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NEWS IN BRIEF US forces repel two counter-attacks on key bridgehead KARBALA, Iraq (AFP) Apr 03, 2003 US forces repelled two heavy Iraqi counter-attacks early Thursday against the key bridge they captured over the Euphrates river, an AFP correpsondent reported. US war toll in Iraq: 49 dead, 7 PoWs, 15 missing WASHINGTON (AFP) Apr 03, 2003 The war in Iraq has left 49 US troops dead, 40 of them in combat, seven known prisoners of war, 15 missing and 150 wounded, the Pentagon said late Wednesday. Iraqi interim authority as soon as possible after war: Britain LONDON (AFP) Apr 03, 2003 Britain wants an Iraqi interim authority to rule in Baghdad as soon as possible after the war has finished, Foreign Office junior minister Mike O'Brien said Wednesday, dismissing fears of US colonialism. |
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Fear and thirst still hang over first Iraqi town to fall UMM QASR, Iraq (AFP) Apr 03, 2003 An American helicopter, bristling with combat technology, circles low over the houses of Umm Qasr, but none of the Iraqi residents give it a second glance. Father Bush backs son to the hilt on Iraq war WASHINGTON (AFP) Apr 03, 2003 Former president George Bush Wednesday gave a ringing vote of confidence to his son, President George W. Bush, saying the commander-in-chief was "staying the course" in the Iraq war. Planned Taiwanese port call gives Nicaraguans second thoughts MANAGUA (AFP) Apr 03, 2003 What was expected to be a friendly port call by Taiwanese warships is now giving Nicaraguans second thoughts because of a mysterious respiratory disease that has already killed 78 people, most of them in Asia. Arab nations call for UN General Assembly on Iraq: Egyptian FM CAIRO (AFP) Apr 03, 2003 Arab nations will press for a UN General Assembly meeting to discuss the war in Iraq, depsite US opposition, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher said on Wednesday. Irish police clash with anti-war protestors outside parliament DUBLIN (AFP) Apr 03, 2003 Irish police wearing riot gear clashed with protestors on Wednesday outside the gates of the country's parliament in central Dublin, a spokesman said. Low Iraqi morale helped Kurds take Shiwari camp SHIWARI, Iraq (AFP) Apr 03, 2003 Armed with Kalishnikov rifles, rocket launchers and machine guns, Kurdish peshmerga fighters advanced on Shiwari camp knowing that US special forces were not far away and morale among Iraqi troops was low. |
Amnesty blasts cluster bomb use after suspected attack in Iraq LONDON (AFP) Apr 03, 2003 International human rights watchdog Amnesty International warned Wednesday that the use of cluster bombs will lead to the indiscriminate killing of civilians, the day after the bombs were suspected of killing 33 civilians in central Iraq, Al-Jazeera suspends its journalists' work in Iraq after ministry ban DOHA (AFP) Apr 03, 2003 Qatar-based Al-Jazeera satellite television is suspending the work of its journalists in Iraq after authorities banned one correspondent from working and asked another to leave, the station announced early Thursday. US army trucks in Iraq are aging gas-guzzlers - study WASHINGTON (AFP) Apr 03, 2003 Trucks and other vehicles the US army is using in Iraq for troop and equipment transport are burdensome, aging gas-guzzlers, according to a study published Wednesday by the National Academy of Sciences. Iraq's elite Republican Guard face coalition assault DOHA (AFP) Apr 03, 2003 Iraq's Republican Guard forces, an elite squad composed of the best-trained and most highly-motivated men in the army, came under the full weight of coalition ground and air assaults Wednesday. Canadian opposition leader calls Chretien "coward" over Iraq OTTAWA (AFP) Apr 03, 2003 Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien was labelled a "coward" by the opposition leader, Stephen Harper, Wednesday in a heated exchange in parliament over Canada's role in the Iraq war. UN to focus on humanitarian situation in Iraq UNITED NATIONS (AFP) Apr 03, 2003 The situation in Iraq and humanitarian assistance to the war-ravaged country will dominate the agenda of a divided UN Security Council, Mexican Ambassador to the United Nations Aguilar Zinser announced Wednesday. |
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