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| May 11, 2003 | Sunday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 8, 1424 |
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Powell presses Israel, Palestinians to implement roadmap
TEL AVIV, May 10: US Secretary of State Colin Powell on Saturday urged Israel and the Palestinians to begin implementing the internationally-backed roadmap for peace.... 
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US, Iran held talks in Geneva: official
JERUSALEM, May 10: US and Iranian officials met face to face in Geneva “very recently” to talk about Iraq and Afghanistan, a US official said on Saturday....
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US body lifts ban on nuke research
WASHINGTON, May 10: The US Senate Armed Services Committee has voted to lift a ban on research and development of low-yield nuclear weapons in the United States, it said in a...
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Saddam letter asks Iraqis to fight US
LONDON, May 10: An Arabic-language newspaper published on Saturday a letter “attributed” to former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein urging Iraqis to crush the US-led invaders who deposed him....
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Arabs dismiss Bush proposal as PR exercise
CAIRO, May 10: Arab states on Saturday gave mixed reviews to US President George Bush’s offer of a regional free-trade zone for the Middle East, with some dismissing it as a...
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Health chief refuses to disavow Baath party
BAGHDAD, May 10: Iraq’s controversial US-appointed interim health chief caused a firestorm on Saturday when he refused to publicly renounce membership in the Baath party of former strongman Saddam Hussein....
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UK Queen opposes parade
LONDON, May 10: Queen Elizabeth has made it known that she is not in favour of a “victory march” for British troops returning from Iraq, a British newspaper reported on Saturday....
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US persuades ‘terrorists’ to disarm
NORTHEASTERN IRAQ, May 10: US forces reached a disarmament deal here on Saturday with the Iraq-based Iranian armed opposition, the People’s Mujahedeen, a group designated as terrorist by Washington....
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UN office besieged in DR Congo
 KIGALI, May 10: Ethnic clashes flared again on Saturday in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) town of Bunia a day after a violent standoff outside a UN peacekeepers compound,...
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Bush invites Israeli PM for talks
WASHINGTON, May 10: President George W. Bush has invited Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to visit him in Washington on May 20, the White House announced on Saturday....
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US troops attacked
KUWAIT CITY, May 10: US troops shot dead one looter and wounded two others as coalition forces continued to come under sporadic fire while moving to restore security in Iraq in...
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Shia groups to be asked to leave hospitals
BAGHDAD, May 10: Shia groups in control of several Baghdad hospitals will be asked to turn them over peacefully, US and Iraqi health officials said Saturday....
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US expels Saudi envoy
LOS ANGELES, May 10: A Saudi consular official was held for two days and expelled from the United States this week because he was accused of having links with terrorist organizations,...
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13 killed in Philippines
COTABATO (Philippines) May 10: Thirteen people were killed and 26 others wounded on Saturday when a bomb, suspected to have been planted by Muslim rebels, exploded in the southern Philippine city...
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Berlin favours end to sanctions
BERLIN, May 10: There is no reason to maintain UN sanctions against Iraq, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said in an interview to appear Sunday, backing US calls for the 12-year-old measures...
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US reorders forces around oil, Africa
WASHINGTON: Africa appears to be getting more attention from the Pentagon as the US military makes major geo-strategic shifts in its global deployments....
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Sharon could derail Bush’s roadmap
TEL AVIV: On April 30, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gave two senior White House officials his customary VIP treatment: a helicopter sightseeing tour over the West Bank. From the air,...
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Vilification of Arabs in biased Hollywood films
BEIRUT: In a hypothetical interview, Jack Shaheen, author of Reel Bad Arabs — How Hollywood Vilifies a People, sums up from a personal perspective the image of Arabs and Muslims in...
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US softens stance against France
WASHINGTON: Just weeks after the angriest rift with a close ally in decades, the United States is quietly backing away from threats to penalize France for its strenuous efforts to block...
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The new ‘caliphs’ in Iraq
COMMON sense demands that the UN’s weapons inspectors return to Iraq without any further delay. As Tony Blair reaffirmed recently, the threat thought to be posed by Iraqi weapons was the...
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