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NEWS IN BRIEF Blix to quit as head of UN weapons inspectors UNITED NATIONS (AFP) Mar 28, 2003 Hans Blix will stand down as chief UN weapons inspector when his contract runs out in June, his spokesman said Friday. Britain's war chest remains insufficient despite increase: expert LONDON (AFP) Mar 28, 2003 Britain's budget for the war in Iraq remains too low despite Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown nearly doubling it this week to 3.0 billion pounds (4.7 billion dollars, 4.4 billion euros), a defence expert said Friday. Turkey appeals to US as Kurds advance on Kirkuk ANKARA (AFP) Mar 28, 2003 Turkey appealed Friday to the United States to take into account its security concerns in northern Iraq as Kurdish rebels advanced to within 16 kilometers (10 miles) of the strategic northern oil capital Kirkuk. |
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US to honor Sodexho contract to feed Marines NEW YORK (AFP) Mar 28, 2003 The US Marine Corps will honor an 881-million-dollar contract with French catering company Sodexho Alliance despite concerns from US lawmakers, a military spokesman said Friday. Rumsfeld warns Syria, Iran against interfering in Iraq war WASHINGTON (AFP) Mar 28, 2003 US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Friday issued a dire warning to Tehran and Damascus to steer clear of Iraq, claiming military equipment had crossed into the country from Syria and Iran-based rebels. UN must administer post-war Iraq: Schroeder BERLIN (AFP) Mar 28, 2003 German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Friday the United Nations must oversee the administration of post-war Iraq and the riches of the country must be restored to its citizens when the present US-led war ends. Bush touts "great progress" in Iraq war WASHINGTON (AFP) Mar 28, 2003 US President George W. Bush said Friday that US forces in Iraq were "making great progress," amid worries that unconventional Iraqi tactics and stretched US supply lines may lengthen the war. Iraq hospital says 30 civilians killed, 47 wounded in air strike BAGHDAD (AFP) Mar 28, 2003 Iraqi hospital officials said 30 civilians were killed and 47 wounded in a US-led air strike that smashed into a crowded Baghdad market on the weekly day of rest here Friday. Thirty dead in Baghdad market air strike BAGHDAD (AFP) Mar 28, 2003 A coalition airstrike on a Baghdad market Friday killed 30 people and wounded 47, hospital sources said, in what would be the largest single loss of civilian life in the Iraqi capital since the war began. |
Two Iraqi terror plots broken up in Mideast: senior US officials WASHINGTON (AFP) Mar 28, 2003 The United States has broken up alleged Iraqi terrorist plots in at least two countries in the Middle East and believes that similar plans have been uncovered almost a dozen cities around the world, senior US officials said Friday. US watchdog files nuclear charges against Chirac WASHINGTON (AFP) Mar 28, 2003 A private US watchdog said Friday it had filed legal complaints against President Jacques Chirac of France, accusing him of illegal proliferation of nuclear technology and arms trafficking. US base in Germany becomes hub for dead, wounded in war RAMSTEIN, Germany (AFP) Mar 28, 2003 Eighteen US soldiers killed in the war on Iraq have been flown via the US military base at Ramstein, western Germany, back to the United States, a US spokesman said Friday. Bosnian Serb authorities have done 'enough' on arms-to-Iraq scandal: FM SARAJEVO (AFP) Mar 28, 2003 Bosnian Serb authorities have done "enough" to punish those responsible for the arms sales to Iraq by a state-owned company in violation of a UN arms embargo, Bosnian Foreign Minister Mladen Ivanic said Friday. 30 killed in Baghdad market strike, US insists 'war is on track' BAGHDAD (AFP) Mar 28, 2003 Thirty people were killed when a coalition air strike hit a busy market in Baghdad on Friday, Iraqi officials said, as the capital came under a ninth night of heavy bombardment from US-led forces. Rumsfeld warns Iranians against impeding US, British forces WASHINGTON (AFP) Mar 28, 2003 US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Friday warned Iran against interfering with the operations of US and British forces in Iraq. |
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