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July 7, 2002 Sunday Rabi-us-Sani 25,1423 Over 900,000 marooned in Indian floods GUWAHATI, India, July 6: Disease and hunger stalked some 900,000 people trapped by raging floods in eastern India as food supplies began to dry up and roads were cut off after... India wants to develop Iraqi oilfield BAGHDAD, July 6: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, apparently defiant at US threats to topple him, said on Saturday that US military power was in decline.... Weeping women curse US after bombing carnage DEHRAWAD (Afghanistan), July 6: Women beat their chests and wept at a fresh grave in this remote central Afghan district Saturday as they cursed Americans for a bomb attack that wiped... BD floods render 100,000 homeless: Three rivers burst banks DHAKA, July 6: Nearly 100,000 Bangladeshis have fled their homes after heavy rains and floodwaters from neighbouring India inundated bordering northern and southeastern districts, officials said on Saturday.... Citizenship to foreigners in US forces LOS ANGELES, July 6: US President George Bush, through an executive order on July 5, has granted an expedited citizenship consideration to non-citizen members of the US military serving in active... Loyalists of ousted chief defy Arafat RAMALLAH, July 6: Hundreds of officers loyal to the West Bank’s ousted security chief Jibril Rajoub vowed on Saturday not to work with his successor, in a challenge to Palestinian leader... S. Lankan Muslims find it hard to restart JAFFNA, June 6: Muslims who were hunted out by the LTTE at gun point in 1990 from Jaffna peninsula when the Tamil Tigers took over the region from the Sri Lankan... Revellers toast fiesta at Pamplona PAMPLONA (Spain), July 6: A million delirious, wine-soaked revellers packed the streets of Pamplona on Saturday, as Spain’s world-famous bull-running festival burst to life amid concerns that the Basque separatist group,... UNHCR offers to end Sangatte deadlock LONDON, July 6: The United Nations refugee agency has offered to help break the deadlock between Britain and France over the Sangatte refugee camp, where hundreds of Afghan refugees have been... 4m unmarried Saudi women by 2007: study RIYADH, July 6: The number of unmarried Saudi women could more than double to four million by 2007 because of the social problems spawned by the oil-rich kingdom’s economic development, a... Ground recording of crash flawed, say Swiss investigators GENEVA, July 6: The Swiss air accident investigation bureau said on Friday that ground control recordings of the mid-air collision between two aircraft over southern Germany this week did not accurately... Madagascar calm as Ratsiraka flees NAIROBI: Didier Ratsiraka, Madagascar’s former ruler, fled the country on Friday, seemingly ending the violent seven-month-long leadership dispute and the flickering threat of civil war.... Advani leads push for extremism NEW DELHI: A cabinet reshuffle and a revamp of India’s dominant political party are signalling a major shift towards Hindu fundamentalism in the world’s largest democracy — at a time when... LA shooting sparks Muslim fears of reaction LOS ANGELES: Once again, violence broke out this week between an Arab and Israelis — this time at the Los Angeles International Airport.... Allies criticize US stance: Immunity from war crimes WASHINGTON: In the week that the United States insisted that its military be exempt from possible war crimes prosecution in the new international court, the Afghan government angrily accused the Americans... Repatriation threatens marriages in Iran KHORRAMDASHT (Iran): Mohammad Younus is a 46-year-old Afghan refugee who has been told he has to leave Iran and return home. But his Iranian wife, Iran Taj, refuses to accompany him... Former communists eye Nato membership LONDON: The former communist countries began a final big push to join Nato on Friday as George Bush heralded the alliance’s biggest expansion, due later this year.... UNRWA report accuses Israel of extra-judicial killings UNITED NATIONS: As the situation in the occupied territories continues to deteriorate, Israeli forces battling Palestinians are deploying heavier and more sophisticated weapons, the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said...

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