| 26 June 2004 | Saturday | 07 Jamadi-ul-Awwal 1425 |
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UN envoys seek access to prisoners in US hands
GENEVA, June 25: United Nations human rights investigators on Friday demanded access to prisoners held by US forces in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay to check that international standards were being upheld. ... 
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Guantanamo trial not fair: Britain
LONDON, June 25: Military tribunals possibly lying in wait for four British nationals at the US-run Guantanamo Bay jail in Cuba do not constitute a fair trial under international law, Britain's top legal adviser said on Friday. ...
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Iraqi died in commander's presence: US soldier
BAGHDAD, June 25: A US soldier has told how a senior military intelligence commander at Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison was present when a detainee died during questioning. ...
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US army told not to use Israeli bullets in Iraq
WASHINGTON, June 25: Israeli-made bullets bought by the US Army to plug a shortfall should be used for training only, not to fight Muslim guerrillas in Iraq and Afghanistan, US lawmakers told Army generals on Thursday. ...
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Majority in US sees invasion as mistake: poll
WASHINGTON, June 25: For the first time since the occupation of Iraq, a poll released on Friday showed that a majority of American citizens now believes the invasion was a mistake. ...
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What kind of Iraq will Bush see?
BAGHDAD: What kind of Iraq will George Bush see when he comes here next week to celebrate the handover of sovereignty to the country's new interim government? ...
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Bush, Chirac termed Islamophobes
LONDON, June 25: A leading British Muslim rights group named world leaders George W. Bush, Jacques Chirac and Ariel Sharon as the worst "Islamophobes" of 2004 on Saturday. ...
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Iran to resume making centrifuge parts
WASHINGTON, June 25: Iran told three European nations on Thursday it would resume making uranium centrifuge parts, breaking an agreement it had struck with Britain, France and Germany in February, a top US official said. ...
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Cheney accused of uttering profanity
WASHINGTON, June 25: US Vice President Dick Cheney blurted out an expletive at Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont during a heated exchange on the Senate floor, congressional aides said on Thursday. ...
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LA police filmed beating black
LOS ANGELES, June 25: Police were on Thursday investigating the televised beating of a black suspect by white policemen in Los Angeles that has resurrected the explosive spectre of the 1991 Rodney King assault. ...
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Saudi guard kills two
RIYADH, June 25: A member of the Saudi National Guard shot dead two colleagues amid a wave of terror attacks sweeping the country, a report said on Friday, while quoting an officer as saying the incident was "personal". ...
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Koizumi's policies come under test in elections
TOKYO: Mariko Ishibashi, 26, a company receptionist, has already decided she will not cast her ballot next month in an election that could crucially determine Japan's deployment of troops to join a multinational force in Iraq. ...
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'Fahrenheit 9/11' gets US talking
NEW YORK: For the second time in a week, the liberals of New York stood in line for their cultural sustenance. On Monday night they waited to snatch the first autographed copies of the memoirs of the former Democratic president Bill Clinton. ...
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What Vanunu does not speak about
HE was the last breakfast companion I was expecting. Separated from me by a rack of toast was Mordechai Vanunu, the man who 18 years ago revealed that Israel had amassed a secret stockpile of nuclear weapons. ...
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