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November 24, 2003 Monday Ramazan 28, 1424 Schroeder sends signal of support to US on Iraq BERLIN, Nov 23 Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder sent signals of a new German willingness to support the United States in Iraq on Sunday with calls for debt relief and close cooperation in... Sri Lankan military put on high alert: LTTE celebrates ‘heroes week’ JAFFNA, Nov 23: The Sri Lankan government put its military on high alert this week in Jaffna as unrest is expected as the LTTE prepares to celebrate its “heroes week” to... Mulla Omar calls for boycott of loya jirga ISLAMABAD, Nov 23: Elusive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar Sunday asked Afghans to boycott what he called the “crusader’s drama of a planned loya jirga and elections” in Afghanistan and unite... Woman flier wins free lifetime seat in India NAGPUR (India), Nov 23: A woman who flew her microlight aircraft in India’s biggest air race that brought out fighter jets and helicopters walked away on Sunday not only with a... Erdogan questions role of Al Qaeda ISTANBUL, Nov 23: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan questioned on Sunday whether the massive Istanbul bombings were the work of the Al Qaeda terror network, as the city’s British community... Basic law for Iraq being written BAGHDAD, Nov 23: US civil administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer has launched the process of drawing up a basic law for the transitional period in Iraq until a new constitution is... Five more migrants killed in Assam GUWAHATI (India), Nov 23: Angry locals killed five more migrants in India’s northeastern state of Assam, including three thrown into a river with their hands and feet tied, taking the death... Afghan soldiers kill protester, injure six KABUL, Nov 23: At least one Afghan protester was killed and six wounded on Sunday when soldiers fired on a group of demonstrators who broke into the defence ministry in the... UK race body slams minister over speech LONDON, Nov 23: The head of Britain’s Commission for Racial Equality sharply criticised a government minister on Sunday for telling the country’s Muslims they had to choose between democracy and terrorism.... Solar eclipse SYDNEY, Nov 23: Hundreds of scientists and tourists were preparing to head south on Sunday for a chance to glimpse one of the year’s unusual sights — a rare solar eclipse... Australian held in Iraq BAGHDAD, Nov 23: British forces in southern Iraq have detained an Australian man for association with suspected Saddam Hussein loyalists and posing a threat to coalition forces, a military spokeswoman said... China in a bind over events in Taiwan BEIJING: China, alarmed by Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian’s apparent push for independence, is warning of war if its rival crosses the red line. But while the war of words rumbles, military... US sanctions on Syria politically motivated DAMASCUS: US sanctions threatened against Syria may pack a painful political bite as Damascus faces growing accusations that it backs “terrorism”, but they will likely lack economic teeth.... Egyptian group drops guns, turns to print CAIRO: When religious militants massacred 58 foreign tourists in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings in 1997, their organization promised more violence would follow.... UN may cut staff in Afghanistan KABUL: The United Nations is looking at ways of reducing international staff levels in the south, southeast and east of the country after a series of attacks on aid workers, a... Roma issue to land on doorstep of EU KOSICE (Slovakia): The isolation, poverty and discrimination suffered by the three million Roma or gypsies of eastern and central Europe is about to land on the doorstep of the European Union... Blix says ‘outlook is bad’ for US in Iraq STOCKHOLM: “There’s a hatred against the United States and you have 130,000 American troops sitting there as a big target,” said Hans Blix as he leaned forward to make his point... How to defeat terrorism without creating new enemies? LONDON: The investigators will start with minutiae. They will comb the sites of Thursday’s attack looking for the tiny particles that will reveal the construction of the bombs. Soon they will...

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