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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Thousands of Palestinians mar air max 96 ched to dunk homme Gaza s border with Israel on Friday in the largest such demonstration in recent memory, and 14 were killed by Israeli fire on samba og the first day of what Hamas organizers said will be six weeks of daily protests against a stifling border blockade. It was the bloodiest day in Gaza since the 2014 cross-border war between Israel and Hamas.Fourteen of the marchers were killed and more than 750 wounded by Israeli fire in clashes along the border fence, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.The Israeli military said thousands of Palestinians threw stones and rolled burning tires toward troops deployed on the other side of the border fence. It accused militants of trying to carry out attacks under the cover of mass protests, saying that in one incident, Palestinian gunmen fired toward soldiers.The large turnout of the flag-waving marchers in the dangerous border zone was a testament to Hamas organizing skills, but it also signaled desperation among Gaza residents after a decade-old border closure. Life in the coastal strip has deteriorated further in recent months, with rising unemployment, grinding poverty and daily blackouts that last for hours.The U.N. Security Council has called an emergency meeting to discuss the deadly clashes. Kuwait requested the closed Security Council session, scheduled for Friday evening. Asmaa al-Katari said she participated in the march despite the risks and would join upcoming protests beca Nztp Iraq Hostage Standoff Ends with Deadly Raid
Russia is ready for further dialogue with the United States on missile defense cooperation, a top official said Monday after Moscow received formal proposals from Washington aimed at easing tension over the divisive issue.While First Deputy Prime Minister Ser stanley flask gei Ivanov accused the United States of aggressive military activity in Europe, his comments signaled more flexibility than the initial Russian reaction to the proposals the U.S. submitted in writing last week.He spoke hours before expected discussions on the matter - a major irritant in Russia-U.S. relations - between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice before Middle East peace talks in the United States. We are ready for dialogue, but at the same time we are of course guided by our national interests, and if our partner has new military capabilities next to our borders ... we probably have to think about it, Ivanov told Russian News Service radio.Russia has sharply opposed U.S. pla stanley cup price ns to deploy missile defense installations in Poland and the Czech Republic. The United States says the system would counter a potential Iranian threat, but Moscow says it belie stanley cup usa ves the real aim is to weaken Russia s nuclear deterrent. Earlier this year, President Vladimir Putin offered an alternative involving joint use of a Russian-operated radar station in Azerbaijan, but has cited the U.S. plans as a factor in his decision to suspend Moscow s participation in the Conventional Forces in
Qgby Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai: Change is coming
Accra, Ghana mdash; air force 1 In 2019, Ghana s president invited African descendants in the diaspora to mark the Year of Return, commemorating 400 years since the first Africans arrived in the colony now known as Virginia on a slave ship. The invite prompted record tourism to Ghana, and an increase in Americans who applied for visas to stay. But it was the events in the United States in 2020, and the Black Lives Matter movement, that drove a real surge in people looking to move out of America and into Africa. The Elmina Castle on Ghana s Atlantic coast is more than 5,000 miles from American shores, but the five-century old structure occupies a particularly dark place in U.S. history. Hundreds of years ago, it was a central trading hub where African people from around the continent were sold into slavery. Elmina Castle is seen on Ghana s Cape Coast. Raquel Maria Carbonell Pagola/LightRocket/Getty As the U.S. crocs absatz continues to adidas originals confront its racist past, Ghana is turning that history upside down, and welcoming Black Americans back home. Sonjiah Davis was the epitome of Washington cool. She was a well-connected, successful therapist trained to deal with emotional health. And yet, living in the capital of the United States, she says she was constantly looking over her shoulder. I was living what people would consider the American dream, she told CBS News correspondent Debora Patta. I w Hhmb Pakistan Farmers Bear Brunt of Deadly Floods
Updated at 12:01 p.m. EasternLONDON A federal law enforcement source tells CBS News investigators are working to determine whether the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, brothers Tamerlan, 26, and Dzhokhar T stanley website sarnaev, 19, have links to other terrorist cells, foreign or domestic.Officials are trying to determine whether the brothers, who lived for at least a short period near Russia s restive Chechnya region, were acting independently or directed by a broader conspiracy. The source told CBS News producer Pat Milton that investigators and the intelligence community are pressing to determine if the two men were directed by a central player or someone overseas.According to a former teacher at a school in the Russian region of Dagestan, the brothers were two of four siblings who came to the area with their parents as refugees from Kyrgyzstan in 2001. They lived only about one year in Dagestan, a region next door to Chechnya. Both regi stanley polska ons have a long history of Islamic extremism and a number of well-established terrorist groups.Boming suspects friends describe very different menVideo: Uncle says older brother was a loser Complete coverage: Boston BombingsEthnic Chechens live across the region, and it is still believed that the Tsarnaevs belong to tha stanley cups uk t ethnic group. Dzhokhar, born in 1994 as a war began between Chechen separatists and the Russian government, had most recently viewed videos on YouTube depicting atrocities from the front lines of Syria s civil war and of
