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March 28, 2003 Friday Muharram 24, 1424 UN rejects call for session on HR GENEVA, March 27: The United Nations on Thursday rejected a call by eight countries including Russia and Syria to examine the human rights and humanitarian situation in Iraq as a result... Next 48 hours may decide duration: Experts’ view DOHA, March 27: Fiercer than expected Iraqi resistance, blinding sandstorms and the need to protect a long and vulnerable supply line have raised questions about the timing of a battle for... Syria may be next, fears Bashar BEIRUT, March 27: Syrian President Bashar al Assad said on Thursday the United States and Britain would never be able to subdue Iraq and warned Syria might be the next target... Affected states should screen passengers: WHO call on SARS GENEVA, March 27: The World Health Organisation on Thursday recommended that countries most affected by a new respiratory disease screen international passengers at airports, but stopped short of recommending outright travel... Smallpox vaccine stopped for heart patients WASHINGTON, March 27: Top US health officials have suspended smallpox vaccination for people with heart problems, according to reports Wednesday.... UN terms Israeli fence illegal GENEVA, March 27: A United Nations investigator said on Thursday a security wall which Israel says is to protect its citizens from Palestinian gunmen and suicide bombers was an illegal “creeping... 200 held in NY after protest NEW YORK, March 27: About 200 anti-war protesters were arrested on Thursday morning as they virtually closed down Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue for hours during the morning rush.... War could last for months: US mly official WASHINGTON, March 26: Some US military officials are convinced the war in Iraq is likely to last for months and will require considerably more combat power than currently on hand in... Blix clueless to Iraq’s chemical weapons UNITED NATIONS, March 27: It is too early to say whether Iraq has chemical or biological weapons, chief United Nations arms inspector Hans Blix said on Thursday.... Baghdad siege in 10 days: minister BAGHDAD, March 27: Iraq’s defence minister said on Thursday he expected that US-led forces would manage to encircle Baghdad within five to 10 days, but they would then have to face... Wounded US soldiers shocked at Iraqi resistance LANDSTUHL (Germany) March 27: For them, the war is over. A few US soldiers were half the way home on Thursday, bearing wounds inflicted by Iraqis they thought they were liberating.... US-Europe split is forever WASHINGTON: Try as he might, British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s desperate efforts to bridge the growing divide between the United States and Europe are doomed to fail in the long run,... Non-US newsmen irritate generals CAMP AS SAYLIYAH (Qatar): They call themselves the “awkward squad” and their questions to the generals running the war in Iraq are starting to divide the sceptical press from their more... Israeli embargo pushes West Bank into poverty AZZOUN (WEST BANK): Sixty-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Misleh had passed a nervous morning in the dark corridors of the Charity Society offices in the West Bank town of Azzoun waiting for UN... ‘Pre-emptive’ war tears apart UN charter SINGAPORE: It sounds like an arcane debate among wordsmiths. But the distinction between pre-emptive and preventive war, drawn by US President George W. Bush in ordering the US invasion of Iraq,... War in the cradle of civilization ISTANBUL: In aiming to disarm Iraq and bring a regime change, The Mother of All Battles-II is also ravaging the cradle of Western civilization.... 30m in US go hungry: study NEW YORK: While the US government spends billions of dollars to wage war against Iraq, some 30 million people in the United States go hungry, 12 million of whom are children,... US mistakenly offers money to Slovenia LJUBLJANA: The United States mistakenly named Slovenia as a partner in its war against Iraq and even offered it a share of the money budgeted for the conflict, the tiny Alpine...

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