MARJORIE OLSTER, New York | Thursday HOPES were fading on Thursday that more survivors would be found from an attack two days earlier that demolished the World Trade Center towers, now feared to be a mass tomb where thousands may be buried. The preliminary death toll had reached 82 by early Thursday but was expected […]

Paris | Wednesday THE hijacked planes that destroyed New York’s World Trade Center crashed into the twin towers at their most vulnerable spot, which suggests the suicide attackers may have known where to strike, an expert said Wednesday. The jetliners smacked into the towers about three-quarters up their 110-storey height, an impact probably equal to […]

Washington | Thursday US leaders, putting aside political differences in the wake of a deadly terror attack, vowed on Wednesday to wage war without mercy on those responsible as hope of finding more survivors faded. President George W. Bush vowed to avenge the murders of thousands by waging a “monumental struggle of good versus evil,” […]

THE NATO allies on Thursday stood ready to throw their full weight behind the United States in a military reprisal for terrorist attacks that demolished the World Trade Center in New York and damaged the Pentagon in Washington. Meeting at their heavily guarded headquarters on the outskirts of Brussels late on Wednesday night, the 19 […]

SCORES of South Africans on Wednesday placed flowers outside the US embassy in Pretoria to express their sympathy following the terrorist attacks in the United States. Some of the people who flocked to the embassy said they had relatives in the United States and had feared for their safety while others simply said they were […]

STRONG winds, rain and hail hit Johannesburg and its surrounding areas on Wednesday night blowing roofs of houses on the East Rand and overturning light aircraft at a Midrand airport. Grand Central Airport manager Jeanette Rennie said that gale-force winds had hit the airport on Wednesday night and described the scene as ”sheer devastation.” Two […]

AFGHANISTAN’S ruling Taliban on Thursday denied a report that Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden had been placed under house arrest, the Afghan Islamic Press news service said. ”This morning Taliban sources in Kabul told AIP that these news stories that Osama or any of his associates have been arrested are false and fabricated,” the Pakistan-based […]

US Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet promised Wednesday to pierce ”the shield of fanaticism,” as US officials pondered a response to this week’s terrorist attacks on major US buildings. ”The shield of fanaticism — wielded by those ready to forfeit their lives to achieve their twisted dreams — is not easily pierced,” Tenet said, […]

VOWING to strike with a hammer of vengeance, the United States hunted for those behind the deadly attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon – with exiled Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden as the prime suspect. In New York, officials sought 6 000 body bags as rescue workers sifted through the rubble of […]

THE US Federal Bureau of Investigation has asked the Indian government to provide details of all known and suspected activities of Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden in India, a report said on Thursday. The Times of India quoted official sources as saying a formal request letter had been received from the FBI on Wednesday evening. […]