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| December 13, 2002 | Friday | Shawwal 8, 1423 |
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Iraq cancels contract with Russian oil firms
MOSCOW, Dec 12: Iraq has pulled out of a massive contract with three Russian companies to drill in one of its oilfields, in a snub being seen as aimed at putting... 
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N. Korea to reactivate nuclear plant
SEOUL, Dec 12: North Korea brought Washington’s worst fears a step closer to reality on Thursday by announcing it was reviving the same nuclear scheme that brought the Korean peninsula to...
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Turner pledges more money for UN
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 12: “I went from no money to a pile of money as big as the World Trade Center, and then just like the World Trade Center, it was...
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Blair’s wife faces new wave of allegations
LONDON, Dec 12: Any hopes Cherie Blair, wife of Britain’s prime minister, had of sidling out of the media spotlight over her links with a convicted conman were dashed on Thursday...
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CIA, FBI accused of negligence over 9/11
WASHINGTON, Dec 12: US lawmakers have urged the government to appoint a new, cabinet-level intelligence czar to supervise America’s huge intelligence gathering machinery....
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French Muslims, govt sign accord
PARIS, Dec 12: French Muslims have signed a historic agreement with the government giving them a unique representational organization for the first time in their history....
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BD to privatize 100 factories
DHAKA, Dec 12: The government of Begum Khaleda Zia is poised to shut down, and then privatize, nearly one hundred state-owned mills and factories, retrenching hundreds of workers and employees....
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Impeachment of French president
PARIS, Dec 12: An advisory committee of legal scholars says that the French Constitution should be amended in such a way that France might henceforth impeach its head of state, if...
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Euroscepticism gains ground in the east
LJUBLJANA: European integration takes a giant leap forward when eight former communist eastern and central European countries are invited to join the EU in Copenhagen....
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Urdu, Punjabi make progress in multilingual Canada
MONTREAL: Canada is becoming a more multilingual society as the two official languages, English and French, lose ground to Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Punjabi or Urdu....
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How to vote and not elect
BELGRADE: Serbia faces a deep crisis only two years after former leader Slobodan Milosevic fell from power after the re-run for presidential elections failed on Sunday for the third time......
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War is here, war is coming and peace will follow
WASHINGTON: Coming to the hyperpower capital from peace-torn Europe, I find three things. Washington is at war. Washington is going to war. And Washington is starting to think about a peace...
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Lankan parliament yet to get on with Tigers
COLOMBO: The Tamil Tigers are still officially “at war” with the government of Sri Lanka but that has not stopped the two sides sitting down to agree a federal solution to...
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Opposition to US brings Koreas closer
SEOUL: Every weekend, tens of thousands of candle-bearing students turn up across 40 major cities in South Korea to protest a US military court’s acquittal last month of two US soldiers...
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