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ISTANBUL -- So desperate are Syrians to flee the war that they are jamming rickety boats, known as ghost ships bound for Europe. The journey-- in the Mediterranean sea-- is airforce perilous. On Wednesday, the United Nations refugee agency said more than 300 people died attempting a similar crossing from Africa.The ghost ships both set off from the Turkish port of Mersin. They were rusted frei adidas sambarose ghters bought cheaply by the smugglers, who made millions of dollars stuffing the holds with desperate Syrians, and then leaving the ships on autopilot off the Italian coast. A view of the conditions inside a vessel transporting refugees to Europe CBS News In ports like Mersin, the smugglers hu adidas originals hamburg man cargo is ferried out to larger ships waiting off shore. The men, women and children pay around $5,000 dollars a head - for a treacherous journey - and the hope of a better life in Europe.A man we met named Mohammed fled Syria a year ago and now works for a smuggler in Istanbul. He agreed to talk to us about the dangers of trying to cross to Europe in a smuggler s boat, but only if we hid his identity. Mohammed, a man who takes part in the business of smuggling refugees on boats CBS News It s dangerous and frightening, he told me. There are fights over food and water, and when the smuggler Gyho Greek parliament approves bailout bill
Anna Chapman, left, a Russian national who was deported from the U.S. this summer for alleged spying for Russia, has joined the youth wing of PM Vladimir Putin s United Russia party. AP Photo Former spy Anna Chapman signed up with the youth wing of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin s United Russia party, and was promptly appointed to its public council, the BBC reports.Chapman s move is a public reaffirmation of her allegiance to both Russia in general and Putin specifically, th stanley flask e Associated Press reports.Chapman was exposed in the United States along with nine other so-called sleeper agents in an FBI sting operation and deported back to Russia this summer.Rather than recede into anonymity like the other agents, Chapman has reveled in the fame, the AP reports. Since Prime Minister Putin held a reception to welcome her and the other agents back, Chapman has appeared at a Russian rocket launch and stripped to her underwear for a men stanley termoska s magazine, among other things. Video: Double Agent Exposed Anna Chapman Spy RingGallery: Anna ChapmanAnna Cha stanley flask pman Honored: Deported Russian Spy Ring Given Kremlin s Highest Honor Chapman is also rumored to soon be making an appearance in Playboy magazine in January, albeit in photos taken by an ex-boyfriend, the New York Daily News reports.One of the reasons the Young Guard youth wing was formed was to counter uprisings that would displace Putin and Presi

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President Saddam Hussein had been gone from Iraq for just a few weeks, and U.S. forces in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, already were being called unwelcome invaders. One of the first big anti-American protests of the war escalated into shootouts that left 18 Iraqis dead and 78 wounded.It would be a familiar scene in Iraq s next few years: Crowds gather, insurgents mingle with civilians. Troops open fire, and innocents die.All the while, according to internal military correspondence obtained by The Associated Press, U.S. commanders were telling Washington that many civilian casualties could be avoided by using a new nonlethal weapon developed over the past decade.Military leaders repeatedly and urgently requested the device. It uses energy beams instead of bullets and lets soldiers break up unruly crowds without firing a shot.It is a ray gun that neither kills nor maims, but the Pentagon has refused to deploy it because of the stanley cups uk possibility that the weapon might be seen as a torture stanley tumbler device. Perched on a Humvee or a flatbed truck, the Active Denial System gives people hit by the invisible beam the sense that their skin is on fire. They move out of the way quickly and without injury.On April 30, 2003, two days after the first Fallujah incident, Gene McCall, then the top scientist at Air Force Space Command in Colorado, type stanley termoska d out a two-sentence e-mail to Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. I am convinced that the tragedy at Fallujah would not have occurre

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Johannesburgmdash; Imprisoned former Paralympic gold medalist and Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius was granted parole on Friday, but the South African par adidas originals mujer ole board said the decision would not take effect until Jan. 5. The board made its decision on the Olympic runner s fate more than 10 years after he shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentines Day 2013. The board had been expected to consider his conduct and disciplinary record in prison, his participation in educational or other training courses, his mental and physical state, whether they believed he was likely to relapse into crime and the risk he poses to the public.South Africa s national Department of Correctional Services said in a statement that the parole made its decision, having assessed Mr. Pistorius profile and other material submitted for the purposes of parole consideration, and noted that he was a first time offender with a positive support system. Steenkamp s mother June did not address the parole board directly Friday, but a representative read out a family impact statement in which June said: Rehabilitation requires someone to engage honestly, with the full truth of his crime and the consequences thereof. Nobody can claim to have remorse if they re not yeezy slide able to engage fully with the truth. asics sneaker Blade Runner Oscar Pistorius, convicted in murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, up for parole Ojmf Metal detectorist looking for World War II relics instead finds medieval papal artifact
Britain must relieve strain on its pension system by raising the retirement age to as high as 69 by 2050 while increasing payments to a population that is living longer and having fewer children to support it, a government-commissioned r stanley becher eport said Wednesday. There are significant problems in our pens stanley us ions system, said Lord Turner, the head of the commission that produced the report. There is a major demographic challenge, Increased life expectancy means Britain will see a big rise in the number of retirees in the next 35 years, many of whom face relative poverty if the pensio stanley website n system remains unchanged. The commission said a balance must be struck between keeping pension costs down while allowing Britons to retire at a reasonable age.With more retirees, declining savings rates and fewer workers and children, other European countries and the United States face similar problems. The U.S. retirement age is gradually moving from 65.5 today to 67 for people born after 1960.Even with a higher retirement age, British pension benefits will need to rise from 6.2 percent of GDP today to as much as 8 percent GDP in 45 years, the report said. Britain s basic state pension mdash; currently paid to women at 60 and men at 65 mdash; is just over $138 a week. The commission did not propose a comparable per-person increase.To reduce the burden on state coffers, the Pensions Commission report said the retirement age should move to somewhere between 67 and 69 for both sexes and proposed

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ROME -- Actor George Clooney was taken to the hospital in Sardinia and released after being involved in an accident while riding his motor scooter on the Italian island Tuesday, hospital officials said. He is recovering at his home and will be fine, Clooney spokesman Stan Rosenfield told The Associated Press in an email.The John Paul II hospital in Olbia confirmed Clooney was treated there and released after Tuesday s accident. Local media representatives who had gathered at adidas samba the hospital adidas samba og said Clooney left in a van through a side exit. Ambulance personnel tend to a man lying on the ground, later identified as actor George Clooney, after being involved in a scooter accident in the near Olbia, on the Sardinia island, Italy, Tuesday, July 10, 2018. Mario Chironi / AP Daily newspaper La Nuova Sardegna said the 57-year-old Clooney was heading to a film set a car hit his motorbike. The accident occurred near Costa Corallina, in the province of Olbia.BBC Newsreports Clooney was in Sardinia filming a television miniseries adapted from Joseph Heller s World War II novel Catch-22. Clooney has a home on Lake Como, which is on the Italian mainland. More from CBS News mizuno laufschuhe Crocodile kills woman despite coworker s a Ozag Pakistan s Burka Avenger cartoon stirs outfit controversy
President Bush will ask Congress for $10.6 billion to help Afghanistan strengthen its security forces and rebuild from years of war, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday.The money would be on top of $14.2 billion in aid the United States has already given to Afghanistan since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001 that toppled the repressive Taliban.The request, which Mr. Bush will make formally next month, comes after a year in which Taliban forces launched surprisingly fierce attacks across the country. U.S. and NATO forces are bracing for a renewed offens stanley quencher ive by Taliban fighters in the spring The challenges of the last several months have demonstrated that we want to stanley france and we should redouble our efforts, Rice told reporters flying with her to Brussels for NATO meetings on Afghanistan.Rice said that of the total, $8.6 billion would be for training and equippi stanley cup quencher ng Afghan police and security forces, and $2 billion would be for reconstruction. The money would be spent over the next two years. The aid proposal also comes as the U.S. appears to be stepping up its military commitment in the country.The Defense Department has said that 3,200 soldiers from the New York-based 10th Mountain Division already in Afghanistan would have their tour extended by four months. In a visit to Afghanistan last week, new Defense Secretary Robert Gates indicated he is likely to ask President Bush for more troops for the country.There are about 24,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the highest

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Nairobi, Kenyamdash; Extremists launched a deadly attack on a luxury hotel in Kenya s capital Tuesday, sending people fleeing in panic as explosions and heavy gunfire reverberated through the complex. A police o nike dunk high fficer said at least 15 people had died. It is terrible. What I have seen is terrible, said Charles Njenga, a man who ran from the scene.A Kenyan police officer said 15 bodies had been taken to the morgue. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters. The U.S. State Department confirmed an American citizen was among those killed, but did not r samba shoes elease the victim s identity. Al-Shabab asserted that 47 people were killed but it nike dunk s Shahada news agency post gave no details.Authorities sent special forces into the hotel to flush out the gunmen. Late Tuesday night, about eight hours after the siege began, Interior Minister Fred Matiang i said all of the buildings affected had been secured and that security forces were mopping up. The DusitD2 hotel complex includes bars, restaurants, offices and banks and is in a well-to-do neighborhood with many American, European and Indian expatriates. I would like to reiterate that the situation is under control and the country is safe, he said. However, more gunfire was heard about an hour later, Kenyan broadcaster NTV reported. Some family members said they had been in touch with loved ones still hiding inside the complex, waiting to be rescued.Early Wednesday, Kenya s interior ministry sa Wzjq Mladic: Genocide suspect, goat herder, God
Updated 11:09 PM ETMIAMI A Marine veteran jailed for months in Mexico after trying to carry a family heirloom shotgun across the border has been freed, officials a gourde stanley nd his lawyer said late Friday.The attorney for Jon Hammar tweeted Friday night that his client had been released from a detention center in Matamoros, Mexico. U.S. officials were planning to drive the 27-year-old Hammar across the border at Brownsville, Texas. Jon is out, going home! Eddie Varon stanley quencher Levy tweeted.Patrick Ventrell, the acting deputy spokesman for the State Department, confirmed Hammer s release and return to the U.S. in a statement Friday night. Officials from the U.S. Consulate General in Matamoros met him at the prison and escorted him to the U.S. border, where he was reunited with members of his family, the statement said. We sincerely appreciate the efforts on the part of Mexican authorities to ensure that an appropriate resolution was made in accordance with Mexican law, and that Mr. Hammar will be free to spend the holidays with his loved ones. U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., confirmed Hammar s release in a statement. She said he was back safely in the United States. These past few months have been an absolute nightmare for Jon and his family, and I am so relieved that this whole ordeal will soon be over, the congresswoman said. I am overcome with joy knowing that Jon will stanley cup be spending Christmas with his parents, family and friends. An aide to a legal representative of the Mex

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Thousands of people have taken to social media to express solidarity with the Parisian newspaper Charlie Hebdo that was attacked Wednesday by apparent Islamic extremists. FBI insider on Paris terror attack 03:52 At least 12 people were killed in the attack, and while the motive hasn t been confirmed, the newspaper has been attacked previously for publishing air force 1 cartoons satirizing the Prophet Muhammed and Islam in general. Witnesses are also reporting the gunmen asked specifically for newspaper staff by name. Why jihadists are so committed to their cause 01:43 Charlie Hebdo s office was firebombed in 2011 after publishing a adidas campus cartoon depicting an image of the Prophet Muhammad. Any depiction of the prophet is forbidden by Islam.Ignoring the att yeezy slide ack and the threat of further violence, Charlie Hebdo published more Muhammad pictures the following year.The phrase Charlie Hebdo quickly became the top trending term on Twitter, and thousands took to using the hashtag jesuischarlie or I am Charlie to show support. Even the U.S. Embassy in Paris switched its Twitter avatar in solidarity. A screengrab of the U.S. Emb Tiyc Family with Chicago ties flees Gaza, arrives safely in Egypt
Government opponents shouted Allahu Akbar and Death to the Dictator from Tehran stanley cup s rooftops in the pouring rain on the eve of student demonstrations planned for Monday. Authorities choked off Internet access and warned journalists working for foreign me stanley us dia to stick to their offices for the next three days.The measures were aimed at depriving the opposition of its key means of mobilizing the masses as Iran s clerical rulers keep a tight lid on dissent. Government opponents are seeking, nonetheless, to get large numbers of demonstrators to turn out Monday and show their movement still has momentum.Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi threw his support behind the student demonstrations and declared that his movement is still alive. A statement posted on his Web site said the clerical establishment cannot silence students and was losing legitimacy in the Iranian people s minds. A great nation would not stay silent when some confiscate its vote, said Mousavi, who claims President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stole the June 12 election victory from him by fraud.Supreme Le stanley becher ader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final say on all state matters, accused the opposition Sunday of exposing divisions in the country and creating opportunities for Iran s enemies. Iran s universities have been strongholds of the opposition movement that grew out of the disputed election, and authorities have besieged campuses nationwide with a wave of arrests and student expulsions. The pro-government Basij m

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Rome -- Police in northern Italy have detained three men, including one linked to a neo-fascist Italian political party, after uncovering a huge stash of automatic weapons, a missile and material featuring Nazi airmaxplus symbols. Police said the discoveries stemmed from a previous investigation into Italians affiliated with far-right extremist gro mizuno de ups who took part in the Russian-backed insurgency in eastern Ukraine.In a statement Monday, Turin police said one of the men arrested had in 2001 run unsuccessfully as a Senate candidate for the neo-fascist Forza Nuova party. At his home in Gallarate, police found nine assault weapon adidas campus 00s s, nearly 30 hunting rifles, pistols and bayonets as well as ammunition and antique Nazi plaques featuring swastikas.Italy s national police force tweeted images of the seized missile and other weapons. The police said it was an air-to-air missile. Digos Torino ha concluso unrsquo;operazione nei confronti di 3 persone responsabili di detenzione di armi da guerra e da sparo.Dalle indagini si egrave; scoperta anche una trattativa per la compravendita di un missile aria ndash; aria sequestrato in provincia di Pavia https://t.co/IvKFpgQ4Oxmdash; Polizia di Stato @poliziadistato July 15, 2019 Two other men were detained after police found a French-made missile at an airport hangar that they apparently were seeking to sell.Italy s gun laws change as leaders push legitimate defense Italian media outlets identified the suspects as Fabio Del Bergiolo, 50, an I Fcoq Girl loses part of finger, 5 others injured as Pamplona s running of the bulls resumes for first time since 2019
BEIRUT At least 60,000 people have been killed in Syria s civil war, with monthly casualty figures steadily increasing since the conflict began almost two years ago, according stanley cup to a new analysis released Wednesday by the United Nations.The death toll is a third more than the figure of 45,000 given by activists opposed to the regime of President Bashar Assad 151; the first time that the global body s estimates are higher.It comes as activists report that a Syrian warplane blasted a gas station near Damascus on Wednesday, kil stanley thermos mug ling and wounding dozens of people and igniting a huge fire in what could be one of the bloodiest attacks in weeks during the 22-month conflict.Dozens killed, wounded in airstrike near DamascusIndependent experts compared 147,349 killings reported by seven different sources 151; including the government 151; for the study, which was commissioned by the U.N. human rights office.By removing duplicates they arrived at a list of 59,648 individuals killed between the start of the uprising on March 15, 2011, and Nov. 30, 2012. In each case, the victim s first and last name, the date and the location of his or her death were known. Given there has been no let-up in the conflict since the end of November, we can assume that more than 60,000 people have been killed by the beginning of 2013, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pi stanley cup llay said in a statement. The number of casualties is much higher than we expected, and is truly shocking. The real

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SANAA, Yemen -- A series of ISIS-claimed bombings in Yemen s rebel-cont adidas originals ultraboost rolled capital killed at least four people and wounded 60 Wednesday night amid the country s raging war.The online claim, if true, would further complicate the ongoing conflict in Yemen that pits Shiite rebels known yeezy slide as Houthis and breakaway army units against an array of often rival forces, including local tribesmen, loyalists to the exiled President Abed Rabbo Mansour and al Qaeda militants. The bombings came on the eve of the holy month of Ramadan, when radical Sunni militants around the region often escalate their attacks against Shiites, whom they view as heretics.Meanwhile Wednesday, airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition backing Hadi struck a convoy of civilian vehicles in the southern city of Aden, killing adidas originals damen at least 31 people, authorities said.In Sanaa, ambulances rushed through the streets in northern and central parts of the capital where the offices of the rebels, known as Houthis, are located. Pictures posted online from the area show huge orange flames rising from the areas, which also are home to Shiite mosques. Humanitarian disaster unfolding in Yemen 02:49 Security officials earlier said two suicide attackers drove car bombs into the gates of two buildings before detonating them. They said a third attack targeted a ga Uzmz Nigerian army says it has rescued nearly 200 from Boko Haram camps
CBS/AP BEIRUT - The head of the U.N. observers in Syria said Friday a spike in bloodshed is derailing the mission to monitor and defuse more than a year of violence, raising questions about how effective the unarmed force can be in a conflict that every day looks more like a civil war.U.N. Peacekeeping Chief Spokesman Kieran Dwyer told CBS News Pamela Falk that they are just pulling back for now, but not formally or informally suspending the mission. All 300 observers remain in the country, but they have had t stanley canada o limit their activities stanley cup for the time being, Dwyer said, and mission will continue to evaluate its presence i stanley flasche n Syria on a day-by-day basis.The troubles facing the observer mission are the latest sign that an international peace plan for Syria is disintegrating. Western powers have pinned their hopes on the plan, brokered two months ago by special envoy Kofi Annan, in part because there are no other options on the table. There is little support for military intervention, and several rounds of sanctions have failed to stop the bloodshed. Violence over the past 10 days has been intensifying willingly by the both parties, with losses on both sides and significant risks to our observers, Maj. Gen. Robert Mood told reporters in Damascus, the Syrian capital.Mood also said there was a concern among the states providing observers that the risk is approaching an unacceptable level 151; suggesting the violence could prompt the nearly 300 observers to pull out of the country a

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This picture taken on September 6, 2022 and releas adidas originals donna ed on September 7 by the Vietnam News Agency shows firefighters at the scene of a deadly fire that engulfed a karaoke bar in Binh Duong province, north of Ho Chi Minh City. STR/Vietnam News Agency/AFP/Getty Hanoimdash; The death toll from a fire that tore through a karaoke bar in southern Vietnam has risen to 32, state media said on Wednesday. The blaze engulfed the second floor of the building on Tuesday night, trapping customers and staff as dense smoke filled the staircase and blocked the emergency exit, reports said. Many crowded onto a balcony to escape the flames, which grew quickly as they ignited the bar s wooden interior, while others were forced to jump from the building, state media added. Photos showed plumes of smoke billowing out of the bar mdash; located in a crowded residential neighborhood in Thuan An city, north of commercia yeezy 350 l hub Ho Chi Minh City in Binh Duong province mdash; as firefighters on ladders tried to extinguish the blaze.Mai Hung Dung, a top official with the ruling Communist Party in Binh Duong, told AFP earlier in the day that at least 23 people were killed, but he said the search for victims in th salomon xt e burned-out bar continued. State-run media later updated the death toll to 32. State media reported that eight people were found dead in the bar s bathroom alone. Victims of fire that tore thro Cunq Zimbabwe s Mugabe Signs Power-Sharing Deal
A group of eight Iranians, including two diplomats, were released by U.S. forces Wednesday after being detained because unauthorized weapons were found in their cars, the U.S. military said.Iran reacted swiftly to the news, summoning a Swiss diplomat who represents American interests in Tehran to protest the detentions, according to the Iranian Foreign Minis stanley us try.Mi stanley cup nistry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini called the U.S. action an act of interference in Iraq s internal affairs and inconsistent with the responsibilities of U.S.-led occupation forces in Iraq.Four cars carrying the Iranians, as well as seven Iraqis, were stopped at a checkpoint Tuesday evening and then allowed to proceed to the nearby Sheraton Ishtar hotel, where they were later taken into custody and questioned, the military said.Saadi Othman, an adviser to Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. general in Iraq, told British Broadcasting Corp. television that the incident was regrettable and had nothing to do with President Bush s remarks on Tuesday, when he lashed out at Iran for meddling in Iraq s affairs and fomenting instability here. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hosyhar Zebari told the British Broadcasting Corp. the Iranians were released after Iraqi officials intervened and told the Americans they were part of an official delegation on a legal visit to discuss electricity cooperation. Troops seized thr stanley becher ee weapons from the cars - an AK-47 assault rifle and two 9mm pistols that had been in the possession of

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London chef Michel Roux Jr. didn t earn two Michelin stars by compromising on quality - or taste.He s all about sourcing local ingredients, which is what made this particular discovery such a surprise.It was literally right under his nose - more than 100 feet below in a vast network of unused tunnels. They re home, now, to an underground farm of herbs and mini-vegetables bathed in fluorescent light and designed to suit the most sophisticated of palates. Miniature leek, I mean tiny, tiny leaf, Roux told CBS News Charlie D Agata. This really does pack a punch of leek. Take a little taste of that, and it really is it s intense leek flavor. Roux s partners, budding entrepreneurs Richard Ballard and Steven Dring, are the ones responsible for taking urban farming to a whole new sublevel. Dring said the idea came to them in a pub. There was alcohol involved obviously, Dring said, laughing.Crazy as it sounded, it began to make a lot of sense - all this wasted space sealed off from the city high above. We can c adidas sambarose ontrol the adidas samba light, said Dring. We can control the heat. We can control the airflow down here. So it kind of all works in terms of a growing environment, and we don t have to build a greenhouse in the center of London. They grow coriander, red lion mustard, tiny leeks, pea shoots and radishes, all fed by hydroponics, a system of water that flushes through seed adidas samba adidas s sewn into recycled carpets and light-emitting diode lights that keep the temperature up to aroun Urij Northern Hemisphere had its warmest summer ever, NOAA says
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