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| July 23, 2003 | Wednesday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 22, 1424 |
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Americans facing a grim situation
PRINCETON: Sept. 11, 2001, hastened a significant shift in America’s self-understanding. It became commonplace to refer to an “American empire” and to the United States as “the world’s only superpower.”... 
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Child abductions haunt Sri Lanka’s mothers
BATTICALOA: Nalini has five children, but when she wakes up in the morning she remembers that only three are safe in their beds....
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Palestinians want US to twist Israel’s arm
AL QUDS: The Palestinians are hoping that their prime minister Mahmud Abbas will convince the Bush administration on his maiden trip to Washington this week to put more pressure on the...
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Attack on BBC seen as a smokescreen
TOKYO-LONDON: The Prime Minister’s close ally Peter Mandelson made an astonishing attack on the BBC on Saturday night as Tony Blair faced the deepest crisis of his leadership over the death...
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Economy is a factor in another Bush’s fate
WASHINGTON: US President George W. Bush’s triumphant spring has been followed by a summer of growing discontent....
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GM crops spreading in southeast Asia
BANGKOK: The battle over introducing genetically modified (GM) crops in Southeast Asia is being fought in the corn fields of the Philippines and the papaya orchards of Thailand, among other places....
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Vegetarian diet can lower cholesterol
CHICAGO: A vegetarian diet high in fibre and soy is as effective at lowering “bad” cholesterol as a low dose of a cholesterol-lowering drug, according to a study released on Tuesday....
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US govt probing 14 charges of abuse: Terror suspects
WASHINGTON, July 22: The US Justice Department is conducting 14 investigations into alleged abuses and mistreatment of post-Sept 11 detainees, including a charge that a guard used a Muslim inmate’s shirt...
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Red Cross worker shot dead in Iraq
GENEVA, July 22: An international Red Cross aid worker was shot dead and his Iraqi driver was wounded when their car came under fire south of Baghdad on Tuesday, the International...
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South Korean twins separated
SINGAPORE, July 22: Singapore doctors successfully separated on Tuesday two South Korean baby girls joined at the spine, two weeks after conjoined Iranian sisters died in an attempt to part them,...
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Fire breaks out at Eiffel Tower
PARIS, July 22: A fire broke out at the top of the landmark Eiffel Tower in Paris on Tuesday, causing no injuries and forcing the evacuation of the popular tourist destination,...
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Iran’s Sunni MPs complain of prejudice
TEHRAN, July 22: Sunni deputies in Iran’s parliament criticized in an open letter to the country’s leading Shia leaders what they called a discriminatory attitude towards the Sunnis, the reformist Yas-i-No...
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Hoon in a spot over Kelly’s death: Blair faces grilling in China
LONDON, July 22: The spotlight turned on British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon on Tuesday as the man who authorized the identification of weapons expert Dr David Kelly as the source of...
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Anti-Muslim bias worries French officials
PARIS, July 22: French government authorities were noticeably absent at the annual commemoration on July 20 of the deportation of 12,884 Jews who in 1942 were rounded up in Paris, placed...
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Idi Amin’s kin allowed to visit Saudi Arabia
KAMPALA, July 22: Idi Amin’s wife and daughter flew to Saudi Arabia this week to visit the dying former dictator of Uganda, government officials in Kampala said on Tuesday....
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Powell speaks to Indian FM
NEW DELHI, July 22: The United States has told India it is looking at the possibility of seeking a new UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution on Iraq....
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