| 30 January 2004 | Friday | 07 Zilhaj 1424 |
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Saddam's oil bribe charges spark storm
BAGHDAD, Jan 29: An Iraqi newspaper report on foreign dignitaries and firms that allegedly profited from oil handouts under Saddam Hussein has sparked denials across the globe. ... 
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US military authorized transfer of 19bn new Iraqi dinars
BEIRUT: When a private Lebanese jet recently arrived at Beirut International Airport packed with 19 billion new Iraqi dinars in bank-notes - around 12 million US dollars ...
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Hutton report puts the future of journalism at stake
LONDON: This was a bad day for the BBC. I cannot remember a worse one, certainly in the 34 years I worked for what remains the greatest broadcasting organization in the world. ...
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US planners fear attacks during rotation
WASHINGTON: A massive military rotation now under way in Iraq calls for more than 200,000 US troops to trade places as fresh divisions of soldiers and Marines begin a second year of American presence in the fractious nation. ...
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Delhi rules out truce with Kashmiris
NEW DELHI, Jan 29: Indian Defence Minister George Fernandes said on Thursday the government had no plans to declare a ceasefire against militants fighting Indian rule in Kashmir despite peace talks with moderate separatists. ...
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Magistrate orders Kalam, CJ's arrest
NEW DELHI, Jan 29: India's supreme court ordered a probe on Thursday into stunning claims that a magistrate ordered the arrest of India's president and chief justice after taking bribes from a reporter in a sting operation. ...
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Jolie highlights miseries of Chechens
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 29: Academy Award winning actress Angelina Jolie, a Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), has released a new online journal documenting her mission to the Russian Federation ...
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Pakistan, India face 'dirty bomb' threat
NEW YORK, Jan 29: Terrorists could steal some of the vast stocks of unsecured radioactive material in Pakistan and India to launch a "dirty bomb" attack that could scuttle peace moves between the two countries ...
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UK press cries 'whitewash' over Blair escape
LONDON, Jan 29: The British press on Thursday accused Lord Hutton of a "whitewash" for clearing Prime Minister Tony Blair's government of wrongdoing while rebuking the BBC. ...
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WMD: unanswered questions
LONDON: It is indeed, as Margaret Thatcher famously remarked at the time of her decapitation, a funny old world. The country is taken to war on the basis of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction that almost everyone now acknowledges never existed. ...
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Unsafe culling raises virus mutation risk: WHO warning over bird flu
BANGKOK, Jan 29: The World Health Organization warned on Thursday that unsafe poultry culling to halt bird flu's spread may raise the risk of the virus mutating into a more deadly strain. ...
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Concerns grow over Taliban resurgence, opium growth
WASHINGTON: Suicide bombings that killed two peacekeepers from Britain and Canada in 48 hours have abruptly reminded Washington and its Nato allies they face major challenges in ensuring sufficient security in Afghanistan to hold credible elections scheduled for June. ...
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