World | March 10, 2002, Sunday | Viewed: 277
President Bush Saturday signed a stripped-down version of an economic stimulus bill that extends unemployment benefits for displaced workers, but doesn't contain the tax cuts the president originally supported. "We're seeing some encouraging signs in the...
World | March 10, 2002, Sunday | Viewed: 268
Long queues have again formed at polling stations in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, as people vote on the second day of the country's presidential elections. Some voters spent the night in the open, wrapped in blankets, waiting for the polling stations to re...
World | March 10, 2002, Sunday | Viewed: 369
Billionaire investment guru George Soros has said that it is "impossible" for Britain to reject adoption of the euro. Mr Soros, whose currency investments have earned him a formidable reputation, warned that there were still concerns over Europe's single...
World | March 10, 2002, Sunday | Viewed: 266
US Vice President Dick Cheney left on Sunday on a 10-day, 12-nation mission of war and peace to the Middle East, the Gulf and Britain in search of support for extending the fight against terrorism and a resolution to escalating Israeli-Palestinian violenc...
World | March 9, 2002, Saturday | Viewed: 254
Long queues of voters have formed in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, and in the country's second city, Bulawayo, for the most fiercely contested presidential election since independence in 1980. Tempers flared among voters waiting in long lines at polling...
World | March 9, 2002, Saturday | Viewed: 219
Israel has kept up its attacks on Palestinian areas, launching new helicopter raids after the worst day of bloodshed in 17 months of violence. Despite the continuing clashes, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said he will hold talks with the Palesti...
World | March 9, 2002, Saturday | Viewed: 253
Unknown attackers have exploded a grenade on an approach road to the Mont Blanc tunnel just hours before the scheduled reopening of the road link from France to Italy. The blast - believed to have been caused by a device used to start avalanches - damaged...
World | March 9, 2002, Saturday | Viewed: 274
Citing a classified Pentagon report, the Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday that The Bush administration has told the Defense Department to prepare, on a contingency basis, plans to use nuclear weapons against at least seven countries.
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World | March 9, 2002, Saturday | Viewed: 186
The makeover is now complete and the Hubble Space Telescope is flying free again. After five spacewalks to upgrade it, the telescope was redeployed early Saturday....
World | March 9, 2002, Saturday | Viewed: 322
A flurry of new international peace efforts failed to slow Mideast violence Saturday as Palestinian militants unleashed two major attacks — a shooting at a seaside Israeli hotel and a bombing at a crowded Jerusalem cafe. At least five Israelis were killed...
World | March 8, 2002, Friday | Viewed: 223
Israeli troops swept through Palestinian-ruled Bethlehem Friday as the United States prepared to follow a long trail of bloodshed with a new truce mission by its Middle East envoy. At least 34 Palestinians, including a general and a nine-year-old boy, had...
World | March 8, 2002, Friday | Viewed: 201
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Irish voters have narrowly rejected a move to strengthen the predominantly Roman Catholic country's abortion law, final results show. The referendum, held on Wednesday, focused on a legal loophole that allows women to have an abortion if they claim to be...
World | March 8, 2002, Friday | Viewed: 206
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan gave Congress a more optimistic appraisal of the U.S....
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Any lingering doubts about the depth of Japan's economic troubles were washed away on Friday with news that the economy shrank throughout the last nine months of 2001. Only once in two decades, in 1993, did that happen, the government said....