European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 9 Britain Brown bids for pm by Darcy Doran the press London Gordon Brown promised a shift in policy in Iraq and a new vision for Britain As he launched his Campaign to become the country next prime Brown stood before a standing ovation of handpicked support ers on Fri Only hours after prime minis Ter Tony Blair formally endorsed his Candida who has waited More than a decade for his Chance to Lead the strode to the podium and confidently Laid out a platform that promised to be both compassionate and i will and i will i will strive to meet Peoples Aspira Brown said pledging to win Back disenchanted i want to Lead a government hum ble enough to know its Brown signalled that As prime he would abandon Blairs presidential style of Leader ship by restoring parliaments authority in decisions such As when to go to government must be he i accept that mistakes have been Brown without highlights of Browns life Gordon is the son of a Church of Scotland min he began canvassing for the labour party when just 12 years he entered University at and was elected Rector of Edin Burgh University while still a a sporting Accident As a teen Ager left Brown Blind in one Brown and Blair both entered the House of commons in 1983 and shared an Politi Cal legend has it that they agreed at a dinner Over a Lon Don restaurant in 1994 that Blair would take the labour party leadership for the 1997 election and that Brown would take Over Halfway through the party second term in Brown clashed with Blairs desire for Britain to join the european single Brown won by setting five economic Cri Teria that Britain must meet be fore joining the euro they have not been the associated press Brown offering we will keep our obligations to the iraqi peo these Are obligations that Are part of they Are in support of a the question is How much Brown will shift Britain role in the Iraq which has divided the he indicated he wants to devote More time and re sources toward the creation of jobs and Basic services for the iraqi there Are too Many people in Iraq who dont have a stake in the economic future of the too Many people too Many people who Are not seeing services developed and there fore too Many people who dont feel loyalty to the he Brown did not outline specifics on his Iraq he said he will make his first trip to Iraq in the coming weeks to inspect the Situa Tion Blair had announced in february that his government the top ally in the Iraq War would reduce its troop Levels by to about but would retain a presence in Southern Iraq until at least a total of 148 British soldiers have died since the 2003 president bus was praised Browns describing him As easy to talk but it remains to be seen How close the two men might Brown has been More reserved in his comments about the Ameri can whose Alliance with Blair Cost the labour party Russia sends ship with supplies for space station Moscow an unmanned russian cargo ship carrying tons of equipment and gifts blasted off saturday in route to the inter National space officials the Progress mounted atop a soyuz Booster lifted off As scheduled at from the Bai Konur cosm drome in Kazakhstan and entered the designated preliminary russian Federal space Agency said in a it will deliver food and scientific equipment to the stations current Crew russian cosmonauts Foo Dor yur Shikhm and Oleg Kotov and astronaut Sunita humanitarian official visits Somalia capital United nations top humanitarian of Uncial made a landmark visit to this Battle scarred capital saturday but the trip was disrupted by an explosion that killed four people near the compound in South John the undersecretary general for humanitarian of is the highest ranking official to visit Mogadishu in More than a after the blast just 400 Yards from the u n officials cancelled his scheduled tour of the City and Holmes spent the morning closeted in private Security the trip comes about two weeks after Somalia government declared Victory Over a ferocious islamic Aid groups say the fighting killed people Between March 12 and april Italy seek agreement on passenger data Italy the Homeland Security Secretary is seeking to make Progress with european countries on a new agreement to share data from passengers on transatlantic flights at a meeting on terror ism saturday in officials Secretary Michael Chertoff also will discuss changes to the visa wait or program and seek to underscore the importance of the War on terror ism during the meeting with counterparts from six european countries his spokesman Russ Knocke the United states and Europe have to agree to a new Deal on transferring passenger flight data before july to avoid problems for both airlines and guineas unpaid soldiers revolt in Rural towns Guinea soldiers demanding a raise took to the streets of Guinea s provincial towns in the second Day of a military led 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