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October 8, 2001 Monday Rajab 20, 1422 Asylum seekers throw kids in sea SYDNEY, Oct 7: Children were thrown overboard during a stand-off at sea between 200 boat people and an Australian warship in what the government described Sunday as a perverse attempt to... Did suicide bomber cause Riyadh blast? AL KHOBAR, Oct 7: Saudi police Sunday drove away onlookers from the scene of a blast in this eastern Saudi city which Riyadh says killed a US citizen and an unidentified... Ukraine, Israel join probe: Russian pilot’s cry heard before blast SOCHI (Russia) Oct 7: Crash investigators and military experts from Israel and Ukraine joined the widening probe on Sunday into the causes of the mid-air explosion that downed a Russian airliner,... BD’s new govt to be installed on Oct 10 DHAKA, Oct 7: The installation of a new Bangladesh government under premier-elect Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will take place on October 10, officials said Sunday.... Operation to lift Kursk begins MURMANSK (Russia), Oct 7: The delayed operation to raise the sunken Kursk submarine was finally ready to begin at midnight (2000 GMT) on Sunday after Russian navy chiefs said the final... Sharon, Arafat urged to attend UN assembly BRUSSELS, Oct 7: Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel called on Sunday for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to attend the ongoing UN General Assembly.... Opposition claims 13 Villages captured ISLAMABAD, Oct 7: Opposition forces Sunday claimed to have made significant gains in their fight against the Taliban militia in the north and west of Afghanistan, as US forces stood ready... Iran tries to stem flow of Afghan refugees ADIMI REFUGEE CAMP (Iran) Oct 7: Afghans will get no welcome in Iran if they flee across the border to escape U.S.-British air strikes that began on Sunday night.... Jordan arrests Muslim Brotherhood members AMMAN, Oct 7: Dozens of Islamists, including 15 members of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood, have been arrested over the last week, the organisation’s spokesman Jamil Abu Bakr told AFP on Sunday.... Six arrested, questioned in southern Thailand BANGKOK, Oct 7: Thai police arrested six men at an airport in southern Thailand and are questioning them over suspected terrorist links, police said Sunday.... 3,000 at pro-Osama rally in Nigeria KANO (Nigeria) Oct 7: More than 3,000 Muslims on Sunday attended a rally in northern Nigeria’s mainly Islamic city of Kano during which organisers expressed support for Osama bin Laden.... Syria against Israel as part of coalition AMMAN, Oct 7: Syrian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa Miro said on Sunday in Amman that Israel represents “state terrorism” and should not be part of the international coalition to fight against... US to back Afghan opposition, says Rumsfeld WASHINGTON, Oct 7: The US will support the Afghan opposition in its fight against the ruling Taliban militia, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Sunday, without indicating if the support would... AL under pressure to accept poll results DHAKA, Oct 7: While Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina is drumming up her campaign against what she called “massive rigging” in the October 1 general elections, party MPs-elect and others... Afghan winter may test allies’ training LONDON: Military experts warned on Saturday that US and British forces will face a ‘logistical nightmare’ in Afghanistan unless they complete operations before the bitter winter descends in just six weeks... Chastened Israel gives olive branch to Bush AL QUDS: Ariel Sharon has moved swiftly to mend a rupture with Washington after his invocation of a Nazi comparison triggered the most heated diplomatic exchange between America and Israel in... Microsoft employee beacon of hope MOSCOW: Five years ago David Tagliani was on call night and day in Seattle as Microsoft’s leading troubleshooter. He was also a physical and emotional wreck.... Boat people asset for Howard poll campaign CANBERRA: Forget tax cuts, new spending or the usual election sweeteners. Conservative Australian Prime Minister John Howard may win most of his votes at the Nov 10 election just by holding... Tajiks now centre of world attention DUSHANBE (Tajikistan): The faint rumble of an approaching war is transforming this city. It has suddenly awakened from years of isolation to find itself nearly the centre of the world’s attention.... Aid to Afghanistan must outweigh politics LONDON: Aid agencies have stepped up their pleas for emergency food shipments to Afghanistan as the country’s refugee crisis worsens, arguing that the people’s needs outweigh the risk of indirectly helping...

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