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| February 26, 2002 | Tuesday | Zilhaj 13, 1422 |
Warlords pose threat to Afghanistan: US envoy
 KABUL, Feb 25: A US special envoy has warned that warlords pose the most serious threat to stability in Afghanistan....
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Israel refuses to lift blockade on Arafat: Palestinians suspend talks
RAMALLAH, Feb 25: The Palestinians angrily suspended security talks with Israel on Sunday after it decided to keep Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat blockaded in the West Bank city of Ramallah....
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Pentagon may drop ‘false stories’ idea
WASHINGTON, Feb 25: The Pentagon may scrap its new “strategic information” office based on concern over reports that the military might spread false information to foreign journalists and others to bolster...
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‘Capitalism by collusion’ deplored
PARIS, Feb 25: US economist Joseph Stiglitz, whose work on market economics won him a Nobel Prize last year, slammed the Enron scandal as “a capitalism by collusion” in the French...
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8 Somalis killed in factional clashes
MOGADISHU, Feb 25: At least eight Somalis were killed and hundreds fled their homes on Monday when about 400 militiamen loyal to rival faction leaders clashed in the capital Mogadishu, residents...
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Tunnel leading to US embassy found
ROME, Feb 25: A startling discovery in Rome offered a glimpse into the scope of suspected terrorist plans against the United States....
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Saudis link ties with Israel to pullout
RIYADH, Feb 25: Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, who was invited on Monday by Israeli President Moshe Katsav to discuss his peace overture in Jerusalem, is firmly opposed to...
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‘Medical tricorder’ developed
LONDON, Feb 25: Star Trek’s Dr McCoy used to wave one in almost every episode and now scientists have managed to make a real life version of the “medical tricorder”, the...
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Savimbi dies at 67
LUANDA, Feb 25: Jonas Savimbi, the flamboyant Angolan rebel leader and relic of the Cold War, died on Friday in a gunbattle with government forces in remote Moxico province. He was...
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Driver steals 10m euros
FRANKFURT, Feb 25: The driver of an armoured truck handcuffed his co-driver and stole some 10 million euros destined for banks across Germany’s financial capital....
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Middle East terror: a grim reality
AL QUDS: Leila Katawi was woken up by a blast of gunfire and mosque loudspeakers calling on Palestinians to “defend the camp”. Still in her nightgown, she crept on to the...
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Bush failed to conquer new turf on Asian visit
BEIJING: He came and he saw, but President Bush did not conquer much new turf on his six-day swing through Asia. Reflecting a different strategy from the style of the Clinton...
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Bold US move needed
BALTIMORE: The 16-month war of attrition between Israel and the Palestinians _ a tit-for-tatting that is tick-tocking its way toward certain catastrophe - is as senseless, as wasteful and as futile...
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American schools ban Darwin
LONDON: A religious campaign to block the teaching of evolutionary biology is taking an inexorable grip on the US....
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Afghanistan: cauldron of interlocking spy conspiracies
WASHINGTON: To a greater extent than any other armed conflict on the planet, Afghanistan’s unfinished 24-year war has been shaped by rival foreign intelligence agencies: The Soviet Union’s KGB, America’s CIA,...
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US govt planting seeds of chaos: CIA
WASHINGTON: Evicting Al Qaeda and the Taliban was the easy part; the aftermath is turning out to be much more difficult. The US military so far has failed to find Osama...
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