[A-List] News Archive: July 7, 2003

["bon moun" <sherrynstan@xxxxxxx>]

The chief of Turkey's armed forces said on Monday the weekend arrest of
Turkish troops by U.S. forces in Iraq had caused a crisis in relations
between the two NATO armed forces.
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters07-07-013721.asp?reg=MIDEAST

Two American soldiers were killed in separate attacks on their convoy in
the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the military said today.
http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200nationalnews/content_obje
ctid=13150052_method=full_siteid=50003_headline=-Killing-continues-in-Ir
aq-name_page.html

The possible deployment of U.S. peacekeeping troops to Liberia is
overshadowing President Bush's five-nation trip to Africa, which begins
on Monday when he leaves for Senegal.
http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=3044762

Embattled President Charles Taylor accepted an offer of asylum in
Nigeria on Sunday, but gave no time frame for quitting power and
insisted the transition must be orderly. He urged the United States to
send peacekeepers.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0707liberia07.html

Nigeria's general strike is set to continue into a second week following
the rejection by labour unions of a compromise offer from the
government.
http://www.hipakistan.com/en/detail.php?newsId=en31379&F_catID=&f_type=s
ource

The establishment of an interim authority in the Democratic Republic of
Congo last week offered hope for a country ravaged by conflict. But the
civil war, in which millions have died, continues to blight the Ituri
region.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/story/0,12900,992767,00.html

At 2 a.m., baton-wielding police kick open the doors of a home in
Kenya's Mombasa port, bludgeon its Muslim inhabitants and seize a terror
suspect. Furious Muslim leaders complain of anti-Islamic prejudice.
http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3043912

The Israeli cabinet reluctantly agreed yesterday to free several hundred
Palestinian prisoners to bolster the US-led road map to peace.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,993045,00.html

Following the Israeli assassination of PFLP leader Abu Ali Mustafa in
August 2001, the central committee of the PFLP elected Saadat as his
successor. In retaliation for the murder, a unit of the PFLP shot the
racist Rehevem Ze'evi, the Israeli tourism minister who openly promoted
the killing and exile of Palestinians.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/current/545p12.htm

A strike in Nigeria that threatened to disrupt oil exports while Iraqi
crude is also still off the market drove oil prices higher last week.
Gold rebounded slightly as weakness in the dollar offset concerns about
the impact of rising US unemployment on jewelry demand.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/Business/07Jul2003_biz77.html

Iraq's oil production capacity before the invasion of Kuwait in 1990
exceeded 3.5mn b/d and reached 3mn b/d before the 2003 US invasion. Iraq
will not be able to increase its production to that level in the short
run for the following five reasons:
http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=23195

India and China, two rising powers in Asia with more than a quarter of
the world's population, need to develop closer relations on the basis of
complementary interests, a former Indian envoy to the European Union
(EU) said here yesterday.
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=91924

Officials of Iran and Saudi Arabia here Sunday night discussed issues of
mutual interest, underscoring the need to strengthen bilateral ties in
view of developments in this sensitive region, IRNA reported.
http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=16745&New
sKind=Current%20Affairs

The Iranian government said yesterday an impending visit by the U.N.
nuclear inspection agency showed Tehran's desire to cooperate over its
nuclear program, which the United States says may be a covert bid to
build atomic weapons.
http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/2546.htm

Japan, China and South Korea agreed in Bali yesterday to endorse plans
to develop an Asia-wide market in government and semi-government bonds
to reduce reliance on foreign investment, Japan's Finance Minister,
Masajuro Shiokawa said.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000101&sid=azQFpPZtfOKQ&refer
=japan

South Korean and China have agreed to cooperate in judicial affairs
dealing with civil and business cases.
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200307/kt2003070717361311950.htm

South Korea's rhetoric of "principal enemy" against the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea(DPRK) reverses the spirit of the June 15,
2000 North-South Joint Declaration, the official Korean Central News
Agency (KCNA) reported on Sunday.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200307/07/eng20030707_119547.shtml

In 2002, the US government stepped up its intervention into Venezuelan
affairs, energetically assisting the April 11 coup against President
Hugo Chavez. Washington provided finances and advice to the alliance of
business leaders, military generals and corrupt trade-union leaders that
attempted to depose Chavez.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/current/545p16.htm

More than 300 Cuban doctors will arrive in Venezuela in July to
reinforce a growing contingent of medical personnel from the communist
island who are treating patients in Caracas' poorest slums, Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday.
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters07-06-120825.asp?reg=AMERICA
S

Venezuela is to import 30,000 tonnes of meat from Paraguay in an effort
to deal with food shortages across the country caused by a prolonged
drought and the knock-on effects of last year's coup d'etat and
continuing opposition intransigence.
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=9252

Brazilian peasants ended a two-week ranch invasion on Friday saying they
expected to win land rights after President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
threw his weight behind land reform this week.
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters07-04-150132.asp?reg=AMERICA
S

Ecuador on Thursday said its International Monetary Fund program was
solid as it awaited a loan review after the lender relaxed deadlines for
some tough reforms, but called for more discipline moving ahead.
http://www.forbes.com/work/careers/newswire/2003/07/03/rtr1018937.html

The workers at the IMPA aluminum plant here all can remember when their
company was privately owned, and a few veterans even recall when it was
the property of the state. But these days, as the result of the worst
economic crisis in the country's history, it is the workers themselves
who are the factory's stockholders and managers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/international/americas/06ARGE.html?ex=
1058068800&en=b58e3af4788cb910&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

New York Head Start officials fear that a bill pending in the House to
transfer control of Head Start funds from communities to the states will
destroy the program, particularly in New York.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-ushead073362347jul07,0
,6990.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines

Recent Iraqi attacks on U.S. troops have demonstrated a new tactical
sophistication and coordination that raise the specter of the U.S.
occupation force becoming enmeshed in a full-blown guerrilla war,
military experts said yesterday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17958-2003Jul6.html?nav=h
ptop_tb

The Bush administration has allowed states to make vast changes in
Medicaid but has not held them accountable for the quality of care they
provide to poor,
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/07/07/MN298278.
DTL

Retired peacekeeper Gen. Lewis MacKenzie says the NATO-led force that
includes Canadian soldiers won't have much success in building a nation
in Afghanistan.
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/07/07/cdn_afghan030707

United States soldiers repeatedly ran riot and stole goods in the
terminal of Baghdad airport as they first entered it in the war against
Iraq, the US news magazine Time reported on Sunday.
http://afr.com/articles/2003/07/07/1057430110628.html

A former US ambassador who investigated reports that Niger sold uranium
to Iraq said that the US government exaggerated the threat to justify
the war in Iraq.
http://sify.com/news/international/fullstory.php?id=13191867