| 09 May 2004 | Sunday | 18 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1425 |
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US, UK troops receive torture training: Ex-intelligence official tells paper
LONDON, May 8: New allegations emerged on Saturday of British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners, adding to the anger and disgust provoked by the behaviour of certain US soldiers in Iraq. ... 
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Soldier says mly intelligence ordered prisoner abuse
WASHINGTON, May 8: One of seven US soldiers charged with abusing Iraqi prisoners said she was acting under direct orders from military intelligence to "make it hell" for inmates before interrogation, The Washington Post said on Saturday. ...
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Rumsfeld's apology fails to calm Arab anger
DUBAI, May 8: His apology was late and the damage done, said Arab and European commentators on Saturday, reacting to US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's testimony before Congressional committees the previous day. ...
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Iraqis form political body to resist US
BAGHDAD, May 8: A pan-religious group was formed on Saturday to oppose the occupation of Iraq and immediately called for a meeting with UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi in a direct challenge to the country's US-appointed leadership. ...
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Excesses continue: ex-minister
PARIS, May 8: Iraq's former human rights minister Abdul Basset Turki said abuses of Iraqi prisoners had been going on at all US bases since the occupation began, with some taking place as recently as last week. ...
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Torture is as American as apple pie
FORCED to confront the catastrophic impact that the photographs of naked and hooded Iraqis being sexually abused and tortured by US troops has had in Iraq and throughout the Middle East, official Washington has feigned horror. ...
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Palestinian state not possible next year: Bush
RAMALLAH, May 8: The Palestinians reacted angrily on Saturday after George W. Bush threw into doubt a 2005 target date for their promised state, but Israel gleefully seized on the US president's open questioning of the timetable set out in an international peace roadmap. ...
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Two Guantanamo guards punished
WASHINGTON, May 8: The US military has punished two Army Reserve soldiers who assaulted prisoners while working as guards at the Guantanamo Bay prison for terrorism suspects, defense officials said on Friday. ...
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Thousands of Muslims flee Nigerian town
LAFIA, May 8: Thousands of Nigerian Muslims braved hostile Christian roadblocks on Friday to flee the town of Yelwa after an attack by Christian militia killed hundreds earlier in the week. ...
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Computer worm: teenager arrested
HANOVER, May 8: German police have arrested an 18-year-old man suspected of creating the "Sasser" computer worm, believed to be one of the Internet's most costly outbreaks of sabotage. ...
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New measures fail to impress Cubans in US
HAVANA: New US policy prescriptions aimed at "hastening" a transition to democracy in Cuba were received with scepticism or even outright disapproval by dissidents, while the government of Fidel Castro threatened to file a complaint in international forums. ...
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Macedonia echoes in Punjab
THE gaudy mansions of those who've "made it" sit out of place in a sea of poverty, surrounded by dull, red-brick huts, wallowing buffalo and the stench of open sewers. ...
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Make-or-break final round in Indian polls
NEW DELHI: Indian political leaders hit the campaign trail on the weekend to make fervent last-ditch appeals for support ahead of the final and biggest round on Monday of the country's marathon general elections. ...
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German history as farce
BERLIN: The British playwright Michael Frayn's play Democracy, which resurrects the sorry saga of the disintegration of the former West German chancellor Willy Brandt, was a critical success in London ...
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