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Dkle Musharraf: We Don t Want War
Mexico City - The lower house of Mexico s congress overwhelmingly approved a law Tuesday limiting foreign agents operating in the country and lifting their immunity in a decision that could impact its relationship with the U.S. government, a key partner in its fight against drug cartels. One senior U.S. official told CBS News the law was a disgrace, and would severely complicate the fight against the cartels.Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador supports the bill and is expected to sign it into law. The legislation is seen as a direct backlash to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency s arrest in Los Angeles of former Mexican Defense Minister General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, who was indicted on drug charges earlier this year. adidas samba og Cienfuegos was released and returned to Mexico after the charges were dropped suddenly in November, as Mexico implicitly threatened to restrict or expel U.S. agents. Mexican Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos speaks at a military base in Mexico City, April 16, 2016. RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP/Getty af1 U.S. prosecutors said they had no concern with the strength of their case against Cienfuegos, but dropped the charges against him citing the need to balance their desire for a prosecution with the mizuno volleyballschuhe broader interest of U.S. foreign policy and the law enforcement relationship with Mexico.They accepted his return to Mexico with the understanding that Zlns Mideast Peace Talks End, No Progress
Stampeding bulls gored six people, including an American and a Canadian, Frid stanley flask ay during the third day of the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona s famed San Fermin Fiesta. More than 1,000 people - mostly young men dressed in the region s traditional white shirt, trousers, red kerchief and sash - ran through the streets with six fighting bulls. One of the animals gored Justin Hammerback, 32, of Chicago, leaving a 6-in stanley cups ch wound to his buttocks, officials said. Hammerback was hospitalized but his life was not in danger. A Canadian man, Robert Stodola, was treated and released after being gored in his right elbow, and an Australian man was hospitalized with a gash in his thigh. Three Spaniards also were hospitalized with injuries. Many others were trampled by the stampeding bulls or fellow runners during the race along the 825-yard route from the corral to the city s bullring. One bull became separated from the pack and knocked a runner to the ground ripping off his trouser leg. The bull finished the run with the remains of the trou stanley cup sers still stuck to his left horn. The early-morning runs, or encierros as they are known in Spanish, are the highlight of the eight-day San Fermin Fiesta. Thousands of people test their bravery and agility by running alongside six fighting bulls and a handful of accompanying steers as they are herded from the corral to the bullring. The bulls are invariably killed by professional matadors in bullfights later each day during t
Kwyf Doctors Without Borders hospitals hit by airstrikes in Syria s Aleppo
The face-off between Iran and the United States continued to escalate on Friday as the Islamic Republic s elite Revolutionary Guards goaded the Trump administration with a dare, just a day after American B-52 bombers landed in the region. CBS News senior national defense correspondent David Martin said Thursday that airmaxplus all four B-52 Stratofortress bombers ordered to the Persian Gulfby the White House had arrived at the Al Udeid Air Base in Doha, Qatar.The White House deployed the bombers to the Gulf, along w adidas og ith the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and its associated vessels, over the weekend. While the Lincoln was deployed to replace a different U.S. carrier that was rotated out of the Gulf last month, there are few more irrefutable and visible demonstrations of U.S. military might than the deployment of a carrier strike group. A May 9, 2019 photo released by the U.S. Air Force shows a B-52H Stratofortress bomber assigned to the 20th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron parked on the ramp at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. HANDOUT Iran has dismissed the bombers presence and the looming arrival of the Lincoln as psychological warfare by Washington.Trump says John Kerry should be pr yeezy slide osecuted for ongoing contact with IranPresident Trump s national security adviser John Bolton has said the deployment was a warning to Iran after escalatory indications that Tehran was preparing to carry Edeq Mortar Rounds Hit Near Iraq Green Zone
The Pentagon has formally barred companies from countries opposed to the Iraq war from bidding on $18.6 billion worth of reconstruction contracts.A directive from Deputy Defense Secretary stanley termohrnek Paul Wolfowitz limits bidder stanley quencher s on those 26 contracts to firms from the United States, Iraq, their coalition partners and other countries which have sent troops to Iraq.The ruling bars companies from U.S. allies such as France, Germany and Canada from bidding on the contracts because their governments opposed the American-led war that ousted Saddam Hussein s regime. If these comments are accurate ... it would be difficult for us to give further money for the reconstruction of Iraq, s stanley fr aid Canada s deputy prime minister, John Manley. To exclude Canadians just because they are Canadians would be unacceptable if they accept funds from Canadian taxpayers for the reconstruction of Iraq. Steven Hogue, a spokesman for Prime Minister Jean Chretien, said Canada has contributed more than $190 million to the rebuilding effort. In other recent developments: Two U.S. soldiers were killed and four were wounded in separate attacks Wednesday in the northern city of Mosul, the U.S. military said. One was guarding a gasoline station, the other part of a convoy when guerrillas detonated a roadside bomb and opened fire. U.S. forces in Kirkuk arrested 29 people, including five Iraqi policemen, suspected of cooperating with the insurgents, reports CBS News Correspondent Lisa Barron.In Baghdad, Iraq s interim
Mexico City - The lower house of Mexico s congress overwhelmingly approved a law Tuesday limiting foreign agents operating in the country and lifting their immunity in a decision that could impact its relationship with the U.S. government, a key partner in its fight against drug cartels. One senior U.S. official told CBS News the law was a disgrace, and would severely complicate the fight against the cartels.Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador supports the bill and is expected to sign it into law. The legislation is seen as a direct backlash to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency s arrest in Los Angeles of former Mexican Defense Minister General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, who was indicted on drug charges earlier this year. adidas samba og Cienfuegos was released and returned to Mexico after the charges were dropped suddenly in November, as Mexico implicitly threatened to restrict or expel U.S. agents. Mexican Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos speaks at a military base in Mexico City, April 16, 2016. RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP/Getty af1 U.S. prosecutors said they had no concern with the strength of their case against Cienfuegos, but dropped the charges against him citing the need to balance their desire for a prosecution with the mizuno volleyballschuhe broader interest of U.S. foreign policy and the law enforcement relationship with Mexico.They accepted his return to Mexico with the understanding that Zlns Mideast Peace Talks End, No Progress
Stampeding bulls gored six people, including an American and a Canadian, Frid stanley flask ay during the third day of the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona s famed San Fermin Fiesta. More than 1,000 people - mostly young men dressed in the region s traditional white shirt, trousers, red kerchief and sash - ran through the streets with six fighting bulls. One of the animals gored Justin Hammerback, 32, of Chicago, leaving a 6-in stanley cups ch wound to his buttocks, officials said. Hammerback was hospitalized but his life was not in danger. A Canadian man, Robert Stodola, was treated and released after being gored in his right elbow, and an Australian man was hospitalized with a gash in his thigh. Three Spaniards also were hospitalized with injuries. Many others were trampled by the stampeding bulls or fellow runners during the race along the 825-yard route from the corral to the city s bullring. One bull became separated from the pack and knocked a runner to the ground ripping off his trouser leg. The bull finished the run with the remains of the trou stanley cup sers still stuck to his left horn. The early-morning runs, or encierros as they are known in Spanish, are the highlight of the eight-day San Fermin Fiesta. Thousands of people test their bravery and agility by running alongside six fighting bulls and a handful of accompanying steers as they are herded from the corral to the bullring. The bulls are invariably killed by professional matadors in bullfights later each day during t
Kwyf Doctors Without Borders hospitals hit by airstrikes in Syria s Aleppo
The face-off between Iran and the United States continued to escalate on Friday as the Islamic Republic s elite Revolutionary Guards goaded the Trump administration with a dare, just a day after American B-52 bombers landed in the region. CBS News senior national defense correspondent David Martin said Thursday that airmaxplus all four B-52 Stratofortress bombers ordered to the Persian Gulfby the White House had arrived at the Al Udeid Air Base in Doha, Qatar.The White House deployed the bombers to the Gulf, along w adidas og ith the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and its associated vessels, over the weekend. While the Lincoln was deployed to replace a different U.S. carrier that was rotated out of the Gulf last month, there are few more irrefutable and visible demonstrations of U.S. military might than the deployment of a carrier strike group. A May 9, 2019 photo released by the U.S. Air Force shows a B-52H Stratofortress bomber assigned to the 20th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron parked on the ramp at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. HANDOUT Iran has dismissed the bombers presence and the looming arrival of the Lincoln as psychological warfare by Washington.Trump says John Kerry should be pr yeezy slide osecuted for ongoing contact with IranPresident Trump s national security adviser John Bolton has said the deployment was a warning to Iran after escalatory indications that Tehran was preparing to carry Edeq Mortar Rounds Hit Near Iraq Green Zone
The Pentagon has formally barred companies from countries opposed to the Iraq war from bidding on $18.6 billion worth of reconstruction contracts.A directive from Deputy Defense Secretary stanley termohrnek Paul Wolfowitz limits bidder stanley quencher s on those 26 contracts to firms from the United States, Iraq, their coalition partners and other countries which have sent troops to Iraq.The ruling bars companies from U.S. allies such as France, Germany and Canada from bidding on the contracts because their governments opposed the American-led war that ousted Saddam Hussein s regime. If these comments are accurate ... it would be difficult for us to give further money for the reconstruction of Iraq, s stanley fr aid Canada s deputy prime minister, John Manley. To exclude Canadians just because they are Canadians would be unacceptable if they accept funds from Canadian taxpayers for the reconstruction of Iraq. Steven Hogue, a spokesman for Prime Minister Jean Chretien, said Canada has contributed more than $190 million to the rebuilding effort. In other recent developments: Two U.S. soldiers were killed and four were wounded in separate attacks Wednesday in the northern city of Mosul, the U.S. military said. One was guarding a gasoline station, the other part of a convoy when guerrillas detonated a roadside bomb and opened fire. U.S. forces in Kirkuk arrested 29 people, including five Iraqi policemen, suspected of cooperating with the insurgents, reports CBS News Correspondent Lisa Barron.In Baghdad, Iraq s interim
