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January 9, 2003 Thursday Ziqa’ad 5, 1423 US says it’s ready for talks with N. Korea WASHINGTON, Jan 8: The United States said on Tuesday it was willing to talk to North Korea, but warned that the communist state would get no new incentives to halt its... EU sending mission to ME in Iraq peace bid ATHENS/BAGHDAD, Jan 8: The European Union took its boldest step to avert war in Iraq on Wednesday, saying it would send a mission to seven Arab nations next month after UN... Cold wave kills 600 in India, BD NEW DELHI, Jan 8: Nearly 600 people have died due to cold weather that has swept across India, Bangladesh and Nepal, officials said on Wednesday.... Saddam exile rumours trigger deluge of denials CAIRO, Jan 8: An Iraqi ambassador and two Arab countries, Egypt and Mauritania, denied on Wednesday press reports that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was considering exile in order to pre-empt a... Indian mly finds Kashmiri journalist innocent NEW DELHI, Jan 8: The Indian Military Intelligence has found nothing sensitive about the purported Pakistani documents over which a Kashmiri journalist has been languishing in jail since June last year,... 21 killed as plane crashes in US CHARLOTTE (USA), Jan 8: A commuter plane crashed and exploded on Wednesday shortly after takeoff from Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board, police and... Scientists working on gadget printers LONDON, Jan 8: Printers could soon be pumping out remote control devices, electronic toys and radios if engineers in California have their way.... Aliens in Paris to get more facilities PARIS, Jan 8: Estimating that 80 per cent of the homeless in Paris are foreigners, authorities in the Paris region say they have made special arrangements to make the situation more... BD dismisses Indian claim on immigrants DHAKA, Jan 8: Bangladesh on Wednesday rejected an Indian claim that 20 million Bangladeshis were living in India illegally.... Cows could be terrorist target: UK officials LONDON, Jan 8: British cows could be on the frontline as the threat of a potential terror attack spreads from the nation’s streets to its fields.... After 87 years, Einstein proved right on speed of gravity PARIS, Jan 8: More than 87 years after it was devised, a theory by Albert Einstein that gravitational force moves at the speed of light has finally been confirmed by a... Blair gets reality check on Iraq LONDON: Tony Blair may be winning some of his battles with the Bush administration over Iraq, but he is certainly losing the political war on the home front.... Online service challenges science journals LONDON: A group of leading scientists in the US and Europe is launching two free online journals this year in a bid to break the stranglehold of academic publishers which they... Turkey waffles over support for invasion ANKARA: Concerned about public opinion, Turkish politicians are waffling on earlier expressions of support for US war plans against Iraq, dimming prospects for opening a northern front against President Saddam Hussein,... Arab boycott of US goods spreading steadily LONDON: An informal Arab boycott of American consumer goods has been slowly gathering pace around the Middle East over the past two years as a protest against US support for Israel.... French Muslim launches soft drink LONDON-PARIS: It is packaged in the lurid red and white of the Stars and Stripes and the logo mimics that famous swirl, but there is something different about this brand of... UK’s main foreign policy issues LONDON: The UK’s foreign secretary, Jack Straw, on Monday pinpointed for the first time security of energy sources as a key priority of British foreign policy.... IMF cuts controversial feature of debt plan WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund, bowing to strenuous objections from banks and investors over its proposed ”bankruptcy” system for indebted countries, unveiled a proposal Tuesday that omits one of the plan’s...

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