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RAMALLAH – Israeli officials have confirmed reports that Arafat died. They said Prime Minister Ariel Sharon obtained the information from French intelligence. Israeli and Palestinian officials said the 75-year-old Arafat died on Thursday in a military hospital in Paris. The officials said Arafat was deemed clinically dead, but remained attached to life support systems on the insistence of his wife, Suha, Middle East Newsline reported. "He is dead and there is no longer any doubt of this," a PA official said. "The announcement will come when Suha agrees to it, but I don't imagine the French allowing a dead Arafat...

An ancestor of the painter Vincent Van- Gogh pleads for his life.

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I want to join the Media Research Center "Tell The Truth!" 2004 Campaign. You are authorized to add my name and city/state to the list of co-signer of your letter to CBS News President Andrew Heyward protesting anchorman Dan Rather’s blatantly partisan use of phony documents to to try to sway the presidential election in favor of the liberal candidate. [I understand that my full address will not be released without my explicit permission.] And I authorize the MRC to include my name and city/state when updating CBS President Les Moonves and my local CBS station on co-signers of your...

WASHINGTON — Election officials plan to decide before Nov. 2 whether congressional and presidential candidates can raise unlimited donations to fund recounts as President Bush and Al Gore (search) could for the multimillion-dollar Florida ballot dispute in 2000. The Federal Election Commission (search), responding to a request for advice by Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry's campaign, said last month that Bush and Kerry could use their legal compliance funds, financed with individual donations of up to $2,000 each, to cover recount costs. But the FEC stopped short of addressing whether they could set up separate recount funds bankrolled with unlimited...

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720,000 Danes are vaccinated every year against flu but the vaccine has very little effect. A study of nearly 60,000 people who have had the flu jab showed that only one in four were positively affected: all the others had had the flu or flu-like symptoms. At the Danish Serum Institute, the results have not led to a reconsideration of the use of the vaccine. They believe it still provides a satisfactory level of protection. A senior researcher at the Nordic Cochrane Centre responsible for the study, however, questions the value of the vaccine. The Danish Health Authority recommends everyone...