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June 27, 2003 Friday Rabi-us-Sani 26,1424 Iraqis helping US, UK being attacked, says minister BAGHDAD, June 26: British International Development Secretary Baroness Amos warned on Thursday of a worrying series of threats against Iraqis cooperating with the occupation forces in their efforts to rebuild the... $2.3bn for ’91 war claims approved GENEVA, June 26: The United Nations on Thursday approved payment of 2.3 billion dollars to governments, companies and individuals for the 1991 Gulf war losses, but rejected most of Kuwait’s largest... Rice flays Chirac’s vision of multipolarity LONDON, June 26: US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice on Thursday attacked French President Jacques Chirac’s concept of a multipolar world, dismissing it as a “theory of rivalry” that had never... Power firm worker killed BAGHDAD, June 26: A driver for the Iraqi power utility was killed by an improvised explosive device on Thursday, as much of Baghdad went into a fourth sweltering day without electricity... Sahhaf quizzed, released by US forces: TV DUBAI, June 26: Former Iraqi information minister Mohammed Saeed al Sahhaf, who earned the nickname, “Comical Ali”, during the Iraq invasion, handed himself in to US forces, but was released after... US to freeze Myanmar leaders’ assets WASHINGTON, June 26: Washington is preparing new sanctions against Myanmar that would freeze personal assets of members of its ruling military junta and ban remittances from its nationals working in the... Sir Denis Thatcher dies at 88 LONDON, June 26: Sir Denis Thatcher, the discreet pillar of strength behind Britain’s first woman prime minister Margaret Thatcher, died at a London hospital on Thursday. He was 88.... Potter’s creator says she’d love to be invisible LONDON, June 26: Harry Potter author JK Rowling, interviewed by children from around the world, said on Thursday she would love to become invisible so that she could write her books... VHP steps up pressure over temple NEW DELHI, June 26: Radical Hindu group Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Wednesday threatened to hold nationwide protests if India’s ruling BJP party does not allow a temple to be built on... 30 sites to be added to UN heritage list PARIS, June 26: UNESCO is to announce next week during the 27th session of its World Heritage Committee at UNESCO headquarters here the addition of some 30 new sites to the... Bush calls upon Liberia’s president to quit WASHINGTON, June 26: US President George Bush called on Liberian President Charles Taylor on Thursday to step down in line with a truce deal, as he pushed to end Africa’s bloody... Men on LTTE hit list need protection: JVP COLOMBO, June 26: Janatha Vimukthi Peruma, the Marxist political party, on Wednesday launched a protest campaign against the Lankan government’s “lack of efforts to prevent the killings of anti- LTTE persons... HR bodies’ observation US trial plan for detainees flawed WASHINGTON: The Pentagon’s plans to try detainees at the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba and elsewhere for terrorism and war crimes fall far short of minimum international due process standards, according... Saudi Arabia seeks to heal internal rifts RIYADH: Jolted by bombings in its capital and a shootout with militants in Makkah, Saudi Arabia is trying to heal internal rifts and tackle the threat of Al Qaeda by talking... BBC not to ‘apologize’ over Iraq report LONDON: The BBC dug in its heels and refused on Thursday to bow to demands by British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s “sultan of spin” to apologize for its reporting on the... China-India ties come out of the cold SHANGHAI: The first visit by an Indian prime minister to China in a decade produced a spate of agreements and flourishes of rhetoric, but no major breakthrough in ties between the... US ‘unprepared for post-war Iraq’ BAGHDAD: An American who spent two months working on a US-led reconstruction team in Iraq has accused Washington of failing to prepare for the post-conflict situation.... Scientists hope to find elusive particle PARIS: One of the greatest prizes in modern physics — the confirmation or otherwise of a theoretical sub-atomic particle called the Higgs boson — is back up for grabs....

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