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ROME -- Italy pressed for swifter action Wednesday by the United Nations to find a political solution to Libya s rapidly deteriorating security situation.Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, speaking in Parliament, urged the world to quicken its pace before it is too late. Egypt this week launched airstrikes in neighboring Libya after the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS posted a video of the beheadings of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians there. asics sneaker Egypt takes on ISIS with airstrikes 02:04 Hours before a U.N. Security Council emergency meeting, Gentiloni said the United Nations must double its efforts to promote political dialogue among Libyans who are divided among competing militias, Islamic militant factions and tribal rivalries. Gentiloni said the only solution to Libya s problems is a political one.With Italian island air force s only a few hundred miles from Libya, Italy has borne the brunt of waves of migrants who are smuggl adidas yeezy ed across the Mediterranean from Libya. Officials say more Libyan chaos could swell the numbers of migrants fleeing war in Syria and other conflicts.Italian authorities have also raised fears that terrorists from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS could mingle among the trafficked migrants and reach Italy by sea.Egypt calls for U.N. coalition in LibyaAccording to published r Vbwh French, German EU Offices Bugged
Two U.S. soldiers died Monday in a firefight with insurgents in a troubled southeastern Afghan province, the American military said, as it warned that leaders of al Qaeda and the Taliban have stanley flasche held a series of meetings in Pakistan to discuss how to disrupt Afghanistan s upcoming elections.Two other Americans and six Afghan government troops were also injured in the battle in Paktika province, a military statement said.The names of the dead soldiers were being withheld until relatives could be informed, the statement said. It gave no further details of the in stanley mugs cident.According to the U.S. Defense Department, 137 U.S. military personnel have now died during Operation Enduring Freedom, launched after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.Some 99 of the fatalities have been in or around Afghani stanley termosy stan, and 54 of them have been troops killed in action. More than 900 people have died in political violence across Afghanistan so far this year, and officials are braced for more bloodshed in the run-up to the landmark presidential elections on Oct. 9. Relatively high-ranking members of both the Taliban and al Qaeda, as well as rebel Afghan faction Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin, have held several meetings on how to derail the Oct. 9 vote, spokesman Maj. Scott Nelson said.Citing intelligence reports, Nelson said the meetings were marked by growing alarm at intensifying efforts on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistani border to root out their activities. There have been several meetin

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GENEVA -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has opened a second day of talks in Geneva aimed at finding a way to restore at least a partial truce in Syria amid continuing attacks in Aleppo.Kerry met on Monday with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir and planned to meet later with the U.N. envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura. Kerry said progress was being made toward an understanding on how to reduce the violence in Aleppo but that more work was needed.Additionally, Reuters reports Russian Foreign Minister SergeiLavrov held a phone call with Kerry on Monday in which the two called on all sides in the conflict to stop hostilities. The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Kerry initiated the call and that Lavrov and Kerry also agreed future steps by Moscow and Washington as members of the Syria Support Group. The statement said the two sides also di adidas originals samba scussed the adidas originals samba Ukraine crisis and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict involving Azerbaijan and Armenia.Kerry s meetings in Geneva come a day after the Syrian military extended a cease-fire around the capital for another 24 hours and relative calm set in across much of the country, apart from Aleppo, the country s largest city and a key battleground in the civil war. adidas samba Syrian military launches more airstrikes on hard-hit Aleppo 01:41 Aleppo is not Fspa Silva Celebrates Victory In Brazil
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Be adidas campus damen ijing mdash; A Chinese man on Friday was sentenced to nine years in prison for abusing and unlawfully detaining a woman who was shown chained in a viral video that sparked an outcry in China last year. The abuse of the woman, Xiaohuamei, or Little Plum Blossom, raised widespread concerns in China in February last year and at times overshadowed Beijing s Winter Olympics online. Her story appeared in Chinese social media despite digital and human censors and prompted commentators to exhort national media to highlight the scandal. This screengrab from a video that went viral in China in 2022 shows a woman identified as Xiaohuamei Little Plum Blossom , who was the victim of multiple instances of human traffic af1 king and years of sexual abuse and captivity, for which a man was sentenced to prison on April 7, 2023. The video, which sparked outrage in China, showed Xi adidas samba schuhe aohuamei chained around the neck and being subjected to abuse by the primary suspect. Social media After the announcement of the sentencing on Friday, the case became one of the most searched topics on the Chinese social media platform Weibo, with many people complaining that nine years imprisonment for the man was too lenient of a punishment for what he did to her. The court in Xuzhou city that handed down the sentence said in a statement that Dong Zhimin and his late father bought Little Plum Blossom in the la Nhcc NATO: 3 Service Members Killed in Afghanistan
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DUBAI/VIENNA -- U.N. nuclearinspectors visited an Iranian uranium mine for the first time in nearly a decadeon Wednesday, Iranian media reported, as Tehran gradually opens up its disputednuclear program to greater international scrutiny. Iran nuclear negotiations may not succeed, Obama says 04:28 A three-member team from the International Atomic Energy Agency went to the Gchine mine near the southern Gulf port cityof Bandar Abbas, a spokesman for Iran s atomic energy organization said. TheIAEA was last there in 2005.They are now conductingtheir inspection, Behrouz Kamalvandi was quoted as saying on the websiteof Press TV, Iran s English-language state television.Another Iranian nuclear official,Mohammad Amiri, later said the IAEA experts had ended a five-hour managedinspection of the site, the official IRNA news agency said.They were to fly back to Tehranand leave the country late on Wednesday eveni chanclas yeezy ng, it said, without givingfur adidas originals hamburg ther detail. adidas originals hombre Kerry: U.S., allies better off after Iran deal 05:48 Allowing the U.N. nuclear agency --which is investigating suspicions that Iran may have carried out atomic bombresearch -- Fzay 3 U.S. Troops Killed in Afghanistan
Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf will stay on as head of the armed forces and the nation s president, the information minister said Wednesday, despite a previous promise that he would give up his military post by the end of the year. The president will keep both the posts. The national situation demands that he keeps the two offices, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told The Associated Press.When asked why Musharraf was going back on a promise to quit as army chief, Ahmed said: The situation has changed. The decision comes after weeks of speculation, some fueled by Musharraf himself, that he was considering backing out of an agreement he reached in December with a hardline Islamic political block to give up his army post.M stanley termohrnek usharraf, who t stanley cups ook power in a bloodless coup in 1999 and has emerged as a key ally in the U.S.-led war on terrorism, said earlier this month he felt most people in the country wanted him to remain in both posts. stanley us Ninety-six percent of people will say do not remove the army uniform , he said.Those comments drew an angry response from the opposition, which accused the military leader of having a lust for power. Wednesday s announcement was sure to lead to international concern that Pakistan s slow progress back to democracy has all but ended.The deal reached in December led to a constitutional amendment that appeared to bar a single person from holding both the top army spot and the presidency, as of Jan. 1, 2005. But Ahmed said there was an escape clause.

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Since Russia s invasion of Ukraine began just over one month ago, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made numerous pleas to NATO and its allies to impose a no-fly zone over the country. In an impassioned address to a joint ses adidas campus sion of the U.S. Congress, Zelenskyy said it was vital to protect the sky over his country to stop Russia s incessant airstrikes and artillery fire. Is this a lot to ask for, to create a no-fly zone over Ukraine to save people he asked.For the United States and its NATO allies, so far, the request has been too much. Below is a look at what a no-fly zone is, and why there isn t one over Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivers a speech via videoconference to the U.S. Congress at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images What is a no-fly zone A no-fly zone is essentiall dunks y a predetermined section of airspace in which military forces revoke access to all other aircraft. Enacting one means the country or countries imposing it take responsibility for both monitoring the designated airspace constantly to catch violations, and for suppressing or destroying any aircraft that violate its boundaries. What it would mean is that American and NATO pilots would be up in the air over Ukraine adidas campus 80s , patrolling the sky with orders to chase away, or shoot down, any Russian plane that came into Ukraine, CBS News nationa Wbip North Korean media: Army chief relieved of all posts
A day after a bombing in an Israeli beach town wounded more than 30 people, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators finally began to tackle the thorniest issues of a final peace deal Monday. After more than three years of false starts and delays, the two sides faced off for the first time for talks that will seek common ground on issues such as the status of Jerusalem, the fate of settlements, the return of Palestinian refugees and whether the West Bank and Gaza will become a state. After a 75-minute meeting at a West Bank hotel, both sides said they were confident they would meet their ambitious timetable -- a framework agreement by February and a final accord ironing out their remaining land and policy disputes by September. The talks in the West Bank town of Ramallah were overshadowed by a pipe bomb attack in the Israeli resort of Netanya that injured 33 people. Israeli police suspect Muslim militants may have been behind the attack, but they suspect the bombs were planted by stanley quencher amateurs from local villages inside Israel rather than professional bombmakers from the ranks of Hamas or Islamic Jihad in the West Bank and Gaza. But Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat blamed the blasts on a war between Israeli mobsters. Acirc; It has emerged that this involved certain Israelis, or people from other nationalities, and that it was a conflict between Israeli mafias,Acirc; he stanley termosy told reporters after meeting French President Jacques Chirac.The other stanley romania nationalities were an appa

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A woman who ran away from London as a teenager to join theIslamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS lost her bid Friday to return to the U.K. to fight for the restoration of her citizenship, which was revoked on national security grounds. Shamima Begum, now 21, was one of three east London schoolgirls who traveled to Syria in 2015. An undated file photo of Sh nike dunks panda amima Begum. Press Association via AP Images dunk panda She resurfaced at a refugee camp in Syria and told reporters she wanted to come home, but was denied the chance after former Home Secretary Sajid Javid dunk pand revoked her citizenship.Begum s lawyers appealed, saying her right to a fair hearing was harmed by the obstacles of pursuing her case from the camp. The U.K. Supreme Court disagreed, ruling Friday that the right to a fair hearing does not trump all other considerations, such as public safety. The appropriate response to the problem in the present case is for the deprivation hearing to be stayed - or postponed - until Ms. Begum is in a position to play an effective part in it without the safety of the public being compromised, said Justice Robert Reed, the president of the Supreme Court. That is not a perfect solution, as it is not known how long it may be before that is possible. But there is no perfect solution to a dilemma of the present kind. Javid argued that Begum was Bangladeshi by descent and could go there. Sh Pcmi USS Guardian, Navy minesweeper grounded on Philippine reef, taking on water
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A doctor has been arrested in Berlin on suspicion of killing four elderly patients and trying to cover up the evidence by setting fires at their homes, authorities said Wednesday.The 39-year-old doctor, who was part of a nursing service s palliative care team, was ordered to remain in custody on Tuesday pending a possible indictment, police and prosecutors said in a statement. His name wasn t released in line with Germany privacy rules.He is accused of adidas samba killing four patients who were in the nursing service s care in June and July, though investigators don t yet know how, and then attem adidas campus 80s pting mdash; with mixed success mdash; to set fires in their apartments.In the first case on June 11, firefighters who arrived at the scene were able to revive the victim, an 87-year-old woman, but she died at a hospital shortly afterward. On July 8, investi yeezy gators say, the suspect killed a 76-year-old woman.The deaths of two more women, who were 72 and 94, followed on July 15 and 24. Investigators didn t specify what led to the man s arrest or say anything about a possible motive. He is being held on suspicion of manslaughter as well as one count of arson and three of attempted arson. More from CBS News Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire tested by intensifying cross-border strikes Bize Mass grave found in Mexico near students disappearance
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A 56-year-old man from Hong Kong has developed the world s first human case of rat hepatitis E, Chinese scientists announced Friday.Researchers from the University of Hong Kong discovered the case after testing showed abnormal liver function following a liver transplant. Doctors later found that he had a strain of hepatitis that was highly divergent from other strains found in humans, the BBC reports.It s unclear how the man was infected with the virus, but contamination of food by infected rat droppings in the food supply is possible, the researchers said in a report.The patient has been cured of the disease, his doctors said.While rats are known to transmit a number of other diseases to humans, including plague, Lassa fever airmaxplus and leptospirosis, this is the first reported case in humans of the rat variation of hepatitis E. The nike dunk low human strain of hepatitis E is typically spread through contaminated water or food, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, a microbiologist at Hong Kong University, told reporters at a press conference that the discovery was a wake-up call to improve environmental hygiene, according to the South China Morning Post. We don t know if in future there will be a serious outbreak of the rat hepatitis E virus in Hong Kong, he said. We need to closely monitor this issue. Dr. Siddharth Sridhar, a clinical assistant professor also in the university s department of microbiology, said controlling t yeezy he rat po Hpno Global paralysis at U.N. over Ethiopia war allows atrocities to continue unabated
U.N. chief Kofi Annan called for national reconciliation in Iraq during a surprise visit, arriving just as a car bomb exploded near a street market in a Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad and killed eight weekend shoppers.Also, the highest-ranking official still at large from Saddam Hussein s regime, a man accused by the United States of playing a key role in organizing the insurgency against coalition forces, has died, a Baathist Web site reported.Saturday s posting on a Web site run by former Baath Party members appeared to confirm an e-mail announcing the death of Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri that circulated Friday. He was believed to be at least 62.CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier reports that the death may not impact the insurgent effort because most of the cells operate independently and do not need orders from above stanley cup .It was Annan s first trip to Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and the third by a high-level international official in as many days. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Friday and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw the day before. All three encouraged disaffected Sunni Arabs, who form the core of the insurgency, to participate in next month s parliamentary elections. A major Sunni Arab party called Saturday for an end to U.S. and Iraqi military operations stanley cupe in heavily Sunni Anbar province, saying they threaten Sunni participation in the Dec. 15 election.The U.N. leader also endorsed Arab League efforts stanley flask to organize a conference bringing t

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A Mars orbiter built by the United Arab Emirates in partnership with U.S. universities shot into space atop a Japanese H-2A rocket on Sunday, kicking off a seven-month voyage to the red planet. It is the first interplanetary mission attempted by an Arab nation and the first of three Mars missions scheduled for take off in the next two weeks.The UAE s $200 mil air force one lion Hope mission was designed with two major goals in mind: To study the martian atmosphere with three state-of-the-art instruments and to provide a moonshot moment for the youth of the Middle East, serving as inspiration to pursue careers in math and science. The objective was basically to use this mi salomon xt ssion to cause a disruptive change in the mindset of the youth, to create a research and development culture to support yeezy the creation of an innovative and creative and a competitive knowledge-based economy, said Omran Sharaf, the Hope project manager. So it s about the future of our economy. It s about the post-oil economy. UAE leadership wanted to inspire the young generation to go into STEM and use this mission as a catalyst to cause disruptive change and shifts in multiple sectors. ... That s why they went with the Mars shot. They wanted to create an ecosystem that basically supports the creation of an advanced science and technology sector. Shock waves form around the nose of a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-2A rocket as it accelerates toward space carrying a Mars probe built by the United Arab Em Sxgj Israel seems closer to its most right-wing government yet as Netanyahu says he s formed a new coalition
KABUL, Afghanistan - Two NATO service members were killed in southwestern Helmand province by an Afghan policeman, the coalition said Friday.The two were mentoring an Afghan National Civil Order brigade and were shot and killed inside the police compound on Thursday as they sat down to eat lunch, NATO said in a statement. Other soldiers returned fire and the policeman was wounded and hospitalized. The names and nationalities of the service members, along with other details, were not released. While this is a serious incident, the actions of this individual do not reflect the overall actions of our Afghan partners, said U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. James B. Laster, International Security Assistance Force Joint Command Deputy Chief of Staff Joint Operations. We remain committed to our partners and to ou stanley cups r mission here. It is the latest incident in which a member of the Afghan security services has killed members of the coalition.On Apri stanley cup l 27, a veteran Afghan military pilot said to be distressed over his personal finances opened fire at Kabul airport after an argument Wednesday, killing eight U.S. troops and an American civilian cont stanley becher ractor. In an unrelated incident, NATO said one of its service members was killed Friday by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan. No further details were released.So far this month 10 NATO troops have been killed, for a total of more than 120 since the start of the year. p

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LONDON -- An estimated 1,400 cars were destroyed in a huge fire that raged through a multi-story parking garage in the northern English city of Liverpool. There were no reported injuries in the blaze. The flames were just shooting out of the engine and coming past the tires, witness Sue Wright told BBC Ne mizuno running ws. It looked like a ball of fire on the front of the car and it was producing a lot of smoke. The fire next to Liverpool s Echo Arena also threatened horses that were stabled in the garag samba og e for performances at the Liverpo nike dunk ol International Horse Show. The horses were moved to safety inside the arena. The popular horse show was canceled because of the fire, which was brought under control early Monday morning. The charred remains of ruined vehicles were visible in the seven stories of the parking garage. Burnt out cars after a fire at a multi-storey car park on Liverpool s waterfront, north west England, Monday Jan. 1, 2018. Peter Byrne / AP Officials set up an emergency shelter to help the many people who could not get home because their cars had been burned. Fire officials said two dogs were rescued from vehicles parked in the structure. They are believed to have been the only animals inside cars at the time.The Echo Arena said all people and horses were safe.Witnesses said cars seemed to explode every couple of seconds when the fire was at its peak. They said Ztcs Turkey lifts its objections to Sweden, Finland joining NATO
A Virginia oil trading company has pleaded guilty to grand larceny in the United Nations oil-for-food scandal, prosecutors said Thursday.Midway Trading of Reston, Virginia, is accused of being part of a scheme to pay kickbacks to Iraq in connection with oil purchases made under the program, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said.Midway has already pleaded guilty to first-degree grand larceny, prosecutors said.Midway and a trading partner, Bulf Oil, are accused of paying m stanley cup ore than $440,000 in kickbacks to Iraqi officials in connection with oil purchases, but f stanley tumbler alsely told the U.N that no kickbacks were paid.Midway will pay a $250,000 fine, Morgenthau said. Midway attorneys admitted in court that in late 2000, the company bought the right to lift oil from Iraq under the U.N. s oil for food program from Bulf Oil, a Romanian company, Morgenthau said.Under U.N. resolutions, all money paid for the purchase of Iraqi crude oil was deposited into a U.N. trust account at a branch of a French bank in Manhattan, said Morgenthau. Payments from the trust account, including payments for humanitarian goods, had to be authorized by U.N. officials, according to Morgenthau.Mike Holtzman, stanley cupe spokesman for the U.N.-backed Independent Inquiry Committee, which has been investigating oil-for-food, would not say whether it had worked with Morgenthau on the case. IIC chief Paul Volcker, the former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman, has spoken highly of Morgenthau s office in the past. We ar