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September 2, 2003 Tuesday Rajab 4, 1424 Iran, US lose key ally in Iraq: Baqer al Hakim’s assassination TEHRAN: Ayatollah Syed Mohammed Baqer al-Hakim may not have espoused an Iranian-style revolution in Iraq, but Iran lost a sympathetic ear that will be difficult to replace when the Iraqi Shia... Mail from London to Mumbai on four wheels DHARAMSALA (India): Hoping to experience a world before the age of email and airplanes, an Italian with a beat-up four-wheel-drive car has driven from London to Mumbai to deliver mail as... Asia’s terror down but not out JAKARTA: Working less like a corporation with branch offices and more like mafia-style family groups, militant cells in Asia have shown amazing resilience in the face of global efforts to eliminate... Saving forests best way to clean water: study GENEVA: Major cities should focus efforts and funds on conserving forests which naturally purify their drinking water, saving them from spending billions of dollars on water treatment facilities, a study published... Dutch approve cannabis as drug AMSTERDAM: The Netherlands on Monday became the world’s first country to make cannabis available as a prescription drug in pharmacies to treat cancer, HIV and multiple sclerosis patients.... Turk, Kurd animosity puts US in a fix DIYARBAKIR (Turkey): It was 11 years ago when Faruk Yigit headed for the rugged mountains bordering Iraq to become a fighter for Kurdish independence. Just 18, Yigit thought he would be... German refugees’ fate stirs debate BERLIN: The fate of 14 million German civilians displaced, deported or expelled as the Nazi regime crumbled around them is raising thorny new questions about how Germany’s own victims should be... Israeli govt accused of bias against Arabs: Inquiry report on killing in 2000 AL QUDS, Sept 1: Government prejudice and police incompetence lay at the heart of events which led to the deaths of 13 Arab Israelis killed during protests in support of the... SC refuses to let Advani off the hook NEW DELHI, Sept 1: India’s supreme court on Monday refused to stay proceedings against Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani and others accused of involvement in the demolition of the Babri... Turkey’s Kurds call off truce DIYARBAKIR (Turkey), Sept 1: Turkey’s main armed Kurdish rebel group on Monday called off its four-year-old unilateral ceasefire, saying Ankara’s crackdown against the separatists had forced it to take up arms... Iran says ‘wait and see’ on nuclear treaty TEHRAN, Sept 1: With suspense building over whether Iran will allow snap inspections of its nuclear sites, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday that there is still a week until... First Ismaili centre in Tajikistan DUSHANBE, Sept 1: The foundation stone of The Ismaili Centre, Dushanbe was laid on Monday afternoon by Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmonov on a 25,500 square-metre site in the centre of the... Pakistan-born newsman gets top BBC job LONDON, Sept 1: Abbas Nasir, a former head of the BBC’s Urdu Service, has been appointed executive editor of the Asia and the Pacific Region at BBC World Service.... France says Libya has agreed on Lockerbie-style deal PARIS, Sept 1: France said on Monday that Libya and relatives of those killed in the 1989 bombing of a French airliner over Niger would soon sign a Lockerbie-style compensation deal,... Kelly ‘felt betrayed’ by UK govt: widow LONDON, Sept 1: The widow of weapons expert Dr David Kelly, whose suicide has plunged British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s administration into crisis, on Monday blamed the British government for the... Suu Kyi on hunger strike: US BANGKOK, Sept 1: Myanmar on Monday denied US allegations that opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has begun a hunger strike, just days after the junta unveiled a plan to shift... Belfast lawyers help Iraqi families sue US army BELFAST, Sept 1: A human rights law firm in Belfast said on Monday it was supporting the families of Iraqi civilians shot dead by the US military in a planned multimillion... LTTE confident govt will accept its proposals COLOMBO, Sept 1: The LTTE, which concluded its deliberations on the draft administration proposals, has expressed confidence in the government accepting its counter-proposals, but also warned of serious consequences should the... ‘Saddam’ tape denies role in Najaf blast BAGHDAD, Sept 1: A tape purportedly from Saddam Hussein denied on Monday he had any part in the Najaf bombing, but urged more attacks on the occupiers.... Charles Bronson dies at 81 LOS ANGELES, Sept 1: Coal miner turned tough-guy actor Charles Bronson, a star of more than 60 films including the popular “Death Wish” series in which he played a one-man army,...

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