Afghanistan Begins Freeing Prisoners Who Fought For Taliban
- Afghanistan's interim regime on Thursday freed the first of hundreds of Pakistani prisoners locked away for months in cramped, squalid cells because they came to help the deposed Taliban regime fight a "holy war" against America.
Nine Palestinians Leave Besieged Church of Nativity
- Wearing white masks against the powerful stench, nine young Palestinians emerged from the Church of the Nativity on Thursday carrying makeshift wooden coffins with the decomposing corpses of two Palestinian policemen and surrendered to Israeli police.
