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AMERICA STRIKES BACK / Worldwide Reverberations Reuters QUETTA, Pakistan the Pakistani U.S. demonstrators who brandished pictures of Osama bin Laden and burned cars and a United Nations office in protests U.S. and British military strikes in Afghanistan. One person was killed. Seven others were wounded in gun battles in the western city of Quetta as…
Compiled by Our Staff From Dispatches STOCKHOLM – Three researchers whose discoveries of molecular elements that control cell division have opened dramatic new possibilities for early diagnosis and treatment of cancer were awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday. The three Leland Hartwell of the United States and Tim Hunt and…
Angry Relatives Visit Black Sea Crash Site Reuters KIEV – Ukraine’s military on Monday clung to its denial that a rogue missile blew up a Russian airliner last Thursday, killing 78, as angry and grieving relatives visited the Black Sea crash site. But President Leonid Kuchma, facing pressure from Russia to disclose more about…
People trapped in the burning North Tower of the World Trade Center scramble to the windows in terror to escape the fire. Shortly after this photograph was taken, the tower collapsed. Two hijacked planes slammed into the twin 110-storey towers on Tuesday, demolishing a symbol of America’s financial might in the process. -REUTERS
CAIRO – The top authority for the world’s Sunni Muslims, the imam of Al Azhar, yesterday condemned the wave of deadly terrorist attacks in the US as against the Islamic religion. “To kill innocent men, women and children is a horrible and hideous act which no monotheistic religions approve of,” the imam, Sheikh Mohammed Sayed…
Reuters WASHINGTON – As the Secret Service widened its security perimeter around the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney was moved to the Camp David presidential retreat to ensure that America’s two senior officials were not in the same place, officials said. The step was taken Thursday amid concern about the possibility of new threats…
Reuters The French economy expanded in the second quarter at its weakest pace in two and a half years as the global economic slowdown chipped away at activity, the government said Tuesday. Growth in the second-largest economy in the 12-nation euro zone eased to 0.3 percent compared with the first quarter. when gross domestic product…
Reuters FRANKFURT – Talks on a takeover of Germany’s Reuters Commerzbank AG by UniCredito Italiano SpA fell apart Tuesday because of differences over valuation after shares in both banks fell sharply, the two sides said. The collapse is a blow to hopes for European cross- border banking consolidation and clouds the future of Commerzbank, Germany’s…
Reuters Following is a transcript of a videotaped statement by Osama bin Laden broadcast Sunday on Qatar-based Al Jazeera television: Here is America struck by God Almighty in on of its vital organs, so that its greatest Buildings are destroyed. Grace and gratitude to God. America has been filled with horror From north to south…
BERLIN – Germany has ruled out the possibility of shooting down hijacked passenger planes even if they appeared to threaten buildings with suicide attacks, the interior minister said Wednesday. “It isn’t helpful to consider this,” the minister, Otto Schily, told journalists. “How can I shoot down a passenger flight that comes near a skyscraper? I’m…
Reuters LONDON – A rare edition of the first printed works of William Shakespeare made a brief appearance at the Globe Theatre here ahead of a sale next month where the book is expected to fetch up to $3 million. The leather-bound, 1,000-page compilation of plays was made in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare’s death,…
Reuters JENIN, West Bank Israeli tanks moved into Palestinian-ruled Jenin early Wednesday and razed a Palestinian security headquarters in the heart of the West Bank city, which Israelis call a “terrorist nest.” The tanks withdrew after the two-hour operation. The raid came two days after a suicide bombing and amid a frustrating delay in convening…
Reuters Seoul – The crew of a South Korean ship is facing arrest for dumping the bodies of 25 Chinese illegal immigrants into the sea after they suffocated in a storage tank, police officials said Tuesday. The authorities were still searching for the corpses of the 25 immigrants, part of a group of 60…
Britain’s longest-serving member of Parliament, Tam Dalyell of the Labour Party, warned Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday that he would unleash the most serious dissent among party members in decades if he supported a U.S. missile defense shield. (Reuters) A Swiss nurse who confessed in July to killing nine elderly women has admitted responsibility…
UNITED NATIONS, New York – The UN Security Council has voted unanimously to lift a three- year-old Yugoslavia, ending the last in a arms embargo on series of military and economic sanctions imposed on Belgrade during the past decade. The action Monday indicated the UN’s formal recognition that Yugoslavia has embraced democratic rule and has…
BERLIN – A senior figure in Germany’s Jewish community has attacked a proposal by a leading Christian Democrat to make national identity an election campaign issue. Michel Friedman, deputy leader of the Central Council of Jews in Germany and a Christian Democrat himself, told Radio Eins on Tuesday that stirring up nationalist sentiments before next…
Reuters BEIJING – A Chinese court has awarded the family of a woman who died from AIDS a record $1.2 million after she was infected with tainted blood during a transfusion, official news organizations said Tuesday. A state-run hospital in the central province of Hubei was ordered to give Chen Xiumei’s husband Shen Jieyong…
Fighting Follows Attack on Opposition Chief Reuters KABUL – The Taleban has begun a major offensive north of the capital after suicide bombers tried to kill the movement’s key military opponent, anti-Taleban sources said Tuesday. The Taleban militia, which has denied any link with the attack Sunday on the guerrilla commander Ahmed Shah Massoud, had…
NEW YORK – Northwest Natural Gas Co, said Monday it would buy Enron Corp.’s Portland General Electric unit for $1.8 billion in a deal that would combine Oregon’s largest natural gas utility with the state’s largest electric utility. The deal, which is subject to regulatory approval, is expected to close by the fourth quarter of…
29 May 2001 Reuters News English (c) 2001 Reuters Limited HANOI, May 29 (Reuters) – Vietnam urged President George Bush on Tuesday to build on Bill Clinton’s work In normalising ties with Hanoi by sending a trade deal to Congress for ratification. Vice Foreign Minister Chu Tuan Cap told Reuters the historic market-opening pact signed…
28 November 2001 Reuters News English (c) 2001 Reuters Limited HOBART, Australia, Nov 28 (Reuters) – Australian Harry Burton, a Reuters cameraman killed with three other journalists in Afghanistan last week, was buried on Wednesday after a church service attended by family, friends and colleagues. Burton, 33, was laid to rest next to his…