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Two planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan on Tuesday in what President Bush called "an apparent terrorist attack on our country."
About an hour after those crashes, an explosion forced the evacuation of the Pentagon in Washington and a fire erupted on the Washington Mall. Another fire was reported at the State Department.
The White House and other government buildings were also evacuated. In Chicago, the Sears Tower was evacuated.
Witnesses told CNN that a helicopter circled the Pentagon and disappeared on the other side of the building shortly before the explosion and fireball.
The Federal Aviation Administration shut down all airports in the country.
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| OTTAWA |
Nearly 20 percent of Canadian children live in poverty even though their country is one of the richest in the world, a welfare group claimed Monday.
The National Council of Welfare, an independent but government-funded group, said there were signs that fewer Canadian children were living below the poverty line.
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| KUCHING |
As the dam rises on Sarawak's controversial $2.4 billion Bakun hydro-electric project so does the concern.
In total 11,000 people, most of them from native tribes, are on the move from Malaysia's biggest infrastructure ... |
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| USA |
(CNN) -- She's one of the wealthiest women in the world. She created a talk-show powerhouse, established a motion picture acting career, and the merest mention of a book title from her can move hundreds of thousands of copies.
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| DAR ES SALAAM |
Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa on Friday appealed to the donor community for international measures to protect farmers in poor countries against falling commodity prices.
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| NEW DELHI |
India needs to accelerate economic growth to 10 percent annually to stave off poverty and looming unemployment, the US-based consultancy firm McKinsey said in a report issued Friday.
"Indian policy-makers believe that six ... |
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| COLOMBO |
Sri Lanka has cancelled a deal to raise a 200 million-dollar loan syndicated by Deutsche Bank because the terms were unfavourable, a senior government official said Thursday.
The government cancelled the loan deal and was now looking at several other options to raise much needed foreign currency, said Mano Tittawela, director general of the country's privatisation agency.
Last month, Treasury Secretary P. B. Jayasundera said the government was not willing to pay more than 7.0 percent interest to secure the financial package through Deutsche ... |
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| BRUSSELS |
The European Commission on Tuesday set out a broad vision for closer ties with Asia accenting more give-and-take in trade, security, investment and poverty reduction.
"Asia's importance for the EU is beyond question, whether ... |
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