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| October 27, 2002 | Sunday | Sha’aban 20,1423 |
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Israeli army again occupies Jenin: US mission flops
TEL AVIV, Oct 26: Israel tightened its grip on Jenin on Saturday, scouring the battered West Bank city for Palestinian militants as a US peace mission ended indecisively.... 
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Suspects acted on their own: US police
NEW YORK, Oct 26: Muslim groups in the United States expressed relief on Thursday when police officials announced that the two men suspected of sniper attacks in Washington D.C area had...
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French cops to keep eye on cybercafes
PARIS, Oct 26: French police say they are to keep closer watch over the country’s cybercafes in their quest to better control the activities of Al Qaeda on French soil....
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China plans manned mission into space
PARIS, Oct 26: Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji informed the French Research Minister Ms Claudie Haignere, that China will be shortly sending into space its own first cosmonauts, during a meeting...
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Do something to save New York: Greenpeace
NEW DELHI, Oct 26: By the year 2080, Manhattan and Shanghai could be underwater, droughts and floods could become more extreme and hundreds of millions of people will be at risk...
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Richard Harris dies at 72
LONDON, Oct 26: Renowned Irish actor Richard Harris, for years one of the hell-raisers of the stage and screen along with Richard Burton, died of cancer in hospital on Friday....
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Single blast ended siege
MOSCOW, Oct 26: A single blast ripped through the damp dawn, shattering the silence and heralding the end of three days of humiliation, threat and fear for the hostages held in...
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Russia tells Denmark to call off Chechnya moot
 MOSCOW, Oct 26: Russia threatened to boycott an upcoming Russia-Denmark summit in Copenhagen because a conference on Chechnya is to be held in Denmark on the same dates, the foreign ministry...
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Libya rebuffs plea to stay in AL
TRIPOLI, Oct 26: Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi on Saturday spurned a fresh attempt to prevent him from divorcing his country from the Arab League....
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US, Japan ask N. Korea to scrap N-plan
LOS CABOS (Mexico), Oct 26: Leaders of the United States, Japan, and South Korea warned North Korea in a joint statement on Saturday it must scrap its nuclear arms programme “in...
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APEC set to approve anti-terror measures
CABO SAN LUCAS (Mexico): An ocean away from the most volatile parts of their region, leaders of Pacific rim nations meeting here this weekend are expected to adopt an ambitious US...
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Expanded role for US forces proposed: Pentagon board’s report
WASHINGTON: An influential Pentagon advisory board is calling for a major expansion of the US special forces role in combating terrorism, and is seeking a new White House office to plan...
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Palestinians face threat to livelihood
MAZRAA SHARQIYA (West Bank): Members of the Azzam family gathered in their three-acre olive grove last Tuesday for a usually routine ritual that in recent weeks has become increasingly hazardous: the...
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UN to end Bosnia peace mission
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations announced on Wednesday that it will formally withdraw its peacekeeping mission from Bosnia-Herzegovina by the end of this year....
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Genetic links found between Brazilian natives and Asians
SAO PAOLO: A Brazilian biologist has discovered genetic links between the Amazon Indian Paracana and Xicrin tribes and Chinese, Indian and Indonesian people, the press reported on Friday....
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Crops at risk as seed banks face financial collapse
LONDON: Emma-Jane Lamont, Imperial College London’s scientific curator at the national fruit collections in Brogdale, Kent, works with the largest collection of fruit trees on earth. Part of her work is...
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