World | March 20, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 222
A top Italian economic adviser was gunned down Tuesday while riding home on his bicycle in a shooting the government blamed on domestic terrorism. Marco Biagi, 52, a professor and consultant to Italian Minister of Labor Roberto Maroni, was shot to death b...
World | March 20, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 204
Trade unions in Zimbabwe are attempting to launch a three-day general strike, a day after the Commonwealth suspended the country's government from all the organisation's meetings for a year. The unions have called the strike in protest at what they say is...
World | March 20, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 171
Nearly a day after declaring victory in a sustained battle with Taliban and al Qaeda forces, coalition forces came under attack overnight in the eastern Afghan town of Khowst, a U.S....
World | March 20, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 203
Turkey is close to taking over the reigns of the international peace-keeping force in Afghanistan, U.S....
World | March 20, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 265
A bitter trade battle between the United States and its commercial rivals intensified on Wednesday as controversial US tariffs on imported steel came into effect. Within hours, Japan became the latest country to file a complaint against the tariffs at the...
World | March 19, 2002, Tuesday | Viewed: 184
A vast ice shelf in Antarctica has collapsed and is now floating freely in the Amundsen Sea south of the Pacific Ocean, scientists say. The huge iceberg, bigger than Cyprus and nine times the size of Singapore, broke away from the main land mass on the ea...
World | March 19, 2002, Tuesday | Viewed: 174
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World | March 19, 2002, Tuesday | Viewed: 178
Israel withdrew tanks and troops from Palestinian-ruled areas in the West Bank early Tuesday in a move that could pave the way to a U.S....
World | March 19, 2002, Tuesday | Viewed: 174
Yugoslavia could lose $40m in vital financial aid if it does not start to co-operate with the international war crimes tribunal, US Secretary of State Colin Powell has warned....
World | March 19, 2002, Tuesday | Viewed: 363
A half brother of Osama bin Laden says the terrorist's family has its own information that bin Laden is alive and that he does not have kidney disease requiring dialysis. In an interview with CNN correspondent Rula Amin, Sheikh Ahmad -- who did not want h...
World | March 19, 2002, Tuesday | Viewed: 232
The Bush administration has decided to end around-the-clock combat air patrols over New York and instead will rely on intermittent patrols and a plan to keep fighter jets on "strip alert," ready to fly within 15 minutes, officials said, quoted by CNN....
World | March 19, 2002, Tuesday | Viewed: 328
United States Vice-President Dick Cheney has said he is prepared to meet Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat - if the Palestinians take steps to halt attacks against Israel. After talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Mr Cheney said the coming week...
World | March 19, 2002, Tuesday | Viewed: 279
The people of Ramallah have got a spring in their step again - at least most of them have - and the heart of the town seems to be back to its ebullient, chaotic self once more. After last week's invasion - the biggest by the Israeli army in almost 20 year...
World | March 18, 2002, Monday | Viewed: 277
President George W Bush has condemned as "an outrage" the grenade attack on a Christian church in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, which killed five people, including a US embassy administrator and her daughter. A Pakistani and an Afghan were also killed...
World | March 18, 2002, Monday | Viewed: 214
Cuban president Fidel Castro said (on) Sunday his friend and ally, president Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, could speak for him and his revolutionary ideas at a world development conference in Mexico this week. "Even if I don't go, we, I, feel represented in y...