Low Graphics Site

June 30, 2003 Monday Rabi-us-Sani 29,1424 Foreign troops to occupy Solomon Islands SYDNEY: Solomon Islands has a flag, a national anthem and a seat at the United Nations, but the small South Pacific state fails most other tests of nationhood.... Italy’s odd couple to drive EU ROME: Hold on to your seats, Italy’s odd couple are about to take the wheel of the European Union.... Agreeing to ceasefire is tactical move: analysts GAZA CITY: The three-month truce announced by Palestinian factions on Sunday appears to be a tactical move rather than a change of ideology in hardline movements, but analysts reckoned the move... Hamas is champion of the street AL QUDS: The hardline Palestinian group Hamas, which announced on Sunday it was suspending for three months its campaign of suicide bombings and other attacks against Israel, is one of the... Calls grow for peace force in Liberia MONROVIA: Calls are growing for a multinational peacekeeping force to intervene in Liberia, which has seen hundreds die in intensified battles for the capital in the past month.... Drug firms may be told to reveal junkets CANBERRA: In what is likely to be a world first, the Australian government’s consumer protection agency has proposed that major drug companies be required to publish on a website details of... ‘Commercial speech’ is not ‘free speech’: US apex court WASHINGTON: This country’s highest court has left Nike and other businesses operating in California wary of making any public claim about their operations, including responding to accusations about their overseas labour... Rice flays construction of Israel’s fence AL QUDS, June 29: US national security adviser Condoleezza Rice on Sunday criticised the Israeli government’s continued construction of a security fence between Israel and the West Bank, a government source... Blair no longer trusted, poll show LONDON, June 29: Most British voters say Prime Minister Tony Blair is no longer trustworthy, and more people want to see him quit than want him to stay on, according to... French tip-off led to Zawahiri arrest: report PARIS, June 29: In its issue dated June 30, French newsmagazine Marianne reveals that it was largely because of a secret report filed by the French secret services with their American... Francophone member PARIS, June 29: A high-ranking member of President Jacques Chirac’s governmental coalition says that in his estimation Israel should be allowed to become a member of the association of Francophone states... Israel appoints French judge to probe attack PARIS, June 29: Israel has decided to call on France’s leading anti-terrorist magistrate, Judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere, to oversee the investigation into the March 2002 terrorist attack on a hotel in Netanya.... US legislator wants troops from other states in Iraq WASHINGTON, June 29: An international force of up to 60,000 troops is needed in Iraq to halt the continuing violence, which will escalate if left unchecked, US Sen. Joseph Biden warned... Shias oppose searches of women by soldiers BAGHDAD, June 29: The powerful Hawza, the leading school for Shia Muslim clerics in Iraq, called in a statement published on Sunday, on US-led coalition troops to stop body searches of... 12 party-goers die as balcony falls in Chicago CHICAGO, June 29: A balcony crammed with party-goers collapsed early on Sunday, sending bodies and splintered wood plummeting three stories into a tangled mass that killed 12 and injured dozens, authorities... DPRK tells UN not to bow to US wishes UNITED NATIONS, June 28: North Korea on Friday warned the UN Security Council not to give in to the US pressure in determining whether Pyongyang posed a nuclear threat.... 60 die of malaria, encephalitis: Floods in Assam, Bangladesh GUWAHATI, June 29: At least 60 people have died of malaria and encephalitis in India’s flood-hit state of Assam over the past month as fresh rains brought the number of displaced... Europe’s press begin attacks on Berlusconi ROME, June 29: European newspapers raked Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s political record over the coals on Sunday as his government prepares to take on the rotating EU presidency from Greece... Weapons cache found in Bangladesh DHAKA, June 29: Police last night seized 62,099 rounds of bullets and 114 kilograms of explosives from a truck loaded with pineapple from a remote village of Kahalu Upazilla some 200... China inks bilateral trade pact with Hong Kong HONG KONG, June 29: China on Sunday signed with Hong Kong its first free trade pact since joining the WTO, which the territory hopes will attract overseas investors and drive an...

Contributions Privacy Policy © DAWN Group of Newspapers, 2005