|
| October 27, 2001 | Saturday | Shaba'an 9, 1422 |
|
US planes destroy three ICRC warehouses
KABUL, Oct 26: US bombs destroyed three Red Cross warehouses here on Friday, wiping out stocks of food and cooking oil intended for widows and disabled people.... 
|
|
Haq’s killing in line with tradition
ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: From the moment Abdul Haq was cornered by the Taliban inside Afghanistan, he knew he was a dead man....
|
|
||
|
Osama’s sister-in-law appears on US channel
LOS ANGELES, Oct 26: The first time Carmen bin Laden met her brother-in-law Osama, he turned his back on her because she was not wearing a veil....
|
|
Civilian targets struck: a list
ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: Following is a list of non-military installations been hit by airstrikes....
|
|
|
||
|
Pentagon under fire for using cluster bombs
WASHINGTON, Oct 26: US military leaders on Thursday acknowledged using controversial cluster bombs in Afghanistan, as they ran into a broadside of criticism, with claims of civilian mounting casualties, and opposition...
|
|
3 Hamas men killed in attack on settlement: Israelis agree to vacate Bethlehem
GAZA CITY, Oct 26: Three armed members of the Hamas were killed early on Friday as they tried to force their way into a Jewish settlement in the northern Gaza Strip...
|
|
|
||
|
Hasina takes oath as MP
DHAKA, Oct 26: A new phase in Bangladesh politics has begun following the parliamentary oath taking by the opposition Awami League president Sheikh Hasina and her colleagues on Oct 24. After...
|
|
Boat with asylum seekers hijacked: Vessel heading for Australia
JAKARTA, Oct 26: About 170 Iraqi asylum seekers have hijacked a commercial vessel off Indonesia and are possibly heading for Australia after some of the crew fled overboard, the Indonesian navy...
|
|
|
||
|
Pakistani group hacks US govt website
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 26: The US government is investigating an attack on one of its Web sites in which a well-known Pakistani hacker group posted a message threatening to turn sensitive...
|
|
Macedonian leaders agree on new constitution
SKOPJE, Oct 26: Macedonia’s political leaders on Friday agreed to key constitutional changes enshrining greater rights for the Albanian minority in a crucial deal to stop the Balkan nation plunging into...
|
|
|
||
|
UK tourists in warplane scare
LONDON, Oct 26: British tourists were involved in a terror scare as a French warplane homed in on their holiday jet at 10,000 metres, press reports said on Friday....
|
|
France may make traffic one-way in tunnels
 PARIS, Oct 26: French Transport Minister Jean-Claude Gayssot raised the possibility on Friday of converting Alpine tunnels to one-way traffic to reduce the risk of deadly accidents such as the ones...
|
|
|
||
|
Gyanendra names son Nepal’s crown prince
KATHMANDU, Oct 26: King Gyanendra Friday appointed his only son Paras as Nepal’s new crown prince in a decision which commentators said had been delayed because of popular resentment about the...
|
|
Paris installs missiles at nuclear site
LA HAGUE (France) Oct 26: France deployed ground-to-air missiles at its most important nuclear installation on Friday, indicating its readiness to shoot down hijacked passenger aircraft such as the ones used...
|
|
|
||
|
More bodies recovered from Kursk wreck
MURMANSK (Russia) Oct 26: Investigators pulled eight more bodies out of the Kursk submarine overnight, bringing to 11 the number recovered since the wreck was placed in dry dock early this...
|
|
Powell sees ‘grey areas’ in defining terrorism
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Thursday that some groups sometimes described as terrorist might be seeking to redress grievances, gain rights or achieve freedom from oppressors....
|
|
|
||
|
Afghan campaign shows limits of military power
LONDON: Bombs drop, civilians die, frontlines stagnate and Osama bin Laden remains at large....
|
|
Attacks spur defence: poll
WASHINGTON: The devastating terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon have spurred a “new internationalist sentiment” in the US public, as well as much greater support for a strong military,...
|
|
|
||
|
US must challenge Israel’s arm-twisting policy
BEIRUT: Some Arabs did criticize last week’s assassination of Israeli cabinet minister Rehavim Zeevi. But not because it was an act of terrorism. They simply shared the widespread apprehension about its...
|
|
The just ends of bombing
LONDON: Too often in the past, the people of Afghanistan have been dealt a raw deal by the international community. Treated as a plaything of the great powers in the...
|
