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The father of a French-Irish teenager whose body was found in the Malaysian jungle told an inquest Thursday he heard noises in the family s holiday chalet before she disappeared. The body of Nora Quoirin, a 15-year-old with mental and physical disabilities, was discovered unclothed last year after a massive adidas originals ultraboost hunt through the rainforest.Authorities insist there was no foul play but her parents believe she was abducted from the resort where they were staying near Kuala Lumpur, saying the teen would not have wandered off alone.Testifying yeezy slide at the inquest into her death, Sebastien Quoirin said he heard some muffled noise coming from the chalet late at night on the day the London-based family arrived. In this image from video released by Malaysian Judiciary, Sebastian Quoirin, center bottom, father of missing schoolgirl Nora Quoirin, testifies on Nov. 12, 2020 as part of an inquest into the death of the teenager, a year after her body was found near a Malaysian nature resort. / AP I could feel it was close... I cannot describe the nature of the noise, he said, speaking via video-link as he could not attend the hearing in person due to the coronavirus.The 48-year-old Frenchman did not get up to investigate, however, saying he was in a state of semi-consciousness. The teen s mother, Meabh Quoirin, made similar claims nike dunk in her testimony Wednesday.They discovered their daughte Enze Iran: We Will Attend Iraq Conference
Many Sunnis welcomed a U.S. congressional push to begin withdrawing U.S. troo stanley cup ps by Oct. 1, but one Shiite grocery store owner expressed fear the move would leave Iraq in the hands of al Qaeda. Iraqis appear divided along sectarian lines over Thursday s Senate approval of House-passed legislation calling for U.S. troops to begin leaving Iraq by Oct. 1. President Bush has pledged to veto the measure, and neither body passed the measure with enough votes to override stanley cups him.A 42-year-old Sunni teacher in Baghdad said Friday that the idea had his full support, but he doubted it would happen. I think that yesterday s vote and the threats by Bush to use the veto are nothing but political games played in Washington, and we have been paying the price for these games since 2003. In fact, I see no U.S. withdrawal on the horizon, Assad Yassin said.Majority Shiites and their Kurdish allies, meanwhile, echoed the opinion of the Shiite-led government, which warned the Oct. 1 start date was too soon. Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh also warned that the congressional decision sends wrong signals to militants.Kamil Nassir, a 40-year stanley thermoskannen -old Shiite who owns a grocery store in Baghdad, agreed and said he was hopeful it would be stopped. I do not think that the United States that has sacrificed thousands of soldiers and hundreds of billions of dollars is ready to leave Iraq, he said. Whether Democrats or Republicans, the U.S. politicians are not ready to leave Iraq in the hands of al Qa

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BAGHDAD Bombs exploded outside two Sunni mosques in Baghdad late Saturday, killing at least 21 people leaving prayers and extending a wave of daily violence rippling across Iraq since the start of the holy month of Ramadan, authorities said.A separate attack at a funeral northeast of the capital killed at least three others.Police said the first Baghdad blast went off around 10 p.m. near the gate of the Khalid bin al-Walid mosque in the capital s southern Dora neighborhood, a largely Sunni Muslim area. It struck just after the end of special late-evening prayers held during Ramadan.At least 16 people were killed and 31 were wounded, police said. A hospital official confirmed the casualty toll.Soon salomon gtx after, a car bomb explod adidas samba ed at another Sunni worship center, the Mullah Huwaish mosque, in the Hay al-Jami a area in western Baghdad. That blast killed five and wounded 19, according to police and health officials. Iraq is weathering its worst eruption of violence in half a decade, raising fears the country is heading back toward the widespread sectarian fighting that peaked in 2006 and 2007. More than 2,600 people have been killed since the start of April.The pace of the bloodshed has picked up since Ramadan began Wednesday, including a suicide bombing at a coffee shop in the nor yeezy slide thern city of Kirkuk late Friday that killed dozens.There has been no claim of responsibility for the recent wave of attacks.Sunni extremists, including al Qaeda s Iraq branch, frequently target Shiit Ebes Chavez Sticks Up For Colombian Guerrillas
AP ANKARA, Turkey - Syria said Saturday it shot down a Turkish reconnaissance plane because the plane entered its airspace, insisting it was not an attack as both sides desperately tried to de-escalate the episode before it exploded into a regional conflagration.Turkey threatened to retaliate but did not say what action it would take as it searched for the aircraft s two missing pilots.The downed plane heightened tensions between two countries that had been allies before Syria s 15-month violent uprising, and signaled that the violence gripping Syria is increasingly bleeding outside its borders. Germany and Iraq were among the countries urging restraint in the region.Syria and neighboring Turkey had cultivated close ties before the Syrian revolt began in March 2011, but since then Turkey has become one of the strongest critics of Syria s regime. Turkey hosts civilian and military Syrian opposition groups, including hundreds of army defectors who are affiliated with stanley cupe the Free Syrian Army and collect food and other supplies to deliver to comrades on smuggling routes.Syria says it shot down Turkish air force jet Turkish authorities also suspect Damascus, which was c stanley tumblers ollaborating with Turkey in its fight against autonomy-seeking Kurdish rebels, is now turning a blind eye to Syria-based Kurdish fighters who belong to the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, considered a terrorist organization stanley cup in the U.S. and Europe.The plane, an unarmed F-4, went down in the Mediterranean Se

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Romemdash; In a wide-ranging radio interview that aired on Wednesday, Pope Francis called the withdrawal of the U.S. military and its allies from Afghanistan legitimate, but criticized the way it was carried out. As far as I can see, not all eventualities were taken into account here, he told Spanish Catholic radio station COPE. I don t know whether there will be a review or not, but certainly there was a lot of deception, perhaps, on the part of the new authorities [of Afghanistan]. I say deceit, or a lot of naiveteacute; mdash; I don t understand. Pope Francis and journalist Carlos Herrera adidas samba damen talk during an interview with Spanish radio station COPE at Vatican City in this picture released September 1, 2021. COPE/Carlos Herrera The pope framed the 20-year U.S.-led war in Afghanistan as an example of an outsider s attempt to impose democracy. In doing so, he said he was quoting German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whom he called one of the great figures of world democracy. However, he was inadvertently paraphrasing remarks made by adidas campus 00s Russian President Vladimir Putin. It is necessary to put an end to the irresponsible policy of intervening from outside and buildi adidas yeezy ng democracy in other countries, ignoring the traditions of the peoples. Concise and conclusive, the pontiff said, thinking he was quoting Merkel. I think this says a lot; and everyone can interpret it as they Cxzo Israeli Forces Enter Palestinian Hebron
With Israeli troops in the shadows, the town known as the traditional birthplace of Jesus marked a dreary Christmas Eve on Tuesday mdash; with no light-filled tree in Manger Square, no bells or music, and few pilgrims.This year is the first since 1994 that Bethlehem is under Israeli occupation during the holiday. And although troops withdrew to the outskirts to let celebrations go on unimpeded, locals said they could not recall a sadder C stanley becher hristmas.After more than two years of Israeli-Palestinian violence, there is no joy in people s hearts, said Raed Zarrouk, 26.Israeli soldiers swept into Bethlehem last month after a Palestinian suicide bomber from the town blew himself up in a bus in nearby Jerusalem, killing 11 people. Israel says their continued presence is needed to prevent more attacks.Protesting the takeover, town leaders canceled all Christmas festivities except religious observances. The highlight is Midnight Mass at St. Catherine s Church next to the Church of the Nativity, the fortress-like 4th-century church built over the grottos where tradition holds Jesus was born. As in years past, Latin Pat stanley tumbler riarch Michel Sabbah was on hand to deliver the sermon at Midnight Mass. Sabbah, the highest-ranking Roman Catholic clergyman in the Holy Land, led a procession from Jerusalem. He was gre stanley mugs eted by Palestinian Boy Scouts carrying mdash; instead of the traditional drums and bagpipes mdash; Palestinian flags and pictures of Yasser Arafat.Israeli troops kept a tight gr

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The United Nations is warning that the war crocs absatz in Ukraine could be a catastrophe for food security worldwide. At a meeting on Tuesday, U.N. and U.S. officials said that Russian President Vladimir Putin s invasion is threatening humanitarian efforts to feed those already in need a air max 98 nd that the war will exacerbate the situation to go beyond anything we ve seen since World War II. The World Food Program is an international organization that works to nike dunks panda provide food to millions of people who have been displaced by conflict and disasters. But David Beasley, the organization s executive director, said at Tuesday s meeting that their ability to do so is in jeopardy.Because of the rising costs of fuel, food and shipping costs, he said, WFP was already having to limit food rations before Putin ordered the invasion into Ukraine. In Yemen alone, he said, they had to cut 8 million people down to 50% rations. According to WFP, 31,000 people in the country are facing famine-like conditions mdash; a number that may go as high as 161,000 by June. The organization says that 2.2 million children in the country are acutely malnourished. Now, we re looking at going to zero rations, he warned on Tuesday. ...We re talking about a catastrophe on top of a catastrophe. Ukraine, Beasley said, has gone from the breadbasket of the world to bread lines. Ukraine provides 31% of the wheat that has been imported into Yemen over the past three months, according to WFP, and is also one of the orga Rcym U.S. vows $30M more in Syria humanitarian aid, but stays cautious in backing new opposition coalition
Hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad struck a defiant tone as he spoke to giant crowds marking the 29th anniversary of the Isla stanley uk mic revolution Monday, vowing never to slow down Iran s nuclear development and announcing plans for more rocket launches in his country s space program.Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched through the capital Tehran, chanting Death to America and burning effigies of President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.Ahmadinejad s speech before the crowd appeared aimed at showing an image of strength of his hard-line camp ahead of key parliament elections in mid-March.Iran s ruling clerical establishment has worked to keep reformists out of the vote. Earlier this month, Ahmadinejad s Interior Ministry disqualified more than 2,000 pro-reform candidates from running in the election. The hard-line constitutional watchdog, the cleric-run Guardian Council, is to announce the final list of approved candidates in early March.Ahmadinejad s popularity has been deeply hurt by Iran s economic woes over the past year and the vote is seen as a key test of the presiden stanley kubek t s hold on power. The barri stanley flasche ng of the reformist candidates has infuriated liberals who were hoping to stage a comeback in the vote. One reformist faction, called the Mujahideen of the Islamic Revolution, issued a statement Monday calling the barring of the candidates one of the ugliest events in the history of the revolution, creating deviations from the ideals of the most

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Paris mdash; All eight people accused of helping the man who killed 86 people in a terror attack in Nice in 2016 were found guilty on Tuesday in a French court.Three months after the trial began in Paris, all were were handed sentences ranging from two to 18 years in prison. Charges of terrorist association were upheld against two of them.Tunisian national Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31, drove a truck into the crowd on Bastille Day on the seafront Promenade des Anglais in Nice on the night of July 14, 2016. Some 30,000 people were on the seafront that night to watch the traditional nike sb dunk fireworks to mark the French national holiday.The truck plowed through the crowd at 56 miles per hour. The driver swerved several times, deliberately, to hit a maximum number of pedestrians as people fled in terror. The truck mounted the curb at several points to avoid the police roadblocks designed to keep vehicles away during the festivities.Police tried to stop the vehicle, but it had traveled 1.5 miles along t crocs schuhe he Riviera seafront in just over four minutes before they airmaxplus managed to stop it. The driver was shot dead. In all, 86 people were killed, including 10 children. Another 300 were injured. As the truck tore through crowds, victims included children who had been allowed to stay up late to watch the fireworks, foreign students enjoying a summer in France and local families. the truck tore through the crowds.The Islamic State group ISIS claimed the truck driver was responding to its calls Wiym Typhoon Utor slams southern China, forces tens of thousands to evacuate
Rival gunmen exchanged fire at two Gaza hospitals on Monday and Cabinet ministers fled their weekly meeting after the government headquarters was caught in the crossfire of a brutal day of infighting that killed 17 Palestinians.The battles came a day after two militants from the rival Hamas and Fatah factions were dragged onto high-rise rooftops and thrown to their death in a power struggle that appears to be rapi stanley cup usa dly descending into all-out confrontation.After sundown Monday, gunmen, apparently from Hamas, laid siege to the house of Jamal Abu al-Jediyan, the senior Fatah official in northern Gaza. They then dragged him outside and killed him, security officials said. Medics said he was hit by 45 bullets.Al-Jediyan was a top aide to Gaza Fatah strongman Mohammed Dahlan and al-Jediyan s brother was also killed, apparently in the same shootout.Fatah spokesman Maher Mikdad harshly denounced the killing and threatened revenge. What is this, if not a war, he said. stanley mugs Fatah called on its members to target all Hamas political and military leaders.The bloodiest clashes of the day took place in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun. Fatah and Hamas gunmen exchanged fire stanley flask near Beit Hanoun Hospital, killing a Hamas supporter. The battle then moved to the hospital, where three men from a Fatah-allied clan were shot dead.At Gaza s largest hospital, Shifa, combatants fired mortars, grenades and assault rifles. Two other Palestinians were killed in battles late Monday night in

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SAN DIEGO - A Mexican high schoolstudent died from drinking highly concentrated liquid methamphetamine at a San Diego border crossingin an attempt to persuade inspectors that it was only apple juice, according toan autopsy report released Wednesday.Cruz Marcelino Velazquez, 16,volunteered to take a big sip at the San Ysidro port of entry Nov.18, the report said. He was then handcuffed and taken to a security office,where he began screaming in pain, said somethingabout the chemicals, and shouted, My heart! My heart! in Spanish, it added.The San Diego County MedicalExaminer s report gives no in nike air force dication that inspectors asked him to drink theliquid and doesn t say if they had an opportunity to stop him when hevolunteered. Velazquez died hours later at a hospital from acute methamphetamine intoxication.Jackie Wasiluk, a spokeswoman for U.S.Customs and Border Protection, the agency that over adidas samba og sees ports of entry, had noimmediate comment on the findingsSan Ysidro, the nation s busiestborder crossing, has emerged as a major corridor for smuggling methamphetamine in the past five years asMexico s Sinaloa cartel has increased its presence in the area. To avoiddetection, crystal methamphetamine isdissolved adidas yeezyslide in water and disguised in juice bottles, windshield wiper fluidcontainers and gas tanks. It is later converted back to crystals. Children are caught with methamphetamine several times a week at SanDiego crossings, an alarming increase, Joe Garcia, assistantspecial agent in Uiyd U.S. Troops Repositioned In Iraq
The Defense Department said Wednesday that a request for new t stanley cup roops from the U.S. commander in Afghanistan may have to be revised amid growing uncertainty inside the Obama administration over whether to escalate the American commitment to the eight-year war.Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said the troop request from U stanley cup .S. and NATO commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal will be delivered by the week s end.But Defense Secretary Robert Gates will not look to escalate the military mission in Afghanistan until President Barack Obama and his national security team are ready to consider it, Morrell said.Morrell also signaled that the number of troops that McChrystal will ask for 151; believed to be as high as 40,000 151; could change after the report is received stanley cup if the White House reverses its Afghanistan strategy. If there are adjustments, there may have to be adjustments made in terms of what s required of the mission if it changes, Morrell said. He said the Obama administration is taking a new look at how to best achieve its long-stated goal of defeating and dismantling al Qaeda. Read McChrystal s report to his superiorsWashington Unplugged: Report Puts Pressure on Obama Earlier this year, the Pentagon began ramping up the eight-year war in Afghanistan, targeting extremist Taliban leaders to make sure the nation does not become a safe haven for al Qaeda.But White House officials now are looking at sending in airstrikes and special operations forces to Pakistan, wh

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The woman accused of stabbing to death an American teacher in a public restroom at an Abu Dhabi mall last week was carrying out a lone terrorist act, a security official in the United Arab Emirates said Sund adidas samba ay. Nothing so far suggests that the accused has links with terrorist organizations, said the unnamed official, who was quoted by the official UAE news agency.The official said initial investigations and evidence sh salomon speedcross ow that the Emirati woman, who also planted a bomb outside an American doctor s home, learned how to manufacture explosives from websites affiliated with terrorist organizations.The homemade bomb was located and defused by police shortly after the stabbing.The suspect s foreign targets appear to have been selected randomly, the official said. Abu Dhabi authorities release video of suspect in American s murder 00:29 air force 1 Police released video last week of CCTV footage showing the alleged attacker shrouded in the full black veil commonly worn by women throughout the Gulf Arab region as she left the mall where 47-year-old Ibolya Ryan, who had previously lived in Colorado, was killed. The UAE, home to Abu Dhabi and the flashy investment hub of Dubai, prides itself on being a safe haven in the turbulent Middle East. It is part of the U.S.-led coalition co Gytw North Korea to skip the Olympics for the 1st time in 3 decades
President Bush, denounced by tens of thousands of anti-American protesters on the streets of Rome, defended his humanitarian record on Saturday to Pope Benedict XVI, who expressed concern about the worrisome situation in Iraq. Bush also sought to shore up relations with Premier Romano Prodi, whose center-left government has been heavily critical of U.S. policies. Whi stanley cups le Prodi has withdrawn Italian forces f stanley cup rom Iraq, Bush thanked him for Italy s leadership in supporting the fragile western-backed government in Lebanon and its commitment of 2,000 troops for NATO s mission in Afghanistan.Relations with Italy are pretty darn solid, Bush said.Prodi agreed. We basically agree on how the future of the world should look, should be, the Italian leader said.The president went to the Vatican for his first meeting with the pope, who has lamented the continual slaughter in Iraq and concluded that nothing positive comes from Iraq. The pope asked Bush about his talks in Germany with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a time of deep strain between Moscow and Washington. The dialogue with Putin was also good the pope asked. I ll tell you in a minute, Bush said, mindful of the presence of reporters and television cameras during the photo opportunity. They both laughed. I was talking to a very smart, loving man, Bush said later of his discussion with the pope. I was in awe and it was a moving experience. Highly unpopular in Italy stanley mugs and across Europe, the president made a poin

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London mdash; As part of her campaign to raise awareness of mental and emotional health issues mdash; including the common struggles of new parents around the world mdash;Duchess Kate of Cambridge recorded an unusually personal half-hour chat with a British podcaster about her own experiences of motherhood.The candid discussion with Prince Wil adidas originals hombre liam s wife was recorded for a podcast called Happy Mum Happy Baby, with British broadcaster and podcast host Giovanna Fletcher.Kate has been on a nationwide quest to talk to parents about the importance of the early years in childrearing, and how relationships and bonding at that sta air force 1 ge can affect a child for life. She said in the podcast that it s important for mothers to feel they can talk about the challenges they face without being judged. We re all in this together, she said, noting that all parents struggle with the same things and highlighting statistics that show the leading cause of deaths in new mothers is suicide. 127911; Listen to The Duchess of Cambridge talking with @MrsGiFletcher about her 5BigQuestions survey, the importance of the early years, and their shared experiences of parenthood.Have your say in the biggest ever national conversation on the early years 12 air max 2 8071;https://t.co/MaMnlxy2sJ pic.twitter/qO400ijJm1mdash; Kensington Palace @KensingtonRoyal February 15, 2020 Kate spoke candidly about her own struggles with parenthood; her difficulties with acute morning sickness, how much she valued the midw Serp Puerto Rico, Dominica still wary of dissipated storm Beryl
Updated at 7:07 a.m. ET AP BEIRUT - An advance team of U.N. observers was negotiating the ground rules with Syrian authorities Monday for monitoring the country s 5-day-old cease-fire, which appeared to be rapidly unraveling as regime forces pounded the opposition stronghold of Homs stanley thermobecher with artillery shells and mortars, activists said.Even though the overall level of violence across Syria has dropped significantly since the truce took effect, government attacks over the weekend raised new doubts about President Bashar Assad s commitment to special envoy Kofi Annan s plan to end 13 months of violence and launch talks on the country s political future.U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the cease-fire v stanley polska ery fra stanley us gile, saying it s essential it holds so inclusive political dialogue can continue. Speaking Monday in Brussels, Ban said: Just any small, unintended gunfire may break all this very fragile process. He called on Syrian authorities to exercise maximum restraint and said opposition forces should also fully cooperate. Special Section: The Arab SpringSyrian activists say cease-fire is collapsingAdvance team of U.N. observers arrives in SyriaThe advance team of six U.N. monitors arrived in Damascus Sunday night. Annan s spokesman said the team, led by Moroccan Col. Ahmed Himmiche, met Monday with Syrian Foreign Ministry officials to discuss ground rules, including what freedom of movement the observers would have. Ahmad Fawzi said the remaining 25 observers are

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Native New Yorker Caryn Davies says it was about time women rowers turn the tide on a centuries-old tradition in Great Britain.A stretch of the Thames River has l yeezy slide ong been the battleground of the boat rac yeezy e between Oxford and Cambridge un yeezy slide iversities men s teams.For nearly 90 years, the women s race had been banished to a backwater, until now.The demand for equal rights came from its new sponsor, Newton Finance, and its CEO and mother of nine Helena Morrissey. As a little girl I grew up watching the men s boat race, as I ll always call it now, and you know with my parents and my sister and I really didn t think, Where were the women Now, I realize how important it is to have equality in sport and in business world, Morrissey said. It s a rather modern concept here, as Davies has learned. Women s sport is, it s just plain not equal. At least, not the way it is in the States, Davies said. It was a real eye opener coming here and realizing, Oh, ok, our locker room is actually a third of the size of the men s. Ok, we ll squish in. We ll make it work. Throughout her life, she has made it work. Davies is no stranger to competing on the world stage.She s already won two Olympic gold s and one silver and is the most decorated oarswoman in the United states. Today, at 32, she s the oldest competitor on either team, and told CBS News this race presents a whole new set of challenges, like during a recent training session when Oxford s boat sank.The course women h Cfuz Russian Denies Poisoning Former Spy
Attackers hit a busy market and a police checkpoint in northern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 11 people, critically wounding scores of others and triggering a gunbattle between security forces and suspected militants.The latest violence in Peshawar, the largest city near the lawless tribal region near the Afghan border, will further test the central government s resolve to take on militants whose grip on parts of the country has strengthened this year.Also Thursday, the Taliban claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on security forces a day earlier in the eastern city of Lahore.Bombs mounted on motorcycles tore off walls and shattered windows of a row of small shops in Peshawar s Qissa Khawani bazaar. Television networks showed video of people carrying a bloody body from a shop betw stanley cup een mangled and smoking cars.Senior police officer Zarman Shah Khan said at least six people were killed. A doctor at a nearby hospital, Sahib Gul, said 80 people wounded in the blast had been brought in, many with critical injuries. It was a sudden blast and then there was fire all around, a cloud of smoke filled the sky, said Khair Uddin, a shopkeeper whose hands and chest were bloodied by shrapnel from the blast.Commando units rus stanley cup hed to the scene and engaged in a gunfight with suspected stanley uk militants who holed up in a building near the market, local police Chief Malik Naveed told reporters. Two gunmen were shot dead and at least one other was arrested.As the gunfight was under

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Humbled by his first electoral defeat, President Hugo Chavez said Monday he may have been too ambitious in asking voters to let him stand indefinitely for re-election and endor stanley termohrnek se a huge leap to a socialist state. I understand and accept that the proposal I made was quite profound and intense, he said after voters narrowly rejected the sweeping constitutional reform by 51 percent to 49 percent.Opposition activists were ecstatic as the results were announced shortly after midnight - with 88 percent of the vote counted, the trend was declared irreversible by elections council chief Tibisay Lucena.Some shed tears. Others began chanting: And now he s going away! Foes of the reform effort - including Roman Catholic leaders, press freedom groups, human rights groups and prominent business leaders - said it would have granted Chavez unchecked power and imperiled basic rights. Chavez accepted the vote but claimed it was proof democracy is alive in Venezuela, led by a president not a dictator, reports CBS News correspondent Kelly Cobiella. From this moment on, let s be calm, he proposed, asking for no more street violence like the clashes that marred pre-vote protests. There is no dictatorship here. Chavez has used his country s position as the 4th largest supplier of oil to the United States to browbeat his best customer, and he has threatened a spike in prices, adds Cobiella.Chavez, who was briefly ousted in a failed 2002 coup, b stanley cup lamed the loss on low turnout among the very