Volume 4 Number 40 Sat. July 05, 2003       Advertise with The Daily Star -- Advertising on the Website    Advertising in the Printed E dition-- Home  News Today's Index Front Page Business Political Sports Foreign Relations Metropolitan National International Culture General Views Editorial Letters to Editor Write to Editor Sections Literature Others About Us Contact Advertisement Suppliments Archives International Palestinian authorities battle to keep hardliners in check Another group ready to join truce if prisoners freed Palestinian authorities battled to keep the fledgling peace process afloat Friday by arresting the alleged perpetrators of a rocket attack on a Jewish settlement and holding talks with the radical Hamas   No let-up in Iraqi attacks for US Independence Day Independence Day saw no respite for US troops from the ongoing violence in Iraq as one soldier was killed and 10 were injured in separate incidents overnight.   Musharraf reaffirms desire to reconsider ties with Israel Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf yesterday reiterated his intention to reconsider Islamabad's ties with Israel, saying any decision would hinge on the success of the fledgling Middle East peace process.   'Pakistan not facing US pressure to snub nukes' Pakistan is not facing any US pressure to freeze its nuclear programme, the country's Foreign Minister Khurshid Mohammad Kasuri said in Islamabad on Friday.   US breaching Geneva Conventions over Iraq N-plant: Greenpeace Environmental group Greenpeace accused US-led authorities in Iraq Friday of breaching international law and refusing to allow United Nations experts to assess contamination at a nuclear plant near Baghdad.   'US intelligence relied on old data on WMDs' A CIA internal review panel has concluded that US intelligence analysts lacked new, hard information about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction after UN inspectors left Iraq in 1998 and relied on data from   US slaps sanctions on Chinese, DPRK firms for arms sales to Iran The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on five Chinese firms and a North Korean company for arms sales to Iran that it said could "make a material contribution to weapons of mass destructionor Another'earth' in Milky Way? Astronomers say they have found a Jupiter-like body circling a distant star in a planetary system like earth.   Liberian leader refuses to quit Liberian President Charles Taylor refused to stand down until a US-led peacekeeping force is deployed in his war-torn west African country, as Washington said it would send an assessment team to the nation.     Advertisement