| 25 April 2004 | Sunday | 04 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1425 |
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Apocalyptic scenes at explosion site: N. Korea ready for international help
SEOUL/DANDONG, April 24: The Red Cross described apocalyptic scenes around the site of a train explosion in North Korea but said on Saturday the death toll stood at 154 - far lower than first feared. ... 
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Pyongyang will open out, says official
SEOUL, April 24: North Korea's rail disaster has blocked a main conduit for aid and could force the reclusive state to deal with the world more openly and transparently than ever before, a veteran medical aid worker said on Saturday. ...
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Bulgarian troops get poisoned food threat: minister
SOFIA, April 24: Bulgaria has acted to protect its 450 troops in the US-led force in Iraq from a threat of being poisoned by sabotaged food, Defence Minister Nikolai Svinarov told national radio on Saturday. ...
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Hoon admits to errors: Kelly affair
LONDON, April 24: British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon admitted in a newspaper interview on Saturday that he and his officials were guilty of errors in the way they treated a respected expert on Iraqi weapons who committed suicide. ...
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Prince weds, picks love over throne
DELFT, April 24: Dutch Prince Johan Friso married his scandal-touched fiancee Mabel Wisse Smit on Saturday without the permission of the government and in doing so gave up his right to succeed to the throne. ...
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Oslo agrees to resume Lanka role
COLOMBO, April 24: President Kumaratunga will steer talks with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam immediately after a formal feedback from Killinochchi, presidential spokesperson Harim Peiris said on Friday ...
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The decline and decay of the Congress Party
In the elections currently underway in India, the main opposition to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is the Indian National Congress: the traditional party of the national bourgeoisie with roots going back to the anti-colonial struggles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ...
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Afghan women taking to suicide
KABUL: Nazir Shah sifts through a pile of magazines for teenage girls. "Look at what our sweet girls are suffering," says Mr Shah, a white- bearded, retired Afghan army officer while poring over the letters pages. "These are real stories about girls who are suffering so much. ...
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General complicates 'war on terror'
WASHINGTON: The Bush administration's "war on terrorism" in Southeast Asia could face a hurdle after the nomination by Indonesia's most popular political party of an accused war criminal to run for the presidency. ...
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Bring out your dead
LONDON: American elections are frequently a duel between two photographs. The candidate tries to find the right picture, the snap which encapsulates his campaign: the young Bill Clinton shaking hands with JFK ...
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Germans rediscover WWII incident
HAMBURG: British RAF pilots could scarcely believe their eyes when the clouds broke over Germany's Baltic coast and they spotted an enormous luxury liner and two escort vessels apparently steaming up and preparing to flee war-torn Germany. ...
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Embassy party upsets secret police
MOSCOW: It is an event more usually associated with cocktails, canapes and polite laughter. But in Uzbekistan, the annual party held by the British embassy in honour of Queen Elizabeth's birthday has been the object of dark threats from the secret police. ...
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