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| March 28, 2002 | Thursday | Muharram 13, 1423 |
Gunman kills 8 councillors in Paris hall
 PARIS, March 27: A lone gunman killed eight people and injured 30 others, eight seriously, when he opened fire in the town hall of the Paris suburb of Nanterre on Wednesday...
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Bush warning put off Zahir’s return: paper
WASHINGTON, March 27: Former King Zahir Shah’s departure from Rome to Kabul was apparently put off following a conversation between President George Bush and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Saturday....
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Court battle over right to ‘Swiss’
GENEVA, March 27: The Swiss would certainly say that only in Switzerland can such things happen. A major court battle is looming in Switzerland over who owns the rights to use...
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Structures that could deflect earthquakes
LONDON, March 27: Scientists have discovered structures called “sonic crystals” that can block traffic noise, may be able to transform an unpleasant sound into a pleasant one, and may even have...
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Boy loses foot to shark
WASHINGTON, March 27: A 17-year-old lost his foot in a shark attack off Hawaii....
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Norway to mediate LTTE, Colombo talks in May
COLOMBO, March 27: Norway is set to arrange historic peace talks between the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels at a neutral Asian venue during the first week of May,...
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Two observers shot dead in West Bank
TEL AVIV, March 27: Two international observers, a Turkish man and a Swiss woman, were shot dead in the southern West Bank on Tuesday night, becoming the latest victims of the...
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No improvement in US airport security: paper
WASHINGTON, March 27: US government investigators found no improvement in airport security since the Sept 11 terrorist attacks and were able to smuggle hundreds of weapons past screeners at 32 American...
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Russia to counter US shield, says minister
MOSCOW, March 27: Russia is preparing “technical and scientific” measures to counter a planned US missile defence shield, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said Wednesday....
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Aga Khan, Karzai sign agreement
KABUL, March 27: The Aga Khan and interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai on Tuesday signed an agreement of cooperation for development that establishes a framework for the Aga Khan Development Network...
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War still a possibility: Fernandes
NEW DELHI, March 27: Indian Defence Minister George Fernandes on Wednesday refused to rule out the possibility of war with Pakistan and dismissed the prospect of pulling back troops from combat...
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One shot dead in Ahmedabad
NEW DELHI, March 27: Police shot dead one person in Ahmedabad, the main city in Gujarat, when they opened fire to disperse clashing mobs on Tuesday night....
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India opens door to genetically modified crops
NEW DELHI: India, the world’s largest grower of cotton, has opened the doors to GM varieties after a four-year rearguard battle by academics and powerful farmers’ groups who fear its introduction...
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Afghan war a lab for US innovation
WASHINGTON: Within weeks of the attacks on New York and the Pentagon last September, the Defence Threat Reduction Agency began working virtually around the clock to develop a powerful new bomb....
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US plans to shift base away from S. Arabia: Opposition to Iraq attack
WASHINGTON: The US Air Force has begun preparations to move its Gulf headquarters from Saudi Arabia to Qatar, to bypass Saudi objections to military action against Iraq, according to Saudi analysts...
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Mugabe’s victory revises debate on political values
HARARE: Debate over the vexing question of what constitutes a free and fair election is raging in Zimbabwe after the historic presidential elections that returned 78-year-old Robert Mugabe to power....
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West scours Georgia for nuclear trash
TBILISI: Leading western countries are planning a massive search in Georgia for potential “dirty bomb” materials - highly radioactive and mobile nuclear batteries which, it is feared, could be combined with...
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Ceasefire prospects doomed for good
TEL AVIV: Deadlock at truce talks and a standoff on a travel ban on Yasser Arafat have raised fears of a new spiral of Middle East violence, fuelling talk of a...
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