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Kerry Reshapes Campaign Democratic Nominee Taps Two Veteran Party Strategists for Top Roles Sept. 5 -- Under fire to shape up his presidential campaign, Democratic challenger John F. Kerry on Sunday tapped two veteran party strategists from Boston to assume top roles in an operation that has been criticized by Democratic allies for allowing President Bush to regain the initiative in the battle for the White House. Campaign officials said John Sasso... will now become the senior Kerry adviser aboard the candidate's traveling charter until the election... Kerry advisers described the moves as long planned and part of an overall...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- An Iraqi peace delegation has returned to Baghdad after radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr refused to meet with them in battle-torn Najaf. The Iraqi leaders had gone to Najaf in hopes of ending nearly two weeks of fighting between al-Sadr's militia fighters and a U.S.-Iraqi force.

Amin’s Neighbors Remember the Man They Knew Salah Fareed • Special to Arab News JEDDAH, 19 August 2003 — While reactions to the death of Uganda’s former dictator Idi Amin were mixed in Uganda, residents of the Al-Safa district here responded with sadness to the passing of a popular neighbor whom they remember as a good man. Amin, who died in Jeddah where he sought exile after his government was ousted in 1979, was perhaps the most famous resident of the neighborhood. Saad Al-Harthy had been living next door to the former strongman for the last five years. “He was...

<p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Tough-guy actor Mr. T is famed for his scowl and now he is glaring at an electronics retail chain that the former "A Team" star says stole his likeness and made him look like a fool in their ads.</p>

GIMME SHELTERBaghdad's Hilarious Human Shields by Lin Anderson, Iconoclast Contributing Editor War is hell, William Tecumseh Sherman observed, and indeed it is. But the world will long remember that, in the days leading up to "Gulf War II: S'Long Saddam," there was occasion for the tremulous smile -- indeed, for the occasional coffee-spewing guffaw. Just as Bob Hope's USO tours raised the spirits of U.S. troops during World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, so a group of equally zany entertainers have combined their considerable talents to lighten the mood in our own dangerous time of conflict. Ladies and gentlemen, The...

Syria is secretly helping Saddam Hussein to prepare for a United Stated-led attack by smuggling vital arms supplies to Baghdad. Western intelligence officials have discovered that at least 52 crates containing new air-defence systems and spare parts have been smuggled into Iraq from Syria since the start of December. The Russian-made equipment, which has been purchased through a Belorussian middleman, was taken into Iraq through al-Walid border crossing earlier this month. The revelations about Syria's military support for Iraq will add to the controversy surrounding President Bashar al-Assad's arrival in Britain today. He will hold talks with Tony Blair in...

North Korea said on Thursday it would immediately resume its plutonium-based nuclear power programme - a step that could turn its dispute with the US into a full-blown crisis. The communist state said it would revive a mothballed nuclear power plant that was at the heart of its nuclear weapons programme in the early 1990s. The step would expand North Korea's nuclear programme, two months after the country admitted that it was developing nuclear weapons using enriched uranium. The announcement shattered hopes that a crucial arms-control deal that has maintained peace on the divided Korean peninsula since 1994 could be...

New York, NY -- New research suggests that some doctors may too-broadly interpret the "do-not-resuscitate" (DNR) orders that some patients choose near the end of their lives. DNR orders direct doctors to withhold cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) from seriously ill patients in the event of cardiac arrest. But in the new study, researchers found that doctors may be willing to forgo other types of potentially life-prolonging treatments when a patient has a DNR order. "Although patients who choose (the DNR) option may also choose to forgo other life-sustaining interventions, a DNR order is not intended to apply to any treatment other...

Tony Blair's promised dossier on Iraq is to reveal that Saddam Hussein trained some of Osama bin Laden's key lieutenants. The Sunday Telegraph reports that the dossier is also expected to disclose that the Iraqi leader has reconstructed three plants to manufacture biological and chemical weapons. Mr Blair, facing internal Labour opposition over going to war with Iraq without UN backing, has recalled parliament to discuss the issue later this month. The newspaper said a draft version of the dossier contains detailed information on how two alleged leading al Qaeda members, Abu Zubair and Rafid Fatah, underwent training in Iraq...