| 06 May 2004 | Thursday | 15 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1425 |
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Two prisoners were murdered, admits US
WASHINGTON, May 5: The US military has investigated the deaths of 25 prisoners held by American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and determined that two prisoners were murdered by Americans ... 
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Iraqi families take case to London court
LONDON, May 5: Lawyers for 12 Iraqi families who allege their relatives were unlawfully killed by British troops in post-war Iraq took their case to London's High Court on Wednesday. ...
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Afghan opium boom spreads to traditional farmers
BAGH-E-AFGHAN: Sayed Mohammed runs a hand over a poppy bulb oozing with raw opium, his eyes light up and his toothless smile broadens when asked why he grows the heroin-producing crop on his farm in central Afghanistan. ...
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Bush's speech fails to move Arabs
DUBAI, May 5: Arabs were unconvinced by US President George Bush's televised pledge on Wednesday to punish Americans who abused and killed Iraqi prisoners, saying the gesture amounted to too little, too late. ...
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Inspection of US prisons sought
WASHINGTON, May 5: Several major human rights groups on Wednesday demanded a congressional investigation into torture of prisoners by American soldiers in Iraq. ...
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Bush rejects calls to sack Rumsfeld: Lawmakers seek Congress inquiry
WASHINGTON, May 5: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld came under fire on Wednesday from members of Congress irate at his handling of an image-tarnishing Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal ...
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Rice says 'sorry', jail head offers apology
WASHINGTON, May 5: President Bush's national security adviser Condoleezza Rice has apologized for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners as the White House scrambled to stem growing Arabs' outrage. ...
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Hate crimes against US Muslims rising
SAN FRANCISCO, May 5: Hate crimes against American Muslims increased by 121 percent in 2003, according to a report released today by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) ...
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ISI back in news as India goes to the polls
LUCKNOW, May 5: Indian forces are known to have tracked and killed alleged Hamas activists in some remote part of Uttar Pradesh before the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. ...
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First-time politicians see change in India
NEW DELHI: Instead of taking over his successful family business in India's financial capital Mumbai, Milind Deora, 27, decided to fight it out in the country's 14th parliamentary elections. ...
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Only the impasse gets stronger in Mideast
AL QUDS: The summer session of Israel's parliament started this week with the opposition gleefully lambasting the ruling Likud party that had rejected its own Prime Minister's plan for a withdrawal from the Gaza strip and parts of the West Bank. ...
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300 killed in Nigeria, says judge
LAGOS, May 5: Nigeria's top Islamic leader said on Wednesday that 300 people, mostly Muslims, were killed by ethnic Tarok Christians in an attack on the central town of Yelwa last Sunday. ...
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Ayatollah cries foul
TEHRAN: One of Iran's most powerful hardline ayatollahs wants a ban slapped on a box-office hit film that satirises the Islamic state's ruling clergy, a newspaper said on Wednesday. ...
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Bombs, blood mar polling in held state
BIJBEHERA: Mohammad Aslam felt the ground shake when a grenade hurled by Kashmiri militants exploded during voting in one of the most troubled parts of occupied Kashmir. ...
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