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| February 16, 2003 | Sunday | Zul Hijjah 14, 1423 |
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Blair admits inspectors need more time
GLASGOW, Feb 15: British Prime Minister Tony Blair, pinned down by growing domestic and international resistance to a US-led war on Iraq, accepted on Saturday to give UN inspectors some more... 
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US to support moderate govts: Strategy for Muslim world unveiled
WASHINGTON, Feb 15: Ending the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel is “a critical component” to winning the war on terrorism, the White House said on Friday in a strategic blueprint...
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US to deploy lightning-bolt weapon to cripple circuits
San francisco, Feb 15: The United States is to deploy a top-secret high-powered microwave weapon if it goes to war in s of times the electrical current of a lightning bolt...
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BD worried over India’s stand on immigrants
NEW DELHI, Feb 15: Bangladesh Foreign Minister Morshed Khan said on Saturday he was worried about the issue of illegal immigration between his country and India....
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NASA video shows strain in Columbia’s last minutes
WASHINGTON, Feb 15: NASA video of the last minutes of shuttle Columbia’s fatal flight shows strain and concentration etched on almost every face at Mission Control in Houston, especially that of...
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Canadians told to leave Kuwait
TORONTO, Feb 15: With the possibility of war in Iraq growing, Canadian residents in Kuwait have been warned to leave, the Canadian Press reported on Saturday....
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US media tip Pachachi as Saddam successor
 ABU DHABI, Feb 15: Adnan Pachachi, a former Iraqi foreign minister tipped as a future leader by US media, says he is prepared to serve his country again should President Saddam...
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Paris warned against going ‘too far’
PARIS, Feb 15: Richard Perle, an adviser to US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and one of the most influential hawks in the Bush administration, says that “it’s not in France’s best...
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Seven killed in BD poll violence
DHAKA, Feb 15: At least seven more people were killed and 200 injured in violence linked to Bangladesh’s staggered local elections, press reports said Saturday....
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BD blasts
DHAKA, Feb 15: At least one madressah student was killed and five other students were injured in a serial blast of about 10 powerful bombs in Dinajpur on Friday morning....
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Blix pours scorn on Powell’s claims
LONDON: Colin Powell’s long dossier of Iraq’s alleged non-compliance came under withering attack from the chief UN weapons inspectors on Friday. They said they found several elements of his evidence either...
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Wider impact of West’s schisms
WASHINGTON: For the past 17 months, foreign-policy experts have been telling readers of US newspapers that the world is not experiencing so much a “clash of civilisations” between the West and...
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Dirty money channels explored
PARIS: The Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) has confirmed that international terrorist groups misuse non-profit organisations to raise and recycle funds to finance their activities....
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US policies tearing apart Nato, EU
BRUSSELS: US President George W. Bush may or may not succeed in securing United Nations backing for his planned war against Iraq. But even before the first shots are fired against...
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The real meaning of ‘collateral damage’
LONDON: The 1991 Gulf War was my first experience as a war reporter. As a freelancer, I had knocked on the door of the Irish Times’s D’Olier Street office with a...
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Sharon’s day in court will come
ABU DHABI: A United Arab Emirates (UAE) newspaper on Friday commented on the Belgium Highest Court of Appeal’s decision, which decided to bring suit against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for...
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