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Friday 16 April 2004 (25 Safar 1425)

Koreans Head to US Despite Anti-American Sentiment at Home

ANNANDALE, Virgina, 14 April 2004 — Anti-American sentiment may have deepened in South Korea, but it has not deterred Koreans from flocking to study, work or live in the United States. In Annandale,... Full Story


AIDS, Poverty Shape Up as Big Challenges in South Africa

JOHANNESBURG, 14 April 2004 — South African President Thabo Mbeki, set to return to power after today’s landmark elections, will be under intense pressure to deliver on the herculean problems of grinding... Full Story


Afghan Farmers Battle Corruption as Poppy Crops Destroyed

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, 14 April 2004 — Poppy farmer Lal Jan sits among the remains of his destroyed crop and wonders how he will make a living from his parched land, a predicament he shares with thousands... Full Story




American Military Tactics Flounder in Iraq

BAGHDAD, 14 April 2004 — America’s military tactics in Iraq come with their own carefully constructed vocabulary. It is a sanitized language that talks of textbook style operations against a precisely... Full Story


US Remains Unrepentant Over Fallujah Death Toll

BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON, 13 April 2004 — The United States Sunday night defended its controversial siege of Fallujah which has cost the lives of more 600 people over the past week, by claiming most of those... Full Story


Threat to Foreigners on the Rise

BAGHDAD, 13 April 2004 — Foreign nationals have never been in so much danger as now, a year after the proclaimed end of war in Iraq. In the most recent of a spate of kidnappings of Westerners,... Full Story


GIs No Longer Superwarriors

BAGHDAD, 13 April 2004 — A joke circulating in Baghdad says: “If you want to frighten an American soldier, shout ‘Fallujah’.” The town where US troops have been blocked for seven days by Iraqis... Full Story


The War Is Being Fought in the Open, by People Defending Their Homes

BAGHDAD, 13 April 2004 — April 9, 2003 was the day Baghdad fell to US forces. One year later, it is rising up against them. Donald Rumsfeld claims that the resistance is just a few “thugs, gangs... Full Story