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| September 28, 2002 | Saturday | Rajab 20, 1423 |
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US, UK agree on language of resolution : Iraq debate
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 27: US Secretary of State Colin Powell told a US Senate hearing on Thursday night that Washington and London had reached an understanding on the wording and structure... 
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Secret US exercise reveals weaknesses
WASHINGTON, Sept 27: A secret Pentagon war game conducted this week with an eye on possible military operations against Iraq revealed worrisome shortages in some US military equipment, The New York...
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France to close down DPs camp
LONDON, Sept 27: Britain said on Thursday that France had agreed to close down a refugee camp near Calais from where asylum seekers used to make attempts to enter Britain....
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Moroccan plane stirs suspicions in France
PARIS, Sept 27: French police suspect that an explosive charge found on board a Moroccan airliner that arrived on Wednesday at Metz-Nancy-Lorraine airport, in eastern France, was to have been detonated...
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Kuwaiti court bars woman from elections
KUWAIT CITY, Sept 27: A Kuwaiti constitutional court on Wednesday rejected a plea from a female lawyer for allowing her to run for the upcoming parliamentary elections....
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HRW asks India to protect all
NEW YORK, Sept 27: Human Rights Watch on Thursday called on the Indian government to prevent further outbreak of violence in Gujarat and protect all citizens, whatever their religion.”...
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41 drown in Senegal
DAKAR, Sept 27: At least 41 people drowned when a boat carrying nearly 800 people capsized in a storm off the coast of the West African country of Senegal on Thursday...
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Hawks justify Iraq strike as ‘war for democracy’: Iran next on US agenda
WASHINGTON: The normally cool — if not coldly analytical — Anthony Cordesman was uncharacteristically heated as he warmed to his subject....
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Tigers’ position reveals deep divisions
COLOMBO: Days after Tamil rebel negotiator Anton Balasingham said the Tigers have scaled down their long-cherished goal of a separate state, many Sri Lankans and commentators on both sides of the...
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Castro entertains US firms for trade
HAVANA: It could have been a county fair in the American heartland. Kay the cow mooed and Charlotte the pig grunted in pens sprinkled with sawdust. Visitors stuffed themselves with lemon...
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Turks fear Kurd insurgency
ISTANBUL: Turkey’s prime minister has issued a warning to Iraqi Kurdish groups who this week approved a constitution that envisions replacing the dictatorship of President Saddam Hussein with a “federal Iraq.”...
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Venus is no hell: scientists
PARIS: Venus’ reputation as a planet which offers nil prospect of life could be untrue, according to a pair of scientists who suggest that mysterious dark patches that swirl around its...
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