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February 28, 2002	Thursday	Zilhaj 15, 1422

US seeking access to Osama family’s DNA WASHINGTON, Feb 27: The US government is seeking access to DNA from Osama bin Laden’s family to test against tissue samples found at a site in Afghanistan where a CIA-operated unmanned...		3 Palestinians killed in Israeli firing TEL AVIV, Feb 27: Israeli soldiers killed three armed Palestinians entering Israel’s Negev desert from Egypt on Wednesday in an incident that overshadowed hopes for peace fuelled by a Saudi initiative...

No mly aid sought from India: Karzai NEW DELHI, Feb 27: Afghanistan’s interim leader Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday that his country would need international security contingents to weed out terrorism from there for quite some time more...		Arafat terms buffer zones dangerous PARIS, Feb 27: Yasser Arafat, in an exclusive interview with Le Monde, says that as far as he’s concerned the buffer zones proposed by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon are “dangerous,...

Chaos grips Madagascar; curfew clamped ANTANANARIVO, Feb 27: Authorities imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the Madagascar capital of Antananarivo on Wednesday after a day of clashes between supporters of opposition leader Marc Ravalomanana and backers of...		UK allows human embryo cloning LONDON, Feb 27: Britain’s scientists won a green light on Wednesday to pioneer the cloning of human embryos for research and set up the world’s first embryo cell bank....

Boston airport workers held for ID fraud BOSTON, Feb 27: US officials on Wednesday moved to arrest 20 airport workers in Boston for lying about their identities to get jobs, sources said, reviving security concerns at the airport...		Mayor fails at school exam NAIROBI, Feb 27: The 60-year-old mayor of Mombasa failed the Kenyan secondary school examinations in an attempt to meet proposed new requirements for civic officials to have formal education....

BBC to help rebuild Afghan media PARIS, Feb 27: The British Broadcasting Corporation is attempting to parlay its 60-year association with Afghanistan into a contract to help rebuild the Afghan communications sector....		Comedian Milligan dies at 83 LONDON, Feb 27: Spike Milligan, a founding father of 20th century British comedy and zany genius behind the ground-breaking “Goon Show”, died on Wednesday aged 83....

Soraya’s jewels PARIS, Feb 27: Jewels, furs and precious trinkets from the Paris apartment of Princess Soraya, second wife of the late Shah of Iran, will be auctioned in May....		Israel’s siege of Arafat backfires ATHENS: Predictably, few if anyone, either in Israel or among the Palestinians, were satisfied with the slight easing of restrictions on Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat which Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s...

West’s bare-faced hostility towards Muslims CAIRO: “Why do they hate us?” Last September, this question reverberated through US society and media as they pondered horrific terrorist attacks attributed to radical Muslims....		Sadat’s ’77 trip remembered CAIRO: Israel’s invitation for the Saudi crown prince to visit occupied Al Quds, while an unlikely prospect, has awakened memories of the late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat’s dramatic initiative 25 years...

Blair’s enthusiasm for Bush’s war games to be his undoing LONDON: There is something building which could, be the undoing of Blair. It is the move to war against Iraq. A growing number of Labour MPs are becoming increasingly alarmed...		Rival Afghans jostling for power amid chaos KABUL: The scene was faintly reminiscent of Julius Caesar. Lying in a freshly dug grave was Afghanistan’s murdered aviation minister, Abdul Rahman. As rain drizzled down on Kabul’s muddy cemetery, Afghanistan’s...

Increase in foreign aid to combat terrorism WASHINGTON: Some voices, spurred on by a war on terrorism, are singing a new tune. Some aid advocates, as well as some conservatives, and even military officials, want to see the...		Ideological, political decline for BJP NEW DELHI: The Hindu, right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which heads the 27-party ruling coalition in India, has suffered a massive setback in elections to the legislatures of four Indian states....

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