DAWN - International; June 25, 2002

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June 25, 2002	Tuesday	Rabi-us-Sani 13, 1423

Congress told not to delay defence bill: This is a time of war: Bush PORT ELIZABETH (USA), June 24: Warning the Congress against delay “in a time of war”, US President George W. Bush on Monday called on lawmakers to do their jobs and send...		200 killed as trains collide in Tanzania DODOMA (Tanzania), June 24: At least 200 people were killed and hundreds injured on Monday when a passenger train and a cargo train collided in central Tanzania, witnesses said....

Iran quake survivors say help came too late AVAJ (Iran), June 24: Survivors of a powerful earthquake in northern Iran hurled stones at a minister’s convoy, saying rescue teams came too late to save scores of villagers buried alive...		Russia to take back N-waste from Iran MOSCOW, June 24: A Russian official said on Monday that spent fuel from an atomic power plant in Iran would be returned to Russia, countering fears it could be used by...

France supports Arafat’s ouster PARIS, June 24: When he arrives on Tuesday at Palestinian Authority headquarters at Ramallah to meet Yasser Arafat, French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin is expected to have some bad news...		Ex-minister barred from office in Afghanistan KABUL June 24: Afghanistan’s Chief Justice Mawlawi Fazel Hadi Shinwari has barred former women’s minister Sima Samar from holding public office for allegedly speaking against the country’s interests, official media said...

Anti-G8 protests OTTAWA, June 24: More than 2,000 people staged demonstrations here on Sunday against the G8 nations, whose leaders are meeting in Kanaskis from June 26 to 27....		Britons are racist, says prosecutor LONDON, June 24: The head of the Crown prosecution service of Britain has claimed that his own organization and the vast majority of the British public are “racist”....

AL calls off boycott of parliament DHAKA, June 24: Bangladesh’s main opposition party, the Awami League, on Monday ended its eight-month-old boycott of parliament and entered the house amid applause from ruling party MPs....		Baby girl born to Priyanka NEW DELHI, June 24: The Nehru dynasty added to its lineage on Monday when Priyanka Gandhi, the great granddaughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, gave birth to a baby...

Europe’s credibility never more stretched: Seville summit LONDON: European Union summits are not penalty shootouts. They rarely produce clearcut results, and this past weekends EU heads of government meeting in Seville proved no exception to that rule. But...		What is a provisional Palestinian state? LONDON: The idea of a provisional Palestinian state as an antidote to 21 months of Middle East bloodshed alarms many Israelis and Palestinians and baffles most of the rest of the...

Iran’s N-waste stirs fear MOSCOW: Russia has failed to secure guarantees from Iran that Tehran will return spent nuclear fuel which could be converted into weapons-grade plutonium, despite repeated assertions to the contrary from Moscow....		Film retraces emergence of ‘human bomb’ PARIS: According to a major documentary to be broadcast tomorrow evening (Tuesday night in Pakistan) on Franco-German cultural network ARTE, the ‘Human Bomb’ is a phenomenon that’s here to stay, indeed...

Indo-US military ties take a leap forward NEW DELHI: As a part of the exercise to enhance military cooperation between the United States and India, the chief of air staff, Air Chief Marshal, A. Krishnaswamy is on a...		Arms trade undermines ‘war on terror’ LONDON: Western governments are undermining their “war on terror” and their claims to want to end armed conflict by supplying massive amounts of weapons to developing countries, says an Amnesty International...