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December 30, 2003 Tuesday Ziqa’ad 6, 1424 Palestinians dismiss Israeli move as an eyewash: Dismantling of outposts AL QUDS, Dec 29: The Palestinian Authority on Monday criticised Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s order to remove four... China hints at cutting part of Iraq’s debts BEIJING, Dec 29: China will consider cutting Iraq’s debts or writing them off out of humanitarian concern, state radio quoted Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao as saying on Monday.... Pro-Putin bloc secures two-thirds majority MOSCOW, Dec 29: President Vladimir Putin, without a serious rival and buoyed by a huge parliament majority, urged Russia’s newly elected lawmakers on Monday to back his policies aimed at speeding... Dead mother’s embrace saves baby’s life BAM (Iran), Dec 29: A baby girl cradled in her dead mother’s arms was rescued alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Bam on Monday — a rare moment... Warsaw to buy anti-tank missiles from Tel Aviv AL QUDS, Dec 29: Israel’s Defence Ministry said on Monday it signed a deal worth about $250 million to produce and supply anti-tank missiles for Poland.... US orders airlines to put guards on planes WASHINGTON, Dec 29: One week after raising its terror alert level, the US government on Monday ordered foreign airlines to place armed marshals on selected flights to and from the United... 29 more die as cold wave grips India LUCKNOW, Dec 29: A cold spell gripping northern India killed 29 people in the 24 hours to midday on Monday, officials said, as authorities set up shelters, handed out blankets and... Saudi morality police to ban New Year trinkets RIYADH, Dec 29: Morality police in southern Saudi Arabia plan to conduct raids to ensure that shops do not sell flowers, candles and gifts to those planning to celebrate New Year,... Bremer contradicts Blair’s WMD claim LONDON, Dec 29: Paul Bremer, the top US official in Iraq, contradicted British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Sunday when he rejected reports that inspectors had found a network of laboratories... Clergy terms Bush, Blair vigilantes LONDON, Dec 29: Two British church leaders blasted Prime Minister Tony Blair on Monday for invading Iraq, with one bishop saying he and US President George Bush had acted like “a... US, Britain oppose Syria’s draft at UN: Ban on lethal weapons in ME UNITED NATIONS, Dec 29: Syria pushed on Monday for a ban on nuclear, biological and chemical weapons in the Middle East, using its final days on the U.N. Security Council to... Libya has revealed secrets: IAEA head TRIPOLI, Dec 29: Libya has revealed nuclear secrets, including equipment supplied from abroad, and will allow snap inspections of suspect sites, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohammed ElBaradei said here... Pro-unification party to form Cyprus govt NICOSIA, Dec 29: Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash on Monday gave a mandate to form a government to the leader of a party that backs a UN plan to reunify Cyprus.... Bam to be rebuilt, says Khamenei BAM (Iran), Dec 29: Iran’s supreme leader vowed on Monday to return the ruined city of Bam to its former glory, as rescuers held out little hope of finding more survivors... ‘Militancy’ in Kashmir has fallen, says India SRINAGAR, Dec 29: Violence has fallen substantially in occupied Kashmir since the start of a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, India said on Monday.... Three terror suspects killed: US MOSUL, Dec 29: US forces claimed to have killed three suspected members of a group linked to Al Qaeda in a gunbattle in Iraq, and Thailand and Bulgaria vowed that their... US plans for Iraq scaled down: daily WASHINGTON, Dec 29: Attacks on the US-led occupation and an accelerated timetable for Iraq’s return to sovereignty have prompted the United States to scale down its ambitious agenda for remaking that... Without Musharraf on board, Afghanistan cannot hold LONDON: Here is one terrorist threat even Tony Blair doesn’t need to vamp up. It is self-evidently real and ominously recurrent. If, one day soon, it claims its target, then the... Iraq war shook UN legitimacy NEW YORK: Marginalized by the United States in the war against Iraq, the United Nations had a terrible year trying to maintain its authority and finally lost sway over the maintenance... Elephants flee massacre MOSI-O-TUNYA (Zambia): Hundreds of wild elephants are the latest refugees from violence and disorder in Robert Mugabe’s crisis-torn Zimbabwe. The animals are fleeing the country by wading across...

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