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| December 29, 2003 | Monday | Ziqa’ad 5, 1424 |
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World delivers aid to Iran: Differences set aside
GENEVA, Dec 28: The first US plane landed in Iran on Sunday with aid for the earthquake-stricken town of Bam, as governments set aside political differences with the Islamic republic to... 
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’Copter crashes, three killed
TEHRAN, Dec 28: Three people were killed on Sunday when an Iranian navy helicopter crashed just outside Bam after delivering aid to the southeastern city devastated by an earthquake, the student...
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Sharon orders plan to undo ‘roadmap’
AL QUDS, Dec 28: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Sunday pushed ahead with a controversial plan to disengage from the peace process as new talks aimed at securing a ceasefire...
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Karzai emerges strong: Loya jirga
KABUL, Dec 28: President Hamid Karzai looks set to emerge the winner after two weeks of wrangling over Afghanistan’s new constitution as delegates prepared to vote on Monday on a draft...
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Barzani urges Arabs to back Kurds
BAGHDAD, Dec 28: Arabs should not oppose the Kurdish drive for rights, Kurdistan Democratic Party leader Massoud Barzani told a visiting Arab League delegation, the KDP’s newspaper reported on Sunday....
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Canada blasts US claim over mad cow
TORONTO, Dec. 28 Canadian officials have accused the United States of what they called “jumping the gun” in announcing that the mad cow disease most likely came from Canada....
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Two churches attacked in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, Dec 28: Two churches were attacked in Sri Lanka on Sunday amid inter-religious tension following the funeral of a Buddhist monk opposed to religious conversions, police said....
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Film actor Sir Bates is dead
LONDON, Dec 28: Sir Alan Bates, one of the most respected and experienced veterans of the stage and screen in Britain, has died in London after a long battle with cancer,...
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US decisions on Iraq made in private
WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD: Iraqis spooked by rumours of a fuel shortage were hoarding the precious commodity, inadvertently causing exactly what they feared. Officials in charge of oil for the US-led occupation government in...
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Russia’s space ambition hits cosmodrome
BAIKONUR (Kazakhstan): If the colonization of space ever becomes a reality, the last of Earth many of the settlers will see is a wind-blown strip of barren steppe dotted by crumbling...
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States undecided on N-waste
STOCKHOLM: Since the start of the nuclear era, highly radioactive waste has been crossing continents and oceans in search of a secure and final resting place....
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Heroin injecting rooms at prisons
LISBON: Portugal is under pressure to set up heroin injection rooms in its overcrowded prisons, where widespread drug use is leading to rising rates of HIV infection amongst the nation’s 14,000...
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Italy is the new sick man of Europe
LONDON: Suppose Tony Blair owned ITV, had disbanded the majority of the board of governors of the BBC and that director-general Greg Dyke had resigned because of the impossibility of maintaining...
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Philip’s war heroics come to light
LONDON: A remarkable act of heroism by Prince Philip that saved scores of lives during the Second World War has been revealed after 60 years by a grateful fellow veteran....
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