| 19 June 2004 | Saturday | 30 Rabi-us-Saani 1425 |
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Saddam's 'exceptional' laws may be invoked: minister
BAGHDAD, June 18: Iraq's caretaker government on Friday weighed imposing emergency powers to counter a wave of violence and sabotage that has killed more than 180 people this month and halted oil exports for at least five days. ... 
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Liberation will come when US leaves
BAGHDAD: With less than two weeks until the much-vaunted transfer of power from the Americans to an Iraqi government, a few hints of independence have emerged from the men Washington approved. ...
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Arafat ready for compromise on refugees' return
AL QUDS, June 18: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat recognized the Jewish character of Israel in an interview published on Friday and stressed his readiness for compromise, including on the thorny issue of refugees. ...
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US running 'secret' detention centres:HR body's report WASHINGTON, June 18: The United States is holding terrorism suspects in more than two dozen detention centres worldwide and about half of these operate in total secrecy, said a human rights report released on Thursday. ...
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US, Russia in war of words over bomber flight
MOSCOW, June 18: The air forces of Russia and the United States engaged in a diplomatic dogfight on Friday over a commemorative flight using a nuclear bomber, a plan that Moscow said was shot down by Washington. ...
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Clinton on affair with Lewinsky
WASHINGTON: Bill Clinton has given his most candid account yet of his affair with Monica Lewinsky, saying he did it because he "could". He called the decision "a terrible moral error" but not a resigning issue. ...
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Poor face deadlines, but not the rich: UN official
SAO PAULO: The international community, which four years ago approved a set of key development goals on poverty, hunger, health, education and environment, set deadlines for the poor but not for the rich, says a senior United Nations official. ...
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Exam cheats' signals to be jammed
ROME, June 18: Mobile phone-savvy teenagers tempted to cheat their way through exams by sending text messages or scanning pictures of tests could be thwarted by a device that jams signals inside the school walls. ...
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Firm gets subpoena in oil-for-food case
NEW YORK, June 18: Exxon Mobil Corp has received a subpoena from a federal prosecutor regarding the UN-run oil-for-food programme in Iraq, the world's No 1 publicly-traded oil company said on Friday. ...
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Modi murder plot: woman dismisses police claim
AHMEDABAD, June 18: The mother of a 19-year-old Indian Muslim woman gunned down this week demanded a federal probe on Friday into police claims that her daughter was assigned to kill Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. ...
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US was told of Iraq plan to attack: Putin
MOSCOW, June 18: President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russian secret services had provided information to Washington following the Sept 11 attacks that Iraq was planning to stage strikes against the United States, news reports said. ...
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Ingushetia: a 'second Chechnya'
MOSCOW: Through the white noise of the cassette, the chilling, deadpan voice of an officer in the local security services is just about audible: "We had a direct order so we cut off their car, dragged him and his driver from it and bundled them into our minibus." ...
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