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December 28, 2003 Sunday Ziqa’ad 4, 1424 Israelis impose total closure on W. Bank NABLUS, Dec 27: A Palestinian teenager was killed here on Saturday as the Israeli army pushed on with an operation to round up militants and maintained a ring of steel around... Plot against Vatican foiled: Italian PM ROME, Dec 27: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said in a newspaper interview published on Saturday that the Vatican was the intended target of a Christmas Day hijacked plane attack, sparking... Saddam be tried outside Iraq: lawyer THE HAGUE, Dec 27: Captured former Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein should be tried outside Iraq, the prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) told Swiss media.... Survivor recalls narrow escape BEIRUT, Dec 27: One of the Lebanese survivors of the Christmas Day plane crash in the west African state of Benin said Saturday he had cheated death by being seated at... Sonia seeks alliances against BJP MUMBAI, Dec 27: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi called on Saturday for alliances against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party as she rallied her supporters for elections expected to be called next year.... Boycott of French goods suggested BAGHDAD, Dec 27: Iraq’s Shia leaders called on Friday for a boycott of French products in protest at France’s move to ban headscarves and other religious insignia from schools.... Bhutan stops BD flights NEW DELHI, Dec 27: Bhutan’s tiny state-run carrier Druk Air has stopped direct flights from its capital Thimpu to Bangladesh to prevent Indian rebels from escaping to hideouts there, a Bhutanese... Saudi scholars Retraction slammed RIYADH, Dec 27: A Saudi religious scholar has condemned the recent recantations by several former militant scholars, according to a report carried by the Arabic daily Asharq al-Awsat and reported by... Saudi women academics’ moot begins RIYADH, Dec 27: A number of Saudi Arabia’s women intellectuals and academics are participating in the second forum for national dialogue, which went underway in Makkah on Saturday.... EU commission head unharmed in parcel attack ROME, Dec 27: Romano Prodi, the head of the European Union’s executive commission, escaped unharmed Saturday when he opened a booby-trapped parcel, the Italian news agency ANSA said, quoting his spokesman.... A year of thwarted ambition LONDON: Saddam Hussein’s arrest provided a long overdue, and desperately needed, morale-booster for the American and British governments. The fact that they had succeeded in finding neither Saddam nor Osama bin... Hopes fading for Beagle LONDON: Hopes are fading for Beagle 2, the British space probe that was due to touch down on Mars early on Christmas day. Efforts to detect the probe’s radio signal, which... Irreparable loss to cultural heritage LONDON: For two millennia the tawny walls of the ancient citadel at Bam rose from the vast Dasht’e Kavir desert, drawing traders and pilgrims towards the lush oasis. But in just... How Britain treats its past LONDON: For more than a century, Christopher Wren’s Temple Bar, built after the Great Fire of London as a grand archway to the City, has been languishing just beyond the M25... Libyans wary of opening to US TRIPOLI: In the walled old quarter of Libya’s capital, the collapsed remains of a house served as a refuse dump and rag pickers’ paradise. Street urchins scampered among the ruins on... Who are the missiles aimed at? LONDON: Before taking office in 2001, Condoleezza Rice, George Bush’s national security adviser, identified Russia as a main strategic competitor to the US. This conventional.. World unites in offering help to quake-hit Iran GENEVA, Dec 27: US President George Bush, who once branded Iran part of an “axis of evil”, and other world leaders on Saturday stepped up aid for Iran’s earthquake victims.... Libya agrees to snap inspections: IAEA chief in Tripoli TRIPOLI, Dec 27: Libya said on Saturday it would sign on to snap UN nuclear inspections allowing short-notice checks of its nuclear sites and said Israel had to begin dismantling its... 15 BD troops killed in plane crash DHAKA, Dec 27: Fifteen Bangladeshi soldiers on a UN peace mission in West Africa are feared dead in a plane crash in Benin, the military said on Saturday.... Choronology of major earthquakes in Iran LONDON, Dec 27: Here is a short chronology of some of the major earthquakes in Iran in the last three decades....

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