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December 22, 2001 Saturday Shawwal 6, 1422 Five killed as police, hardliners clash: US not satisfied with Arafat’s actions JABALIYA (Gaza Strip), Dec 21: Palestinian police and anti-Israeli hardliners fought running gunbattles which killed five people and injured more than 60 others here on Friday, just hours after the Hamas... 2,000 to attend govt inauguration in Kabul KABUL, Dec 21: Around 2,000 people will attend the swearing-in ceremony of Afghanistan’s interim government on Saturday, with advance troops from the multinational force providing security, a senior UN spokesman said.... Argentine govt collapses amid agitation BUENOS AIRES, Dec 20: Argentine President Fernando de la Rua resigned on Thursday as opposition Peronist leaders rejected his call for a national unity government amid growing unrest over economic austerity... No lowering of guard for holidays, says Bush WASHINGTON, Dec 21: US President George W. Bush said on Friday that the United States is safer than before Sept 11 strikes, but not invulnerable, and vowed not to lower his... UN calls for probe into massacre GENEVA, Dec 21: A UN expert on human rights in Afghanistan on Friday called for inquiries into alleged violations of international norms on the treatment of prisoners in the country, notably... Anti-cave bomb WASHINGTON, Dec 21: The United States is sending a new bomb to Afghanistan that uses a delayed, high-pressure explosion to suck the air out of caves and tunnels, the Pentagon’s chief... Couple kill themselves after looting BUENOS AIRES, Dec 21: A Korean couple whose shop outside the Argentine capital was looted committed suicide on Thursday.... 24,000 unexploded bomblets ISLAMABAD, Dec 21: An estimated 24,000 unexploded bomblets are lying on Afghan soil, posing a deadly hazard to civilians and children in particular, international demining experts said on Friday.... Omar is safe, says former minister SPIN BOLDAK, Dec 21: Mullah Mohammad Omar, the reclusive head of the Taliban, is safe and is at an unknown location in Afghanistan, a former Taliban minister said on Friday.... Washington to recognize new Afghan govt: Dobbins KABUL, Dec 21: The United States will formally recognize the new interim administration to be inaugurated in Kabul on Saturday as the official government of Afghanistan, a senior official said.... Veiled warning to Pakistan SPIN BOLDAK, Dec 21: A former minister in the Taliban government on Friday warned Afghanistan’s neighbours of retaliation if they extradited any Taliban official to the United States, but gave no... Foreign forces should leave, says Iran KABUL, Dec 21: Iran’s foreign minister said on Friday he opposed the deployment of international forces in Afghanistan, warning that their presence could cause instability for the interim government to be... Osama video: Pentagon faces cover-up charges WASHINGTON, Dec 21: The US Defence Department denied charges on Friday that there had been any attempt to conceal information in its incomplete English translation of an Osama bin Laden videotape... Sept 11 victims’ families go millionaire WASHINGTON: Families and victims of the Sept 11 terrorist attacks would likely become millionaires under the terms of a tentative settlement package announced on Thursday by a federal mediator.... America’s missile defence delusion WASHINGTON: America being what it is, the idea that politics and ideology should be set aside for a higher purpose may seem a quaint, naive sentiment. But few would argue with... Why not blue helmets in Afghanistan? NEW YORK: With the Afghan capital of Kabul quieter than expected, the interim Afghan government is lobbying to limit the size and scope of a multinational peacekeeping force.... S. Leone races against time to hold polls FREETOWN: Sierra Leone’s high-stakes presidential and parliamentary elections are likely to go ahead as planned in mid-2002, despite strong doubts about whether credible polls can be organised in such a short... Washington considering extending ‘terror war’ WASHINGTON: With the Taliban vanquished and Al Qaeda routed from its last mountain redoubts around Tora Bora, US policymakers are trying to decide how best to pursue their three-month-old “war against... Donors can’t stop Argentina from going bankrupt NEW YORK: The 16 corpses lying in Buenos Aires morgues on Thursday marked the endgame of the International Monetary Fund’s long and doomed fight to prevent Argentina from becoming the world’s... Move to ban cluster bombs LONDON: Britain is under growing pressure to ban cluster bombs, used in Kosovo and recently by the US in Afghanistan....

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