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Harassment: Malaysia to submit report to India
Kuala Lumpur: The Malaysian government, under fire for the ill-treatment of about 270 Indians by its police, on March 15 said it would submit a report to India on the investigation into the alleged incident.
Chinese firm accused of aiding Iraqi missile mission
Washington: Notwithstanding strong French denials, US officials have accused a Chinese firm of supplying Iraq a dual-use chemical used in making fuel for long-range missiles with the help from brokers in France and Syria.
US gives up on persuading Turkey, reroutes ships
Washington: After waiting for weeks for Turkey's permission to base US troops in the country for an attack on Iraq, Bush administration has almost given up on persuading Ankara further, and is now moving American warships to the Red Sea through the Suez Canal.
'America is at the endgame of UN diplomacy'
Washington: Ahead of an emergency summit with Britain and Spain on the Iraq issue, United States has warned that it is in the "endgame of UN diplomacy" and said an interim authority would be set up in post-Saddam Iraq on the lines of the one in Afghanistan.
WHO issues worldwide alert over mysterious outbreak
United Nations: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a worldwide alert for the first time in 10 years, after six people died and hundreds in China, Hong Kong and Vietnam contracted a mysterious respiratory disease, which is not responding to antiviral or antibiotic drugs, and the cause of which is yet to be ascertained.
Iraq submits report on VX nerve gas to Blix
United Nations: Iraq has submitted a report to the United Nations chief weapons
inspector Hans Blix, claiming that Baghdad does not now possess VX nerve gas,
diplomats said.
End of road nearing for UN diplomacy on Iraq
United Nations: With the US, Spain and Britain heading for an emergency summit on March 16, diplomatic efforts to resolve the Iraqi disarmament issue entered the last few days – perhaps the last week – with little possibility of any compromise or consensus emerging, diplomats and officials at the United Nations say.
Bush waivers coup-related sanctions on Pakistan
Washington: In an apparent bid to win Pakistan's support on military action against Iraq, US President George W Bush has lifted sanctions on Islamabad imposed after President Pervez Musharraf took over power in a bloodless coup in 1999.
Hu Jintao succeeds Zemin as China's President
Beijing: Heralding a new era of leadership, Vice-President Hu Jintao was on March 15 elected unopposed as the President of the China, while his predecessor Jiang Zemin was re-elected as the commander-in-chief of the People's Liberation Army (PLA).
US not trading favours while seeking support
Washington: Amidst intense lobbying, US on March 14 denied it was trading favours while seeking votes of undecided countries for a new UN Security Council resolution, paving way for military action against Iraq.
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