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January 1, 2003 Wednesday Shawwal 27, 1423 UK considered sending Ugandan Asians to colonies in ’72: documents LONDON, Dec 31: Britain’s conservative prime minister Edward Heath considered sending thousands of Asians expelled from Uganda in 1972 to one of London’s remaining colonial territories, official records showed on Wednesday.... No excuse for quick Iraq strike, says Annan BAGHDAD, Dec 31: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Tuesday there was no argument for a US strike against Iraq before late January, while ordinary Iraqis held out hope that the... N. Korea closes nuclear complex to monitors SEOUL, Dec 31: North Korea’s nuclear complex capable of producing weapons-grade plutonium was shut off from outside monitoring on Tuesday, as the United States warned the impoverished country faced further isolation... 50 injured, 500 held after riots in India PATNA, Dec 31: At least 50 people, including officials, were injured and 500 arrested on Tuesday as thousands of students staged a protest in this eastern Indian city against the alleged... US mobilizes National Guard, reservists WASHINGTON, Dec 31: The Pentagon announced on Tuesday that it has mobilized the National Guard and the Reserve Force as part of America’s effort to mobilize its forces for a possible... US officials join Yemen interrogation WASHINGTON, Dec 31: US consular officials have joined Yemeni authorities interrogating the man who allegedly killed three Americans and wounded another in the small provincial town of Jibla.... Israeli minister dismissed TEL AVIV, Dec 31: Hawkish Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Tuesday dimissed a deputy minister caught up in a cash-for-votes scandal.... Way cleared for Erdogan ANKARA, Dec 31: Turkey’s president on Tuesday opened the way for the governing party’s banned leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to become prime minister.... Ohio mosque reopens after attack WASHINGTON, Dec 31: The Islamic Foundation of Ohio reopens this week, months after it was forced to close following a hate attack.... No US visa record for FBI suspects WASHINGTON, Dec 31: The US government has no visa record of five men FBI seeks for a possible connection to a terrorist cell.... New year revels held amid tight security NEW YORK, Dec 31: New year’s revellers around the world partied amid tight security, with New York’s mayor inviting the crowds to Times Square, Indonesia deploying 200,000 police and Sydney taking... Cloning claim alarms scientists, legislators NEW YORK: The sect that claims to have produced the world’s first human clone said the newborn girl was due to arrive in the United States with her American mother, but... Toronto’s image tested by violence, racism TORONTO: It was once called “Toronto the Good” for its law-abiding ways, but that image has faded recently as Canada’s largest city battles a wave of gun violence centred on its... Past meets present for weapons collectors KABUL: For many US troops stationed here, the must-have souvenir is a 19th-century British musket — the remnant, perhaps ironically, of a superpower’s lost cause.... Idi Amin plans return to Uganda NAIROBI: The Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was always a joker whose antics included making an unannounced visit on the British queen, jumping into a swimming pool with his pyjamas on during... China takes leap into space SHANGHAI: China has moved closer to its first manned space flight after Monday’s successful launch of an unpiloted craft for seven days of tests in orbit.... Computer to unlock secrets LONDON: Scientists have just switched on the most powerful academic computer outside the United States. The HPCx at Daresbury laboratory in Warrington, Cheshire — the main lab of the government-funded research... US faces obstacles in strategy on North Korea SEOUL: North Korea, one of the world’s poorest, most isolated countries, is a difficult place to employ the containment strategy the United States is now pursuing. The world has little left...

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