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June 1, 2002 Saturday Rabi-ul-Awwal 19,1423 EC protests Israel’s cantonization of West Bank TEL AVIV, May 31: Israel’s plan to carve up the West Bank into cantons is a serious blow to the Oslo peace accords and will damage prospects for an economically viable... Need for security in Asia critical: Wolfowitz SINGAPORE, May 31: US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz warned Friday of a “gathering storm” of terrorism threatening the world and said the need for security in Asia was critical.... Parliament votes for death of Yugoslavia BELGRADE, May 31: The Yugoslav parliament voted overwhelmingly on Friday in favour of a plan to abolish the Balkan federation and replace it with a looser union between its last remaining... FLN wins absolute majority in Algeria ALGIERS, May 31: Algeria’s former sole political party, the National Liberation Front (FLN), won an absolute majority in Thursday’s legislative elections that were marked by widespread malaise and the lowest turnout... ‘Militants’ want to overthrow S.E. Asian govts: Lee SINGAPORE, May 31: Muslim extremists were plotting to overthrow the governments of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore to set up an Asian Islamic state, Singapore’s Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew... Israeli spy satellite to help India, Turkey TEL AVIV, May 31: Israel’s spy satellite launched this week transmitted its first images on Friday, the defence ministry said, as a newspaper said it may count India and Turkey among... Americans’ faith in govt has fallen: study WASHINGTON, May 31: Americans’ faith in their government has fallen off from the patriotic levels seen after the Sept 11 attacks, according to a study released on Thursday.... Danes pass law to limit immigration COPENHAGEN, May 31: Denmark’s parliament passed a controversial plan on Friday to limit immigration after a long and heated debate.... EU ratifies Kyoto Protocol UNITED NATIONS, May 31: The 15 European Union members simultaneously ratified the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on Friday, bringing the most ambitious international attempt to fight global warming a big step closer... Laventhol elected CPJ chairman NEW YORK, May 31: Mr David Laventhol, a distinguished journalist and editorial director of Columbia Journalism Review, has been elected board chairman of the Committee to Protect Journalists(CPJ).... FBI gets more powers for domestic surveillance WASHINGTON, May 31: The FBI on Thursday won additional powers to conduct domestic counter-terrorism surveillance that critics said could trample on Americans’ constitutional rights.... US plans to raise a professional army: Rebuilding Afghanistan KABUL: Slowly, and at times painfully, Afghanistan’s national army is beginning to take shape and to build up the muscle it needs to take on the might of the warlords who... Of mice or men: hard to say, genetically WASHINGTON: What makes a man different from a mouse? Genetically, it is pretty hard to tell, researchers said recently.... Libya keen to come out of isolation WASHINGTON: Osama bin Laden has small cells of followers around the world, and he may have pockets of fans who wear his image on a T-shirt, but he’ll never be a... Australia revisits euthanasia debate SYDNEY: Six times in just four days this week, Rodney Syme answered the phone and encountered a desperate, terminally ill person on the end of the line. All wanted him to... Gold diggers draw ire TORONTO: What if gold were no longer an object of desire but an object of disgust? What if environmentalists were able to do to the image of the glittering metal what... US Muslims ambivalent about ‘war on terrorism’ WASHINGTON: Seven months after the Sept 11 attacks triggered incidents of harassment against them, US Muslims reported being unhappy with parts of President George W. Bush’s ‘anti-terrorism’ plan but well treated... Riyadh-Washington ties at a crossroads RIYADH: Out of sight on a remote, scalding-hot air base in Saudi Arabia, some 5,000 American troops fly patrols over southern Iraq and defend this oil-rich desert kingdom....

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