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March 8, 2002 Friday Zilhaj 23, 1422 Snow adds new twist to Gardez fighting GARDEZ, March 7: Snow swept over mountain fighting between US-led forces and Taliban-Al Qaeda guerillas on Thursday, adding an unpredictable twist to the largest US-led battle in Afghanistan so far.... Chinese claims cloning human embryo LONDON, March 7: A Chinese scientist claims to have leapt ahead of western scientists by cloning a human embryo in 1999.... Powell softens criticism of Israeli premier WASHINGTON, March 7: US Secretary of State Colin Powell on Thursday softened unusually blunt criticism of Israel he delivered earlier this week but again cautioned the Jewish state on its military... US troops recall fierce firefight BAGRAM AIR BASE, March 7: Seconds after stepping off the Chinook helicopter into the icy mountain-top combat zone, Sergeant Robert Healy knew things had gone badly wrong for his platoon in... Burqa-clad couple rob UK shop of jewels LONDON, March 7: Disguised as Afghan women, a couple bluffed their way into an upmarket London jewellers, produced pistols from under their burqas, threatened staff and made off with a large... Tribal rivals mislead US, says warlord GARDEZ, March 7: Sitting in an old fort on a hill above Gardez, an Afghan commander said on Thursday tribal rivals were misleading the United States and using the US-led war... Bookies placed bets on Gujarat killings NEW DELHI, March 7: Indian police have arrested 70 bookmakers who fuelled rumours about riots to encourage bets on the chances of sectarian violence in Gujarat state spreading to other areas,... Israeli raid narrowly missed 3,100 schoolchildren: UN UNITED NATIONS, March 7: An Israeli F-16 which bombed a Palestinian police compound in Gaza City on Thursday narrowly missed more than 3,000 refugee children in UN-run schools, a United Nations... 2 Al Jazeera journalists held in Egypt PARIS, March 7: Paris-based international journalists’ rights association Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF - Reporters Without Borders) has revealed the arrest by Egyptian authorities of two journalists working for Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based... Sun disrupts cellphones, says study WASHINGTON, March 7: Cell telephone users already dismayed at losing their signal in tunnels, large buildings and in mysterious “dead spots” can blame another factor for cutting off their vital conversations... Doctors claim first womb transplant LONDON, March 7: Saudi doctors reported the world’s first human womb transplant on Thursday but leading fertility experts were quick to question the ethics and success of the operation.... Sharon steps into war of attrition TEL AVIV: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has led Israel into a long war of attrition with the Palestinians in a battle of wills that is likely to be resolved only when... Washington finally makes room for allies WASHINGTON: Five months after it began, the fighting in Afghanistan has become what the United States claimed it was all along: a ‘war on international terrorism’ fought by an international coalition.... World awash in stolen N-material: study SAN FRANCISCO: International researchers have compiled what they say is the world’s most complete database of lost, stolen and misplaced nuclear material — depicting a world awash in weapons-grade uranium and... Mugabe’s ‘win’ to raise questions HARARE: Robert Mugabe may well be declared the winner of Zimbabwe’s presidential election but such a victory will be met with widespread suspicion both at home and abroad.... Scientists create ‘starlight in a jar’ SAN FRANCISCO: Since the dawn of the Nuclear Age, scientists have sought to harness the fundamental process of fusion, which fires the sun and creates the heat necessary for life on... Tariffs & American hypocrisy LONDON: America’s game has been rumbled. The country that brought us the ‘Washington Consensus’ has driven a coach and horses through the foundations of its own economic philosophy. Since this is... Has the United States lost its way? LONDON: ‘By what right,’ an angry environmentalist demanded at a recent conference I attended, ‘do Americans place such a heavy footprint upon God’s Earth?’ Ouch. That was a tough one because,...

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