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January 21, 2003 Tuesday Ziqa’ad 17, 1423 Germany, France oppose invasion UNITED NATIONS, Jan 20: Germany said on Monday it could not support military action against Iraq because it fears the “disastrous consequences” on regional stability and that it would harm the... Deep split in UN Security Council UNITED NATIONS, Jan 20: Key members of the UN Security Council on Monday offered widely divergent views on the process of Iraqi disarmament, one week before a critical report from weapons... US fails to stop Libya’s elevation in UN body GENEVA, Jan 20: Libya, under fire for years from human rights activists, was overwhelmingly elected on Monday to chair the top United Nations’ rights body after the United States broke with... Businessman of Indian origin shot dead in UAE DUBAI, Jan 20: A Dubai businessman of Indian origin who owned hotels and nightclubs in Dubai and Abu Dhabi and was reportedly a long-time associate of Mumbai underworld lord Dawood Ibrahim,... Bush says racism still afflicts US LANDOVER (USA), Jan 20: US President George Bush said on Monday that America had made progress on civil rights but “there’s still prejudice holding people back” as he marked the holiday... Baghdad agrees to cooperate with UN: Document signed BAGHDAD, Jan 20: Baghdad struck a deal on Monday with the United Nations, accepting demands by arms inspectors for greater cooperation in the buildup to a report to the Security Council... War to cost $100bn, says Chirac PARIS, Jan 20: Estimating that the cost of a war against Iraq would cost “100 billion dollars,” President Jacques Chirac says that the money might be better spent “supplying drugs to... 37,000 US troops sent to Gulf WASHINGTON, Jan 20: Some 37,000 US soldiers are deploying to the Gulf region from Fort Hood in Texas, a military spokesman said on Monday.... Rambo movies’ colonel dies LOS ANGELES, Jan 20: Actor Richard Crenna, who broke into the entertainment business as a squeaky-voiced adolescent on a radio comedy and inspired tough guys as an adult, playing Sylvester Stallone’s... Iraq disallows overflights by US planes BAGHDAD, Jan 20: Iraq said on Monday it refused during talks with chief UN weapons inspectors the overflight of its territory by American U2 spy planes operating under the banner of... US missionary told to leave India NEW DELHI, jan 20: American missionary Joseph W Cooper, who was viciously attacked by rightwing Hindu activists in Kerala last week, has been asked to leave the country within seven days... EU constitution makers slam Franco-German plan BRUSSELS, Jan 20: A Franco-German proposal for a double-headed presidency of the European Union came under heavy fire on Monday from supporters of closer integration, who say the plan by the... Europeans realize they have been sidelined over Iraq BRUSSELS: War clouds over Baghdad cast dark shadows over Brussels as it dawns on Europe’s finest — and not just the thousands demonstrating across the continent at the weekend — just... Second resolution may be delusional: Attack on Iraq LONDON: Within the British cabinet, Tony Blair’s Labour party and in the UK at large, a touching faith is increasingly placed in the ability of the UN to extricate us from... ME students still look for Western education DUBAI: Ayesha Al Mansouri, a final-year student at the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, knows where she wants to go for post-graduate studies — either Amherst College in... New Afghan army a distant dream KABUL: Marching out of step and in ragged line, glancing around like a curious group of teenagers, the fifth battalion of Afghanistan’s new national army steps around the parade ground to... Second Alzheimer’s gene found CHICAGO: Swiss researchers said on Monday they have pinpointed a second gene that, when defective, increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.... Melting ice to boost world transport LOS ANGELES: The north-west passage, for centuries a forbidding and deadly challenge to explorers and adventurers, is being so transformed by global warming that it may change the face of international...

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