussein was suspected in a range of terrorist stanley cup -related activities. There is still no formal charge against Bilal, and The Associated Press continues to believe that Bilal Hussein was a photojournalist working in a war z stanley cup one and that claims that he is involved with insurgent activities are false, said AP spokesman Paul Colford in a statement. Because the judge ordered that the proceedings today be kept secret, we are restricted from saying anything further. In Baghdad, a U.S. military spokesman also declined to provide details beyond saying that the hearing was held by the

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The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Saturday that the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine was disconnected to its last external power line but was still able to run electricity through a reserve line amid sustained shelling in the area.International A salomon xt tomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Grossi said in a statement that the agency s experts, who arrived at Zaporizhzhia on Thursday, were told by senior Ukrainian staff that the fourth and last operational line was down. The three others were lost earlier during the conflict.But the IAEA experts learned that the reserve line linking the facility to a nearby thermal power plant was delivering the electricity the plant generates to the external grid, the statement said. The same reserve line can also provide backup power to the plant if needed, it added. This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant occupied by Russian forces, in Ukraine on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. Planet Labs PBC / AP We alr adidas original campus eady have a better understanding of the functionality of the reserve power line in connecting the facility to the gr adidas yeezy id, Grossi said. This is crucial information in assessing the overall situation there. In addition, the plant s management informed the IAEA that one reactor was disconnected Saturday afternoon because of grid restrictions. Another reactor is still oper Hgks U.S. Warships Dock In Hong Kong
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On the day of her 16th birthday on Friday, Malala Yousafzai, the then-15-year-old Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban for going to dunk pand school, will address the United Nations in New York. The Malala Day event has been organized by Gordon Brown, former British Prime Minister and now U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education. Watch a live webcast of her speech at 9:45 a.m. ET Friday on CBSNews. This frail young girl who was seriously injured has become such a powerful symbol not just for the girls right to education, but for the demand that we do something about it immediately, said Brown in an interview Thursday with CBSNews. Friday will be Malala s first public speech since she was attacked on her school bus last year. Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban, with her two brothers, Khushal and Atal, at the U.N. on July 12, 2013 Pamela Falk/CBS News There will be no compromise with any religious extremist who says girls should not go to school or stop going to school at 10, said Brown. The girls right to educati adidas yeezy on in particular is a human right that should be observed in all circumstances, he added. Malala will also present a petition of more than 3 million signatures to the Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, demanding education for all by 2015 151; one of the United Nations Millennium Goals. The Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, sa adidas campus 80s id, Jmik Torch Song In Sydney
Hundreds of protesters who blame U.N. peacekeepers from Nepal for Haiti s widening cholera epidemic marched on a rural military base Friday to demand the soldiers leave the country.Demonstrators waving tree branches and carrying anti-U.N. banners walked from the central plateau city of Mirebalais several miles to the gates of the base perched above a tributary of the Artibonite River - a waterway identified by health officials as a conduit for the infection.The protesters chanted Like it or not, they must go as the Nepalese soldiers and other U.N. peacekeepers remained inside.Cholera has sparked widespread fear in Haiti, where it was unknown before the outbreak was first notice stanley cup d by authorities Oct. 20. As of Friday morning, more than 4,700 people have been hospitalized and at least 330 have died, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.Haiti s Cholera Death Toll Continues to RiseLaPook in Haiti: Controlled Chaos of CholeraLaPook on Cholera: I Fear a Major Disaster Haitian Gov t: Cholera Outbreak Stabilizing There has been no scientific conclusion on the origin of the epidemic, which became evident when dozens of patients began dying with high fevers and watery diarrhea at a hospital in the town of St. Marc a few miles from the last stretch of the river.Experts say the disease was likely imported. Until this month stanley quencher there had not been a diagnosed case of cholera in Haiti as far back as records go in the mid-20th Century stanley uk , said Claire

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The boulevards of Riyadh, adidas campus Saudi Arabia s capital, are lined with office towers, American fast food chains, and super-sized shopping malls. But the modern faccedil;ade can t obscure a deeply conservative Islamic country. Saudi women leave a shopping mall in Riyadh on November 7, 2013. Getty Images The malls may sell mini skirts and sexy lingerie, but the female shoppers nearly all wear floor-length black gowns known as abayas, and niqabs that cover everything except their eyes. And - as is the norm in Saudi Arabia - the fast food restaurants are segregated. Men sit at the front; women and families sit in a partitioned area at the back, shielded from public view.Saudi women are also banned from driving, and need a male relative s permission to work and travel overseas. For visitors from the West, it can be tough to digest.How Saudi Arabia reforms terroristsWar on ISIS: Rare look at training to stop Saudi-born terroristsA look inside Saudi Arab nike air max ia s fight against ISISBut we went to Saudi Arabia to talk to Saudi women, and to find out what they think about their o adidas originals wn society. We wanted to look behind the clicheacute; that paints all Saudi women as veiled and therefore victimized. On a rare visit to the closed-off kingdom, we also wanted to know if there were any real signs of change. For more of Holly Williams reporting from Saudi Arabia, tune in to CBS This Morni Ntfb Japan overwhelmed by bodies of tsunami dead
Farida Tarana, 27, is infamous across Afghanistan for being the first female contestant from the conservative province of Herat to compete on Afghan Star, the country s version of American Idol. In 2006, her involvement on the show brought condemnation from the coun stanley thermobecher try s conservative fact stanley cup ion, who follow strict social rules that outlaw women from singing in public. Her experience breaking rigid social norms on the show led her to run for political office in Afghanistan s elections this year. Last week, Tarana won her bid for a seat on the Kabul Provincial Council, a legislative body similar to an American state legislature, reports Time. When I competed for Afghan Star, I wanted to prove that a woman from Herat could sing, Tarana told Time. Now that I have been elected to the provincial council, I will prove to people that a lady who can sing can be in politics as well. Though the fairness of this year s election results have been called into question, the results from local elections show that Afghans are more involved in democracy and are far more progressive and liberal than is known. Scores of young Afghans ran for political seat this year, sh stanley cup owing that the next generation of the country s leaders may be more interested in democracy than their predecessors. Special Report: Afghanistan In provinces throughout Afghanistan, hundreds of youths nominated themselves for provincial councils, Sanjar Sohail, editor of the newspaper Eight in the Morning, told Time.