March, 28 2005 Monday 17 Safar 1426 US has reservations over Iraqi ministerial candidates BAGHDAD, March 27: US officials in Iraq have voiced reservations over some of the names put forward to lead the defence and interior ministries in the next government, a member of... BD’s economic diplomacy a failure: report DHAKA, March 27: Lack of inter-wing coordination in different Bangladesh missions abroad has been frustrating the government’s efforts to tap Bangladesh’s business potential under its ‘economic diplomacy’ policy, reveals a recent... Sharon wins pledge on Gaza pullout AL QUDS: March 27: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon cleared a major hurdle to a planned Gaza pullout, winning the support of a key opposition party for the state budget and... New Kyrghyz leadership struggles with split BISHKEK, March 27: The new leaders of Kyrghyzstan, brought to power by a lightning revolution in the Central Asian state, met with the head of Europe’s leading security organization on Sunday... ‘Hezbollah can keep arms’ BEIRUT, March 27: Lebanon’s most prominent anti-Syrian opposition leader said on Sunday he would not press for the Hezbollah to be immediately disarmed. Druze opposition leader Walid Jumblatt was speaking after... Headscarf debate LE BOURGET (France), March 27: France’s largest Muslim organization has urged the state to rethink its ban on headscarves in schools and to recognize Islamic holy days, reopening a debate most... Time to address Britons’ racial scourge LONDON: Britain is not a nation of racists, but it is a society of commonplace racial victimization. The Observer’s survey should make us feel profoundly uncomfortable, though the pattern it reveals... Beware of the moral minority EASTER Sunday and the Lord has risen. You don’t even have to be a Christian to feel his presence. God is everywhere. He has inveigled his way into the British election... The question of legality LONDON: It is difficult not to feel a sneaking sympathy for the UK attorney general, Lord Goldsmith. On Iraq he was expected to find a basis in international law for Downing... SARS may spread in air, says study TORONTO: New research suggests the SARS virus, which killed 800 people after emerging in China in 2003, may spread through the air, and not just through human contact, making it more...

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