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May 10, 2003 Saturday Rabi-ul-Awwal 7, 1424 Israel shutting out scrutiny: Amnesty BEIT SAHOUR (West Bank) May 9: The rights group Amnesty International accused Israel on Friday of trying to prevent outside scrutiny of its army after a military clamp down on foreign... Shia leader opts to return to Iraq BASRA, Iraq, May 9: The chief of Iraq’s main Shia opposition group is to return home on Saturday after 23 years of exile in Iran to take up the struggle for... Indonesia advised against mly action: US, EU, Japan statement BANDA ACEH (Indonesia), May 9: The United States and other world powers urged Indonesia on Friday not to launch a military operation in Aceh province, as Jakarta sparked fears by sending... Paris had links with Saddam: Rumsfeld’s allegation WASHINGTON, May 9: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Friday raised France’s “very close relationship” with Iraq, but would not comment on reports alleging that the French government had helped President... Nepalese protest against king KATHMANDU, May 9: Five political parties in Nepal staged a nationwide “black flag” demonstration on Friday as part of campaign against King Gyanendra for his sacking of the elected prime minister.... India tests air-to-air missile BHUBANESWAR, May 9: India on Friday test-fired its first indigenously developed air-to-air missile from a site in Orissa.... Bush unveils ME free trade plan COLUMBIA (US), May 9: President George W. Bush on Friday called for creating a US-Middle East free trade area in ten years, vowing to reward reform-minded Arab nations and capitalize on... US official accused of anti-Arab remarks LOS ANGELES, May 9: A prominent US-based Muslim civil rights and advocacy group on Friday called on the Bush administration to remove an American official supervising the hiring of translators in... US asked to stay engaged in S. Asia WASHINGTON, May 9: The US media and opinion makers are urging the Bush administration to stay engaged in its efforts to broker a peace between South Asia nuclear rivals, India and... Relatives of UK bomber taken into custody LONDON, May 9: The wife, brother and sister of British citizen Omar Khan Sharif, on the run following an April 30 suicide bomb attack in Israel, were remanded in custody on... France insists on UN role PARIS, May 9: French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin warned on Friday that if Iraq wants to give itself a “stable” and “legitimate” regime, then the international community will have to... US out to seize Iraq’s oil, says EU official COPENHAGEN, May 9: A top European Union official derided on Friday pledges by the United States to manage Iraqi oil revenues transparently, saying it was out to seize the country’s oil... Three killed in US ’copter crash WASHINGTON, May 9: A UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter crashed in Iraq on Friday, killing three people and injuring a fourth, a US defence official said. There was no indication of hostile fire.... US to test readiness with simulated terror attacks WASHINGTON, May 9: The United States will launch simulated radiological and biological attacks on two cities next week in its first major test of disaster preparedness since the deadly Sept. 11,... UK plans offshore zone for aliens LONDON: Tony Blair will give a strong push to Britain’s plans to send most of Europe’s asylum seekers to an offshore processing centre somewhere like Russia or Albania when he gets... Rumsfeld’s firm sold reactors to N. Korea WASHINGTON: Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary, sat on the board of a company which three years ago sold two light water nuclear reactors to North Korea — a country he... Bloodstains on ‘white’ flag in Rafah RAFAH (Gaza Strip): A bloodstained white scarf on a makeshift memorial of concrete bricks and a rusty grid is all that is left here of James Miller, a freelance cameraman killed... Halliburton admits to paying kickbacks WASHINGTON: The reputation of Halliburton, the oil industry giant once run by the US Vice-President Dick Cheney, suffered a new blow on Thursday when it admitted one of its subsidiaries had... Hu signals shift in Beijing’s strategy SINGAPORE: China’s economy is bigger than those of Canada and Russia combined. Now a country that has long claimed a role as leader of the Third World is about to take... Disorder reigns in Afghanistan, Iraq: UN UNITED NATIONS: The United States, which militarily ousted the governments in both Afghanistan and Iraq, has two destabilized countries on its hands, say senior UN officials and diplomats. Complaints of disorder...

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