National & World News Archive August 2002
Kinnock Hits Out at Whistle-blower
Tokyo Nuclear Firm Hid Reactor Cracks
Greenpeace Finds American Wanted for Bhopal Tragedy
Schröder's Flood Strategy Attacked
Cousin of Kennedys Weeps at Sentencing
Residents of Summit City Call for Help
US blocks move to give powers to those threatened by multinationals
EU cash promises more clean water for Africa
More black men in jail than at college in US
Profile: Amy Pascal, Chair of Columbia Pictures
Corrupt Countries Named in New Survey
Landless and homeless give voice in the streets
Snail blazes trail for UK delegation
Unhappy Us Consumers Spread Economic Gloom
Straw calls for EU constitution
Summit Leader Vows to Cut Poverty
Now is the time for rich to match poor's generosity
Old emnities in a global cacophony
Schröder Team Calls for Change in Tv Rules
Australia Downloads Porn for Posterity
Big Five Seek to Save Congo Forests
Basque Nationalist Party Shut Down
Cuckolds take their rage to the streets
In a glittering citadel where poverty seems to belong to another world
Convicts steal secrets of airline's jet-setters
Protesters defy government clampdown
Match of the Day: Schröder v Stoiber
Prosecutor Backs Ban on Basque Separatist Party
Sweet dreams go sour across culture divide
How the Floods Took the Fight Out of Europe's Defences
£1bn Eu Price Fixing Ruins Poor Farmers
Nairobi Air Safety Drill Fools World Media
Outback Victim Seeks Payout
Towns at War Over Wall to Keep Out Poor
Floods Offer Schröder Poll Boost
British Outback Victim Claims Compensation
Eight Dead in Moscow Apartment Blast
Apartment Block Blast Kills Four in Moscow
Factory Farming 'spreading Disease Around the World'
War Game Was Fixed to Ensure American Victory, Claims General
World 'neglecting Africa's Food Crisis'
Helicopter crash kills 74 in Grozny
Moscow extends life of 144 cold war ballistic missiles
Three Die in Australian Boarding-house Fire
Death toll from floods nears 100
Schröder Fights for Hartz and Minds
European Leaders Hold Flood Crisis Talks
World in brief
Ministers Backed Lottery Row Group
Schröder Pins Hopes on Jobs Miracle
Farmworkers Set Out to Harvest Rights
Flood Summit Called As Toll Rises
Thousands Flee Dresden Floods
Eta Warns Mps Not to Ban Friendly Party
Schröder Promises Huge Aid Package
200,000 Czechs Flee Flood-hit Homes
Koreans Meet As Hopes Grow for More Reunions
Destiny, Honour, and the Fruit of the French Connection
Tide of Misery Floods Europe
Eastern promise cheers Schröder
Firefighters Turn on Tap Again
New Freedom Ride for America's Illegal Workers
'Second Figure' May Have Been Involved in Dutch Assassination
Atrocity stories regain currency
Schröder Tripped Up By His Dole Queue Test
Meacher Back on the Earth Summit Team
Ministers Attack Us War Chaos
Bleak Day for Schröder
Guards Fired for Failure to Resist
French Town Bans Le Pen's Congress Fury at Ban on Congress
Schröder Takes a Long Run at Re-election
NY Firefighters Reached South Tower Crash Zone
Koreas Agree to Resume Talks
Anthrax Leads Leave Fbi Baffled
Driver fury over Euro cycle laws
Serious offer or just an attempt to buy time?
US Stockpiles Oil to Avoid Price Shock
Parents of Diana's chauffeur bid to clear his name
President Pleads for Leniency for Ex-east Timor Governor
Prostitution Row Divides French Feminists
Iraqis Head List As Asylum Figures Rise
Rein in Hizbullah or Face Attack, Israel Tells Syria
Israeli Minister Backs Chief Rabbi's Views and Warns of 'ethical Crisis'
Japanese Leader to Make Historic North Korean Visit
EU Closes Ranks As Blair Avoids the Issue
Can the Us Go It Alone Against Saddam?
Minister Vows to Bring Accused War Criminals to Justice
Japanese Pm Plans First Visit to North Korea
Man Charged With Attempted Hijack
EU Urged to Resist Us on World Court
Sidelining Debate on Aids is Big Mistake, Says Un Chief
Palestinian Factions Ready to Plot New Course United Under Arafat
'A Cog Without Whom September 11 Would Not Have Succeeded'
Blair Losing Influence on Us Over Iraq
US Bans Foreign Planes on 9/11
Court refuses to reduce murder charge against Bhopal chief
Engineers on trial for German train disaster are scapegoats, say victims
Germany to put September 11 'banker' on trial in Hamburg
Jewish comic bars 'Palestinian' warm-up
Kidnapping rife in crippled Argentina
After the Floods in Dresden and Prague Comes the Clean-up
Al-Qaida Terror Leaders Said to Be Working in Iran
Big Business and Greenpeace Urge Action on Climate Change
Detained Asylum Seeker Asked to Pay £10,000 Rent
Israel Halts Talks After Violence Flares in Gaza
BBC Reporter Stands Up to Milosevic
Put Thirst of Poor Communities First, Demands Mandela
America confident of backing for war on Iraq
Attack on Iraq would create chaos in Middle East, Egypt cautions US
Ground zero 'victim' turns up alive
Hardliners Condemn Sacks Over Israel Stance
Belgian Minister Quits in Arms Row
Japan Guilty of Germ Warfare Against Thousands of Chinese
'It's a Way of Life By Which I Feed the World'
Tea and Mbes for Two Kabul Heroes Who Kept the Flag Flying for Britain
Daggers Drawn in the House of Bush
US Court Rules Against Secret Deportation Hearings
Bomb Attempt Follows Basque Party Ban
Spanish parties unite in vote to ban Batasuna
US city where you can be guilty until proven innocent
African Aids Activists Target Coke
Defiant Milosevic Back in Court
America Attacked for Icc Tactics
Israel Set on Tragic Path, Says Chief Rabbi
Mugabe Police Chief Beats Eu Ban to Enter France
We Must Destroy Palestinian Threat, Army Chief Says
Eta Brings Women Fighters to the Fore
Cheney Waves White House War Banner
Summit Row Over Big Business Plans
Batasuna and Basque Separatism in Spain
Summit Opens With Call for Action
America 'reliant on Kabul's neighbours'
Schröder's election HQ raided
Taliban melt away before army sweep
US rebukes Russia for Pankisi raid
Australian Vigilantes Picket Homes and Call for Death to Adulterers
Gas Leak Threatens Central Europe
Mandela Breaks Taboo on Aids
Ecological Decline 'far Worse' Than Official Estimates
Palestinian Militants Kill Woman Informer As Ceasefire Crumbles
Mugabe Packs New Cabinet With Loyalists
German Tv Debate Ends in a Draw
Zimbabwe Police Victim Speaks
Via TV and the net, Iran's youth plot social revolution
Blair's eco record under fire
Eight Killed in Kashmir As Us Envoy Flies in
Straw Attack on Mugabe's 'pariah' State
US court balks at new spy powers
$2.2 trillion lawsuit says the fax should be sacred
First payments made to September 11 relatives
Monitors confirm Russian attack on Georgia
Ted Turner pays for nuclear swoop
South African Police Chief Accused of Joke Bomb Threat
Spain Starts on the Road to Ban Batasuna
FBI Rebuked Over 'illegal' Spying
India Denies Kashmir Attack
Aide says Nidal confessed to Lockerbie bombing
Straw remarks point to divisions on Iraq
Attempt to sack 'terror link' professor reaches court
Militant Kurds training al-Qaida fighters
Palestinians thrash out tactics
Spain Will Seek Graves of Franco's Disappeared
Mother Ordered to Stop Breastfeeding Boy, Eight
Abu Sayyaf Kills 2 'avon' Hostages
Britain Tightens Arms Exports to Israel
Al-Qaida Running New Terror Camp, Say Kurds
Secret Army
Jehovah's Witnesses Beheaded in Philippines
Straw: Iraq Strike Remains an Option
Nepal Plane Crash Kills 18
Act now, bank urges earth summit
Berlusconi in middle of football fiasco
Mystery of Abu Nidal's death deepens
Russian MP shot dead in 'contract killing'
Israel Arrests Five Accused of Bomb Attacks
US Admits Plan to Bring Down Mugabe
Bush Stonewalls on Iraq 'frenzy'
Rwandan General Pleads Not Guilty to Genocide
Floods Threaten Millions in China
Russians find weapon that shot down helicopter
Mother of Sunburned Kids Faces Jail Term
British Lecturer Axed to Death in Zimbabwe
Palestinian Police Return to Bethlehem
City of Extremes Spruces Up to Play Host to Earth Summit
Dissident Iraqis Seize Embassy in Berlin
Sharia Law
Iraqi Rebels Take Hostages at Berlin Embassy
Corporate Capture
Tripura Separatists Kill 20 Indian Soldiers
Iraqi rebels lay siege to Berlin embassy
Indian Army 'kills' Suspected Militants in Kashmir
US Assumes Uk Help in Iraq, Says General
US Slashes Iraqi Oil Imports
Genocide court to arraign Hutu army chief
Russia 'giving illegal millions to Saddam for trade deals'
North Koreans Flee By Boat
Uncertain Pause Follows Agreement on Israeli Pullout
Call for Release of 'low-level' Guantanamo Inmates
German Tax Cuts Put on Hold As Cost of Flood Rises
Woman Faces Death By Stoning 'after Weaning'
Mystery Death of Abu Nidal, Once the World's Most Wanted Terrorist
Al-Qaida Videos Show Poison Gas Tests
Abu Nidal 'found Dead' in Baghdad
Indonesia Gives Ultimatum to Aceh Rebels
War Rhetoric 'wili Make Iraq Refuse Arms Inspectors'
US Helped As Saddam Plotted Chemical Attacks, Report Says
Peace Activists Urge Talks in Israel
UN Evidence of Taliban Massacre
Scores of Zimbabwean Farmers Arrested for Defying Eviction
Call to Ban Film of Mitterrand's Last Feast
...while, in Sicily, the Mafia Sells Water
'Saddam Will Not Stop Me Being a Kurd'
Israelis watch the street, not the skies
US warns former Nicaragua leader over corruption
Reports of Abused Maids in Singapore
Australia and Brazil Attack Eu Sugar Subsidy
Bush Snubs Earth Summit
Man Sent Back to Us Accused of Killings
East Europeans Torn By International Court Row
Dutch Minister Unveils Tough Measures Against Illegal Immigrants
Israel Puts Pressure on Us to Strike Iraq
Fans Around the World Remember Elvis
East Timor Verdicts Undermine Tribunal
French Police Foiled By Ravers Sans Frontières
'We're Back Where We Started'
Spain in Hi-tech War on Immigrants
New Surge Threatens Germany
With Talk of Conflict With Iraq, Americans Remember the Human Cost of Vietnam
Saudi Royals Face Trillion-dollar Lawsuit Over September 11
Gadafy's New Plan: to Bring Libya in From the Cold - Through Football
Israel Promises Response to Any Iraqi Attack
Bush Aide Cites Case for Saddam's Removal
Thousands flee as floods encroach on Dresden
FBI says dirty bomb suspect is no big fish
Israeli rockets kill Hamas leader
Dissident fury at Hanoi's funeral barb
Green tax issue splits German right
Knives drawn in row on war crimes court
Mandela to observe Fatah leader's trial
East Timor Governor Gets 3 Years
Deluge That Could Drown an Industry
Asylum Boys 'at Risk' in Woomera Camp
Kurdish Leader Offers to Help Us With Iraq Invasion
Zimbabwean Reporter Escapes Mob After Farm Siege
Terror Trial May Put Israel in the Dock
Militants 'forcibly remove' white farmer
US rebuffed on international court exemption
Torrents threaten jewels of Prague
Women at barricades keep an eye on their defenders
Moody's Stirs Worries Over Brazilian Rescue
Fujimori Prepared for Peru Comeback
Israeli Court Stops Expulsion of Palestinians
Prague braced against rising floodwaters
Iranian president visits Afghanistan with offers of aid
Labour left puts hope in ex-general
Beach bomb is found three days after Eta warning
Mugabe says 'loyal' farmers can keep some land
50,000 evacuated from Prague
China 'sending dissidents to mental hospitals'
State of Emergency Declared in Colombia
Mugabe 'will Enforce Farm Evictions'
Schröder ally attacks him for Iraq war stance
Suspects beaten near minister
Murder in Paradise Unsettles Islanders
Nigeria Warns Miss World Contestants to Beware of Sharia Law
Denktash Under Fire After Cypriot Journalists Jailed
Italy Fears Flood of Legal Migrants
Suzanne Goldenberg Reflects on Two and a Half Years in Israel
Czech Republic's Eu Bid Tainted
Iran Handed Over Al-qaida Members
Iraq Offers Un New Deal
Pygmy Show at Zoo Sparks Disgust
They Fled With Nothing But Built a New Empire
Britons Warned of Risk in Buying Bargain Holiday Homes in Cyprus
Afghan Drug Lords Set Up Heroin Labs
Indonesia Takes a Giant Step Down the Road to Democracy
Bush Rhetoric is Scaring Europe, Says Mandelson
Lawyers accused on terror cash
Mayor plans smoking ban in New York's hedonist havens
US and Iraqi opposition try to mend splits
Riots As Caracas Court Rejects Coup Trial
Nurses Die in Attack on Pakistani Mission
Defiant Farmers Wait for Mugabe's Next Move
Afghan Blast Fuels Security Fears
Saddam Woos Arab Friends and Enemies
Pakistan Counts Cost As Afghans Head for Home
Anti-war Mp Meets Saddam
Four Killed in Grenade Attack Near Islamabad
Saudis in secret moves for new king
'Serbia has betrayed my father'
We're not frightened, defiant Saddam tells world
Aborigine Rights Damaged By Mining Verdict
Workers Take Xerox to Court for 'blacks in a Noose' Discrimination
Bugging Scandal Lands Mitterrand Allies in Court
US Sidesteps Leadership Question in Talks With Palestinian Ministers
Farmers Defy Mugabe Deadline
Iraq Plans Urban Warfare to Thwart Us
Woman Charged After Ignoring Bus Warning
Saddam Warns Against Iraq Attack
Saudis will not aid US war effort
Couple to fight Singapore extradition
Thirteen die in Bogota explosions as hardline president is sworn in
UN 'ignored' abuse at Kosovo mental homes
Counting the dead
O'Neill Performs the Latin Back-pedal
Netherlands Embroiled in New Race Row
Opposition 'kept Off Berlusconi-run Tv'
BHP Says Aids Drugs Handout is Not the Answer
Bush Tars Drug Takers With Aiding Terrorists
15 Killed in Gunfight at Kabul Army Base
Arafat Gives Wary Approval to Israeli Offer of Withdrawal
Foreign Office Minister Meets Gadafy
Iraq attack could be avoided, says minister
PM's wife suffers miscarriage
Blair is our last hope, says Iraq
Iraq says talks must include sanctions
New York memorial day planned
EU Unveils Zimbabwe Aid Package
Pakistani Militants Blamed for Killing of Nine Hindu Pilgrims
Israel to Strip First Arabs of Citizenship
Detailed War Plan Handed to Bush
South African Mining Giant to Give Staff Free Aids Drugs
Six Shot Dead in Attack on Pakistani Mission School
Archbishop Lobbies Blair on Iraq
A Mass Gathering to Save the World?
German Leader Says No to Iraq War
Hindu Pilgrims Killed in Kashmir
UN chief warns against 'unwise' action
Independence call by Taiwan risks war, warns China
Child's murder raises new Eta fears
Texas man charged with hircine mayor's castration
Pinochet generals convicted of killing
Israeli peace protesters may face treason charge
Israel Bans Palestinian Travel
US closes Karachi consulate
Bolivian congress elects millionaire president
Italy aims to extinguish stars' smoky mystique
Russia may seek UN deal to hit rebels in Georgia
US to deploy elite units to hit al-Qaida
Sharif Steps Aside to Let 'brighter Brother' Stand for Presidency
UN Arms Chief Dismisses Baghdad Talks
Israel Shaken By Day of Violence
£4m Deal to Settle Becker's Tax Bill
Violent Kidnapping for Fun in New York
Turkey turns liberal with eye on EU
World in brief
Britain Rebuked Over Red Tape Block on Afghan Aid
Bush Ready to Declare War
Bush heads for ranch, pursued by criticism
Delicate balancing act for man in the middle
Democracy dawns for Bolivia's first people
Farmers keep their land from becoming new Mexico City airport
Flat route to raising Russian birthrate
How the inspections broke down
Jakarta gets $50m to fight terrorism
Judge orders naming of September 11 detainees
Israeli Troops Storm Nablus
Uruguay Riots Fuel Fear of Financial Meltdown
Britain and Us Dismiss Iraqi Offer
At Least Four Killed in Israeli Raids
American deaths anger Bush at bomb's US toll
Egypt terror leaders renounce violence
German chancellor's wife dives into campaign
Iraq invites UN weapons inspector to talks
Wiretaps link judges to Olympic results fix
EU Safeguards Worse Than Enron's, Accountant Says
'Helicopter Attack' Killed Afghan Civilian
Post-Saddam Iraq Will Cost You, Us Warned
The Tragedy of Jenin
Two Worldcom Executives Arrested
UN Report Rejects Claims of Jenin Massacre
Real Crisis of Confidence
Egypt Shows True Colours
'Russian mafia kingpin' accused of fixing Olympic skating result
Smog chokes Moscow
Turkey deals a blow to action against Saddam