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  • Carnage on the streets of a Baghdad suburb

    EYEWITNESS: Hisham Danoon was still too frightened to step into the nether world of Abi Taleb Street, after two missiles launched by the US Air Force exploded here yesterday in late morning traffic. p

  • Rumours about breathing disease grip Asia

    ASIA: The respiratory disease spreading across Asia claimed a second victim in Singapore yesterday. Schools closed in the city-state and in Hong Kong in the hope of containing the illness. p

  • Flagging campaign requires good news

    COALITION CAMPAIGN: Day seven of Operation Iraqi Freedom saw reports of the killing of Iraqi civilians in the streets of Baghdad by US and British air attacks. Bitter fighting continued along the front between Karbala, Najaf and Nasiriyah. In those circumstances, US commanders will be anxious for any good news emanating from Iraq. p
War on Iraq

  • Marines capture 170 Iraqi soldiers in N assiriya, says US

    ARMS SEIZURES:  US marines seized more than 200 weapons, stockpiles of ammunition and over 3,000 chemical suits with masks at an Iraqi hospital which was being used as a "military staging area". p

  • Aid effort comes up against mountain of problems

    HUMANITARIAN AID:  International aid agencies said yesterday the first trickle of aid had arrived in Iraq, but warned that a few tonnes of supplies were not enough to combat the country's impending humanitarian disaster. p

  • Iraqi column moves to attack US soldiers

    TROOP MOVEMENTS: A major battle between elite Iraqi and US troops was expected late yesterday with a large column of Iraqi forces reportedly heading south to meet American soldiers advancing on Baghdad. p

  • British forces remain entrenched outside city

    SIEGE OF BASRA: British troops were entrenched outside Basra last night, still unable to secure Iraq's southern city despite aerial bombing and heavy artillery fire directed at forces loyal to Saddam Hussein. p

  • Trocaire ships aid to besieged Basra

    The Irish aid agency Trócaire has shipped humanitarian aid to Iraq to ensure there will be clean water for 100,000 people in the besieged city of Basra. p

  • Footage of bodies shown on Al-Jazeera

    CASUALTIES:  The Arabic satellite TV network al-Jazeera broadcast footage yesterday of what it believed was two dead British soldiers. p

  • Opposition parties set themselves up as government-in-waiting

    OPPOSITION PLANS:  The Iraqi opposition has formed a government-in-waiting which it hopes will win US support to take control immediately after the war, a senior opposition official said yesterday. p

  • Bush seeks to steel US nerve amid setbacks

    It was the scene the Bush administration had most dreaded: dead and maimed civilians in Baghdad after explosions attributed to US air strikes, and Iraqi people - whom the Americans say they are liberating - cursing and vowing defiance. p

  • 'You must help get rid of Saddam'

    VIEW FROM SOUTHERN IRAQ: "Please don't shoot. We're here to help," a voice came out of the darkness. Three men approached the scimitar tank of an advanced British reconnaissance unit with their hands in the air. p

  • Saddam turns to chief executioner

    BASRA REVOLT?: Whenever President Saddam Hussein finds himself in a crisis, there is usually one man he turns to - Gen Ali Hassan al-Majid. p

  • Future of Europe linked to its response to crisis

    The President of the European Commission, Mr Romano Prodi, has said that Europe's future may depend on how it responds to the crisis over Iraq. Addressing the European Parliament, Mr Prodi recalled that previous crises have become springboards for further European integration. p

  • General tells US Turks will not unilaterally move into Iraq

    ANKARA AND THE KURDS: In a move clearly aimed to reassure US forces as they struggle towards Baghdad, Turkey's leading general said yesterday his troops would make no unilateral move into northern Iraq. p

  • Russia says attempts to oust Saddam 'doomed'

    Russia poured scorn yesterday on US claims to be liberating the Iraqi people by going to war against Baghdad, saying Washington was defying the world with its "doomed" attempt to depose President Saddam Hussein. p

  • UN resolution is needed for post-war regime, says Blair

    British Prime Minister Mr Tony Blair told MPs yesterday he and President Bush were agreed on the necessity of a UN resolution providing for the post-Saddam government of Iraq. p

  • Arabs urged to unite as Iraqi flag becomes standard of entire nation

    ARAB REACTION:  When the march to war on Iraq began in earnest early this month, the tattered and faded Iraqi flag hanging over the entrance of my hotel was replaced with a glossy new satin standard. p

  • Senior commander says allies now hold more than 4,000 POWs

    The US-led coalition had now taken "well over 4,000" Iraqi prisoners, a senior commander told a news conference at the headquarters of US Central Command in the capital of Qatar yesterday. p

  • WarBriefing Day Seven

    1. BAGHDAD: A residential district in the city is hit by a number of explosions killing 15 civilians in a marketplace. The US leaves open the possibility it hit a residential area but said the market was not deliberately targeted. A statement by US Central Command said the planes' target had been Iraqi missile sites less than 300 feet from civilian homes. Huge column of Republican Guards stream out of Baghdad towards US forces near Najaf. p

  • Crisis in Iraq must not stall reforms, Turkey told

    The European Commission yesterday proposed doubling aid to Turkey over the next three years but said its EU candidacy would be jeopardised if it intervened in Iraq or used the crisis to stall political reforms. p
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  • Former Indian minister assassinated

    INDIA: Unidentified gunmen yesterday shot dead the former home minister of western India's volatile Gujarat state. p

  • Accused Iraqis want charges dropped

    BERLIN: A lawyer for six Iraqi men behind the siege of the Iraqi embassy in Berlin last year has argued on the first day of their trial that they had the same goal as the Bush administration, to depose Saddam Hussein, and that the charges against them should be struck out. p

  • Oil spill 'exposed weakness of EU'

    SPAIN: Spain should not be blamed solely for the mishandling of the Prestige tanker incident, according to several maritime lawyers. p

  • Suspect in bombings heads to US for trial

    US: A suspect in the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in east Africa, whom US agents picked up in Mogadishu last week and took to Nairobi for questioning, was headed to the US yesterday for trial, a Kenyan minister said, naming the suspect. p

  • 3 die as US aircraft crashes in Colombia

    COLUMBIA: Three US nationals died when the US government aircraft they were using to search for three kidnapped Americans crashed in southern Colombia, an official said yesterday. p
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