World | March 29, 2002, Friday | Viewed: 196
A suspected woman suicide bomber blew herself up in a suburb of Jerusalem on Friday, injuring at least eight people, witnesses said, quoted by Reuters. Police gave few immediate details of the explosion which rocked a large supermarket in the Kiryat Yovel...
World | March 29, 2002, Friday | Viewed: 162
Israeli troops took over most of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound on Friday, fighting room-to-room and arresting as many as 70 people, Israel Defense Forces said. The Palestinians disputed the number of arrests, but said o...
World | March 29, 2002, Friday | Viewed: 252
Pope John Paul II was able to hear confessions from worshippers on Good Friday despite earlier concerns over his health. An arthritic knee prevented the ailing 81-year-old pope celebrate Mass for the second time in a week on Thursday....
World | March 29, 2002, Friday | Viewed: 164
The man accused of masterminding the kidnapping and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl appeared in a brief closed-door court session Friday. Under heavy security, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh was brought into the courtroom shortly before noon (2 a....
World | March 28, 2002, Thursday | Viewed: 280
Afghanistan is observing a formal day of mourning for victims of the earthquake that struck the northern province of Baghlan earlier this week. At least 1,000 people are now known to have died in the quake, and tens of thousands left homeless....
World | March 28, 2002, Thursday | Viewed: 276
A member of the US Air Force in Japan has been jailed for 32 months after being found guilty of raping a woman in Okinawa. The Naha District Court ruled that Staff Sergeant Timothy Woodland, 25, raped the 24-year-old Japanese woman in a car park at a shop...
World | March 28, 2002, Thursday | Viewed: 232
A curfew has been imposed and a state of emergency declared in parts of northern Ghana after violent clashes between two rival clans.More than 30 people died after fighting between the Abudus and the Andanis in the town of Yendi, about 500 kilometres (300...
World | March 28, 2002, Thursday | Viewed: 253
The Zimbabwe correspondent of Britain's Daily Telegraph has been arrested on charges of publishing false information. Peta Thornycroft, 57, was detained in Chimanimani, 480 kilometres (300 miles) south-east of the capital, Harare....
World | March 28, 2002, Thursday | Viewed: 320
American citizens could be targeted by extremist groups in Italian cities over Easter, the US State Department has warned. The US did not identify the groups or nature of the attacks, but said the cities at risk were Florence, Venice, Verona and Milan....
World | March 28, 2002, Thursday | Viewed: 372
US President George W Bush has condemned the bomb attack in Netanya, and called on Yasser Arafat to do everything in his power to stop what he called "terrorist killing". Secretary of State Colin Powell said that the US envoy, General Anthony Zinni would...
World | March 28, 2002, Thursday | Viewed: 220
About 200 retired workers have staged a protest in the Chinese capital Beijing to demand unpaid pension benefits. The workers demonstrated outside the gates of the state-run Beijing Automobile works on Wednesday morning, blocking traffic....
World | March 28, 2002, Thursday | Viewed: 357
Arab leaders meeting in Beirut have unanimously endorsed Saudi Arabia's peace plan for the Middle East. Israel, however, has rejected the peace initiative, which offers it "normal relations" and full peace with Arab states, if it pulls out of all Arab lan...
World | March 28, 2002, Thursday | Viewed: 497
The Justice Department will seek the death penalty for Zacarias Moussaoui if a jury finds the French citizen guilty of conspiring to kill thousands in the Sept. 11 attacks on America, according to court papers filed on Thursday....
World | March 28, 2002, Thursday | Viewed: 361
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat announced on Thursday he was ready to implement an immediate, unconditional cease-fire but Israel said it wanted actions not words. Arafat told a news conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah he had informed U....
World | March 27, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 202
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will not attend the Arab League summit in Beirut, because, as one Palestinian official said, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is "behaving like the head of a gangster state." Earlier, Sharon said if Arafat called in Ara...