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| February 6, 2002 | Wednesday | Ziqa’ad 22, 1422 |
Senate panel votes to subpoena Enron chief
 WASHINGTON, Feb 5: A Senate panel investigating last year’s collapse of energy giant Enron voted on Tuesday to subpoena former company chairman Kenneth Lay to testify about the causes of the...
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Iran asks UN to check US ‘militarism’
TEHRAN, Feb 5: Iran took its objections to the United States’ war on terror to the United Nations on Tuesday after President George W. Bush proposed the largest military buildup since...
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Australia won’t back down on immigration policy: FM
WARSAW, Feb 5: Australia will not abandon its policy of detaining immigrants while considering asylum requests because it would encourage people smuggling, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said here on Tuesday....
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Novel about ‘German Titanic’ breaks taboo
BERLIN, Feb 5: German Nobel Prize winning author Guenter Grass kicked off a national debate with the publication of a novel on Tuesday focusing on the suffering of German World War...
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Jet parts stolen from Russian base
VLADIVOSTOK, Feb 5: Russian military investigators are trying to recover missing parts of a fighter jet which hold some of the most jealously-guarded national secrets, officials said on Tuesday....
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France fears attacks by Muslim activists
PARIS, Feb 5: French authorities say they are surprised by the extent to which France has apparently become one of the world’s principal rear bases for Muslim extremists....
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Lawyers ask US govt to respect norms : Al Qaeda prisoners
CHICAGO, Feb 5: The American Bar Association (ABA) will urge President George W. Bush’s administration to observe the legal norms of US military justice and international law in its treatment of...
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Iran seeks US help to find Al Qaeda men
WASHINGTON, Feb 5: The United States said on Tuesday that calling Iran, Iraq and North Korea an “axis of evil” was not a prelude to an invasion, as Tehran pledged to...
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Belgium apologizes for role in Lumumba’s killing
 BRUSSELS, Feb 5: Belgium expressed “sincere regrets” on Tuesday for the role it played in the Cold War assassination of charismatic nationalist Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic...
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Forum opposes free trade in America
 PORTO ALEGRE (Brazil), Feb 5: Thousands of people marched through Porto Alegre, Brazil, on Monday to protest a proposal for pan-American free trade as activists accused the United States of not...
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New flag flies over Afghan capital
KABUL, Feb 5: Interim leader Hamid Karzai hoisted Afghanistan’s new flag on Tuesday in a symbolic ceremony marking the start of a new era, and called for a national army to...
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Mayor plans to rename Paris streets, monuments
PARIS, Feb 5: Bertrand Delanoe had announced a year ago that his first order of business, upon becoming the new Mayor of Paris, would be to see to it that the...
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West could stop recognizing Zimbabwe, warns UK
LONDON, Feb 5: Britain warned on Tuesday that the West might stop recognizing the Zimbabwean government if President Robert Mugabe fails to ensure the forthcoming presidential election is conducted fairly....
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Bangladesh rejects Indian charge
DHAKA, Feb 5: Dhaka on Tuesday rejected claims by New Delhi that Pakistani agents were orchestrating attacks on India from Bangladesh....
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UN diplomats fail to evolve consensus: Definition of terrorism
UNITED NATIONS: As President Bush hints at extending the “war on terrorism” to Iran, Iraq, and North Korea, the Arab and Muslim world remains at loggerheads with the rest of the...
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US forces need lessons in cultural sensitivity
WASHINGTON: A long-simmering problem of the US armed forces abroad is about to get worse. That is the relation of American soldiers, sailors, and airmen to local populations around the world....
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Revolt shows limits of Karzai’s authority
GARDEZ (Afghanistan): More than 60 prisoners, squatting along the walls of a frigid room in a police compound overlooking this city, gazed down dejectedly as the story of their capture was...
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Australian wildlife risks extinction
SYDNEY: Many of Australia’s unique animals and “mega- diverse” ecosystems could disappear before the end of this century because of global warming, says a study....
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Nigerian ethnicity fuels fears of unrest
LAGOS: Nigeria, which is recovering from decades of military dictatorship, appears to be heading for another disaster, following ethnic conflict which has rocked Lagos since Saturday....
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27 killed in Nepal
KATHMANDU, Feb 5: Clashes between security forces and Maoists trying to overthrow the constitutional monarchy have left at least 27 people dead in the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, officials and state...
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