|
| January 4, 2003 | Saturday | Shawwal 30, 1423 |
|
US reproaches Israel over defence ties with China
WASHINGTON, Jan 3: The US State Department has criticized a close US ally and two American companies for harming Washington’s security interests in trade with China. Israel faced flak for its... 
|
|
Bush talks of liberating Iraq, warns of dangers
WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD, Jan 3: More American troops prepared on Friday to join the tens of thousands already massed in the Gulf and President George Bush told cheering soldiers a war against Iraq...
|
|
||
|
1,000 held, 100 hurt in anti-police riots in India
PATNA, Jan 3: More than 1,000 people were arrested and more than 100, including a number of politicians, were injured in Bihar in Friday in violent protests against an alleged killing...
|
|
US rejects N. Korea’s call for no-war pact
WASHINGTON, Jan 3: The United States on Friday formally rejected North Korea’s latest call for a mutual non-aggression pact, and said Pyongyang must renounce its nuclear weapons programmes to defuse a...
|
|
|
||
|
US not trying to arrange ‘safe exit’
WASHINGTON, Jan 3: The United States has played down speculations that Washington is trying to arrange a safe exit for the Iraqi president, but said it would be good if Saddam...
|
|
Malaysians told to shun islet claimed by Singapore
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 3: Malaysia, locked in a row with neighbouring Singapore over ownership of a tiny islet, on Friday advised fishermen and politicians to stay away from the area until...
|
|
|
||
|
Another clone due in Europe: expert
PARIS, Jan 3: Brigitte Boisselier, the French chemist and official of the Canada-based Raelian sect, says that a second cloned baby is to be born “in the next few days” in...
|
|
Moot convened to discuss standoff
WASHINGTON, Jan 3: Senior officials from the United States, Japan and South Korea will meet in Washington next week to discuss the North Korean nuclear crisis, the US State Department said....
|
|
|
||
|
French FM holed up in Abidjan
PARIS, Jan 3: French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, who decided the other day to make his way to Cote d’Ivoire in spite of the advice of some of his counsellors,...
|
|
Tiny asteroid tailing Earth
WASHINGTON, Jan 3: An asteroid playing a cat-and-mouse game with Earth will pull to its closest point in almost a century on Monday before swinging away for another 95 years, NASA...
|
|
|
||
|
Sri Lankan PM rebukes president over Norway
COLOMBO, Jan 3: Sri Lanka’s prime minister delivered his first public rebuke to President Chandrika Kumaratunga on Friday, warning her not to antagonize peace-broker Norway, in a fresh crisis for the...
|
|
Bush personalizes conflicts with North Korea, Iraq
WASHINGTON: Amid escalating tensions over Iraq and North Korea, President Bush denounced the leaders of both countries in personal terms on Thursday: He warned Saddam Hussein that “his day of reckoning...
|
|
|
||
|
Russia’s N-cooperation with Iran irks US
GENEVA: Russia’s plans to intensify non-military nuclear cooperation with Iran, despite plea by the US government to end it, has strained Moscow-Washington ties. The move also underlines President Vladimir Putin’s determination...
|
|
Chinese medicine is death to tigers
VLADIVOSTOK: Chinese medicine could be the death of the Amur tigers that symbolize the power and natural beauty of Russia’s far east....
|
|
|
||
|
Moscow’s Chechnya peace plan a non-starter
MOSCOW: There is one ground rule in Russia’s war against Chechnya: Things never work out as the Kremlin plans....
|
|
Nepal’s rebel war turns brutal for civilians
BUNKOT (Nepal): A year after the breakdown of talks between Maoist rebels and Nepal’s government, violence between the two sides has escalated, raising fears of humanitarian disaster, regional instability and the...
|
|
|
||
