Editorial
Ghouls get their way
British politicians who demanded that Abdelbaset al-Megrahi die more quickly to fall in line with Scottish doctors' assessment of his life expectancy can finally relax.
Features
Attack of the drones
The immoral and irresponsible use of unmanned aerial assault vehicles
Riches for some, pain for the rest of us
The dire statistics underpinning EU attempts to rein in the recession
World
Al-Jazeera announces freeing of hostages
Saturday 06 November 2004
ARABIC television station Al-Jazeera said yesterday that a Filipino and a Nepali who had been kidnapped earlier in the week have been released by their captors.
Allawi pleads for European troops to stay in Iraq
Saturday 06 November 2004
IRAQI interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi pleaded with European countries with troops in Iraq not to pull out yesterday, claiming that doing so would "encourage terrorists" and damage reconstruction efforts.
Annan warns against attack
Saturday 06 November 2004
UN secretary-general Kofi Annan warned US-led coalition forces in Iraq that new military campaigns in Fallujah and other insurgent strongholds could jeopardise the coming elections, it emerged yesterday.
NATO hears appeal for training programme
Saturday 06 November 2004
PRIME Minister Ayad Allawi appealed for NATO to speed up plans for a major expansion of its training programme for Iraq's armed forces yesterday.
Barroso seeks backing for revamped EU team
Saturday 06 November 2004
INCOMING European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso met European Parliament leaders yesterday to persuade them to back his revamped team of commissioners.
Chirac rejects Blair appeal for closer EU relations with United States
Saturday 06 November 2004
BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair's call for Europe to wake up to the reality of US President George W Bush's re-election gained a frosty reception at an EU summit in Brussels yesterday.
Colombia probes army prison breakout
Saturday 06 November 2004
A COLOMBIAN army major convicted of taking part in a bid to assassinate a left-wing politician has broken out of a military prison, deputy head of the army General Eduardo Morales said late on Thursday.
Thousands of Romanian local authority staff march for higher wages
Saturday 06 November 2004
THOUSANDS of Romanian local government clerical workers who are striking to demand higher wages and threatening to disrupt elections this month marched through several of the country's cities yesterday.
US casino strike ends after workers win rise
Saturday 06 November 2004
THOUSANDS of cocktail waitresses, housekeepers, bell boys and other workers in the New Jersey resort of Atlantic City returned to work on Thursday after a month-long strike.
Schroeder scraps holiday cut proposals
Saturday 06 November 2004
GERMAN Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said yesterday that he had scrapped a proposal to force Germans to work an extra day each year by moving the national holiday marking the country's unification.