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| June 2, 2002 | Sunday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 20,1423 |
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‘Pre-emptive’ action needed against terror: Bush sounds fresh warning
WEST POINT (USA), June 1: Amid speculation that the United States may attack Iraq, US President George W. Bush warned on Saturday that his “war on terrorism” may often require “pre-emptive”... 
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Speaker calls for freeing Montazeri
TEHRAN, June 1: Iran’s parliamentary speaker called on Saturday for freeing Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, the disgraced ex-successor-designate of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, from his five-year-old house arrest....
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World faces worse attacks than Sept 11: Wolfowitz
SINGAPORE, June 1: The Sept 11 attacks on the United States were a warning of worse atrocities to come, US Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said on Saturday....
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Israeli troops reoccupy more West Bank towns
TEL AVIV, June 1: Amid intense new diplomatic efforts to kick start peace talks, Israel maintained military pressure on the West Bank, reoccupying most of Nablus and sending troops back into...
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Castro mocks at US call for change
HOLGUIN (Cuba), June 1: Cuban President Fidel Castro on Saturday told some 400,000 Cubans at a rally here that despite calls for change from Washington, his government’s socialist path would continue...
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FBI missed chance to spy on Al Qaeda: weekly
WASHINGTON, June 1: Federal Bureau of Investigation officials rejected an informant’s offer to infiltrate an Al Qaeda training camp in the months before deadly Sept 11 suicide attacks, a US news...
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Ex-Argentine president’s son slapped
BUENOS AIRES, June 1: The son of Argentina’s ousted President Fernando de la Rua has taken it on the chin for his father’s failures — after being slapped on live television...
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Only October is a good month for war in Sub-continent
NEW DELHI, June 1: In the Sub-continent, the extreme climate means there’s rarely a good time to fight a war....
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12m could die in N-war: Pentagon
WASHINGTON, June 1: Between nine and 12 million people would die, and close to six million would be injured in a “worst-case” nuclear war between India and Pakistan, a US defence...
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Syria to head UN Council
UNITED NATIONS, June 1: Syria, which has been using its spot on the Security Council to keep a spotlight on Israeli attacks on Palestinians, assumed the council’s rotating presidency on Saturday...
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Kashmiris protest Straw’s remarks
 SRINAGAR, June 1: Police used force to break up a demonstration here on Saturday against recent British remarks critical of Kashmiri Mujahideen, arresting a top Hurriyat leader heading the protest....
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Bomb goes off in Kandahar
KABUL, June 1: A bomb exploded outside the provincial governor’s office in Kandahar on Saturday, but there were no casualties or damage, a foreign ministry spokesman said....
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EU has halved aid to poorest: study
BRUSSELS: European Union aid to low income countries was almost halved over the past decade, an independent report claims....
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EU agencies get powers to access data records
LONDON: European law enforcement agencies were recently given sweeping powers to monitor telephone, internet and e-mail traffic in a move denounced by critics as the biggest threat to data privacy in...
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So what will the big one be like?
WASHINGTON: Will it be like a hunt for a “loose nuke,” as in the movie “The Sum of All Fears”? Or will it be an atomic barrage, between, say, India and...
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ILO urges action to halt Palestinian ‘meltdown’: Closures, checkpoints affect economy
GENEVA: International Labour Organisation (ILO) director- general Juan Somavma has issued an appeal to the world community to take steps aimed at staving off the “socio-economic meltdown” of the Israeli-occupied Palestinian...
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Row at Harvard over speech
WASHINGTON: A row over one word is threatening to wreck the most important day of the year at America’s most prestigious university....
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Hardliners scuttle moves for compromise in Bangladesh
DHAKA: Thanks to the hard-liners in both the ruling BNP (Bangladesh National Party)-led alliance and the main opposition Awami League (AL), the latest attempt to bring the recalcitrant opposition to the...
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