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| February 25, 2003 | Tuesday | Zul Hijjah 23, 1423 |
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Blix spurns Iraq’s plea for more time: Missile destruction
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 24: UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said on Monday Iraq must begin destroying its Al Samoud missiles by Saturday, rejecting Baghdad’s bid for more time to hold... 
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Wolfowitz throws sop to anti-Saddam Iraqis
DEARBORN (USA), Feb 24: US Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz assured Iraqis here on Sunday that if the United States goes to war in Iraq, it will not be to hand...
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Turkish parliament to vote on US troop deployment
ANKARA, Feb 24: Bowing to strong pressure from Washington, the Turkish government reluctantly decided on Monday to ask parliament to approve the deployment of US soldiers in Turkey and the dispatch...
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Afghan minister’s death ends dream of rebuilding homeland
KABUL, Feb 24: The death of Afghanistan’s Mines and Industry Minister Juma Mohammad Mohammadi, killed in a plane crash near Karachi on Monday, brought to a tragic end one man’s dream...
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Sharon forms right-wing government
TEL AVIV, Feb 24: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Likud made a surprise break with its traditional ultra-Orthodox Jewish allies on Monday by allying itself with the secular Shinui party, giving...
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Norah Jones bags five Grammy Awards
 NEW YORK, Feb 24: Newcomer Norah Jones blew away the competition at the 45th annual Grammy awards on Sunday, taking five trophies including Album of the Year, and stealing the thunder...
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Karachi blast victims families suing firm
PARIS, Feb 24: Families of the 11 French victims of the May 8, 2002, terrorist attack in Karachi said they have decided to file suit against the Direction des Constructions Navales...
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Professors in France object to ‘veil’
PARIS, Feb 24: Two hundred professors at the Lycee La Martiniere-Duchere in Lyons say they will go on strike if national school authorities do not hand down clearer guidelines with regard...
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Powell speaks with a forked tongue
LONDON: It was interesting to hear Colin Powell accuse France and Germany of cowardice in not wanting to go to war. Or, as he put more succinctly, France and Germany ‘are...
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British officials wobble over Iraq
LONDON: Why now? The question is of course being asked by those opposed to a war against Iraq, and those who have not made up their minds. But it has also...
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S.Korea stakes claim as leading ‘webocracy’
SEOUL: South Korea will stake a claim to be the most advanced online democracy on the planet today (Feb 25) with the inauguration of a president who styles himself as the...
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Aznar trying to soften image as warmonger
MADRID: As the political cost mounts for Spain’s alliance with the United States on Iraq, Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar is seeking to soften his image as a war-monger by launching...
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Sotheby’s fails to find buyer
NEW YORK: The auction house Sotheby’s has been taken off the auction block after the family behind the business failed to find a buyer....
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Men behind a ‘Texanized presidency’ driving Bush to war
NEW YORK: Behind President George W. Bush’s charge to war against Iraq, there is a carefully devised mission, drawn up by people who work over the shoulders of those whom America...
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