US: FBI releases newly declassified record on Sept 11 attacks

WASHINGTON, Sept 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The FBI late on Saturday released a newly declassified 16-page document related to logistical support provided to two of the Saudi hijackers in the run-up to the Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The document describes contacts the hijackers had with Saudi associates in the US…

Chile kickstarts construction of largest e-Fuel project in LatAm

SANTIAGO, Sept 12 (NNN-Xinhua) — Chile commenced in its southern region of Magallanes the construction of the largest project in Latin America to produce synthetic gasoline from green hydrogen. With an investment of 51 million U.S. dollars, the Highly Innovative Fuels (HIF) consortium’s Haru Oni project will use wind power…

5 soldiers killed, 6 wounded in ELN attack in Colombia

BOGOTA, Sept 12 (NNN-Xinhua) — At least five soldiers were killed and six were wounded on Saturday in an attack by guerrillas from the National Liberation Army (ELN) in a rural area of the Colombian municipality of Arauquita in the department of Arauca. According to authorities, the wounded men were…

Former head of Peru’s Maoist rebels dies in prison: lawyer

  LIMA, Sept 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Abimael Guzman, the historic leader of Peru’s Maoist Shining Path guerrillas — blamed for one of the bloodiest insurgencies in Latin America — died Saturday in a military prison at the age of 86.   Guzman had been serving a life sentence in the…

UN Chief Underlines Importance Of Engaging Taliban, Aiding Afghans

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) – United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres said, engaging the Taliban and providing humanitarian aid to the Afghan people are crucial, for avoiding both a humanitarian catastrophe and an economic meltdown. “These are two things that are interlinked and they depend on how they evolve ……

Twenty years after 9/11, one of the last US Marines killed in Afghanistan comes home

LAWRENCE (Massachusetts, US), Sept 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US Marine Sergeant Johanny Rosario returned to her hometown in Massachusetts in a casket on Saturday, one of the last American service members killed in Afghanistan during a war set in motion exactly two decades ago by the Sept 11, 2001 attacks. Several hundred…

World leaders remember 9/11 victims and survivors

  PARIS, Sept 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — World leaders sent messages of solidarity Saturday on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, saying the attackers had failed to destroy Western values.    Here are a few reactions:    BRITAIN: “We can now say with the perspective of 20 years that they (the jihadists)…

US Pres Biden and China’s Pres Xi hold first call in seven months

This is only the second call between the leaders since President Biden took office WASHINGTON/BEIJING, Sept 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has spoken with his US counterpart Joe Biden for the first time in seven months. A White House Statement said both leaders had “discussed the responsibility of both…

US tower collapse: Three arrested over Surfside victim ID thefts

The 12-storey apartment block in Surfside partially collapsed on June 24 SURFSIDE (Florida, US), Sept 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US police have arrested three people accused of stealing the identities of victims in the building collapse that killed 98 people in Florida in June. The suspects face charges of multiple counts of…

UN Chief marks 20th anniversary of 9/11 attacks

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 11 (NNN-XINHUA) — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday issued a statement to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States. “Today we mark a somber day seared in the minds of millions of people around the world — a day…
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