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| October 9, 2002 | Wednesday | Sha’aban 2, 1423 |
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Attack on Iraq must be last resort: France
PARIS, Oct 8: Military action against Iraq is a last resort and must only take place with the authorization of the United Nations, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said on Tuesday.... 
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Bush asks court to suspend port strike
WASHINGTON, Oct 8: US President George Bush on Tuesday asked a court to suspend the strike at 29 Pacific ports that has cost America up to two billion dollars a day....
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US, Japan astrophysicists win Nobel prize
 STOCKHOLM, Oct 8: Raymond Davis and Riccardo Giacconi of the United States and Masatoshi Koshiba of Japan won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for finding out how the...
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US Marine, two others killed in Kuwait shootout
KUWAIT CITY, Oct 8: A United States Marine was killed and another seriously wounded, when two unidentified assailants sprayed bullets on them during war games in Kuwait, on Tuesday. The assailants...
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Sniper sows panic in Washington suburbs
WASHINGTON, Oct 8: Children returned to school in the Washington suburbs under heavy police guard on Tuesday, a day after a 13-year-old boy became the latest victim of a sniper who...
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Tehran bars CNN’s Amanpour
KUWAIT CITY, Oct 8: Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent and part of the group of journalists accompanying Britain’s foreign secretary on a Middle East tour, said on Tuesday the Iranian...
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Osama remains a fixation, says Rumsfeld
WASHINGTON, Oct 8: Osama bin Laden remains an elusive “fixation” a year after the start of a US military campaign to uproot his Al Qaeda network in Afghanistan, US Defence Secretary...
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RSF offices ransacked
PARIS, Oct 8: The Paris offices of Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) were ransacked on Sunday night, with those housing its judicial arm, Operation Damocles, hard hit by the unidentified vandals....
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Gyanendra’s move fraught with danger: Upheavals in Nepal
KATHMANDU: King Gyanendra’s sacking of the Nepali government for incompetence and his temporary assumption of executive powers is fraught with dangers for the monarchy as well as the country’s fragile, 12-year-old...
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The shrinking olive branch in Palestine
BETHLEHEM: About a dozen Palestinians rush to pick olives in a field sliced by a fresh road lined with barbed wire, two weeks before the army starts to raise a hi-tech...
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‘Swadeshi’ runs into rough weather
NEW DELHI: A decade after socialist India began economic liberalization under pressure form the World Bank, this ambitious process has run into a wall because of resistance from ultra-nationalist groups that...
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Body for French Muslims planned
PARIS: Nicolas Sarkozy, the French Interior Minister who is also in charge of the country’s religious affairs, says that he’s decided to give the country a new representational organization — the...
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Syria looking to survive Iraq strike
DAMASCUS: After months of campaigning against a US strike on Iraq, Syria appears to have decided war is inevitable and is looking to cut its losses when Washington’s plan for “regime...
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US raids in Afghanistan stoke resentment
AAB KHIEL (Afghanistan): It was night when the American military helicopters landed in the dry cornfields around the village of Aab Khiel. Within minutes dozens of soldiers surrounded the small cluster...
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