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January 20, 2002 Sunday Ziqa’ad 5, 1422 Swiss banks refuse to take US diktat: Union chief contacts Bush GENEVA, Jan 19: Jacques Rossier, the respected president of the Fondation Geneve Place Financiere, a banking industry trade association, has told President George Bush in no uncertain terms that his attempts... And now, a ‘Bin Ladin’ fashion line LOS ANGELES, Jan 19: Maybe he should have gone with “Yeslam.” Instead, Yeslam Binladin, one of Osama bin Laden’s 53 siblings, is planning to launch a clothing line under a label... China says US agencies bugged Jiang’s jet LONDON, Jan 19: China has said its intelligence officers found more than 20 spying devices in a Boeing 767 meant to become President Jiang Zemin’s official plane after it arrived from... Israel flayed over treatment of Palestinian journalists PARIS, Jan 19: Reporters Sans Frontieres the non-governmental Paris-based organization that monitors press freedom around the world, has expressed what it characterizes as its “indignation” over the way Israel has been... 7 Al Qaeda members captured in Kabul KABUL, Jan 19: Seven members of the Al Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden have been captured in Kabul, Afghan television announced on Saturday.... Borders collapse as 400,000 flee lava GISENYI (Rwanda), Jan 19: Hundreds of thousands of terrified and hungry refugees were on Saturday trying to find refuge from heaving lava streams and earthquakes in eastern Congo and western Rwanda.... US eying Pakistan’s N-assets: ex-envoy DUBAI, Jan 19: The United States is seeking control of Afghanistan and the containment of Iran and of Pakistan’s nuclear programme, Saudi Arabia’s former ambassador in Kabul charged in comments published... Muslim bodies find US law oppressive LOS ANGELES, Jan 18: Last month, federal agents raided the suburban Chicago offices of Global Relief Foundation, a Muslim charity. They carted away files, froze bank accounts and put the charity’s... Police fire at Kandahar dogfight KANDAHAR, Jan 19: Police fired into the air to break up a banned dogfight in the southern city of Kandahar on Saturday, sending hundreds of people running for cover.... BJP unlikely to win in UP, E. Punjab: polls NEW DELHI, Jan 19: India’s ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is unlikely to return to power in two states in key provincial elections next month, an opinion poll said on Saturday.... Belgian kills his five children BRUSSELS, Jan 19: Six people were killed in the early hours of Saturday went a 50-year-old man went on the rampage in Brussels in an apparent fit of jealousy arising from... Unease in UK at US treatment of detainees LONDON/WASHINGTON: American treatment of suspected Al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners at the US base in Guantanamo, Cuba — including three claiming to be British — and uncertainty about their fate is causing... CIA role to integrate Europe revealed LONDON: More than a week after 12 European Union countries introduced a common currency with much fanfare on Jan 1, Britons are as hazy as ever over whether or not their... US collects information from caves & bunkers WASHINGTON: US forces are searching cave complexes and bunkers in eastern Afghanistan to find information that US officials say could be used to thwart further terrorist attacks by the Al-Qaeda network,... Dreams of the mighty live on after nightmare NEW YORK: What on earth should be built on the site of the World Trade Centre? And have the world’s architects got a clue?... Dead Sea is sinking further WASHINGTON: The Dead Sea, already the lowest point in the world, appears to be sinking because its waters are being siphoned off agricultural, industrial, and residential use, according to new research.... Vivid sees living brain LONDON: One of the last frontiers of the unexplored left on earth, the living human brain, is yielding up its secrets to a new tool developed in the UK.... Convenience prevails over security WASHINGTON: For now, forget an expensive, flashy, James-Bond approach to protecting the US against terrorists....

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