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Beijingmdash; American activists are appealing to Tesla Inc. to close a new showroom in China s northwestern region of Xinjiang, where officials are accused of abuses against mostly Muslim ethnic minorities. Tesla on Friday announced the opening of its showroom in Urumqi, the Xinjiang capital, and said on its adidas campus shoes Chinese social media account, Let s start Xinjiang s all-electric journey! The Council on American-Islamic Relations CAIR , an American organization based in Washington, D.C., on Monday urged Tesla and its chairman, Elon Musk, to close the showroom and cease what amounts to economic support for genocide. Pressure on foreign companies to take positions on Xinjiang, Tibet, Taiwan and other politically charged issues has been rising. The nike air max ruling Communist Party pushes companies to adopt its positions in their advertising and on websites. It has attacked clothing and other brands that express concern about reports of forced labor and other abuses in Xinjiang. yeezy China trying to rewrite history in Xinjiang with online propaganda push 10:22 No American corporation should be doing business in a region that is the focal point of a campaign of genocide targeting a religious and ethnic minority, CAIR s communications director, Ibrahim Hooper, said in a statement. Activists and foreign governments Lhvz 18 Women, Girls Killed in Karachi Stampede
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Six children were crushed to death by a collapsing wall during an assault by U.S. forces on a compound filled with weapons in eastern Afghanistan, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday, the second time in a week that youngsters have died in action against Taliban and al Qaeda suspects.The children died during a night attack Friday against a complex in eastern Paktia province where a renegade Af cups stanley ghan commander, Mullah Jalani, kept a huge cache of weapons, said U.S. Lt. Col. Bryan Hilferty. The next day we discovered the bodies of two adults and six children, he said. We had no indication there were noncombatants in the compound.Jalani was not at the site, 12 miles east of Gardez, but Hilferty said nine other people were arrested. He did not identify the adults who were killed or say whether they were combatants or civilians.Hilferty said that U.S. warplanes and troops attacked the compound, setting off secondary explosions. The bodies were discovered the following day. The news comes on the heels of a tragic U.S. military blunder in neighboring Ghazni province on Saturday. Nine children were found dead in a field after an attack by an A-10 ground attack aircraft that was targeting a Talib stanley website an suspect.U.S. officials have apologized for those deaths. They originally claimed that the attack killed the intended targ stanley cup et, a former Taliban district commander named Mullah Wazir suspected of recent attacks on road workers. But U.S. ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said Tuesday they
Beijingmdash; American activists are appealing to Tesla Inc. to close a new showroom in China s northwestern region of Xinjiang, where officials are accused of abuses against mostly Muslim ethnic minorities. Tesla on Friday announced the opening of its showroom in Urumqi, the Xinjiang capital, and said on its adidas campus shoes Chinese social media account, Let s start Xinjiang s all-electric journey! The Council on American-Islamic Relations CAIR , an American organization based in Washington, D.C., on Monday urged Tesla and its chairman, Elon Musk, to close the showroom and cease what amounts to economic support for genocide. Pressure on foreign companies to take positions on Xinjiang, Tibet, Taiwan and other politically charged issues has been rising. The nike air max ruling Communist Party pushes companies to adopt its positions in their advertising and on websites. It has attacked clothing and other brands that express concern about reports of forced labor and other abuses in Xinjiang. yeezy China trying to rewrite history in Xinjiang with online propaganda push 10:22 No American corporation should be doing business in a region that is the focal point of a campaign of genocide targeting a religious and ethnic minority, CAIR s communications director, Ibrahim Hooper, said in a statement. Activists and foreign governments Lhvz 18 Women, Girls Killed in Karachi Stampede
Facebook page of a grou gourde stanley p calling for the release of 19-year-old blogger Tal al-Mallohi, convicted in Syria of spying. Facebook This story was filed by CBS News George Baghdadi in Damascus.A 19-year-old Syrian blogger has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges of spying for a foreign coun stanley mug try. Tal al-Mallohi was brought into a special court -- off limits to the public -- chained and blindfolded to hear the verdict in a case which has sparked outcry and calls for her immediate release from Washington and human rights groups.A high school student whose blog focused primarily on social commentary and the suffering of the Palestinians, Mallohi has been seen only twice by her family since she was jailed in December 2009 by Syria s security forces without any charge.Syria s Higher State Security Court issued the sentence on Monday at the end of the secret trial, convicting her of divulging information to a foreign country that should be kept secret, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights SOHR . Mallohi, a former government minister s granddaughter, remained motionless and silent as she heard the sentence, SOHR told CBS News. Her mother, who was waiting in the courtyard, burst into tears after learning her daughter s fate, according to a lawyer who took part in the proceedings.SOHR, which condemned the sentence and appealed for the immediate release of stanley thermoskannen all po
Oxjn Congo Massacre Probed
VAALWATER, Sou mizuno volleyballschuhe th Africa -- A group of air force 1 rescued lions is adjusting to new freedom. They are exploring the terrain of their new home at an African wildlife sanctuary.The 33 wild animals were rescued from circuses in Colombia and Peru, then airlifted over the weekend to South Africa. The lions arrived at the Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary in Vaalwater on Sunday, reports CBS News Debora Patta. They have been quarantined in enclosures and will remain so for at least six months before smaller family units are reunited.A feeble cry, far from a lion s roar, is the sound of a lifetime spent abused at the hands of circus trainers in Peru.Tim Phillips, together with his wife, Jan Creamer, heads up the U.K. and Los Angeles-based group, Animal Defenders International, which rescued Ricardo and over 30 other lions and lionesses and organized for them to be airlifted back into their natural habitat. nike dunk high Rescued circus lions airlifted to South Africa 21 photos Certainly the biggest flight of lions I know... It s also huge to bring them home to Africa as well. It s not just symbolic. It s important show people that animals belong where nature intended, Phillips said. Until today, they lived a cruel, caged existence -- often starved, beaten and abused. To get him out o Lxvn Norway nixes U.S. request to receive Syrian chem weapons
Six children were crushed to death by a collapsing wall during an assault by U.S. forces on a compound filled with weapons in eastern Afghanistan, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday, the second time in a week that youngsters have died in action against Taliban and al Qaeda suspects.The children died during a night attack Friday against a complex in eastern Paktia province where a renegade Af cups stanley ghan commander, Mullah Jalani, kept a huge cache of weapons, said U.S. Lt. Col. Bryan Hilferty. The next day we discovered the bodies of two adults and six children, he said. We had no indication there were noncombatants in the compound.Jalani was not at the site, 12 miles east of Gardez, but Hilferty said nine other people were arrested. He did not identify the adults who were killed or say whether they were combatants or civilians.Hilferty said that U.S. warplanes and troops attacked the compound, setting off secondary explosions. The bodies were discovered the following day. The news comes on the heels of a tragic U.S. military blunder in neighboring Ghazni province on Saturday. Nine children were found dead in a field after an attack by an A-10 ground attack aircraft that was targeting a Talib stanley website an suspect.U.S. officials have apologized for those deaths. They originally claimed that the attack killed the intended targ stanley cup et, a former Taliban district commander named Mullah Wazir suspected of recent attacks on road workers. But U.S. ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said Tuesday they
