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| December 3, 2002 | Tuesday | Ramazan 27,1423 |
Israelis pound Jenin: four Palestinians killed: 2 fighters escape attempt on life
 JENIN, Dec 2: Israeli troops killed a Palestinian teenager and injured 22 other stone-throwers during a raid on Jenin on Monday, and also shot dead a man in the Gaza Strip...
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US bombs Herat: Ismail, Aman fighting kills 27
KABUL, Dec 2: Afghanistan was on Monday reeling from a fresh surge in violence as international leaders gathered in Germany to discuss security and progress in reconstruction made in the year...
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Mullah Omar’s relative held: US
BONN, Dec 2: Afghanistan has recently captured a close relative of Taliban chief Mullah Omar, but faces a long struggle to root out remnants of the Al Qaeda network, an adviser...
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Vajpayee echoes Putin’s warning
NEW DELHI, Dec 2: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Monday echoed the fear expressed by Russian President Vladimir Putin that Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal could fall into wrong hands....
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Pope condemns hostility to immigrants
VATICAN CITY, Dec 2: Pope John Paul condemned xenophobia on Monday, saying too many migrants suffered discrimination because of their race or culture....
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Hasina warns of legal action against govt
DHAKA, Dec 2: Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday threatened legal action against the government if it failed to substantiate allegations that she was engaged in an anti-state campaign...
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BD jails European journalists
DHAKA, Dec 2: The two arrested European freelance journalist were on Monday sent to the Dhaka Central Jail after five days of grilling over their alleged “anti-state activities”....
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Expats a threat to UAE: Zayed
DUBAI, Dec 2: The president of the United Arab Emirates has warned that a large expatriate community is threatening to unravel the social fabric of his country....
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US envoy to India visits Srinagar
SRINAGAR, Dec 2: The United States ambassador to India, Robert Blackwill, arrived in Srinagar on Monday for a fact-finding tour....
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Author of ‘Run Silent, Run Deep’ dies
WASHINGTON, Dec 2: Edward Latimer Beach, who wrote the 1955 novel “Run Silent, Run Deep” about submarine warfare in the Pacific, died of cancer at his home in Washington on Sunday,...
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Robotic pets could replace cats, dogs
LONDON: Technologically speaking, a pet is not a very sophisticated piece of equipment: limited memory, no downloads, no upgrades and more bite than byte. The technophile with a hankering for a...
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US lobbies Iran to stay out of Iraq
WASHINGTON: As it courts military and diplomatic support among allies for a possible war against Iraq, the United States is also quietly reaching out to a longtime adversary — Iran —...
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Will there ever be a cure for AIDS?
LONDON: It will take at least another 10 years of research and vaccine trials before there is any hope of finding an effective response to AIDS. That is the grim consensus...
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Australia alienating neighbours
SINGAPORE: Friends in near places are what Australia needs right now. Yet the outrage of neighbours at Prime Minister John Howard’s latest remarks on pre-emptive defence leaves his land the loner...
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Iraq’s fate lies in hands of UN N-lab
SEIBERSDORF (Austria): It is hard to imagine that inside an innocuous cluster of buildings in the Austrian countryside scientists might find something worthy of igniting a war in Iraq....
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Don’t blame the usual suspects for Mombasa blast
LONDON: In the search for an enemy with a name, the Americans are pointing to al-Ittihad al-Islamiya as the culprits in the bombing of the Paradise Hotel in Mombasa on Thursday....
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