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January 23, 2002 Wednesday Ziqa'ad 8, 1422 US asked to respect Geneva Convention: France, Germany concerned over prisoners PARIS, Jan 22: Concern mounted on Tuesday over the condition of suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban members held prisoner at the US naval base in Cuba, with America facing new appeals... Australia accused of human rights abuses SYDNEY, Jan 22: The hunger strike of more than 200 asylum-seekers in South Australia’s Woomera detention centre entered a seventh day on Tuesdya and has spread to another detention centre in... US Talib moved to Kandahar WASHINGTON, Jan 22: The US military has moved American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh from a warship in the Indian Ocean to Kandahar, from where he will be flown quickly to... Suspect’s family says he is dead RIYADH, Jan 22: A Saudi national Khalid Al-Juhani, one of the five suspects shown in a videotape and in photos released by the FBI last week, may have died in Afghanistan... US officials trying to paper over discord with Saudis on military presence WASHINGTON: There are growing questions here about the state of the United States-Saudi Arabia relationship in the wake of the US-led “war against terrorism” and about the continued presence of American... Tokyo’s fit of pique TOKYO, Jan 22: Donor fatigue set in quickly for Japan’s foreign ministry, organisers of the two-day donor conference here which garnered pledges of 4.5 billion dollars to rebuild Afghanistan.... FBI, INS fail to allay Muslims’ anxieties LOS ANGELES, Jan 22: Senior representatives from the United States Justice Department, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) on Monday tried hard for three hours to... Palestinian kids getting psychiatric counselling PARIS, Jan 22: A French TV documentary broadcast on Monday on a French television network, Arte, claims that the situation of Palestinian children has significantly worsened since the start of the... Detainees treated well: Rumsfeld WASHINGTON, Jan 22: With a federal court in Los Angeles due to hear a petititon for the Guantanamo Bay captives to be brought before a civil judge and told of the... UN terms US, Bosnia’s action illegal SARAJEVO, Jan 22: A senior UN official accused Bosnian and US governments on Tuesday of acting illegally when Sarajevo handed over last week six Arab terror suspects to US authorities.... Custodial death sparks riots in Jordanian city MAAN, (Jordan) Jan 22: Hooded demonstrators attacked government buildings in the southern Jordanian city of Maan on Tuesday in protest against the alleged police torture of a youth who later died.... US betraying contempt for international law LONDON: The pictures of prisoners at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, facetiously called Camp X-Ray by their guards, and dismissive remarks about their status and their rights... Arafat faces Israel with defiance AL QUDS: His headquarters is flanked by Israeli tanks. The road to his front door has been blocked by a mountain of dirt, courtesy of the Israeli army. His territory is... Russians torture Chechens MOSCOW: Russian soldiers beat, robbed and tortured civilians in the Chechen village of Tsotsin-Yurt in a four-day spree of lawlessness over the New Year’s holiday that left at least three villagers... Zimbabwe trapped in cycle of starvation HARARE: The weary Zimbabwean farmer had been accused of a lot of things in the past couple of years, but this one was new. After armed government men burst through his... Bush’s hawkish policies making world more dangerous WASHINGTON: The hawkish, nationalistic, and unilateralist policies of Bush’s administration have raised tensions from Israel to Indonesia, and from Colombia to the Koreas. Whatever hopes existed in the late 1990s for... Kashmiris opinion missing in Arab world RIYADH: Saudi Arabia, like other states of the Gulf, is cosmopolitan in character where people from virtually all parts of the world live and earn their livelihood here. This includes even... Supremacy of Arab tribal loyalties WASHINGTON: Richard Helms, the former director of central intelligence, once made a trenchant observation about the Arab world. “Forget all that newspaper stuff about presidential speeches and cabinet appointments,” he said....

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