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November 25, 2002 Monday Ramazan 19, 1423 Syria rejects US call to shut down Jihad office CAIRO, Nov 24: Syrian Foreign Minister Faruq al-Shara roundly rejected US pressure to shut down the Damascus office of Islamic Jihad, saying the Palestinian militant group did not use it as... Miss World contestants leave Nigeria KADUNA (Nigeria), Nov 24: The Miss World beauty circus fled to Britain on Sunday, while in northern Nigeria the death toll continued to mount in bloody sectarian rioting fuelled by Muslim... French opposed to Turkey in EU: poll PARIS, Nov 24: A poll published in the weekend edition of French daily newspaper Le Parisien said that 55 per cent of the French oppose the arrival of Turkey as a... US lawmakers call for FBI probe : Allegations against Saudis NEW YORK, Nov 24: US lawmakers on Sunday said that the FBI should thoroughly investigate allegations of Saudi royal family links to the Sept 11 terrorists, as reported by the recent... Hardliners tell Iranian students to end protests TEHRAN, Nov 24: Iranian hardliners kicked off a week of street rallies on Sunday, as pro-reform students were told to put an end to two weeks of tense demonstrations amid warnings... Israel carries out ‘census’ in Bethlehem AIDA REFUGEE CAMP (West Bank), Nov 24: “Who lives here?” asks the Israeli army officer, backed up by half a dozen soldiers carrying out house-to-house searches in Bethlehem’s Aida refugee camp... Colombo, LTTE hold high-level negotiations OSLO, Nov 24: Sri Lanka’s warring parties made their highest level contact in 12 years at a hotel near here Sunday as Norway brought them together to drum up international support... Canada-US pact to make refugees’ entry tough TORONTO, Nov 24: Refugee claimants from different countries, including Pakistan and Afghanistan, would be denied entry into Canada when Ottawa signs a new agreement with the United States early next month,... Fighting flares again in Jordanian town AMMAN, Nov 24: At least one person was killed and seven others wounded, including a policeman, as fresh clashes erupted on Sunday in the southern Jordanian town of Maan which had... Sezer warns against lifting headscarf ban ISTANBUL, Nov 24: Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer warned Sunday against changing the law to allow women to wear headscarves in public places in the Muslim but staunchly secular country.... Referendum in Switzerland GENEVA, Nov 24: Swiss voters on Sunday narrowly rejected a right-wing referendum proposal to make it harder for refugees to gain asylum in the country, the Swiss ATS news agency said... Turkey tries harder in bid for EU ISTANBUL: A controversial public dismissal of Turkey’s bid to join the European Union has rejuvenated the flagging Turkish effort to get in, with leaders here condemning the notion of Europe as... New defendants added to $15 trillion suit LOS ANGELES: A massive, $15 trillion lawsuit aimed at bankrupting the alleged financiers of Al Qaeda grew even larger Friday, as the plaintiffs added more than three dozen new defendants, including... Obese US teenagers file suit against burger firm NEW YORK: Gregory Rhymes, 15, has eaten at McDonald’s almost every day since the age of six. His Macaholic addiction has taken his weight to 400lbs, although he is only 5ft... Transplant surgeons work on the face LONDON: British surgeons are preparing to carry out the first full-face transplants for patients who are seriously disfigured.... Syria, Iraq draw closer DAMASCUS: The Iraqi taxi driver works the Baghdad-to-Damascus route, filling his car with passengers and his trunk with sweets to sell on the streets of the Syrian capital.... Arafat still holding on RAMALLAH: One morning in November, Palestinian President Yasser Arafat had a problem.... Smoke from brick kilns damages environment, health GAFFARGAON (Bangladesh): Surrounded by half-a-dozen brick-manufacturing factories spewing out brown smoky haze, Veroil village in this subdistrict 70 kilometres north of Dhaka, is far from one of a kind in Bangladesh....

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