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Saturday, Sep 15, 2001

Terrorist attacks

New York

(CNN) -- A crowd of rescuers chanted "USA, USA" as President Bush thanked everyone working Friday at ground zero of the devastated World Trade Center that was hit by hijacked planes flown by terrorists.
As he stood on a pile of rubble in Manhattan, some people in the crowd shouted they couldn't hear him.
Bush promises terrorists will get message soon
"I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon," Bush answered.
The crowd roared its approval.
The president was updated on the progress of recovery efforts and shook hands with many of the volunteers, police officers and firefighters involved in rescue efforts.
He arrived in a wet and dreary New York ...

Terrorist attacks

New York

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 ...

Canada - children

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, ...

Malaysia

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 ...

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.
And ...

Tanzania - donors

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.
Addressing the opening session of a meeting here ...

India - economy

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 percent growth is adequate. Yet India's working-age population is expanding ever faster," warned the report.
"Unless the gross domestic product (GDP) grows at closer to 10 percent a year, India could face unemployment as high as 16 percent by 2010."
The findings of the McKinsey report were presented Friday to Prime ...

SriLanka - economy

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 ...

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