| 26 April 2004 | Monday | 05 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1425 |
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Kuwait releases Iraqi prisoners
KUWAIT, April 25: Kuwait freed 10 Iraqi common law prisoners and repatriated them back home on Sunday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said. ... 
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Mendacity won't rescue Iraq's occupiers
LONDON: As the occupation forces sink deeper into the Iraq imbroglio and the deadline for the bogus "transfer of sovereignty" on June 30 draws nearer ...
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March for women's rights
WASHINGTON, April 25: Hundreds of thousands of women and a smattering of men from across the United States and dozens of other countries marched through the nation's most politically symbolic space on Sunday in the largest women's rights protest in more than a decade. ...
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Brahimi a controversial figure, says Chalabi
WASHINGTON, April 25: Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi said on Sunday that the top UN envoy to Iraq, Lakhdar Brahimi, is too controversial to bring together the country's competing political groups. ...
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Tigers demand self-rule in fresh talks offer
COLOMBO, April 25: Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger guerillas on Sunday demanded that talks be based on their proposal for self-rule after the president sought to restart negotiations in a move seen as aimed at securing support for her shaky government. ...
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Turkish Cypriots want end to embargo
KYRENIA, April 25: Far from despairing at their Greek rivals' rejection of reunification, Turkish Cypriots felt they had won the moral high ground on Sunday by backing a UN peace deal and deserved to be rewarded with a lifting of economic sanctions. ...
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Egypt seeks greater international role in ME
CAIRO, April 25: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak called on Sunday for greater international involvement to legitimise the occupation of Iraq and find a just settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ...
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UN eager to resolve Chernobyl confusion
VIENNA: Although the world may never know the full impact of the world's worst nuclear disaster, the United Nations nuclear agency wants to put an end to the confusion for millions of victims of the Chernobyl accident. ...
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Indians discriminated against in S. Africa
DURBAN: South Africa's million-plus people of Indian origin complain that a controversial scheme to uplift people marginalized under apartheid is working against them. ...
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Sri Lankan PM faces an uphill task of rewriting constitution
COLOMBO: The new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapakse, would go down in history as the first prime minister to hand over his resignation letter a week after his appointment. ...
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Hospital reveals tragedy of N.Korea blast
BEIJING, April 25: Injured children moaning in pain and burn victims with blackened faces were among those being treated in a poorly equipped North Korean hospital after a deadly train blast in which at least 161 people have died. ...
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The new English language
LONDON: Asian "yoof-speak" is spicing up English with Hindi words such as "gora" and slang such as "innit" soon to enter the dictionary and experts predicting an explosive impact of the language used by second-generation immigrants. ...
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