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Pak offered Iran N-parts 18 yrs ago
Charles alleges 'torture'
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Benazir convenes meeting of PPP leaders
Saddam’s half-brother captured
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Pak offered Iran N-parts 18 yrs ago
Washington, February 27 The secret meeting, believed to have taken place in a Dubai office in 1987, kick-started Teheran’s nuclear efforts and Khan’s black market, it said quoting foreign diplomats and US officials familiar with the new findings said. Iran, which was at war with Iraq then, bought centrifuge designs and a starter kit for uranium enrichment. But Teheran recently told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that it turned down the chance to buy the more sensitive equipment required for building the core of a bomb. There is evidence, however, that Iran used the offer as a buyer’s guide, acquiring some of the pricier items elsewhere, officials were quoted by ‘Washington Post’ as saying. “The offer is the strongest indication to date that Iran had a nuclear weapons programme, but it doesn’t prove it completely,” said one Western diplomat familiar with the details of the offer and would comment on the probe only on the condition of anonymity. The information comes as the IAEA’s probe of Iran’s nuclear programme enters its third year. The IAEA’s 35-member board will meet in Vienna tomorrow to discuss Iran’s case and the agency’s latest lines of inquiry.
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Charles alleges 'torture'
over Camilla affair
London, February 27 The Mail on Sunday said the Prince's comments to BBC journalist Gavin Hewitt, included in a new book, would fuel concern at the public's growing disenchantment with the monarchy and the Prince's suitability to become King. While at first refusing to discuss his relationship with Parker Bowles, Charles was pressed further and then snaps, "I thought the British people were supposed to be compassionate. I don't see much of it," the Mail said. "I don't see any reason why I should define my private life," Charles was quoted as saying. "All my life people have been telling me what to do. I'm tired of it. My private life has become an industry." And he pleads, "I just want some peace". The Mail said the Prince made the candid remarks to Hewitt in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 2003. Charles 'selfish' says Queen
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has "distanced" herself from the wedding of Prince Charles with his long-time companion Camilla Parker Bowles because she believes that her son is putting "personal gratification before duty," a media report said today. The Queen is "lukewarm" about the April 8 wedding and is worried that it could tarnish the monarchy, The Sunday Telegraph quoted royal courtiers as saying privately. "The Queen believes that the Prince of Wales has put his own gratification and interests before duty by pursuing his relationship with Camilla and she can never forgive that," a courtier told the
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Benazir convenes meeting of PPP leaders
Peshawar, February 27 Mr Khan, who is a close friend of Mr Asif Ali Zardari, said the PPP leaders had been asked to gather in Islamabad where Ms Bhutto would speak by telephone from Washington. Mr Khan said after attending the meeting in Islamabad he would be leaving for Dubai to accompany Mr Zardari back home. He said ‘‘I think she will brief the PPP leaders about the future political line”. |
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Saddam’s half-brother captured
Baghdad, February 27 Mr Sabawi Ibrahim
al-Hasan al-Tikriti, an intelligence chief and one-time adviser to the former leader, was number 36 on the US military’s list of the 55 most-wanted in Iraq. Several months ago Iraqi Government officials said Mr Ibrahim was one of at least two former Baath Party members directing the anti-American insurgency.
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Nepalese parties announce fresh stir
Kathmandu, February 27 The five parties, including the largest Nepali Congress and the Nepal Communist Party
(UML), have announced peaceful agitation programmes from March 8, coinciding with the International Women's Day, which include protest meetings and party flag demonstrations throughout the country, according to party sources. "We demand that the Royal Proclamation be immediately withdrawn, emergency lifted, people's rights restored and all political prisoners and journalists released," the parties said in a joint statement, issued for the first time after the royal takeover.
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US blacks hardest hit by HIV
Boston, February 27 The findings, presented to a gathering of AIDS researchers here, is further evidence the nation’s AIDS epidemic is becoming a scourge disproportionately suffered by African Americans. The prevalence of HIV infection in blacks ages 18 to 59 in 1991 was 1.1 per cent, about five times higher than what was found in whites. In 2001, it was 2.14 per cent, and the gap had increased to 13 times that seen in whites. The hardest-hit group was black men ages 40 to 49, 3.6 per cent of whom were infected with HIV when contacted through the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. ‘‘It is a disturbing trend,’’ said Geraldine McQuillan, a researcher from the National Center for Health Statistics who described the findings at the 12th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, the annual midwinter AIDS meeting in the USA. She said, in fact, that ‘‘if anything, the findings are an underestimate’’ of the lopsided racial profile of the AIDS epidemic. The survey's interviewers ask a sample of American households to answer an extensive questionnaire, give blood samples, and undergo a modified physical exam. The survey does not include people in the military or in jails, prisons and hospitals. In the 2001 survey, out of about 5,500 people examined, 32 were HIV-positive. Of that group, 23 were African American. The overall prevalence of HIV was 0.43 per cent, up slightly from 0.33 per cent a decade
earlier. — By arrangement with Los Angeles Times Washington Post |
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