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TWO MILLION MUSLIMS HAVE MADE A PILGRIMAGE TO THE MOUNT WHERE PROPHET ...

World | February 21, 2002, Thursday | Viewed: 279

Two million Muslims have made a pilgrimage to the mount where Prophet Mohammed delivered his final sermon. As dawn broke on the second day of the annual Hajj pilgrimage, a sea of white-dressed worshippers surged towards Mount Arafat near the holy city of...

PRIME MINISTER LIONEL JOSPIN ANNOUNCED WEDNESDAY THAT HE WOULD CHALLEN...

World | February 21, 2002, Thursday | Viewed: 292

Prime Minister Lionel Jospin announced Wednesday that he would challenge incumbent Jacques Chirac for the French presidency in upcoming elections, ending months of shadow-boxing that has turned off voters. Jospin, a Socialist who has shared power for five...

IN BEIJING ON THE THIRD AND FINAL STOP OF A SIX-DAY ASIAN TOUR, U.S. P...

World | February 21, 2002, Thursday | Viewed: 221

In Beijing on the third and final stop of a six-day Asian tour, U.S....

BRITISH TROOPS HAVE COME UNDER FIRE IN AFGHANISTAN FOR THE SECOND TIME...

World | February 21, 2002, Thursday | Viewed: 215

British troops have come under fire in Afghanistan for the second time in less than a week. A patrol of British paratroopers was shot at in the Afghan capital and returned fire, a spokesman for the British-led multinational force in Kabul said on Thursday...

ISRAELI GUNSHIPS FANNED OUT ACROSS PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES, HITTING PA...

World | February 21, 2002, Thursday | Viewed: 197

Israeli gunships fanned out across Palestinian territories, hitting Palestinian security and police targets in near simultaneous raids on Thursday. The latest Israeli operation came soon after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's security Cabinet approve...

U.S. SPECIAL FORCES DEPLOYED IN THE SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES AS PART OF WA...

World | February 21, 2002, Thursday | Viewed: 254

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THE WAR CRIMES TRIAL OF SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC TOOK A NEW UNEXPECTED TURN ...

World | February 21, 2002, Thursday | Viewed: 286

The war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic took a new unexpected turn when a key witness said he was too ill to finish his testimony. Farmer Agim Zeqiri, who had been giving evidence about "ethnic cleansing" killings, was excused by the court before the f...

PRESIDENT BUSH, ECHOING PREDECESSOR RONALD REAGAN'S 1987 CALL ON THE S...

World | February 20, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 206

President Bush, echoing predecessor Ronald Reagan's 1987 call on the Soviet Union to tear down the Berlin Wall, urged North Korea Wednesday to open its border to South Korea. "That road has the potential to bring the peoples on both sides of this divided...

AN ISRAELI HELICOPTER FIRED A MISSILE NEAR PALESTINIAN LEADER YASSER A...

World | February 20, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 218

An Israeli helicopter fired a missile near Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat Wednesday, but he emerged unscathed as Israel retaliated with fury for the killing of six Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. At least 13 Palestinian civilians and security officer...

AT LEAST 250 PEOPLE - MANY OF THEM CHILDREN - HAVE DIED AFTER THE CROW...

World | February 20, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 299

At least 250 people - many of them children - have died after the crowded train they were travelling in was consumed by flames south of Cairo, Egyptian officials said. The death toll, earlier reported at 100, rose as rescuers, aided by villagers, combed t...

NEARLY FOUR MILLION PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA ARE IN DESPERATE NEED OF...

World | February 20, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 226

Nearly four million people in Southern Africa are in desperate need of food aid, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation has warned. The FAO said that harvests fell by up to 25% last year and said the situation was particularly acute in Malaw...

REFUGEES FROM AFGHANISTAN ARE CONTINUING TO POUR IN TO PAKISTAN DESPIT...

World | February 20, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 254

Refugees from Afghanistan are continuing to pour in to Pakistan despite the end of the conflict, BBC reported. "What's more worrisome is that the new arrivals say that many more Afghans are behind them," Kris Janowski, UNHCR spokesman told BBC....

SOME TWO MILLION MUSLIMS HAVE GATHERED IN SAUDI ARABIA'S HOLY CITY OF ...

World | February 20, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 193

Some two million Muslims have gathered in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca to begin the rites of the Hajj. The annual pilgrimage, which takes them to the barren plain of Mina and the slopes of Mount Arafat, is the biggest yearly mass movement of people o...

IRAQ HAS ACCUSED THE UNITED STATES OF STATE TERRORISM AMID SIGNS THAT ...

World | February 20, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 386

Iraq has accused the United States of state terrorism amid signs that the war of words between the two countries is heating up. In a report submitted to a United Nations committee which is examining the strength of counter-terrorism legislation around the...

FORMER YUGOSLAV LEADER SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC HAS STRUCK HIS FIRST VICTORY...

World | February 20, 2002, Wednesday | Viewed: 329

Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic has struck his first victory in his war crimes tribunal after judges refused to hear evidence from a key prosecution witness. Judge Richard May said the evidence from Kevin Curtis concerning alleged war crimes aga...