ANGOLAN rebels killed 25 people and injured 27 others in two attacks in the southern Huambo province this week, said the Roman Catholic radio station Ecclesia. The radio said rebels from the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita) on Tuesday attacked the village of Longonjo in Huambo province, killing 24 villagers and […]

WILLIAM O BEEMAN, Providence, Rhode Island | Thursday THE United States risks a severe miscalculation in dealing with the destruction of the World Trade Center and the attack on the Pentagon on Tuesday. The root cause is not terrorist activity, as has been widely stated. It is the relationship between the United States and the […]

PETER CUNLIFFE-JONES, Lagos | Thursday ARMED mobs went on the rampage in two Nigerian cities on Wednesday in clashes between Christians and Muslims and a newspaper reported at least 500 people had died in five days of violence. Clashes which erupted on Friday in the central city of Jos between rampaging gangs of Christian and […]

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 […]