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December 3, 2001 Monday Ramazan 17, 1422 Turkey arrives at deal for EU force: Diplomatic logjam with UK, US broken ANKARA, Dec 2: Turkey said on Sunday it had broken a diplomatic logjam with Britain and the United States which had for months hindered efforts to create a European defence force.... Nepal deploys more troops against rebels KATHMANDU, Dec 2: Nepal reinforced troops fighting an uprising by Maoist insurgents on Sunday as they attacked government installations and a foreign aid agency, officials said.... Russia launches 3 satellites MOSCOW, Dec 2: Russia launched three military satellites on Saturday from the Baikonur space station in Kazakhstan, Russian news agencies reported.... Japan celebrates littlest princess TOKYO, Dec 2: Japanese turned out in their thousands on Sunday to celebrate the birth of a new princess, but along with the warm welcome came debate over a law that... Award for dentures from bamboo NEW DELHI, Dec 2: A folk singer from the north-eastern Indian state of Assam has won the first national innovation award for making low-cost bamboo teeth dentures, news reports said Sunday.... Quake jolts northeastern Japan TOKYO, Dec 2: A moderately strong earthquake shook northeastern Japan on Sunday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, but there were no reports of damage.... US asks UK help for attacks on Somalia: Report on next phase of campaign LONDON, Dec 2: The United States has asked Britain to help prepare military strikes against Somalia in the next phase of the global campaign against terrorism, the Sunday Telegraph reported here.... French troops deploy on Afghan soil PARIS, Dec 2: The first members of a French marine unit blocked in Uzbekistan for two weeks have arrived in Afghanistan, the Defence Ministry said on Sunday.... Cost of Afghan campaign calculated WASHINGTON, Dec 2: The cost of the US campaign in Afghanistan will be relatively modest compared to recent military engagements such as the Gulf War of 1991 and the 1999 Kosovo... Fear over attack on Iraq recedes AMMAN, Dec 2: Amman bourse rose at start of weekly trade on Sunday as investors shrugged off worries Iraq, the country’s main trading partner, could be Washington’s next military target in... American Taliban survives revolt WASHINGTON, Dec 2: A white, US-born Taliban fighter was among the few Northern Alliance prisoners to survive the bloody uprising at the Qala-e-Jangi prison fortress, outside Mazar-i-Sharif, Newsweek magazine reports in... Sanaa agrees to arrest al-Qaeda members DUBAI, Dec 2: Sanaa and Washington have agreed on the arrest of at least two people in Yemen suspected of belonging to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terror network, Yemeni President Ali... Ames strain of anthrax limited to a few labs WASHINGTON, Dec 2: Since the mid-1980s, the US Army laboratory that is the main custodian of the virulent strain of anthrax used in the recent terrorist attacks distributed the bacteria to... NATO’s future in fresh doubt BRUSSELS: When the Soviet Union collapsed it was fashionable for columnists to sound the death knell of NATO. Now, as Europe sits on the sidelines of an unquestionably US-driven war on... US doves, hawks duel over attacking Iraq WASHINGTON: With the Taliban on the run and US allies advancing on all fronts in Afghanistan, Phase II of President George W. Bush’s “war on terrorism” - specifically, the merits of... Politicians unite to back Putin’s ‘agenda’ MOSCOW: Three centrist political movements formally united in Moscow on Saturday to form a single party that is expected to control a majority of Parliament and carry out the political agenda... Helping to treat AIDS in Africa JOHANNESBURG: By bicycle and car trailer, coffins are moving across Africa. They carry home the dead, encasing the bodies of men, women and children that often start to rot even before... Mounting Hazards for foreign reporters KABUL: The Afghan doctors all knew the two Western photographers. For the past four days, they had visited the Kabul hospital regularly, walking the hallways, visiting patients in the wards. The... Bush’s killer instinct LONDON: In the aftermath of Sept 11 most newspaper endorsed military action to dismantle the Al Qaeda network and the Taliban. However some newspapers’ note of caution was that if this... UAE rulers re-elect Sheikh Zaid as president ABU DHABI, Dec 2: The rulers of the seven states comprising the United Arab Emirates re-elected Abu Dhabi’s ruler Sheikh Zaid bin Sultan al-Nahayan on Sunday as president for a further...

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