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September 16, 2003 Tuesday Rajab 18, 1424 Almost all charged under terror law in Gujarat are Muslims: paper NEW DELHI, Sept 15: All but one of 240 people charged under an anti-terror law in the western Indian state of Gujarat are Muslims, a report said on Monday.... ‘45-minutes’ warning was misread:MI6 chief : Hoon to testify again LONDON, Sept 15: Britain’s secretive intelligence chief conceded on Monday that criticism of the dossier setting out Prime Minister Tony Blair’s case for invading Iraq was valid because its most sensational... UN envoy asks Israel to end settlements UNITED NATIONS, Sept 15: The top UN envoy for the Middle East warned on Monday that more bloodshed was inevitable unless the roadmap for peace between Israel and the Palestinians was... Russian agency’s HQ attacked NAZRAN (Russia), Sept 15: A suicide bomb blast tore through the regional headquarters of Russia’s FSB security service near Chechnya on Monday, killing at least two people and wounding 25 in... US introduces reward plan for Guantanamo prisoners US NAVAL BASE (Guantanamo Bay), Sept 15: Military officials at the US Naval base in Cuba have introduced a reward programme that lets Afghanistan war prisoners earn perks and more comfortable... India seeks permanent UN council seat NEW DELHI, Sept 15: Indian Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha has renewed his country’s long-standing plea for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, seizing on fresh calls by Secretary... Four Israelis, two Britons kidnapped in Colombia BOGOTA, Sept 15: Leftist rebels have kidnapped eight foreign tourists — four Israelis, two Britons, a Spaniard and a German — who had been camping near the Sierra Nevada mountains in... Straw urged Blair not to invade Iraq, says author LONDON, Sept 15: British Prime Minister Tony Blair faced allegations on Sunday that the foreign minister had urged him not to invade Iraq.... BBC accuses Blair of diversion LONDON, Sept 15: The British government sparked a row with the BBC in order to divert attention from charges that it had tampered with a dossier on Iraq’s alleged weapons arsenal... Karzai orders probe into evictions KABUL, Sept 15: Afghan President Hamid Karzai is deeply concerned about reports that ministers have been grabbing land from the poor, and has ordered a commission be formed to investigate the... VHP threatens march on Ayodhya NEW DELHI, Sept 15: The radical Hindu group Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has said it will launch a nationwide protest from October 15 if a law is not passed to hand... US links N.Korea to drug trade WASHINGTON, Sept 15: US President George Bush said on Monday the United States was “increasingly convinced” that North Korea had a direct role in drugs production and trafficking.... Unseated BD MP moves court DHAKA, Sept 15: Delwar Hossain Sayeedi of Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh, on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking stay of the High Court verdict that stripped him of his membership of the Parliament.... Israel won’t be able to break Hamas AL QUDS/GAZA: Low-tech militants may be easy prey for high-tech missiles, but Israel will find it hard to wipe out the Hamas.... Chechens fearful of Kremlin’s men GROZNY: The upcoming elections in Chechnya have brought a new fear into the lives of civilians in the Russian republic battered by four years of war — “Kadyrov’s men.”... North Korea experimenting with capitalism SEOUL: On the thoroughfares of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, five remarkable roadside billboards are scheduled to go up later this month. In one, a young man will stare out with... Sweden’s ‘no’ may split Europe BRUSSELS: By resoundingly rejecting the euro, Sweden’s voters may hasten the advent of a two-speed Europe in which a core of member states of the single currency push ahead with integration... Afghanistan on road to hell: agency KABUL: Afghanistan will be on a “road to hell” unless the outside world provides more reconstruction funds urgently and improves security by deploying peacekeepers around the country, a report said on... Scientists race to save endangered plants ARDINGLY (England): Deep in the lush English countryside south of London a group of scientists is racing against time to save from extinction as many of the world’s endangered plants as... ‘Victory’ for poor as WTO talks fail CANCUN: Poor countries emerge as the political winners from the wreckage of world trade talks in Cancun, but they also risk being the economic losers....

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