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February 7, 2002 Thursday Ziqa’ad 23, 1422 Bush rejects calls to widen Enron probe WASHINGTON, Feb 6: US President George W. Bush on Tuesday refused to allow the probe into Enron’s scandal-tainted bankruptcy to widen despite outraged lawmakers’ accusations the firm had undue influence in... Irish bank in a spot as trader pockets $750m DUBLIN, Feb 6: Ireland’s biggest bank AIB said on Wednesday a rogue dealer had disappeared after allegedly running up losses of 750 million dollars (866 million euros) at its US subsidiary,... Link between heart beat & sleep apnea BOSTON, Feb 6: Forcing the heart to beat faster during sleep significantly relieves sleep apnea, the common but potentially dangerous condition in which a person stops breathing during slumber, a team... Saudi govt reviewing school syllabi RIYADH, Feb 6: Saudi Arabia has initiated a process of evaluating and assessing its current school syllabi. The move comes after years of deliberations on the reasons behind the deterioration of... Saudi Arabia tightens controls over charities RIYADH, Feb 6: Saudi Arabia has announced tightening of controls over charity organizations, following accusations that some of them may have funded extremist groups abroad.... Anti-French Cameroon MP arrested in Paris PARIS, Feb 6: Laurence Mongkuo Ngupepong was arrested on Jan 28 in Paris with 30 kg of cannabis in his possession.... Ex-Taliban captive calls for Pearl’s release PARIS, Feb 6: Michel Peyrard, the Paris Match reporter who was kidnapped last Fall by the Taliban, and released following the personal intervention of President Jacques Chirac, has addressed a message... Omar is alive, says CIA chief WASHINGTON, Feb 6: Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar is alive, according to US Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet.... Finding Osama not the issue, says Bush WASHINGTON, Feb 6: US President George W. Bush on Tuesday brushed off concerns that Osama bin Laden is still at large.... Reel-life patriotism flops at Indian box office MUMBAI, Feb 6: Indian patriotism may be flying high on the border with Pakistan, but it is sinking like a stone at the box-office.... Afghans fear being abandoned, again MOQOR (Afghanistan): The tribal chiefs say they haven’t seen a foreigner here for years, but they insist that they’re dying to take an American hunting in the hills outside of town.... Bush’s rhetoric dumps anti-terrorism treaty UNITED NATIONS: An omnibus UN anti-terrorism treaty likely has been stalled for another year, this time amid festering disagreement between the United States and Islamic nations.... Money or morality: choice for Britain LONDON: Four years after pledging to clean up its weapons export trade, Britain, one of the world’s top arms sellers, now faces a tough choice between money and morals, experts say.... US billions to revive Cold War army WASHINGTON: The Bush administration on Tuesday to justify a stunning leap in spending on the military as defence analysts criticized the budget for pumping money into conventional weaponry inherited from the... Milosevic a ‘peacemaker’ for West? SARAJEVO: Slobodan Milosevic, who goes on trial next week at the UN war crimes tribunal, was once treated by the West as a peacemaker rather than a warmonger.... US unwelcome in Philippines ISABELA (Philippines): Nearly 60 years ago, people living on the largely Muslim island of Basilan in the southern Philippines hailed US troops as liberators for driving out Japanese occupiers.... Blair heckled while defending US bombing LONDON, Feb 6: British Prime Minister Tony Blair was heckled on Tuesday when he defended Britain’s support for the US bombing of Afghanistan to an audience of 1,500 youngsters.... Cold spell kills 6 in Washington WASHINGTON, Feb 6: A cold spell that surprised the US southeast has killed six people in one night in Washington alone....

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