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 issued a stern warning to Iran yesterday, saying that the international community will take action if Tehran continues to move in the direction of seeking a nuclear weapon. Kabul, Afghanistan - A suspected Taliban attack on an Afghan government office and a rocket attack on a provincial town killed five people, officials said Sunday, hours after the U.S. military announced a new drive to crush insurgents and track down Osama bin Laden. Rome - Pope John Paul II became the third-longest serving pontiff in the history of the Roman Catholic Church yesterday. The pope used the occasion to pray for the victims of Thursday's terrorist bombings in Madrid. Fresno, California - Six coroners worked in shifts yesterday to identify the nine victims of a mass killing, believed to all be family members of a man who lived a bizarre life of polygamy and incest. Marcus Wesson, who may have fathered two of the victims with his own daughters, was charged with nine counts of murder. Baghdad - The US-led authority in Iraq has said it will introduce a new border policy to try to keep out foreign insurgents, including closing all but three of the 19 official crossing points from Iran.
