| 15 July 2004 | Thursday | 26 Jamadi-ul-Awwal 1425 |
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ISAF says it unwittingly helped US vigilantes
KABUL, July 14: International peacekeeping troops in Kabul said on Wednesday they had unwittingly aided a US vigilante group running a private jail, after being duped into believing they were US special forces. ... 
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Israel fears 'anarchy' after death of Arafat
JERUSALEM, July 14: Israel fears an outbreak of total anarchy and the collapse of the Palestinian Authority in the event of Yasser Arafat's death, according to an internal foreign ministry document leaked on Wednesday. ...
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UN envoy unwelcome, say Palestinians: Reaction to remarks against Arafat
RAMALLAH, July 14: The top UN envoy to the Middle East is no longer welcome in the Palestinian territories after he harshly criticized Yasser Arafat, a senior adviser to the Palestinian president said on Wednesday. ...
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Palestinians run into another wall
LONDON: This other wall is not so visible as the controversial "security barrier" Israel is building around itself, but it is as real. It divides thousands of Palestinians from one another, and it does not look like it is going to come down. ...
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Teenagers confident of Pakistan-India amity
WASHINGTON, July 14: "I thought the two enemies uniting was just a dream, but it is not a dream, it is waiting to happen," says a Mumbai teenager, Divya Murjani. ...
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Bush move to ban same-sex union blocked
WASHINGTON, July 14: President George Bush on Wednesday failed in his attempt to amend the constitution to ban same-sex marriage when a divided US Senate blocked the measure, virtually killing it for at least this election year. ...
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US apologizes for Fernandes search
NEW DELHI, July 14: US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage apologized on Wednesday to a senior Indian politician who was twice searched vigorously by airport security on visits to the United States. ...
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Freed Swede says he was tortured at Guantanamo
STOCKHOLM, July 14: A Swede released from the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay last week said he had been tortured by exposure to freezing cold, noise and bright lights and chained during his 2 1/2-year imprisonment. ...
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Britain terms Kenyan govt corrupt, greedy
NAIROBI, July 14: Kenya's government is arrogant, greedy and instead of fighting corruption "eats like a glutton", Britain's ambassador said in a rare, blistering attack that led to him being summoned by the foreign minister on Wednesday. ...
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French forces train for Afghanistan in Africa
DJIBOUTI: At a base in Djibouti, a hot and rugged outpost on the African coast of the Red Sea, French special forces soldiers are training to hunt down guerrillas in Afghanistan. ...
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US, UK reports agree on failings, differ on blame
LONDON: Britain's spy services emerge less bloodied and battered than their US colleagues from investigations into the quality of intelligence on Iraq and the way it was used to justify war. ...
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Philippine leader in a Catch-22 situation
MANILA: Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has found herself in a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation after apparently caving in to demands of Iraqi militants threatening to execute an abducted Filipino truck driver. ...
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