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TORNILLO, Texas mdash;The Tent City housing hundreds of minors either apprehended after crossing the Mexican border unaccompanied, or separated from adults adidas originals uomo after crossing, will remain open at least one month longer than initially planned, a spokesperson for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HHS confirmed to CBS News Monday. A line of immigrant children walk between tents at the Tornillo Port of Entry, in Tornillo, Texas, on June 18, 2018. MIKE BLAKE / REUTERS The facility, which includes two rows of bunk bed-lined tents, was opened on June 14 at the Tornillo Port of Entry, about 39 miles south of El Paso. The facility was planed as temporary and was initially slated to be open for 30 days, closing on July 13. The facility is now expected to continue o adidas samba damen perations at least through Aug. 13, according to Kenneth Wolfe, a spokesperson for HHS Administration for Children and Families. HHS will continue to assess t adidas samba adidas he need for this temporary shelter at Tornillo Land Port of Entry in Tornillo, Texas, based on projected need for beds and current capacity of the program, Wolfe said.Krista Piferrer, Executive Vice President of External Affairs for BCFS, the nonprofit contracted to manage the Tornillo facility, said in an email to CBS News that the Tornillo facility is remaining open because other permanent options within the Office of Refugee Resettlement s bed syste Csjo Can the Catholic Church tackle sex abuse on its own
Jury selection started Tuesday for the panel that will recommend a sentence for Army Reserve Pfc. Lynndie England, who pleaded guilty to mistreating prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison camp in Iraq.England accepted responsibility for the smiling, thumbs-up poses she struck for photographs taken at Abu Ghraib that made her the face of the prisoner abuse scandal.England, 22, pleaded guilty Monday to seven counts of mistreating prisoners, saying she let her comrades talk her into going along with the abuse.The charges carry up to 11 years in prison, but prosecutors and the defense reached an agreement that caps the sentence at a lesser punishment, the length of which was not released. She will get the lesser of the military jury s sentence or the term agreed on in the plea bargain.Selection of a sentencing jury made u stanley deutschland p of officers and senior enlisted soldiers from Fort Hood began Tuesday morning. At Monday s hearing, England softly told the judge she initially resisted taking part in the abuse at the Baghdad prison, but caved in to peer pressu stanley tumbler re. I could have said, No, she told Col. James Pohl, th stanley flask e judge. I knew it was wrong. Capt. Cullen Sheppard, a prosecution spokesman, said the government will put on one sentencing witness before the defense begins its effort to persuade the jury to go easy on England.England s attorney is expected to try to portray her a naive, sympathetic figure with a history of mental health issues and learning Disabilities, reports CBS News Co
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On January 20, 1986, 33 years ago today, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and French President Francois Mitterand broke new ground. For that was the day they agreed to construction of the Chunnel. Thatcher said, The United Kingdom and France have decided today, on the basis of reports by experts, to link their two countries by a twin-bore tunnel. Although an English Channel tunnel between Britain an adidas original campus d France was a long-standing dream, reality had forced would-be travelers to rely o nike dunk low n ferries, or anything else that came to mind. But by the mid-20th century, the channel tunnel began to take shape. Digging the English Channel Tunnel. CBS News Soon after that joint 1986 announcement, construction began for real. And when the British and French tunneling crews first met in the middle in 1990, it was very big news.In 1994, the tunnel was completed, with Queen Elizabeth and President Mitterand sharing the first ride i adidas campus n a Rolls-Royce carried on a train.Thirty-one miles long 23 miles of it under water , the Channel Tunnel, or Chunnel for short, is a crucial link, both real and symbolic, between Britain and France, carrying high-speed trains between London and the Continent. How its role might change in the wake of Britain s bitter Brexit debate remains unclear since, as of now, there s no light at the end of THAT tunnel. For more info: eurotunnel1880 Chann Oxnd Air Force investigating after 2 servicemen found dead in dorm room on Germany base
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic had his first skirmishes with the U.N. war crimes tribunal Thursday: He was cut short by the judge when he tried to protest his arrest, and put on notice that the prosecution will object to hi stanley becher s demand to represent himself.During the initial session, Karadzic also claimed his seizure and trial violated a deal he made with the United States in 1996 that the case against him would be scrapped if he left politics and did not undermine the peace agreement that ended the Bosnian war.Karadzic appeared at a plea hearing one day after he was extradited from Serbia to answer genocide and war crimes charges for the murder of thousands of Bosnian Muslims and Croats and for directing a reign of terror during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.He declined to enter a plea to the 11 charges against him, and told the judge he intended to act as his own attorney for the duration of the case.But prosecutor Alan Tieger asked the judge to caution Karadzic about the risks of conducti stanley cup website ng his own defense - an indication that the prosecution wanted to avoid a repeat of the much- stanley flasche criticized trial of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic who died in jail in 2006 before his four-year trial ended. With all due respect to you personally, I will defend myself before this institution as I would defend myself before any natural catastrophe, Karadzic told Judge Alphons Orie.It was the first time Karadzic was seen in public since he dropped from sight more than a dec
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Astrud Gilb adidas originals erto, the Brazilian singer best known for her smooth performance of The Girl from Ipanema, has died at age 83.Paul Ricci, a family friend and musician, confirmed her death in a Facebook post. She was an important part of ALL that is Brazilian music in the world and she changed many lives with her energy, Ricci said Tuesday.The vocalist s granddaughter, Sofia Gilberto, also remembered her in a touchingpost on Instagram. I love and will love Astrud forever, and she was the face and voice of bossa nova around most of planet, she wrote. Astrud will forever be in our hearts, and right now we have to celebrate Astrud. Astrud Gilberto at a Grammy Awards dinner in New York in 1966. Bettmann The Girl from Ipanema, written by Antonio Carlos Jobim and adidas samba Vinicius de Moraes, was already a hit in South America in the 1960s, but it came to the U.S. in 1964 when a producer on the Getz/Gilberto album, which featured Gilberto s former husbandJoatilde;o Gilberto and jazz legend Stan Getz, saw an opportunity to expand its appeal by including English lyrics. As they recorded, Astrud Gilberto was called upon to sing some of the song s lyrics in English because she knew just enough of the language, the Asso yeezy slide ciated Press reported.The rest is history. Astrud Gilberto became an overnight sensation and helped popularized bossa nova around the world. Astrud Ahdx The Missing People Choir: Raising voices in pain and hope
The impact of war on Syria s youngest residents is depicted in a striking video released Wednesday by Global Post. A correspondent, identified only as Maya, spoke with children in the country s north about their experiences growing up in a war zone.The sound of explosions can be heard in the background as the footage opens to a room filled with young people. When the shelling starts we don t hear the explosions as much, so we feel safer, says 14-year-old Mariam. But when the shelling is heavy we feel only God can protect us. Between images of the children playing--with hula hoops, computer games and, in one case, a bullet--the young subjects give their personal accounts of war. They speak candidly, and without tears, about witnessing brutal massacr stanley cup es, the deaths of classmates and dreaming about bombs. Turkieh, an 8-year-old with bouncy curls and a bright pink sweater, is calm as she recounts the loss of her mother. My mum went to buy bread and was coming back when the sniper shot her, she says. The United Nations say close to 70,00 stanley mug 0 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict started. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-9a45743a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-9a45743a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d stanley becher display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-9a45743a-8c88-11e2-b
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BREAKING NEWS: The U.S. launched cruise missiles against a Syrian regime target in retaliation for a chemical attack.In a televised statement, Mr. Trump said he authorized the airstrike because it is in the vital, national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the use of deadly chemical weapons. After changing his position on Syrian President Bashar Assad staying in power earlier Thursday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson briefed President Trump on military options in Syria. In an impromptu press conference, Tillerson said adidas samba herren of Assad, It will seem that there would be no role for him to govern the Syrian people. When asked about a possibility ofremoving Assad, Tillerson replied Those steps are underway. Live Updates all times Eastern 2:49 a.m.:A communication link between the U.S. and Russia used to protect their pilots flying sorties over Syria was used ahead of an American missile strike on the country.The so-called deconfliction line is operated by the U.S. military s Central Command at the sprawling al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar. It serves as a crucial link to make sure the increasingly crowded Syrian airspace doesn t see any accidental collisions or attacks on each other. Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis says: U.S. military planners took precautions adidas campus beige to minimize risk to Russian or Syrian personnel located at the airfield targeted in Syria s Homs province. U.S. Central Command did not immediately respond adidas originals mujer to an Associated Press query on sp Gshd U.S. Bags Top Iraqi Official
As the world scrambled to the rescue, survivors fought over packs of noodles in quake-stricken Indonesian streets Wednesday while relief supplies piled up at the airport for lack of cars, gas or passable roads to move them. The official death toll across 12 countries soared to more than 77,000 and the Red Cross predicts it could exceed 100,000.Bodies were piled into mass graves in the belief that burial would ward off disease. And, as CBS News Correspondent Allen Pizzey reports, many of the bodies will never be identified. The bodies are in very, very bad shape, Jerome Folee, a Swiss man searching for his family told Pizzey. Apart from very factual things like clothes or earrings hellip; it s, I would say, impossible to identify. Paramedics in southern India began vaccinating thousands of survivors against cholera, typhoid, hepati stanley mug tis A and dysentery, and authorities sprayed bleaching powder on beaches where bodies have been recovered. In Sri Lanka, reports of waterborne disease such as diarrhea caused fears of an epidemic.CBS Chief White House Correspondent John Roberts repo stanley cup usa rts that President Bush announced from his ranch in Texas that the United States, India, Australia and Japan have formed an international coalition to coordinate relief and reconstructi stanley cups on of the 3,000 miles of Indian Ocean rim walloped by Sunday s earthquake and the tsunami it unleashed. We re facing a disaster of unprecedented proportion in nature, said Simon Missiri, a top Red Cross official. We re
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ERBIL, Iraq - There are important developments in the Iraq crisis.It appears Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will step down. There had been concern that after eight years he would try to hold on to power by military force. And correspondent adidas campus damen David Martin reports that President Obama is sending about 130 more American military advisers to Iraq. There are 250 in the country already.They re helping the Iraqi government roll back ISIS, a Muslim extremist army that has taken control of parts of Iraq and Syria.Obama ordered airstrikes on ISIS when it threatened the Kurdish city of Erbil in northern Iraq. That s where these new American advisers would go, to help thousands of refugees who are surrounded on Mount Sinjar.On Monday, when an Iraqi helicopter dropped water to help the refug yeezy ees, some refugees seized the chance and jumped aboard. On Tuesday, a similar Iraqi mission crashed after it was rushed by refugees. The pilot was killed. Many were injured.Refugees are fleeing because ISIS militants have murdered, by the thousands, anyone who is not a member of their Sunni Muslim faith.CBS News discovered what s happening to the Christians. Christians in Iraq still pray in Aram af1 aic, the language spoken by Christ. CBS News We visited the town of Bartella two months ago, as ISIS militants began their campaign of violence and terror in northern Iraq. Christians have Ocwh Pilot union sues American Airlines to stop service to China
Looking like a cross between James Bond and Crocodile Dundee in his tux, cowboy boots and felt hat, Brad Barnett lounges against the dusty doorway of a country hall and casts an eye over his romantic prospects.The 23-year-old rancher drove hundreds of miles in a pickup truck to a parched Outback fairground lookin stanley mug g for love at the Condobolin Bachelor and Spinster s Ball.But despite the traditional role such dances - known as a BS - have played as rural Australia s cupid, Barnett and his friend, 21-year-old welder Warwick Ranclaud, doubt this affair will offer the women of their dreams.The reason There just are not enough women to go around. It s very hard now to meet women in the country, said Barnett, who works o stanley website n his parent s 8,000-acre property in northeast New South Wales state. When I first started going to BS s, there were lots of stanley cups uk single women. Now a lot of country girls go away to uni university , and because there s not the jobs in the country ... they ll stay in the bigger cities. Barnett s lament can be heard from ranchers across this vast nation as rural Romeos find it increasingly difficult to meet young women prepared to settle down in the country.A national women s magazine earlier this year launched a Find a Wife For a Farmer campaign, profiling some of the hundreds of lonely country men.Sarah Dent, coordinator of the Young Farmer s Forum and a campaign organizer, said the lack of love in Outback Australia stems from declines in population
TORNILLO, Texas mdash;The Tent City housing hundreds of minors either apprehended after crossing the Mexican border unaccompanied, or separated from adults adidas originals uomo after crossing, will remain open at least one month longer than initially planned, a spokesperson for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HHS confirmed to CBS News Monday. A line of immigrant children walk between tents at the Tornillo Port of Entry, in Tornillo, Texas, on June 18, 2018. MIKE BLAKE / REUTERS The facility, which includes two rows of bunk bed-lined tents, was opened on June 14 at the Tornillo Port of Entry, about 39 miles south of El Paso. The facility was planed as temporary and was initially slated to be open for 30 days, closing on July 13. The facility is now expected to continue o adidas samba damen perations at least through Aug. 13, according to Kenneth Wolfe, a spokesperson for HHS Administration for Children and Families. HHS will continue to assess t adidas samba adidas he need for this temporary shelter at Tornillo Land Port of Entry in Tornillo, Texas, based on projected need for beds and current capacity of the program, Wolfe said.Krista Piferrer, Executive Vice President of External Affairs for BCFS, the nonprofit contracted to manage the Tornillo facility, said in an email to CBS News that the Tornillo facility is remaining open because other permanent options within the Office of Refugee Resettlement s bed syste Csjo Can the Catholic Church tackle sex abuse on its own
Jury selection started Tuesday for the panel that will recommend a sentence for Army Reserve Pfc. Lynndie England, who pleaded guilty to mistreating prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison camp in Iraq.England accepted responsibility for the smiling, thumbs-up poses she struck for photographs taken at Abu Ghraib that made her the face of the prisoner abuse scandal.England, 22, pleaded guilty Monday to seven counts of mistreating prisoners, saying she let her comrades talk her into going along with the abuse.The charges carry up to 11 years in prison, but prosecutors and the defense reached an agreement that caps the sentence at a lesser punishment, the length of which was not released. She will get the lesser of the military jury s sentence or the term agreed on in the plea bargain.Selection of a sentencing jury made u stanley deutschland p of officers and senior enlisted soldiers from Fort Hood began Tuesday morning. At Monday s hearing, England softly told the judge she initially resisted taking part in the abuse at the Baghdad prison, but caved in to peer pressu stanley tumbler re. I could have said, No, she told Col. James Pohl, th stanley flask e judge. I knew it was wrong. Capt. Cullen Sheppard, a prosecution spokesman, said the government will put on one sentencing witness before the defense begins its effort to persuade the jury to go easy on England.England s attorney is expected to try to portray her a naive, sympathetic figure with a history of mental health issues and learning Disabilities, reports CBS News Co
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On January 20, 1986, 33 years ago today, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and French President Francois Mitterand broke new ground. For that was the day they agreed to construction of the Chunnel. Thatcher said, The United Kingdom and France have decided today, on the basis of reports by experts, to link their two countries by a twin-bore tunnel. Although an English Channel tunnel between Britain an adidas original campus d France was a long-standing dream, reality had forced would-be travelers to rely o nike dunk low n ferries, or anything else that came to mind. But by the mid-20th century, the channel tunnel began to take shape. Digging the English Channel Tunnel. CBS News Soon after that joint 1986 announcement, construction began for real. And when the British and French tunneling crews first met in the middle in 1990, it was very big news.In 1994, the tunnel was completed, with Queen Elizabeth and President Mitterand sharing the first ride i adidas campus n a Rolls-Royce carried on a train.Thirty-one miles long 23 miles of it under water , the Channel Tunnel, or Chunnel for short, is a crucial link, both real and symbolic, between Britain and France, carrying high-speed trains between London and the Continent. How its role might change in the wake of Britain s bitter Brexit debate remains unclear since, as of now, there s no light at the end of THAT tunnel. For more info: eurotunnel1880 Chann Oxnd Air Force investigating after 2 servicemen found dead in dorm room on Germany base
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic had his first skirmishes with the U.N. war crimes tribunal Thursday: He was cut short by the judge when he tried to protest his arrest, and put on notice that the prosecution will object to hi stanley becher s demand to represent himself.During the initial session, Karadzic also claimed his seizure and trial violated a deal he made with the United States in 1996 that the case against him would be scrapped if he left politics and did not undermine the peace agreement that ended the Bosnian war.Karadzic appeared at a plea hearing one day after he was extradited from Serbia to answer genocide and war crimes charges for the murder of thousands of Bosnian Muslims and Croats and for directing a reign of terror during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.He declined to enter a plea to the 11 charges against him, and told the judge he intended to act as his own attorney for the duration of the case.But prosecutor Alan Tieger asked the judge to caution Karadzic about the risks of conducti stanley cup website ng his own defense - an indication that the prosecution wanted to avoid a repeat of the much- stanley flasche criticized trial of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic who died in jail in 2006 before his four-year trial ended. With all due respect to you personally, I will defend myself before this institution as I would defend myself before any natural catastrophe, Karadzic told Judge Alphons Orie.It was the first time Karadzic was seen in public since he dropped from sight more than a dec
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Astrud Gilb adidas originals erto, the Brazilian singer best known for her smooth performance of The Girl from Ipanema, has died at age 83.Paul Ricci, a family friend and musician, confirmed her death in a Facebook post. She was an important part of ALL that is Brazilian music in the world and she changed many lives with her energy, Ricci said Tuesday.The vocalist s granddaughter, Sofia Gilberto, also remembered her in a touchingpost on Instagram. I love and will love Astrud forever, and she was the face and voice of bossa nova around most of planet, she wrote. Astrud will forever be in our hearts, and right now we have to celebrate Astrud. Astrud Gilberto at a Grammy Awards dinner in New York in 1966. Bettmann The Girl from Ipanema, written by Antonio Carlos Jobim and adidas samba Vinicius de Moraes, was already a hit in South America in the 1960s, but it came to the U.S. in 1964 when a producer on the Getz/Gilberto album, which featured Gilberto s former husbandJoatilde;o Gilberto and jazz legend Stan Getz, saw an opportunity to expand its appeal by including English lyrics. As they recorded, Astrud Gilberto was called upon to sing some of the song s lyrics in English because she knew just enough of the language, the Asso yeezy slide ciated Press reported.The rest is history. Astrud Gilberto became an overnight sensation and helped popularized bossa nova around the world. Astrud Ahdx The Missing People Choir: Raising voices in pain and hope
The impact of war on Syria s youngest residents is depicted in a striking video released Wednesday by Global Post. A correspondent, identified only as Maya, spoke with children in the country s north about their experiences growing up in a war zone.The sound of explosions can be heard in the background as the footage opens to a room filled with young people. When the shelling starts we don t hear the explosions as much, so we feel safer, says 14-year-old Mariam. But when the shelling is heavy we feel only God can protect us. Between images of the children playing--with hula hoops, computer games and, in one case, a bullet--the young subjects give their personal accounts of war. They speak candidly, and without tears, about witnessing brutal massacr stanley cup es, the deaths of classmates and dreaming about bombs. Turkieh, an 8-year-old with bouncy curls and a bright pink sweater, is calm as she recounts the loss of her mother. My mum went to buy bread and was coming back when the sniper shot her, she says. The United Nations say close to 70,00 stanley mug 0 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict started. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-9a45743a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-9a45743a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d stanley becher display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-9a45743a-8c88-11e2-b
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BREAKING NEWS: The U.S. launched cruise missiles against a Syrian regime target in retaliation for a chemical attack.In a televised statement, Mr. Trump said he authorized the airstrike because it is in the vital, national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the use of deadly chemical weapons. After changing his position on Syrian President Bashar Assad staying in power earlier Thursday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson briefed President Trump on military options in Syria. In an impromptu press conference, Tillerson said adidas samba herren of Assad, It will seem that there would be no role for him to govern the Syrian people. When asked about a possibility ofremoving Assad, Tillerson replied Those steps are underway. Live Updates all times Eastern 2:49 a.m.:A communication link between the U.S. and Russia used to protect their pilots flying sorties over Syria was used ahead of an American missile strike on the country.The so-called deconfliction line is operated by the U.S. military s Central Command at the sprawling al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar. It serves as a crucial link to make sure the increasingly crowded Syrian airspace doesn t see any accidental collisions or attacks on each other. Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis says: U.S. military planners took precautions adidas campus beige to minimize risk to Russian or Syrian personnel located at the airfield targeted in Syria s Homs province. U.S. Central Command did not immediately respond adidas originals mujer to an Associated Press query on sp Gshd U.S. Bags Top Iraqi Official
As the world scrambled to the rescue, survivors fought over packs of noodles in quake-stricken Indonesian streets Wednesday while relief supplies piled up at the airport for lack of cars, gas or passable roads to move them. The official death toll across 12 countries soared to more than 77,000 and the Red Cross predicts it could exceed 100,000.Bodies were piled into mass graves in the belief that burial would ward off disease. And, as CBS News Correspondent Allen Pizzey reports, many of the bodies will never be identified. The bodies are in very, very bad shape, Jerome Folee, a Swiss man searching for his family told Pizzey. Apart from very factual things like clothes or earrings hellip; it s, I would say, impossible to identify. Paramedics in southern India began vaccinating thousands of survivors against cholera, typhoid, hepati stanley mug tis A and dysentery, and authorities sprayed bleaching powder on beaches where bodies have been recovered. In Sri Lanka, reports of waterborne disease such as diarrhea caused fears of an epidemic.CBS Chief White House Correspondent John Roberts repo stanley cup usa rts that President Bush announced from his ranch in Texas that the United States, India, Australia and Japan have formed an international coalition to coordinate relief and reconstructi stanley cups on of the 3,000 miles of Indian Ocean rim walloped by Sunday s earthquake and the tsunami it unleashed. We re facing a disaster of unprecedented proportion in nature, said Simon Missiri, a top Red Cross official. We re
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ERBIL, Iraq - There are important developments in the Iraq crisis.It appears Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will step down. There had been concern that after eight years he would try to hold on to power by military force. And correspondent adidas campus damen David Martin reports that President Obama is sending about 130 more American military advisers to Iraq. There are 250 in the country already.They re helping the Iraqi government roll back ISIS, a Muslim extremist army that has taken control of parts of Iraq and Syria.Obama ordered airstrikes on ISIS when it threatened the Kurdish city of Erbil in northern Iraq. That s where these new American advisers would go, to help thousands of refugees who are surrounded on Mount Sinjar.On Monday, when an Iraqi helicopter dropped water to help the refug yeezy ees, some refugees seized the chance and jumped aboard. On Tuesday, a similar Iraqi mission crashed after it was rushed by refugees. The pilot was killed. Many were injured.Refugees are fleeing because ISIS militants have murdered, by the thousands, anyone who is not a member of their Sunni Muslim faith.CBS News discovered what s happening to the Christians. Christians in Iraq still pray in Aram af1 aic, the language spoken by Christ. CBS News We visited the town of Bartella two months ago, as ISIS militants began their campaign of violence and terror in northern Iraq. Christians have Ocwh Pilot union sues American Airlines to stop service to China
Looking like a cross between James Bond and Crocodile Dundee in his tux, cowboy boots and felt hat, Brad Barnett lounges against the dusty doorway of a country hall and casts an eye over his romantic prospects.The 23-year-old rancher drove hundreds of miles in a pickup truck to a parched Outback fairground lookin stanley mug g for love at the Condobolin Bachelor and Spinster s Ball.But despite the traditional role such dances - known as a BS - have played as rural Australia s cupid, Barnett and his friend, 21-year-old welder Warwick Ranclaud, doubt this affair will offer the women of their dreams.The reason There just are not enough women to go around. It s very hard now to meet women in the country, said Barnett, who works o stanley website n his parent s 8,000-acre property in northeast New South Wales state. When I first started going to BS s, there were lots of stanley cups uk single women. Now a lot of country girls go away to uni university , and because there s not the jobs in the country ... they ll stay in the bigger cities. Barnett s lament can be heard from ranchers across this vast nation as rural Romeos find it increasingly difficult to meet young women prepared to settle down in the country.A national women s magazine earlier this year launched a Find a Wife For a Farmer campaign, profiling some of the hundreds of lonely country men.Sarah Dent, coordinator of the Young Farmer s Forum and a campaign organizer, said the lack of love in Outback Australia stems from declines in population
