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September 3, 2003 Wednesday Rajab 5, 1424 Only crisis of survival can save the poor: Wealthiest 5 pc own $1.54 trillion LONDON: The world is beginning to look like France, a few years before the Revolution. There are no reliable wealth statistics from that time, but the disparities are unlikely to have... Anarchy, resistance escalate in Iraq AMMAN: Tuesday’s burial of slain Shia leader Ayatollah Syed Mohammad Baqer al-Hakim sets the stage for the newly formed Iraqi cabinet to set to work, but academics and analysts have cast... Libya comes in from the cold LONDON: British firms that had been hoping to do business in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein are switching their attention to Libya as a more promising market.... Dissent by Aborigines not to be tolerated CANBERRA: A major government review is set to propose a radical restructuring of the elected peak Aboriginal body that supporters fear will prevent the organization from being able to effectively advocate... US actor takes a swipe at Hollywood VENICE: US actor Tim Robbins took a thinly-veiled sideswipe on Tuesday at fellow Hollywood stars who failed to follow his example and speak out against the US-led war on Iraq.... Tehran seeks time to overcome opposition: Inspection of N-plants TEHRAN, Sept 2: Iran has told the West it needs more time to overcome domestic resistance to demands that it agree to snap UN inspections of its nuclear sites, making a... China trims army by 200,000 BEIJING, Sept 2: The Chinese army the world’s biggest military force in terms of personnel will be reduced by 200,000 soldiers as part of a modernisation drive.... Unclaimed cadavers PARIS, Sept 2: Paris city authorities say they will be forced to bury in paupers’ graves the bodies of 75 older people who died as a result of last month’s record... Berlin okays sending of troops outside Kabul BERLIN, Sept 2: Germany’s cabinet agreed on Tuesday to extend its peacekeeping in Afghanistan beyond Kabul, provided the United Nations voted to expand its mandate.... Opposition is killing own people: Khaleda DHAKA, Sept 2: Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia has accused the opposition Awami League of “killing their own people” and generating lawlessness and unrest across the country.... France’s first Muslim school opens PARIS, Sept 2: Lycee Averroes, the Lille-based educational establishment in the news for the past several months for having become France’s first Muslim high school, opened its doors for the first... Gujarat Muslims go on strike to protest police action AHMEDABAD, Sept 2: Muslims in the western Indian state of Gujarat held a general strike on Tuesday to protest against alleged harassment by the police since last year’s militant attack on... Asteroid may ‘hit Earth’ in 2014 LONDON, Sept 2: British astronomers monitoring near-Earth objects said Tuesday there was a slim chance that a newly-discovered asteroid could hit Earth in March 2014.... ‘Super typhoon’ narrowly misses Hong Kong HONG KONG, Sept 2: Hong Kong narrowly escaped a direct hit on Tuesday evening from a ferocious “double-eye” typhoon, the most severe storm to pass through the region this year.... Belgium dismisses EU states’ objections: Military headquarters BRUSSELS, Sept 2: Belgium insisted on Tuesday it is going ahead with plans to open a new autonomous European military command headquarters near Brussels next year, despite opposition from key EU... 16 Maoists, two cops die in Nepal KATHMANDU, Sept 2: At least 16 Maoists rebels and two policemen were killed in clashes across Nepal in the past 48 hours, police said on Tuesday.... Rocca to visit India to discuss troops for Iraq NEW DELHI, Sept 2: United States Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, Christina Rocca, will arrive in India this month to discuss the situation in Iraq, and a proposal for... King Abdullah on first visit to Iran TEHRAN, Sept 2: King Abdullah II began the first visit to Iran by a Jordanian monarch in 25 years here on Tuesday in what both countries consider an “important” step in... Canadians acquitted BEIRUT, Sept 2: A Lebanese military court ruled overnight that there was not enough evidence to convict two Canadian pastors accused of spying for Israel, but banned them from entering the... China blames US for talks failure: N. Korea reverses rejection SEOUL, Sept 2: China blamed the United States on Tuesday for the lack of progress at last week’s talks on the North Korean nuclear crisis and urged it to soften its...

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