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| June 10, 2002 | Monday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 28,1423 |
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Food summit aims to rekindle war on hunger
ROME, June 9: A United Nations Food Summit opens in Rome on Monday aiming to prick the world’s conscience and raise billions of dollars to fight global hunger that kills an... 
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Ex-king throws support behind Karzai
KABUL, June 9: Afghanistan’s former king, Mohammad Zahir Shah, has thrown his support behind interim ruler Hamid Karzai, who is widely expected to be named leader of the next government at...
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BD fears heavy floods,crop losses
DHAKA, June 9: Bangladesh is expected to suffer extensive flooding in July because rainfall is expected to be about 20 percent heavier than normal, weather experts said on Sunday....
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Traces of nerve gas found at US air base in Uzbekistan
KABUL, June 9: Scientists are testing traces of nerve agents and mustard gas found at a US air base in Uzbekistan, United States military sources said on Sunday....
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UK plans camps for refugees: report: India-Pakistan war
LONDON, June 9: Britain has earmarked disused military bases for the accommodation of thousands of refugees entering the country should war break out between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, a newspaper...
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Ailing Turkish PM says he won’t resign
 ANKARA, June 9: Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit, making his first public appearance in more than 10 days on Sunday after suffering persistent health problems, vowed once again that he would...
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US to set up propaganda cell
PARIS, June 9: The word from Washington is that the White House is preparing to unveil a new communications weapon as part of its “war” against terrorism, a war that apparently...
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Four Israeli soldiers wounded in attack
 AL QUDS, June 9: A Palestinian militant was killed and four Israeli soldiers were wounded early on Sunday during an attack on a military position next to a Jewish settlement on...
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Hizbollah had plans to attack US, Israeli ships
SINGAPORE, June 9: The Hizbollah militia group were planning to bomb US and Israeli ships in Singapore five years ago, local reports said over the weekend....
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Peru yields another long-lost Inca city
LOS ANGELES: Deep in an inaccessible canyon in the most remote area of Peru, a British-American team has discovered what appears to be one of the last refuges of the Incas...
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Banking regulators are rewriting rules: Uniform laws for IMF, FIs
LONDON: An important part of Britain’s economic future is being determined by a committee sitting in Basel, Switzerland. That committee is not responsible to any government, is not part of the...
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European police to spy on e-mails
LONDON: Millions of personal e-mails, other internet information and telephone records are to be made accessible to the police and intelligence services in a move that has been denounced by critics...
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Protesters fear heist of nuclear materials
LONDON: Two British ships will slip into the Japanese port of Takahama this week to pick up a cargo of plutonium large enough to make 50 nuclear bombs. The Pacific Pintail...
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Equality still only an idea in French politics
PARIS: Looking casual without a necktie, National Assembly candidate Patrick Lozes strode purposefully into cafes, boutiques, a gay bar and a printing shop, greeting voters and handing out leaflets in an...
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Under-represented in Europe
PARIS: As historically white European societies take in millions of immigrants, most of them from the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa, as presidents and prime ministers preach the virtues of diversity...
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Bush won’t offer timetable for talks on Palestinian state
WASHINGTON: President Bush said Saturday that the United States is “not ready to lay down a specific calendar” for political talks leading to a Palestinian state, and repeated his belief that...
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