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| February 15, 2003 | Saturday | Zul Hijjah 13, 1423 |
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North Korea issue referred to UN: Pyongyang breached safeguards: IAEA
SEOUL, Feb 14: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Wednesday declared North Korea to be in breach of UN safeguards and referred the crisis to the UN Security Council, which... 
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Pentagon’s snooping plans face curbs
WASHINGTON, Feb 14: Congress imposed tough curbs on a Pentagon plan for a vast electronic database to track possible terrorist movements in the United States after fierce opposition by civil libertarians....
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Arafat agrees to appoint PM
RAMALLAH, Feb 14: Palestinian President leader Yasser Arafat agreed on Friday to share power and appoint a prime minister, in the most tangible sign yet of the reforms the United States...
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N. Korea says it can strike US
PYONGYANG, Feb 14: North Korea on Thursday warned it could strike US targets anywhere in the world as pressure mounted for it to scrap its nuclear weapons drive after the UN’s...
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US must care for post-war Iraq, say officials
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 14: US and UN officials agreed on Thursday that in case of war against Iraq, the United States — as the occupying power — would initially have responsibility...
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S. Koreans allowed to cross border
SEOUL, Feb 14: South and North Korea launched a landmark cross-border tour overland for the first time in five decades on Friday, but tensions over the North’s nuclear programmes hampered their...
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Valentine’s Day events disrupted in Mumbai
 MUMBAI, Feb 14: Hindu hardline party Shiv Sena on Friday disrupted Valentine’s Day celebrations in India’s largest city by burning cards and forcing shops selling cards and gifts to shut down....
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Austria bars US troop movements
VIENNA, Feb 14: Austria, a neutral country, has banned the transit of US troops or military equipment across its territory unless there is a new UN Security Council resolution authorizing a...
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Dolly the sheep is dead
 EDINBURGH, Feb 14: Dolly the sheep, the first animal to be cloned from an adult cell, has been put down after she was found to have a lung disease, the Roslin...
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Commander of US aircraft carrier sacked
WASHINGTON, Feb 14: The US navy on Thursday announced the dismissal of the commander of the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier battle group after it was determined that “he had engaged...
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Two drown as BD cruise ends in tragedy
CHANDPUR (Bangladesh), Feb 14: A holiday cruise ended in disaster when two passengers were killed and nine others were missing after a small ferry sank in southern Bangladesh, officials said on...
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Protest lodged over passports disappearance
LOS ANGELES, Feb 14: A US Congresswoman from northern California, Barbara Lee, has strongly protested over the number of cases of disappearance of US passports from Pakistan’s Los Angeles consulate....
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15 killed in Colombia blast
BOGOTA, Feb 14: Leftist rebels detonated a house full of mortars during a police raid in the city of Neiva on Friday, killing at least 15 people and injuring 30, investigators...
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Iran is now the ‘lesser of evils’ for US
WASHINGTON: The Bush administration now distinguishes between Iran and the other countries that President Bush lumped together last year in an “axis of evil” and does not plan to target the...
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Officials unsure of post-war Iraq: Hawks, realists fight on
WASHINGTON: While final touches are being put on war plans that could involve as many as 250,000 US troops, officials here are still fighting among themselves over the shape of a...
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Iraq crisis puts Nato’s future in doubt
BRUSSELS: NATO Secretary-General George Robertson likes to joke that “NATO in disarray” is a story newspaper editors reach for whenever there’s a quiet news day....
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Palestinians await Gulf war in gloomy mood
TULKARM (West Bank): When Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein fired Scud missiles at Israel during the last Gulf war, some Palestinians climbed on their rooftops and cheered....
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Opponents of war on Baghdad are not appeasers
LONDON: The split at the heart of Nato over George Bush’s plans to invade Iraq has triggered an outpouring of charges of 1930s-style appeasement against those resisting the rush to war....
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Brain scan could help solve crimes
FAIRFIELD (USA): A technique called “brain fingerprinting” which seeks to probe whether a suspect has specific knowledge of a crime, could become a powerful weapon in national security, its inventor believes....
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Chechen DPs fear Russian assault
AKHMATI (Georgia): Some 4,000 Chechen refugees in Georgia’s perilous Pankisi Gorge are pressing to be moved to a third country, worn down by their dire living conditions but above all fearful...
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