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October 5, 2003 Sunday Sha’aban 8, 1424 One billion live in squalor, says UN LONDON: One in every three people in the world will live in slums within 30 years unless governments control unprecedented urban growth, according to a UN report. The largest study ever... US news sources colour perceptions about Iraq BALTIMORE: Heavy viewers in the US of the Fox News Channel are nearly four times as likely to hold demonstrably untrue positions about the war in Iraq as media consumers who... Further concern over Pope’s health ROME: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has been told by the Pope’s aides not to expect a substantive discussion with the ailing pontiff during Saturday’s meeting at the Vatican, according... Tough talks ahead for EU countries BRUSSELS: A British consultant has been hired to help Silvio Berlusconi, the mercurial and gaffe-prone Italian prime minister, start a complex and highly sensitive series of multilateral negotiations on Saturday in... Poland’s govt boxed in WARSAW: Poland’s leftist government has boxed itself into a corner with its all or nothing stand on the European constitution, risking either the wrath of European Union heavyweights or charges of... UN-US discord over Iraq deepens NEW YORK: The two-day-old US draft resolution on Iraq is considered unworkable by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, especially as it calls for more UN personnel in a country with... 2,000 died in UK heatwave LONDON: The death toll in England and Wales caused by record temperatures during the ten-day heatwave in August may have topped 2,000, according to official figures released on Friday, suggesting that... EU leaders bicker over constitution: Summit opens in Rome ROME, Oct 4: European Union leaders on Saturday kick-started ambitious talks on a new treaty for an expanded Union but remained divided on key constitutional changes.... Nato studying use of force ‘anywhere’ WASHINGTON, Oct 4: Defence ministers from all 19 member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) and seven European states invited to join the alliance will hold an unusual secret... Bush seeks time for Iraqi self-rule WASHINGTON, Oct 4: US President George Bush on Saturday asked for time in working out a plan for Iraqi self-rule.... Iran, IAEA agree on ‘framework’: official: Inspection of N-plants TEHRAN, Oct 4: Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency have set the “dimensions and the framework” for IAEA inspections of Tehran’s nuclear facilities, a senior Iranian nuclear official said on... Suu Kyi to be freed, says minister NUSA DUA (Indonesia), Oct 4: Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is in good condition after surgery and will be freed “eventually”, Myanmar’s Foreign Minister Win Aung said on Saturday.... Poles regret charge against France WARSAW, Oct 4: Poland said on Saturday it regretted an earlier allegation that its troops in Iraq had found several Franco-German missiles made this year, after a strong rebuke from French... Iraq swindled out of $10m by N. Korea: Kay WASHINGTON, Oct 4: Few people hoodwinked Saddam Hussein, but North Korea fleeced the former Iraqi strongman out of 10 million dollars, a leading US weapons expert said on Friday.... Annan may visit India NEW DELHI, Oct 4: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is likely to visit India this month en route to a summit of Islamic countries in Malaysia, Indian and UN officials said on... EU ready to take over from Nato in Bosnia ROME, Oct 4: European Union defence ministers ended an informal meeting in Rome on Saturday with a declaration that the EU is ready to take over peacekeeping duties in Bosnia from... Security beefed up as fear grips Chechnya on eve of vote GROZNY, Oct 4: Russian troops in Chechnya imposed a security clampdown on Saturday to prevent rebel attacks as fear gripped the republic on the eve of a presidential election that the... C’wealth lawmakers begin moot DHAKA, Oct 4: The legislators of the Commonwealth countries began a week-long conference on parliamentary democracy here on Saturday morning, with the main opposition in the Bangladesh parliament boycotting the proceedings.... Zahir Shah planning to settle in Italy BERLIN, Oct 4: Former Afghan king Mohammed Zahir Shah is set to return to Italy, where he spent 29 years in exile before leaving for Kabul last year, German news magazine... France deplores Israeli decision PARIS, Oct 4: France has harshly condemned Israel for an announcement this week that Israel will continue to build a security wall and disapproved of its “decisions to call into question...

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