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Foreign
Iran offers US access
to nuclear scientists
Washington—Iran is open to a meeting of its
nuclear experts with counterparts from the
United States and other countries to dispel
unease about Tehran’s nu-clear program,
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told US media. At
talks with world powers next week about its
nuclear drive, Iran will also of-fer to purchase
enriched uranium from the United States for
medical purposes, the firebrand Iranian leader
told The Washington Post and Newsweek magazine. |
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KAUST: King’s gift to
the world
Comment
Shafquat Ali
FOUNDED by the caliphs Harun Al-Rashid and his
son Al-Ma’mun, Bait Al-Hikma or the House of
Wisdom served as a library, research center and
translation bureau in Baghdad from the 9th to
13th centuries. Acclaimed as an intellectual hub
that highlighted the “Golden Age” of Islam by
fostering nontraditional dialogue and alliances
between those of different backgrounds, it
attracted the likes of Jabir ibn Hayyan,
Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khawarizmi and Badi Al-Zaman
Ismail ibn Al-Razzaz Al-Jazari. Ibn Hayyan is
known as the father of modern chemistry; Al-Khawarizmi
is hailed as the creator of algebra; and Al-Jazari
is considered the father of modern en-gineering. |
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Afghan official sees
run-off presidental vote
Kabul—Afghanistan has a two-week window to
realistically hold any presidential run-off vote
before winter sets in, an Afghan election
official said Thursday, in a stark
acknowledgment that officials must move quickly
to decide whether a new vote is needed.
Preliminary results from Afghanistan’s Aug. 20
vote show President Hamid Karzai winning
outright with 54.6 percent of the vote. However,
a raft of fraud charges are currently being
investigated. If enough votes are thrown out,
Karzai could dip below the 50 percent threshold
needed to avoid a runoff with leading
chal-lenger Abdullah Abdullah. |
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Poland sees merit in
missile plan
Warsaw—Poland’s security interests may end up
being better served under the flexible defense
system now proposed by Washington than it was
under the previous land-based plan, an adviser
to the Polish prime minister said on Thursday.
Last week, U.S. President Barack Obama shelved a
project to install interceptor missiles in
Poland and a radar site in the Czech Republic
and said he would in-stead seek a system
involving first sea-based and later land-based
interceptors. |
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BD to train 62,000 to
tackle quake disaster
Dhaka—Authorities in Bangladesh have launched a
training programme for some 62,000 volunteers
for rescue and disaster mitigation operations in
case another strong earthquake devastates the
South Asian country, media reports said
Thursday. ‘Training for a corps of 62,000
volunteers is underway to get them prepared for
rescue and relief operations in case an
earthquake shatters the crowded cit-ies,’ the
Bengali language Amardesh newspaper quoted Food
and Disaster Manage-ment Minister Abdur Razzaque
as saying. |
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