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July 13, 2003 Sunday Jumadi-ul-Awwal 12, 1424 River valley being evacuated: 569 deaths from floods this year BEIJING, July 12: Evacuation efforts were underway on Saturday as hundreds of thousands of people sought to escape rising waters on China’s central Huai River, which is threatening to overflow its... Fallujah elders issue call for resistance: Support for council sought BAGHDAD-CAIRO, July 12: Tribal leaders in the western Iraqi city of Fallujah called for all-out resistance against US troops, the Arabic television station al-Jazeera reported Saturday.... 650,000 homeless in South Asia GUWAHATI-DHAKA, July 12: More than half a million people in India and Bangladesh have been driven out of their homes by heavy monsoon flooding that has killed more than 200 people... Democrats ask White House for answers WASHINGTON, July 12: Democrats in the US House of Representatives sent a letter to the White House Friday seeking an explanation about how the George W. Bush administration came to use... Koreas fail to agree on talks over nuke crisis SEOUL, July 12: North and South Korea failed Saturday to agree on multilateral talks to resolve a crisis over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons drive but resolved to pursue “appropriate” dialogue to find... Bodies of 123 ferry victims recovered DHAKA, July 12: Rescue workers recovered 66 more bodies of the sunken ferry near Chandpur and downstream between Friday night and Saturday evening, pushing the figure in Tuesday’s accident to 123,... Libya out of polls for UN seat UNITED NATIONS, July 12: Libya has taken itself out of the elections for a seat to the UN Security Council next year, but Washington claimed on Friday that it has beaten... CPJ, RSF alarmed at journalist’s conviction NEW YORK, July 12: The Committee to Protect Journalists on Friday expressed its dismay at the life sentence awarded to Munawwar Mohsin, a former sub-editor of the Frontier Post, on charges... Airbus jets fly without backup system: report HAMBURG, July 12: Hundreds of Airbus jetliners have been flying for months without a vital emergency navigation backup system, according to a German news magazine report.... Twins laid to rest FIRUZABAD, July 12: The bodies of Iranian conjoined twins Ladan and Laleh Bijani, who died after unprecedented surgery to separate them earlier this week, were laid to rest on Saturday in... Library on web PARIS, July 12: The Paris-based Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA), the International Arab Institute financed by the French government, has placed its library online, where it is now accessible at the... Nato unlikely to play big role in Iraq PARIS: American efforts in getting Nato to play a major role in peacekeeping in Iraq will be hampered by continuing divisions in the alliance over the wisdom of the war and... HK clamours for a leader who listens HONG KONG: After a tumultuous week marked by a second massive protest in Hong Kong against a subversion bill and escalating concern in China about the political fallout, leader Tung Chee-hwa... JFK is back in Berlin BERLIN: In a poignant illustration of how times change, John F. Kennedy’s triumphal visit to West Berlin 40 years ago is being colourfully recalled at an exhibition in what used to... Nasa apportioned blame in shuttle accident WASHINGTON: The board investigating the Columbia accident has concluded that Nasa management and safety system failures were as much a factor in the destruction of the shuttle and its seven- member... Anatomy of the US-led quagmire forming in Iraq WASHINGTON: How could such smart people get so much wrong?... Suicide bombing un-Islamic: Al-Azhar KUALA LUMPUR: One of the most influential Muslim scholars, Sheikh Mohamad Syed Tantawi of Cairo’s Al-Azhar university has condemned all attacks by suicide bombers, local media reported on Saturday.... Media titans gather for deal, retreat LOS ANGELES: They come from all over the world — the richest, most powerful and influential magnates in the world — and for a week they fish, bike, ride and indulge...

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