National & World News Archive October 2002



Endless suffering of chemical gas victims

Ashdown Says Arms Row May Hit Bosnia

Keeping gas secret cost lives, says envoy

Kremlin fends off critics with Chechen referendum plan

Rebels bombed during Bangui coup

Doomed Jetliner's Crew Did Not Know Tail Had Fallen Off

Markets Rattled By Fall in Us Confidence

Fate of First Canine Cosmonaut Revealed

Paris Shrugs Off Britain's Pique

British Climbers Trapped By Rebels in Nepal

Lula Promises Poverty Relief and Stability

US Weapons Secrets Exposed

War and the Giants

Moscow Siege Gas 'may Have Been Opiate'

Survivors relieved to be back in UK

Whitehall demands identification of gas

Aid Plea As Horn of Africa Raises Hungry to 40m

Giscard Unveils Draft for 'united Europe'

Agony for families left in ignorance

Hostages given military's nerve gas antidote

How assault on theatre ended in grim climax

Mystery gas may have been nerve agent that leads to death of brain

Mondale Enlisted to Help Democrats

Basques Back Poll on Free State

Moscow Crisis: 'psychologically, We Are the Hostages Now'

Moscow Crisis: Authorities and Media Turned Catastrophe Into Successful Operation

A land of riches feels stark pangs of hunger

Family's relief as Britons survive

Armed Forces Call Up Medics As Britain Goes on a War Footing

Moscow Theatre Siege Ends

Two Hostages Killed at Moscow Theatre

An opposition hardly worth the name

Moi accepts the inevitable

Scene change helped actresses to escape

Tension binds captors and captives

EU Sets Farm Payments for New Members

Anti-war Senator Wellstone Dies in Plane Crash

Hostages Running Out of Time

Executions threatened in Moscow hostage crisis

Captured in Their Sniper's Nest: Gulf Veteran and the Teenager

Tehran sets its terms for US-led action

First free vote for Bahraini women

Young, ruthless leader heads new generation of guerrillas

French Offer Hope of Breaking Un Deadlock

Rebels Are Asking for the Impossible, Say Negotiators

Super Mario's Misadventure

Schröder and Chirac Get Cap in Hand

Caught in the Sniper's Nest: Gulf Veteran and the Teenager

Families Threaten Force to Keep Five Stolen By N Korea

Britain and US try to ease French fears

Chechen gunmen storm Moscow theatre

EU buys back 'Berlaymonster' headquarters

Moscow reaps the Chechen whirlwind

Bus driver killed as sniper returns to old haunts

Fear on the streets: the sniper and the milkman

News channels chase all new leads

Man Shot in Washington Area

Looking after number one

'Colossus of Mandela' Planned

US Military Scales Back War on Drugs

Looking for Chris

A Symbolic Tribute in Sydney

US Sniper Widens Range With First Weekend Shooting

Europe Project Gets Green Light

Last Post for Alamein and the Desert Rats

Party is Over As Fortuyn's Heirs Feud

Governor shot dead in Moscow rush hour

Group says it seeks change without violence

Neutrality arms the 'no' camp

No precise intelligence about this very imprecise art

Mass Hearing of Death Row Clemency Appeals Begins

Curfew Imposed in Manila After Three Die in Attack on Bus

Trail Goes Cold in Hunt for Suspects

The Issue Explained: the Treaty of Nice

Ceasefire in Ivory Coast

Expert says there is a prototype

Outbreak of fighting in Congo puts a fragile peace in danger

Prodi disowns 'stupid' stability pact

Rising anger of victims' families

Mosque Attacks Leave Muslims Fearing Backlash

African divisions disrupt relief effort

Grieving relatives ask for more help from consulate

Sniper Changes His Pattern and Gets Close to Victim

Juror's Horror Halts Bodies in Barrels Case

Gaullists' U-turn Brings French Devolution

Infighting Leads to Collapse of Dutch Cabinet

Dutch Pm Resigns As Government Collapses

UN deadlock keeps Blix's team waiting

'Soft' Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp Chief Ousted

Ahern Holds Breath As Yes Camp Pulls Ahead

Foreigners 'got better treatment'

Fourth suspension for Stormont

A nation in shock from its worst peacetime disaster

Survivors in grim search for lost friends

UK Retreats on Farm Pledge

New Clue Turns Up in 'god's Banker' Death

Paradise Lost on Island That Seemed a Safe Haven

From Doctors to Tourists, All Do Their Bit As Hospitals Overflow

Anti-Nice campaigner's dark secret boosts Ahern's chances

Bombs kill at least 54 in holiday isle carnage

Psycho-sniper's Sharp Eye Stabs at Heart of America

Americas 'mistreating natives'

French to clamp down on porn with 'full-frontal' tax

Sierra Leone locked in shackles of corruption

The battle of the Black Panthers

Stephanie: 'i Was Not at Wheel When Grace Was Killed'

'Befuddled Voters' Need Clear Eu Rules

Massacre Averted By Bus Driver's Bravery

Kashmiri Voters Redraw the Political Map

Security council near compromise on access for weapons inspectors

DNA clue vindicates girlfriend

Prodi Opens Door to 10 Successful States

Queen 'ashen-faced' After Rescue From Freezing River

Ten Countries Get Nod to Join Eu

Ten Countries Asked to Join Eu

Gibraltar Prepares for Sovereignty Vote

US Marine Shot Dead in Kuwait

US Marine Killed in Kuwait

Nationalist revival in Bosnia threatens reform

Ivory Coast troops claim rebel stronghold

Dawn raids stoke fires of resentment

Straw fails to win Paris support for single resolution

Coelho Gets Planetary Recognition

Lula Will Face Second-round Vote

Lula Rides a Wave of Support

Mayor of Paris Stabbed at Festival

Woman in hiding after she lambasts Islam

Cold War Ordeal Haunts Korean Kidnap Victims

From jungle to capital the voting is electronic

King of Nepal Sacks Cabinet and Takes Over Government

Bosnia Goes It Alone for First Full Poll

African Nations Agree Ivory Coast Ceasefire

Kurdish factions mark growing accord by recalling parliament

Unseen sniper kills five in rich Washington suburb

Britain Presses for Figurehead Eu Presidency

Al-Aqsa Mosque 'may Collapse'

Hawks and doves split over next UN move

EU Makes Final Move to Make Takeover Code Stick

Schröder Goes Cap in Hand to Paris

Two killed after passenger cuts throat of Greyhound driver

Rwandan Battalions Pull Out of Congo

From a Mystery to a Tragedy: Kidnapped Son of Bank Billionaire Found Dead in Lake

Kashmir Poll Disrupted By Violence

Six killed in Italian earthquake

Inspectors called in to see Bush as UN nears a deal

Russia to monitor American elections

Costly frontier posts that broke the coalition's back

Shrewd move forms part of Ben Eliezer's waiting game

EU Proposal Tackles Drug Profiteering

Police Release Pictures of Suspects

Soweto Blasts Blamed on Rightwing Whites

Putin Used a Chemical Too Volatile to Control

Danish Arrest of Chechen Leader Delights Russia

Israel Faces Swing to Right As Coalition Falls

Russia Names Gas Used to End Siege

Israeli Coalition Government Collapses

Secret talks bridge gap on Iraq resolution

South African Bus Crash Fatalities Include Britons

Two Britons Among Vietnam Blaze Dead

Rohinton Mistry Wins Kiriyama Award

Chechen Leader's Envoy Arrested in Denmark

Police Release Sketches of Three Suspected Bali Bombers

Franco-German Axis Threatens Blair

Shop staff say Ryder claimed she was rehearsing shoplifter role

What a tasty sandwich - and only three years old

Egyptian Judge Dismisses Britons' Torture Claims

Tokyo Ordered to Pay Asthmatics

Africa's Ugly Sisters Leave Trail of Death

No Stoning, Nigerian Minister Vows

New Arafat Cabinet Sidelines Reformers

Zambia Slams Door Shut on Gm Relief Food

India Ensures Heated Start to Climate Conference

FO Warns of Phuket Danger

Canadian Company Fined £1.6m for Lesotho Bribes

French Business Finds English a Better Deal

US Diplomat Shot Dead in Jordan

'They interrogated us for hours'

At Least 48 Killed in Vietnam Fire

Chirac Furious After Row With Blair

Row over Chechen meeting threatens EU relations with Moscow

Sniper suspects on terrorism charge

Sharon Puts Government at Risk With Threat to Expel Labour

Indonesian Police Seize Muslim Cleric

France Issues Warning on Iraq As Un Deadline Nears

Putin Asserts Authority As Russia Mourns

Putin rejects criticism over theatre raid

Iraq Talks 'must Be Brought to a Head'

Chirac Turns on 'rude' Blair in Finance Row

Serbs helping Iraq build cruise missile, US says

France warns of new text

'Parliamentary pianists' play in Berlusconi's law

'Putin must talk peace or risk spilling the blood of more innocents'

Putin's new human mask slips in trial of strength

States in Race to Try Sniper Suspects

New Chief Minister Promises a Healing Touch in Indian Kashmir

Black Icon Kicks South African Sporting Myths Into Touch

Saddam Woos Cowed Population

German Embassy Invites Israeli Officers to Ceremony Honouring Third Reich Soldiers

Dying Bomber Kills Three Israeli Soldiers

Russia Tries to Stem Scandal Over Gas Victims

Armed settlers force out villagers

Putin should not ape Bush

Questions mount for Putin

Lula of the Left Set for Landslide Win in Brazil

Gore Vidal Claims 'bush Junta' Complicit in 9/11

Australia Adds to Phuket Terrorism Warning

Irish police accused on Omagh

Kremlin faces cruel dilemma

Turf war as states seek death penalty

Old Country Commemorates Bali Dead

Kenyan President Dissolves Parliament

Malaysian Princess Linked to Murder

Lula Leaps Into the Runoff of the Brazilian Presidency Election With a Commanding Lead

Israel Shocked By Spy Trial of Bedouin Colonel

Monti Hits Back at His Eu Critics

North Korea Puts Nuclear Weapons on the Table

Japanese Politician Murdered

Cynical Russians Turn on Putin

US Sniper: Nomadic Life of a Confused Killer With Short Fuse

Death penalty sought for sniper

Israeli Troops Take Control of Jenin

FBI Warns on Railway Terror Attacks

Chechen Militants Release Eight Children

Bonded by guns and indifference to human life

War comes home to haunt Putin

US Says No Talks Until Attacks End in Israel

Tourists Warned of Thailand Bomb Risk

Terrorists Ready to Blow Up Theatre

Japan Will Hold on to N Korea Hostages

Dropped Clues That Led Police to Sniper

Sniper police 'confident' after arrests

Crime Crackdown Outrages Civil Rights Groups

Anger at Mbeki's 'vulgar' £33m Jet

Germans Take to the Low-cost Skies

Egg Counts Cost of French Venture

Sniper Police Arrest Two Men

Chechen Militants Kill Woman Hostage

UN deadlock may force rethink of Iraq invasion plan

Killer vows to carry on after FBI 'ignored call'

Becker rallies to his own defence

Russia seeks tycoon's extradition

Police chief plays game of cat and Moose

Bus driver is 13th US sniper victim, say police

Israeli retaliation targets olive harvest and waterholes

Straw: Un Must Act Soon on Iraq

Al-Qaida men handed to US, says Georgia

Beleaguered police pray for a lucky break

Stop the shooting: Son of Sam's prison plea to new serial killer

Becker on trial for tax evasion

US Seeks Return of Sas Helicopters

Short, Unhappy Life for Elephants Kept in Zoos

Writer Cleared of Racial Hatred Charge

Catalonia Echoes Basque Call for Autonomy

Kenyan Opposition Unites to End Moi's Rule

September 11 Suspect on Trial

Russia and France Reject Latest Draft Resolution

Bus driver dies after Maryland shooting

'9/11 Operative' Tells Court of Links With Hijacker

'Key 9/11 Operative' on Trial

Hamburg Trial Opens for 'key Operative' in 9/11 Attacks

Writing on the Wall for Indonesian 'terror School'

Prodi pulls down the house of cards

Martyrs' heirs await the assault

Israel asks US for $10bn to halt recession

Deficit woes prompt calls for rethink

Commander charged with torturing Palestinian boy

Murder of 'cow killers' in India prompts much soul searching

14 Die As Israel Faces New Bomb Threat

Blunder, Mishap and Farce in Hunt for Sniper

Sniper Attacks: Police Arrest Two

Suicide Bomb 'kills Seven Israelis'

Sniper Attacks: Police Arrest Van Driver

Two Dead in Australian University Shooting

The Economics of the Madhouse

US Leaves Options Open Over North Korea

Message Left for Police As Us Sniper Claims 12th Victim

Mbeki visit buoys Aids activists

Sculptor breaks the mould with figures bowed by sanctions

Jewish Group Demands Recall of Uk Envoy to Israel

Franco's Secrets Haunt Spain

Britons on Trial in Egypt Tell of Torture

Saddam Sets Free Political Prisoners

Straw Yields to Demand for Bali Statement

How Blair Tried to Sell Jets and Peace to India

Ireland Votes Yes to Europe

Backlash feared after arrest for Bali bombing

Europe awaits poll verdict of the Irish

How Iraqis Are Facing Up to the Threat of a Us Attack

War Plans Under Fire As Even Bush Heartland Talks Peace

Britain Poised to Call Up Reservists As Forces Prepare for Action on Iraq

Bin Laden's $20m African 'blood Diamond' Deals

Over Tirish Results Show Major Swing to Yes

The Secret Mastermind Behind the Bali Horror

BBC in press freedom row with Israel

Italy hit by general strike

Safer way, the store fighting terror

Urban warfare flares on Colombia's streets

Simpson Berates 'hysterical' Us Networks

Three British 'torture Victims' Go on Trial in Cairo

Ex-aide Condemns Arafat's Handling of Intifada

Gunman Releases Children After German Hostage Drama

Bin Laden Links to Saudi Ambassador

Washington Killings Halt Release of Sniper Film

Irish Voters Urged to Turn Up for Their Date With History

Pakistan Helped North Korea Make Bomb

Straw Threat to Bypass Un Over Attack on Iraq

Europeans Round on Prodi for 'stupid' Remark

'Many Casualties' in Philippines Bus Blast

Allies 'must prepare for long stay in Iraq'

Al-Qaida detainees to be questioned over sniper

Basque terrorists wage war of words

Al-Qaida 'has regrouped'

Double Philippine strike leaves six dead

France pressed to back UN compromise

Ireland gets that not so nice feeling

Irish likely to back Nice treaty

Israeli refusenik guards only his principles

Relatives' DNA used to identify victims

The Venezuelan great survivor rides his luck

Indonesia Cracks Down on Terrorists

Government Admits It Knew of Terrorist Threat to Bali

US Resolution Sidesteps Opposition to Iraq War

Britons told to leave Indonesia

Iraqis Target Prince Andrew at Arms Fair

N Korea Admits to Nuclear Weapons Programme

Leave Indonesia, Australians Warned

Another round to the settlers

Could warnings have prevented tragedy?

Editors dismiss Israeli press chief's allegation of bias

Islamist 'plotters' held in Malaysia

Justice and military on trial in Guatemala

Kennedy warns Blair over Iraq

Mugabe stops charities' famine work

Two under arrest as new attack details are revealed

India Pulls Troops Back From Border

Illegal Settlers Win Compromise From Israeli Government

Zambians Starve As Food Aid Lies Rejected

Cuts and Taxes Repay German Voters

Indonesian Jihad Camps Revealed

Tanker Blast Was Work of Terrorists

Baghdad Renews Weapons Offer

CIA Issued Bali Warning

Saddam Scores 100% in Leadership Ballot

Jamaica Goes to the Polls

Two Suspects Held Over Bali Bombings

Australian 'crusaders' targeted by Bin Laden

Blair backs US taking on Iraq and terrorists

Links seen in terrorism dates

Plastic explosive used from Vietnam to Kabul

Prayers at Bali's ground zero

Sudan ceasefire as talks bring hope of peace after 19 years

Government Hopes Academic's Plan Will Please Eurosceptics

France Renews Attack on Brussels

One-horse Race Gives Saddam New Term

Australians Fear Bush Link Backlash

Bali Bombings: Final Death Toll May Be Far Higher

'We Have to Kill the Goddamn Sniper. This Case is Not Going to Be Solved By Police'

Sharp Rise in Favour of War on Iraq

Bali Bombing Clue As Men Are Quizzed

Saddam Rallies for Votes in Iraqi Election

Crew Thwarts Saudi Hijack Attempt

US Police Confirm 11th Sniper Victim

Police Interrogate Two As Bali Search Intensifies

Sniper Blamed As Woman Shot Dead in Car Park

Heroic immigrants are toast of France

Long and agonising task to identify bodies

President urged to tackle terror groups

Warnings ignored: what the papers say

Israeli Phone Box Bomb Kills Militant

Two Illegal Immigrants Were Granted Permits to Live and Work in France After Saving a Man's Life.

Alleged Bin Laden Letter Revels in Recent Attacks

Australian Communities Count Cost of Bali Bombing

Oil Companies Could Be Next on Terrorists' Hitlist

Bhutto Hints at Deal With Anti-us Parties

Fischer Rejects Chancellor's 'german Way'

Bush Puts World on Alert for New Wave of Al-qaida Attacks

Diana butler pleads not guilty to theft

Bombs prompt calls for more cooperation

Stay-at-home Serbs Invalidate Presidential Election

Bali Bomb: Police Investigate Suspects

Al-Qaida allies spread global terror

Calls grow for concerted fight against terror

Peace hopes wilt among the olive branches

Harvest-time Killing Fuels Hatred Between Palestinians and Jewish Settlers

Bush Aiming at Wrong Target, Us Critics Fear

Suspicion Turns on Indonesia's Islamic Militants

Australian Tourists Bear Brunt of Attack

'It Was Like a Film. Flames Going Up Everywhere'

Army Scours Sniper-school Records in Hunt for Killer

Disillusion and Extremism Mar Serbian Election

Terror's Bloody Return

Cancel Trips to Bali, Foreign Office Says

Bali Night Club Bomb Kills 180

Jamaica's poll bloodbath

German Star Takes Charge of Iraq's Football Side

Irish Set to Vote for Eu Expansion

Outrage As Iraq Views Uk Arms

Bomb Kills Seven in Finland

Shock Islam Victor Wants Us to Leave

Tony Thompson on Kingston's Politically Motivated Gun-toting Gangs

Sniper Still at Large After Eighth Killing

US occupation plan sidelines Iraqi exiles

Al-Qaida captive may have been planning fifth hijack

Giuliani hired as Mexico's crimebuster

Talk the walk

'Terror cell' broken up by Italians

Bank Pulls Plug on Open-cast Gold Mine

UN Urged to Investigate State Torture

Shanghai Bridge Goes Into the Record Books

Pakistan Election Result Creates New Islamist Heartland

Irish Keep Europe Guessing on Enlargement

Recognition for the President Who Never Sent a Us Soldier Into War

Putin Demands Proof Over Iraqi Weapons

Police Hunt White Van After Sniper Shoots 10th Victim

US Plans Military Rule and Occupation of Iraq

Police hunt sniper after new killing

Boost for Religious Parties in Pakistan Elections

Jimmy Carter Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Congress Backs Bush on Iraq

Blunkett wins challenge on Roma rights

Kremlin asks: where's your proof on Iraq?

NYPD break stolen jewellery ring

Debris Points to Terrorist Attack on Tanker

Falconio Suspect Refuses to Talk

Washington Murder Blamed on Serial Sniper

State Tv Pulls Plug on Berlusconi Satire

South Africans to Get Aids Drugs From the State

Hungarian Camp Survivor Wins Literature Nobel

Bhutto's Party in Close Election Finish

Support Us on Iraq, Putin Urged

Police to Charge Falconio Suspect

US sniper may have claimed ninth victim

Three Killed in Pakistan Election Violence

Woman Killed in Tel Aviv Suicide Blast

Court to Rule on 'unusual' Headdress

US believes recording is Bin Laden deputy

Elaborate stakeout led to arrest

Florida executes woman serial killer

Kuwait arrests 50 over soldier killing

Poll boosts hopes of Irish 'Yes'

Sceptical Russians count themselves out of census

'Western commentary needs to cool down. The state is nowhere near revolution'

Washington Sniper May Be Taunting Police

Blackballed Turkey Stung By Brussels' Snub

Musharraf Keeps His Hands on the Reins

DNA Match Brings Outback Murder Breakthrough

Iran Unimpressed By Straw the Mediator

Against All the Odds Ipulls Guards Out of West Bank

DNA Breakthrough in Falconio Case

White House uses courts to end dock strike

Foreign Office Investigates Claim That Woman Was Kept As Slave By Diplomat

Belgian Outcry Over First Mercy Killing Under New Law

Lukewarm Response to Straw's Tour to Shore Up Support in Middle East

Musharraf Accused of Rigging Pakistan's General Election

Group 4 Security Firm Pulls Guards Out of West Bank

'We cannot wait for the smoking gun'

Bush's speech: key quotes

New Planet-like Discovery Casts Doubt on Pluto's Status

Blair to Order Invasion Force This Month

French anti-terror team investigates Limburg blast

Lula prepares for Brazilian run-off

Police foil white plot to recapture South Africa

Ten die as Israeli helicopter fires on Palestinian crowd

Shooting of boy at school gate leaves suburbs paralysed by fear of the sniper

New York cabbies discover politeness

Bush acts to end west coast dockers lockout

Fears of Sniper Link As Maryland Boy Shot

France opens inquiry into Yemen tanker blast

'Bin Laden' tape threatens more attacks

Israeli Soldiers Kill 10 Palestinians

Georgian villagers caught up in the war on terror

Yemen may be al-Qaida's new base

Man Held for Drive-by Racist Killing

US 'dumping Unsold Gm Food on Africa'

Bush Hopes Missile Shield Offer Will Keep Israel Out of Conflict

US Compiles Case to Charge Saddam With Genocide

Bush Steps Into Ports Row

Bullets Link Sniper's Victims

Al-Qaida Suspected in Tanker Explosion

Kate Connolly Meets Astrid Proll

Birthday gift for Putin casts autocratic shadow

'Kill all the niggers you can,' said the cop. So they made him mayor

Scramble to carve up Iraqi oil reserves lies behind US diplomacy

Fans Fight to Snatch $1.5m Baseball

War is Unavoidable, Bush Tells Us

Ex-policeman on Trial for Complicity in Murder

Bin Laden Still Alive, Reveals Spy Satellite

'Basically, I got on the plane with a bomb'

City under curfew reaches boiling point

UK Army Rails at Rhetoric Instead of Plans on Iraq

Brazil Ready to Give Lula a First Round Victory

Parsley Isle Claims Get Spain's Goat

US Sniper Kills His Sixth Victim

India and Pakistan Raise Election Tension With Missiles Tests

Brussels Keeps Turkey Waiting on Eu Entry

Bush Veto on Middle East Talks

Bright Boy From the California Suburbs Who Turned Taliban Warrior

Simon Rattle Recently Moaned, With Consi

Shoebomber Pleads Guilty in Us Court

India and Pakistan in Tit-for-tat Missile Tests

Pakistani Missile Tests Nerve of India

Chicago compels contractors to come clean on slave profits

Turkey commutes rebel chief's sentence

Colombian Shadow Over Ulster Peace

Miss Tibet Generates Lively Yak Among Exiles

US Envoy Ready for Talks in N Korea

East Timor War Crimes Inquiry

Clinton Oversees Unveiling of Berlin's Diva

France Takes Centre Stage in Iraq Crisis

Blix Told to Await New Orders on Iraq

10 Killed Entering Indian-held Kashmir

Blair: Saddam Must Open Palaces to Un

Clinton tells party Blair's the man to trust

US hardline on Iraq leaves full-scale invasion a 'hair-trigger' away

Beacon of hope in a deeply divided island

Former Mossad chief in secret peace talks with Palestinian official

Justice goes on trial in Sierra Leone

Radical Israeli in u-turn on Palestinians

The UN resolution on Iraq

Mobs Fuel Violence in Ivory Coast

Kidnap Death Puzzles Police

Top Serb Changes Plea to Guilty

Clinton to Undress Berlin's Famous Diva

Shoe-bomber Reid to Plead Guilty

Tale of Tragic Deaths Fuels Japan's Doubts

Cypriot Leaders in Last-ditch Attempt at Unification

Bush Wins House Backing for Resolution on Iraq

Clinton dazzles Labour conference

US scrutinises its options after rejecting Iraqi inspections deal

Italian Court Jails Briton for Ecstasy Smuggling

The Whores of Wall Street

Cigarettes Banned on Tokyo's Streets

Bomb Suspect Still in 'londonistan'

Mother Teresa on Fast-track to Sainthood

Arabs and Muslims to Be Fingerprinted at Us Airports

Milosevic Tried to Build Greater Serbia, Trial Told

Senators Threaten to Rein in Bush

Britain to Push for 'final' Middle East Talks This Year

US Rejects Iraq Inspections Deal

Iraq and Un Agree Over Weapons Inspectors

US Immigration to Crack Down on Foreigners

Nine Killed in Kashmir Election Violence

Troops Back in at Arafat Hq

Croatian leader testifies against Milosevic

UN demands full access to Iraqi sites

Blair: there must be readiness for war