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April 7, 2002 Sunday Muharram 23, 1423 US govt ‘winked’ at Israeli offensive: Brzezinski NEW YORK, April 6: Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser at the time of the 1979 Camp David accords during the Carter presidency, has said in a newspaper interview that the Bush... China asks Bush why he called Taiwan a country BEIJING, April 6: China has asked the United States for an explanation on why US President George W. Bush referred to Taiwan as a country during a speech last week in... Israeli jets pound Lebanon BEIRUT, April 6: Israeli jets and artillery hit targets across south Lebanon on Saturday in retaliation for the the most extensive guerilla attacks on the Jewish state’s armed forces since they... Doubt, shock greet cloning report LONDON, April 6: Scientists reacted with skepticism and shock on Saturday to a report that a woman taking part in a controversial human cloning programme for infertile couples was eight weeks... Thousands protest US policy on ME NEW YORK, April 6: Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters took to the streets in New York, Stockholm, Sydney and several other European cities on Friday and Saturday, demanding an end to Israel’s... ‘Lagaan’ adjudged best film GENTING HIGHLANDS (Malaysia) April 6: Days after “Lagaan” failed to win an Oscar for the best foreign film, the Indian film industry gathered at a Malaysian resort to heap praise and... Swedish PM fails to talk with Arafat STOCKHOLM, April 6: Swedish Prime Minister Goeran Persson complained on Saturday about difficulties in carrying out telephone conversations with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, amid Palestinian claims that Israel was intentionally disrupting... 2 million large asteroids WASHINGTON, April 6: The solar system’s main asteroid belt is dotted with between 1.1 million and 1.9 million asteroids measuring more than one kilometre in diameter — twice as many as... Ceasefires won’t lead to ME peace LOS ANGELES: With Israeli tanks besieging everything from the Church of the Holy Nativity to Yasser Arafat’s compound, President Bush has finally taken the war between Israel and the Palestinians seriously... Vajpayee’s Gujarat visit comes too late NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee visited riot-torn Gujarat on Thursday, more than a month after a provincial government run by his pro-Hindu, Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) began a... Minefield ahead for Powell