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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 2001
Page
6
Explosions rocked Kabul as US jets bombed suspected weapons sites and Taliban positions. Rumsfeld signaled possible strikes on front lines in the northeast while opposition forces claimed advances toward Mazar e Sharif and defections grew.
Indian forces fire mortars and rockets into Pakistani positions across the cease-fire line in Kashmir, claiming they inflicted heavy damage while Pakistan reports civilian casualties. Both sides accuse the other of supporting militants as U S envoy Powell visits the region amid heightened tensions between India and Pakistan.
Israel eases movement limits in the West Bank by pulling back troops and removing checkpoints while a Hamas militant is killed in a car blast in Nablus. Palestinians say measures fall short of a full lift of the security cordon. Prime Minister Sharon vows troops will return if Israelis are attacked.
Air France and British Airways plan to restart Concorde service to New York on November 7, fifteen months after the fatal 2000 crash. Tickets go on sale immediately as the carriers express confidence in the industry’s recovery and solidarity with New York City after the September 11 attacks.
Two Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Tyurin and Vladimir Dezhurov conducted a spacewalk 250 miles above Earth to mount experiments outside the international space station. They attached a Russian contamination study then secured three tray packs from the Japanese Space Agency containing hundreds of samples including paint metals adhesives film and silica aerogels.
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