| 27 January 2005 | Thursday | 16 Zilhaj 1425 |
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Kabul's last Jew has the final word
KABUL, Jan 26: The last two Jews in Afghanistan hated each other, berated each other and carried on a bitter feud. Now one has the final word - the other one died on Monday. ... 
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Iraq casualties are depressing: Bush
WASHINGTON, Jan 26: Facing the deadliest day for American forces since the invasion of Iraq 22 months ago, President George Bush acknowledged on Wednesday that heavy US military casualties there were depressing his people. ...
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Annan quizzed in oil-for-food investigation
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 26: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was questioned by the independent investigators on three separate occasions about the Iraq oil-for-food scandal that has plagued the world body, a UN spokesman said on Tuesday. ...
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Bush softens line on democracy drive
WASHINGTON, Jan 26: US President George Bush on Wednesday scaled back his sweeping pledge last week to combat tyranny world wide, acknowledging that Washington would have to combine principle with pragmatism in its foreign policy. ...
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Palestinians, Israel end talks freeze
AL QUDS, Jan 26: Israel and the Palestinians ended a nearly two-year freeze in high-level diplomatic talks on Wednesday and agreed to prepare next week for a first summit between Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and President Mahmoud Abbas. ...
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UK govt arms itself with sweeping anti-terrorism powers
LONDON, Jan 26: Britain announced sweeping powers on Wednesday to impose house arrest on terrorism suspects regardless of nationality, replacing a policy of jailing foreigners without trial that had been thrown out by a court. ...
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Bogus doctor jailed in Britain
LONDON, Jan 26: A former taxi driver who passed himself off for years as an eminent doctor and psychiatrist, making a fortune in fees and even appearing in court as an expert witness, was jailed for 10 years in Britain on Wednesday. ...
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EU calls on Iran to end 'fuel cycle activities'
VIENNA, Jan 26: The EU has called on Iran to dismantle its nuclear fuel cycle activities, hardening its earlier stand that Iran should only suspend uranium enrichment, a diplomat said on Wednesday. ...
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Schools reopen in Aceh
BANDA ACEH, Jan 26: Indonesian school children wept and prayed for thousands of missing classmates as debris-littered schools reopened in devastated Aceh province on Wednesday, a month after the Asian tsunami. ...
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Meteorite hits Cambodian village
PHNOM PENH, Jan 26: A meteorite weighing 4.5kgs landed in a former Khmer Rouge zone of north western Cambodia earlier this week, starting fires across rice fields and prayers from villagers who saw it as a divine omen of peace. ...
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Discord on dam hurts process: Pakistan-India talks
NEW DELHI: One year after India and Pakistan initiated peace talks, dialogue between the nuclear-armed rivals appears to be floundering over the sharing of waters of the Indus River that runs through the disputed territory of Kashmir. ...
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Dalits struggle to create political space
NEW DELHI: To the casual visitor, Gaurav Apartments on the eastern edge of India's national capital looks like any other block of middle-class residential flats, set into a genteel neighbourhood patronised by doctors, engineers and other professionals. ...
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Tsunami, LTTE's uproar put govt on defensive
COLOMBO: Trudging along to secure some kind of normalcy after the devastating tsunami attack of December 26, the government of President Kumaratunge is finding itself bombarded by accusations from the LTTE ...
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NYT report on militancy stirs controversy in BD
DHAKA: A recent New York Times article on the rise of Islamist militancy in certain parts of northern Bangladesh has sparked off multi-dimensional repercussions in different quarters here. ...
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