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September 12, 2003 Friday Rajab 14, 1424 UN accuses top Afghan ministers of land grab KABUL, Sept 11: Top Afghan ministers are illegally occupying land and should be removed from their posts, a visiting UN-appointed, independent rapporteur on housing rights said on Thursday.... Mussolini didn’t kill anyone: Berlusconi ROME, Sept 11: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi set off a ferocious political storm on Thursday after saying that former Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was a benevolent leader who had never... India opens all Farakka gates DHAKA, Sept 11: Indian authorities recently opened all the gates of the Farakka Barrage, causing a sudden, and heavy onrush of water into the Padma River, as a result of which... UK govt ignored spy chiefs’ warning: Parliamentary report on Iraq invasion LONDON, Sept 11: A damning parliamentary report released on Thursday criticized a key British case for invasion of Iraq and revealed that spy chiefs had warned Prime Minister Tony Blair an... Bush seeks death penalty for terrorists WASHINGTON, Sept 11: US President George W. Bush has demanded broader powers to fight terrorism, and urged Congress to increase the use of the death penalty against terrorists.... Sept 11 conspiracy theories boom as sympathy wanes BERLIN, Sept 11: What do big oil, the CIA, Mossad and US neo-conservatives have in common? They are all fingered in conspiracy theories about the September 11 attacks that are attracting... Russia backs resolution against Iran MOSCOW, Sept 11: Russia supports a draft resolution at the UN nuclear watchdog that would set an October 31 deadline for Iran to prove that it is not secretly developing nuclear... France not to oppose lifting of Libya sanctions PARIS, Sept 11: France said on Thursday it was prepared to vote to lift UN sanctions against Libya after the families of those killed in the 1989 bombing of a French... Saudi Arabia rebuts torture allegations OTTAWA, Sept 11: Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat on Wednesday denied allegations that William Sampson, a Canadian citizen, and other Westerners were torturerd during their detention in Riyadh.... US puts off new passport regulations SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 11: The US administration has decided to postpone the enforcement of new passport regulations that threatened to block millions of Western Europeans and citizens of other developed nations... Five get RI for killing tigers DHAKA, Sept 11: A metropolitan sessions court in Dhaka has sentenced five people to 14 years rigorous imprisonment on the charge of killing four Royal Bengal Tigers at Dhaka Zoo in... UN inspection team in Dhaka DHAKA, Sept 11: A three-member team of the United Nations Peacekeeping Department arrived here on Thursday to asses the feasibility of Bangladesh military contingent for taking part in the peacekeeping mission... Americans disfavour Bush’s strategy WASHINGTON: Two years after the Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon, the US public favours a distinctly less unilateral strategy than the one pursued by President... US says 10,000 artifacts missing WASHINGTON: More than 10,000 artifacts remain missing from Iraq’s National Museum five months after a spree of looting that coincided with the capture of Baghdad by US forces, but more than... ’98 default is a distant memory for Russians now MOSCOW: The streets emptied, the banks shut their doors and an eerie silence descended on the capital.... EU reneges on pledge to poor countries LONDON: The European Commission was on Wednesday secretly preparing to sabotage plans to help poor countries trade their way out of poverty, as backstairs wrangling dominated the opening day of the... Fischer for ‘equal’ ties with US BERLIN: German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer asserted on Wednesday that US policy in Iraq had failed while calling for German-American ties to be redefined on the basis of equal partners.... Saudi Arabia mired in its worst crisis yet RIYADH: A decade ago, young Saudi militants were attacking small-scale targets in a crusade against immorality....

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