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| January 2, 2002 | Wednesday | Shawwal 17, 1422 |
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12 EU states adopt single currency
BRUSSELS, Jan 1: Europe''s historic New Year switchover to the euro was heralded with fireworks and millions of enthusiastic citizens rushing to obtain their new single currency.... 
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Marines, allies launch operation near Kandahar: US soldiers fired at
ISLAMABAD, Jan 1: US Marines have launched an operation against a large compound in Afghanistan’s Helmand province to gather intelligence on the Taliban and Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network, the...
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Spy chief asks villagers to ‘hand over’ Omar
KABUL, Jan 1: The anti-Taliban intelligence chief in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar said on Tuesday he had asked villagers in neighbouring Helmand province to hand over Taliban supreme leader...
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500,000 attend NY new year festivities
NEW YORK, Jan 1: An estimated 500,00 people celebrated wildly in Times Square at midnight, banishing the horrors of Sept 11 with a roaring, glittering, patriotic party to ring in the...
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400 killed in Thailand accidents
BANGKOK, Jan 1: Nearly 400 people have died on Thai roads since the New Year holiday began on Thursday, with more than half the deaths attributed to drink-driving, Public Health Minister...
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Fires enter Sydney suburb
SYDNEY, Jan 1: Australia’s bushfire crisis moved into the suburbs of its biggest city on New Year’s Day, a large blaze in parklands in Sydney’s leafy north threatening 200 homes and...
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BD govt set to repeal disputed law
DHAKA, Jan 1: A controversial piece of legislation enacted by the former Awami League government in Feb 2000, the Public Safety Act (PSA), will be repealed in the next parliamentary session,...
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Sharon snubs president on speech offer
TEL AVIV, Jan 1: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has rejected a proposal for President Moshe Katzav to appear before the Palestinian parliament with a ceasefire offer, a senior source in...
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Pakistan, India’s shared history
WASHINGTON: India and Pakistan, both nuclear powers, stare eyeball to bloodshot eyeball across a common border. The military buildup and exchange of fire on both sides is alarming and, even apart...
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Israeli army blatantly violates human rights
AL QUDS: A 14-year-old boy throws a stone at a fortified army post in the Gaza Strip, and Israeli soldiers shoot him dead. A cabdriver drops off a grocery sack left...
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Let Arabs conduct their war on terror
SHARM EL SHEIKH (Egypt): As British Prime Minister Tony Blair had an informal meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Monday, senior Egyptian officials had a warning for the West: The...
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Facing up to death threats from outer space
LONDON: The British government response to the threat of death from outer space is to be a new information centre, the UK science minister, Lord Sainsbury, announced on Tuesday. Lord Sainsbury...
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Argentina’s crisis intensifies
BUENOS AIRES: The main parties in crisis-stricken Argentina reportedly reached agreement on Monday that Peronist Senator Eduardo Duhalde will replace interim President Adolfo Rodrmguez Saa, who resigned Sunday, to govern until...
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Difficult to root out terrorism
LOS ANGELES: Pity the person with a hard act to follow, particularly if it is his own. George W. Bush is such a person. For three months, he has shone as...
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