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May 29, 2002 Wednesday Rabi-ul-Awwal 16,1423 Russia, Nato set up security forum PRATICA DI MARE (Italy), May 28: Russia and Nato created a new forum for security cooperation on Tuesday at a landmark ceremony outside Rome, building on the foundations of their sometimes... Excerpts from declaration PRATICA DI MARE (Italy), May 28: Excerpts of the Rome Declaration, officially titled “Nato-Russia Relations: A New Quality”:... US mulls timetable for ME settlement ROME, May 28: The Bush administration is debating whether to depart from its policy and set a timetable for negotiating a Middle East peace settlement, US officials said on Tuesday.... Putin’s new weapon: the killer joke MOSCOW, May 28: Russian President Vladimir Putin has uncovered a weapon that is breaching Western defences as few other arms have done — the killer joke.... Norwegian FM, Lankan PM to discuss draft COLOMBO, May 28: Deputy Norwegian Foreign Minister Vyder Helgesan on Tuesday left for London to meet Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is touring Europe.... Sudanese plane intercepted ROME, May 28: Italian fighter jets intercepted on Tuesday a Sudanese aircraft not far from the Italian air base where Nato leaders and Russian President Vladimir Putin were holding a summit,... 157 killed as rebels attack army post in Nepal KATHMANDU, May 28: At least 152 Maoist rebels and five soldiers have been killed in a fierce clash in southwestern Nepal, army officials said on Tuesday.... Torture rife in Europe, says Amnesty LONDON, May 28: Torture is rife in a number of European countries, while security clampdowns after September 11 have led to human rights abuses, Amnesty International said in an annual report... Moscow offers to work with Riyadh MOSCOW, May 28: Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to cooperate closely with Saudi Arabia to stabilise the situation in the Middle East, in a letter to King Fahd released on Monday... Dutch student in HIV-infected blood scare AMSTERDAM, May 28: A Dutch medical student may have accidentally swallowed HIV-infected blood during a lesson that went wrong and will have to wait six months to find out if she... Serb air force accused of spying SARAJEVO, May 28: Bosnia’s Nato-led peacekeeping force grounded the Bosnian Serb air force on Tuesday and suspended its commander for allegedly spying on alliance planes flying over the Balkan country.... BD military opposes transit to Indian forces DHAKA, May 28: Bangladesh’s military intelligence has strongly opposed the proposal for providing transit or trans-shipment facility to the Northeastern states of India as it feared it would create problems in... Federal Bureau of ‘incompetence’ LOS ANGELES: The first comprehensive account of what exactly happened inside the World Trade Centre in the 102 minutes between the attack and the collapse of the towers has been published.... French govt moves to reassure Muslims PARIS: France’s Interior Minister, Nicholas Sarkozy, has promised that one of his first priorities would be settling the longstanding problem of the representation of France’s Islamic population, estimated at more than... Bush policy on ME lacks coherence JERUSALEM: A divided US administration still sees Yasser Arafat, not Ariel Sharon, as the man who must change his ways if Middle East peace is to come any closer.... Prostate to become UK’s prime cancer LONDON: Prostate cancer might overtake lung cancer as the most common form of the disease among British men within three years, specialists said.... Afghanistan’s troubled start to democracy GARDEZ: As a United Nations election observer, Haji Habibullah has not seen any hanging chads, but he has seen much more troubling types of election irregularity: vote-buying, intimidation, and even rocket... ‘Nazi Art’ claim against British museum LONDON: A claim has been lodged against the British Museum for the return of four beautiful old master drawings which are claimed to have be been stolen from a Jewish collector...

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