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| November 20, 2003 | Thursday | Ramazan 24, 1424 |
Paper exposes ‘lax security’ for Bush visit
 LONDON, Nov 19: A British reporter who worked undercover for two months at Buckingham Palace, the royal residence in London, claimed on Wednesday that security was so lax he could easily...
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Europe urged to sideline Arafat: UN faces extinction: Bush
LONDON, Nov 19: US President George W. Bush on Wednesday called on Europe to join the United States and Israel in shunning Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to encourage the rise of...
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US seeks another resolution on Iraq
WASHINGTON-NEW YORK, Nov 19: The United States is working on another UN resolution seeking a political role for the world body in Iraq in the transfer of power by June 2004,...
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Illness forces Mubarak to stop speech
CAIRO, Nov 19: Illness forced Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to halt a keynote speech to parliament on Wednesday for 45 minutes before he returned, still pale and hoarse, to finish his...
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Arrest warrant for Jackson issued
SANTA BARBARA, Nov 19: Michael Jackson was ordered on Wednesday to surrender to California authorities to face multiple charges of child molestation, police said....
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Dreams of studying in Canada turn into tragedy
TORONTO, Nov 19: She was doing her project, printing charts and graphics and getting ready to go to York University. Suddenly the phone started ringing. Someone wanted her to open the...
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UN adopts Russian resolution on ME plan
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 19: In a bid to revive the flagging hopes for a settlement in the Middle East, the UN Security Council on Wednesday passed a Russian-backed resolution endorsing the...
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US government body criticizes Saudi Arabia
WASHINGTON, Nov 19: A US government commission has launched an unprecedented attack on Saudi Arabia, blaming it for exporting a militant ideology and causing a “strategic threat” to US interests in...
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Mexico’s UN envoy dismissed
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 19: Under pressure from Washington, Mexico’s ambassador to the United Nations has been dismissed after saying the United States regards Mexico as a second-class country, said the New...
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11 burnt alive
DHAKA, Nov 19: Eleven people, including seven women and a newborn baby, were burnt alive early on Wednesday morning when robbers set fire to a house at a village near Chittagong.—Correspondent...
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Charles’s views make him unwelcome in US
LONDON: Prince Charles, who welcomed George Bush to Britain on Tuesday, has not been to the United States for the last six years on the advice of the British Foreign Office,...
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Africa failing to meet millennium goals, say experts
DAKAR: African finance experts said the International Monetary Fund could take more dramatic measures such as selling some of its gold reserves to ease the impoverished continent’s debt burden....
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Bush & Blair: linked only by Iraq
LONDON: The spectacle over the next few days of Tony Blair and George Bush beaming and backslapping remains as puzzling as ever. Is this just realpolitik business-as-usual, putting out more flags...
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The Saudi bombing: who benefits from this atrocity?
THE November 8 terrorist bombing in the Saudi capital of Riyadh was an atrocity carried out with wanton disregard for human life and motivated by utterly reactionary political ends....
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Ad placed for suicide bombers by Saudi group
RIYADH: An advertisement has been placed on a website seeking to recruit suicide bombers — volunteers who are ready to blow themselves up in “the battle against the infidels.”...
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Burying gas seen as key to greener future
SLEIPNER PLATFORM (Norwegian North Sea): Norway’s oil and gas group Statoil reckons it has found the key to a green and profitable future by burying greenhouse gases underground....
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