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December 10, 2003 Wednesday Shawwal 15, 1424 Pall over jirga as attacks escalate: Normalization in Afghanistan WASHINGTON, Dec 8: An increase in guerillas attacks and the deaths of nine children in a US air raid over the weekend may endanger efforts to normalize Afghanistan, US newspapers reported... Muslims urged to ‘block racists’  PARIS, Dec 9: In the first manifestation of a new political trend that its proponents say threatens to become a major political tool for the country’s five million Muslims, three leading... Gore endorses Howard Dean NEW YORK, Dec 9: Former US vice-president Al Gore endorsed front running presidential hopeful Howard Dean on Tuesday morning, for the Democratic party’s nomination in the 2004 election against President George... Delay Afghan polls if conditions not right: UN KABUL, Dec 9: The UN Special Representative to Afghanistan said on Tuesday Afghanistan’s first elections, scheduled for next year, should be postponed until the right conditions were created to hold them.... Afghanistanneeds more attention, says Annan UNITED NATIONS, Dec 9: UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, on Tuesday asked the international community to increase its involvement in Afghanistan or risk failure, given the war-stricken country’s deteriorating security situation... Ebadi takes swipe at US OSLO, Dec 9: Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner, implicitly criticised the United States on Tuesday, the eve of her prize-giving ceremony, warning that attempts... Japan’s Iraq decision termed unlawful TOKYO, Dec 9: Japanese protesters on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to change his mind about sending troops to Iraq, saying the plan was a violation of the country’s pacifist... US wary of Sharon ideas on settlements: Settlers vow to resist evacuation WASHINGTON, Dec 9: A US official reacted coolly on Tuesday to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s proposal to close some Jewish settlements, saying if it were a unilateral move to impose... Reporter disputes US version MADRID, Dec 9: Tayssir Alluni, a Spanish reporter who worked in Iraq for Qatari television station Al Jazeera, on Tuesday told a Spanish judge there was no Iraqi “resistance” either in... Iranian rebels told to leave Iraq BAGHDAD, Dec 9: Iraq’s interim Governing Council decided unanimously on Tuesday to expel the several thousand members of the People’s Mujahedeen, branding the Iranian opposition force a “terrorist organization”.... EU leaders hope to finalize talks on new treaty for expansion BRUSSELS, Dec 9: European Union leaders meeting in Brussels this weekend are hoping to finalise negotiations on a new treaty preparing the bloc for its May 2004 expansion to 25 states.... Powell praises Wen over AIDS WASHINGTON, Dec 9: US Secretary of State Colin Powell on Monday praised Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s public inclusion of AIDS patients, unprecedented for a senior Chinese leader.... Bomb blasts in Russia: a chronology MOSCOW, Dec 9: The bomb blast that killed at least five people and injured 10 others near the Kremlin in the heart of Moscow on Tuesday was the latest in a... Vajpayee’s postponed statement angers MPs NEW DELHI, Dec 9: India’s parliament was in uproar on Tuesday when Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee postponed a statement he was due to make about a former federal minister allegedly... US lawmaker convicted of manslaughter WASHINGTON, Dec 9: A Republican Congressman said on Tuesday he was resigning from Congress after a jury convicted him of traffic manslaughter.... US rules out swap with Iran WASHINGTON, Dec 9: The United States said on Tuesday it does not intend to swap Iranian rebels with Iran in return for Al Qaeda members.... Bargaining chips in hunt for Iraqis BAGHDAD: The arrests of the wife and daughter of a former Saddam Hussein deputy violate international law and raise questions about the United States’ ability to highlight human rights abuses by... US ignoring human rights violations in Uzbekistan WASHINGTON: Despite US President George Bush’s recent vows to pursue a “forward strategy of freedom” in the Muslim world, one of his closest allies there, Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov, seems to... Israelis training US forces in Iraq WASHINGTON: Israeli advisers are helping train US special forces in aggressive counter-insurgency operations in Iraq, including the use of assassination squads against guerrilla leaders, US intelligence and military sources said on... Communists losers in elections MOSCOW: After nearly a century of dominating Russia, raising the Soviet Union to the status of a world power, the hammer and sickle finally faded into political obsolescence on Monday....

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