|
| February 22, 2002 | Friday | Zilhaj 9, 1422 |
Damaging setback awaits BJP in UP: exit polls
LUCKNOW (India) Feb 21: Voting closed on Friday in the final phase of crucial Indian state elections, with exit polls suggesting a damaging setback for the ruling BJP....
|
|
Bush fails to win China’s backing: ‘War on terrorism’
BEIJING, Feb 21: US President George W. Bush failed on Thursday to win assurances from China that it would help curb global terrorism by halting ballistic missile exports and encourage North...
|
|
||
|
Naipaul snubs Nehru’s niece at function
NEEMRANA (India) Feb 21: This year’s Nobel literature laureate V.S. Naipaul disrupted an Indian literary festival here on Thursday by railing at an author who was taking part in a panel...
|
|
Russia opposes US role in Georgia
MOSCOW, Feb 21: Russia on Thursday slapped down mounting talk of a US role in helping Georgia oust suspected Al-Qaeda fighters from a gorge near Russia’s rebel Chechnya region....
|
|
|
||
|
Afghanistan is on the brink of chaos: CIA
WASHINGTON, Feb 21: A classified CIA report warns that Afghanistan could fall into violent chaos if measures are not taken to restrain the power struggle among rival warlords and control ethnic...
|
|
Titanic watch being auctioned
LONDON, Feb 21: A watch that stopped the moment its owner leapt from the Titanic into the icy Atlantic ocean 90 years ago is expected to fetch up to 25,000 pounds...
|
|
|
||
|
Emergency extended in Nepal
KATHMANDU, Feb 21: In what appears to be a providential feat, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on Thursday succeeded in obtaining Opposition support to his proposal to extend the emergency, proclaimed...
|
|
Israel to set up ‘buffer zones’
 AL QUDS, Feb 21: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Thursday that his government had decided to establish “buffer zones” to protect Israelis from Palestinian attackers and would continue to...
|
|
|
||
|
Indian trader didn’t redeem pledge: varsity
LONDON, Feb 21: A British university on Thursday accused Indian tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, who made a controversial donation which embarrassed Prime Minister Tony Blair, of reneging on a cash aid vow...
|
|
Hitler’s globe on display
MUNICH, Feb 21: A giant globe on which Adolf Hitler is believed to have outlined his plans for world domination has been put on show in a Munich library, pockmarked with...
|
|
|
||
|
Farmer savages Milosevic
THE HAGUE, Feb 21: An aging Kosovo farmer, going blow-for-blow with Slobodan Milosevic at his war crimes trial here, accused the former Serbian strongman Thursday of “unimaginable” cruelty towards ethnic Albanians....
|
|
Arms dealer and Al Qaeda
MOSCOW, Feb 21: The Russian interior ministry said on Thursday it had opened an investigation into reports that a former Soviet air force officer may have supplied weapons to the Al...
|
|
|
||
|
Sharon’s comments upset France
PARIS: French authorities say they’re irked over repeated accusations by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon according to which France is anti-Semitic, indeed, they say, they’re doubly upset because Sharon chose a...
|
|
Quiet demise of ABM treaty
WASHINGTON: It’s astonishing that there’s been so little commentary on the prospective end to the ABM Treaty, which until recently was heralded as “the cornerstone of strategic stability” and the indispensable...
|
|
|
||
|
Lessons for Enron reformers
ST. LOUIS (USA): It seems almost inevitable that the widespread damage done to employees and investors by the Enron bankruptcy will produce a new wave of government regulation of business. The...
|
|
US riles Filipino separatists
ZAMBOANGA CITY: Sharif Julabi, regional chairman of the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front, sits beneath a poster listing the 99 names of Allah and explains why the expansion of the Bush...
|
|
|
||
|
Is Bush retreating from ‘axis of evil’ remark?
SEOUL: Did President Bush back down?.fter three weeks of threatening talk about the “axis of evil,” the president was surprisingly tame, even mild-mannered...
|
|
Sri Lanka: different time zone, same booze
MANKULAM (Sri Lanka): Different time, different laws, same booze.Welcome to Tiger Territory, a vast swathe of northern Sri Lanka where separatist rebels show a defiant difference ...
|
|
|
||
