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February 4, 2003 Tuesday Zul Hijjah 2,1423 EU moots summit to discuss discord: France, Germany criticized BRUSSELS, Feb 3: The EU’s disarray over Iraq deepened still further on Monday, as pro-US countries accused of dividing the bloc counter-attacked against the dominance of heavyweights France and Germany.... Iraq’s ‘ghost’ troops ready for war: exiles LONDON, Feb 3: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has decentralized the Iraqi army in preparation for urban combat and will rely on his son Qusay to co-ordinate a defensive war in the... Baghdad has no nukes, says scientist TORONTO, Feb 3: A former high-level Iraqi nuclear scientist, now living in Canada, said on Monday there is no way Iraq could possess nuclear weapons and the United States is exaggerating... Mitzna refuses to join Sharon-led coalition TEL AVIV, Feb 3: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon failed in talks with Labour Party chief Amram Mitzna on Monday to persuade him to join a broad ruling coalition.... Dissenting aides were sacked by Nasa: daily NEW YORK, Feb 3: After an expert panel warned that its space shuttles were facing safety troubles if the agency’s budget was not raised, Nasa removed five of the panel’s nine... France to restrict mercenary activities PARIS, Feb 3: France, the country that gave to the world the modern-day mercenary, long associated with its colonization of Africa, looks to be one of the first to give itself... Rice to speak on French TV about Iraq PARIS, Feb 3: US National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice, in an effort to convince the French to support a new resolution that President George W Bush is expected to introduce this... Ibrahim’s aides detained in Dubai: police MUMBAI, Feb 3: Six top aides of Indian-born underworld don Dawood Ibrahim have been detained by the Dubai police, a senior police official said here on Monday.... Pharaonic tomb discovered PARIS, Feb 3: French archaeologists here announced the discovery of a tomb, believed to be of a high-level functionary of the Akhenaton dynasty going back to some fourteen centuries before Christ,... US deploying B-52 bombers to South Korea WASHINGTON, Feb 3: B-52 and B-1 bombers have been ordered to prepare to deploy to the western Pacific to back up US forces in South Korea as the US military mobilizes... Powell plans ‘compelling’ evidence LONDON/BAGHDAD, Feb 3: US Secretary of State Colin Powell pledged on Monday to provide “straightforward, sober and compelling” proof this week that Iraq was hiding banned weapons from United Nations inspectors... Ivory Coast women stage demo against France ABIDJAN, Feb 3: Thousands of women on Monday ringed the French embassy in Abidjan in a raucous but peaceful protest against a Paris-brokered peace deal to end a ruinous four-month war... US, Britain plan to limit inspection to six weeks WASHINGTON: The United States and Britain have mapped out a strategy that will attempt to limit arms inspections in Iraq to no more than an additional six weeks, according to US... Bad blood between Paris, London PARIS: The summit meeting between French President Jacques Chirac and British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday will focus on ironing out differences exacerbated by the Iraq crisis.... War ‘would mean biggest oil shock’ LONDON: The world will suffer a bigger oil crisis than that during the Arab-Israeli conflict of 1973 if the US declares war on Iraq, according to leading US investment bank Goldman... $8tn gene treasure in danger MOSCOW: One of the world’s greatest genetic resources, which survived the Second World War siege of Leningrad in which many of its scientists died, is to be thrown out of its... Iraq row damages German-US relations BERLIN: Good friends should be able to agree to disagree, says German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. But the deepening rift between Berlin and Washington over Iraq is no playground tiff and risks... Bush crowd does not speak for America about Europe LONDON: Across the vast and tangled expanse of the United States of America, these days it isn’t hard to spot disdain and contempt for that reputedly miasmic entity known in Washington...

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