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'US soldiers missing in Iraq, could be POWs'
Washington: The United States believes a number of US troops fewer than 10 have gone missing in Iraq and could be held as prisoners of war (POWs)by the Iraqi military, senior Defence officials said on March 23.
Stiff resistance in Umm Qasr, 160 km from Baghdad
Dubai: Coalition forces were on March 23 engaged in street-to-street fighting with Saddam Hussein's elite Republican Guards in the Southern Iraqi city of Umm Qasr, a day after capturing the city's port, and advanced within 160 km from Baghdad, which claimed to have captured 35 American prisoners of war.
Coal mine blast in China kills 28, 45 missing
Beijing: A major coal mine explosion in North China's coal-rich Shanxi province on March 23 killed 28 and 45 are still missing, official reports said.
Saddam not as much a threat as US says: Cook
London: Robin Cook, who quit as leader of the House of Commons in protest against Prime Minister Tony Blair's decision to join the US-led war against Iraq, on March 23 said the "probability is that Saddam Hussein has no weapons of mass destruction" and the UN inspectors should have been given time to finish their job before "we rushed into war".
Iraq war: 77 civilians killed, 366 hurt in Basra
Baghdad: Seventy-seven civilians were killed and 366 others injured by US air strikes on the Southern Iraqi city of Basra, Information Minister Mohammad Said al-Sahaaf said on March 23.
US forces facing resistance from Iraq: Franks
Camp As Sayliyah (Qatar): US Gen Tommy Franks, in his first comments on the US-led war on Iraq, said on March 22 that allied forces were encountering resistance from Saddam Hussein's troops but had not seen evidence of weapons of mass destruction.
Anti-war protests rock US, Bush mocked at
New York: At least 80 people were arrested on March 23 when demonstrators clashed with the police at the end of a rally against the US-led strikes in Iraq as about 200,000 anti-war protesters marched through the streets of the United States.
'British Air Force plane hit by US missile'
As-Saliyhah (Qatar): A Royal Air Force plane listed as missing after an operation in the Gulf late Saturday-early Sunday was hit by a US Patriot missile, a US military official said on March 23.
Egypt, Lebanon refuse to expel Iraqi diplomats
Cairo: Washington's demand to states worldwide to expel Iraq's diplomats is "not under consideration", Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher has said.
Four journalists killed while covering Iraq war
Dubai: Three journalists working for British television company ITN were feared dead after coming under fire near Basra while an Australian journalist was killed in a car bombing in Northern Iraq that Kurdish officials blamed on a militant group.
Blair says civilian casualties in Iraq inevitable
London: Prime Minister Tony Blair has warned that there would be civilian casualties in the war against Iraq, but insisted that British and US forces were making strenuous efforts to avoid such incidents.
Iraq claims US plane shot down over Baghdad
Damascus: Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri claimed his country's troops had shot down an unspecified US airplane over a Baghdad suburb, as he arrived in the Syrian capital early March 23.
US soldier held for wounding 13 colleagues
Kuwait City: A US soldier suspected of wounding 13 colleagues in a grenade attack in Kuwait has been taken into custody, US Department of Defence liaison officer Max Blumenfeld said on March 23.
US air strikes on Basra kill 50, injure 27: Report
Doha: US-led air strikes on the Southern Iraqi city of Basra killed 50 people and injured 27 others, according to a report by the Qatari satellite television Al-Jazeera.
More explosions heard in Baghdad: Report
Baghdad: More explosions were heard coming from the outskirts of Baghdad around 18:15 hours GMT (23:45 hours IST) on March 22, according to reports.
Iraq urges UN Security Council to stop US-led war
Baghdad: Iraq has called for the UN Security Council to condemn the US-led "invasion" of its territory and work for an immediate end to war, Iraqi satellite TV reported on March 22.
Iraq asks Arab govts to 'confront' US-led war
Damascus: Iraq's Foreign Minister Naji Sabri called on Arab governments to "confront" the US-led war, which he said threatened all Arab countries, as he arrived in the Syrian capital early on March 23.
British intelligence says Saddam injured: Report
London: Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Cabinet ministers were told by British intelligence chiefs that President Saddam Hussein was injured and needed a blood transfusion when his bunker was hit in the first allied air strikes on Iraq, 'The Sunday Telegraph' reported.
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