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adidas campus this winter The best place to stock up on ammo may be a beach in Siberia, where thousands of huge, perfectly round snowballs are piling up, according to news reports. But where are these frozen orbs coming from Villagers near the Gulf of Ob in Siberia discovered the snowballs along an 11-mile stretch of the beach,reported the Siberian Times. The snowballs range from the size of a tennis ball about 2.7 inches to almost 3 feet across. Anyone for a snowball fight Nature makes its own collection of snowballs on the Arctic shore of the Gulf of Ob
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crocs badelatschen n Earth]Itrsquo a rare natural phenomenon, Sergey Lisenkov, a spokesperson for the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute AARI , told the Siberian Times. As a rule, grease ice forms first, slush. And then a combination of the action of the wind, the outlines of the coastline, and the temperature may lead to the formation of such balls.According to news reports, the snowballs first formed in late October, after water in the Gulf of Ob rose a
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The number of Iraqis returning to their country after fleeing abroad is growing, with more than 46,000 people coming home last month, an Iraqi gove
stanley france rnment spokesman said Wednesday.Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, the Iraqi spokesman for a U.S.-Iraqi military push to pacify Baghdad, said border crossings recorded 46,030 people returning to Iraq in October alone. He attributed the large number to the improving s
stanley thermobecher ecurity situation. The level of terrorist operations has dropped in most of the capital s neighborhoods, due to the good performance of the armed forces, al-Moussawi told reporters in the heavily-guarded Green Zone.But the rise also came as Iraq s neighbors, particularly Syria and Jordan, have tightened their borders to Iraqis fleeing the turmoil in their own country. Syria is home to at least 1.2 million Iraqi refugees, and Jordan has about 750,000.Many of those Iraqis are living in limbo, unabl
stanley kubek e to work and running out of whatever money they were able to bring out of Iraq. Both countries are struggling to provide services to incoming Iraqis, and began requiring visas for them starting this past summer. Most applications are denied.Those who fled to Syria or Jordan before the new rules took effect must leave when their three-month permits expire, unless they have been officially recognized by the United Nations as refugees - a process that can take months.That leaves many people with the choice of returning to Iraq or risking deportation anyway. And with the impr
