| 27 June 2004 | Sunday | 08 Jamadi-ul-Awwal 1425 |
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PM's party office comes under attack in Baquba
BAQUBA, June 26: Political parties became the latest target of Iraq's resistance as guerillas hit the local office of the prime minister's political group and a Shia party in the restive city of Baquba, while a car bomb in the north wounded a top Kurdish politician. ... 
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Captors threaten to behead 3 Turks
DUBAI, June 26: Suspected militants from Abu Musab al Zarqawi's group have kidnapped three Turks in Iraq and threatened to behead them unless Turkish firms and contractors leave within 72 hours, Al Jazeera television said on Saturday. ...
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Nato agrees to train Iraqi forces
ISTANBUL, June 26: Nato nations agreed on Saturday to train Iraq's new army, two days before a summit of the military alliance which risked being overshadowed by new transatlantic tension over Iraq. ...
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The multibillion robbery that US calls reconstruction
LONDON: Good news out of Baghdad: the Programme Management Office, which oversees the $18.4 billion in US reconstruction funds, has finally set a goal it can meet. ...
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Iran police blame US, UK for flow of Afghan drugs
TEHRAN, June 26: Iran's police blamed Britain and the United States for bumper poppy crops in Afghanistan that are inflaming social problems in a country where more than two million people are drug addicts. ...
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'Fahrenheit 9/11' fills Washington cinemas
WASHINGTON, June 26: Crowds in the US capital flocked on Friday to the opening of Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11" - some to get fired up about ousting President George Bush in the Nov 2 election, others to see what the controversy is all about. ...
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Arafat moots truce during Olympics
RAMALLAH, June 26: Palestinian President Yasser Arafat on Saturday told foreign diplomats he was committed to a truce during the August Olympics in Greece. ...
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Israeli pullout from Gaza won't ease crisis: WB
WASHINGTON: A new World Bank report says that the Palestinian economy has suffered one of the worst recessions in modern history under Israel's policy of closing borders and restricting the population's movement ...
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US, EU slam Iran over decision on centrifuges
SHANNON, June 26: The United States, the European Union and the UN's nuclear watchdog condemned Iran on Saturday for deciding to resume a production process that could make purified uranium for an atomic bomb. ...
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Anti-Bush protests in Turkey
ANKARA, June 26: Four officials were injured on Saturday in clashes between anti-US protesters and Turkish riot police after a largely peaceful protest in Ankara just hours ahead of US President George Bush's arrival. ...
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500,000 marooned after BD floods
DHAKA, June 26: Monsoon flooding has so far killed five people and marooned about 500,000 in Sylhet and Comilla districts of Bangladesh. ...
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Families can punish Saudi killers: envoy
LONDON, June 26: Families of victims killed by Muslim militants who surrender to Saudi Arabian authorities could decide if they will be executed ...
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Military helped LTTE rebel, says minister
COLOMBO. June 26: The government media spokesperson and media minister, Mangala Samaraweera, said on Friday that certain elements in the military had helped the renegade LTTE eastern region commander, Karuna. ...
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Realism sprouts more buds
WASHINGTON: Two weeks after compromising with its traditional allies on the wording of a key UN Security Council resolution on Iraq, US foreign policy under George W. Bush appears to be moving further towards the more-realist policies of his father in other areas as well. ...
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