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September 18, 2003 Thursday Rajab 20, 1424 Eight million affected by floods in India NEW DELHI, Sept 17: Nearly 30 more deaths were reported on Wednesday from floods inundating northern and eastern India and affecting millions of people, as swollen rivers hovered around danger levels... France deplores US veto at UN: Move to fuel extremism: Arabs PARIS, Sept 17: France said on Wednesday it deplored the US veto of the UN resolution demanding Israel drop its threat to assassinate or deport Yasser Arafat, and renewed its call... US must not leave battles: Rumsfeld WASHINGTON, Sept 17: With the US military fighting a deadly guerilla war in Iraq, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Wednesday the United States must not let the world think it... Hurricane heading to US East Coast KITTY HAWK (USA), Sept 17: Three US states declared emergencies and thousands of coastal residents piled into ferries, cars and trucks on Wednesday to flee the expected path of Hurricane Isabel... Russia asks US not to pressure it over ties with Iran MOSCOW, Sept 17: Russia warned the United States on Wednesday not to pressure it over its nuclear links with Iran as the top US arms control official arrived here to discuss... Pakistan is Israel’s counterpart, says expert WASHINGTON, Sept 17: Israel’s natural counterpart in South Asia is not India but Pakistan, says a senior Israeli expert on South Asian affairs.... Osama, 34 others indicted in Spain MADRID, Sept 17: Spain’s top anti-terrorist judge on Wednesday indicted 35 people, including Osama bin Laden and a journalist for the Al Jazeera television network on terrorism charges.... BBC reporter admits he made errors LONDON, Sept 17: The BBC journalist who first aired claims that British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government “sexed up” the case for invading Iraq admitted on Wednesday that he had made... Johnson was behind Kennedy murder: author WASHINGTON, Sept 17: The White House is keeping at arm’s length a controversial new book alleging that former president Lyndon Johnson had a hand in the 1963 slaying of his predecessor,... US Treasury Secy arrives in S. Arabia RIYADH, Sept 17: The US Treasury Secretary John Snow, currently on a nine-day tour of the Middle East and South Asia, reached Jeddah on Wednesday morning on a two-day-long visit. The... India violating law, says Khaleda DHAKA, Sept 17: Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia on Wednesday told the parliament that the Indian project of interlinking trans-boundary rivers for inter-basin water transfer is contrary to international law and... Leave Bush alone, writer urges Europe HAMBURG, Sept 17: Acclaimed US writer Jonathan Franzen, making clear his antipathy to President George W. Bush’s actions in Iraq, said Europeans should leave Bush “dangling” at least for another year... 40 hurt in BD KHULNA, Sept 17: At least 40 passengers were injured, several of them seriously, on Wednesday when four train carriages derailed near Khulna.—AFP... India awaits UN action ANKARA: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee signalled on Wednesday during a visit to Turkey his country could provide troops for an international peacekeeping force in Iraq if Washington wins UN... Baghdad is not ‘like Chicago’ LONDON: It has become one of the most serious hurdles in America’s project to reshape Iraq: how can a force that spent billions sending its troops to war still not manage... Arab Americans trying to put up a new face BEIRUT: Divided? Yes. But they are seriously trying to put their act together. Effective? Not particularly. But they have been learning, and learning fast over the last decade, how to play... Refugees ‘made to die’ at sea JOHANNESBURG: Dozens of refugees and illegal immigrants from east Africa were feared drowned in the Gulf of Aden on Tuesday after smugglers forced them off a boat at gunpoint, 10km from... Painful recovery at Iraq’s war-scarred museum BAGHDAD: Crouching over a tin trunk, Dr Ahmed Kamil gently picks up a piece of the Vase of Warka, an ancient treasure which, until this year, had survived 5,000 years of... Indian SC asserts judicial activism NEW DELHI: From halting the privatization of two state firms to ordering justice for Muslim riot victims, India’s Supreme Court is steadily building a reputation as a tough and independent force... Change in Korea’s spelling sought SEOUL: South Korea is alphabetical order destiny?. Yes, say Korean scholars and politicians who have begun a drive to change the official English-language name of their country to “Corea.”...

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