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October 27, 2003 Monday Sha’aban 30, 1424 Jewish call to boycott Malaysia is blackmail: Mahathir says KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 26: Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has said a call by a US-based Jewish lobby group for an economic boycott against Malaysia may hurt economically but the country would... ME’s Muslims mark Ramazan in sombre mood DUBAI, Oct 26: Muslims in the Middle East mark the holy fasting month of Ramazan this year in a sombre mood amid warnings of imminent militant attacks in the birthplace of... Iraq never had WMDs, says WP report WASHINGTON, Oct 26: Iraq never had weapons of mass destruction nor did the former Iraqi regime have any active plan to build a nuclear weapon, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.... Journalists in Egypt denounce US envoy CAIRO, Oct 26: The Egyptian union of journalists condemned on Sunday “irresponsible and impudent”, remarks made by the US ambassador to Cairo who had criticized the country’s press and called for... 9 killed, 43 injured by 2 quakes in China BEIJING, Oct 26: Two powerful earthquakes have struck northwest China’s Gansu province, killing nine people and injuring 43 others, government agencies said on Sunday.... Security reshuffle in northern Afghanistan KABUL, Oct 26: Afghanistan’s Interior Minister Ahmed Ali Jalali on Sunday announced a reshuffle of key security posts in troubled northern province Balkh and hinted at removing two rival warlords from... Chandrika tells forces to ignore monitors COLOMBO, Oct 26: Sri Lanka’s President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga has directed armed forces commanders that they need not take instructions or advice from the head of a Scandinavian team monitoring a... Australian shot by Israelis, say supporters SYDNEY, Oct 26: An Australian activist campaigning against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank has been shot through both legs during a protest, supporters said on Sunday.... Syria says may strike Golan LONDON, Oct 26: Syria will strike back if Israel attacks again, and could hit Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights, Foreign Minister Farouq al-Shara said in a British Sunday newspaper interview.... N. Korea contacts US WASHINGTON, Oct 26: US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Sunday that North Korea has contacted the US about an offer of written security assurances in return for ending its... Khost school bombed KHOST, Oct 26: Suspected Taliban guerillas bombed a school in the southeastern Afghan province of Khost, the second such attack in less than a week in the area, officials said on... A lot of banana peels on Vajpayee’s path to peace NEW DELHI: Fresh Indian overtures to achieve peace with Pakistan are a last-ditch effort to overcome the hardline obduracy and bureaucratic nit-picking on both sides that are snarling the process, analysts... China slows US march in Asia BANGKOK: It was meant to be US President George W. Bush’s big moment in Asia, but by the time he finished his six-country tour last week, there were unmistakable signs that... Iraqi misgivings stall Turkish deployment BAGHDAD: Plans for Turkish troops to join a US-led multinational force in Iraq have stalled in the teeth of Iraqi objections, maybe for good.... Famine hits northern BD DHAKA: Some northern districts of Bangladesh have recently been exposed to an acute famine-like situation with a few million poor and landless people starving due to a lack of jobs and... ‘Bodybag factor’ to count in Iraq war NEW YORK: With the post-war US combat toll in Iraq rising at an almost daily rate, debate is growing at home over media coverage of an issue with the potential to... Currency crisis was Mahathir’s major test KUALA LUMPUR: Outgoing Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad can claim many feathers for his economic cap, but one that must give him great pleasure comes from his humbling of critics in... Africa builds its own peace forces as big powers hold back NEW YORK: Caught in the crossfire of a raging civil war, residents of Monrovia became increasingly vocal throughout July in appealing to the United States and other major world powers to...

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