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September 9, 2003 Tuesday Rajab 11, 1424 New Delhi trying to rewrite foreign policy: Ties with Israel, Palestinians, China, Myanmar NEW DELHI: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s arrival in New Delhi underscores the Indian government’s ability to nurture warm ties with traditional friends, while tilting to accommodate adversaries. It demonstrates an... German-American ties frayed since 9/11 BERLIN: A crucial impact of September 11 on Germany has been to plunge relations with the United States into their worst crisis of the past 50 years due to fierce differences... Qorei lacks popular support RAMALLAH: Unlike outgoing Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, his likely successor, Palestinian Legislative Council Speaker Ahmed Qorei, has backing from the ruling Fatah movement and from his own parliament but not... Bugpower: energy of the future PARIS: Damnation... your mobile phone, on which your work and social life depend, has become a useless lump of plastic and silicon: the battery is dead.... Children still suffering in post-Saddam Iraq BAGHDAD: Iraq’s children were the first victims of the sanctions imposed after the 1991 Gulf war, and now they are paying the heaviest price in the chaos that has followed the... Aging jets bother Indian air force NEW DELHI: Less than a minute after the young air force officer roared into the sky on a moonless night, his fighter jet crashed into the Indian desert — like dozens... Crucial reforms needed at Cancun to avert economic crisis LONDON: Two out of every three bushels of corn grown in the world are grown in the US, the president of the American National Corn Growers’ Association confirmed to a Senate... Reversal of political fortune forced Bush’s climbdown WASHINGTON, Sept 8: When President George W. Bush outlined his Iraq strategy before his nation on Sunday night, he was not doing so to report a major victory. It was an... IAEA chief urges Iran to ‘clarify issues’ VIENNA, Sept 8: The head of the UN nuclear watchdog urged Iran on Monday to answer all remaining questions about its nuclear programme, which Washington says is a front for making... Taliban kill six Afghan soldiers in clashes BAGRAM AIR BASE, Sept 8: Six Afghan soldiers were killed and two US troops wounded in weekend clashes with suspected Taliban in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan officials and the US military said... Six blasts rock Kathmandu; one killed KATHMANDU, Sept 8: Six bomb blasts hit Kathmandu on Monday, killing a 12-year-old boy and wounding about a dozen people in the worst attacks in the Nepali capital since a truce... Kabul to get $1.2bn under Bush plan WASHINGTON, Sept 8: Just 800 million dollars of US President George Bush’s vast 87 billion dollar request to Congress for Iraq and Afghanistan will address critical Afghan reconstruction needs, according to... UK sends 1,200 troops to Iraq LONDON, Sept 8: Britain said on Monday it was sending around 1,200 extra troops to Iraq to tackle escalating violence, and promised further reinforcements to help restore the country’s crippled infrastructure.... Qorei seeks US, EU guarantees ABU DIS (West Bank), Sept 8: Palestinian parliamentary speaker Ahmed Qorei, Yasser Arafat’s nominee for prime minister, said on Monday he wanted US and European guarantees of support for peacemaking before... France endorses EU ban on Hamas PARIS, Sept 8: France has finally given in to Israeli and American pressure and has accorded its support to the European Union which has just placed Hamas on the EU’s blacklist... Iran doesn’t have N-arms, says envoy PARIS, Sept 8: Iran’s ambassador to France, Sadegh Kharrazi, has said in an interview that “we (Iran) haven’t ever committed any infraction, and, believe me, we don’t possess any nuclear weapons,... Attempt on Shia leader’s life in Iraq NAJAF, Sept 8: The son of a top Iraqi Shia leader confirmed on Monday that his father, Ayatollah Bashir al Najafi, had been the target of an assassination attempt last week.... 5,000 asked to evacuate after fire at Japan plant TOKYO, Sept 8: Authorities in northeastern Japan urged more than 5,000 residents to evacuate on Monday after a major fire broke out at a plant run by the nation’s top tyre...

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