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| October 29, 2002 | Tuesday | Sha’aban 22,1423 |
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Violence erupts as police seize Indonesian leader
SOLO (Indonesia), Oct 28: Indonesian religious leader Abu Bakar Bashir was on Monday removed from hospital for questioning over a string of deadly attacks as his supporters fought bloody clashes with... 
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Leftist Lula elected president of Brazil
SAO PAULO, Oct 28: Leftist former union chief Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was elected Brazil’s president by a landslide Sunday, in a historic vote that gave Latin America’s biggest country...
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France asks UN to check unilateral steps over Iraq
PARIS, Oct 28: French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin has called upon the UN security council —- and indirectly the United States — to “be responsible” and not approve any resolution...
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N. Australia as part of ‘pan-Islamic state’
SYDNEY, Oct 28: Muslim radicals linked to the Al Qaeda want to incorporate northern Australia into a vast “pan-Islamic state” spanning much of southeast Asia, a television report alleged on Monday....
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Putin cancels visit to Denmark in protest: Chechnya conference
MOSCOW, Oct 28: Russian President Vladimir Putin has cancelled his visit to Denmark following Copenhagen’s decision to allow an international conference on Chechnya to be held in the Danish capital, the...
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Lankan political squabbles won’t undercut peace talks
COLOMBO: Political squabbling between Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and President Chandrika Kumaratunga is feeding fears of instability, but analysts say it is unlikely to undercut peace talks with Tamil...
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Law helps Swiss stem money laundering
BERN: Four years after new laws allowed them to clamp down on attempts to launder the proceeds of crime through secretive Swiss banks, Swiss officials are proclaiming that they are among...
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Theatre tragedy is Putin’s new Kursk
MOSCOW: The ghost of the Kursk submarine disaster has come back to haunt President Vladimir Putin as he watches public support for his handling of the Chechen theatre siege threaten to...
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Wigs replace headscarves
ANKARA: Young women wearing Islamic-style headscarves have to go through a cubicle when they enter the gate to Ankara University’s Divinity Faculty. When they reappear, on their way to class, they...
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Car of the future on hot air
PARIS: Visionary 19th century French writer Jules Verne once described a fantastical future world where cars would run on air....
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