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CBS News NEW YORK - A CBS News/New York Times poll out Tuesday evening shows overwhelming support adidas campus femme for the proposed deal between the U.S. and Russia to have Syria give up its chemical weapons. In return, the U.S. agreed to hold off on a military strike to punish the Syrians for a nerve gas attack last month. About 82 percent of Americans favor such a deal, while 15 percent opposes. When asked if Syria will turn over all of its chemical weapons, just 33 percent said it is likely and 66 percent said it is unlikely. Meanwhile, the top U.S. and Russian diplomats met Tuesday at the U.N. in hopes of working out the details. There has been very little progress since that deal was made 10 days ago. The U.N. meeting ran nearly two hours and there was a lot to discuss. Secretary Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov came into Tuesday afternoon s meeting with sharp differences over the terms of the deal and how to enforce it. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met at the U.N. on Sept. 24, 2013, to discuss the chemical crocs hausschuhe weapons agreement surrounding Syria. CBS News The U.S. says Russia s public statements since the agreement have been counterproductive. Russia still disputes that Syria President Bashar Assad carried out the Aug. 21 sari salomon xt n gas attack. It blames the rebels for the incident and says it doesn t want a U.N. re Ybnp Lego competition build creations brick by brick
Israeli Prime Ministe stanley bottles r Ariel Sharon issued a stern warning Wednesday to Jewish settlers who try to thwart his planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, saying the government would use all its might to carry out the pullout.It was the first time Sharon said he will deal harshly with Israeli settlers who resist the pullout, which is set to begin in July.In other developments:Gunfire erupted at an Israeli-Gaza checkpoint, leaving an armed Palestinian dead. Also Wednesday, two Palestinian rockets landed in an Israeli army base in southern Israel, wounding 12 soldiers, the army said.Even though Palestinian presidential frontrunner Mahmoud Abbas termed Israel the Zionist enemy Tuesday, Sharon s office says the prime minister still plans to meet with Abbas after the Palestinian election. Top issues are likely to be how the Palestinian Authority handles security and i stanley cup nstitutional reforms.Mustafa Barghouti trails badly in opinion polls, has the backing of no major party and is challenging the Palestinians most powerful political machine. But he insists he is no long shot in the race to replace Yasser Arafat. People are fed up with the system, they are fed up with corruption, they are fed up with f stanley flask avoritism, he said, and people want change. He didn t enter the race until jailed uprising leader Marwan Barghouti, a distant relative, dropped out last month.The small ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party will join Sharon s reshuffled Cabinet, giving the new team a parliamentary ma

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ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE -- Pope Francis says gays -- and all the other people the church has marginalized, such as the poor and the exploited -- deserve an apology.Francis was asked Sunday en route home from Armenia if he agreed w adidas samba uomo ith one of his top advisers, German Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who told a conference in Dublin in the days after the deadly Orlando gay club attack that the church owes an apology to gays for having marginalized them. Rock star pope 29 photos Francis responded with a variation of his famous Who am I to judge comment and a repetition of church teaching that gays must not be discriminated against but treated with respect. I repeat what the Catechism of the Catholic Church says that they should not be discriminated against and they should be respected and pastorally accompanied, the pope said.He said some politicized behaviors of the homosexual community can be condemned for being a bit adidas originals hamburg offensive for others. But he said: Someone who has this condition, who has good will and is searching for God, who are we to judge We must accompany them, Francis said. I think the church must not only apologize ... to a gay person it hoka trekkingschuhe offended, but we must apologize to the poor, to women who have been exploited, to children forced Tfzg Ukraine leader warns Russian forces ready to invade
It wouldn t quite be pouring good wine down the drain, but clos stanley cups e.Stuck with hundreds of millions of bottles they can t sell in a toughening global market, vintners want to distill some of France s winelake, or surplus, into industrial-use alcohol.It wouldn t just be swill heading for destruction: Most of the 66 million gallons vintners hope to recycle is considered high-quality.Such destruction would be unprecedented for appellation wines that carry France s AOC seal of origin and quality. Although nearly 71.3 million gallons were distilled into alcohol in 2002, that was second-rate table wine. This time, 267 million bottles of AOC wines would be boiled down in stills if vintners get their way. Generally, distillation is for the worst products, said Robert Beynat, chief executive of the Vinexpo international wine fair. That vintners are clamoring to destroy stocks of wine that would nicely accompany a meal underscores their difficulties. Vintners, some bearing a mock coffin marked Here lies the last winemaker, held protests in several cities last month to appeal for government aid.The average Frenchman still downs 13.2 gallons of wine a year mdash; but that is half as much as in 1961. A study for Vinexpo published Thursday predicted that the United States will overta stanley water bottle ke France as the leading overall wine consume stanley flask r by 2008 mdash; although the French would still lead on a per capita basis.Pressured by Californian Chardonnays and other vintages from the new world, Fr

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A diver who spotted something metallic not far from Sardinia s coast has led to the discovery of tens of thousands of ancient bronze coins.Italy s culture ministry said Saturday that the diver alerted authorities, who sent divers assigned to an art protection squad along with others from the ministry s undersea archaeology department. The ministry posted images and video of the stunning discovery.The coins dating from the first half of the fourth century were found in sea grass, not far from the northeast shore of the Mediterranean island. The ministry didn t say exactly when the first diver caught a glimpse of something metallic just off shore Sardinia, not far from the town of Arzachena. A picture made available by the Italian Culture Minister showing some of the discovered ancient bronze coins. / AP Officials said presence of coinage from Constant crocs winterstiefel ine the Great confirmed that the treasure could be dated between 324 and 340 AD.Exactly how many coins have been retrieved hasn t been determined yet, as they are being sorted. A ministry statement estimated that there are at least about 30,000 and possibly as many as 50,000, given their collective weight. All the coins were in an e air max 1 xceptional and rare state of preservation, the ministry said. The few coins that were damaged still had legible inscriptions, it said. A video posted by the ministr yeezy y showed divers with meta Cmhn The horse mafia of Venezuela
TRIPOLI, Libya - Rebels hunting the top officials in Muammar s Qaddafi s ousted regime have captured his foreign minister and are closing in on Qaddafi himself, rebel officials said Thursday. However, the longtime dictator was quoted as sayi stanley cup ng that tribes loyal to him in key strongholds are armed and won t surrender to the rebels.Syrian-based Al-Rai TV reported Thursday that Qaddafi planned to issue a statement and quotes him as saying we won t surrender again; we are not women; we will keep fighting. The latest defiance come as rebel forces pressed toward three major bastions of the crumbling regime, including Qaddafi s hometown. The regime is dying, rebel council spokesman Abdel-Hafiz Ghoga said late Wednesday, after two of Qaddafi s sons made conflicting statements on Arab television stations 151; with one vowing to fight until death and the other offering to negotiate a truce. Qaddafi s family is trying to find an exit, Ghoga said. They only have to surrender completely to the rebels and we will offer them a stanley cup fair trial. We won t hold negotiations with them over anything. Qaddafi son vows to fight to death, says dad OKLibya rebels give Qaddafi loyalists an ultimatum Special section: Anger in the Arab WorldGhoga also said Thursday that the rebels had extended the dea stanley quencher dline for the surrender of Qaddafi s hometown of Sirte 151; originally set for Saturday 151; giving the loyalist forces there one more week. There are good indications that things are moving

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Moscowmdash; A Russian court found former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan guilty of espionage on Monday and sentenced him to 16 years in prison. For his family, it was a predictable conclusion to the high-profile spy case that has been yet another strain on relations between Moscow and Washington. The U.S. Ambassador to Russia has ridiculed the verdict as a mockery of justice. Whelan, 50, was arrested at Moscow s Metropol Hotel in December 2018. Investigators claim he was caught red-handed after receiving a USB drive containing classifie adidas samba og d information. The American, who also holds British, Irish and Canadian citizenship, has maintained throughout the trial that he was framed by an agent from Russia s Federal Security Service FSB , who gave him the drive. He pleaded not guilty during the trial and insisted he was not an American spy. Former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, who was detained and accused of espionage, holds a sign as he stands inside a defendants cage during his verdict hearing in Moscow, Russia, June 15, 2020. MAXIM SHEMETOV/REUTERS This is all political theater, Whelan said from inside a plexi-glass crocs hausschuhe defendant s box in the courtroom on Monday adidas samba . He noted that he hadn t even understood the verdict when it was read, as all the proceedings were held in Russian. He pushed a hand-written note up against the front of the box reading: sham trial at the top, along with other Wkvb Mystery of serial shoe robber at school in Japan solved when security camera catches unlikely culprit
LONDON Britain s media are in a meltdown and its government is gaffe-prone, so Oxford Dictionaries has chosen an apt Word of the Year: omnishambles. Oxford University Press on Tuesday crowned the word, defined as a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations as its top term of 2012.Each year, Oxford University Press tracks how the English language is changing and chooses a word that best reflects the mood of the year. The pu stanley becher blisher typically chooses separate British and American winners. This year s American champion is gif, short for graphics interchange format, a common format for images on the Internet.Coined by writers of the satirical television show The Thick of It, omnishambles has been applied to everything from gove stanley cup rnment PR blunders to the crisis-ridden preparations for the London Olympics.Oxford University Press lexicographer Susie Dent sa stanley cups id the word was chosen for its popularity as well as its linguistic productivity. She said, A notable coinage coming from the word is Romneyshambles, a derisive term used by the British press after U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney expressed doubts about London s ability to host a successful Olympics.Omnishambles was chosen over shortlisted terms including mummy porn -- the genre exemplified by the best-selling 50 Shades book series -- and green-on-blue military attacks by forces regarded as neutral, as when members of the Afghan army

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- A suicide bomber carried out an attack early Monday near a U.S. diplomatic site in the western Saudi city of Jeddah, according to the Interior Ministry.The ministry said in a statement the attacker detonated his suicide vest when security guards approached him near the parking lot of a hospital. The attacker died and two security men were wounded with minor injuries, according to the statement published by the state-run Saudi Press Agency. Some cars in the parking lot were damaged.Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Mansour al-Turki said in the statement the attacker caught the attention of the security guards, who noticed he was acting suspiciou adidas yeezy sly at an intersection on the corner of the heavily fortified U.S. consulate in Jeddah, located by the Dr. Soliman Fakeeh Hospital. Most of the consulate s staff had reportedly moved offices to a new location adidas campus .The U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia confirmed in a statement for U.S. citizens that there were no casualties or injuries among consular staff. The embassy said it remains in contact with Saudi authorities as they investigate the attack.The Interior Ministry did not specify if the attacker was intending to target the U.S. diplomatic compound, saying an investigation was underway to determine his identity. Three more blasts rocked the area hours later, a witness told the Reuters news agency, which says it a adidas campus ppeared police were carrying out controlled explosions.A 2004 al-Qaeda-linked militant at Umua 10 Shiites Killed In Iraq Bus Ambush
LONDON Some beef lasagna products recalled from British stores contained more than 60 percent horsemeat, U.K. food safety authorities said Thursday. It was the latest revelation in a growing scandal surrounding the use of horsemeat and the mislabeling of meat products in Europe.Frozen-food company Findus recalled the beef lasagna meals earlier this week after French supplier Comigel raised concerns that the products didn t conform to specification. The U.K. Food Standards Agency said the lasagnas were tested as part of an ongoing investigation into mislabeled meat.Already this month, milli stanley fr ons of burgers have been taken off shop shelves as it emerged that beef products from three companies in Ireland and Britain contained horse DNA.Eighteen beef lasagna products were tested by Findus, which found that 11 contained horsemeat in the 60 to 100 percent range, the Food Standards Agency said. It would not say if any of the meals were 100 percent horsemeat.The agency said there s no evidence yet of a food safety risk, but added that tests have been ordered on the lasagna to see if it contains the veterinary drug phenylbutazone. Animals treated with phenylbutazone are not allowed to enter t stanley termosy he food chain because it may pose a risk to human health, the agency added. Burger King drops supplier linked to horsemeatPeople who had purchased the meals were advised not to eat them but to return the products to the shops they wer stanley cupe e bought from.Eating horsemeat is not generally a health

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LONDON -- The nerve agent Novichok could remain active for 50 years if kept in a sealed container, Britain s top counterterrorism police officer said Wednesday, adding that he cannot yet guarantee there are no traces of the lethal poison in southwestern England. Metropolitan Police Assistant Police Commissioner Neil Basu told residents of Amesbury Tuesday night that police are searching for the container that held the nerve agent believed to have poisoned two people on June 30. I would love to be able to say that we have identified and caught the people responsible and how we are certain there are no traces of nerve agent left anywhere in Wiltshire, he said. But the brutal reality is that I cannot offer you any reassurance or guarantee at this t air force 1 ime. He said there is so far no definitive forensic proof that the Novichok that poisoned 44-year-old Dawn Sturgess and 45-year-old Charlie Rowley was the same batch used in March against ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. Basu said this can only be proved by scientists conducting detailed analysis, but that any other explanat yeezy 350 ion is extremely unlikely. British woman dies from nerve agent poisoning, police say 00:27 hoka trekkingschuhe This is a very rare substance banned by the international community and for there to be two separate, distinct incidents i Dfxe Lull Before Worst Storm In Haiti
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A powerful earthquake jolted the western Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing a 12-year-old boy and sending people streaming from their houses and hotels in panic.Hundreds of patients from at least one hospital had to be evacuated, some in wheelchairs or with infusion drips still attached to their arms.The U.S. Geological Survey said the 6.6-magnitude quake was centered 60 miles 100 kilometers southwest of the c stanley kubek ity of Medan at a de stanley cup pth of 62 miles 110 kilometers .It was too far inland, however, to generate a tsunami.The temblor hit at about 1 a.m. local time Tuesday, rattling people from their sleep in towns and villages across the island s northern tip. Maura Sakti, a mayor in Subulussalam, told the local station TVOne a 12-year-old boy had been stanley thermos mug killed.He had no other details about injuries or damage.Residents in Singkil, nearer to the quake s epicenter, said some electricity poles were knocked down, crashing into homes and causing blackouts. My wife was screaming, my children crying, said Burhan Mardiansyah, 37. We saw our walls start to crack and everything inside the house was falling. Thank God we re all safe. Marni Aulia, a 32-year-old vendor in the town, said two hours after the quake people were still afraid to go back inside. We re worried about the aftershocks, she said.Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that make the vast island nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity.A giant quake off the country on Dec

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VIENTIANE, Laos --Philippine Foreign Secretary PerfectoYasay says P nike air max resident Barack Obama has met briefly with new Philippine PresidentRodri air force one go Duterte on the sidelines of a summit in Laos. There was no immediate confirmation from the White House. Yasay says the two met in a holding room used by leaders attending a summitdinner. He says the interaction shows that the relationship between the twoallies is strong. They met at the holding room and they were the last persons to leave the holding room. I canrsquo;t say how long they met. It all springs from the fact the relationship between the Philippines and the United States is firm, very strong. The basis for this relationship is historical and both leaders realize this. And Irsquo;m very happy that it happened. Philippine president has vulgar insult for Obama 00:57 A Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman, Charles Joe, also said Obama and Duterte met in the holding room. He said it was a mutually agreed meeting, but t adidas originals hamburg hat he had no details of what was discussed.CBS Newsrsquo; Mark Knoller reports a White House official confirmed that Mr. Obamahad a brief discussion with President Duterte before the ASEAN Gala Dinner. The exchange consisted of pleasantries between the two. Obama and Duterte entered the dinner venue separa Bdfm Reports: Iran women s soccer captain barred from tournament by husband
Paloma strengthened to a hurricane with winds near 75 mph on Thursday as it churned toward the Cayman Islands and Cuba.Forecasters say the storm is expected to continue strengthening as it moves north and could become a major Category 3 hurricane by Saturday as it approaches Cuba.A hurricane warnin stanley cup g is in effect for the Cayman Islands, where th stanley fr e storm could dump up to 8 inches of rain, said the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.Paloma may make landfall in Cuba over the weekend, and Jamaica was warned to also monitor its progress, the center said.The Cayman Islands planned to close its main airport on Friday morning, although no mandatory evacuation will be issued, Tourism Minister Charles Clifford said. I hope I m right, but I don t think this will be a major event, he said.Extra flights had been added as of Thursday night for those wishing to leave, and American Airlines and Delta planned to fly in larger aircraft as well. Guests who remain on the island will be moved to higher floors in anticipation of flooding, he said.Jack Nelson, 75, of Salisbury, Maryland stanley thermobecher , arrived a week ago with his wife. The couple decided to stay on the island until Saturday as planned because Nelson said a Category 1 hurricane was not something to fear, especially at the hotel where they were staying. I think it is very safe and it could take a Category 4 or 5, he said. The Cayman Islands top elected official, Kurt Tibbetts, urged residents not to wait until the last minu

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Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of an Armenian church dating back almost 2,000 years, making it the oldest structure of its kind in the country and one of the oldest in the world. Germany s University of Muuml;nster, which partnered with a team at the Armenian Academy adidas samba adidas of Sciences on the archaeological dig, announced the discovery Friday and called it a sensational testimony to early Christianity in Armenia. The joint team of archaeologists and researchers uncovered the building during excavations in Artaxata, once a thriving metropolis and commercial center, which for several centuries before and after the common era served as the capital of the ancient Armenian kingdom. Excavations were part of the larger Armenian- nike sb dunk German Artaxata Project, an initiative started in 2018 to study the area.Experts believe the church found recently in Artaxata was originally built yeezy in the 4th century A.D. That timing coincides with the construction of Etchmiadzin Cathedral, also in Armenia, which is considered the ancient kingdom s first cathedral and is often regarded as the oldest cathedral in the world. A preliminary reconstruction shows the late antique church in Artaxata. copy; Armenian-German Artaxata Project The building, which dates back to the 4th century, is the oldest archaeologically documented church in the country mdash; a sensational testimony to early Christiani Yjak Power grab by China s Xi Jinping: President for life
Jurors in the murder trial of a pig farmer accused of killing 26 women watched videotaped intervie stanley becher ws Wednesday in which he denies knowing the victims and asks a police officer: Do I look like a murderer Slumped in his chair, often with his head in his hands, Robert William Pickton tells Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt. Bill Fordy that despite DNA evidence against him, that don t mean I did it. Prosecutors have said Pickton told an undercover officer planted in his jail cell that he killed 49 women and intended to make it an even 50. Pickton, 56, has been charged with 26 counts of first-degree murder. Most of the victims were prostitutes and drug addicts who vanished from a drug-ridden Vancouver neighborhood in the 1990s.Pic stanley fr kton is accused of luring women to his pig farm outside Vancouver, where investigators say he threw drunken raves with prostitutes and drugs. After his arrest in February 2002, health officials issued a tainted meat advisory to neighbors who may have bought pork from his farm, concerned that it may stanley canada have contained human remains. Pickton has pleaded not guilty to the first six counts of murder. A separate trial will be held for the other 20.When the trial began Monday, prosecutors laid out some of the gruesome evidence against Pickton, including skulls and teeth of women found in the freezer, slaughterhouse and troughs at Pickton s farm.The first trial covers the murders of Sereena Abotsway, Mona Wilson, Andrea Joesbury, Brenda Wolfe, Georgina Pa

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NEW DELHI -- Trump has arrived. Have you shout the barrage of glossy front-page advertisements in almost every major India yeezy n newspaper. The ads, which have run repeatedly in the past few days, herald the arrival not of the American president but of his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., who is in New Delhi to sell luxury apartments and lavish attention on wealthy Indians who have already bought units in a Trump-branded development outside the Indian capital.The newspaper ads promise that buyers who order apartments in the development by Thursday will get a conversation and dinner with Trump Jr. one day later.President Trump still in position to cash in on business empirePresident Trump has pledged to avoid any new foreign business deals during his term in office to avoid potential ethical conflicts. While the projects that Trump Jr. is promoting in India were inked before his father was elected, ethics experts have long seen the use of the Trump name to promote even existing business ventures as tricky territory. Has Trump done enough to limit business conflicts of interest 03:49 adidas yeezy The distinction between old and new projects can be hazy, they note, and new deals can be shoehorned into old.Donald Trump Jr. posed for photos Tuesday morning in New Delhi with Indian developers building complexes in fou adidas samba r Oenj Violence Mars Powell s Haiti Visit
The U.S. military has offered rewards of up to $200,000 for information leading to the return of three missing American soldiers, a U.S. general said Wednesday.Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, commander of U.S. troops south of Baghdad, said the offer was made on 50,000 leaflets distributed in the area where the troops disappeared after a pre-dawn ambush Saturday in which four stanley mug American troops and an Iraq soldier were killed.Word of the reward was also broadcast over loudspeakers as stanley cup price part of a massive search involving 4,000 U.S. troops and 2,000 Iraqis, stanley mug Lynch told The Associated Press.He said the reward was one of several measures being taken as part of the search. Troops have pursued 143 intelligence leads, have staged eight air assault operations, and established blocking positions to keep those behind the abductions from fleeing with their captives. We ve done so much as to drain canals after a report that the bodies were in a canal, he said. So we re leaving no stone unturned. The U.S. command has said the searchers were trying to isolate areas where they suspect the captives may have been taken after the attack, which occurred near Mahmoudiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad.An al Qaeda front group mdash; the Islamic State of Iraq mdash; has said it captured the soldiers and warned the Americans in a Web statement on Monday to call off the hunt if you want their safety. The soldiers attacked Saturday were assigned to a small patrol base set up as part of the new U.S. strategy t

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Berlin mdash;A fire at a weapons factory in southeast Poland left one worker dead and anot salomon xt her inju mizuno laufschuhe red on Monday, local police spokesperson Jaros 322;aw Gwoacute; 378;d 378; told CBS News. There was no immediate information of the cause of the Monday morning fire at the Mesko weapons plant in the city of Skar 380;ysko-Kamienn.Gwoacute; 378;d 378; said it was unclear whether the blaze had been caused by an explosion, as widely reported, but it sent shockwaves through the local community and raised concerns about safety protocols in Poland s arms industry.The incident took place in one of the production units of the Mesko factory, igniting a fire that quickly spread through the facility. Emergency services arrived promptly, but by the time fire crews managed to douse the flames there was significant damage to the building.The cause of the fire was under investigation, according to local police. adidas yeezy Preliminary reports suggested it may have been triggered by a malfunction in production equipment, but officials did not immediately rule anything out. A team of experts, including representatives from the Polish government and independent safety inspectors, was assembled to carry out a thorough investigation into the incident, Gwoacute; 378;d 378; told CBS News.Gwoacute; 378;d 378; said the case had been handed over to Polish national prosecutors and federal police. Mesko produces a wide range of weapons and ammunition, including shoulder-fired air defense missiles, Cckv Media s 1st look inside Japan nuke plant
One of the final tweets from Pope Benedict XVI s official @Pontifex account was issued Wednesday, just moments after he left the alter in St. Peter s Square where he gave his la stanley cup st public address video as pontiff.Benedict said in his 38th tweet that he wished everyone could experience the joy of being Christian. If only everyone could experience the joy of being Christian, being loved by God who gave his Son for us!mdash; Benedict XVI @Pontifex February 27, 2013 The @Pontifex account was to be shut down, as Benedict was poised to become on Thursday the first pontiff in more than 600 years to retire from t stanley cup he position at the helm of the Roman Catholic Church.Pope gets personal in last public addressCatholic Church in the spotlight, for all the wrong reasonsComplete coverage: Change at the VaticanThe pope sent his first tweet in 2011 from a Vatican account to launch the Holy See s news information portal. But in the wake of the Church s maligned handling of the child sexual abuse scandal, the Vatican hand-picked Fox News journalist Greg Burke to be its new communications adviser, and with his guidance, it launched Benedict s own account.Burke told a press conference in December 2012 -- announcing the new social media initiative as an effort to reach out to a younger audience stanley polska -- that @Pontifex was chosen for the pope s account because it not only means pope in Latin, but also bridge-builder, suggesting unity. Benedict garnered some 1.5 million Twitter followers in jus