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March 9, 2002 Saturday Zilhaj 24, 1422 Afghans steal limelight on Women’s Day LONDON, March 8: Women worldwide were feted on Friday with flowers, tributes and good-natured jokes. But beneath the platitudes, violence and discrimination remained a daily reality for millions.... We were fighting Al Qaeda: Milosevic: FBI document shown as proof THE HAGUE, March 8: Slobodan Milosevic waved an FBI document at his war crimes trial on Friday to support his claim that the bloodshed in Kosovo was a struggle against fighters... Congress taken into confidence: Bush meets committee chiefs WASHINGTON, March 8: Moved by Congressional dissatisfaction with lack of consultation on the war, US President George Bush on Wednesday met the chairmen and ranking members of the foreign relations committees... 15 Iraqi refugees bury themselves SYDNEY, March 8: The Woomera detention centre in South Australia, the scene of lip-stitching and other sadistic protests six weeks ago, turned into a graveyard when 15 Iraqi asylum seekers burried... 15 killed in Paktika WANA, March 8: Fifteen people travelling in a pick-up   were blown up on Thursday when US warplanes attacked Taliban and Al Qaeda positions in the Landai Doag region of Afghanistan’s... US expands presence around the globe LONDON: Today, almost six months after the attacks on New York and Washington, the US is putting in place a network of forward bases stretching from the Middle East across the... Oil fuels violence against peasants in Sudan NGOP (Sudan): Under the drone of a government bomber circling overhead, the village of Ngop in oil-rich Western Upper Nile lies as quiet as the grave. Its entire population fled after... UN, Iraq discuss core issues UNITED NATIONS: In the first high-level meeting between the United Nations and Iraq in more than a year, the Iraqi foreign minister discussed UN demands for weapons inspections with Secretary-General Kofi... To many, Taliban leader is a hero GARDEZ: As bombs rained down and American forces seized a strategic ridgeline from a nest of Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, details emerged about the veteran... World Bank urges aid for poor nations WASHINGTON: Firing back in a mounting clash with the Bush administration, World Bank President James Wolfen-sohn on Wednesday issued an impassioned plea for increased aid to poor nations....