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| January 3, 2003 | Friday | Shawwal 29, 1423 |
Over 1,000 Palestinians held without charge: report
 AL QUDS, Jan 2: Israel has 1,007 Palestinians in administrative detention, without charge or trial, the Israeli rights group B’Tselem reported on Thursday, calling for their immediate release....
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Erdogan urges new Turkish policy on Cyprus
ISTANBUL, Jan 2: Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan has called for a shake-up of Turkish policy on the divided island of Cyprus and urged Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash to heed protests...
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Blix to give crucial report on Jan 27
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 2: Chief UN weapons Inspector, Hans Blix, is expected to go to Iraq on Jan 15, ahead of a crucial report to the UN Security Council which he...
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Giant waves crush whole Polynesian villages
 AUCKLAND, Jan 2: The Polynesian island of Tikopia has been hit by massive 11 metre high waves which appear to have swept away entire villages and completely destroyed the lagoon around...
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Pakistanis form fund to help US detainees
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 2: Eleven major Pakistani-American organizations, working under the umbrella of Pakistan American National Alliance (PANA), have established a Legal Defence Fund to help Pakistani detainees and their families....
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US troops arrest Afghan ex-minister
KABUL, Jan 2: US troops have arrested a former Afghan minister who heads an influential Pakhtoon tribe in eastern Paktia province, an Afghan military commander said on Thursday....
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French space scientists keep fingers crossed
PARIS, Jan 2: French space scientists are eagerly awaiting a decision to be handed down on Monday by the country’s aerospace authorities that should determine whether Rosetta — the country’s and...
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Lebanon bans TV programme
BEIRUT, Jan 2: Lebanon banned a TV programme on Saudi Arabia to protect its good relations with the oil-rich kingdom, the country’s prosecutor general said Thursday....
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Flower extract has anti-diabetic properties
SINGAPORE, Jan 2: Two Indian researchers have found an extract of a flower common in Asia has anti-diabetic properties when tested on rats, a report in the latest Singapore Medical Journal...
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Australia cracks down on rioting refugees
SYDNEY, Jan 2: Australia cracked down Thursday on inmates behind a wave of riots at immigration detention centres across the country as a psychiatrists’ group warned a “crisis of mental health”...
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Berlin seen to be moving away from anti-war stand
BERLIN, Jan 2: Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder appears to be moving away from his strident rejection of war with Iraq as Germany’s assumption of a UN Security Council seat casts an awkward...
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Bush has a history of dithering
LONDON: What is one to make of George Bush’s remarks at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, on the big questions of war and peace in 2003? Making his first public statement...
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Israel’s security wall casts a long shadow
QALQILYA (WEST BANK): Two years ago when Qalqilya’s new junior school was completed, it was hailed by the city’s mayor, Marouf Zahran, as the West Bank’s showpiece school. Built with a...
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Unusual US views on N. Korea puzzle
WASHINGTON: In 1994, when the Korean Peninsula last faced a crisis over North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, two former officials in the first Bush administration wrote an influential opinion article in which...
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Ecological efforts viewed darkly
MOSCOW: A British ecologist working on the conservation of Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest freshwater lake, has had documents and computers seized by the Russian internal security service, the FSB....
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Executions a southern issue in US: report
WASHINGTON: While the death penalty remains common in most of the United States, executions increasingly take place only in the South, according to the end-of-the-year report from the Death Penalty Information...
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