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Stage set for hi-tech Laden manhunt

Staff Reporter · Oct 12, 2001 · 4 min read

LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters): With US warplanes now free to Roam over Afghanistan, the stage is set for powerful satellites and reconnaissance aircraft to pursue Os...

Musharraf reiterates Paks reservation against Northern Alliance

Staff Reporter · Oct 12, 2001 · 2 min read

ISLAMABAD, Oct 11 (UNI) Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf has reiterated that the anti-Taliban,Northern Alliance should not have any role in the post-attack s...

Saudi Arabia asked Blair to cancel visit

Staff Reporter · Oct 12, 2001 · 2 min read

DUBAI, Oct 11 (Reuters): Saudi Arabia, eager to distance itself from the western campaign against Afghanistan, asked British Prime Minister Tony Blair to cancel...

Teheran not to allow Afghan refugees

Staff Reporter · Oct 12, 2001 · 1 min read

TEHERAN, Oct 11 (DPA) Teheran reiterated today that it will not allow any Afghan refugees into the country, the official news agency IRNA reported. Irans border...

German couple attacked in Saudi Arabia

Staff Reporter · Oct 12, 2001 · 1 min read

RIYADH, Oct 11 (Reuters) A man threw a Molotov cocktail at a German couple in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday in an incident believed related to heightened internationa...

New Bdesh PM sworn in

Staff Reporter · Oct 12, 2001 · 1 min read

DHAKA, Oct 11 (Reuters) Begum Khaleda Zia was sworn in today as Bangladeshs new Prime Minister. President Shahabuddin Ahmed administered the oath of office to K...

US strikes kill 15 in Kandahar, mosque hit

Staff Reporter · Oct 12, 2001 · 1 min read

ISLAMABAD, Oct 11 (Reuters) At least 15 people have been killed in the Southern Afghan city of Kandahar in the fiercest night of US raids since the bombardment ...

Residents seen fleeing Kandahar - CNN

Staff Reporter · Oct 12, 2001 · 1 min read

ISLAMABAD, Oct 11 (Reuters): Residents of the Southern Afghan city of Kandahar were fleeing the city, their belongings loaded onto donkeys and carts, after a ni...

Al-Jazeera steals show in war on terror

Staff Reporter · Oct 12, 2001 · 5 min read

CAIRO, Oct 11 (DPA): An increasingly number of people in the Arab world and beyond are tuning in to the Qatari-based Al-Jazeera channel, once known as the "enfa...

Britain releases "Bible" of war aims

Staff Reporter · Oct 12, 2001 · 3 min read

AL SHAAFA, (OMAN), Oct 11 (Reuters) Rritain released what a government official called a "Bible" of war aims in an unusual move designed to ease Arab fears of a...

US tries to decipher Laden video for codes

Staff Reporter · Oct 12, 2001 · 3 min read

WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) US Intelligence experts say a videotape of Osama bin Laden could contain an embedded coded message to followers to activate a pre-p...

US wanted terrorist list shines spotlight on Iran

Staff Reporter · Oct 12, 2001 · 2 min read

WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) A new 22-man list of the United States "Most Wanted Terrorists" highlights Irans alleged links to guerrilla groups more than any ot...

5 m Dlrs for Laden reward, not bounty : US

Staff Reporter · Oct 12, 2001 · 12 min read

WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) The United States offered five million dollars for information on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and 21 other accused terrorist...

US bomb wounds four Afghan civilians in Kabul

Staff Reporter · Oct 12, 2001 · 1 min read

KABUL, Oct 10 (Reuters) Two young women and two girls were wounded by shrapnel from a U.S. Bomb dropped in an early morning air raid today on the eastern outski...

1,800 taliban deserted in past 24 hours -- opposition

Staff Reporter · Oct 12, 2001 · 2 min read

BERLIN, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Some 1,800 fighters from Afghanistans ruling Taliban regime have deserted and joined the the opposition northern alliance in the past...

Pakistan denies it offered airports for US attacks

Staff Reporter · Oct 12, 2001 · 4 min read

KARACHI Oct 10 (DPA) Pakistans government today denied media reports that it has put two airports at the disposal of the United States and allied forces for use...

China, Russia back Afghan coalition government

Staff Reporter · Oct 12, 2001 · 8 min read

BEIJING, Oct 10 (REUTERS): China and Russia support the formation ofa coalition government in Afghanistan and share a common stance on acampaign against terrori...

Amid airstrikes, US cargo planes drop food

Staff Reporter · Oct 12, 2001 · 2 min read

WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (Reuters): In concert with airstrikes on Taliban targets, U.S. military planes headed into Afghanistan to drop food packages yesterday, even ...

Islamic meet opens with call for US restraint

Staff Reporter · Oct 12, 2001 · 1 min read

DOHA, Oct 10 (Reuters) The head of the worlds largest Islamic organisation today condemned the September 11 attacks on the United States but said any western re...

Taliban say checking if French reporter a spy

Staff Reporter · Oct 12, 2001 · 1 min read

ISLAMABAD, Oct 10 (Reuters) Taliban ambassador Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef said today the movement was investigating whether a French reporter arrested in Afghanis...

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