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| January 4, 2002 | Friday | Shawwal 19, 1422 |
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Israeli leadership divided over truce: Zinni’s second attempt
AL QUDS, Jan 3: The task of US special envoy Anthony Zinni, back in the region for a second attempt at bringing Israel and the Palestinians back to a ceasefire, has... 
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Khamenei tries to calm political hostility
TEHRAN, Jan 3: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has moved to calm the fierce hostility between the pro-reform parliament and the conservatives dominating the judiciary and other key bodies, which...
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Scientists focus radiation beams to beat cancer
CHICAGO, Jan 3: Handyman Mort Levy said he hadn’t been sick a day in his life until he was diagnosed with prostate cancer....
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US to check tourists with digital photos
LOS ANGELES, Jan 3: In a high-tech effort to tighten up on illegal infiltrators, officials at US airports and other border crossings will begin to match visitors with the digital photos...
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Lanka govt hopes to formalize ceasefire
COLOMBO, Jan 3: Sri Lanka said on Thursday it hoped to formalize a ceasefire with Tamil Tiger guerrillas with a framework of terms and conditions....
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No end in sight for Australian bushfires
SYDNEY, Jan 3: About 15,000 people battled 100 raging fires on Thursday on Australia’s east coast, news reports said....
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Israeli army stabs three teenagers
GAZA CITY, Jan 3: Palesti-nian security and medical officers accused Israeli troops Thursday of purposefully beating and stabbing to death three teenagers after hitting them with tank shells four nights ago...
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Mathematicians find euro coins land heads up
BERLIN, Jan 3: The strengthening euro might be a good bet for financial traders, but gamblers should be wary of chancing their luck — mathematicians say the new coins favour heads...
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Abacha family returns $148m to Nigeria
LAGOS, Jan 3: The family of late dictator Sani Abacha has returned $148 million to the Nigerian government, officials said on Thursday....
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113 Egyptians detained in US after attacks
CAIRO, Jan 3: The United States has provided Egypt with a detailed report on the fate of 113 Egyptians arrested in the US in connection with the Sept 11 attacks, a...
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Clinton’s dog killed
WASHINGTON, Jan 3: Former US president Bill Clinton’s Labrador retriever ‘Buddy’ was killed by a car on a busy road near the Clintons’ home in Chappaqua in New York state, media...
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Endgame for Taliban as US hunts for Osama
KABUL/WASHINGTON, Jan 3: Afghanistan’s new rulers said on Thursday they were negotiating the surrender of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar as American paratroopers flew in to join the hunt for remnants...
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New ME mission aims at ‘peace’
WASHINGTON: The US administration is sending its special envoy to the Middle East, retired Gen Anthony Zinni, back to the region for talks with senior Israeli and Palestinian officials in a...
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It’s in US interest to stop hunting Osama
LOS ANGELES: The hunt is on. With the Taliban routed, the war on terror now turns to the effort to bring back Osama bin Laden - dead or alive. While it...
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Herbalist cures the incurable
DAMASCUS: Three years ago, Mohammad survived a heart attack that later caused his leg to bloat out of proportion. After visiting several doctors to find a cure he was finally diagnosed...
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Memorable Historical bloopers
SAN DIEGO (USA):You do remember the Iran Hostess Crisis, don’t you? Or the Fall of the Berlin Wall? The Stoned Age? History professor Anders Henriksson’s students do. Or rather, this is...
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Weak case against Moussaoui
LOS ANGELES: Zacarias Moussaoui’s indictment contains significant gaps that will test not only the definition of certain crimes but the meaning of “proof beyond a reasonable doubt.” Most of the 30-page...
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Zambia’s political worries
LONDON: A high court ruling in Lusaka on Wednesday that in effect awarded Zambia’s violently disputed presidential election to former vice-president Levy Mwanawasa is unlikely to be the end of the...
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SAARC summit and deterioration of press freedom
PARIS: Saying that it is much concerned over the use of the war against terrorism as an excuse by many countries to deprive journalists of their freedom to report, the Paris-based...
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US holding more than 220 detainees
WASHINGTON, Jan 3: US forces in Afghanistan are now holding more than 220 members of the former Taliban regime and the al-Qaeda network, the US Defence Department said on Wednesday....
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