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PRETORIA, South Africa -- Oscar Pistorius is a broken man after killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp becaus air force 1 e he lost her, his reputation, friends, income and sense of self-worth, a psychologist called by the Olympic runner s lawyers testified Monday.Dr. Lore Hartzenberg gave the testimony ahead of Pistorius sentencing for culpable homicide, and it was almost immediately characterized by the chief prosecutor as unbalanced. Will Oscar Pistorius do prison time 01:03 A sentence for culpable homicide can range from a suspended sentence and a fine to as adidas campus beige many as 15 years in prison. Judge Thokozile Masipa last month found Pistorius not guilty of both premeditated murder and murder in his killing of Steenkamp in the predawn hours of Valentine s Day at his home last year.Several police officers stood guard on the dais where the judge sat amid concerns about her security. Masipa drew criticism from some South Africans who thought Pistorius could at least have been convicted of a lesser murder charge on the grounds that he knew a person could die when he fired four bullets through a toilet door and into a small cubicle, killing Steenkamp.Prosecutors said Pistorius had open air max 1 ed fire in anger after the couple argued. The runner testified that he mistook Steenkamp, a 29-year-old model and budding reality TV star, Rpol Property seized from owner of collapsed Bangladesh building
TRIPOLI, Libya - NATO pounded the area near Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi s compound again stanley cup before dawn Thursday, rattling windows in the heart of the capital with thunderous booms as smoke rose from the vicinity.It was not clear what was hit, and there was no word on casualties. Government officials did not immediately comment on the strike. NATO warplanes have repeatedly targeted the area in and around the Bab al-Aziziya compound.Complete coverage: Anger in the Arab WorldNATO launched its air campaign nearly three months ago under a United Nations resolution to protect civilians. What started as a peaceful uprising inside the country against Qaddafi and his more than four-decade rule has become a civil war.White Hous stanley becher e defends Obama s Libyan actionNATO jets hit Tripoli, but for how long Qaddafi says he wants peace, but he s not goingPoorly equipped and trained rebel fighters have taken control of the eastern third of Libya and pockets of the west. The fighting had reached a stalemate until last week when NATO launched the heaviest bombardment of Qaddafi forces since the alliance took control of the skies over Libya.NATO has been pounding Qaddafi s military and government positions with increasing vigor and the rebels are again on the move.Tunisian ar stanley tumblers my official Mokhtar Ben Nasr said the number of Libyans fleeing has mounted in recent days, with 6,330 Libyan refugees crossing into Tunisia earlier this week. Dozens of Libyan soldiers also have defected to Tunisia by boat, the s
Tfis Dozens hurt as train bound for Egyptian capital derails
PARIS - Swiss army helicopters have crossed the Franco-Swiss border in an unexpected incursion - to help thirsty Swiss cows.The aerial operation to scoop up water caught authorities responsible for Rousses Lake in the Jura mountains by surprise last Thursday. The helicopters also startled swimmers and fishermen enjoying the beaches of the lake in eastern France.Christophe Mathez, deputy mayor of the Les Rousses commune, said officials had no idea this operation would occur - and that the Swiss neither requested authorization or nor warned before descending.Swiss media reported that the country s military did ask for permission - but from the French air force, not local authorities or the police. As soon as they contacted us, we realized there was a communication problem and we immediately stopped, Denis Froidevaux, air force one a Swiss military official, told the Swiss newspaper Le Matin, whose headline adidas samba Monday read No, Switzerland is not stealing water from France to save its cows. Mathez said Les Rousses authorities are not mad at our neighbors, but as of Monday the village was still waiting for clarification.The Swiss army has been pumping water for livestock from its own Neuchatel and Joux lakes since last week, according to a statement from the Swiss Department of Defense. The federal gove salomon gtx rnment is bankrolling the operation, expected to continue no longer than August 4, with military aid disaster relief funds.Thirsty cows produce less milk, of particular concern in the m Grii Online auction of Ronald Reagan s blood canceled
President Bush could make the controversy over the now-infamous 16 words of his State of the Union address go away by telling Americans whether the speech s justification for war was exaggerated, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Sunday. It s just a question of was it right, or was it wrong Sen. Jay Rockefeller said.He said the question is not whether Mr. Bush tried to mislead by using suspect British government information that Iraq sought to buy uranium in Africa, and that Democrats should not personalize or politicize the argument. Intelligence is the basis now of war-fighting, Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said during a broadcast interview. Because of that, he said, it s very important to intelligence to say that facts rea stanley cups lly do matter, they count, they have to be accurate. Speaking up for the Bush administration, House Speaker Dennis Hastert said on the same program that the decision to inc kubki stanley lude the sentence stanley deutschland was made by the speechwriters and by the folks in the White House using various intelligence sources that were thought reliable. If it wasn t, he said, much of the blame falls on former President Clinton. You know, intelligence is not an exact science, said Hastert, R-Ill. Before the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, we had a hard time just figuring out what was going, because our foreign intelligence was decimated. The human intelligence was decimated in 10 years before by Clinton s proclivity not to use human rights violators and o
PRETORIA, South Africa -- Oscar Pistorius is a broken man after killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp becaus air force 1 e he lost her, his reputation, friends, income and sense of self-worth, a psychologist called by the Olympic runner s lawyers testified Monday.Dr. Lore Hartzenberg gave the testimony ahead of Pistorius sentencing for culpable homicide, and it was almost immediately characterized by the chief prosecutor as unbalanced. Will Oscar Pistorius do prison time 01:03 A sentence for culpable homicide can range from a suspended sentence and a fine to as adidas campus beige many as 15 years in prison. Judge Thokozile Masipa last month found Pistorius not guilty of both premeditated murder and murder in his killing of Steenkamp in the predawn hours of Valentine s Day at his home last year.Several police officers stood guard on the dais where the judge sat amid concerns about her security. Masipa drew criticism from some South Africans who thought Pistorius could at least have been convicted of a lesser murder charge on the grounds that he knew a person could die when he fired four bullets through a toilet door and into a small cubicle, killing Steenkamp.Prosecutors said Pistorius had open air max 1 ed fire in anger after the couple argued. The runner testified that he mistook Steenkamp, a 29-year-old model and budding reality TV star, Rpol Property seized from owner of collapsed Bangladesh building
TRIPOLI, Libya - NATO pounded the area near Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi s compound again stanley cup before dawn Thursday, rattling windows in the heart of the capital with thunderous booms as smoke rose from the vicinity.It was not clear what was hit, and there was no word on casualties. Government officials did not immediately comment on the strike. NATO warplanes have repeatedly targeted the area in and around the Bab al-Aziziya compound.Complete coverage: Anger in the Arab WorldNATO launched its air campaign nearly three months ago under a United Nations resolution to protect civilians. What started as a peaceful uprising inside the country against Qaddafi and his more than four-decade rule has become a civil war.White Hous stanley becher e defends Obama s Libyan actionNATO jets hit Tripoli, but for how long Qaddafi says he wants peace, but he s not goingPoorly equipped and trained rebel fighters have taken control of the eastern third of Libya and pockets of the west. The fighting had reached a stalemate until last week when NATO launched the heaviest bombardment of Qaddafi forces since the alliance took control of the skies over Libya.NATO has been pounding Qaddafi s military and government positions with increasing vigor and the rebels are again on the move.Tunisian ar stanley tumblers my official Mokhtar Ben Nasr said the number of Libyans fleeing has mounted in recent days, with 6,330 Libyan refugees crossing into Tunisia earlier this week. Dozens of Libyan soldiers also have defected to Tunisia by boat, the s
Tfis Dozens hurt as train bound for Egyptian capital derails
PARIS - Swiss army helicopters have crossed the Franco-Swiss border in an unexpected incursion - to help thirsty Swiss cows.The aerial operation to scoop up water caught authorities responsible for Rousses Lake in the Jura mountains by surprise last Thursday. The helicopters also startled swimmers and fishermen enjoying the beaches of the lake in eastern France.Christophe Mathez, deputy mayor of the Les Rousses commune, said officials had no idea this operation would occur - and that the Swiss neither requested authorization or nor warned before descending.Swiss media reported that the country s military did ask for permission - but from the French air force, not local authorities or the police. As soon as they contacted us, we realized there was a communication problem and we immediately stopped, Denis Froidevaux, air force one a Swiss military official, told the Swiss newspaper Le Matin, whose headline adidas samba Monday read No, Switzerland is not stealing water from France to save its cows. Mathez said Les Rousses authorities are not mad at our neighbors, but as of Monday the village was still waiting for clarification.The Swiss army has been pumping water for livestock from its own Neuchatel and Joux lakes since last week, according to a statement from the Swiss Department of Defense. The federal gove salomon gtx rnment is bankrolling the operation, expected to continue no longer than August 4, with military aid disaster relief funds.Thirsty cows produce less milk, of particular concern in the m Grii Online auction of Ronald Reagan s blood canceled
President Bush could make the controversy over the now-infamous 16 words of his State of the Union address go away by telling Americans whether the speech s justification for war was exaggerated, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Sunday. It s just a question of was it right, or was it wrong Sen. Jay Rockefeller said.He said the question is not whether Mr. Bush tried to mislead by using suspect British government information that Iraq sought to buy uranium in Africa, and that Democrats should not personalize or politicize the argument. Intelligence is the basis now of war-fighting, Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said during a broadcast interview. Because of that, he said, it s very important to intelligence to say that facts rea stanley cups lly do matter, they count, they have to be accurate. Speaking up for the Bush administration, House Speaker Dennis Hastert said on the same program that the decision to inc kubki stanley lude the sentence stanley deutschland was made by the speechwriters and by the folks in the White House using various intelligence sources that were thought reliable. If it wasn t, he said, much of the blame falls on former President Clinton. You know, intelligence is not an exact science, said Hastert, R-Ill. Before the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, we had a hard time just figuring out what was going, because our foreign intelligence was decimated. The human intelligence was decimated in 10 years before by Clinton s proclivity not to use human rights violators and o
