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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Michael Phelps sat alone, thoroughly exhausted. He put his head in his hands and then motioned at his neck as though he had nothing left to give.No need.His work was done.He had his 20th and 21st gold medals.Phelps made up for one of the rare losses in his brilliant career by winning the 200-meter butterfly Tuesday night, a victory that sent him climbing into the stands to kiss his 3-month-old son, Boomer. An hour later, he returned to take what amounted to nothing more than a triumphant victory lap in anchoring the 4x200 freestyle relay, the crowd s deafening roar growing louder with every st adidas campus roke. That was probably one of my most challenging doubles, the 31-year-old Phelps said. Doing a double like that asics is a lot harder than it once was. Rio Olympics: Day 4 38 photos adidas campus It was another performance for the ages, but Phelps has done it so many times that nothing else would have been fitting.It came on a night that American teammate Katie Ledecky picked up her second gold of the Rio Olympics on the way to what could be a historic run of her own in the pool.Phelps now has 25 medals in all, and three more races in Rio to add to his almost unimaginable total. No other Olympian has more than nine golds. That s a lot of m Zizw Police Tear Gas Pyramid Scheme Clients
Saddam Hussein s sons, Qusai and Odai, two of the most feared and powerful members of their father s regime, were killed Tuesday when U.S. forces surrounded and then stormed a stanley thermos villa in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul. Qusai Hussein, Saddam s younger son and heir apparent, held wide-ranging powers over the nation s ruthless security apparatus. The 37-year-old is No. 2 on the U.S. list of the 55 most wanted former Iraqi leaders. Odai Hussein, Saddam s murderous and erratic oldest son of Saddam Hussein, controlled propaganda in Iraq and allegedly oversaw the torture of athletes who failed to perform. The 39-year-old is No. 3 on the list stanley becher of most-wanted Iraqis. Both brothers are also on a U.S. list of former regime members who could be tried for war crimes.Quiet, handsome and every bit as brutal as Saddam, Qusai headed Iraq s intelligence and security services, his father s personal security force and the Republican Guard, an stanley cup elite force of 80,000 soldiers responsible for defending Baghdad. He stayed out of the public eye and led a substantially more subdued private life than his older brother Odai, who collected luxury cars by the hundreds and had a habit of ordering his guards to snatch young women off the street in order to rape them. Iraqis nicknamed Qusai The Snake for his bloodthirsty but low-profile manner.Qusai was far more trusted by his father and appeared to be his heir before the regime crumbled. In televised meetings with top security and military men, Qusa

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WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- A Canadian man who was found not criminally responsible for beheading and cannibalizing a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus has been granted his freedom. Manitobarsquo Criminal Code Review Board announced Friday it has given Will Baker, formerly known as Vince Li, an absolute discharge, meaning he is longer subject to monitoring. Baker, a diagnosed schizophrenic, killed Tim McLean, hoka schuhe a young carnival worker who was a complete stranger to Baker, in 2008. A year later he was found not criminally responsible due to mental illness.Mary Goska, the Crown attorney, argued Baker remains a threat to the public if off his medication regimen, according to the Winnipeg Sun.We should not lose sight of what occurred because it does speak to the threat, she said. Itrsquo clear that he can adidas campus shoes be a danger in certain circumstances. Family and friends of victim Tim McLean, wearing t-shirts remember him, enter the Law Courts in Winnipeg, Canada, March 3, 2009 prior to the trial of Vince Li. AP Photo/The Canadian Press,John Woods nike dunk AP Photo McLeanrsquo mother, Carol de Delley, has been outspoken against granting Baker freedom, saying there would be no way to ensure he continued to take his medication. She declined comment in a post on Facebook Friday, saying I have no words.Baker was initially kept in a secure wing Pciq Bolton on Putin summit: Trump believes it was time to have this kind of meeting
They are often born in poverty and civil strife, abandoned, put in an orphanage, and then suddenly uprooted and sent to live an ocean away with strangers from another culture.And yet, children adopted from abroad seem to adjust remarkably well, according to a new study that challenges the widely held notion that these youngsters are badly damaged emotionally and prone to disruptive behavior.The an stanley tumbler alysis of more than 50 years of international data found that these youngsters are only slightly more likely than non-adopted children to have behavioral problems such as aggressiveness stanley us and anxiety. And they actually seem to have fewer problems than children adopted within their own countries. Our findings may help them fight the stereotype that is often assoc stanley cups iated with international adoption, said researchers Femmie Juffer and Marinus H. van IJzendoorn of Leiden University in the Netherlands.They pooled results from 137 studies on adoptions by parents living in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Israel. In the study, adopted children in general had more behavior problems than non-adopted youngsters, regardless of where the adoption took place mdash; a result that is not surprising, since both groups often suffer deprivation and come from broken families.But with backgrounds that often include abandonment, orphanages and civil strife, foreign adoptees are sometimes thought of as difficult, disruptive children mdash; an image that the study does no

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UNITED NATIONS --The United Nations General Assemblyvoted Thursday 128-9, with 35 abstentions, on a non-binding resolution condemning President Trump s new policy recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Mr. Trump had said he would be watching very closely at which members of the General Assembl yeezy y voted for the resolution and which voted against it.Despite implied threats of U.S. funding cuts, theresolutionpassed. U.N. General Assembly President Miroslav Laj 269;aacute;k read the final tally, to applause. While the resolution passed, the vote breakdown tells a different story, a spokesperson for the United States said after the vote, CBS News Pamela Falk reports. It s clear that many countries prioritized their relationship with the United States over an unproductive attempt to isolate us for a decision that was our sovereign right to make. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told an emergency meeting of the General Assembly on Thursday -- ahead of the vote -- that no vote in the United Nations will make any difference on the U.S. decision. The meeting was called byYemen and Turkeyas an emergency session -- the 10th session since 1950.Haley said the United St air force 1 ates will remember this day in which it was singled out for attack in the General Assembly for the very right of exercising our right as a sovereign nation. We will remember it when we are called upon once again to make the world s lar adidas originals forum gest contribution to the United Nations, she sai Rprg Death toll rises to 2,200 in Syrian protests
Germany s defense minister defended his stanley thermos army s efforts in the north of Afghanistan on Friday, rejecting a written plea from his U.S. counterpart to send troops for NATO-led forces in the volatile south.Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung insisted that German troops will remain in the relatively calm north, a response to a letter from U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates to all NATO partners reportedly urging them to send more forces to join the fight against Taliban and other militants in southern Afghanistan. I have a clear mandate from the German parliament, Jung told reporters. It consists of 3,500 soldiers serving along the northern border and only helping out in the south for a limited period of time, as needed. Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in Washington the letter t stanley cup o Germany was consistent with what Secretary Gates has spoken about in recent weeks, which is this very strong desire to engage our allies with providing the forces that we need to move ahead in Afghanistan. The U.K. newspaper Independent reports that leaked comments from an unnamed defense ministry source described the letter from Gates as impertinent. One official accused the Defense Secretary of trying to inflic stanley mugs t psychological torture on Germany. According to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the issue was not up for discussion, in the words of her spokesperson. The refusal of Germany, along with France, Turkey and Italy, to send significant number of tro

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BEIRUT -- The Islamic State of Syria and Iraq ISIS has released a new militant audio air max 2 recording, purportedly of its shadowy leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, his first in almost a year.In the audio, al-Baghdadi - whose whereabouts and fate remain unknown - urges followers to persevere and continue fighting the group s enemies everywhere.The 54-minute audio entitled Give Glad Tidings to the Patient was released by the extremist group s central media arm, al-Furqan Foundation, on Wednesday evening.The audio s authenticity could not be independently verified and there were no clues as to where it was recorded. 5 top ISIS leaders captured in joint operation 02:14 The question of whether al-Baghdadi is dead or alive has been a cont hoka inuing source of mystery and confusion. The extremist group has lost around 90 percent of territory it controlled in Iraq and Syria in 2014, when ISIS declared its so-called caliphate. He is believed to be hiding somewhere in the desert that stret air max 1 ches across the Syrian-Iraqi border region. His last audio message was on Sept. 28, 2017 in which he called on his followers to burn their enemies everywhere and target media centers of the infidels. In Wednesday s recording, al-Baghdadi congratulates followers on the occasion of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Ada and makes re Ubvh U.S. Arrests Iraqi Guard Leader
Israel destroyed the family homes of two Palestinian militants and detained their relativ stanley mug es for possible exile Friday, a tactic meant to deter suicide attacks but decried by Palestinians as a crime against humanity. I see this as a war crime. I see this as a crime against humanity, Palestinian cabinet minister Saeb Erekat said of the tactic, which Israel also used against suspected militants in the first Palestinian uprising of 1987-93.Reeling from Palestinian attacks this week that killed 11 people in Israel and near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, the Israeli army destroyed the family homes of two wanted men, Nasser al-Din Assidi and Ali Ahmad al-Ajouri. Witnesses said 22 people were left homeless in the overnight operation near the West Bank city of Nablus and that soldiers took 22 male relatives of the two militants into custody.On the diplomatic front, the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan sa stanley termoska id they were encouraged after a Thursdyay meeting at the White Hosue with both President Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell. Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, said every American official that we met said Israel cannot remain in these West Bank and Gaza terr gourde stanley itories. The prince went on to condemn Ariel Sharon, claiming that to the Israeli Prime Minister, a good Arab is a dead Arab. Al-Faisal also said the Palestinians are considering a ceasefire to try to set the stage for an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank.Israel sees

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Kharkiv, Ukraine crocs absatz mdash; A summer s evening, a sidewalk cafeacute;, smiling friends. It could have been a scene from almost anywhere. But it s not anywhere mdash; it s Kharkiv, not far from the Russian border in eastern Ukraine, and within easy reach of missiles and airstrikes.While many buildings remain boarded up in Ukraine s second largest city, the remote yet real possibility of dying hasn t stopped many of its residents from living.Among those who have refused to cower from Russia s war, are 20-year-old student G air max eorge Soldutenko and his friends, Nicolai and Andrei. George Soldutenko, 20, center and his friends Nicolai and Andrei enjoy drinks outside a bar in Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, in mid-July, 2023. CBS News/Agnes Reau It can be scary sometimes to be honest, George admitted to us outside a cafeacute; in the city, which still regularly hears the loud booms of incoming and outgoing rockets. But now, you know, it s summer, and we are students. We are all 20 years old, and we are trying to enjoy our liveshellip; Sometimes it really can be tough, because we live really close to the Russian border. Russia warns of retaliation as Ukraine claims attack on MoscowDespite the missiles, Ukraine s nightlife is rocking. Bars and clubs are full. We visited one and found the place jumping, with music pumping, adidas samba og drinks flowing freely and young Ukrainians dancing like there Hqhq Vietnam Thundering Into World Economy
The divided Koreas sent trains lumbering through their heavily armed border for the first time in more than half a century Thursday, reaching another symbolic milestone in a reconciliation process often hindered by the North s nuclear weapons ambitions.Firecrackers and white balloons filled the skies near the border as a five-car train started rolling north on a restored track on the west side of the pe stanley france ninsula. On the eastern side, a North Korean train crossed into the South on another reconnected rail line where it was greeted by children bearing flowers.It was the first train crossing of the 2.5-mile-wide no man s land dividing the two sides since inter-Korean rail links were cut off early in the 1950-53 Korean War.The trial run was the latest symbol of a historic reconciliation that the longtime foes began pursuing with the first-ever summit of their leaders stanley thermosflasche in 2000. That summit has led to a series of exchange projects, including the opening of cross-border roads that thousands of South Koreans cross each year as tourists, or to work in special enclaves in the North.The detente has often stalled, mainly because of tensions over North Korea s nuclear programs. Thursday s one-time test run came after repeated delays since the rail lines were linked in 2003. It is not simply a test run. It means reconnecting the severed bloodline of our people. It means that the heart of the Korean peninsula is beating again, Unification Minister Lee Jae-joung said at a ceremony at Mu

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Customs agents at Chennai Airport seized 22 snakes of various species and a chameleon after finding the reptiles inside luggage belonging to a passenger who had arrived in India from Kuala Lumpur, officials said.Photos and video footage shared on social media by India s Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs showed several large snakes packed into transparent plastic containers that appeared to have been sealed with duct tape. Indian Customs : Guardians of wildlife!@ChennaiCustoms intercepted a female pax arriving from Kuala Lumpur by Flight No.AK13. On examination of check-in baggage, 22 Snakes of v dunk homme arious species a Chameleon were found; seized under CA, 1962 r/w Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. pic.twitter/5Xfu8OK217mdash; CBIC @cbic_india April 30, 2023 Agents discovered the animals while sea af1 rching the traveler s luggage as she passed through customs at the Chennai Airport.The traveler, who officials only described as a woman, hauled the snakes and chameleon from Malaysia af1 to Chennai in her checked bags, the Indian Express reported. They were seized under India s Wildlife Protection Act, which intends to provide for the protection of wild animals, birds and plants ... with a view to ensuring the ecological and environmental security of the country. The most recent discovery at Chennai Airport followed another similar one in January when customs agents found and intercepted a traveler whose baggage contained 45 ball pythons, three marmoset, three star tortois Dbge Standoff: Iranians Picket U.K. Embassy
Tropical Storm Paul formed off Mexico s west coast Saturday, and forecasters said it could strengthen into a hurricane and reach land within days.The storm was hovering over the Pacific Ocean stanley cup about 315 miles south of the coastal city of Cabo Corrientes, said Lixion Avila, a meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami.The storm, which had maximum susta gourde stanley ined winds of 40 mph, could intensify into a hurricane within three days, Avila said.Paul was moving northward at 10 mph and was predicted to gradually shift toward mainland Mexico arou stanley quencher nd the state of Sinaloa early in the week.Mexico was hit by two Pacific hurricanes last month. Hurricane John battered a remote section of Baja California, killing five people and destroying 160 homes, while Hurricane Lane struck the Sinaloan resort town of Mazatlan, causing relatively minor damage. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-98402f72-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-98402f72-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-98402f72-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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Russia has massed well over 100,000 troops near its own border with Ukraine and in neighboring Belarus, leaving the country surrounded on three sides. The buildup and position of those forces has drawn warnings from the White House that Russian President Vladimir Putin could order an attack any time, and may well do so before the end of this week.The U.S. has poured military hardware into Ukraine and contributed to a buildup of NATO forces in Eastern Europe in response. Russia and NATO are both carrying out military exercises in the region and demanding that the other party step back first fro air max m the brink of war.Along with European partners and the G7, the U.S. has warned that any Russian invasion of Ukraine would bring swift and severe costs for air force one Moscow, in the form of sanctions.U.S. and European leaders have also warned that a full Russian invasion of Ukraine could result in 100,000 civilian deaths and change the world in fundamental ways. B adidas originals damen ut neither side has abandoned diplomacy yet. Members of the Ukrainian State Border Guard stand watch at the border crossing between Ukraine and Belarus on February 13, 2022, as Russian forces conduct large-scale military exercises in Belarus. Getty Images Here s what you need to know about the standoff on the border between Russia and the democracies of Europe. What s happening now The Russian forces have gathered along Ukr Wfdo Don t expect immediate stock of Cuban products with loosened embargo
U.S. envoy Christopher Hill on Saturday rejected North Korea s demand that Washington lift financial measures against the regime, but he backed a Chinese proposal for an informal meeting of countries involved in six-party talks on Pyongyang s nuclear weapons program.Hill was in Seoul on a tour of regional capitals in to coordinate the international response to the North s test-firing of seven missiles on Wednesday. The tests sparked widespread criticism of the regime, but the U.S. is split with China and Russia over whether to stanley cup punish Pyongyang.Beijing, where Hill held meetings on Friday, has floated the idea of the members of the six-party talks - the two Koreas, China, Russia, Japan and the U.S. - hold an informal meeting o stanley cup n the standoff. Pyongyang is currently boycotting the formal six-nation talks held in Beijing.Hill said the U.S. and South Korea backed the idea. As many of you know stanley cup , the Chinese have talked about putting together a six-party informal, and we both support that and we think that all countries are prepared to come to that informal meeting, Hill told reporters. The U.S. envoy, who was to meet South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon later Saturday and head to Japan on Sunday, dismissed a North Korean demand that the U.S. drop its crackdown on the regime s alleged financial crimes, such as money-laundering and counterfeiting. This is not a time for so-called gestures of that kind, Hill said when asked by reporters for reaction to the North Korean dem

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LONDON - The husband of slain British lawmaker Jo Cox said Tuesday she worried air force one about the angry directio adidas samba adidas n of politics, and he believes she was killed because of her strong political views. Brendan Cox said his wife had worried about politicians creating division and playing on people s worst fears rather than their best instincts. Jo Cox, a 41-year-old Labour lawmaker crocs absatz who had championed the cause of Syrian refugees, was stabbed and shot to death outside a library in her northern England constituency on Thursday. The suspect, Thomas Mair, 52, gave his name in court as death to traitors, freedom for Britain. Her death brought a shocked three-day pause in campaigning for Britain s EU referendum. The EU debate has seen fierce and often vitriolic argument about immigration and Britain s place in the world.In a televised BBC interview, Brendan Cox said his wife was very worried that the language was coarsening, that people were being driven to take more extreme positions, that people didn t work with each other as individuals and on issues, it was all much too tribal and unthinking. He said she had very strong political views and I believe she was killed because of those views. Some have urged Brendan Cox to run in the special election that will fill his wife s seat in the House of Commons. But he said she would want her replacement to be a woman, and my only overriding priority at the moment is how I make sure that I protect my family and my kids through this. Xvgc Their offices closed by coronavirus, China s workers crash chat and video-conference tools
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Coun stanley thermos tries said Wednesday governments and market speculators, not its members, were primarily to blame for soaring fuel prices. Make no mistake, there is a balance between supply and demand, meaning that OPEC is producing enough crude to satisfy the global thirst, the group s Secretary General Rilwanu Lukman told an international energy conference.Lukman said one factor behind high pump prices was exorbitant taxes placed on petroleum products by regional governments.Some of the taxes are as high as 80 percent of the pump price. It was unfair to blame OPEC alone, he said.U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said Tuesday that oil prices approaching $38 were dangerously high and the White House would not hesitate to use all options to fight soaring energy prices. Richardson declined to say whether the release of oil from the nation s Strategic Petroleum Reserve was imminent.Richardson reiterated that all options were on the table to protect Americans from rising energy prices. He met privately at the Capitol with Northeastern lawmakers, who urged the administration to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as soon as possible to prevent a spike in home stanley cup heating oil prices this winter.President Clinton, meanwhile, said he wanted a few more days t stanley cup o assess oil market reaction to OPEC s recent production increase before deciding whether to release oil from the reserve. I just think we need a few more days to see what the r

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Manila, Philippines -- The award-winning head of a Philippine online news site that has aggressively covered President Rodrigo Duterte s administration was freed on bail Thursday after her arrest in a libel case.National Bureau of Investigation agents served the warrant against Maria Ressa late Wednesday afternoon and escorted her from the Rappler Inc. office to NBI headquarters, where she stayed overnight in an office. The move against Ressa, who was one of Time magazine s Persons of the Year last y crocs hausschuhe ear, was denounced by her outfit, Rappler Inc., and media watchdogs as a threat to press freedom. Duterte s government said the ar adidas samba rest was a normal step in response to a criminal complaint. What we re seeing is death by a thousand cuts of our democracy, Ressa told reporters after posting bail in the Manila regional trial court that issued a warrant for her arrest.She accused the government of abusing its power and of using the law as a weapon to muzzle dissent. I m appealing to you not to be silent ... you have to express outr nike dunks panda age. On Feb. 1, as she faced a separate prosecution in her home country over alleged tax violations,Ressa insisted on CBSN that the charges she faced were politically motivatedand designed to silence her and her news website. Duterte has openly lambasted journalists who write unfavorable stories about him, including about his anti-drug campaign that has left thousands of mostly poor suspects dead.Inside Rodrigo Duterte s drug war mdash; Part 1, the Pwwb Bush Orders $200M In Emergency Food Aid
Tibetan monks prayed over hundreds of bodies Friday at a makeshift m stanley flask orgue next to their monastery after powerful earthquakes destroyed the remote mountain town of Jiegu in western China and left at least 1,144 people dead.The Xinhua News Agency announced the revised death toll Friday, after reporting 791 deaths earlier in the day. The state media report said another 417 people remain missing.Dozens of monks began singing chants, or sutras, late in the afternoon and planned to begin cremating the unclaimed bodies Saturday. Genqiu, a 22-year-old monk, said it was impossible to perform traditional sky burials for all. Tibetan sky burials involve chopping a body int stanley fr o pieces and leaving it on a platform to be devoured by vultures. The vultures can t eat them all, said Genqiu, who like many Tibetans goes by one name. Relief workers estimate that 70 percent to 90 percent of the town s wood-and-mud houses collapsed when the earthquakes hit Yushu county Wednesday morning.China Central Television reported that a 13-year-old Tibetan girl was pulled from the toppled two-story Minzu Hotel on Friday after a sniffer dog alerted rescuers to her location. The girl, identified as Ch gourde stanley angli Maomu, was freed after a crane lifted a large concrete block out of the rubble, it said. Her condition was good and she was taken to a medical station for treatment, it said.The official Xinhua News Agency said a 43-year-old Tibetan woman, Jang La, was also rescued after being trapped for 50 hours wit

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The Pentagon sent Taiwan wet and moldy body armor in shipments of armaments meant to strengthen Taiwan s defenses, but instead, the U.S. spent at least an additional $730,000 to try to remedy the problems, according to a report released this week by the Defense Department inspector general.The independent watchdog concluded that between November 2023 and March 2024, the Pentagon failed to follow guidelines on delivering assistance through the presi adidas campus damen dential drawdown authority, which allows the U.S. to send allies equipment from current Defense Department stocks. Had policies been followed, the Defense Department would have been able to provide Taiwan with military equipment in acceptable condition, Inspector General Robert Storch said in a statement. Instead, the equipment arrived in Taiwan damaged and moldy. Such performance risks eroding Taiwan s asics sneaker confidence in the United States as a reliable source of assistance. Photo from Defense Department inspector general s report shows damaged pallets and moldy body armor plates delivered to Taiwan in December 2023. adidas samba og The American Institute in Taiwan via Defense Dept. inspector general s report, September 2024 The damaged equipment was part of the $345 millionpackage the Biden administration announced in July 2023, which was the first drawdown the U.S. has ever committed to Taiwan.More than 340 out of 504 pallets of equipment Ifwf A slice of Japan: Tokyo s pizza makers
NATO took command of the 5,000-strong internat stanley cups ional peacekeeping force in the Afghan capital on Monday, a historic move that marks the alliance s first operation outside Europe since it was created 54 years ago.The alliance took over from Germany and the Netherlands, which have jointly led the International Security Assistance Force, known as ISAF, since Feb. 10. ISAF s name and mission will not change, said NATO Deputy Secretary General Alessandro Minuto Rizzo. But what will change as of today is the level of commitment and capability NA stanley thermos mug TO provides. The outgoing commander, German Lt. Gen. Norbert van Heyst, handed over control during a formal ceremony in an auditorium inside the capital s Amani High School. The new commander, NATO Lt. Gen. Gotz Gliemeroth, who is also from Germany, accepted a green flag from Van Heyst to mark the change. Gliemeroth s deputy will be Canadian Maj. Gen. Andrew Leslie.The school auditorium was ringed by scores of armed peacekeepers and ISAF armored cars mounted with machine guns. Bomb-sniffing dogs were on hand to search for any explosives. Present were President Hamid Karzai, German D stanley cup efense Minister Peter Struck, NATO s Supreme Allied Commander Gen. James L. Jones and a host of diplomats and U.N. officials.Struck said in a speech that the handover showed the world s commitment to rebuilding war-shattered Afghanistan. Afghanistan must not lapse back into anarchy and chaos and must not again become the home of global terror, as was the c