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| July 25, 2003 | Friday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 24, 1424 |
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Saddam can stage comeback: experts
PARIS: As far as the French secret services are concerned, the death this week of the two sons of Saddam Hussein does not in any way lessen the importance of the... 
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Europe sets sights on US space monopoly
PARIS: In sectors ranging from aviation to mobile communications, Europe has come from nowhere to challenge the United States where it once dominated....
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Geopolitics frames US policy on Asia
SINGAPORE: In the depths of Argentina’s financial crisis in 2001, US economist David Hale suggested Buenos Aires would get Washington to bail it out if it could only persuade the American...
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BBC fears govt revenge over Kelly case
LONDON: His last words before the British Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee had been ominous....
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Ultimatum might lead to Iran-EU crisis
TEHRAN: For the last 15 years, Iran has always counted on the European Union to stand against the antagonistic policies of the United States towards the Islamic state and not to...
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Killing of Saddam’s sons: the issues involved
BAGHDAD: There is little doubt that Uday and Qusay Hussein, the two sons of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein killed by US forces in a house on the outskirts of Mosul...
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Bush should explain discredited claim: Lawmakers’ call over WMDs
WASHINGTON, July 24: Two top Democratic lawmakers Wednesday urged President George W. Bush to explain how a now discredited White House claim that Iraq tried to procure nuclear material from Africa...
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175 illegal immigrants arrested in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, July 24: Sri Lankan police arrested another 175 would-be illegal immigrants from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh on Thursday and detained 26 of them, officials said....
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Attacks will go on, warns Arab press
DUBAI, July 24: There were no regrets in Thursday’s Arab press over the death of Saddam Hussein’s notorious sons, but newspapers doubted that the killing of Uday and Qusay would ease...
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Japanese parties move to scuttle bill
TOKYO, July 24: Japanese opposition parties on Thursday launched 11th-hour resistance to enacting a bill to send troops to Iraq by submitting a series of censure motions against government ministers....
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France warns of upsurge in resistance
PARIS, July 24: France said Thursday that the killing of Saddam Hussein’s two sons could spark an upsurge in anti-US violence in Iraq, and that cobbling together a multinational force without...
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India’s SC backs govt on uniform civil code
NEW DELHI, July 24: India’s supreme court has controversially backed a uniform civil code in religiously diverse India, saying all citizens should be bound by the same marriage, divorce and property...
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Kashmir cop suspended over fudging of DNA
SRINAGAR, July 24: A senior police official in occupied Kashmir was suspended and a junior official dismissed for their alleged involvement in fudging DNA samples of five men slain in the...
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Saudi agent not behind 9/11: envoy
RIYADH, July 24: A Saudi man named in the US congressional report released on Thursday as knowing two of the September 11, 2001, hijackers was not a Saudi government agent as...
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B-52 called in after attack on US base
KABUL, July 24: A B-52 heavy bomber targeted “enemy fighters” after a rocket attack on a US base in northeast Afghanistan, a US military spokesman said on Thursday....
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Political rivalry led to NY shooting: police
NEW YORK, July 24: This week’s murder at New York City Hall of Councilman James Davis, a former police officer and ordained minister, could be due to political rivalry....
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