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May 1, 2002 Wednesday Safar 17, 1423 US warns Afghan warlords of action BAGRAM AIR BASE, April 30: The US general commanding ground forces in Afghanistan signalled on Tuesday that warlords who helped drive the Taliban from power could become targets themselves if... 26 people leave Bethlehem church BETHLEHEM, April 30: Twenty-six people filed out of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem on Tuesday, the largest group to leave in a four-week-long Israeli siege of Palestinian fighters taking... Skin cells transformed without cloning WASHINGTON, April 30: Scientists said on Tuesday they had transformed ordinary human skin cells into immune cells in an experiment that, if it can be repeated, might do away with the... Firm brings humour to poll campaign PARIS, April 30: A French ad agency has decided to add a bit of humour — as much as it can, in any case — to this week’s rather glum and... French Muslims postpone election PARIS, April 30: The French Muslim community, which was to elect on May 26 its first representative council, the Conseil representatif du culte Musulman (CRCM), has decided to postpone indefinitely the... Masood as candidate for Nobel peace prize PARIS, April 30: A group of French nationals are lobbying for the posthumous award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Afghanistan’s slain military supremo Ahmad Shah Masood, an Afghan diplomat here... Aga Khan to help revitalize Kabul area KABUL, April 30: Aga Khan Cultural Services (Afghanistan), a newly established affiliate of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC), will lead the revitalisation of a significant but currently degraded urban... Peace rally in Sri Lanka COLOMBO, April 30: Hundreds of buses, trucks, cars and three- wheelers decorated with colourful trimmings and peace slogans travelled from Colombo to Jaffna on Tuesday.... Conviction of newsman in Iran deplored PARIS, April 30: Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) has condemned the conviction of an Iranian journalist, Ahmad Zeid-Abadi, for 23 months.... UK synagogue attacked LONDON, April 30: Britain’s Jews were in shock on Tuesday after a north London synagogue was vandalized and daubed with a swastika — the kind of attack rarely seen in the... Myanmar abuzz with talk of Suu Kyi’s release YANGON, April 30: Military-ruled Myanmar was abuzz with speculation on Tuesday that pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was set to be freed after 18 months in house arrest following... Horrors of living under Israeli siege BEIRUT: The March programme is still posted on the website of Khalil Sakakini Gulyural Centre in Ramallah. The theme of the month-long activities is Women in Photography and Film. It features... Gujarat refugees suffer as politicians quarrel NEW DELHI: As India’s politicians wrangle for political mileage from a pogrom against Muslims in Gujarat two months ago, scorching summer temperatures and disease stalk some 150,000 people who fled their... Common hatred binds unlikely allies BERN: A portrait of Adolf Hitler has long adorned the study of Ahmed Huber, a 74-year-old Swiss convert to Islam who lives outside this small capital city.... US fails to find ‘paper trail’ of Sept 11 plot WASHINGTON: For more than seven months, US authorities probing the Sept 11 attacks have scoured everything from caves to credit cards in the expectation that they would ultimately discover how the... Outdated BD penal system traps prisoners in jail DHAKA: Twelve-year-old Bangladeshi Akkalesh has problems sleeping, often wakes up at night shivering and regularly stares blankly into space without emotion. Life has not been the same since his brief stint... Britain to treat foreign captives as POWs WASHINGTON: Britain has decided to treat Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters captured by its forces in Afghanistan as prisoners of war and turn them over to the interim Afghan government, revealing... Forever changing face of death WASHINGTON: In the last century in the developed world, death’s face developed wrinkles. In 1900, one of death’s most common visages was that of a 5-year-old child struggling for breath, trying...

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