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| October 11, 2002 | Friday | Sha'aban 4, 1423 |
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Iraq invites US to see weapons sites: Washington spurns offer
BAGHDAD, Oct 10: Iraq, trying to avert a US attack, invited the Bush administration on Thursday to see for itself that Baghdad was not producing weapons of mass destruction.... 
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US shrugs aside Blair’s ME proposal
 WASHINGTON, Oct 10: The United States is cool to a British proposal that Israelis and Palestinians start talks before the end of this year on a permanent settlement, a State Department...
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Karzai, arms experts tipped for peace prize
OSLO, Oct 10: Afghanistan’s president or US disarmament experts might win the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday from a bewilderingly wide field of nominees that also includes US President George W....
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Singer slams Powell for joining cabinet
WASHINGTON, Oct 10: US Secretary of State Colin Powell laughed off a stinging attack against him this week from singer-activist Harry Belafonte who branded him a sellout to his race (blacks)...
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Novelist Kertesz wins Nobel prize
 STOCKHOLM, Oct 10: Hungarian novelist and Auschwitz survivor Imre Kertesz won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday for works the judges said portrayed the Nazi death camp as “the ultimate truth”...
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UN foresees ‘anemic’ economic growth
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 10: Predicting an “anemic” economic growth, a United Nations report said that the declining US stock prices, economic turmoil in Latin America and uncertainty in the Middle East...
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Aga Khan’s plan for museum
LONDON, Oct 10: Prince Karim Aga Khan has failed in his attempt to build an Islamic museum and cultural centre in London....
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Rocket fired at US forces in Afghanistan
BAGRAM, Oct 10: A 107mm rocket was fired at US special operations forces in Afghanistan but no soldier was killed or wounded, a military spokesman said on Thursday....
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3 US Marines injured in blast
KUWAIT CITY, Oct 10: Three US marines were wounded in a blast here on Thursday, military sources said....
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EU chides US for backing Turkey: Membership issue
BRUSSELS: The European Commission on Thursday defended its refusal to set EU candidate Turkey a date for opening membership talks and chided the United States for trying to intervene on behalf...
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Experts plan to rebuild dynamited Buddhas
BAMIYAN: For over 1,600 years, from the twilight of imperial Rome through the ravages of Genghis Khan, the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan towered above the fabled Silk Road through Afghanistan that...
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Cameroon wins ICJ case against Nigeria
THE HAGUE: The International Court of Justice on Thursday awarded Cameroon sovereignty over the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula in the Gulf of Guinea, handing down its ruling on a long-standing dispute with...
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US scientists to study ‘native’ skeleton
SEATTLE: Later this month a group of scientists will submit a plan on how they want to study the 350 bones of a 9,000-year-old skeleton found near the Columbia River in...
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Tensions with Russia propel Baltic states toward Nato
RIGA (Latvia): It was meant to be a powerful symbolic moment, the time when Latvia and its two Baltic neighbours, Lithuania and Estonia, would take their place alongside the United States...
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