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July 16, 2003 Wednesday Jumadi-ul-Awwal 15, 1424 China urges talks on N.Korean N-crisis BEIJING, July 15: China on Tuesday showed growing signs of impatience with North Korea, urging a swift restart of nuclear talks after President Hu Jintao took the unusual step of sending... Anti-Muslim violence in US rises: report WASHINGTON, July 15: Anti-Muslim violence, discrimination and harassment is rising in the United States, mainly due to unrelenting fall-out and antagonism following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, said a report on... Bush for US troops in Liberia MONROVIA, July 15: US President George W. Bush has said he is open to a “limited” deployment of US troops to prop up a ceasefire in turbulent Liberia, where protracted warfare... More mass graves in northern Iraq AL-HADAR (Iraq), July 15: Dozens of bodies were exhumed Tuesday from a mass grave in the northern Iraqi region of Al-Hadar under the supervision of US experts.... US asks wealthy states to boost AIDS fund PARIS, July 15: The United States on Tuesday called on other wealthy nations to contribute more to the main fund for tackling the global AIDS pandemic, warning that as much as... Fake report was not a mistake: Democrat WASHINGTON, July 15: A leading Democrat in Congress accused the White House Tuesday of a broad pattern of dissemblance in making its case for waging war on Iraq.... China’s Yangtze River rises as death toll mounts BEIJING, July 15: Rescuers searched frantically on Tuesday for bodies after scores of people were reported dead or missing from landslides in the upper reaches of the Yangtze river basin, while... German MEP says Italy has racist government BERLIN, July 15: A German lawmaker at the centre of a dispute with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Tuesday Italy had a racist government.... War crimes tribunal to be set up in Iraq BAGHDAD, July 15: Iraq’s transitory Governing Council decided at a meeting Tuesday to set up a war crimes tribunal to try members of the ousted Saddam Hussein regime, sources close to... Two US Muslim groups merge SAN FRANCISCO, July 15: Alarmed by the erosion of civil rights of the seven-million-strong American Muslim community in the aftermath of the Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, two major American Muslim... Mandela has his flaws, says friend Tutu JOHANNESBURG, July 15: Even though he is almost perfect, Nelson Mandela does have his weak points, South Africa’s other anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond Tutu said of his longtime friend on Tuesday.... Reward posted for escaped JI operative MANILA, July 15: The Philippines government announced on Tuesday a bounty for an Indonesian operative of the Jemaah Islamiyah group who escaped from police headquarters on Monday.... Withdrawal of US division delayed WASHINGTON, July 15: The Pentagon said on Tuesday it planned to completely withdraw the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division from Iraq by the end of the fall, delaying the return of the... Iraqi groups warn against sending troops DUBAI, July 15: Two previously unknown Iraqi groups on Tuesday warned countries against sending troops to Iraq, where US troops are facing daily attacks, Arab television channels said on Tuesday.... US sanctions on Myanmar WASHINGTON, July 15: US lawmakers on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to sanction Myanmar’s ruling military junta, impose trade restrictions, freeze the regime’s financial assets in US banks, and install a visa ban... Hurricane PORT O’CONNOR (Texas, USA) July 15: The Texas coast girded for impact as Hurricane Claudette bore down on the shoreline on Tuesday carrying battering surf, pounding rain and flooding.—Reuters... Talks on terror suspects to test Blair-Bush ties LONDON: Diplomatic battles over the fate of two British terrorism suspects jailed at Guantanamo Bay will pose a key test for the much-flaunted special relationship between Tony Blair and US President... UN shifts focus to turmoil in Africa UNITED NATIONS: Focusing its attention on one of the world’s most politically troubled continents, the United Nations has decided to downsize its peacekeeping operations in Sierra Leone, upgrade its mission in... New anti-HIV drug offers renewed hope PARIS: Fresh data put forward at the Paris AIDS conference on Tuesday confirmed a surge of optimism surrounding a new drug aimed at blocking the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from infiltrating... Prisoners hold key to peace in Middle East RAMALLAH: The ceasefire agreed by militant Palestinian factions is likely to survive the crisis over release of prisoners, because it has the support of the prisoners....

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