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NEAR MOSUL, Iraq -- The U.S.-backed battle for Mosul began to the east of the city, where Iraqi Kurdish fighters went house to house on Monday hunting down the handful of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS fighters still trying to hold out.In the recaptured town of Tarjala, they showed CBS News correspondent Holly Williams the tunnels ISIS militants had built to defend themselves -- and the aftermath of the four U.S. airstrikes that destroyed them. On the ground with Kurdish forces fighting to retake Mosul 02:49 Colonel Delshad Mawlod told CBS News the extremists fought to the death, and he had expected to find a tunnel network.Itrsquo an ISIS tactic, he told Williams, ldquo uicide car bombs and tunnels is how they fight.These towns and villages to the east of Mosul used to be farming communities, but most of the residents fled as ISIS moved in two years ago. Now itrsquo an apocalyptic landscape, dotted with oil fires set by the militants. In the days before the offensive began, the U.S.-led coalition softened the ground with ai adidas samba rstrikes inside the city of Mosul. The coalition has released vide mizuno os showi nike dunks panda ng strikes on what were allegedly ISIS weapons facilities. Wfsz Candidates For Next Pope
Pope John Paul II was laid to rest Friday in a crypt beneath St. Peter s Basilica as presidents, prime ministers and kings joined m stanley cup illions of pilgrims in Rome to bid an emotional farewell stanley cup to the pontiff. Around the world, millions more watched the funeral service on television. The funeral Mass was what most Roman Catholics experience whenever they lose someone, said CBS News Analyst Father Paul Robichaud. What was so powerful was that the entire world was at the funeral. Applause rang out in the wind-whipped square as the funeral began with John Paul s plain cypress coffin, adorned with a cross and an M for the Virgin Mary, was brought out from St. Peter s Basilica and placed on a carpet in front of the altar. stanley cup The book of the Gospel was placed on the coffin and the wind lifted the pages.After the Mass ended, bells tolled and 12 pallbearers with white gloves, white ties and tails presented the coffin to the crowd one last time, and then carried it on their shoulders back inside the basilica for burial mdash; again to sustained applause from the hundreds of thousands in the square, including dignitaries from 138 countries. The first non-Italian pope in 455 years was buried at 2:20 p.m. 8:20 a.m. EDT in the grotto under the basilica, attended by prelates and members of the papal household, the Vatican said.Nearly 4 million people jammed into Rome since the pope died Saturday, doubling the city s population. There has been no major violence despite the crowds and t
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PARIS -- Alexander Grothendieck, an opinionated and reclusive giant of 20th-century mathematics who shunned accolades and supported pacifist and environmental causes, has died, the French presidency said Friday. He was 86.He died Thursday at a hospital in the southwestern town of Saint-Girons, hospital officials said, without specifying the cause of deat nike dunks panda h for privacy reasons. According to French daily Le Monde, Grothendieck had been living for decades in a hideaway home in the nearby village of Lasserre.Grothendieck was a leading mind behind algebraic geometry - a field with practical applications including in satellite communications. In 1966, he was awarded the Fields Medal, but refused to travel to Moscow to accept it for political reasons, according to Le Monde.Born on March 28, 1928, in Berlin, Grothendieck was the son of an anarchist Russian-Jewish father and a German mother - whose family name he took. After his father left Germany as the Nazis took power in 1933, he moved in with another family. With World War II beginning six years later, Grothendieck adidas originals damen himself fled - to France. He spent time in an internment camp with his mother, and his father died in Auschwitz.His mathematics skills largely emerged after the war, at a science and technology university in southern Montpellier, and at France s Institute of High Scientific Studies, IHE yeezy S, founded in 1958. He was said to have quit IHES in 1970 after discovering the school received French Defense Ministry funding. Tpfg Sudanese VP Supports U.N. Peacekeepers
A bomb apparently hidden in a pickup truck exploded Thursday at the offices of a U.S.-allied Kurdish political party in the northern oil center of Kirkuk, killing five people and injuring 40, including children, officials said.It was the second car-bombing in as many days against Iraqis who cooper stanley cup ate with the U.S.-led occupation. Mayor Abdul Rahman Mustapha said all indications point to a suicide attack, because an unidentified body could be the driver.Elsewhere, a pro-U.S. politician was assassinated in the southern port city of Basra, his party said Thursday.President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair stood united Thursday on the war on terror. Blair, who has seen his approval ratings sink amid b kubki stanley road opposition here to the war, called the process of ensuring a stable, democratic Iraq an essential part in defeating this fanaticism and extremism that is killing innocents in attacks around the world. Our response is not to flinch or give way or concede one inch, he said. We stand absolutely firm until this job is do stanley cup ne. They need to be stopped and we will stop them, Mr. Bush said, with as many as 100,000 anti-war protesters mobilizing for a massive march on Parliament as he spoke.In other developments:In Baghdad, two gunmen opened fire before dawn Thursday outside the new Jordanian Embassy, killing an Iraqi security guard, police said. Japan asked coalition forces to tighten security at its embassy in Baghdad following a 10-minute gunbattle there two days ago,
NEAR MOSUL, Iraq -- The U.S.-backed battle for Mosul began to the east of the city, where Iraqi Kurdish fighters went house to house on Monday hunting down the handful of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS fighters still trying to hold out.In the recaptured town of Tarjala, they showed CBS News correspondent Holly Williams the tunnels ISIS militants had built to defend themselves -- and the aftermath of the four U.S. airstrikes that destroyed them. On the ground with Kurdish forces fighting to retake Mosul 02:49 Colonel Delshad Mawlod told CBS News the extremists fought to the death, and he had expected to find a tunnel network.Itrsquo an ISIS tactic, he told Williams, ldquo uicide car bombs and tunnels is how they fight.These towns and villages to the east of Mosul used to be farming communities, but most of the residents fled as ISIS moved in two years ago. Now itrsquo an apocalyptic landscape, dotted with oil fires set by the militants. In the days before the offensive began, the U.S.-led coalition softened the ground with ai adidas samba rstrikes inside the city of Mosul. The coalition has released vide mizuno os showi nike dunks panda ng strikes on what were allegedly ISIS weapons facilities. Wfsz Candidates For Next Pope
Pope John Paul II was laid to rest Friday in a crypt beneath St. Peter s Basilica as presidents, prime ministers and kings joined m stanley cup illions of pilgrims in Rome to bid an emotional farewell stanley cup to the pontiff. Around the world, millions more watched the funeral service on television. The funeral Mass was what most Roman Catholics experience whenever they lose someone, said CBS News Analyst Father Paul Robichaud. What was so powerful was that the entire world was at the funeral. Applause rang out in the wind-whipped square as the funeral began with John Paul s plain cypress coffin, adorned with a cross and an M for the Virgin Mary, was brought out from St. Peter s Basilica and placed on a carpet in front of the altar. stanley cup The book of the Gospel was placed on the coffin and the wind lifted the pages.After the Mass ended, bells tolled and 12 pallbearers with white gloves, white ties and tails presented the coffin to the crowd one last time, and then carried it on their shoulders back inside the basilica for burial mdash; again to sustained applause from the hundreds of thousands in the square, including dignitaries from 138 countries. The first non-Italian pope in 455 years was buried at 2:20 p.m. 8:20 a.m. EDT in the grotto under the basilica, attended by prelates and members of the papal household, the Vatican said.Nearly 4 million people jammed into Rome since the pope died Saturday, doubling the city s population. There has been no major violence despite the crowds and t
Lxni Series Of Strikes On Iraq Rebels
PARIS -- Alexander Grothendieck, an opinionated and reclusive giant of 20th-century mathematics who shunned accolades and supported pacifist and environmental causes, has died, the French presidency said Friday. He was 86.He died Thursday at a hospital in the southwestern town of Saint-Girons, hospital officials said, without specifying the cause of deat nike dunks panda h for privacy reasons. According to French daily Le Monde, Grothendieck had been living for decades in a hideaway home in the nearby village of Lasserre.Grothendieck was a leading mind behind algebraic geometry - a field with practical applications including in satellite communications. In 1966, he was awarded the Fields Medal, but refused to travel to Moscow to accept it for political reasons, according to Le Monde.Born on March 28, 1928, in Berlin, Grothendieck was the son of an anarchist Russian-Jewish father and a German mother - whose family name he took. After his father left Germany as the Nazis took power in 1933, he moved in with another family. With World War II beginning six years later, Grothendieck adidas originals damen himself fled - to France. He spent time in an internment camp with his mother, and his father died in Auschwitz.His mathematics skills largely emerged after the war, at a science and technology university in southern Montpellier, and at France s Institute of High Scientific Studies, IHE yeezy S, founded in 1958. He was said to have quit IHES in 1970 after discovering the school received French Defense Ministry funding. Tpfg Sudanese VP Supports U.N. Peacekeepers
A bomb apparently hidden in a pickup truck exploded Thursday at the offices of a U.S.-allied Kurdish political party in the northern oil center of Kirkuk, killing five people and injuring 40, including children, officials said.It was the second car-bombing in as many days against Iraqis who cooper stanley cup ate with the U.S.-led occupation. Mayor Abdul Rahman Mustapha said all indications point to a suicide attack, because an unidentified body could be the driver.Elsewhere, a pro-U.S. politician was assassinated in the southern port city of Basra, his party said Thursday.President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair stood united Thursday on the war on terror. Blair, who has seen his approval ratings sink amid b kubki stanley road opposition here to the war, called the process of ensuring a stable, democratic Iraq an essential part in defeating this fanaticism and extremism that is killing innocents in attacks around the world. Our response is not to flinch or give way or concede one inch, he said. We stand absolutely firm until this job is do stanley cup ne. They need to be stopped and we will stop them, Mr. Bush said, with as many as 100,000 anti-war protesters mobilizing for a massive march on Parliament as he spoke.In other developments:In Baghdad, two gunmen opened fire before dawn Thursday outside the new Jordanian Embassy, killing an Iraqi security guard, police said. Japan asked coalition forces to tighten security at its embassy in Baghdad following a 10-minute gunbattle there two days ago,
