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| April 29, 2002 | Monday | Safar 15, 1423 |
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Madagascar president calls for referendum
ANTANANARIVO, April 28: Embattled President Didier Ratsiraka returned to Madagascar on Sunday and rejected a deal he signed to end a deepening crisis on the island, saying he did not want... 
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Le Pen hopes to bag 30pc vote
PARIS, April 28: Martial Bilt, who is Jean-Marie Le Pen’s principal campaign strategist, says that he expects at least 100,000 marchers to take part in the May 1st march being organized...
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Hezbollah offers to swap Israeli captives
BEIRUT, April 28: Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement offered on Sunday to trade Israeli captives in exchange for Palestinian fighters besieged by Israel....
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UK plans to sell 60 Hawk jets to India
LONDON: The British government is planning to sell 60 Hawk jets to India worth 1.5 billion dollars, which could be adopted to carry nuclear weapons or used to train pilots to...
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LTTE taxes irritate travellers
JAFFNA, April 28: Travellers using the newly-opened routes, previously war blocked, from Colombo to Jaffna and Omanthai, and other uncleared areas are beginning to feel the heat of LTTE travel regulations....
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US to get back seat on UN rights commission
UNITED NATIONS, April 28: The United States was set on Monday to regain its seat on the UN Human Rights Commission after a humiliating defeat last year for the first time...
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‘Voice of Palestine’ back on air
RAMALLAH, April 28: Voice of Palestine, the official Palestinian radio, has resumed limited broadcasting on the frequency it used before Israeli forces destroyed the station’s building, an official said on Sunday....
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Israel crippling Palestinian life
AL QUDS: Palestinian leadership has come to this: Yasser Arafat, working by flickering candlelight in a cramped and fetid office in Ramallah, where he is trapped by Israeli troops in tanks...
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Muslim charities prosper despite US crackdown
DUBAI: The flood of donations rushes on — cash, jewels, cars and even kidneys given by Gulf Arabs to aid fellow Muslims abroad, disregarding US allegations about terrorist links to the...
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Race riots to plague UK again
OLDHAM: Towns across northern England erupted into riots last summer as simmering tensions between Asians and whites exploded into Britain’s worst race violence for more than a decade. A year on,...
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Israeli prison: an emblem of shrivelled hope
AL QUDS: Israelis knew it as Ketziot. Palestinians called it Ansar 3. Both believed that the sprawling prison camp in the Negev desert was a painful piece of their shared past...
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S. African freak show comes home to roost
PARIS: When she arrived in Paris in 1814, Saartjie Baartman, was a minute South African woman of 24 who had been turned by her British captors into a freak show exhibit...
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German suburb hid a heart of darkness
ERFURT: House No 40 where Frau Steinhauser, who lived with her 19 year-old son, Robert, on the new top floor, is the prettiest house on the sunny side of the street....
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Insomniacs find possible dream drug
WASHINGTON: Merrill Mitler travels frequently, often sleeping consecutive days in different time zones. When his body clock feels out of sync with his schedule, he swallows a medicine that was approved...
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