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January 6, 2003 Monday Ziqa’ad 2, 1423 Lawmakers seek focus on N. Korea: Appeal to Bush WASHINGTON, Jan 5: North Korea’s nuclear threat needs to be tackled, US lawmakers and experts said on Sunday, despite President George Bush’s determination to focus on Iraq.... Tutu urges US to act with compassion LONDON, Jan 5: Archbishop Desmond Tutu criticised the United States on Sunday as an arrogant superpower bent on unilateral action, in an interview on the Iraq crisis to be telecast in... Snowstorm brings France to standstill PARIS, Jan 5: A rare snowstorm immobilized Paris and the surrounding Ile-de-France region on Saturday night.... Iraqi envoy trapped in bldg for six hours BAGHDAD, Jan 5: Iraq’s ambassador to the United Nations was left fuming on Sunday after UN weapons experts trapped him inside a Baghdad office block for six hours as they inspected... Iran says US wants Israeli dominance TEHRAN, Jan 5: The United States’ aim of carrying out “regime change” will not stop in Baghdad, Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi said on Sunday, accusing Washington of seeking to ensure... Asthana tipped to head India’s N-forces NEW DELHI, Jan 5: Air Marshal T. M. Asthana, an Indian Air Force officer, is widely expected to head the country’s nuclear forces, newspapers and officials said on Sunday.... Terrorism ‘not linked to Islam’ NEW DELHI, Jan 5: Visiting Singaporean President S.R. Nathan said on Sunday that global terrorism was not a problem of Islam as it was the handiwork of a few who were... Jenkins dies at 82 LONDON, Jan 5: Roy Jenkins, a former Labour Party minister who helped shape modern British politics and a former president of the European Commission, died at home aged 82, the government... Bush likely to make decision soon WASHINGTON, Jan 5: US President George Bush returns to Washington on Sunday (Monday morning in Pakistan) and he is expected to decide on taking military action against Iraq.... 100,000 register as ‘human shield’ RIYADH, Jan 5: More than 100,000 people from across the world have registered themselves as volunteers to be used as “human shields” against a possible US-led invasion of Iraq, an Iraqi... Fresh oil slick washes up in France ARCACHON (France), Jan 5: Oil spilled from the sunken tanker Prestige has washed up in a major oyster-producing region in southwestern France, officials said on Sunday, as a European armada raced... S.Koreans accuse US of messing things up TOKYO: Not for the first time since George Bush became president, the United States is finding it a lot harder to deal with its friends than its enemies.... Athens faces shame over role at Srebrenica ATHENS: It is what the Greeks have long feared: the shattering of a conspiracy of silence that has surrounded the role of Greek volunteers who proudly flew their flag at Srebrenica,... Leaders in Arab states fear the future CAIRO: Arab governments aligned with Washington fear a US military strike against Iraq will unleash a wave of protests and violence that could jeopardise their own power.... Inquiry into NMD ‘cover-up’ by MIT WASHINGTON: One of the most prestigious universities in America, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said that it had begun an inquiry into claims that its scientists had covered up evidence... Greece wary of computer games ATHENS: The Greeks are not unaccustomed to prohibition. When a group of junior army officers seized power in a coup in 1967, Greek men were told they could no longer grow... EU asked to tackle ‘spam’ PARIS: Two trade associations in the advertising and communications sectors are demanding that the French government and the European Union do something about the increasing presence in French and European Internet... Poetry of resistance in occupied Palestine BEIRUT: Palestinian literature, up to 1948, had been part of the Arab literary movement which flourished during the first half of the century which was influenced by Egyptian, Syria and Lebanese...

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