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/ 18 October 2001
Zeeshan Haider, Khorum | Monday AN old man deferentially removed his turban as he spoke. ”We are poor people, don’t hit us,” he said. ”We have nothing to do with Osama bin Laden. We are innocent people.” ”I lost my four daughters, my son and my wife in this attack,” said Toray, a distraught farmer, […]
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/ 18 October 2001
SEVERAL foreign journalists have been taken hostage by pro-Taliban protesters near Peshawar in Pakistan, according to unconfirmed reports. The journalists were believed to have been trying to get near the Afghan border when they were captured and blindfolded. It is not known where they have been taken. The area around Pakistan’s borders with Afghanistan had […]
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/ 18 October 2001
Dubai | Sunday THE heavy US aerial bombardment of Afghanistan has signally failed to silence Osama bin Laden who taunted the world superpower again on Sunday via a simple video message aired by an Arab television station. The representative for his Al-Qaeda group warned of more hijacked jetliner attacks to come against the United States […]
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/ 18 October 2001
BRITAIN has no news of the British journalist Yvonne Ridley, who was held by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Monday after a night of air strikes against the regime. ”I feel terribly for the family. They’ve been on a kind of roller-coaster of hope and emotion,” he said, shortly before leaving […]
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/ 17 October 2001
After winning the Booker Prize in 1998, Ian McEwan’s life was turned upside down by his ex-wife seeking custody of their sons. But now it’s happy families and he’s written possibly his best novel, writes Kate Kellaway.
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/ 17 October 2001
Review:</b> <i>Wildlife Wars: My fight to save Africa’s Natural Treasures</i> by Richard Leakey and Virginia Morell (Macmillan).
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/ 17 October 2001
The former Speedy Bag Factory at 10 Minnaar Street, Fordsburg — a stone’s throw away from the Oriental Plaza — is an art pit stop where some of South Africa’s brightest art stars and guest residents from around the world are available for serious studio visits or a bit of a laugh over lunch, writes Kathryn Smith.
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/ 17 October 2001
CHRIS MCGREAL, Cape Town | Wednesday A DEVASTATING report into Aids suppressed by the South African government because it identifies the disease as the largest killer in the country and predicts millions more deaths, was finally made public yesterday after unions, churches and politicians demanded its release. But cabinet ministers spent recent days trying to […]
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/ 17 October 2001
THE human race is likely to be wiped out by a virus before the end of this millennium unless space colonies are built as an escape route, famed cosmologist Stephen Hawking warned in an interview on Tuesday. He told the Daily Telegraph he thought biology — rather than the threat of nuclear Armageddon — was […]