| 14 February 2004 | Saturday | 22 Zilhaj 1424 |
|
EU pressing for armed action: Afghanistan's opium trade
BRUSSELS, Feb 13: Foreign troops must help smash Afghanistan's drug traffickers to halt a vicious circle of violence in the country before landmark elections in June, European Union sources said on Friday. ... 
|
|
US soldier charged with selling secrets to Al Qaeda
SEATTLE, Feb 13: A US National Guardsman in Washington state has been charged with trying to pass military secrets to the Al Qaeda network after being caught in a sting operation, military officials said on Thursday. ...
|
|
||
|
Bush urged to censure Congressman: Anti-Muslim remarks
NEW YORK, Feb 13: An Islamic civil rights and advocacy group on Thursday called on President Bush and other political and religious leaders to repudiate remarks by a New York's Republican congressman Rep. Peter T. King ...
|
|
Cloning of embryo: a chronology
WASHINGON, Feb 13: South Korean and US researchers said on Wednesday they had cloned a human embryo and extracted from it medically important stem cells. ...
|
|
|
||
|
Kerry vows to fight dirty tricks
WASHINGTON, Feb 13: Democratic presidential frontrunner Senator John Kerry vowed on Friday to hit back at any dirty tricks ahead of the Nov 2 election as he was asked in public for first time about an alleged past affair. ...
|
|
US accused of spying on UN delegates
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 13: Former Ambassador of Mexico, Adolfo Aguilar Zinser on Thursday charged "it was common knowledge the United States had spied on UN delegations in the run-up to the war in Iraq." ...
|
|
|
||
|
Israelis not hopeful over ICJ ruling
TEL AVIV, Feb 13: Israeli officials said on Friday they expect the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to rule against Israel's West Bank separation barrier, a day after the government decided to boycott its hearings. ...
|
|
Israeli paper talks of 'Islamic bomb'
RIYADH, Feb 13: An Israeli daily Haaretz has raised anew the question of the Islamic bomb and chances of its proliferation. ...
|
|
|
||
|
Israel's wall: EU must act now
LONDON: It is highly unlikely that the British government would have mustered the necessary support for military action against Iraq if it had not assured members of the UK parliament (MPs) of two things ...
|
|
Saudis alerted to car bomb attack in Riyadh
RIYADH, Feb 13: Saudi Arabia said on Friday it had confirmed information that a car owned by a wanted militant has been packed with explosives to be used in a criminal act in Riyadh. ...
|
|
|
||
|
Ex-Chinese official executed
BEIJING, Feb 13: Wang Huaizhong, former vice-governor of east China's Anhui province, was executed on Thursday, after losing an appeal for lighter penalty in January at the Shandong Provincial Higher People's Court. ...
|
|
Violence stymies UN's return to Iraq
UNITED NATIONS: Multiple suicide bombings in Iraq early this week and escalating violence against US-led multi- national military forces are stymieing UN efforts to return to the war-devastated country. ...
|
|
|
||
|
'Monster' tipped for Berlin award
BERLIN, Feb 13: American independent film "Monster" and its star Charlize Theron were the hot tips on Friday for the Berlin International Film Festival Awards ahead of the event's climax on Saturday. ...
|
|
Russian candidate says he was drugged, kidnapped
LONDON, Feb 13: Russia's presidential hopeful Ivan Rybkin, who mysteriously disappeared for five days, said Friday that he was drugged, kidnapped and kept unconscious by captors who had lured him to Ukraine. ...
|
|
|
||
|
Iran might dump democracy
WASHINGTON: The tattered double act that has been Iranian politics in recent years is finally shuffling off the stage, and nobody knows what will follow. ...
|
|
Escalating dispute over access to Nile
A BATTLE for control over the Nile has broken out between Egypt, which regards the world's longest river as its lifeblood, and the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, which complain that they are denied a fair share of its water. ...
|
|
|
||
