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| February 10, 2003 | Monday | Zul Hijjah 8,1423 |
Attacks to increase, warn CIA veterans
WASHINGTON, Feb 9: CIA veterans have warned the Bush administration not to go to war against Iraq as it would further widen the divide between the Western and Islamic worlds and...
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Sharon says main task is to remove Arafat
AL QUDS, Feb 9: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Sunday one of the main tasks of his new government would be removing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat....
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India, Israel, US form anti-terror group
NEW DELHI, Feb 9: Senior members of the intelligence and diplomatic fraternity of India, Israel and the United States have come together to form a “trilateral mechanism” to tackle international terrorism,...
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Scandinavians flay LTTE over gun running
COLOMBO, Feb 9: Scandinavian monitors on Sunday rejected denials by Tamil Tiger rebels and said they had been caught smuggling arms and ammunition into Sri Lanka in violation of a ceasefire...
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Philippines begins pull-out from Baghdad embassy
MANILA, Feb 9: The Philippines said on Sunday it had begun closing down its embassy in Baghdad and it expected to receive “confidential advance notice” from the United States in the...
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Latest events in the Iraq crisis
BAGHDAD, Feb 9: Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri, on a surprise visit to Tehran, held talks with his Iranian counterpart Kamal Kharazi, who warned Baghdad to cooperate with UN arms inspectors...
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict out of spotlight, but not out of steam
WASHINGTON: With the looming prospect of war with Iraq, a split within the Western alliance of nations about what to do about Baghdad and the new threats of a nuclear crisis...
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Food experts differ over irradiation
BRUSSELS: International food experts will soon discuss revising — if not abandoning — the maximum dose for irradiation, an idea that has stirred opposition from the European Union and infuriated numerous...
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Powell doesn’t know what he is up against
LONDON: For three days we drove across Afghanistan. Overhead American planes laced the wintry sky with vapour trails. Around us the ‘Jihad International’ was falling apart. In Jalalabad we watched fighters...
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US looks to West Africa to replace ME oil supply
MADRID: Until recently, Equatorial Guinea had a dismal reputation: a backward dictatorship where most residents were dirt- poor while the oil wealth was pocketed by the ruling clan....
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Singapore, Malaysia joust over a rock
SINGAPORE: The jagged white, wind-swept rocks terrified sailors for centuries — a piercing reef reviled by colonial traders, cherished by pirates and now at the heart of a bitter territorial row....
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Kosovans call for independence
ZAGREB: Kosovo Albanian activists want to have the UN-run province declared an independent state next week because they are so enraged at being formally included as part of Serbia in the...
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Exiled Protestants vow to return
BELFAST-GLASGOW: John White, the best friend of rebel Northern Ireland loyalist Johnny Adair, on Friday vowed to defy Ulster Defence Association (UDA) paramilitary chiefs and return to Northern Ireland from exile...
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Bush backs fuel cells: environmentalists see a plot
LOS ANGELES: President Bush appeared on national television on Thursday in a carefully crafted speech extolling the virtues of hydrogen fuel cells as the solution to America’s energy problems....
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