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 - US Secretary of State Colin Powell has conceded that evidence he presented to the United Nations to justify the US-led invasion of Iraq might have been wrong. Powell over the weekend admitted that the dramatic case he made to the UN Security Council in February 2003 was based on flawed intelligence about Iraq's weapons programs. "At the time I was preparing that presentation it was presented to me as being solid," he told reporters. "Now it appears not to be the case, that it was that solid." Kufa, Iraq - Spanish-led troops and Iraqi police fought a three-hour gun battle with Shi'ite militiamen that left 20 Iraqis and four Salvadoran soldiers dead yesterday, witnesses and medical officials said. Madrid - At least three suspects in last month's deadly train bombings in Madrid detonated explosives and killed themselves Saturday as special forces stormed a suburban apartment where they were hiding, Spain's interior minister said. Germany - Germans took to the streets in vast numbers on Saturday to send a clear signal of defiance against the social reform programs implemented by their government.Nearly half a million people turned out in three major cities to urge the government to roll back the Agenda 2010 social reform programs, which they said would reduce federal funding in welfare and health services as well as pension benefits.
