Volume 4 Number 94 Thu. August 28, 2003    
 
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Mumbai blasts trail leads to 'Jaish' camp
Pakistan denies harbouring blasts' plotters
The Mumbai police suspect that the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad could be behind Monday's twin blasts in the city, which has claimed 52 lives besides injuring 178.
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N Korea crisis talks begin
China urges calm, N Korea wants non-aggression treaty
The United States, North Korea and four other nations began an extraordinary meeting yesterday, working to resolve a dispute over the North's nuclear program even as Pyongyang repeated its demand fora
 
'Rebuilding Iraq to cost billions'

Iraq will need tens of billions of dollars in contributions from overseas in the next year to fund the reconstruction effort, the top US civil administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, said in an interview

 
US vows 'no retreat' from Iraq
US soldiers hunted Saddam Hussein loyalists in remote hideouts north of Baghdad on Wednesday, as President Bush vowed America would not retreat from Iraq in the face of a guerrilla insurgency.
 
NASA boss pledges changes after Columbia report
The head of Nasa has pledged to introduce changes to the US space agency following a scathing independent report into the fatal break-up of the Columbia space shuttle.
 
Arafat will curb militants if Israel holds fire
Israel arrests 32 militants in West Bank raids
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat said yesterday he was ready to take action against militant groups if Israel halted missile strikes and other attacks on them.
 
Vajpayee's Kashmir visit marred by blasts, protest

Two powerful blasts rocked Srinagar and Baramulla on Wednesday morning even as Prime Minister Vajpayee arrived here to inaugurate the crucial two-day inter-state council meeting.

 
20 dead, 30 hurt in China fireworks blast

At least 20 people were killed and more than 30 injured in a large fireworks blast in China's southeastern Fujian province, state television reported yesterday.

 
Israel to continue targeted killing

The Israeli army will continue its policy of killing targeted members of the radical Palestinian group Hamas, an Israeli official said yesterday, following a failed airstrike in the Gaza Strip.

 
UNSC votes in favour of shielding aid workers

The UN Security Council voted unanimously to protect humanitarian aid workers in war zones, despite some US misgivings over the wording of the resolution.

 
Truce effectively over
Nepal Maoists say
Maoist rebels said yesterday that a seven-month truce was effectively over after Nepal's government refused to agree to their key demand of a constitutional assembly.
 
Astrologers warn of war as Mars approaches
Thai astrologers are warning Mars could bring war and conflict as it passes near Earth yesterday, while their astronomical counterparts are more concerned about storm clouds obscuring the spectacle.
 

 
 
   
 
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