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| September 28, 2003 | Sunday | Sha’aban 1, 1424 |
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US readies fresh troops for Iraq: Pleas for foreign forces fall flat
WASHINGTON, Sept 27: The Pentagon has ordered thousands of fresh troops to pack their kitbacks for Iraq this weekend, after President George Bush’s bid to recruit more international troops fell on... 
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N.Korea snubs South’s parliamentary team
SEOUL, Sept 27: North Korea rejected on Saturday a planned parliamentary trip to the communist state and described members of South Korea’s parliament as sychophantic traitors and charlatans who would never...
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US won’t pay for rebuilding: official
WASHINGTON, Sept 27: US taxpayers will not foot the cost of running and rebuilding Iraq over the next five years, and some reconstruction tasks may be postponed due to lack of...
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Human rights groups blast US inquiries into civilians’ deaths
BAGHDAD, Sept 27: Human rights groups, saying US soldiers have been given a virtual “licence to kill”, are accusing the United States of failing to conduct proper inquiries into civilian deaths...
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Sudan to be struck off US list: paper
KHARTOUM, Sept 27: The United States has agreed to lift its sanctions on Sudan and remove the country from its list of nations sponsoring terrorism, independent Al Rai Al Aam daily...
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Thousands protest occupation
LONDON, Sept 27: Tens of thousands of people demonstrated without incident across Europe and the Middle East on Saturday against the US-led occupation of Iraq and to voice support for the...
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Guantanamo probe termed improper
LOS ANGELES, Sept 27: A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy group on Friday reacted to the military’s probe into possible security violations at the American prison camp for terrorism...
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French firm clones rats
PARIS, Sept 27: A French company says it has produced the world’s first cloned rats, two males and two females, according to Saturday’s issue of Science, the authoritative US scientific publication,...
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Bremer for reviewing reparations
WASHINGTON, Sept 27: Reparation payments Iraq owes Kuwait and Saudi Arabia for losses inflicted in the 1991 war should be re-examined in light of Iraq’s poverty and the overthrow of Saddam...
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Fatah approves Qorei-led cabinet
RAMALLAH, Sept 27: Leaders of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement on Saturday approved a new cabinet in a step toward ending political turmoil that has helped stall a US-backed plan...
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Developing states could reform UN
UNITED NATIONS: When the World Trade Organisation (WTO) met in Mexico recently, a group of developing countries refused to be taken for granted by the rich industrialised nations that control the...
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European troika turns out to be ad hoc alliance
BERLIN: The European anti-war troika that formed before the US-led campaign against Iraq has been exposed as an ad-hoc alliance, but did eke out small successes in this week’s meetings with...
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E. Germany ‘used’ assassins
HAMBURG: The Communist regime in former East Germany used a hit squad of hired killers to bump off at least 25 people in the 1970s and ‘80s, including the regime’s own...
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Former general tipped to take on Bush
WASHINGTON: Everyone knows that a week is a long time in politics, but for Wesley Clark it has been a political age....
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A student remembers a great teacher
It happened 12 years ago, in my third year at university but I still remember it quite vividly, as if it were only the other day....
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Soldiers’ father calls for ‘sacking’ Rumsfeld
LOS ANGELES: The father of two soldiers serving in the military in Iraq has demanded the sacking of the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, in a full page advertisement taken out...
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