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| October 25, 2003 | Saturday | Sha’aban 28, 1424 |
Tehran admits to ‘failures’: Nuclear safeguards
VIENNA, Oct 24: Iran admits to failures in honouring nuclear safeguards commitments, in a new report filed to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), but still denies trying to develop nuclear...
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Four firms to slash AIDS drugs prices
NEW YORK, Oct 24: Former US president Bill Clinton announced on Thursday a deal with four generic-drug companies to slash the price of AIDS drugs in parts of the developing world....
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Former officials call for probe by US Senate: Identification of CIA operative
WASHINGTON, Oct 24: Two former CIA operatives on Friday asked the Senate to investigate who revealed the identity of a CIA operative to the media amid allegations that the White House...
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Israeli jet diverted after security alert
TORONTO, Oct 24: An Israeli passenger jet had to make an emergency landing at Hamilton airport nearly 40 kilometres west of Toronto following an undisclosed threat to the plane, airport and...
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52,000 sheep leave ‘ship of death’
MASSAWA, Oct 24: After more than 70 cramped days at sea and rejection by dozens of countries, 52,000 politically embarassing Australian sheep started leaving their ship after it arrived in Eritrea...
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Concorde makes last flight
 LONDON, Oct 24: Concorde flew home to Britain on its last passenger flight on Friday to an emotional welcome from thousands of aviation enthusiasts mourning the passing of the supersonic era....
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46 Russians trapped in flooded coal mine
NOVOSHAKHTINSK (Russia), Oct 24: Rescuers bored passages to a flooded coal mine in southern Russia on Friday in a frantic attempt to save 46 miners trapped for more than a day...
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Diana wanted to marry Pakistani doctor: butler NEW YORK, Oct 24: Princess Diana was “desperately” in love with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan when she died and not Dodi Fayed, who was killed in a car accident with...
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Riyadh says protests are banned
RIYADH, Oct 24: Saudi authorities have served notice that despite plans for reform, demonstrations remain a red line, detaining more than 70 protesters in three cities as they quelled rallies called...
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Israel ready to get rid of nukes: IAEA
VIENNA, Oct 24: The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said that Israel, which has never publicly admitted to having atomic weapons, would be willing to get rid of any nuclear...
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US Senate votes for ending Cuba embargo
WASHINGTON, Oct 24: A large majority of senators voted on Thursday to end the four-decade US ban on travel to Cuba, despite a veto threat from President George W. Bush....
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Madame Chiang Kai-shek dies
TAIPEI, Oct 24: Former first lady of China Soong Mayling brought a tumultuous chapter in modern Chinese history to a close Friday when she died peacefully in her sleep at the...
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Ex-chief of US Muslim body indicted
WASHINGTON, Oct 24: The former president of the American Muslim Foundation was indicted on Friday on charges he engaged in prohibited dealings with Libya....
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Millions strike in Italy to protest pension reforms
ROME, Oct 24: Millions of Italians from the Alps to the island of Sicily staged a half-day strike on Friday against government plans to reform the pensions system, snarling public transport,...
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Serious disarray in hawks’ camp: Rumsfeld’s ruminations
WASHINGTON: Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld’s latest ruminations blew in like a freak autumn blizzard, catching official Washington off-guard and leaving spokespersons scrambling for guidance that could reassure news reporters, Congress and...
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Fence crushes hopes of W.Bank villagers
NU’MAN: Al Quds came to the unsuspecting people of Nu’man in 1967 as an imaginary line across their hamlet’s parched, rock- studded hills far beyond the city....
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US puts blood ban on troops returning from Iraq
ATLANTA: American soldiers returning from Iraq are being told not to give blood for up to one year to prevent the possible spread of a parasite into the U.S. blood supply,...
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Saudis ‘re-educate’ 3,500 preachers
LONDON: Security forces in Saudi Arabia have arrested 600 terrorist suspects in the past six months and “re-educated” 3,500 preachers, the country’s ambassador to Britain said on Thursday....
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Russia opens base in C. Asia
MOSCOW: In an attempt to shore up influence in a region it once ruled, President Vladimir Putin on Friday opened Russia’s first airbase in central Asia since the break-up of the...
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Popularity of Chirac, Raffarin wanes
PARIS: The waning popularity of France’s president and prime minister was highlighted on Thursday in a damaging opinion poll which revealed that the powerful interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, was rated more...
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