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December 7, 2001 Friday Ramazan 21, 1422 Hamas chief’s arrest triggers clashes GAZA, Dec 6: Baton-wielding Palestinian police battled stone-throwing protesters and armed supporters of the Hamas movement on Thursday after President Yasser Arafat put their spiritual leader under house arrest.... Opposition sweeps poll in Sri Lanka COLOMBO, Dec 6: Sri Lanka’s main opposition claimed victory on Thursday after a parliamentary vote tarnished by violence and vote rigging, as authorities extended a curfew amid fears of a backlash... Enzyme may help in anti-obesity drug: study WASHINGTON, Dec 6: A stress-related hormone may hold the key to the most dangerous type of obesity — the so-called apple-shaped syndrome in which people get fat bellies and often diabetes,... 2,000 flee as storm hits Philippines MANILA, Dec 6: A fishing boat went missing and more than 2,000 people fled their homes as tropical storm Kajiki tore through the central Philippines on Thursday, officials said.... Adams asks UK to admit death squad collusion BELFAST, Dec 6: Nationalist leader Gerry Adams said on Thursday that Britain had to acknowledge it had colluded in the murder of Roman Catholics by Protestant guerrillas or risk threatening Northern... Gendarmes take protest to French PM’s house CINTEGABELLE, Dec 6: Almost 2,000 French gendarmes marched through the streets of Prime Minister Lionel Jospin’s constituency on Thursday, stepping up an unprecedented labour protest in the run-up to national elections... Hello, I’m at the bottom of Red Sea PARIS, Dec 6: What to do 30 feet under the sea when you realize you’ve left the oven on? Call home of course, and without delay from France Telecom’s underwater phone... Nobel Peace laureates warn terrorism hides other dangers OSLO, Dec 6: Nobel Peace Prize laureates warned here Thursday that poverty, inequality and despair posed global threats to peace that must be addressed if the battles against terrorism and other... 80 killed in strikes on Tora Bora PARIS, Dec 6: More than 80 civilians have been killed and 50 wounded since US warplanes started bombing the eastern Tora Bora region of Afghanistan, the Paris-based Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF,... Amnesty moots UN probe into Qila-i-Jangi massacre LONDON, Dec 6: The Amnesty International on Thursday reiterated its call for an urgent inquiry into the large-scale killing of captured Taliban fighters and others at a fort on the outskirts... US not to lead peace force: Powell BRUSSELS, Dec 6: The US does not intend to lead the international peacekeeping force likely to be sent to Afghanistan to protect the country’s new multi-ethnic government, US Secretary of State... SE Asia says ‘no’ to US troops MANILA, Dec 6: There was a chilly response from three governments in southeast Asia on Wednesday to comments by President George W. Bush that US troops could strike outside Afghanistan.... Aging B-52s blamed for soldiers’ death WASHINGTON, Dec 6: The aging B-52 bomber was at the centre of controversy on Wednesday after a wayward bomb dropped from one of the bombers killed three US special forces troops... ‘Terrorism’ defined BRUSSELS, Dec 6: The European Union adopted a new common definition of terrorism as well as common jail terms for acts of terrorism on Thursday in a major step towards closer... Chinese separatists captured: US BEIJING, Dec 6: Muslims from northwestern China fighting with the Taliban have been captured in Afghanistan but the United States will not hand them over to Beijing because they are not... Britain takes steps to prevent Taliban entry LONDON, Dec 6: The British government has taken measures to stop Taliban deserters fron entering the United Kingdom by Channel Tunnel trains.... ME occupation propels conflict LOS ANGELES: This weekend’s scenes of horror and devastation in Jerusalem and Haifa caused by three Palestinian suicide bombers screamed out to a world distracted by other events that the Israeli-Palestinian... Will Bonn pact end Afghan fighting? LONDON: Ever since Mikhail Gorbachev pulled the Red Army out of Afghanistan in 1989, it has been Afghan against Afghan. First it was the anti-Soviet fighters against President Najibullah. Then it... Myanmar’s opposition, army talks bring woes BANGKOK: Myanmar’s exiled human rights activists are losing patience with the woefully slow progress made in the more than a year’s dialogue between the military government and the political opposition, as... Why Taliban crumbled WASHINGTON: After a month of desultory attacks, the Taliban army collapsed in little more than 100 hours in the second week of November, successively evacuating Mazar-e-Sharif, Taloqan, Herat, Jalalabad and Kabul....

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