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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has led a congressional delegation on a visit to Afghanistan. Her office said in a statement Sunday night the bipartisan delegation met with top Afghan leaders, civil society representatives and U.S. military chiefs and troops serving there. Our delegation received briefings from Ambassador John Bass and other top diplomats on reconciliation efforts with the Taliban, which has been responsible for violent attacks in Afghanistan. We also heard more about the still-pending status of results from the Afghanistan presidential el asics gel ection in September, which we all hope will be available soon, Pelosi said in a statement.Pelosi added, Our delegation emphasized the central importance of combating the corruption which endangers security and undermines the Afghan people s ability to achieve a stable and prosperous future. We underscored that the women of Afghanistan must be at the table for reconciliation talks. Meeting with and hearing directly from our troops and diplomats on the ground is essential for Congress to conduct effective oversight of our mission in Afghanistan. We will air max 1 return to Washington strengthened with the facts and the first-hand knowledge we have gathered at this critical time for our nation s Afghanistan policy and inspired by the courage of our servicemembers and diplomats on the front lines. Pelosi says the delegation emphasized the import chanclas yeezy ance of combating corruption and ensuring women are at the table in reconciliation talks. The una Wwhx Group offers virtual reality tour of war-torn Syria
France s leftist parliament became the latest casualty in Europe s rightward shift with a crushing legislative victory by France s mainstream right. The results give President Jacques Chirac full control of parliament. He formally reappointed his down-to-earth prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin on Monday.The conservatives surge in Sunday s voting ended the left s five-year grip on the National Assembly and shut the far-right National Front out of the lower house altogether, less than two months after its leader Jean-Marie Le Pen shocked Europe by finishing second to Chirac in a presidential election.Chirac s newly founded Union for the Presiden stanley cup tial Majority and its allies won a commanding 399 seats in the 577-strong Assembly against just 178 for the Socialists and o stanley cup price ther leftists, who are now outnumbered by more than two to one.The left, from Communists to Socialists to Greens, won only 171 seats mdash; a stinging blow that put the left in the opposition for the first time in five years. The left held 318 seats in the outgoing parliament. The president of the republic has entrusted Jean-Pierre Raffarin with the functions of prime minister again and asked him to form the government, Chirac s office said.It was a bald statement that conveyed none of the triumph in the Elysee Palace, a home that Chirac seemed in grave danger of losing just a few months ago, amid allegations of sleaze and buoyant popularity ratings for his Socialist presidential rival.Final results fro
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TEHRAN, Iran -- An Iranian news agency is quoting the lawyer of a detained Washington Post reporter as saying her client should be freed in the wake of the nuclear deal between the Islamic Republic and world powers.The report Tuesday by the semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted defense lawyer Leila Ahsan, who represents the Post s Tehran bureau chief, Jason Rezaian. Rezaian has been held for over a year and faces espionage charges in a Revolutionary Court.Tasnim quoted Ahsan as saying Rezaian s continued detention was not legal. She also said she expected the court to acquit Rezaian as there was no evidence proving the charges against the Iranian-American journalist.Washington Post appeals to UN over reporter jailed by Iran Jailed Washington Post journalist makes second court appearance in Iran yeezy 350 05:14 CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer said the statement from Ahsan appeared to be part of a broader strategy to increase pressure on Iran s leaders yeezy and visibility of Rezaian s case.A friend of Ahsan who spoke to Palmer Tuesday said that, according to a recently amended law in Iran, anyone not suspected of committing murder cannot be detained for more than one year without cha adidas originals samba rge and should be released on bail. So Jason should be bailed from jail, Ahsan s friend told Palmer, adding that the law Nwoc Lava flows, toxic gases, volcanic ash and acid rain: La Palma volcano eruption continues to pose threats
TRIPOLI, Libya - NATO fighter jets struck three ports in bombing runs overnight, targeting M stanley tumblers oammar Gadhafi s navy in an effort to protect the nearby rebel-held port of Misrata, NATO said Friday. It was the broadest attack on Libya s naval forces since the alliance joined the conflict.One bombing run hit the main port of Tripoli, where reporters could see f stanley flask lames and s stanley mug moke rising above the stricken warship into the night sky. Other targets were the Khoms port, between Tripoli and Misrata, and Sirte, east of the city.In Brussels, NATO confirmed that its warplanes targeted the ports and accused Libya of using its ships in the escalating conflict, including attempts to mine the harbor in Misrata. Rebels trying to end the nearly 40-year rule of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi have been struggling to hold Misrata against repeated attacks by Gadhafi s forces.Complete coverage: Anger in the Arab WorldThe world s enduring dictators: Muammar Qaddafi, LibyaInternational arrest warrant sought for QaddafiBritish Maj. Gen. John Lorimer, a communications officer, said British warplanes hit two Libyan corvette warships in the Khoms harbor and successfully targeted a facility in the dockyard constructing fast inflatable boats, which Libyan forces have used several times in their efforts to mine Misrata and attack vessels in the area. He said the port was the nearest concentration of regime warships to the port of Misrata, which Gadhafi has repeatedly attempted to close to humanitarian s
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LONDON -- British police said Saturday that search teams have found over 400 items as part of the investigation into the poisoning of two Britons by the nerve agent Novichok -- but searches will likely take many more weeks as officers seek further evidence.Metropolitan Police announced a breakthrough in the case Friday when they said they had found a small bottle believed to be the source of the nerve agent that killed Dawn Sturgess and sickened Charlie Rowley. T yeezy he bottle was found at Rowley s home in Amesbury, a southwestern town not far from Salisbury, where British authorities say Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with Novichok in March.Britain blames the Russian government for the March attack, an accusation the Kremlin has denied. The case prompted Western nations including the United States and Britain to expel scores of Russian diplomats and for Russia to retaliate with similar expulsions.Police are trying to figure out whether the substance in the bottle mdash; confirmed by scientists as Novichok mdash; came from the same batch used in the attack against the Skripals. They re also looking into where the bottle came from and how it got into Rowley s house. British police retracing steps of woman killed after exposure to nerve agent Novichok 01:51 airmax plus asics sneaker It is not Erzb Iran unveils ready underground missile silos
Audits aimed at ferreting out corruption in China uncovered $8 billion in misused or embezzled funds and widespread irregularities that produced serious losses of state assets, the government said Friday.Auditors investigated 130,000 state businesses and offices last year as part of the communist leadership s campaign against the pervasive graft that has soured public faith in the government.Li Jinhua, minister of the State Auditing Administration, told officials attending a national conference Friday that government auditors found larger-than-reported losses in the accounts of the State Power Corp., the former national power monopoly that was dismantled last year.Irregularities at the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China mdash; one of the country s biggest state-owned banks mdash; included housing and auto loans granted to organizations or individuals using false documents and excessive lending to local governments, Li said in an account posted on the audit office s Web site.The bank suffe stanley cup red serious losses from illegal loans granted by staff and related companies, it said without giving figures. The report also cited a big batch of major econ stanley cup omic crimes but stanley thermos did not elaborate. Li has long criticized officials for diverting government subsidies and spending lavishly on offices, private villas and stock speculation, among other abuses.As a result of the audits, $2.9 billion of the $8 billion in misused funds were returned to the government, and the cases of 7
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Actor and singer Jane Birkin, who made France her home and charmed the country with her English grace, natural style and social activism, has died at age 76.The London-born star and fashion icon was known for her musical and romantic relationship with French singer Serge Gainsbourg. The nike dunk ir songs notably included the steamy Je t aime moi non plus I Love You, Me Neither . Birkin s ethereal, British-accented singing voice interlaced with his gruff baritone in the 1969 duet that helped make her famous and was forbidden in Italy after being denounced in the Vatican newspaper. The style Birkin displayed in the 1960s and early 1970s mdash; long hair with bangs, jeans paired with white tops, knit mini dresses and basket bags mdash; still epitomizes the height of French chic for many women around the world. Birkin was also synonymous with a Hermes bag that bore her name. Created by the Paris fashion house in 1984 in her honor, the Birkin bag became one of the world af1 s most exclusive luxury items, with a stratospheric price tag and years-long waiting list to buy it.In a2018 interview with CBS Sunday Morning, Birkin joked that the bag might be adidas campus shoes what she s best known for. When I went to America, I don t know in what interview, they said, You mean Birkin, like the bag I said, Well, now, the bag is going to sing! I thought, Oh gosh, on my obituary, it will say, Like the bag or something, Birkin said to senior culture and senior national correspondent for CBS News An Zyhq U.S., U.K. Diplomats Attacked In Zimbabwe
AP JERUSALEM - Israel views the threat posed by a nuclear-armed Iran with greater urgency th stanley cup an the rest of the world, Israel s defense minister said Monday.Ehud Barak also reiterated recent Israeli assessments that Iran s nuclear program is on the verge of be stanley cup website coming immune to disruptions by a possible military strike.The remarks are likely to fuel already rampant speculation that Israel is preparing for a strike before Iran moves most of its nuclear facilities underground and beyond the reach of a precision attack.In testimony to parliament s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Barak also said that harsher international sanctions against Iran would be needed to try to pressure Tehran to abandon the suspect elements of its nuclear program.Israel ambassador keeps door open to Iran strikeIran rejects nuke clean-up claims at key site Barak also invoked a theme that has become a recent mantra with Israeli leaders 151; that the Jewish state will not leave its fate to others to decide. The world, including the current U.S. administration, understands and accepts that Israel necessarily views the threat differently than they do, and that ultimately, Israel is responsible for taking the decisions related to its future, its security and its destiny, he said.Barak s office released his statements to the committee in a media release.Iran s nuclear program, Barak said, is steadily approaching maturation and is verging on a stanley thermos zone of immunity 151; a position from which the
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Jerusalem mdash; An Israeli tank brigade took control Tuesday of the Gaza Strip side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, authorities said, as Israel moved forward with an offensive in the southern city even as cease-fire negotiations with Hamas remain on a knife s edge. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his country in a video address later Tuesday that he had ordered troops to operate in Rafah as his government rejected a cease-fire proposal backed by Hamas the previous afternoon.The tanks moved in around the Rafah checkpoint after hours of whiplash in the Israel-Hamas war, with the militant group saying Monday that it had accepted an Egyptian-Qatari media crocs schuhe ted cease-fire proposal. Israel quickly insisted the deal didn t meet its core demands and rejected it, though officials said Israel would continue discussing the proposal.The high-stakes diplomatic moves and military brinkmanship left a gl air force 1 immer of hope alive mdash; but only barely mdash; for air force one an accord that could bring at least a pause in the seven-month-old war that has devastated the Gaza Strip.As for the proposal that brought brief hope of an imminent truce late on Monday, Netanyahu dismissed it in his video message as an attempt by Hamas to torpedo the entry of our forces into Rafah, which he had repeatedly vowed to order.The Israeli leader confirmed, however, that his government was still engaged in negotiations for a cease-fire, saying he d instructed his team to continue to stand firm on the Jmii Mexico vigilantes won t give up fight against cartel
Spanish police have arrested an Italian man and a Portuguese woman with possible links to the case of Madeleine McCann, the 4-year-old British girl who vanished nearly two months ago during a vacation in Portugal.However, it s not clear whether the two were suspected of having a role in the girl s disappearance. Spanish television news reports on Thursday said the man may have tried to extort money from McCann s parents, offering information about their daughter s whereabouts, though police did not confirm that.The man was detained on an international arrest warrant origin stanley thermos mug ating in France, a police spokeswoman said. She said the warrant itself had nothing to do with the McCann case, but would not elaborate or say what made police suspect him in stanley cup usa the missing girl case.The woman was detained due to her association with the man, and there was no warrant for her arrest, the spokeswoman said. She did not identify either suspect by name, saying the investigation was ongoing.The man and woman both were arrested Thursday morning in Sotogrande, a town in the southern Spanish province of Cadiz, the spokeswoman said, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with police rules. Members of the McCann family in Britain said they were withholding comment until more info stanley mug rmation was known. We have no comment to make, because we know no more than we have seen on the news, said John McCann, brother of Madeleine s father, Gerry.Madeleine s great uncle, Brian Kennedy, said he did not know
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Two buses and a fuel tanker collided Sunday on a major highway in Afghanistan, killing 52 people, officials said.Another 73 people who had been on the buses were wounded in the accident, which set all three vehicles ablaze, said Jawed Salangi, spokesman for the governor of the eastern Ghazni province.Records show the two buses were carrying a total of 125 passengers, Salangi said. With 73 survivors out of the 125, 52 people are dead, he said, adding that the survivors had been transferred to hospitals.The collision happened at 7 a.m. on the main highway linking the capital, Kabul, to the southern city of Kandahar. Salangi said the road had been cleared and re-opened early afternoon.The buses were traveling one behind the other from Kabul to Kandahar when the accident happened, according to Mohammadullah Ahmadi, director of the provincial traffic department. He blamed the crash on reckless driving. He said local residents helped firefighters and first responders pull survivors from the wreckage.Road accidents are common in Afghanistan, where roads are often in po nike air force or condition and traffic laws are rarely enforced. pon mizuno volleyballschuhe ent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-3e0f324c-4d04-47f9-8a9b-21dee8f1aa70, right-rail-recirc-item--id-3e0f324c-4d04-47f9-8a9b-21dee8f1aa70 display: none; inline airforces -recirc-item--id-3e Yrgm Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: U.S. Navy captain says without debris, they re depending on luck
North Korea upped the ante in the standoff over its nuclear program, confirmi stanley cup ng Friday that it is restoring a key atomic reactor and saying it no longer cares to be removed from Washington s terrorism blacklist.A disarmament-for-aid pact offered removal from the U.S. list of nations sponsoring terrorism - along with energy aid - if North Korea dismantled its nuclear program.Friday s announcement was the first North Korean confirmation that the regime is undoing the disarmament process begun in November 2007 stanley cup as part of a nuclear deal hashed out during talks with China, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the U.S.Analysts said the North commonly uses such threats and hard-line tactics to negotiate more generous terms.Pyongyang blamed Washington, saying its refusal to remove North Korea from a U.S. list of states that sponsor terrorism is a violation of that deal. The U.S. says Pyongyang first must accept a plan to verify nuclear promises made in June - a demand the North rejected as an attempt to unilaterally disarm the country. Now that the United States true colors have been brought to light, we neither wish nor expect to be delisted as a state sponsor of terrorism, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the country s official news agency, KCNA.North Korea will go its own way, it warned.The threat - bound to set back already troubled negotiations to get the North to disarm in exc stanley thermosflasche hange for aid and political concessions 151; came amid reports that North K
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CBS News Calgary - Canada s third largest city - is underwater.The unprecedented flooding in the province of Alberta has killed three people and driven 175,000 others from their homes. These are flood levels and volumes like we ve never seen, said Alberta Premier Alison Redford. The speed at which they re coming is entirely different, and the impact on communities has been really, tremendously tragic. It began Thursday when record rainfall and melting snow funneled down the Canadian Rockies. It s really high right now, said one man, and there s a lot of people that are going to be hurting. The rushing water shot out over the town of Canmore like a tsunami, taking entire trees with it and washing out the Transcanada Highway. Western Canada under water 21 photos adidas campus 80s Our cul-de-sac had a little bit of water in it but not too bad, and then went for a cigarette, came back out of the garage and we had a river going down our road like in a matter of 10 minutes, another man said.Caught between two overflowing rivers, Calgary s city center suffered some o yeezy f the worst damage. adidas samba og At Saddledome Arena - home to NHL s Calgary Flames - water reached the tenth row.Thirty thousand residents remain without power. Standing on a bridge in the dark wh Bibw 1 Dead After Police, Protesters Clash in Haiti
WASHINGTON - There may be less than meets the eye to President Barack Obama s statements Monday night that NATO is taking over from the United States in Libya and that U.S. action is limited to defending people under attack there by Muammar Qaddafi s forces.In transferring command and control to NATO, the U.S. is turning over the reins to an organization dominated by the U.S., both militarily and politically. In essence, the U.S. runs the show that is taking over running the show.Also, the rapid advance of re stanley cups uk bels in recent days strongly suggests they are not merely benefiting fro stanley termoska m military aid in a defensive crouch, but rather using the multinational force in some fashion, coordinated or not, to advance an offensive. Coverage of Obama s speech on LibyaNATO bombs let rebels fight on Qaddafi s turfComplete Coverage: Anger in the Arab WorldHere is a look at some of Obama s assertions in his televised address to the nation Monday, and how they compare with the facts:___ OBAMA: Our most effective alliance, NATO, has taken command of the enf stanley flasche orcement of the arms embargo and no-fly zone. ... Going forward, the lead in enforcing the no-fly zone and protecting civilians on the ground will transition to our allies and partners, and I am fully confident that our coalition will keep the pressure on Qaddafi s remaining forces. In that effort, the United States will play a supporting role. THE FACTS: As by far the pre-eminent player in NATO, and a nation historically relu
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Any renewed Russian aggression in Ukraine would trigger serious consequences, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday during a visit to Latvia, where NATO foreign ministers assembled to discuss the recent buildup of Russian troops near the Ukrainian border. In recent weeks, the U.S. and other officials have been sounding the alarm over Russia amassing troops near its border with Ukraine, concerned that an offensive or an escalation of a seven-year-long conflict in the volatile eastern region of Donbas could be on the horizon. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken Reuters/Ints Kalnins/Pool Blinken called the Russian troop movements unusual and a hoka dded any escalatory actions by Russia would be of great concern to the United States.Russian officials said the reports of a military buildup are ba adidas samba adidas seless and in turn accused NATO of building more of a foothold in what Russia considers its own backyard.The country s top diplomat, Sergey Lavrov, attacked the alliance for deploying a significant amount of military hardware near Russia s borders and said Moscow could respond to security threats from Western countries and Ukraine if necessary. The fact that we are being accused of conducting military adidas samba uomo exercises on our sovereign territory by the countries that are bringing troops and military equipment to our borders in huge quantities from overseas and the fact that t Lmlo A Call For Violence Against The U.S.
Pope John Paul has declared the Roman Catholic Church s first Chinese saints.In a Vatican ceremony Sunday, the pontiff added 87 Chinese and 33 foreign missionaries to its list of saints.Pope John Paul II decreed sainthood Sunday for a Philadelphia heiress who shunned both the label and the life of a socialite, devot stanley kubek ing her years and fortune instead to schools for American Indians and blacks.Katharine Drexel, 1858-1955, spurred efforts in her time to combating all forms of racism through education and social services, John Paul said in the rain-soaked canonization ceremony in St. Peter s Square.ReutersPope John Paul II at Sunday s canonization ceremony.Beijing attacked the Vatican on Sunday for canonizing 120 Catholic martyrs in China, calling the saints evil-doing sinners who raped, looted and worked as agents of Western imperialism.The canonizations on China s National Day will severely hamper normalization of relations between Beijing and the Holy See, which do not have diplomatic ties, the official Xinhua news agency quoted a foreign ministry statement as saying. The government, people and the Catholic Church of China hereby express their utmost indignation and strong protest against this matter, t stanley cups he statement said.Pope John Paul canonized the martyrs, who the Vatican says died for their faith, at a ceremony in St Peter s Square on Sunday despite a barrage of protests from China.Beijing says most were executed for stanley cups breaking laws when colonial forces invaded or
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