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September 24, 2003 Wednesday Rajab 26, 1424 China, Russia to set up base in Uzbekistan: Fight against terrorism BEIJING, Sept 23: China, Russia and four Central Asian republics (CARs) signed agreements on Tuesday to set in motion long-standing plans for a regional anti-terror centre in Uzbekistan.... 5m go without power in Sweden, Denmark COPENHAGEN, Sept 23: A broad power blackout struck southern Sweden and eastern Denmark on Tuesday, leaving up to an estimated five million people without electricity and crippling industry, airports, trains and... Lawsuit against Franks quashed BRUSSELS, Sept 23: A Belgian court on Tuesday threw out a war crimes case against the general who led US forces into Iraq, bringing a saga that has hurt relations between... Key phrase was dropped from Iraq dossier: Blair’s aide informs judge LONDON, Sept 23: The British intelligence chief responsible for a pre-war dossier on Iraq’s weapons dropped a key sentence from it days before publication after prompting from Downing Street, an inquiry... Differences with Bush remain, says Chirac UNITED NATIONS, Sept 23: France’s President Jacques Chirac said he and US President George Bush had failed to overcome their differences on the future of Iraq during a meeting here on... IAEA team to visit Iran on 26th VIENNA, Sept 23: The UN nuclear watchdog is to send its first inspection team to Iran on Friday (Sept 26) since imposing an Oct 31 deadline on Tehran to prove it... Two networks barred from Iraq coverage BAGHDAD, Sept 23: Iraq’s US-installed Governing Council on Tuesday banned the Arab satellite TV stations Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya from covering government activities here for two weeks, a statement said.... US pressure won’t stop fence, says Israel DUBAI, Sept 23: Nothing, including US cuts in loan guarantees, will stop Israel from completing a controversial barrier around the West Bank, the head of Israel’s delegation to the World Bank/International... Muslim airman charged with espionage in US WASHINGTON, Sept 23: In a widening spy hunt, a US Air Force airman who served as a translator at a detention center for Afghan war prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has... Germany not to block UN resolution NEW YORK, Sept 23: Germany and France, who were against the Iraq war, agree they should not oppose a new UN resolution Washington is drafting to win more support for its... Awami League to boycott C’weath moot DHAKA, Sept 23: Bangladesh’s main opposition party, the Awami League, has decided to boycott the upcoming six-day conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) to be held here, in protest over... Iran accepts UK plea for help in Iraq DUBAI, Sept 23: Iran said on Tuesday it was ready to help rebuild Iraq despite its opposition to the occupation of its neighbour by US and British forces.... Taliban resurgence is in no doubt, says Afghan official URGUN, Sept 23: The Taliban are better organized, more mobile, using more sophisticated equipment and applying their knowledge of guerrilla warfare to destabilize the Afghan government, security officials in the insurgency-hit... Afghanistan awaits reconstruction DUBAI: Afghan officials say they need three times as much as previously estimated to rebuild their country in the coming years, but experts and analysts here point out that the world... Indian court verdict jolts secularism NEW DELHI: The Indian public’s confidence in the judicial system has been badly shaken by the recent decision of a subordinate court not to indict a top Cabinet official for the... Stalemate in India’s troubled north-east GUWAHATI: At 21, Sunil Nath was an idealistic rebel fighting Indian troops. Twenty years later he has become a businessman disillusioned with a cause he feels has become corrupt yet still... US guide highlights terrorism myths NEW YORK: Forget the duct tape, the gas masks, home radiation detectors, potassium iodide pills and parachutes as protection from a “dirty bomb” or chemical or biological attack.... West ignoring AIDS: Gates JOHANNESBURG: Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, warned Monday that Africa’s AIDS pandemic was nearly invisible in the West, in an appearance here alongside South Africa’s former president Nelson Mandela....

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