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US, India plan to conduct joint air combat exercise
Washington: In a sign of intensifying Defence cooperation, US and Indian Air Forces are planning to conduct their first joint exercise with fighter aircraft later this year or in early 2004, American officials have said.
Expats urged not to panic over Iraq war threat
Dubai: The three million-odd expatriates in Saudi Arabia, mostly from Asia, have been advised by their diplomatic missions not to panic or leave the country in haste fearing a US-led attack on Iraq, even as Philippines has drawn up a contingency plan to meet a crisis and Indonesia has suspended export of labour for the time being.
Experiments end as space mission draws to close
Washington: Wide range of experiments devoted to medicine, biology, physics and
earth observation on board space shuttle Columbia have run their course, as the
research mission completed 12 days in space.
US to make public Iraq intelligence information
Washington: In a bid to bolster its case for a military offensive on Iraq, the US has decided to declassify some of the intelligence it has gathered on how Iraq concealed banned weapons and related equipment from the arms inspectors.
Powell whips war hysteria, says Iraq has little time
Washington: As the UN arms inspectors reported to the Security Council that Iraq
was "not genuinely" accepting disarmament, the United States has stepped up pressure on it to comply with the UN resolution 1,441, saying it did not have much more time left to do so.
US appears to be moving closer to war against Iraq
United Nations: The United States appeared to be moving closer to a military action against Iraq with chief weapons inspector Hans Blix bolstering its case by contending Baghdad had not fully disclosed its chemical and biological arms as also long range missile programmes and did not account for precursors, which it claimed it destroyed.
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