| 06 September 2004 | Monday | 20 Rajab 1425 |
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Missile defence to tie US to Iraq, Afghanistan
WASHINGTON, Sept 5: A key component of national missile defence, whose development is receiving priority this year, is likely to strategically tie the United States to Iraq, Afghanistan and some of the authoritarian former Soviet republics ... 
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Afghans use home-made bombs to confront US
KABUL: Take a few grams of explosive, the remnants of a US cluster bomb or a rocket, add some wiring and you have the ingredients for the terror campaign being waged by militants against the Afghan government as the country prepares for elections. ...
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Israel starts work on southern barrier
HEBRON, Sept 5: Israel began construction work on the southern section of its controversial West Bank separation barrier on Sunday, days after a double suicide bombing from the region. ...
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Saddam's trial to begin soon, says Daoud
KUWAIT, Sept 5: Iraq's toppled leader Saddam Hussein and his top aides will go on trial within weeks, Iraqi Minister of State Kasim Daoud said on Sunday. ...
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Iran sending top official to Europe for talks on N-issue
TEHRAN, Sept 5: Iran said on Sunday it was sending its top national security official to Europe to forestall US efforts to haul the Islamic republic before the UN Security Council over its nuclear programme. ...
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Briton fuelling war in Sudan: paper
LONDON, Sept 5: A millionaire British arms dealer is fuelling a bloody civil war in Sudan by arranging to supply its government with tanks, rocket launchers and a cruise missile, the Sunday Times in London said. ...
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There will be another Beslan
LONDON: It descended into blood, panic, violence and tragedy. None of the children, parents and teachers killed and wounded in Beslan deserved this barbarism. ...
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Seven Thais thrown into sea
JAKARTA, Sept 5: Myanmarese crewmen threw seven Thai sailors into the sea during a mutiny aboard an Indonesian-operated fishing vessel, the navy said on Sunday. ...
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India sticks to 'special law' despite protests
SHILLONG, Sept 5: India's interior minister has ruled out lifting an unpopular law giving the army widespread powers of arrest in the country's remote northeast, despite two months of bitter protests in the state of Manipur. ...
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Militias haunt Somalia's peace
NAIROBI: As Somalia inches closer to peace, a new parliament, which sat in neighbouring Kenya this week, is faced with a daunting task of disarming the marauding militias, responsible for the chaos in the Horn of African nation. ...
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Europe is reaching crisis point
LONDON: With all eyes fixed on the American presidential elections, the scale of the looming crisis in France and Germany has gone largely unremarked. ...
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Do not write off this pope just yet
LORETO: Bookmakers in Ireland have began offering odds on the election chances of 120 plus cardinals eligible to take part in the next conclave. ...
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