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| September 7, 2003 | Sunday | Rajab 9, 1424 |
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The war on terrorism is bogus: Former UK minister savages Washington, London
LONDON: Massive attention has now been given and rightly so to the reasons why Britain went to war against Iraq. But far too little attention has focused on why... 
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Resignation another nail in ME roadmap
AL QUDS: The resignation of Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday hammered another nail in the coffin of a US-backed peace plan and increased the likelihood of a new surge...
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Powell scores a key victory
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Colin Powell this week scored a key victory in an often combative Bush administration over Iraq policy, convincing the American president it was time go to...
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Divided EU still without a foreign policy
RIVA DEL GARDA (Italy) : Divisions, divisions, and yet more divisions....
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Two worlds prepare for a showdown in Mexico’s ‘nest of vipers’
LONDON: Thirty-five years ago there was little trade on Kan Kun island, in the remotest corner of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. It was a series of pristine white sandbars in a calm...
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Hamas designated terrorist network: EU bows to US call
 RIVA DEL GARDA (Italy), Sept 6: Stunned into action by the unravelling Middle East peace process, the European Union on Saturday denounced the political wing of Hamas as a terrorist organization,...
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Iran says it may agree to tougher inspections
TEHRAN, Sept 6: Iran’s foreign minister said on Saturday that his country may soon agree to tougher nuclear inspections if ongoing talks on the issue with the UN’s atomic energy watchdog...
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Russia, Iran fail to clinch deal
MOSCOW, Sept 6: Talks between Moscow and Tehran have failed to produce a key agreement that would launch the Islamic state’s first nuclear reactor, the Russian atomic energy ministry said on...
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Elimination of N-arms a top priority, says Annan
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 6: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, said on Friday that “the total elimination of nuclear weapons must remain the top priority” for the international community....
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Turkish troops not to be under US: Gul
ANKARA, Sept 6: Turkey and the United States have agreed that Turkish troops will be responsible for a separate sector and be under Turkish command if Ankara decides to send peacekeepers...
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100 injured in clash at Dhaka court
DHAKA, Sept 6: Over 100 people, most of them lawyers and some press photographers, were injured when the pro-government lawyers attacked them near Dhaka Judge’s Court in the city on Saturday....
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Rumsfeld admits flaw in Iraq planning
BAGHDAD, Sept 6: Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld admitted on Saturday that the United States may have paved the way for the attacks now plaguing its troops in Iraq by failing to...
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No editorial comment, Powell tells Paris, Berlin
WASHINGTON, Sept 6: US Secretary of State Colin Powell bluntly told France and Germany to come up with solid proposals for revising a new UN Security Council resolution on Iraq instead...
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Woman says she infiltrated Hezbollah
PARIS, Sept 6: A French woman, Nima Zamar, has revealed in a book to be published next week in Paris by a major French publishing house that she spent eight years...
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India grounds Sukhoi squadron
NEW DELHI, Sept 6: The Indian air force grounded a squadron of Russian-built Sukhoi 30-K combat aircraft after they developed nicks in their engine blades, The Hindu daily said on on...
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ICRC refutes US claim on Suu Kyi’s hunger strike
YANGON, Sept 6: The Red Cross, the first independent agency to meet Aung San Suu Kyi since she was reported on hunger strike last week, said on Saturday Myanmar’s detained opposition...
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