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More than 1,000 trafficking victims were rescued in separate operations in Southeast Asia over the last week, officials in Indonesia and the Philippines said.Indonesian officials said Sunday they freed 20 of their nationals who were trafficked to Myanmar as part of a cyber scam, yeezy amid an increase in human trafficking cases in Southeast Asia. Fake recruiters had offered the Indonesians high-paying jobs in Thailand but instead trafficked them to Myawaddy, about 567 kilometers 352 miles south of Naypyidaw, the capital, to perform cyber scams for crypto websites or apps, said Judha Nugrah af1 a, an official in Indonesia s Foreign Affairs Ministry.The Indonesian Embassy in Bangkok will work closely with Thai authorities to repatriate the victims to Indonesia, it said in a statement. Myawaddy is in eastern Kayin state along the Thai border and is the site of an armed conflict between Myanmar s military and ethnic Karen rebels. The situation drew a national outcry in Indonesia after a video made by one of the victims went viral on social media last month. It showed dozens of grim-faced Indonesian workers in a dormitory room, asking their government to help them out of the war zone where they see violence almost every day. Please help us back to Indonesia, because our life here is very miserable and threatened, one person said, describing how they had been transferred from one company to other companies over the past eight months before being str crocs schuhe anded in Myawaddy. The victim sa Nxxh Canada Issues U.S. Travel Warning
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert pledged stiff retaliation for a rocket attack from Gaza on an Israeli city, the first time militants have reached the heart of a population center, with Israel already stepping up its weeklong offensive in the seaside territory.Olmert called the rocket fire on the coastal city of Ashkelon Tuesday a major escalation, coming just hours after a deadline set by the militants holding an Israeli soldier passed with Israel rejecting demands to r water bottle stanley elease Palestinian prisoners.Early Wednesday, Israeli aircraft targeted the Palestinian Interior Ministry for the second time in a week, the Israeli military said. Witnesses said missiles hit the main structure again and damaged a building next to the ministry. Rescue workers said five people were wounded.The two top floors of the main building collapsed, and the second building, which provides housing for ministry employees, was set on fire, witnesses said.In other attacks early Wednesday, Israeli aircraft fired missiles at a Hamas camp in southern Gaza and a Hamas-affiliated school stanley cup in Gaza City. No one was hurt. The rocket fired by Gaza militants Tuesday flew 12 kilometers 7 miles and exploded in the courtyard of a school in Ashkelon, a city of 110,000 on Israel s stanley termosy seacoast north of Gaza. School security cameras showed a large cloud of white dust rising from the point of impact. The school was empty at the time and no one was hurt.Though militants have launched many of the small, homemade rockets in the

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BRUSSELS - Bailout discussions between the Greek finance minister and his skeptical count mizuno erparts in the 19-country eurozone will resume Sunday after brea adidas yeezy king up following more than eight hours of talks without any apparent breakthrough that will secure the country s future in the euro.On leaving the meeting, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the eurozone s top official, said there had been in-depth discussions, and highlighted the issue of trust. The talks will resume at 11 a.m. local time 0900 GMT , just a few hours before European leaders are meant to descend on Brussels for a summit that has been billed at various points over the past week as Greece s last chance to convince creditors that it deserves more financial help.Dijsselbloem said the discussions were very difficult but work is still in progress. Greece debt default crisis 49 photos Greece s finance minister, Euclid Tsakalotos adidas campus is clearly struggling to convince skeptical creditors that the Greek government can be trusted to deliver on its reform promises in exchange for a financial rescue package securing the country s future in the euro. The pressure has been on Greece all day even after the Greek parliament passed a harsh austerity package that it hopes will lead to a three-year bailout. Iyro Assad strengthens hold on Syria s big cities as rebel fighters evacuate
Saudi Arabia s ambassador to Britain on Wednesday responded to some of the claims made in Michael Moore s film Fahrenheit 9/11 and in a book about the Bush family s relationship with Saudis going back to the 1970s.The film and the book, House of Bush, House of Saud, by Craig Unger, say the U.S. government helped 140 Saudis leave the United States on Sept. 13, 2001 mdash; two dozen of whom were relatives of Osama bin Laden.Prince Turki al-Faisal, the Saudi ambassador to London and a nephew of Crown Prince Abdullah, said there was nothing improper about the departures.The Saudis were properly vetted by the FBI, nobody left without being questioned, nobody left without permission and nobody left without any protocol being involved, al-Faisal told British Broadcasting Corp. radio.In his film, Moore claims that the Bush administration helped a number of Saudi princes and me stanley tumblers mbers of the bin Laden family to flee the United States at a time when American airspace had been closed to all commercial traffic. But America s Sept. 11 commission has sa stanley cup id it found no evidence that any flights of Saudi nationals took place before the reopening of national airspac stanley mug e on Sept. 13.Unger, who was interviewed for Moore s film, wrote in his book that he found some $1.4 billion in investments and contracts going from the House of Saud to companies in which the Bushes held prominent positions.Al-Faisal said he didn t believe there was any direct connection between the Saudi royal family a

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BEIRUT -- Syrian activists have released harrowing video of children they say are starving to death in a southern Syrian town completely cut off by government forces and allied militias. In retaliation for the siege of the Shiite villages in the country s north, opposition activists say Syrian troops and members of Lebanon s Hezbollah m crocs ilitant group have taken harsh measures against a Sunni area of Syria of about 40,000 people near the Lebanese border.The mountain border town of Madaya has been besieged since early Ju adidas sambarose ly, and conditions have worsened with colder weather and dwindling supplies. A snowstorm hit early in the new year, and there has been no electricity or diesel fuel.Medical workers and activists posted a video this week, showing a toddler and young boy with sunken eyes who were apparently starving, like dozens of others in the town. The video was posted online as a protest, demanding intervention from the international community to stem the crisis. U.S. gov t predicts Syria s Assad will outlast ObamaThe activists said starvation was claiming two to three lives each day in Madaya, and that residents had resorted to eating grass, leaves and water flavored with whatever spices they could find. As the cold and snow set in and the last of the fol salomon speedcross iage disappeared, some residents have purportedly resorted to eating their pet cats and dogs to survive. Louay, a social worker from Madaya, told Britain s The Guardian that the town s residents were dying in slow mo Pgvj Shipping Group Urges Anti-Piracy Blockade
Turning the tables on the United States amid growing worries over dangerous stanley website Chinese products, Beijing said Friday some health supplements, raisins and pistachios imported from the U.S. failed to meet China s safety standards and have been returned or destroyed.In Washington, a top U.S. food safety official said the Food and Drug Administration was seeking more information from its Chinese counterparts, including whether they are bona fide, science-based findings or in retaliation for U.S. actions.U.S. inspectors recently have banned or turned away a growing number of Chinese exports, including monkfish containing life-threatening levels of puffer fish toxins, drug-laced frozen eel and juice made with unsafe color additives. The FDA has also stopped all imports of Chinese toothpaste to test for a potentially deadly chemical reportedly found in tubes sold in Australia, the Dominican Republic and Panama.Friday s announcement said Chinese inspectors in the ports of Ningbo and Shenzen found bacteria and sulfur dioxide in products shipped by three American companies. The products failed to meet the sanitary standards of China, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said in a notice posted on its Web site. No details were given on when or how the inspections were conducted and telephones at the administration s office were not answered Friday.The companies were i stanley quencher dentified as K-Max Health Products Co., CMO stanley romania Distribution Center of America

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With lawmakers in both parties raising concerns about the return of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from Taliban captivity in exchange for five Taliban-affiliated detainees at Guantanamo Bay, the administration is mounting a concerted effort to push back on its critics.During a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor on Friday, John Podesta, a senior counselor to President Obama, tried to allay fears that the freed detainees would immediately return to the battlefield, saying the U.S. has ways to keep tabs on their movement. Obama: No apologi adidas originals es for Bowe Bergdahl release 02:38 The detainees are currently in Qatar, where they will remain under a travel ban for one year, but Podesta said the administration has the ability to monitor them beyond what Qatar is doing. He alluded to the vast surveillance system operated by the National Security Agency -- a spying apparatus that has generated considerable controversy of late, but one that could be a useful tool as the U.S. track the detainees in their freedom. As you probably know, we have a l adidas samba og ot of ways of monitoring what people are up to around the country an airmaxplus d around the world, he said. I think it s fair to say we ll keep an eye on them. CBS News Senior National Security Analyst Juan Zarate called the swap a tough call, given the possibilit Fwho Poll: 83% of Afghans Back Talks With Taliban
KIRKUK, Iraq 151; No decorations, no midnight Mass. Even an appearance by Santa Claus has been nixed after Iraq s Christian leaders ca stanley us lled off Christmas celebrations amid new al Qaeda threats on the tiny community still terrified from a bloody siege on a Baghdad church.Christians across Iraq have been living in fear since the assault on Our Lady of Salvation Church as its Catholic congregation was celebrating Sunday Mass. Sixty-eight people were killed. Days later Islamic insurgents bombed Christian homes and neighborhoods across the capital.On Tuesday, al Qaeda insurgents threatened more attacks on Iraq s beleaguered Christians, many of whom have fled their homes or the country since the church attack. A council representing Christian denominations across Iraq advised its followers to stanley cup cancel public celebrations of Christmas out of concern for their lives and as a show of mourning for the victims. Nobody can ignore the threats of al Qaeda against Iraqi Christians, said Chaldean Archbishop Louis Sako in Kirkuk. We cannot find a single source of joy that makes us celebrate. The situation of the Christians is bleak. Church officials in Baghdad, as well as in the northern cities of Kirkuk and Mosul and the southern city of Basra, said they will not put up Christmas decorations or celebrate m stanley cup idnight Mass. They urged worshippers not to decorate their homes. Even an appearance by Santa Claus was called off. It s to avoid any attacks, but also to show that people are sad,

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London mdash; The results of the presidential election in November will be important to U.S. allies and adversaries around the world, so there was interest worldwide in the debate between President Biden and former President Trump. Foreign media outlets coverage of the debate can lend some insight into the priorities and viewpoints in other countries.Here is a glimpse at how some international media covered Thursday night s debate.United Kingdom: The Times of London and The GuardianThree stories on the homepage of The Times of London, generally considered a right-leaning newspaper, were about the debate. One outlined key moments and spoke about Democrats concern over President Biden s performance.One was a commentary, and one was an explainer outlining whether it would be possible for the Democratic Party to replace Mr. Biden as its candidate before the election.The Guardian, a left-leaning newspaper, ran mu air max 2 ltiple stories about the debate, focusing on Mr. Biden s performance and his resistance to calls for him to step down as the adidas yeezy Democratic candidate. It also published an article outlining media reactions to the debate, with the headline: airmaxplus 10 minutes to destroy a presidency : how US and global media reviewed the Biden-Trump debate. France: Le MondeFrance s Le Monde newspaper noted that President Biden was raspy and sometimes halting during the debate, and said Trump was bombastic and had lashed out with personal attacks.Germany: Der SpiegelIn addition to a d Nplk Israeli Forces Kill 10 Palestinians
MEXICO CITY - Archaeologists found a round Aztec ceremonial platform studded with stone carvings of serpent heads at Mexico City s Templo Mayor ruin, raising hopes in the search for an emperor s tomb, authorities said Thursday.No Aztec ruler s tomb has ever been located and researchers have been on a five-year quest to find a royal tomb in the area of the Templo Mayor, a complex of two huge pyramids and numerous smaller structures that contained the ceremonial and spiritual heart of the pre-Hispanic Aztec empire.Mexico s National Institute of History and Anthropology said the stone platform is about 15 yards meters in diameter and probably built around A.D. 1469. The site lies in downtown Mexico City, which was built by Spanish conquerors atop the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. The historical records say that the rulers were cremated at the foot of the Templo Mayor, and it is believed to be on this same structure 151; the cuauhxicalco 151; that the rulers were cremated, said archaeo stanley thermosflasche logi stanley cup quencher st Raul Barrera. That is what the historical sources say, he said, referring to accounts written by Roman Catholic priests who accompanied the Spanish soldiers in the 1521 conquest. Of course, now we have to find archaeological evidence to corroborate that. He said the platform, which is still being unearthed, was gradually uncovered over the preceding months. It is covered with at least 19 serpent heads, each about a half-yard meter long.Barrera stanley cup said accounts from the 1500

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VALLETTA, Malta -- Malta s government on Saturday offered an unprecedented 1 million euro $1.18 million reward and full protection for anyone with information on who killed an investigative reporter with a car bomb.The government statement called the Oct. 16 car bomb slaying of Daphne Caruana Galizia, 53, whose reporting on corruption targeted the prime minister and other top figures on the southern Mediterranean island, a case of extraordinary importance. It said, in an unprecedented mea asics sure, it was adidas samba adidas offering the sum to whomever comes forward with information leading to the identification of those responsible for her slaying. Forensic experts walk in a field after a powerful bomb blew up a car Foreground and killed investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in Bidnija, Malta, October 16, 2017. REUTERS The gov nike dunk high ernment is fully committed to solving the murder ... and bringing those responsible to justice, the statement said. The Maltese government offered a reward in a bank heist case a few years ago, but this was believed to be the first time it posted a reward in a murder case. In the last 10 years, there have been 15 Mafia-style bombings or similar attacks in Malta, and many of the crimes have gone unsolved. Top European Union officials have denounced Caruana Galizia s slaying as an attack on journalistic freedom and insisted that rule of law prevai Gycr Firestorm over Houston Rockets GM s tweet backing Hong Kong protesters over China
A daughter of the Austrian incest victim imprisoned by her father in a cellar f stanley fr or decades has been brought out of a medically induced coma, a hospital official said Tuesday.Kerstin Fritzl, one of seven children whom authorities say Josef Fritzl has confessed to fathering with his daughter, was brought to a hospital on April 19 unconscious and suffering from an unidentified infection.She later suffered seizures. In addition to the induced coma, she was placed on a respirator and underwent dialysis because stanley cup of the effects of lack of oxygen.The 19-year-old woman has been awakened from the induced coma and was able to leave the intensive care unit several days ago, said a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press by the central office grouping publicly run hospitals in Lower Austria province. The patient continues to need intensive medical ... and therapeutic care, said the statement, e-mailed by hospital spokesman Klaus Schwertner. It gave no timeframe f stanley bottles or further treatment and offered no details as to where the patient now was. Josef Fritzl is accused of raping his daughter repeatedly while confining her to a basement hideaway for 24 years.Kerstin s hospitalization led to the unraveling of the elaborate crime when doctors appealed on TV for her mother to come forward because they needed information about the young woman s medical history.Fritzl then accompanied his daughter, 42-year-old Elisabeth, to the hospital on April 26 and her story came to light shortly after.O

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Humanitarian law appears to have been tossed aside in af1 the war in Ukraine, said a spokesperson for the United Nations high commissioner for human rights Friday, and that the agency s work to date has detailed a horror story of violations perpetrated against civilians. First and foremost, this senseless war must stop. But as the fighting shows no sign of a adidas yeezy bating, it is vital that all parties to the conflict give clear instructions to their combatants to strictly respect internat adidas originals forum ional humanitarian law and international human rights law, U.N. Human Rights spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said in a briefing to journalists.Satellite images released late Thursdayappeared to show more than 200 new graves in a town where Ukrainian officials say the Russians have been burying Mariupol residents killed in the fighting. The eastern port city of Mariupol has seen some of the worst suffering of the war, and the imagery, from Maxar Technologies, showed long rows of graves stretching away from an existing cemetery in the town of Manhush, some 12 miles from Mariupol. This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies on Thursday, April 21, 2022 shows an overview of the cemetery in Manhush, some 20 kilometers west of Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 19, 2022. / AP Local officials accused Russia of burying up to 9,000 Ukrainian civilians in mass graves in an effort to conceal the slaughter Ifph New Call From Pope For Palestinian State
Search teams recovered the bodies o stanley becher f seven snowmobilers Monday, a day after they were swept away by avalanches in western Canada s backcountry, police said. An eighth man was missing and believed dead.The bodies were found late Monday afternoon as searchers plowed through avalanche debris near Fernie in British Columbia s Elk Valley, about 550 miles east of Vancouver, said Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Chris Faulkner.Eleven snowmobilers were hit by back-to-back avalanches on Sunday. Eight were buried but three from the group clawed through the snow and reached safety.Search efforts - which involved several dozen rescue officials and volunteers as well as search dogs - had been delayed until later Monday by the threat of more avalanch stanley termohrnek es.Rescuers who rushed to the steep, rocky, bowl-like area discovered the bodies, spread out over about 393 feet, buried deep beneath the hard-packed surface. The deepest was found under 11 feet of snow, said Chris Thomas, president of Fernie Search and Rescue. Three were located almost immediately because they were wearing a special avalanche transceiver that sends out an electronic signal. The first avalanche buried a group of seven snowmobilers on Sunday afternoon, while they were resting at the foot of a hill, said David Wilks, mayor of Sparwood, home to all 11 men. It appears a cornice let loose - an overhang on the top of stanley thermos mug the mountain - and buried them, he said.Another group of four snowmobilers heard their shouts, hurried over

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James Corden had a unique interview on The L yeezy ate Late Show Thursday night, sitting down with a royal on a sightseeing bus in Los Angeles. Corden spent the day with Prince Harry, t adidas samba herren he Duke of Sussex, who opened up about why he and his wife, Meghan the Duchess of Sussex, stepped back from their royal duties.The interview started out lighthearted, with the two sipping tea on a double-decker bus, and Harry spoke candidly about why he and Meghan moved with their son, Archie, out of U.K. last year. We all know what the British press can be like and it was destroying my mental health, Harry, who now lives in California, to adidas campus ld Corden. I was like, this is so toxic, Harry continued. So I did what any husband and any father would do and be like I need to get my family out of here. But we never walked away as far as I m concerned whatever decisions were made on that side ndash; I will never walk away. I will always be contributing, my life is public service, wherever I am in the world it s going to be the same thing. An Afternoon with Prince Harry James Corden by The Late Late Show with James Corden on YouTube While the couple announced last January that they were stepping back as senior members of the royal family and would work to become financially independent, there was a plan to review the arrangements after 12 months.Just weeks before a 12-month trial separation was set to end, Buckingham Palace made the announcement after Harry confirmed t Sfhg U.S. poised to send $1 billion in weapons to Israel, sources say
BEIJING A Chinese tycoon with ties to mining companies in the United States, Australia and Africa is missing and a newspaper says he has been detained by police.Sichuan Jinlu Group said Thursday it is looking for its chairman, Liu Han, and has been unable to contact him by phone.The newspaper Shanghai Securities News said Liu was detained by Beijing police in mid-March while on a business trip to the Chinese capital but gave no indication why he might have been picked up. Chinese police regularly detain people for lengthy questioning without charge or public notice.Liu s main company, Sichua stanley cup n Hanlong Group, owns a 13 percent stake in General Moly, a Colorado miner of molybdenum, a mineral used to harden steel. Hanlong was arranging financing for a General Moly mine in Nevada.A Hanlong spokesman who would give only h stanley cup is surname, Su, said, I am unclear about this, when asked whether Liu was detained and where he was. General Moly said in a statement Wednesday it suspended work on a $665 million loan for its Mt. Hope mine from the state-run China Development Bank until it receives clarification from Hanlong.Hanlong also owns 14 percent of Australia s Sundance Resources, which is developing an iron mine in Congo and neighboring Cameroon in central Africa. Hanlong is offering 1.5 billion Australian dollars $1.5 billion to acquire the rest of the company but Sundance said this week the deal has yet to receive stanley cup final approval from China s economic planning agency.Sundance a

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L Osservatore Romano/Pool/AP The most compelling pictures from the week s news, May 2-8, 2015.In this photo, Harlem Globetrotters Hi-Lite Bruton, second from left, Ant Atitkson, third from left, look at teammate Flight Time Lang, right, help Pope Francis spin the ball on his finger as they meet during the general audience in St. Peter s Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 6, 2015.By CBSNews senior photo editor Radhika Chalasani Korea - shadow play Thomas Pe adidas originals hamburg ter/Reuters People watch a shadow play performance at Changgyeonggung Palace in Seoul, May 6, 2015. Indonesia - c adidas campus 80s onfiscated cockatoo Antar nike dunk a Foto/Risyal Hidayat/Reuters A policeman holds a plastic water bottle containing a yellow-crested cockatoo to transport illegally at the customs office of Tanjung Perak port in Surabaya, East Java province, Indonesia, May 4, 2015.Police arrested one man traveling by ship from Makassar, Sulawesi with 22 of the endangered cockatoos inside water bottles. Israel - Lag Ba Omer Baz Ratner/Reuters Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather near a bonfire as they celebrate the Jewish holiday of Lag Ba Omer in Bnei Brak, May 6, 2015.T Frjy Paris floods threaten artworks at Louvre museum
Officially, the United States has not begun a war with Iraq and considers military action a last resort. But in Iraq itself, a steady escalation in bombing could be the opening act of an eventual invasion.Since the beginning of the year, U.S. and British jets patrolling the no-fly zones at Iraq s northern and southern ends have bombed 95 sites, according to press statements by the U.S. Central and European commands, compared to just five during the same period last year.In all of 2002, there were 100 such attacks, and more than half of them occurre stanley quencher d from October onwards mdash; roughly coinciding with the U.S. push for serious consequences if Iraq failed to disarm.The Pentagon said the attacks are responses to Iraqi aggression, but war critics say the U.S. is softening up Iraqi defenses without declaring war, and unfairly asking Iraq to disarm even as the U.S stanley cup . increases the intensity of the bombing.Both Washington and Baghdad have seized on the bombings as fodder for propaganda. The Bush administration says Iraqi provocations against aircraft patrolling the zones are clear evidence of the regime s aggressive nature. For its part, Iraq for years has claimed the air strikes injure or kill scores of stanley romania civilians, a charge the Pentagon denies.As a possible war looks more like an inevitable one, the military importance of the sorties could trump their PR value.It emerged this week that the U.S. and Britain planned to increase the number of no-fly zone patrols to mask the in

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Felipe Dana/AP A Terena Indian takes aim in the bow and arrow competition during the Indigenous Games in Cuiaba, Brazil, Nov. 12, 2013. Around 1,600 Indians from 48 tribes are celebrating Brazil s indigenous cultures during the 12th edition of the Games of the Indigenous People, which runs until Nov. 16. Cuiaba, Brazil Felipe Dana/AP Indians dance during the Indigenous Games in Cuiaba, Brazil, Nov. 12, 2013. Cuiaba, Brazil Felipe Dana/AP An Enawene Nawe Indian looks poses for a portrait during the Indigenous Games in Cuiaba, Brazil, Nov. 12, 2013. Cuiaba, Brazil Felipe Dana/AP A Rikbaktsa Indian watches the bow and arrow competition during yeezy the Indigenous Games in Cuiaba, Brazil, Nov. 12, 2013. Cuiab adidas originals a, Brazil Felipe Dana/AP A man uses a phone to photograph adidas originals samba people inside a traditional indigenous home during the Indigenous Games in Cuiaba, Brazil, Nov. 12, 2013. Cuiaba, Brazil Felipe Dana/AP Yaww Russia suggests spy coerced into plea by torturous detention
A sick man among the sick, Pope John Paul II struggled through Sunday Mass at a French shrine that draws desperate people seeking miracle cures. The 84-year-old pontiff gasped, trembled and asked aides for help during the 2frac12; hour servic stanley cup e in sizzling heat.More than 300,000 pilgrims packed a field overlooking the Lourdes grotto in the southwestern Pyrenees, where an illiterate peasant girl, St. Bernadette, said she had visions of a white-clad Virgin Mary in 1858.Many pilgrims to Lourdes are sick, handicapped or aged. In blue wheelchairs lined up on the grass, they watched as the frail pope spoke from his wheeled throne, which was perched on a red-carpeted stage and shaded by a white tent.The pontiff mdash; who suffers from Parkinson s disease and crippling hip and knee problems mdash; greeted the sick with special affection. The pope delivered his opening prayers clearly and with strength, but the homily in French left him trembling and gasping for air. At one point he paused to say, Help me, in his native Polish. Aides brought John Paul a glass of water, and he said he wanted to continue. Though he skipped several paragraphs, he was able to deliver a final, forceful point: a condemnation of abortion, cloning and euthanasia. I appeal urgently to all of you, d stanley cups ear brothers and sisters, to do everything in your power to ensure that life, each stanley cup and every life, will be respected from conception to its natural end, he said. The pope also spoke out against materiali