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May 28, 2003 Wednesday Rabi-ul-Awwal 25,1424 Russia ‘concerned’ over Iran’s N-plan MOSCOW, May 27: Russia, currently building Iran’s first nuclear reactor, expressed concern on Tuesday over Tehran’s nuclear plans, days ahead of a U.S-Russian summit, but vowed to continue work on the... Indonesia says 76 rebels killed BANDA ACEH (Indonesia) May 27: Indonesia’s military on Tuesday reported more fierce clashes with separatist rebels in Aceh province and said it had seized a thickly forested island used as a... Strike in France hits air travel across Europe PARIS, May 27: French air traffic controllers and teachers on Tuesday walked off the job in protest at government plans for pension reform, wreaking havoc on air travel across Europe and... Americans see Islam as global threat: NYT NEW YORK, May 27: Many fundamentalist Christian evangelical scholars and leaders in the United States perceive Islam to be the public enemy number one and aim to launch a movement to... Italian school to control truants through SMS CASSINO (Italy) May 27: A school in Italy has decided to inform parents with mobile telephones via Short Message System (SMS) when their children are caught avoiding classes, Il Messaggero reported... Munich plumps for all-Linux solution in blow to Microsoft HAMBURG, May 27: In a highly politicized decision, the Munich city administration in Germany is to dump the Microsoft Windows operating system from its computers and convert to the open-source system... Heatwave claims 430 lives in India HYDERABAD (India) May 27: At least 430 people have died from sunstroke and heat exhaustion in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in the past eleven days, officials said on... US rebuffs N. Korea’s call for talks WASHINGTON, May 27: US Secretary of State Colin Powell on Tuesday rebuffed a North Korean call for bilateral talks on its suspected nuclear arms programme and said Washington wants to address... Muslim envoys boycott moot headed by Israel GENEVA, May 27: Senior diplomats from Arab and Muslim states stayed away from a major international disarmament forum on Tuesday to protest against Israel taking up its presidency, diplomats said.... Big EU states accused of hijacking draft constitution BRUSSELS, May 27: Supporters of closer European integration angrily accused big states on Tuesday of hijacking the forum drafting an EU constitution to boost their own powers.... Chechnya’s suicide widows new threat for Russia MOSCOW: Shakhidat Baymuradova, a rifle slung on her back, fought alongside her husband in the ranks of Chechen rebels until he was killed by Russian troops in 1999.... US leaves Iran with little choice LONDON: Imagine for a moment that you are a senior official in Iran’s foreign ministry. It’s hot outside on the dusty, congested streets of Tehran. But inside the ministry, despite the... Turkey’s military warns govt of coup ISTANBUL: The head of Turkey’s armed forces warned the government on Monday that the possibility of military intervention still existed and that the government should be sensitive to the country’s secularist... Europe struggles to define its union BRUSSELS: The European Union’s first constitution, creating a union president and foreign minister, has been 15 tortuous months in the making in Valery Giscard d’Estaing’s convention.... ME issue beginning to affect US politics WASHINGTON: The politics of Middle East peace have become almost as complex in the United States as they are in the region itself.... Armed gangs rule Baghdad as US loses control BAGHDAD: As the blood-red sun sinks below the Baghdad skyline, the shooting begins. It is the sound of the anarchy into which the Iraqi capital has spiralled since the war’s end:... Museum chief flays bid to play down losses AMMAN, May 27: Iraq’s antiquities department head Jaber Khalil said here on Tuesday that thousands of artifacts were stolen from Iraqi museums, dismissing reports that far less objects were looted than... US court refuses to end secret hearings: Deportations after 9/11 WASHINGTON, May 27: The US Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday a challenge to the federal government’s policy of holding secret immigration hearings of people detained after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.... Toronto suffers fresh Sars outbreak TORONTO, May 27: Medical staff at some Toronto hospitals, dealing with a new SARS outbreak, have strapped back face masks and donned two layers of gloves, fearing they let their guard... Saudi daily sacks editor after edict JEDDAH, May 27: Saudi Arabian authorities have fired the editor-in-chief of a leading reformist newspaper after an influential religious leader issued an edict calling for a mass boycott of the daily,...

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