World | April 4, 2002, Thursday | Viewed: 272
Egypt is suspending contacts with Israel apart from diplomatic channels which could help the Palestinians, the government has announced, quoted by BBC. Egyptian Information Minister Safwat el-Sherif said Egypt would restrict ties with Israel to those that...
World | April 4, 2002, Thursday | Viewed: 242
Israeli tanks smashed deeper into the West Bank's biggest city on Thursday as the European Union, frustrated by the U.S....
World | April 4, 2002, Thursday | Viewed: 422
Andersen Worldwide SC appointed Aldo Cardoso acting CEO Thursday, replacing Joseph Berardino, who resigned last month after the accounting firm was indicted for its alleged role in the shredding of Enron Corp. documents....
World | April 3, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 279
Israeli forces have extended their military operations in the West Bank, with columns of tanks sweeping into the towns of Jenin and Salfit, near Nablus. There was heavy shooting as at least 30 tanks headed for the centre of Jenin early on Wednesday morni...
World | April 3, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 254
Large expanses of the world's forests are in rapid decline and could be lost much sooner than expected, a new report by an environmental research group says. Mining, roads and other developments are destroying huge numbers of trees, the Washington-based W...
World | April 3, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 245
The first British combat troops have arrived in Afghanistan, BBC reported. About 110 Royal Marine commandos arrived at Bagram airbase just outside Kabul under the cover of darkness....
World | April 3, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 365
As thousands of war veterans looked on, President Eduardo Duhalde insisted Tuesday that Argentina would one day reclaim the Falkland Islands through diplomacy -- not by waging war. Argentina contends it inherited the remote islands, populated by about 2,2...
World | April 3, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 343
Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh has ended a five-day visit to China with increased economic cooperation high on the agenda for improving bilateral ties between the two Asian giants. In a move aimed at softening their often strained political relatio...
World | April 3, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 378
The UK Parliament returned early to allow politicians pay their respects to the Queen Mother. Prime Minister Tony Blair led the tributes at the special sitting on Wednesday, saying the Queen Mother "loved her country and in return, her country loved her....
World | April 3, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 372
The Israeli military pressed its anti-terrorism campaign in the West Bank on Wednesday, as Palestinians remained holed up in one of Christianity's holiest shrines in Bethlehem. Bethlehem's governor and an aid worker said about 100 to 150 Palestinian men,...
World | April 2, 2002, Tuesday | Viewed: 393
Higher oil prices because of the Middle East crisis will hit Asia harder than anywhere else this year, a regional oil expert warned Tuesday. John Driscoll, Singapore-based general manager of the independent oil and gas price reporter Petroleum Argus, told...
World | April 2, 2002, Tuesday | Viewed: 350
Israeli tanks have moved into Bethlehem in the latest of a series of raids on cities in the West Bank. A BBC correspondent who watched tanks roll up to within a few hundred metres of the city's Church of the Nativity could hear regular bursts of gunfire....
World | April 2, 2002, Tuesday | Viewed: 261
A faction leader in Somalia has established a new autonomous region in the southwest of the country, rejecting the transitional government in the capital, Mogadishu. Hassan Mohamed Nur, who heads a group called the Rahanwein Resistance Army, has been swor...
World | April 2, 2002, Tuesday | Viewed: 408
Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, held out the possibility of offering Yassir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, a "one-way ticket" into exile. Mr Arafat is currently under siege by Israeli forces in his Ramallah headquarters....
World | April 2, 2002, Tuesday | Viewed: 355
Afghan soldiers working with U.S....