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Liz Truss, who is widely expected to become Britain s new prime minister this week, has pledged to act within a week to tackle a cost-of-living crisis fueled by soaring energy bills linked to the war in Ukraine.But Truss, speaking to the BBC on Sunday, refused to p samba rose rovide any details on the actions she would take, suggesting it would be wrong to discuss specific policies until she takes the top post. She stressed, however, that she understands the magnitude of the problems facing Britain.The government has been unable to address soaring inflation, labor strife an adidas originals ultraboost d strains on the nation s creaking health-care system since early July, when Johnson announced his intention to resign and triggered a contest to choose his successor. The ruling Conservative Party will announce the winner on Monday. I want to reassure people that I am absolutely determined to sort out this issue as well as, within a month, present a full plan for how we are going to reduce taxes, how we re going to get the British economy going, and how we are going to find our way out of these difficult times, said Truss, who has been foreign secretary for the past year. Conservative leadership candidate Liz Truss appears on BBC s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show presented by Laura Kuenssberg in London, Britain, September 4, 2022. Jeff Overs/BBC/Handout via REUTERS Truss is hoka winterschuhe facing Rishi Sunak, the government s Kqdc Official: U.S. Reclaims Afghan Town
An al Qaeda front group announced Sunday it had captured American soldiers in a stanley bottles deadly attack the day stanley cup before, as thousands of U.S. troops searched insurgent areas south of Baghdad for their three missing comrades.The statement came on one of the deadliest days in the country in recent weeks, with at least 124 people killed or found dead. A suicide truck bomb tore through the offices of a Kurdish political party in northern Iraq, killing 50 people, and a car bombing in a crowded Baghdad market stanley water jug killed another 17.Troops surrounded the town of Youssifiyah and told residents over loudspeakers to stay inside, residents said. They then methodically searched the houses, focusing on possible secret chambers under the floors where the soldiers might be hidden, residents said. The soldiers marked each searched house with a white piece of cloth.Soldiers also searched cars entering and leaving the town, writing searched on the side of each vehicle they had inspected. Several people were arrested, witnesses said.It s a massive search, including 4,000 U.S. troops, reports CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann. And increasingly desperate, to ease the anguish of the missing and their families. On its web site, the Islamic State in Iraq claimed credit for the ambush, and for capturing a number of crusader soldiers. It said more details mdash; implying proof mdash; will come soon, adds Strassmann.The Islamic State in Iraq offered no proof for its claim that it was behind the attack

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Vice President Mik adidas originals e Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other top administration officials concluded a meeting at the White House with Mexican officials without reaching a deal to avoid tariffs on Mexican goods that President Trump has threatened to impose if the country doesn t block the flow of migrants illegally e hoka laufschuhe ntering the U.S.Mr. Trump, who is traveling overseas, tweeted that not nearly enough progress had been made to persuade him not to impose the tariffs, which are set to go into effect June 10. Immigration discussion dunks s at the White House with representatives of Mexico have ended for the day. Progress is being made, but not nearly enough! Border arrests for May are at 133,000 because of Mexico the Democrats in Congress refusing to budge on immigration reform, the president wrote, referring to figures released Wednesday showing the number of migrants apprehended at the border in May was the highest it s been in more than a decade.Mr. Trump said talks will resume on Thursday with the understanding that, if no agreement is reached, Tariffs at the 5% level will begin on Monday, with monthly increases as per schedule. In a press conference, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said tariffs were not specifically discussed at Wednesday s meeting, which he said was focused on the steps Mexico will take to mitigate the migration problem. A White House official told CBS News that reaching a deal wasn t the goal for Wednesday s meeting. The meeting last Ynbd Kim Jong Nam met mystery American before his murder, police witness says
A French court convicted a woman of murdering three of her newborn children and sentenced her Thursday to eight years in prison.Veronique Courjault, 41, had been accused of killing them and then burning one of the bodies and stashing two others in a freezer. The case was stanley website followed closely in France since police launched their investigation in 2006.In France, murder stanley flasche charges carry a maximum penalty of life in prison. But the prosecutor in the case on Wednesday had recommended Courjault be given stanley cup a 10-year prison sentence.Courjault will only serve around five years of the eight-year sentence because she had been in custody during the investigation.During the trial, in the western city of Tours, psychiatrists testified that she suffered from a psychological condition known as pregnancy denial, and family members pleaded for clemency on her behalf. Her husband, Jean-Louis Courjault, praised the relatively light sentence, which he said will allow us to rebuild, to make out the light at the end of the tunnel. It was Jean-Louis Courjault who discovered the bodies of two of the babies in a freezer in July 2006 and alerted authorities in South Korea, where the couple lived at the time.The couple initially denied the babies were theirs, but Veronique Courjault later acknowledged having given birth to them in 2002 and 2003. She also confessed to killing a third baby, born in secret in France in 1999, and burning its body in a fireplace.In emotional testimony Wednesday, Courjault

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Stocks sank in U.S. trading on Monday as the impact of the coronavirus spread over the weekend, leaving at least 81 people dead and more than 2,700 others infected in more than a dozen countries.The Dow tumbled 453 points Monday, or almost 1.6%, to 28,535, salomon mujer wiping out the blue-chip-stock index s gains for 2020 with a fifth straight trading day of losses. The broader SP 500-stock index and tech-heavy Nasdaq sank 1.6% and 1.9%, respectively m air force dash; their biggest one-day drops in months. Hopes that the virus would be contained were squashed over the weekend, said Ryan Detrick, senior market strategist for LPL financial, of the sell-off. Although historically these outbreaks have been buying opportunities, the bottom line is investors are taking a sell first and ask questions later approach right now. With the sharp rise in the number of infected people, China is taking steps to limit travel among its citizens, including a suspension of all tour groups and on the sale of tour group packages for overseas travel, The New York Times reports. That suspension, which begins today, could cast a pall on tourism and consumer spending across the globe.China has also locked down Wuhan, where the virus originated, and at least 16 other cities, placing more than 50 million people were under travel restrictions in Ch mizuno running ina as of Monday. Consumption and travel will be the most affected, and to a lesser degree investment and industrial production, wrote Tommy Wu, senior economist at Vbyn COVID kills Brazilians waiting for full ICU beds as President Bolsonaro stubbornly rejects lockdowns
Prince Charles received the warmest public welcome so far of his U.S. tour Thursday, mingling with more than 1,000 cheering students at Georgetown University mdash; and even signing a softball.Arriving for a seminar on faith and social responsibility, Charles spent 15 minutes talking to students and staff who craned over barricades to catch a glimpse stanley quencher of him mdash; offering handshakes to many and a rare autograph on a proffered softball to one young man.Many in the crowd yelled Prince Charles! as he approached mdash; one woman adding, stanley mug Where s William The 56-year-old heir to the throne may lack the college appeal of his 23-year-old son William, but the en stanley cups thusiastic reception was a welcome boost for a royal tour that has met a muted response in a Washington preoccupied with legal fights involving top White House and congressional figures, battles over a Supreme Court vacancy and the rising death toll in Iraq.After the pomp and ceremony of Wednesday s black-tie dinner hosted by President Bush at the White House, Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall were on comfortable ground Thursday mdash; visiting worthy projects in which they have a personal interest. Charles, who has called in the past for a greater understanding of Islam from the West, met representatives of Christian, Muslim and Jewish groups at Georgetown s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.Earlier, the prince accepted an award for his contribution to architecture at the National Buildin

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Anatoliy Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images Protesters and riot police clash in front of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine during a rally in Kiev, Nov. 24, 2013.Thousands of pro-Europe protesters in Ukraine attempted to storm the government building in the capital of Kiev Sunday, clashing with police who fired tear gas to keep them back.Protesters tried to break through police ranks surrounding the building, with some throwing stones and hitting officers with the signs they were carrying, as police fought back with batons, an AFP correspondent reported. Ukraine Sergei Chuzavkov/AP Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest in Kiev, Ukraine, Nov. 24, 2013.Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through central Kiev on Sunday to demand that the Ukrainian government reverse course and sign a landmark agreement with the European Union in defiance of Russia.The protest was the biggest Ukraine has seen since the peaceful 2004 Orange Revolution, which overturned mizuno handballschuh a fraudulent presidential election result and brought a Western-leaning government to pow yeezy er. Ukraine adidas original campus Yaroslav Debelyi/AFP/Getty Images A general view of the Ukrainian opposition rally in Kiev, Nov. 24, 2013. Ukraine Znas Some of America s enemies work for Iraqi gov t
China s Communist Party heaped scorn on the leader of the banned Falun Gong sect on Wednesday, accusing him of attempting to replace the government by portraying himself to the masses as a god. Sect leader Acirc; Li Hongzhi deceives the people to deify himself and he deifies himself in a scheme to take the place of the government and rule the world,Acirc; the official People s Daily newspaper said. Acirc; His motives are crystal clear,Acirc; it said. Analysts saw the language as another sign of stiff prison sentences to come for leaders of the group. On Tuesday, the Communist Party accused Falun Gong of engaging in Acirc; anti-governmentAcirc; activities.CBS News In-DepthFalun Gong s Leader SpeaksCBS News Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson Interviews Li HongzhiJuly, 1999Falun Gong Has U.S. VoiceCBS News Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson ReportsJuly, 1999CBS News Correspondent Barry Petersen reports that the groupAcirc; s leader claims Fa stanley canada lun Gong is a way to a better life, a religious mix of Buddhism, Taoism and faith healing that is a haven for the people of China looking for meaning in their lives.China s leaders see it as somethi stanley cup price ng far more sinister: A potential threat to Communist rule and, in China, it doesn t get worse than that. CBS News Correspondent Barry PetersenFulan GongAcirc; s charismatic founder, Li Hongzhi, who lives in New York City, told CBS News that BeijingAcirc; stanley cup s crackdown was prompted, in part, by the group s size. Some 100 million f

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Beijing mdash; A week after China s health auth adidas campus 80s orities sparked chaos and confusion by announcing sweeping changes to the country s draconian COVID-19 control measures, the government s coronavirus czar has tried to bring some clarity about the new strategy. In doing so, China s government has admitted for the first time that it s impossible to try and detect and track every case of the coronavirus.Many across China, but particularly in the immense capital city of Beijing, have been desperate for more information given an anecdotal rise in sickness that doesn t seem to match up with official case counts, which have suggested a drop in the spread of the virus.As of one week ago China has been allowing people infected with COVID-19 to quarantine at home with asymptomatic or mild cases, and it has dropped the requirement for everyone to show a recent negative test result before entering most public places. A woman tends to a child at a fever clinic at a children s hospital in Beijing, December 14, 2022. Dake Kang/AP The abrupt U-turn in th adidas campus beige e country s strict zero-COVID policy came after rare public protests against the measures, but what replaced the long-standing rules mdash; and the stern rhetoric about the dangers of catching COVID-19 mdash; was a lack of clear guidance that asics gel led to a rush on everything from cold and flu medicines to at-home test kits.China s economic Hgph Iran Nuke Q amp; A
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon showed new signs of recovery Tuesday from a massive stroke, moving part of his left side as doctors gradually reduced the anesthesia keeping him in a coma, his doctors said.The reported improvement came a day after Sharon slightly moved his right arm and leg in response to pain stimulation and started breathing on his own. Sharon, 77, remained hooked up to a respirator and unconscious in a g kubki stanley uarded room where classical music, including Mozart, is being played.Israelis were breathing a collective sigh of relief now that doctors say Sharon has a good chance to survive, reports CBS News correspondent Robert Berger, but they re concerned that Sharon may be paralyzed and his ability to think may be impaired. It s hard for Israelis to come to terms with the tough former general and war hero and energetic prime minister confined to a wheelchair. Also, an Israeli newspaper reported that Sharon was suffering from a brain disease that, in combination with the blood thinners he started taking after an initial stroke Dec. 18, could have increased his risk for another stroke. Doctors refused to comment.Doctors said it would be days before they could assess the damage to Sharon s brain from the cerebral hemorrhage h stanley cup e suffered Wednesday. A final medical analysis on Sharon s long-term prognosis would e stanley becher nd days of uncertainty over the fate of the prime minister, heralded by many as the best hope for Mideast peace. On that front, Israel s defense minister said

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Ash Barty surprisingly retired from tennis at age 25 while ranked No. 1 and less than two months afterwinning the Australian Open for her third Grand Slam singles title. I m so happy and I m so ready. I just know at the moment, in my heart, for me as a person, this is right, Barty said, her voic crocs winterstiefel e shaky at times, during a six-minute video posted on her Instagram account Wednesday in Australia.Saying it was time to chase other dreams, Barty said she no longer feels compelled to do what she knows is required to be the best she can be at tennis. It s the first time I ve actually said it out loud and, yeah, it s hard to say, Barty said during an informal interview with her former doubles partner, Casey Dellacqua. I don t have the physic nike dunk al drive, the emotional want and everything it takes to challenge yourself at the very top of the level any more. I am spent. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ash Barty @ashbarty This is not the first time Barty walked away from tennis: She was the Wimbledon junior champion at age 15 in 2011, presaging a promising professional career, but left the tour entirely for nearly two years in 2014 because of burnout, overwhelmed by the pressure and travel required. hoka schuhe She played professional cricket back home in Australia, then eventually picked up a racket once again and returned to her other sport.Barty went on to win major championships on three different surfaces mdash; on clay at the 2019 French Open, on grass Evqq Alleged North Korean Spy Captured
Federal agents have rounded up more than 750 suspects in a wide-ranging crackdown on Mexican drug cartels operating inside the United States.More than 50 of the suspects were arrested overnight in a series of raids coordinated by the Drug Enforcement Administration aimed at capturing members of the Sinaloa cartel, blamed for a rising tide of violence in Mexico and the United States.Another 700 suspects were arrested previously over the course of the DEA s 21-month Operation Xcellerator, officials said.Some of the other numbers behind those arrests a stanley kubek re staggering, reports CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker. The stanley cup DEA seized more than 23 tons of marijuana, cocaine, h stanley cup eroin and methamphetamines; plus dozens of planes, boats and cars; more than $63 million in cash; and scores of weapons in the operation.Attorney General Eric Holder said the cartels are lucrative, they are violent, and they are operated with stunning planning and precision. At a press conference announcing the arrests, Holder also suggested that re-instituting a U.S. ban on the sale of assault weapons would help reduce the bloodshed in Mexico, where last year 6,000 people were killed in drug-related violence.U.S. officials have a responsibility to make sure Mexican police are not fighting substantial numbers of weapons, or fighting against AK-47 s or other similar kinds of weapons that have been flowing to Mexico, Holder said.DEA Acting Administrator Michele Leonhart said the raid showed the tentacles of

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CBS News CAIRO - Nearly four months to the day Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi was overthrown by the military, a prominent Egyptian TV host has been yanked off the air. There are new concerns in Egypt abou af1 t free speech. He has been called Egypt s Jon Stewart, a wildly popular satirist with a biting tongue who is not afraid to mock those in power. Egyptian TV satirist Bassem Youssef CBS News adidas samba og During Mohammed Morsi s rocky year as president, Bassem Youssef frequently took shots at the gaffe-prone leader and his unusu adidas samba al head-wear. In this part of the world, comedians just don t do that. The real Jon Stewart was impressed and the two had even met at Youssef s show. Does satire get you into trouble Youssef asked Stewart. I mean what about the love you get from the people I tell you this, Stewart answered, it doesn t get me into the kind of trouble it gets you into. After a four-month hiatus, during which Egypt s military overthrew Morsi, Egyptians were curious to see if Youssef would be as caustic with the new guard. Watch a Sunday Morning profile on Bassem Youssef: His first show appeared to be testing the waters, poking fun at the cult of personality emerging around Gen. Abdul Fattah al Sisi, the country s defense minister and the man behind the military takeover.In one skit, a baker is trying to sell Youssef cakes bearing Sisi s image. Kaxw Prince William and Kate visit a melting glacier, call for political action on climate
VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI insisted on Saturday that all of society s institutions, and not just the Catholic church, must be held to exacting standards in their response to sex abuse of children, and defended the church s efforts to confront the problem.Benedict acknowledged in remarks to visiting U.S. bishops during an audience at the Vatican that pedophilia was a scourge for society, and that decades of scandals over clergy abusing children had stanley termohrnek left Catholics in the United States bewildered. It is my hope that the Church s conscientious efforts to confront this rea stanley cup quencher lity will help the broader community to recognize the causes, true extent and devastating consequences of sexual abuse, and to respond effectively to this scourge which affects every level of society, he said. By the stanley termoska same token, just as the church is rightly held to exacting standards in this regard, all other institutions, without exception, should be held to the same standards, the pope said.The pedophile scandal has exploded in recent decades in the United States, but similar clergy sex abuse revelations have tainted the church in many other countries, including Mexico, Ireland, and several other European nations, including Italy. But the most high-profile sex abuse case in the United States at the moment doesn t involve the church. Penn State University s former defensive football coordinator Jerry Sandusky has been charged with sexually abusing eight boys, and the fallout has led to the fi

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Kabul, Afghanistanmdash; At one of Kabul s upscale wedding halls, a celebration was in full swing around midday Tuesday. Afghan dance music could be chanclas yeezy heard from inside the hall.According to reception hall s manager, Shadab Azimi, 26, at least seven wedding parties have been held since the Taliban takeover of Kabul two weeks earlier, adidas yeezyslide with festivities moved to daylight hours because of security concerns.Taliban vows women s rights under Islamic law. What s that mean The Taliban, who during their previous rule between 1996-2001 had banned most music, except for devotional Islamic songs, did not announ adidas yeezy ce a ban of live music, Azimi said. However, wedding singers canceled on their own, for fear of running afoul of possible new Taliban restrictions. Taliban fighters patrol along a street in Kabul, August 31, 2021. HOSHANG HASHIMI/AFP/Getty He said in recent celebrations, couples played taped music. Azimi said business was down by 80% over the past two weeks, presumably because of a sense of uncertainty. The manager said Taliban patrols check in a couple of times a day, asking if he needs help with security, but have not seemed threatening. And unlike the security forces under the deposed government, the Taliban have not demanded bribes, he said. Former officials, including police officers, were asking us for money and we were forced to host their friends for lunches and dinn Sfyb Ousted Honduran President Reaches Deal
Attacks on U.S. and Iraqi troops and Iraqi civilians jumped sharply in recent mon stanley cup ths to the highest level since Iraq regained its sovereignty in June 2004, the Pentagon told Congress on Monday in the latest indication of that country s spiraling violence. In a report issued th stanley kubek e same day Robert Gates took over as defense secretary, the Pentagon said that from mid-August to mid-November, the weekly average number of attacks increased 22 percent from the previous three months. The worst violence was in Baghdad and in the western province of Anbar, long the focus of activity by Sunni insurgents.The military said Tuesday that a Marine died the previous day from wounds sustained from enemy action in Anbar, bringing to 61 the number of American military personnel killed in Iraq in December.The Marine, whose name was withheld pending family notification, was assigned to the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Special Operations Capable. At least 2,950 members of the U.S. military have died since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to an Associated Press count.At a ceremonial swearing-in attended by President Bush, Gates warned that failure in Iraq would be a calamity that would haunt our nation, impair our credibility and endanger Americans for decades to come. He said he intended to go to Iraq soon to get the unvarnished advice of U.S. commanders on ho stanley becher w to stabilize the country.A bar chart in the Pentagon s report to Congress gave no exact numbers but indicated the weekl

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For the second day in a row, China on Wednesday dismissed U.S. suggestions that the COVID-19 pandemic may have been triggered by a virus that leaked from a Chinese laboratory.Resp adidas samba adidas onding to comments by FBI Director Christopher Wray, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said the involvement of the U.S. intelligence community was evidence enough of the politicization of origin tracing. By rehashing the lab-leak theory, the U.S. will not succeed in discrediting China, and instead, it will only hurt its own credibility, Mao said. We urge the U.S. to respect science and facts ... stop turning origin tracing into something about politics and intelligence, and stop disrupting social solidarity and origins cooperation, she said.In an interview with Fox News that aired Tuesday, Wray said, The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most l airmaxplus ikely a potential lab incident in central China s Wuhan. Here you are talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab, Wray said. Referring to efforts to trace the origin of the adidas campus herren coronavirus, he added, I will just make the observation that the Chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here, the work that we re doing, the work that our U.S. government and close foreign partners are doing. And that s unfortunate for everybody. The FBI posted his comments on Twitter: FBI Director Wray confirmed that the Bureau ha Nkmv Natural earthquake detected in North Korea, South Korea says
President Jalal Talabani on Saturday underscored the need for a unity government in Iraq after a spasm of sectarian killing and said he had been assured U.S. forces would remain in the country as long as needed, no matter what the period. His comments came after a bomb attack at a minibus terminal in a southeastern Baghdad suburb killed seven people and wounded 25, one of a string of explosions in the capital and elsewhere.The violence shattered the relative calm brought by Fridays driving ban in Baghdad and its outskirts, which helped avert major attacks on the day Muslims co stanley cups ngregate for the most important prayer service of the week.Talabani spoke to reporters after meeting with Gen. John Abizaid, chief of U.S. Central C stanley becher ommand, who was visiting Baghdad.Abizaid said he was very, very pleased stanley cup website with the reaction of the Iraqi armed forces during the crisis unleashed by the Feb. 22 bombing of a sacred Shiite shrine in Samarra and reprisal attacks against Sunni Muslims that pushed Iraq to the brink of civil war. We should understand that the terrorists are trying to create problems among the Iraqi people that can lead to difficulties between various groups, he said after a separate meeting with Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari. We should not fall into their trap. We are stronger than they are. We will ultimately prevail. The surge of attacks, which have killed at least 500 people since last week, has tangled negotiations to form a new government after December parlia

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TOKYO-- Felines at Japan s popular cat cafes are now allowed to stay up until 10 p.m. to interact with customers.The Environment Ministry s animal rights panel said Wednesday that the cats will be allowed to hang out two hours later than the old guidelines allowed.Under the 2012 guidelines, cats and other animals at pet shops could not be displayed after 8 p.m.Cat cafes were allowed to have their cats out until asics sneaker 10 p.m. on adidas originals samba ly for the impact of nightlife on the cats health to be studied. During the trial period, only cats age 1 or older that were free to take a break were allowed to be out at cafes for up to 12 hours.Experts concluded the late hours made no notable difference on cats stress levels.Cafe owners say their felines are not under stress being out until late because they are nocturnal anyway and became used to a cafe environment while growing up. Japan has hundreds of cat cafes - establishments where customers can see and play with the cats. Tokyo alone has more than 50 of them that are frequented by foreign tourists and students during the day, while others visit at the end of the workday. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-2cc631a2-db63-4e6e-bc92-9be154587932, right-rail-recirc-item--id-2 adidas samba og cc631a2-db63-4e6e-bc92-9be154587932 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-2cc631a2-db63-4e6e-bc92-9be154587932 Oaml Shane Lowry wins first British Open in Northern Ireland since 1951
Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago was named the winner of the 1998 Nobel Literature Prize Thursday.In its citation, the Swedish Academy sai stanley uk d it gave the award to Saramago for work that with parables sustaine stanley cup price d by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us to apprehend an illusory reality. Since the 1980s, Saramago has been one of Portugal s best-selling contemporary writers and his works have been translated into more than 20 languages. But he has never courted the kind of fame offered by literary prizes, and his bluntness can sometimes offend. I am skeptical, reserved, I don t gush, I don t go around smiling, hugging people, and trying to make friends, he once said. At 75, he remains an outspoken nonconformist through his regular newspaper and radio commentaries, though his views are always inspired by his deep concern for his fellow man. stanley cup Blindness, his most recent book to be translated into English, is an unsettling allegory about the social meltdown as an inexplicable blindness sweeps through society. This blindness isn t a real blindness; it s a blindness of rationality, he said. We re rational beings, but we don t behave rationally. If we did, there d be no starvation in the world. Saramago wrote his breakthrough novel in 1982, Baltasar and Blimunda. Perhaps his best-known work is The Stone Raft, in which the Iberian Peninsula breaks off from Europe for supernatural reasons and floats off into the Atlantic. That devic