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Kabul Calm as Taliban Enemies Gather Inside and Out

KABUL (Reuters) - Residents of the Afghan capital attended prayers on Friday, ignoring a whirl of diplomatic and military activity on their borders that pointed to a U.S. strike against Osama bin Laden and a trap for his Taliban protectors.Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld won permission from Uzbekistan to use an airbase for troops and aircraft while.. More

1865 25/04/2001
Schroeder, Jospin Say Inequality Breeds Terrorism

PARIS (Reuters) - Rich countries should aim to ease the global economic inequalities that act as a breeding ground for terrorism, French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said on Friday. Speaking at a Franco-German discussion forum in Paris, the two left-leaning leaders said more initiatives like the 1999 agreement.. More

1866 25/04/2001
An American is Killed in Saudi Explosion

KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - A bomb blast on Saturday killed two foreigners including an American in the eastern Saudi city of Khobar, site of a deadly attack five years ago in which 19 U.S. servicemen died. (Map) In Washington, U.S. officials said they saw no immediate link with last month's attacks on New York City and Washington for which Saudi-born.. More

1869 25/04/2001
Afghan Guns Open Fire on Plane Over Kabul

KABUL (Reuters) - Anti-aircraft guns opened fire on at least one plane high in the sky over the Afghan capital on Saturday, and a Defense Ministry official said the army was trying to shoot down a second unidentified aircraft. (Read photo caption below) Firing was intense for about 15 minutes from anti-aircraft batteries around Kabul and was directed.. More

1870 25/04/2001
US Deploys Ground Troops

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (AP) - President Islam Karimov granted permission Friday for U.S. warplanes and troops to use an Uzbek air base to support President Bush's campaign to root out terrorists in neighboring Afghanistan. The Army dispatched 1,000 infantry soldiers skilled at search-and-rescue, humanitarian missions and helicopter assaults.The deal struck.. More

1864 25/04/2001
Ukraine Appears to Retreat on Missile Denial

SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Ukraine appeared to concede for the first time on Friday that its military might have accidentally shot down a Russian airliner over the Black Sea, where rough conditions were hampering salvage operations.As darkness fell, trawlers and other vessels were combing the seas with nets for debris to try to unravel the mystery mid-air.. More

1867 25/04/2001
Fatah leader rejects ceasefire call

GAZA, Palestine, BBC-A key factional leader has rejected the latest call by the Palestinian authority for a united commitment to a ceasefire with Israel.The influential Marwan Bargouthi, who leads Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement in the West Bank, said it was the right of Palestinians to defend themselves. (Photo) The news came as Palestinian.. More

1873 25/04/2001
Taliban Dealt Body Blow by Pakistan

KABUL (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban were dealt a potentially fatal body blow on Thursday when neighbor Pakistan said it had seen enough evidence to justify an indictment in the suicide plane attacks on the United States.With Washington on a war footing in pursuit of chief suspect Osama bin Laden, the Taliban held a special.. More

1854 25/04/2001
Sharon Accuses Washington of Appeasing Arabs At the Expense of Israel

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon aimed unusually harsh words at the United States Thursday after a string of Palestinian Resistance attacks, urging Washington not to ``appease'' Arab states at Israel's expense.Sharon stopped just short of cancelling a U.S.-backed cease-fire, but said that Israeli security forces would do whatever.. More

1856 25/04/2001
Muslim, Christian Leaders Set Up Cooperation Group

ROME (Reuters) - Christian and Muslim leaders attending a peace conference in Rome agreed on Thursday to set up a contact group to work out how religions can cooperate to promote understanding and campaign against terrorism. The contact group was set up at the end of a two-day meeting hosted by the Sant' Egidio Community, a group that promotes peace.. More

1857 25/04/2001
Russia Plane Explosion Kills 76

ADLER, Russia (AP) - A Russian airliner carrying at least 76 people from Israel exploded and plunged into the Black Sea on Thursday, raising fears of a terrorist attack. But U.S. officials said a missile fired during Ukrainian military exercises apparently downed the plane.Russian President Vladimir Putin said terrorists may have caused the crash and.. More

1858 25/04/2001
Western Commandos in Afghanistan

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Burhanuddin Rabbani, president of the internationally recognized Afghan government, said Western special forces were already operating inside Taliban-controlled areas of Afghanistan, an Iranian newspaper said Wednesday. (Read photo caption below) There have been a number of unconfirmed reports of elite U.S. and British commando units.. More

1851 25/04/2001
Musharraf Discusses Afghan Gov't

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - In a clear warning to the United States and Russia, Pakistan's president said Wednesday that no government could successfully replace the Taliban in Afghanistan if it were imposed from abroad. (Read photo caption) At the same time, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said any new Afghan government must be ``broad-based'' and.. More

1852 25/04/2001
Macedonian Plan to Reoccupy Albanian Zones Rocks Truce

SKOPJE (Islamweb & News Agencies) - International officials brokering peace in Macedonia appealed to the government to drop plans to redeploy police unilaterally into Albanianregions on Thursday, warning that the move could ignite new violence. (Read photo caption below) The peace process stumbled into crisis on Wednesday when the nationalist interior.. More

1853 25/04/2001
Bangladesh Election Turns Deadly

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Officials began hand counting ballots Monday after Bangladeshis voted at the end of a deadly parliamentary campaign.Five people were killed and 300 injured in scattered election-day violence, in what was considered a modest casualty toll given that at least 157 people were killed and 2,500 injured since the July 15 start of.. More

1841 24/04/2001

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