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| March 31, 2002 | Sunday | Muharram 16, 1423 |
Palestinians, Israelis fight pitched battles: Arafat only a door away from soldiers
 RAMALLAH, March 30: Only a door separated Israeli soldiers from Palestinian President Yasser Arafat’s private office on Saturday after a night of continuous shelling and shooting around his headquarters, aides said....
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Campaigners storm DPs centre in Australia
SYDNEY, March 30: Hundreds of campaigners against the Australian Government’s policy of mandatory detentions of asylum seekers, attacked the Woomera Detention Centre in South Australia on the evening of Good Friday...
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Anti-Israel demos in Europe
PARIS, March 30: Thousands of people marched in support of the Palestinian people and their besieged leader Yasser Arafat in France, Germany and other European countries on Saturday, as Israel continued...
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US mly faces threat of longer stay in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON, March 30: Only nine senior Al Qaeda members have been killed and three captured during the war in Afghanistan, leaving the whereabouts of an additional 15 on the Pentagon’s list...
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Queen Mother waged ‘vendetta’ over abdication
 LONDON, March 30: Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, who has died aged 101 on Saturday, never forgave the king who forced her shy, stuttering husband George onto the British throne....
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Bomber bemoaned inaction by Arab states
DHEISHEH REFUGEE CAMP, March 30: The day before she blew herself up outside a Jerusalem supermarket, Ayat Akhras sat with her fiance and talked about graduating from high school and getting...
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CNN gets snubbed by PLO chief
DUBAI, March 30: Yasser Arafat cut short a live telephone interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Friday night when he was repeatedly asked if he would rein in Palestinian militants....
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Four killed in sectarian violence in Nagpur
MUMBAI, March 30: Four people died and several were injured in sectarian clashes in the western Indian state of Maharashtra on Saturday following unruly Holi celebrations, police said....
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Oprah Winfrey rebuffs Bush
WASHINGTON, March 30: US television celebrity Oprah Winfrey has rebuffed an invitation from the White House to join a US delegation planning to go to Afghanistan to celebrate the return of...
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Increase in anti-Arab racist acts in France
PARIS: The Consultative Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), the governmental agency charged with closely watching the situation of human rights in France, has revealed in its just-published annual report a larger-than-expected...
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Israelis systematically destroying Arafat’s HQ
LONDON: Israel launched a war to the finish against Yasser Arafat on Friday, smashing into his compound with tanks and bulldozers and strafing his offices with machine-gun fire, in a campaign...
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Germans are racist deep down: Helmut Schmidt
BERLIN: The elder statesman of the European left, the former chancellor Helmut Schmidt, on Thursday poured petrol on the flames of Germany’s impassioned immigration debate when he declared that there were...
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Birth of bionics to help the blind see with cameras
LONDON: Seeing is quite a complicated business for Marie. A video camera attached to a plastic cap on her head broadcasts the images it records as radio waves, which are picked...
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Fires led to WTC collapse, says study
NEW YORK: A US government report expressed surprise of how well the World Trade Center withstood the impact of the two hijacked airliners that crashed into its twin towers on Sept...
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New US paper aims at Afghan war truth
LOS ANGELES: A newspaper aimed at providing news of the war in Afghanistan is to be launched this month. Its editors argue that the mainstream media in the US are not...
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Europe insists on Arafat’s legitimacy
LONDON: As Israel declared Yasser Arafat an enemy and sent tanks crashing into his headquarters yesterday, Europe insisted that he was still a legitimate authority and a partner for peace. “Arafat...
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