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July 7, 2003 Monday Jumadi-ul-Awwal 6,1424 Over 1.1m homeless, 80 dead in India, BD: Floods, rains play havoc GUWAHATI, July 6: More than 1.1 million people have been left homeless by monsoon floods in India and neighbouring Bangladesh, which have reportedly also left more than 80 dead, officials and... Iranian twins’ surgery in critical phase SINGAPORE, July 6: An unprecedented operation to separate adult twins joined at the head reached a critical phase early on Monday when doctors in Singapore were to try to split a... 17,000 evacuted in China floods BEIJING, July 6: Officials in the eastern province of Anhui on Sunday evacuated 17,000 people from along the Huaihe River, a tributary of the Yangtze, as its water level reached a... US soldier dies, UK newsman killed WASHINGTON, July 6: A US soldier shot Sunday on the Baghdad University campus has died from his wounds, US military officials said.... Bush exagerrated Niger link: official NEW YORK, July 6: Joseph Wilson a former American ambassador who investigated a report about Iraq buying uranium from Niger accused the Bush administration on Sunday of twisting intelligence to exaggerate... First Nato forces arrive in Kabul KABUL, July 6: An advance team of Nato troops arrived in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday to prepare for the alliance’s first military operation in Asia, a spokesman for ISAF... Taylor for asylum in Nigeria: Obasanjo MONROVIA, July 6: Embattled Liberian President Charles Taylor said on Sunday he has accepted an offer of asylum in Nigeria, but gave no indication when he would leave his anarchic country,... Blair blasts BBC over Iraq dossier LONDON, July 6: British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in a Sunday newspaper interview, accused the BBC of having committed “an attack on my integrity” by reporting that he and his staff... Riot victim admits lying in court NEW DELHI, July 6: A woman who retracted her witness statement in court leading to the acquittal of 21 Hindus accused of killing 12 Muslims during communal riots in the Indian... RSF voices concern PARIS, July 6: Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) is calling on Iranian authorities to provide information about the... Putin postpones MOSCOW, July 6: Russian President Vladimir Putin has postponed planned trips to Uzbekistan and Malaysia after suicide attacks marred a Moscow rock concert, a statement issued by the Kremlin said on... Dhaka assures Yangon of staying away DHAKA, July 6: Dhaka on Sunday assured Yangon of not interfering with the latter’s internal affairs, while hoping restoration of democracy in Myanmar, Foreign Secretary Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury told newsmen on... US to renew pressure on Israel over fence: report WASHINGTON, July 6: Washington is likely to step up pressure on Israel in coming weeks to stop construction on a controversial fence between Israel and the West Bank, the New York... What do Americans know? not very much MILLIONS of Americans accept what they are told and think they understand what they see. And what they are told and what they see is most often news as a manipulated... Multiple threats to Iraqi kids: Unicef ROME: Disease and unexploded ammunition could kill thousands of Iraqi children unless immediate priority is given to their protection, says the Unicef chief representative in Baghdad.... China engages US to resolve Korean row BEIJING: Facing a tough US stance on North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, growing pressure for UN action and increasingly threatening rhetoric from Pyongyang, a nervous China has kicked into diplomatic high gear.... Trade in body organs gears up MOSCOW: Yuri Para remembers bitterly the day he met the man who bought his kidney. The buyer’s name was Mikhail, and he was an ex-boxer from Russia. Yuri was paid $5,000... US leaders rare beasts on African continent JOHANNESBURG: Theodore Roosevelt left a bloody trail of conquest across Africa in 1909, returning home with the carcasses of lions, elephants and rhinos he shot in the bush....

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