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October 31, 2003 Friday Ramazan 4, 1424 Israel’s army chief slates Sharon govt’s intransigence TEL AVIV, Oct 30: For the first time since the start of the intifada, an Israeli chief of staff is taking the softer line and openly criticizing the government’s uncompromising policies... Question of troops for Iraq closed: Turkey ANKARA, Oct 30: Turkey’s President Ahmet Necdet Sezer said on Wednesday he considered as “closed” the controversial question of deploying Turkish troops in Iraq.... Israeli PM grilled in corruption probe TEL AVIV, Oct 30: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was grilled for seven hours on Thursday by fraud squad detectives over a simmering corruption scandal involving two of his sons, police... Douri identified as man behind attacks BAGHDAD, Oct 30: Faced with an increasingly organized enemy and more combat deaths than during the war, US troops in Iraq started a hunt on Thursday for a former top official... White House plea on loans accepted WASHINGTON, Oct 30: A US House-Senate reconciliation committee on Wednesday approved an 18.4 billion dollar reconstruction aid package for Iraq, complying with the White House’s demand that no part of the... Every third Israeli child lives in poverty: study TEL AVIV, Oct 30: Some 618,000 Israeli youngsters, accounting for one in three of the child population, are living below the poverty line, according to an official report published on Thursday.... Sonia may face sedition charge, says Fernandes NEW DELHI, Oct 30: Indian Defence Minister George Fernandes says he is considering slapping sedition charges on opposition leader Sonia Gandhi for defaming him over a coffin purchase scandal.... CIA chief to appear before Senate panel WASHINGTON, Oct 30: Top lawmakers on the US Senate’s intelligence committee said on Wednesday that CIA director George Tenet appear in person before the panel, which is investigating shortcomings in Washington’s... Mahathir defends rejection of Indian offer KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 30: Outgoing Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Thursday dismissed India’s unhappiness over his government’s decision not to award a lucrative double-tracking rail project to its contractors and... 2 Japanese satellites affected by solar flares TOKYO, Oct 30: Two Japanese satellites were in trouble following geomagnetic storms triggered by recent solar flares, one of them the largest in three decades, the Japanese space agency said on... Inquiry ordered against HC judge in BD DHAKA, Oct 30: Bangladesh President Iajuddin Ahmed has ordered a Supreme Judicial Council inquiry into alleged misconduct of an additional judge of the High Court.... Paul McCartney is father again at 61 LONDON, Oct 30: Paul McCartney is a father again at the age of 61 after the former Beatle’s second wife, Heather Mills, gave birth to their first child, a baby girl... BD communist leader seriously ill DHAKA, Oct 30: Veteran communist leader and journalist Nirmal Sen, 76, has fallen seriously ill, while his condition remains unchanged for more than two weeks after he suffered a stroke which... Fake gun sparks security alarm at US Congress WASHINGTON, Oct 30: Police shut down a US Congress office building on Thursday to search for a man believed to be carrying a gun in his backpack and a woman accomplice,... Said’s ashes scattered in Lebanon BEIRUT, Oct 30: The ashes of the Palestinian-American intellectual Edward Said, who died in September in New York, were scattered in Lebanon’s mountains on Thursday, said Lebanese writer Elias Khoury.... US backs all sides in Afghan civil war MAZAR-I-SHARIF: Karim Khan stands disconsolately outside the local government headquarters in the remote village of Tuksar. He used to run the neighbouring village, but was bundled out by a rival militia... Mahathir’s last words make him a legend KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad always courted international attention, but in his last days in power he got more than he bargained for.... Winds of change through the Pacific CANBERRA: A wind of change might just be beginning to blow across the political landscape of the western Pacific and it could have consequences for us all.... Bush fails to address Muslims’ concerns WASHINGTON: US President George W. Bush’s latest gesture to persuade Muslims both here and abroad that the United States is not seeking a “clash of civilizations” has not gone over well... Sun is in frenzy since ’40: scientists HAMBURG: German scientists who have created a 1,000-year- record of sunspots said on Wednesday they discovered the Sun has been in a frenzy since 1940 and this may be a factor...

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