| 19 September 2004 | Sunday | 03 Shaban 1425 |
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Blair was warned of Iraq chaos: paper - Bush wanted to finish 'father's business'
LONDON, Sept 18: Britain's foreign secretary and senior officials warned Prime Minister Tony Blair a year before invading Iraq that chaos could follow the toppling of Saddam Hussein ... 
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Iraqi airline resumes flights after 14 years
BAGHDAD, Sept 18: National carrier Iraqi Airways resumed international commercial flights for the first time in 14 years on Saturday, flying between Amman, Baghdad and Damascus, although with few passengers on board. ...
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Bush plans to send more troops: Kerry
WASHINGTON, Sept 18: Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry is accusing President George Bush of hiding plans to call up large numbers of reservists for active duty in Iraq until after the Nov 2 elections. ...
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US to seek reduction in anti-Israel resolutions
WASHINGTON, Sept 18: The United States will launch a drive to reduce the number of UN resolutions it deems to be anti-Israel during the next session of the UN General Assembly which gets underway next week in New York, senior State Department officials said on Friday. ...
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US 'regrets' killing of Afghan youth
KABUL, Sept 18: The US military apologized on Saturday for killing one Afghan youth and injuring another in a clash with militants in southern Uruzgan province a day earlier, a spokesman said. ...
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Scholars being forced to quit Iran: Khatami
TEHRAN, Sept 18: President Mohammad Khatami has condemned the arrest of the organizers of a film festival which enraged hardliners, warning that such pressures would push intellectuals to flee Iran, newspapers reported on Saturday. ...
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Indian PM in move to allay Marxists' fears
NEW DELHI, Sept 18: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised his Marxist allies on Saturday to consider their views after the leftists protested the government's economic reforms including allowing more foreign investment. ...
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AI chief speaks of horrors in Darfur
CAIRO, Sept 18: Villagers slaughtered, homes torched, girls and women raped - the head of rights group Amnesty International recounted to newsmen some of the horror stories heard on a mission to Sudan's war-torn Darfur region. ...
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Fresh poll shows Bush lead widening
NEW YORK, Sept 18: President George Bush's lead over Democratic rival John Kerry widened slightly over the last week, according to a CBS/New York Times poll released on Saturday. ...
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Bush gets boost as court allows Nader to contest poll
WASHINGTON, Sept 18: US President George W.Bush received a potential boost on Friday in his bid for re-election when a court ruled that independent candidate Ralph Nader, who experts believe helped Bush win four years ago, be placed on Florida's presidential ballot. ...
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Annan shocks with simplicity
The declaration of the United Nations secretary-general, Kofi Annan, on the Iraq war was shocking in its simplicity. He described it for the first time as "illegal". No caveats. No equivocation. ...
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Putin's lies do not offer a way out
Russian President Vladimir Putin declares that the only acceptable outcome is the one he seeks to effect through a puppet government imposed on the dissident republic through rigged elections. ...
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