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Easter weekend is usually filled with large gatherings at church, easter egg hunts and families coming together, but coronavirus has changed the traditional celebrations as people continue to isolate themselves indoors. Now, for the first time in her 68 years as Queen of the United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth II has released an Easter message, sending words of hope throughout the world. This year, Easter will be different for many of us, but by keeping apart, we keep others safe. But Easter isn t cancelled. Indeed, we need Easter as much as ever, the Queen said in her message. We know that coronavirus will not overcome us. As dark as death can be, particularly for those suffering with grief, dunk pand light and life are greater. May the living flame of the Easter hope be a steady guide as we face the future. The Royal Family tweeted out Queen Elizabeth s message Saturday, saying, The Queen speaks of light overcoming darkness, and the hope that Easter symbolises. The Queen speaks of light ov nike air max ercoming darkness, and the hope that Easter symbolises, in a special message recorded to mark the Easter weekend. pic.twitter/fTFCOSVBtTmdash; The Royal Family @RoyalFamily April 11, 2020 The Queen noted that her message was not just for Christians, but for all those who take part in celebrations revolving around the hope and faith that light brings. Many religions have festivals which celebrate light overcoming darkness. Such occasions are often accompanied by the lighting of candles. T air force 1 hey s Dcoy Shootout Kills 17 In Acapulco Resort
Afghanistan s election commission has ordered a recount of votes in some areas for recent parliamentary elections, a senior official said Sunday, raising further concerns of misconduct and fraud during the polls.Election commission Chairman Fazel Ahmad Manawi said recounts have been ordered in parts of at least seven provinces.He said the number of places subject to recounts was expected to increase because not all results have been fully examined. He said the votes under question would be recounted under the supervision of his commission and the electora stanley tumbler l complaints commission, along with national and international observers. We want to be very clear on the counting of these ballots, he said.The Sept. 18 elect stanley cup ions were seen as a test of the Afghan government s commitment to rooting out corruption. The vote was the first since a presidential election last year that was nearly derailed by widespread ballot-box stuffing and tally manipulation. That poll led many Western powers to question whether they should be supporting the administration of President Hamid Karzai with military forces and funds.About 2,500 candidates are vying for 249 parliamentary seats. Final results are not expected until late next month.Election day was marred by rocket attacks and bombings at polling stations. At least 21 civilians and nine police of stanley quencher ficers were killed during the voting, according to the election commission and the Interior Ministry.Observers said some people were able to wash off

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For weeks, frontline nurse Sette Buenaventura ignored the pain in her leg in order to focus on caring for coronavirus patients. But, doctors eventually discovered a tumor, and now, her leg has been amputated.Buenaventura, a 26-year-old nurse at Salford Royal Hospital in Greater Manchester, told BBC News that she ignored a cramp in her right calf for two months while working on the virus frontlines. The pain made it difficult to walk, but Buenaventura assumed it was just a side effect of the long hours spent on her feet at the hospital. We were there every hour to help anyone who needed us, I got a real taste for that level of commitment, she told the BBC. That is what working in hospitals is like mdash; you forget about your own pains because you re busy helping other people, which I love to do. But, everything comes at a cost. The U.K. is one of the global hotspots of the virus, with more than 310,000 confirmed cases and over 46,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.When she could no longer ignore the adidas originals uomo pain, Buenaventura had her leg scanned in April, revealing a sarcoma. She was told the cancerous tumor had swelled to the size of a golf ball. Sette Buenaventura ignored the pain in her leg adidas campus to work on the frontlines of the coronavirus. MERCURY PRESS / BBC News In May, doctors said her crocs absatz only chance of survival was amputation. When they told me I had Nood Palestinian Detained for Facebook Islam-Bashing
Rescue workers from around the world joined Iranians on Sunday in searching for survivors from the earthquake that pulverized this ancient city and killed more than 20,000 people, entombing most in their shattered mud-brick homes.Aid workers are rushing in to prevent the outbreak of epidemics in the face of an overwhelming disaster. More than 20 international rescue teams continue to search for survivors. stanley cup Bulldovers remove r stanley mug ubble and people continue to dig with their bare hands for any signs of life. There s a very real feel now, even a certainty, that no one else will be found alive, reports CBS New stanley quencher s correspondent Thalia Assuras.The spokesman for the Kerman regional governor s office said so far more than 20,000 bodies have been retrieved and buried following Friday s 6.6-magnitude quake mdash; one-fourth of Bam s entire population. Spokesman Asadollah Iranmanesh would not comment on whether the death toll, which includes one American tourist, would rise, but told The Associated Press that another 10,000 people had been hospitalized.The foul smell of decaying bodies rose from the ruins and blew with the dust on warming winds.At least 45 planes from other countries landed in Iran Saturday and Sunday, bringing foreign rescue teams, search dogs, medical teams and supplies. U.S. military C-130 cargo planes were among them, despite the long-severed diplomatic relations and President Bush s characterization of Iran as part of the axis of evil. Interior Minister Abdolvahe

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PARIS -- A criminal terrorist investigation has beenopened in Paris following the discovery of a car parked near Notre DameCathedral with seven gas canisters and pages written in Arabic inside,prosecutors said.The Paris prosecutorrsquo office revealed Wednesday that acoupl nike dunk donna e it described as radicalized - a 34-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman -was arrested a day earlier and transferred to Paris to be questioned in thecase.The car found near the famous cathedral on Sunday morninghad its license p adidas samba lates removed and hazard lights on. That evening, its ownerwent to the police to report that his radicalized daughter was missing butwithout saying his car had also disappeared, the prosecutorrsquo office said.Police briefly detained and questioned the ca adiletten original r ownerbefore letting him go, the prosecutorrsquo office said. His daughter still isbeing sought, the office said.Officials told the Reuters news agency that the 19-year-oldwoman was known to police for wanting to go to Syria. The man and woman arrested in a highway rest area near thesouthern town of Orange on Tuesday already were known by French securityservices for their alleged links with radical Islamism, prosecutorssaid.The prosecutorrsquo office would not say why investigatorssuspect them in the case nor whether the couple might have been in contact withthe car ownerrsquo daughter.The papers written in Arabic are being analyzed, theprosecutorrsquo office said.It said it has opened an inves Pqxj Danger Lurks In Baghdad
A day after Britain s prime min kubki stanley ister said occupation forces in Iraq must get on top of the security situation soon, a bomb e stanley cup xploded near a U.S. military convoy west of Baghdad, injuring three soldiers, and another American soldier was shot and wounded when a foot patrol was ambushed northwest of the capital.A top British official said Monday that British forces are likely to remain in Iraq for several more years, a day after Prime Minister Tony Blair made a surprise visit to troops headquartered in Basra.Overnight, two mortar shells exploded in the vicinity of the coalition headquarters in the southern city of Nasiriyah, causing no damage or injuries.Witnesses reported that gunmen wounded coalition-appointed lawyer Mohammed al-Jawadi and his son in the northern city of Mosul on Monday morning. Sources at the local hospital said al-Jawadi, the general prosecutor of a newly established court to fight corruption, was in critical condition, but his stanley mug son s life was not in danger.In other developments:The New York Times is reporting that that Bush administration has decided to let an autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq retain its separate system when the U.S. turns over power to Iraqis this summer. Turkey and Iraqis oppose the autonomy, but U.S. officials tell the paper there is no time to deal with the thorny issue now.A speaker who was purportedly Osama bin Laden said on an audiotape that the U.S.-led war in Iraq was the beginning of the occupation of Gulf states for th

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Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall, who was injured Monday in an attack that killed two of his colleagues near Kyiv, has been safely evacuated from Ukraine, the network announced Wednesday. Ben is alert and said to be in good spirits, Fox anchor Bill Hemmer told viewers Wednesday morning. He is being treated with the best possible care in the world. The network previously said cameraman Pierre Zakrzewsk dunks shoes i and local producer Oleksandra Sasha Kuvshynova were killed when their vehicle was struck by incoming fire while in the field with Hall. Fox News said the attack occurred as the team was newsgathering outside the capital city.Hemmer added that Hall, who grew up in London and has both U.S. and U.K. passports, has been married almost seven years and has three young daughters back home. Been a couple of heavy days around here, so that is a dose of good news for Ben, Hemmer said, On Tuesday, Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott said Zakrzewski, who was based in London, had covered nearly every international story for Fox News from Iraq to Afghanistan to Syria during his long tenure with us, adding that his passion and talent as a journalist were unmatched. He was profoundly committed to telling t adidas samba og he story and his bravery, professionalism and work ethic were renowned among journalists at every media outlet, Scott sai adidas originals hamburg d. Fox News cameraman and local producer killed in Ukra Jxhr Garry Conille, Haiti s new prime minister, hospitalized
Updated at 4:20 a.m. Eastern. A roadside bombing killed four U.S. service members, the first American combat deaths of the year in Afghanistan, while a British soldier died during a foot patrol elsewhere in the volatile south of the country, officials said Monday.A statement from NATO s International Security Assistance Force said the explosion that killed the U.S. service members took place Sunday in the south, but did not give further details on the location or the victims branch of service.The deaths are the first U.S. fatalities from hostile action in Afghanistan this year. One U.S. service member has died of non-combat causes so far in 2010.CBSNews Special Report: Afghanistan The British soldier died while on foot patrol Sunday in Helmand province, the British Ministry of Defense said.Afghan insurgents are increasingly turning to improvised explosive devices 151; also called roadside bombs 151; in their fight against Afghan and international forces. Of the 304 U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan last year, 129 were due to IEDs, according to a tally by The Associated Press.Also Monday, NATO said a joint Afghan-international force discovered a huge cache of marijuana and turned it over to police for destruction. NATO said the cache contained up to 28,000 cub stanley cup ic feet of marijuana; that s the equivalent of about seven standard semi-trailers.As the U.S. and other Western nations have tri stanley cup ed to help Afghanistan stamp out its poppy fie stanley quencher lds 151; the country is the wor

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Ancient history was discovered in an old crumpled-up and torn paper bag at the National Museum of Scotland. A 2,000-year-old burial cloth had been hidden away in the museum archives during World War II and only recently discovered.It looked like garbage just waiting to be tossed out. But after more than 70 years sitting on a shelf in storage, a team of dunk homme curious curators f yeezy inally peeked inside, reports CBS Newsrsquo; Jonathan Vigliotti. It was really exciting to be able to get it out, said Dr. Margaret Maitland, who made the discovery. A lot of people donrsquo;t realize you can make discoveries in museum collections as well, she added.What they found was a well-preserved mummy shroud, a type of linen cloth used to wrap the mummified bodies of high-ranking Egyptians. A 2,000-year-old mummy shroud was found at the National Museum of Scotland CBS News adidas campus 00s The shroud was so fragile, it took 24 hours of humidifying just to unwrap. Each fold that we unfolded revealing another part of the shroud was just so exciting, to see his face emerge, Maitland said. She said the final result was so well-preserved, they could even read the name of the deceased as Aaemka.As it turns out, the museum already had relics of his parents: his father, a high ranking Egyptian official named Montseuf, and his mother, Tanuat.Mother and father were put on d Guhl London s Metropolitan Police plagued by institutional racism, misogyny and homophobia, investigation finds
Hamas gunmen killed two Palestinian policemen loyal to the rival Fatah movement early Wednesday, just hours after the sides agreed to a new cease-fire meant stanley cup usa to end more than a week of factional fighting.Fatah officials condemned the killing but said they remained committed to the truce. Gaza City remained calm at midmorning, in contrast to the pitched battles that raged in city streets a day earlier. However, hundreds of people called for revenge at the policemen s funeral, raising the prospect of renewed fighting.Fatah spokesman Tawfiq Abu Khoussa said the policeman, cousins in their early 20s, were killed as they were patrolling Gaza City when their vehicle was attacked. Six other people in the car were wounded, he said. They came under fire from an ambush of masked gunmen affiliated with Hamas, Abu Khoussa said. He said Fatah considered the shooting a violation of the cease-fire, but would still honor the truce, announced just before midnight by President Mahmoud Abba stanley termosy s. Fatah is still committed to the agreement and to the announcement by President Abbas last night, he said. About 300 people attended a funeral for the dead officers Wednesday. Many of the men were armed, shooting in the air and calling for revenge.At one point, the funeral procession passed by the house of Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar, a top Hamas official, and mourners shouted epithets. Zahar apparently was not in the area at the time. Hamas Web site described the fatal shooting as

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The North American Aerospace Defense Command detected a Russian aircraft flying adidas samba og near Alaska on Monday, amid several planned military exercises in the area.The aircraft was in international airspace, NORAD said, and did not enter Alaskan or Canadian airspace. It did enter the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone. The zone, called ADIZ, begins where sovereign airspace ends and is a defined stretch of international airspace, NORAD said in a news release.NORAD did not elaborate adidas campus on which military training exercises were ongoing, but did say t nike sb dunk hey were large-scale and taking place in and around the state.It is not unusual for Russian activity to be detected in the ADIZ, the defense command said, and such activity is not considered a threat.Indeed, there have been multiple such incidents in recent months. In February, U.S. jets intercepted Russian aircraft twice in one week. In both cases, the Russian planes again did not enter Alaskan or Canadian airspace. An intercept, according to NORAD, just references when an aircraft makes visual or electronic contact with another plane. NORAD said in the news release announcing this week s detection that it uses a layered defense network of satellites, ground-based and airborne radars and fighter jets to track and identify aircraft. NORAD remains ready to employ a number of response options in defense of North America, the agency said. More from CBS News Xszm Top moments of Sochi 2014
CBS News CAIRO - There are multiple reports that deposed Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak is brain dead and on life support after suffering a stroke. This comes at the same moment that Cairo s Tahrir Square is once again occupied by protestors demanding that the military give up control of the country. It s another turning point for the Middle East s largest nation more than a year after the Arab Spring revolution that overthre kubki stanley w Mubarak. This last weekend, Egypt held its first ever presidential election, but the results raise more questions than they answer.Both candidates in Egypt s presidential election have declared victory, even though official results won t be announced until Thursday. But it didn t stop this crowd who turned out in force for Mohammad Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood. The crowd streamed into Tahrir Square to protest the recent dissolving o stanley deutschland f parliament and a decree by the ruling military that severely limits the powers of the new president.No matter who is declared the winner in the election, Mustapha Saeed, a local businessman, insisted the protesters will fight the mil stanley fr itary. We are not going to be tired. We are fighting for the revolution we are fighting for a clean society in Egypt, Saeed said. Official: Egypt s Hosni Mubarak is on life supportEx-Mubarak P.M. claims victory in Egypt electionEgypt s Islamists to lead anti-military protestPhotos: Cairo s graffiti revolution The Muslim Brotherhood had sent out a call to fill the

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WASHINGTON - A top Obama administration official says the Islamic adidas samba schuhe State of Iraq and Syria ISIS ranks of foreign fighters have dropped to about 25,000 from a peak of 35,000.Brett McGurk is the U.S. special envoy for the global coalition to counter ISIS. He says fighters from 120 countries have joined ISIS.McGurk is touting progress in the U.S.-led effort to defeat ISIS. He says the extremist group is under pressure and has cut fighters salaries by about half.The group -- which once bragged about minting its own currency -- is having trouble meeting expenses, thanks to coalition airstrikes and other measures that have eroded millions of dollars from its finances since last fall. Last year bot adidas campus 80s h the U.S.-led coalition, as well as Russian fighters, began targeting their oil production capabilities and cash stores.Those circumstances include the dramatic drop in global prices for oil - once a key source of income. Additionally, the targeted airstrikes have dramatically reduced cash stockpiles and oil infrastructure. And the Iraqi government has stopped pa air force 1 ying civil servants in territory controlled by the extremists. In addition to targeting their image as a cash-rich group, the U.S.-led coalition has also targeted ISIS slick online propaganda machine.McGurk says President Barack Obama will get an update on diplomatic and political efforts Thursday at the State Department.The meeting comes after the U.S. and Russia announced a cease-fire agreement for Syria to take effect Mxtg Powerful earthquakes kill at least 2,000 in Afghanistan
A suicide car bomb exploded Wednesday at an Iraqi police checkpoint guarding a courthou stanley cup se in Ramadi, killing at least six people in the largest stanley quencher attack on Anbar province s capital in months, police said.The dead included three women, said Col. Jubair Rashid Naief, a provincial police official. Another 13 people were wounded, he said.Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, was once a base for Sunni insurgents, but has seen a huge security improvement since many Sunni tribesmen began partnering with U.S. forces last year.Wednesday s suicide blast was the largest such attack in Ramadi in months.Meanwhile, the U.S. military said a sophisticated roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi interpreter and wounded three other soldiers on patrol Tuesday in eastern Baghdad. The soldiers were returning to a U.S. base after conducting an escort mission when they were struck by an explosively formed penetrator, or EFP, the military said. EFPs fire a slug of molten metal capable of penetrating even the most heavily armored vehicles, and are have been responsible for hundreds of U.S. deaths in Iraq.American officials say the bombs come from Iran, but a senior commander recently reported a dramatic reduction in EFP incidents in Iraq, and credited the Iranian government s efforts to stem their flow across the border.At least 3,874 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the war in 2003, according to an Associated Press count.Violence has de stanley flask clined sharply in Iraq in

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MANILA, Philippines -- A Philippine inter-island ferry with 258 passengers and crew, including Christmas holiday travelers, sank Thursday after being battered by fierce winds and big waves off the country s northeast, leaving adidas originals donna at least four people dead and 88 others missing, officials said.A statement from the Philippine Coast Guard said 166 people were rescued by navy and coast guard personnel and a flotilla of fishing boats, while four people were confirmed dead and search operations continued to find adidas samba adidas seven more people still missing. The M/V Mercraft 3 sank in the Polillo Strait between Quezon province s Infanta town and the ferry s destination, Polillo island, coast guard spokesman Armand Balilo said.A survivor, Donel Jade Mendiola, told DZMM radio that bad weather briefly delayed the ferry s departure, but the weather improved and the vessel then left from Quezon s Real town. Strong winds and large waves started to lash it about two hours into the trip, he said. The vessel came to a halt and started taking in water in the front side. The passengers dashed to one side and the ferry started to sink, Mendiola said. He said the passengers were instructed to don life vests. Rescue efforts will continue despite ro air max 1 ugh waves and nightfall, Balilo said, adding that a coast guard helicopter tried to fly to the area but was hampered by the strong winds. Many of those rescued were taken to Dinahican village in Infanta, where Quezon officials were transporting clothes, food, Lpsp China probes sex tape made in Beijing clothing store
A bomb ripped t stanley fr hrough a Shiite Muslim mosque in Karachi during evening prayers Monday, killing at least 16 people and wounding 38 others. A top Pakistani official said the blast could be revenge for the assassination of a senior Sunni cleric.Hundre stanley france ds of Shiite youths rioted after the explosion at the Imam Bargah Ali Raza mosque, which came a day after unidentified gunmen killed the Sunni cleric, Nazamuddin Shamzai.The explosion was the latest in a series of terror attacks in Pakistan s largest city. It was not clear yet if it was the work of a suicide bomber. stanley tumblers Police fired tear gas trying to disperse the rioters, who torched two police vehicles and a gas station and ransacked two government offices, stealing furniture and burning it at a traffic intersection. Gunshots were heard, and police officer Gul Hameed said six people were wounded.Interior Ministry spokesman Abdur Rauf Chaudhry told The Associated Press that the bombing could be a reaction to Shamzai s slaying, which triggered riots Sunday across this eastern city and stoked fears of more sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shiites. The blast cracked walls, destroyed an inner office and badly damaged a room where people wash up before praying at the mosque, which is located near the city center on Karachi s main highway.It also shattered windows in a tall building opposite the mosque, leaving shards of glass on the asphalt.Police Chief Asad Ashraf Malik said at least 16 people were killed and 38 injured. He sa

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The following is a transcript of an interview with Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, that aired Sunday, April 25, 2021, on Face the Nation.JOHN DICKERSON: We go now to Governor Mike DeWine of Ohio. Good morning, Governor.GOVERNOR MIKE DEWINE: Morning, JOHN.JOHN DICKERSON: Governor, you said after the verdict this week that, George Floyd s death laid bare some of our deepest divisions in our country. There is a lot for us to learn from this great tragedy. What is there for us to learn GOV. DEWINE: JOHN, I think there s a clear pathway in regard to police reform. I think there are things that we all can come together on, Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative. We have a bill in front of the state legislature that we presented, for example, that calls for a lot more police training, more uniform police training. We have 900 and some police departments in Ohio. Many states have a lot of small departments. Many times because adidas samba adidas of resources, they don t get the training that they need. Body cameras. The tragedy of a 16-year-old child who was killed in Columbus. Mayor Ginther made the absolute correct decision. Within six hours they had that out to the news media. But not every police department in this country has body cameras because of the- of the cost. So we presented a bill to yeezy slide chanclas yeezy the legislature that would provide funding for body cameras for police departments. Another pathway clearly is there, and that is to treat police as professionals. What do I mean by that Well, you know, we Kacm Euro leaders urge Facebook, Google to scrub terrorist content
Cuba blasted President Bush s newly toughened policies toward the communist-run island on Monday, s stanley us aying they were developed to placate anti-Castro Cuban exiles crucial for his re-election. Cuban again denounces these new provocations and aggressions by the neofascist American government, the island s leadership said in an editorial published in the Communist Party daily Granma.Mr. Bush said Friday that his government would tighten a ban on American tourism and other restrictions against the island, and would allow more Cubans stanley mug to emigrate to the United States. He also called for a commission to plan for the day Fidel Castro s rule ends.Cuba said the measures have an electoral stink that show the unlimited commitment of the American government to the extreme right and its obsession with destroying the Cuban revolution s example. The editorial noted that the measures will especially hurt American citizens as rules are further tightened to bar most U.S. travel to the island. It took special exception to Bush s announcement that he had asked Secretary of State Co stanley cup lin Powell and Housing Secretary Mel Martinez to chair a commission to develop a plan to help the island move to democracy whenever the 77-year-old Castro, who has ruled Cuba since 1959, leaves power. The transition dreamed of by Bush and his acolytes in the Miami mafia will never occur in Cuba, the statement said. Yes, our country is undergoing a transition - but a transition toward more revolution, toward a

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Pangolins are possible hosts of coronavirus, a study led by South China Agricultural University has found.Experts believe the outbreak originated at wild animal markets in Wuhan, China. After analyzing more than 1,000 samples, scientists found that the genome sequence of the virus in pangolins was 99% identical to that from infected people. That means pangolins are the most likely intermediate host of coronavirus, Liu Yahong, president of the u adidas yeezy niversity, said,according to state media.Pangolins, which look like scaly anteaters, are considere dunk homme d a deli adidas originals uomo cacy in China and other countries, and pangolin scales are used in traditional medicine. A pangolin, or scaly anteater. Stephen Hogg/AP Photo/World Wildlife Fund-Malaysia Pangolins are protected by international law, but they are still one of Asia s most trafficked mammals. More than one million have been poached in the past decade, putting the species survival at risk, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. In 2016, a ban was placed on the trade of pangolins, but sale of the animals appears to persist in parts of Asia and Africa.The new information about pangolins as a potential intermediate host of the novel coronavirus will aid in the prevention and control of the virus, Liu said.Health experts believed thenew strain of coronaviruspossibly originated with bats before jumping to the human popula Kvhi Burst pipeline causes bubbling, steaming eye of fire to emerge in the Gulf of Mexico
The United States wants the United Nations to send more election monitors to Iraq before elections there next month, and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan wants the firm backing of President Bush s administration as he fends off demands for his ouster.Each party is expected to lobby stanley thermosflasche the other Thursday when Annan makes rounds on outgoing Secretary of State Colin Powell and White House national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, whom Mr. Bush has nominated to replace Powell.Annan was also speaking on proposals to revamp the United Nations and on U.S. relations with the world body in an address to the private Council on Foreign Relations.Annan was not expected to go anywhere near Capitol Hill, where Republicans in the House and Senate have called for his resignation amid allegations of corruption in the U.N. oil-for-food program.U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said the administration expressed an interest in discussing Iraq with him, and he would like to discuss with them a number of other issues that the U.N. and the U.S. are working closely on mdash; Afghanist stanley cups uk an, Sudan, Haiti. The U.N. is taking the first steps to expand its presence in Iraq outside Baghdad to the cities of Basra and Irbil but is planning to have only about 25 electoral experts in the entire country ahead of the scheduled Jan. 30 elections, the spokesman said Wednesday.Powell and Rice and the interim Iraqi government have been pressing the United Nations to expand its electoral team and its presence stanley flask in t