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…
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…
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…