The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Washington - President George W. Bush, pointing to a black market weapons network led by the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, said Wednesday that no new countries should have the ability to enrich or process nuclear material. He argued that international efforts to combat the spread of weapons of mass destruction have been neither broad nor effective enough and require tougher action from all countries. "The greatest threat before humanity today is the possibility of secret and sudden attack with chemical or biological or radiological or nuclear weapons," Bush said. "We must confront the danger with open eyes and unbending purpose," he said in a speech at the National Defence University. Moscow - A Russian presidential candidate who disappeared for five days gave a rambling account of his absence Wednesday, suggesting in a radio interview that he spent part of it hiding out in Ukraine from shadowy operatives tailing him for two years. Baghdad - A second suicide bombing in as many days killed up to 47 people Wednesday, pushing the toll in the back-to-back attacks to 100. Iraqis were again the targets - this time, a crowd of volunteers for Iraq's new army - in an apparent campaign to wreck U.S. plans to transfer power by July 1. The American military posted a $10-million US bounty on a Jordanian militant suspect.
