| 22 April 2004 | Thursday | 01 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1425 |
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India's nuclear programme targeted at US: expert
ISLAMABAD, April 21: The Indian nuclear programme is targeted at the United States with high-yield thermonuclear weapons, according to Bharat Karnad, a member of the Indian defence establishment. The warning about India's nuclear doctrine targeted against big powers ... 
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Saddam's judges' identities being kept secret: lawyer
BAGHDAD, April 21: Iraq's US-appointed Governing Council has chosen judges and prosecutors to try Saddam Hussein, but their identities are being kept secret for fear the former president's supporters will hunt them down. ...
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More soldiers may be sent to Iraq: Myers
WASHINGTON, April 21: The US military may need to send more troops to Iraq to combat "serious" insurgent violence, the top US general said Wednesday, warning that the costs of military operations also are climbing. ...
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UN might not be Washington's saviour in Iraq
UNITED NATIONS: When US President George W. Bush and his opponent, Democratic aspirant John Kerry, were asked about US plans to stabilize an increasingly violent Iraq ...
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Israeli troops kill nine Palestinians in Gaza
GAZA CITY, April 21: Nine Palestinians were killed on Wednesday, raising to 13 the death toll from an Israeli incursion into the northern Gaza Strip that the army said was aimed at halting rocket attacks by Palestinian militants. ...
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Amid fog of secrecy, Israel makes progress on nukes
DIMONA: Israel's nuclear secrets were once so well hidden that the world could only guess whether it had a "bomb in the basement" of its Dimona atomic reactor. ...
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Bush & Blair: the duo of doublethink
LONDON: All credit to the BBC for its latest period drama. He Knew He Was Right makes an inspired choice, if only because the title sounds so completely contemporary. The sentence describes perfectly the man of our time: our prime minister Tony Blair. ...
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Kerry slams Bush for ignoring environment
TAMPA, April 21: Dismissing "the same, tired old arguments" that environmentalism and commerce cannot coexist, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said on Tuesday he would embark on a new era of pollution protections while simultaneously promoting business and industry. ...
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Indian polls spur new strategies
NEW DELHI, April 21: It is not too difficult to divide or polarise Indians on any election day. But going by reactions of leading media outfits on Wednesday to the country's first leg of general elections the country appears torn down the middle over the projected outcome ...
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Vanunu says he's proud, happy
ASHKELON, April 21: Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu emerged defiant after 18 years in prison on Wednesday, saying he was proud of revealing secrets that exposed the Jewish state as an atomic power. ...
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Kim may get lessons from China
BEIJING: When Beijing and Pyongyang eventually break their silence on the stealthy visit to China this week of North Korean ruler Kim Jong-il, state media will no doubt trumpet the unshakeability of their comradely ties. ...
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Asians to embrace highway accord
UNITED NATIONS: Asian governments plan to finalize an agreement next week to complete a massive international highway network that will rival the ancient Silk Route, UN officials said on Tuesday. ...
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