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The handshake between Pres air force 1 ident Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron in Brussels last week -- which attracted attention on social media -- was no accident, Macron says.In an interview with the Journal du Dimanche JDD , the French president said the long handshake had meaning. My handshake with [President Trump] was not innocent -- not the alpha and the omega of a policy -- but a moment of truth, he said. We must show that we will not make small concessions, even symbolic ones. At their first meeting, ahead of a NATO summit on Thursday, the two men locked hands for so long that journalists noted their knuckles began to turn white. Mr. Trump finally seemed ready to pull away -- but Macron evidently wasn t. The French leader held the shake for a couple more seconds. Both men s jaws seemed clenched.It was for Macron a moment to assert equality with the U.S. I do not let anything pass, he told JDD. That s how we are resp af1 ected. That said, Macron said of Mr. Trump that he is more open than we think, he likes direct contact and is able to chan adidas og ge his positions. He told JDD that he thought he would be able to build a cordial relationship with the president. More from CBS News Trump says he will attend Notre Dame reopening in Paris this weekend Ezkb Investigators search for cause of deadly plane crash
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JERUSALEM -- Scores of nike air force Lebanese and Palestinian demonstrators have clashed with security forces outside the U.S. Embassy in Beirut over President Donald Trump s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel s capital. The protesters gathered hundreds of yards away from the embassy on Sunday, where they burned an effigy of Mr. Trump, U.S. and Israeli flags, as well as piles of adidas campus 80s garbage, sending plumes of smoke into the air. As they hurled stones, security forces responded with tear gas and water cannons.Many demonstrators wore black and white scarves, BBC News reports. They chanted slogans decrying Mr. Trump.The U.S. decision has ignited protests across the Middle East, where it is widely seen as a blatantly pro-Is nike sb dunk rael move that threatens the decades-old peace process. Lebanon is home to 450,000 Palestinian refugees, nearly 10 percent of the population. Violence ratchets up in protests over U.S. Jerusalem move 02:18 In Israel on Sunday, police said a security guard was stabbed near Jerusalem s central bus station. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the guard was seriously wounded and his attacker arrested. The Magen David Adom medical service said a 30-year-old male suffered a stabbing wound in his upper body. The incident appeared to be the first attack since Mr. Trump s recognition of Jerusal Awjn Carrefour pulls Doritos and other PepsiCo products from shelves over price hikes
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BEHRAMPUR, India A massive, powerful cyclone packing heavy rains and destructive winds slammed into India s eastern coastline Saturday evening, as hundreds of thousands of residents moved inland to shelters in hopes of riding out the dangerous storm.Roads were all but empty as high waves lashed the coastline of Orissa state, which will bear the brunt of Cyclone Phailin. By midafternoon, wind gusts were so strong that they could blow over grown men. Seawater pushed inland, swamping villages where many people survive as subsistence farmers in mud and thatch huts.Trees have been uprooted, cellphone towers collapsed, electric poles twisted and thatched huts were blown away as the cyclone hit the coast, CBS News Sanjay Jha reports from India. Darkness e salomon xt 6 nveloped wide swathes of several coastal districts.As the cyclone swept across the Bay of Bengal toward the Indian coast, satellite images showed its spinning tails covering an area larger than France. Images appeared to show the storm making landfall early Saturday night near Gopalpur. Indian people run for shelter following a cyclone warning at the Bay of Bengal coast in Gopalpur beach in Ganjam district, India, Oct. 12, 2013. AP Photo With some of the world s warmest waters, the Indian Ocean is considered a cyclone hot spot, and some of the deadliest storms in rec af1 en yeezy 350 t history have come through the Bay of Bengal, including a Kyrr Pakistan army cutting U.S. presence to minimum
Iran finds parts of a Western incentives package aimed at making a breakthrough in the nuclear dispute acceptable, but some other parts should be removed, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Sunday.Hamid Reza Asefi also said Iran is not stalling by taking time to respond to the package, which was presented to it last week and promises U.S. and European nuclear help if Iran suspends its uranium enrichment program. We started studying the package the moment it was presented to us, Asefi told reporters. There are points which are acceptable. There are points which are ambiguous. There are points that we believe should be strengthened, and points that we believe should not exist. U.S. President George W. Bush said on Friday that Iran will have weeks, not mo kubki stanley nths to decide whether to accept the proposals or face the prospect of penalties.Asefi insisted that no deadline has been given. A deadline doesn t exist, but he added that Iran is not seeking to buy time. We have to evaluate it. We will use our time as long as is necessary, Asefi said. We will give our views in response to the package and we will offer our proposals. Asefi did not elaborate on which stanley mug parts he was referring to. But his comments reflected Iran s intention to seek changes in the offer. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Saturday that his country would present a counteroffer - either a various of the package or an entirely new stanley mugs proposal. He did not provide details on Iran s proposals or
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MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin expounded on a topic Thursday on which he is rarely drawn; his family. The long-time Russian strongman was asked about his two daughters during an annual end-of-the-year news conference, and he gave more information on the young women who have an incredibly low public profile given their father s larger-than-life persona. They live in Russia and have never gone anywhere to live permanently.They have never received education anywhere but in Russia. They studied only in Russian universities, Putin said, according to the Reuters news agency. Wild facts about Vladimir Putin 29 photos He said his two daughters, Maria and Katerina, speak more than three language samba og s each, including European and Asian ones. I am proud of them. They continue to study and work, said Putin in nike air max response to a question from the Russian media. They make first steps in their careers and they are successful. I never discuss questions related to my family. They are not involved in business, and they adidas samba damen are not involved in politics. They are not pushing for this, Putin said. To speak about where my daughters work and what exactly they do -- I have never done it before and I am not going to do it now for a great many reasons including security r Kipj Belarus Dissenters Vow To Rally
AP SEOUL, South Korea - He was th gourde stanley e guardian figure always at the side of North Korea s young new leader. As the top army official, his experience and position lent Kim Jong Un credibility with the troops. Now, Vice Marshal Ri Yong Ho is out, dismissed from several powerful posts because of illness, state media said Monday in a brief surprise announcement just days after he last appeared in public.Ri did not appear ill in recent appearances, feeding speculation abroad that Kim purged him in an effort to put his own mark on the nation he inherited when father Kim Jong Il died in December. At the same time, there was no sign of discord at Ri s last public appearance at a high-level event, barely a week ago.Still, Ri s removal, whether for health reasons or political missteps, shakes the core of the authoritarian regime s power structure and may be a sign that Kim is tensing his grip on power, just as his father and grandfather, founding leader Kim Il Sung, did in their eras.On Tuesday morning, the official Korean Central News Agency announced that the title of vice marshal had been bestowed on Hyon Yong Chol. No other details were provided about Hyon and his militar stanley cup y background. It was not immediately clear if he would receive any of Ri s other titles and powers, including chief of stanley thermobecher the General Staff of the Korean People s Army. The appointment was made by the Central Military Commission of the Workers Party of Korea and the National Defense Commission of North Korea,
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LONDON -- Stan Beaton lost his wife a decade ago, so he cherished the simple voicemail greeting she had recorded at their home in northern England. adidas samba donna salomon U.K. widower given back the voice of his late wife 00:53 Then, without warning, it disappeared; deleted by his phone service provider, Virgin Media. When Virgin heard about his story, BBC Radio Leeds reports, they set a team of 10 employees to the task of bringing the audio back, and adidas samba adidas the radio station was on hand this week to surprise Stan with a sound he believed he d never hear again. That s her, he says choking up as he hears his late wife s voice. Wonderful. Wonderful. As Stan himself point s out to the BBC Radio reporter sitting in front of him, I suppose it s gonna be a bit of a PR job now, but thank you, Virgin Media. He said he was staggered at the lengths the company had gone to to retrieve it.The full video can be found here, and it s worth watching.Not all PR stunts are created equal. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-b7bea0c2-968f-42b5-bd66-96a1582c3a62, right-rail-recirc-item--id-b7bea0c2-968f-42b5-bd66-96a1582c3a62 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-b7bea0c2-96 Rmax Jordan s King Abdullah: Reform half-done can be undone
Updated at 3:19 p.m. ETPORTLAND, Maine - The bluefin tuna has escaped being placed on the endangered sp stanley cup usa ecies list, but the majestic fish prized by sushi lovers will be listed as a species of concern by the federal agency that oversees America s fisheries.After extensive scientific review, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administ stanley us ration announced Friday it has determined that bluefin tuna does not warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act. The agency conducted the review after the Center for Biological Diversity submitted a petition seeking an endangered status for the fish, claiming the species faces possible extinction because of overfishing and habitat degradation, including effects of the BP oil spill on bluefin spawning grounds in the Gulf of Mexico.Even though bluefin will not be listed as endangered or threatened, NOAA officials said they still have concerns about the fish, which can swim at speeds faster than 50 mph and grow to more than half a ton in size.NOAA scientists will revisit the status of the species in early 2013 when a new stock assessment and information on the impacts of the BP oil spill are available. We remain concerned about the status of bluefin tuna, both fishing quota compli stanley becher ance and the potential effects of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill on the western stock of Atlantic bluefin tuna, said Larry Robinson, NOAA s assistant secretary for conservation and compliance.Bluefin tuna populations worldwide have come under scrutiny
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In another first, NASA s Perseverance rover has beamed back some fascinating bangs, ping dunks s and rattles as it makes its way across the rough Martian terrain for the first time.NASA on Wednesday released the new audio, which marks the first sounds of the rover making its way across the Jezero Crater as it begins its hunt for ancient life. The audio, among the first ever recorded on another planet, contains the movement of the rover s six wheels moving across the surface of the red planet.More than 16 minutes of audio highlighting Perseverance s 90-foot drive on March 7 was captured by the rover s entry, descent and landing EDL microphone, which remained operational following the nail-biting touchdown a few weeks prior. NASA s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its onboard left Navigation Camera. The camera is located high on the rover s mast and aids in driving. This image was acquired on Mar. 7, 2021 Sol 16 . NASA/JPL-Caltech The microphone, which is just a standard off-the-shelf model, was specifically added to the rover to capture the landing and was not origina air max 98 lly intended for surface operations, but the sounds of Perseverance gliding across Mars surface are certainly an added bonus. A lot of people, when adidas campus damen they see the images, don t appreciate that the wheels are metal, said Vandi Verma, a senior engineer and rover driver at NASA s Jet Propulsion Nhhw Pakistan: Dozens of Europeans in Terror Training
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The Russian forces invading Ukraine have faced more resistance than the U.S. believes Russia anticipated, a senior defense official said Sunday morning. The Russian forces have advanced toward three cities, including Kyiv, but have not yet captured a city since invading. The Ukrainians are putting up a very stiff and brave and heroic resistance, but we are only in Day Four, and I would be reluctant to provide an estimate of how many more days there are and what those days are going to look like, the senior defense official said.The U.S. Defense Department estimates about two-thirds of the combat power Russia had arrayed around Ukraine s borders have now been committed inside Ukraine. That leaves about one-third that have yet to enter the country, which is a significant amount of power still at the ready.The Russian advances dunk pand on both Kharkiv and Kyiv have been slowed by fuel and logistical shortages and by the stiff and creative resistance by the Ukrainians, according to the official. A convoy of military trucks parked in a street in Mykolaivka, Donetsk region, the territory controlled by pro-Russian militants, eastern Ukraine, Sunda salomon xt 6 y, Feb. 27, 2022. Fighting also r adidas campus 80s aged in two eastern territories controlled by pro-Russia separatists. AP The Russian advance forces are still about 30 kilometers outside of Kyiv. There are indications that some reconnaissance elements are i Hrum Mideast Summit To Usher In Truce
The sole survivor of the crash that killed Princess Diana says he s still haunted by the knowledge that she died on his shift. Trevor Rees-Jones has written a new book, The Bodyguard s Story, which will be serialized in Toronto s National Post and London s The Daily Telegraph next week. In his book Rees-Jones said he would have traded his life for that of Diana, her boyfriend Dodi Fayed or their driver, Henri Paul.He said he goes mad thinking about if onlys. But while he feels a sense of guilt as a survivor, he says he is not to blame for the accident. Rees-Jones says Fayed insisted on the arrangements that led to them being driven at high speed through a Paris tunnel by a drunken driver on Aug. 30, 1997.Initially people thought that Rees-Jones life was spared because he wore his seatbe stanley cup usa lt. But he stanley becher denied wearing a seatbelt and the inquiry proved that he wasn t strapped in. As a professional bodyguard, Rees-Jones felt it wouldn t have been appropriate for him to wear a seatbelt while driving through a city. Tests showed stanley thermosflasche that Paul s blood alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit, and he had taken prescription drugs including the antidepressant Prozac.Rees-Jones takes issue with former employer, Mohammed Al Fayed, who believes that his son and the princess were the victims of a conspiracy. Rees-Jones said that Fayed s character wasn t strong. He was like a kid, to be honest. He had his toys, he had his cars and basically bumbled his
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af1 Washington mdash; Federal prosecutors in New York charged an Indian national with an alleged plot to kill a Sikh political activist living in the U.S., an explosive case that could have broader ramifications for rel adidas campus ations between the two allies amid allegations of a similar plot in Canada.Nikhil Gupta, who resides in India, is charged with two counts of murder-for-hire and conspiracy. He was arrested over the summer in Europe and is pending extradition.In court documents unsealed Tuesday, investigators in the Southern District of New York alleged Gupta was recruited by an unnamed Indian government official who had claimed to be part of that nation s intelligence community. At the official s direction, Gupta and another unnamed contact tried to hire a hitman to murder the unnamed victim, who prosecutors described in court papers as a vocal critic of the Indian government and staunch advocate for a Sikh sovereign state in the region. The activist had been banned from India for his separatist views and now lives in the U.S., according to the charging documents.The hitman, who would have been paid at least $1 nike dunk low 00,000 in cash, was actually an undercover federal agent, and the unnamed co-conspirator he discussed the plot with was a confidential government source, prosecutors revealed.The alleged assassination plotThe alleged conspiracy began in May 2023, according to court papers, with Gupta and the intelligence official even meeting in New Delhi to discuss the planned assassination Qvlq Israel Vows Attacks After Bombings
CBS/AP KABUL, Afghanistan - NATO said two American soldiers were killed today while battling insurgents in eastern Ghazni province. It did not provide any further information or details about the deaths, the first this month. A total of 53 foreign troops were kille stanley cups d in Afghanistan in August.In a separate incident near Kabul, two suicide attackers - one detonating a vest rigged with explosives, another driving a fuel truck armed with a bomb - blew themselves up near a U.S. base, killing at least 12 people, officials said.The attack around dawn in the town of Sayed Abad in Wardak province, about 40 miles from Kabul, served as a reminder that even after a decade of fighting, tens of thousands of U.S. and foreign troops are still e stanley becher ngaged in a war that shows no signs of slowing down despite the st stanley cup art of a withdrawal of coalition forces.The U.S.-led NATO coalition said that no American or coalition troops were killed in the blasts. It confirmed that a number of troops were wounded, but did not say how many, in accordance with coalition policy. NATO helicopter crashes in Afghanistan; No deathsNo criminal charges in Koran, corpse incidentsNATO: Haqqani death a blow to Taliban, if trueShahidullah Shadid, a spokesman for the Wardak provincial governor, said one suicide bomber detonated a vest rigged with explosives outside a compound housing the district governor s office, while another in a fuel tanker detonated his bomb on a road separating the compound from the base. He
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