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| September 27, 2002 | Friday | Rajab 19, 1423 |
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Putin pours cold water on US efforts: Iraq resolution
BAGHDAD, Sept 26: Moscow on Thursday poured cold water on Washington’s efforts to win official UN backing for making war on Baghdad as President Vladimir Putin appeared to rule out backing... 
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US developing illegal C-arms: watchdog
HAMBURG, Sept 26: The United States is secretly developing chemical weapons such as disabling anaesthetics and psychoactive substances in breach of international law, an independent watchdog charged Thursday....
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New Delhi looking for trade pact with Kabul
KABUL, Sept 26: India is aiming to forge a preferential trade agreement with Afghanistan to boost centuries-old trade through the silk route, which was choked under the Taliban, an official said...
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Saddam has three doubles: coroner
BERLIN, Sept 26: A German television network said on Thursday it had made a scientific study of 450 photographs of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and concluded there are at least three...
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Opium output rising in Afghanistan: UN
LONDON, Sept 26: The United Nations has warned that a flood of heroin would hit Europe after a huge increase in the opium production in Afghanistan....
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Farooq faces deserted streets
KULGAM, Sept 26: No one wants to listen to occupied Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah any more....
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Seven Arabs arrested in Bangladesh
DHAKA, Sept 26: Seven Arab nationals were arrested from different parts of Uttara Model Town of the capital city at night on Sept 23 on suspicion of maintaining links with terrorists...
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Indian troops abduct 17 BD fishermen
DHAKA, Sept 26: The Border Security Forces (BSF) of India has recently abducted 27 Bangladeshi fishermen from the Padma river near Sonaikandi on the outskirts of Rajshahi divisional headquarters of the...
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New plan to cut refugees in France
PARIS, Sept 26: With 80,000 requests for refugee status received last year alone — and only one in eight accepted by French immigration authorities — Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin has...
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‘Natural’ AIDS defence found
WASHINGTON, Sept 26: Researchers said on Thursday they had identified a substance that allows a small number of people to naturally live with the AIDS virus for decades....
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Israel taxes aid to Palestinians: UN
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations is accusing Israel of imposing arbitrary taxes on humanitarian relief supplies — including food and medicine — being ferried to Palestinians in occupied territories....
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IMF critics demand more debt relief: Poor nations
WASHINGTON: Debt relief for poor countries will be a central issue both inside and outside this weekend’s International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank autumn meetings....
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UK wants inspection of palaces in Iraq
LONDON-NEW YORK: The UK wants Saddam Hussein to be forced to open up his so-called presidential palaces to UN weapons inspectors, in a major strengthening of the rules governing the work...
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Sweden, Germany boost European social democracy
STOCKHOLM: Sweden’s prime minister Goran Persson joined his German colleague Gerhard Schroder at the German Social Democrats’ final rally before last Sunday’s Bundestag election. In a speech at Dortmund, in the...
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US to send envoy to N. Korea for talks
WASHINGTON: The White House said on Wednesday it would send an envoy to North Korea to reopen security talks with Pyongyang for the first time in almost two years, signalling the...
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Croatia in tight spot
ZAGREB: Croatia’s reformist government knew it was stepping into a political minefield this week when it refused to hand over a former army chief of staff to the United Nations war...
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