|
| October 24, 2002 | Thursday | Sha’aban 17,1423 |
|
US hawks winning propaganda war
WASHINGTON: When national security analysts looked at the poll data on Americans’ perceptions linking the Sept 11 attacks and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein earlier this month, they were startled.... 
|
|
Bush’s intentions on Iraq doubted
LONDON: The Bush administration’s “final” UN Security Council draft resolution on Iraq, now under frantic discussion, is a dangerous document. The official US objective, at least for the purpose of the...
|
|
||
|
US throws sop to Russia for halting Iran N-project
MOSCOW: US officials eager to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons privately offered a potentially lucrative economic deal to Russia in exchange for halting construction of an atomic reactor and other...
|
|
UK bans aspirin for under-16s
LONDON: The UK is to ban aspirin for children under 16 to minimize the risk of young people contracting a rare disease that can cause seizures, coma and death....
|
|
|
||
|
The Israeli tank commander who lay down his gun
LONDON: It was in Gaza that Major Rami Kaplan, a 29-year-old “veteran” of Israel’s prestigious Armoured Corps, began to feel that he had had enough. He was increasingly uneasy about the...
|
|
Act now to fight terror, Mahathir tells Jakarta
SINGAPORE, Oct 23: Terrorism was very much on the minds of South-east Asian leaders on Tuesday, and this was the message they had for Indonesia: act now and act decisively against...
|
|
|
||
|
US must withdraw unrealistic demands: Russia’s stand on Iraq resolution
MOSCOW, Oct 23: Russia believes a new UN resolution on Iraq can be agreed, providing the United States withdraws “unrealistic demands” from its draft proposal, Deputy Foreign Minister Yury Fedotov said...
|
|
Exiled writer says he may head govt
DUBAI, Oct 23: A Paris-based Iraqi leftist writer said on Wednesday he expected the Iraqi government to resume talks with exiled figures like himself on forming a new government which he...
|
|
|
||
|
‘Worst attack’ on Internet
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 23: A massive cyberattack on the computers that run the Internet was thwarted on Monday without damage, according to news reports late on Tuesday....
|
|
Bush signs largest defence rise since ’80s
WASHINGTON, Oct 23: US President George Bush signed into law a 355.1 billion dollars defence spending bill on Wednesday, giving the military its largest increase since the Reagan era of the...
|
|
|
||
|
Apprehensions haunt EU’s expansion: Summit begins today
BRUSSELS, Oct 23: They may have secured vital Irish backing for the European Union’s historic eastward expansion, but EU leaders striving to unify eastern and western Europe face crucial new obstacles...
|
|
10 Bedouins held on spying charge
 TEL AVIV, Oct 23: Ten Bedouin Arabs, including a lieutenant-colonel in the Israeli army, have been arrested on suspicion of spying for the Hezbollah, police sources said on Wednesday....
|
|
|
||
|
Pyongyang’s ‘N-card’ has backfired: Japanese press
TOKYO, Oct 23: North Korea’s brinkmanship with its admission that it is secretly developing nuclear and other even more powerful weapons is an old strategy and is bound to fail, say...
|
|
Paris to ease paperwork for immigrants
PARIS, Oct 23: Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy announced on Tuesday that he will soon order governmental prefects to simplify the procedure by which paperless immigrants already in France apply for residency...
|
|
|
||
