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‘Troubled’
Florida teenager left note with a nod at Bin Laden |
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It was a lonely and
despondent 15-year-old, feeling sympathy for accused terrorist
mastermind Osama bin Laden, who stole a private plane and slammed
it into a Tampa skyscraper, authorities said on Sunday. |
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Skipper
of seized ship hints at Palestine link |
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The Palestinian captain
of a ship seized by Israel with 50 tons of offensive weapons
on board said in jailhouse interviews on Monday that the shipment
was intended for the Palestinians and that he got his smuggling
instructions from a Palestinian Authority official. |
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US
soldier’s killer vanishes, fate uncertain |
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Even as US jets pounded
suspected Osama bin Laden training camps in eastern Afghanistan
on Monday and on the ground special forces pursued scattered
fighters of the Al Qaeda, tribal elders postponed the meeting
to decide the fate of the 14-year-old boy who is believed to
be responsible for the first US casualty in the war after he
disappeared. |
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Evidence
mounts of Russian troops’ abuse in Chechnya |
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Human-Rights workers
are collecting what they describe as mounting evidence that
Russian troops committed unjustified killings and other abuses
during military operations in two towns in separatist Chechnya
over the past eight days. |
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US
enters more delicate phase of war |
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American airstrikes
in Afghanistan have slowed down to a trickle. Searches of caves
around Tora Bora are nearing the end. A new and improved cave-busting
bomb slated for the front two weeks ago is now being held in
reserve. |
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Karzai
pledges to wipe out drug trade from Afghanistan |
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Hamid Karzai, the
new leader of Afghanistan, pledged on Sunday to rid his country
of drug trafficking but said it would be a very difficult task
without investment in the devastated agricultural economy. |
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Five
UN peacekeepers die in Sierra Leone blast |
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Five United Nations
peacekeepers from Zambia were killed and 13 others wounded in
Sierra Leone when a box of mortar shells they were moving accidentally
blew up, UN officials said on Sunday. |
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Afghanistan
expects tourists too soon |
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Afghanistan will
in a few months become a trendy new tourism destination for
intrepid travellers, predicts Karzai Government’s Tourism Minister
Abdul Rahman.. |
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US
study says multiple infant vaccines safe |
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A report published
in Janaury’s issue of ‘‘Pediatrics,’’ the journal of the American
Academy of Pediatrics says that children, who receive as many
as 11 vaccinations routinely, are not in danger of having their
immune system overwhelmed. |
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‘Funds
for Sept 11 hits routed via Pak, UAE’ |
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Pakistan along with
the UAE and Germany were among the ‘‘handful’’ of countries
whose financial systems were used by suspected terrorist operatives
there to fund the September 11 attacks on the US, according
to American officials. |
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