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Armoured car crash kills US marine, injures two in Iraq BAGHDAD (AFP) Jun 26, 2003 A marine died and two others were hurt when their light armoured vehicle rolled over heading for an ambush site where three marines were wounded, US Central Command said Thursday. South Korean defense chief leaves to meet with Rumsfeld SEOUL (AFP) Jun 26, 2003 South Korean Defense Minister Cho Young-Kil left Thursday for Washington for talks with his US counterpart Donald Rumsfeld on North Korea's nuclear threat and the realignment of US forces here. US awards 48-million-dollar contract to train Iraqi army WASHINGTON (AFP) Jun 26, 2003 The Pentagon has awarded a 48-million-dollar contract to train the nucleus of a new Iraqi army to Vinnell Corporation, a US firm which also trains members of the Saudi National Guard. |
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Australia to host 11-nation meeting on weapons proliferation SYDNEY (AFP) Jun 26, 2003 Australia announced Thursday that it would host a two-day meeting next month of a US-led international coalition seeking to stop global trafficking in weapons of mass destruction. Pakistan is not in missile competition with India: FM ISLAMABAD (AFP) Jun 26, 2003 Pakistan is not engaged in missile testing competition with India and will conduct a test only when needed, Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri said in remarks published Thursday. Myers nominated for second term as chairman of the Joint Chiefs WASHINGTON (AFP) Jun 26, 2003 Air Force General Richard Myers, who has led the US military through two wars in two years, has been nominated to a second term as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Pentagon said Wednesday. Top aide to British PM denies wrongdoing in run-up to Iraq war LONDON (AFP) Jun 25, 2003 One of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's closest aides went before a parliamentary committee Wednesday to deny any wrongdoing in controversial documents that made the case for war on Iraq. Nine rescued from sinking ship off Somalia, six others missing: US Navy WASHINGTON (AFP) Jun 25, 2003 A German navy supply ship on Wednesday rescued nine seamen who abandoned a sinking ship off the coast of Somalia, but six other crew members were missing, the US Navy said Wednesday. House votes to award British PM Blair gold medal for Iraq war support WASHINGTON (AFP) Jun 25, 2003 The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to award British Prime Minister Tony Blair the Congressional Gold Medal, the country's highest civilian honor, for his steadfast support of the US-led invasion of Iraq. |
Fresh Israeli strike in Gaza yanks Palestinians back from brink of truce GAZA CITY (AFP) Jun 25, 2003 An Israeli air strike targeting a Hamas militant killed two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip Wednesday, dealing a blow to mounting expectation of an imminent truce announcement by armed Palestinian factions. US general says Iraqi weapons intelligence "perplexingly incomplete" WASHINGTON (AFP) Jun 25, 2003 A top general who is to become head of US Central Command said Wednesday that US intelligence on the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was "perplexingly incomplete." DR Congo: No guns rule comes into force in battle-scarred Bunia BUNIA, Democratic Republic of Congo (AFP) Jun 25, 2003 Dozens of armed rebel fighters pulled out of the traumatised northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) town of Bunia on Wednesday, in line with a "no visible guns" rule imposed by an EU security force. Palestinian student, taxi driver killed in Israeli strike on Hamas militant GAZA CITY (AFP) Jun 25, 2003 A Palestinian teenager and a taxi driver were killed Wednesday in an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip that targeted a militant of the radical Hamas movement, Palestinian sources said. US army says B-52 dropped nine bombs killing Marine in Djibouti DJIBOUTI (AFP) Jun 25, 2003 An accident in which a US marine was killed and eight injured in the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti was caused by nine stray bombs dropped by a B-52 bomber during an exercise, the US army said here Wednesday. Close aide to British PM denies wrongdoing in run-up to Iraq war LONDON (AFP) Jun 25, 2003 One of Prime Minister Tony Blair's most closest aides went before a parliamentary committee Wednesday to deny any wrongdoing in controversial documents that made the case for war on Iraq. |
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