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January 21, 2002 Monday Ziqa’ad 6, 1422 70 hunger striking detainees sew lips SYDNEY, Jan 20: More than 70 out of almost 300 hunger striking asylum seekers in an Australian detention Centre have sewn their lips to protest against a slow process that decides... More US troops arrive to train Filipino soldiers: ‘Second Afghanistan in the making’ ZAMBOANGA, Jan 20: A second batch of US soldiers flew into the Philippines on Sunday on an anti-terror mission which local opposition groups warned could turn the country into another Afghanistan.... Search for Omar in 2 provinces: officials KANDAHAR, Jan 20: The search for Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar was concentrated on two provinces in central and south-eastern Afghanistan, an adviser to Kandahar governor Gul Agha said on Sunday.... Karzai expects ‘full hands’ on return TOKYO, Jan 20: Afghanistan’s interim leader Hamid Karzai said on Sunday he expects to return to his war-battered nation with “full hands” after a two-day international aid conference here.... Arafat asks Bush to send Zinni back GAZA CITY, Jan 20: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has sent an urgent message to US President George W. Bush asking him to send his special envoy Anthony Zinni back to the... J-Lo hits top note CANNES, Jan 20: Chart-topping singer songwriter Dido added two top awards to her growing list of music accomplishments on Saturday, but sexy singer-actress Jennifer Lopez stole the show as best female... China readies for dam flooding BEIJING, Jan 20: Chinese engineers blew up buildings in a Yangtze River town on Sunday, beginning a new phase in the world’s biggest water control project, the flooding of the controversial... Pro-Osama Muslim group to register SINGAPORE, Jan 20: A small Singapore Muslim group which described Osama bin Laden as a “good Muslim” on its Internet homepage is to be registered as a political website, the Sunday... Response gathers steam after eruption GISENYI (Rwanda), Jan 20: International efforts to help hundreds of thousands of people left homeless by a volcanic eruption in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) gained momentum on Sunday, while... US presence helping Asian insurgencies ALMATY (Kazakhastan): As the war in Afghanistan becomes a mopping-up operation, the US has stepped up troop deployments in the region, in what Russia and China fear is an effort to... Arroyo govt stable despite coup scare MANILA: Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo may have lost the widespread support she enjoyed when she took office in a “people power” revolution a year ago, but there is no imminent... How far will Israel go against Arafat? AL QUDS: How much further is Israel prepared to go in its campaign against Yasser Arafat? Israel has declared the Palestinian leader irrelevant, severed ties with him and confined him at... US govt, India’s Enron liaison WASHINGTON: The White House coordinated a multi-front effort last year to help Enron Corp settle a dispute with the Indian government, which the energy company hoped would deliver $2.3 billion as... Afghan widows eat fodder KANDAHAR: Magul collects cattle feed in a bag under her voluminous head-to-toe burqa and feeds it to her seven children. She does not remember when she last had a hot meal... UN under fire in Kosovo PRISTINA: In Kosovo, one of the few places under direct UN control, peacekeepers can hold people for months without giving them even the possibility to challenge their detention in court. ... Proper treatment of Al Qaeda detainees emphasized WASHINGTON: As the US armed forces begin to transfer captured Taliban and Al Qaeda members to the naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, American officials are sendin