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PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT ANNOUNCED ON THURSDAY HE WAS READY...

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....

PALESTINIAN LEADER YASSER ARAFAT WILL NOT ATTEND THE ARAB LEAGUE SUMMI...

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...

A MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED AFTER HE SHOT DEAD EIGHT PEOPLE WITH AN AUTOMA...

World | March 27, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 287

A man has been arrested after he shot dead eight people with an automatic weapon in a western Paris suburb, BBC reported. Many more were injured - 14 of them seriously - during the attack, which took place after a late-night council meeting in Nanterre to...

THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE KILLED IN THE EARTHQUAKE DISASTER IN NORTHERN AFG...

World | March 27, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 329

The number of people killed in the earthquake disaster in northern Afghanistan has risen sharply after fresh aftershocks hit the region on Wednesday morning, according to the Afghan Government. Government officials had previously talked of about 2,000 dea...

FIGURES SHOWING STRONG CONSUMER SENTIMENT HAVE BUOYED HOPES OF A RAPID...

World | March 27, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 201

Figures showing strong consumer sentiment have buoyed hopes of a rapid recovery for the US economy. US consumer confidence rose to an index figure of 110....

SUPERMODEL NAOMI CAMPBELL HAS WON HER PRIVACY ACTION AGAINST THE MIRRO...

World | March 27, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 337

Supermodel Naomi Campbell has won her privacy action against the Mirror newspaper. She has been awarded ?3,500, a relatively small amount of damages, and the newspaper has been ordered to pay her costs....

SAUDI CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH CALLED WEDNESDAY FOR THE ARAB WORLD TO EST...

World | March 27, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 346

Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah called Wednesday for the Arab world to establish "normal relations" with Israel in exchange for the Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories. A short time after Abdullah's speech, however, the summit was thrown into confusi...

ARGENTINES SWARMED AROUND BANKS TO BUY U.S. DOLLARS AND MANY SNAPPED U...

World | March 27, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 266

Argentines swarmed around banks to buy U.S....

ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY ARE AT LOGGERHEADS OVER WHETHER Y...

World | March 26, 2002, Tuesday | Viewed: 213

Israel and the Palestinian Authority are at loggerheads over whether Yasser Arafat should be allowed to travel to Beirut for this week's Arab League summit. A Saudi-sponsored plan to end 18 months of violence between Israeli and the Palestinians is due to...

BRUSSELS IS SET TO IMPOSE TARIFFS OF 14.9-26% ON STEEL IMPORTS, TO PRO...

World | March 26, 2002, Tuesday | Viewed: 188

Brussels is set to impose tariffs of 14.9-26% on steel imports, to protect itself from a possible surge of metal diverted from the US....

A SOUTH AFRICAN COURT HAS UPHELD A RULING THAT THE GOVERNMENT MUST MAK...

World | March 26, 2002, Tuesday | Viewed: 220

A South African court has upheld a ruling that the government must make more widely available a drug which reduces the risk of HIV-positive women passing on the virus to their children. This is another setback for the government, which has argued that the...

THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT IS COMING UNDER INCREASING INTERNATIONAL PRESS...

World | March 26, 2002, Tuesday | Viewed: 227

The Nigerian Government is coming under increasing international pressure to amend laws in northern Muslim areas which call for punishments such as stoning, amputation and flogging. Although one woman, Safiya Huseini, won her appeal on Monday against a se...

A HEAVY GUNBATTLE BROKE OUT IN AN ETHNIC ALBANIAN VILLAGE IN MACEDONIA...

World | March 26, 2002, Tuesday | Viewed: 244

A heavy gunbattle broke out in an ethnic Albanian village in Macedonia on Monday night, killing one person, diplomatic sources said. Witnesses in Mala Recica, a village on the southern outskirts of the western city of Tetovo, said heavy exchanges of machi...

MORE THAN 1,800 PEOPLE ARE FEARED DEAD AND THOUSANDS HAVE BEEN LEFT HO...

World | March 26, 2002, Tuesday | Viewed: 229

More than 1,800 people are feared dead and thousands have been left homeless after a series of earthquakes struck Afghanistan's remote northern province of Baghlan, Reuters reported. Afghan officials cited figures of between 1,800 and 4,800 dead, while th...

FINAL PREPARATIONS FOR A KEY ARAB SUMMIT ARE BEING OVERSHADOWED BY THE...

World | March 26, 2002, Tuesday | Viewed: 292

Final preparations for a key Arab summit are being overshadowed by the row over whether Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat should attend. Protests have been taking place across the Middle East to demand his presence at the Arab League talks in Beirut, where...