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(CBS/AP) PJ Harvey let England shake all the way to the Mercury Prize, 과천출장업소 as her eighth studio album beat Adele’s “21” for Best Album. Harvey has become the only artist to win Britain’s prestigious Mercury Prize on two separate occasions. Many commentators expected Adele to take home the 20th annual award for Best Album, after she dominated album and single charts across the globe with her sophomore release “21.” However, on Tuesday evening, Harvey was presented with a check for 20,000 pounds – about $31,885 – by show host Jools Holland and, if previous form is anything to go by, will now enjoy dramatically increased sales of the critically acclaimed “Let England Shake.” Accepting her award in a figure-hugging white dress, the Dorset-born musician recalled winning her first Mercury for album “Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea” a decade ago. “When I last won, which was 10 years ago on September the 11th 2001. I was in Washington, D.C., watching the Pentagon burn from my hotel window, so it’s good to be here.” The shortlist, which was initially made up of over 240 albums, was whittled down to 12 in July, before the Chair of Judges Simon Frith and a selected panel of musicians and industry insiders picked their final winner on the night. “Let England Shake” was recorded in a Dorset church and features three...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Twin bombings at a wrestling training center in a Shiite neighborhood of Afghanistan’s capital on Wednesday killed at least 20 people, including two reporters, and wounded 70, Afghan officials said. Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish said a suicide bomber struck at the center and then a car bomb went off nearby. Sediqullah Tawhidi, a senior member of the Afghan journalists federation, said a reporter and a cameraman working for Tolo TV were among those killed, and that another local TV reporter was wounded. No one immediately claimed the attacks, but they bore the hallmarks of the country’s affiliate of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, which has carried out a wave of deadly bombings against minority Shiites. The Sunni extremists of ISIS view Shiites as apostates deserving of death. ISIS last struck in the area, Dasht-e-Barchi, in December, with three back-to-back explosions that left more than 40 people dead. More in Afghanistan: The way forward Gen. Daud Amin, the Kabul police chief, said at least seven police were among those wounded in the car bomb explosion. Elsewhere in Afghanistan, a roadside bomb killed a district police chief and another policeman in the northern Badghis province, according to Jamshid Shahabi, spokesman for the provincial governor. No one claimed the attack, but Shahabi said it was likely carried out by the Taliban, who are active in...

(CBS/AP) VIENNA – Diplomats say the U.N. atomic agency has new intelligence that Iran has advanced its work on calculating the destructive power of a nuclear warhead, a step toward building such a weapon. The diplomats say the information — from the U.S., Israel and at least one other country — alleges the research was done within the past three years. Iran denies that it has worked on nuclear arms and says allegations to the contrary are based on fabricated intelligence. But the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) gives credence to the suspicions and 양평출장만남 says it cannot disprove them unless Iran starts cooperating with its probe of the allegations. U.S.: Israeli pressure over Iran “not useful”IAEA report: Iran covering work at ParchinIsrael, U.S. play diplomatic chicken over Iran The information comes from six diplomats who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss intelligence. The IAEA has been pressing Iran for access to various sites where nuclear-related work is believed to have been carried out, but those requests have intensified in recent months in relation to one site in particular, the . Suspicion that Parchin was involved in a clandestine nuclear weapons program piqued in March 2012, when satellite imagery showed apparent earth-moving vehicles at Parchin – activity suggesting the Iranians might be trying to clean the site of traces...