| 07 September 2004 | Tuesday | 21 Rajab 1425 |
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Intimidation of voters rife: UN: Elections in Afghanistan KABUL, Sept 6: Insecurity, voter intimidation and self-censorship by political parties are plaguing Afghanistan just five weeks from landmark presidential elections, according to a report released on Sunday. ... 
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Afghan blast carries alarming implications
NAIK NAM: Saher Gul was chalking a long division lesson on the blackboard of his two-room village school. Twenty- five boys, ages 9 to 19, were sitting cross-legged on the dirt floor. ...
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Guards sympathetic to Saddam deputy
AD DAWR, Sept 6: In this bastion of loyalism to local boy Saddam Hussein, even the national guard expressed pleasure on Monday at the government's embarrassed backtracking from claims his right-hand man ...
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'Terror war' cannot be won: US officials
WASHINGTON, Sept 6: There's a growing concern in the United States that President George Bush was right when he said last week the "war against terror" was not winnable. ...
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Unemployed queue up to join Iraqi Guard
BAQUBA (Iraq): "Making improvised bombs and setting them off," wrote Majid Mohammed under the special skills section on his application to join the Iraqi National Guard (ING). His interviewers put him down for sergeant. ...
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SA trader, A.Q. Khan links 'under probe'
JOHANNESBURG, Sept 6: South African officials investigating a local businessman's alleged links to a global nuclear smuggling ring raided his premises and seized several containers as officials from the UN nuclear watchdog launched their own probe in the country. ...
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Deadline for French hostages' release
DUBAI, Sept 6: An Iraqi group purportedly holding two French journalists hostage demanded a five million dollars ransom on Monday and set a 48-hour deadline for their demands to be met. ...
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Putin under fire over school tragedy
BESLAN, Sept 6: Grief-stricken mothers and fathers trudged through mud and rain on Monday to bury children slaughtered in a Russian school siege as criticism mounted over the way the Kremlin handled the crisis. ...
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India rejects 'China model' for talks: Kashmir dispute
NEW DELHI, Sept 6: India on Monday rejected the China Model for talks with Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir dispute, official sources said. ...
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Nepal PM to visit India for help against rebels
NEW DELHI, Sept 6: Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba will arrive in New Delhi on Wednesday for talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh aimed at chalking out a joint strategy to tackle the Maoist insurgency in the Himalayan kingdom. ...
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Israel, Russia to share intelligence
JERUSALEM, Sept 6: Israel's and Russia's foreign ministers inked a deal on Monday to step up intelligence co-operation after the Beslan school tragedy, branding terrorism the biggest challenge facing the international community. ...
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These terror tactics may work
LONDON: Terrorism is getting nastier. Compare and contrast the anarchists and nihilists of the 19th and early 20th centuries who shot kings and presidents, with the Chechen separatists who have killed 350 children and teachers. ...
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Ancient Silk Road now a migratory route for Chinese
KASHGAR: Kashgar, once a far-flung outpost at the heart of the ancient Silk Road and home to the Turkic speaking Muslim Uighurs, is no longer quite so remote. ...
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Dark future for white animals in Arctic
OSLO: Ideal for an Ice Age, white fur used as camouflage by animals from polar bears to Arctic foxes may be going out of fashion because of global warming. ...
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