|
| March 20, 2002 | Wednesday | Muharram 5, 1423 |
|
C’wealth suspends Zimbabwe
LONDON, March 19: The Commonwealth agreed on Tuesday to suspend Zimbabwe for one year after its violence-scarred election that returned President Robert Mugabe to power.... 
|
|
Huge Antarctic ice shelf collapses: New alarm over global warming
AUCKLAND, March 19: In what is being touted as the biggest event of its kind in 30 years, an Antarctic ice shelf has collapsed and broken up into thousands of icebergs,...
|
|
||
|
3m dollars heist at Heathrow airport
LONDON, March 19: Thieves hijacked a security van at London’s Heathrow airport on Tuesday and fled with up to three million dollars in cash that had arrived on a South African...
|
|
US operation in Afghanistan a long haul: paper
NEW YORK, March 19: American and Afghan officials warned that there were still pockets of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters in southeastern Afghanistan along the border with Pakistan and that new...
|
|
|
||
|
Osama is alive, says stepbrother
WASHINGTON, March 19: Osama bin Laden’s half brother told CNN on Monday that the world’s most sought-after man is not only alive, but also thtat he does not suffer from a...
|
|
US issues worldwide alert for its citizens
PARIS, March 19: The US Embassy in Paris has issued a WorldWide Caution public announcement in the wake of last weekend’s bombing in Islamabad....
|
|
|
||
|
Saudi plan won’t work: ex-minister
PARIS, March 19: Former Lebanese finance minister George Corm, here to promote a book, says that he doesn’t expect much from the upcoming Arab League summit....
|
|
4 Russian troops kidnapped
TBILISI, March 19: Four Russian peacekeepers have been abducted from a checkpoint in Georgia’s breakaway province of Abkhazia by unknown kidnappers, Georgia said on Tuesday....
|
|
|
||
|
Kurds oppose US attack on Saddam
DAMASCUS: Kurdish leaders observed a five-minute silence on Saturday to mourn thousands of Kurds killed or injured in an Iraqi chemical attack 14 years ago. But the leaders also opposed any...
|
|
Zahir Shah to return home on 25th
 KABUL, March 19: Speculation over the return of former king Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan, who has lived in exile for the past 29 years, has finally ended. The interim government...
|
|
|
||
|
Taliban, Al Qaeda used web to counter US
KABUL: The US military on Tuesday portrayed their Taliban-Al Qaeda foes in the Battle of Shahi Kot as a formidable enemy who used the Internet, were at least as well equipped...
|
|
UN’s contingency plan ready for Iraqi refugees
TEHRAN: The United Nations has started moving tens of thousands of tents and blankets to western Iran in readiness for a huge wave of Iraqi refugees who are expected to escape...
|
|
|
||
|
Palestinians unsure of deal
RAMALLAH: “The Israeli withdrawal? What withdrawal? I’ve been a prisoner in Ramallah for five months and General Zinni isn’t going to change anything,” said Palestinian journalist Ahmed Muheiser....
|
|
N.Korean defectors show ‘Sunshine Policy’ shadows
SEOUL: If you think the 25 North Koreans who defected to the South are bewildered in their new homeland, spare a thought for the South Korean government....
|
|
|
||
|
C’wealth: empire or force for good?
LONDON: Commonwealth pledges to defend democracy across one-third of the globe face a crunch test on Tuesday when the divided organization grapples with its response to Zimbabwe’s hotly disputed elections....
|
|
New rules threaten cancer research
BARCELONA: “Nightmare” new rules on patient confidentiality are threatening breast cancer research which is vital to improve treatments for the disease that kills 500,000 women worldwide each year....
|
|
|
||
