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September 26, 2002
French rescue American students
YAMOUSSOUKRO, Ivory Coast -- Waving U.S. flags and shouting "Vive la France," American schoolchildren escaped a rebel-held Ivory Coast city under siege Wednesday, as U.S. Special Forces and French troops moved in to rescue Westerners caught in the West African nation's bloody uprising.

200,000 must change health plans
WASHINGTON -- Nearly 200,000 elderly Americans will have to change their health plans because 33 managed care plans are either withdrawing from Medicare or reducing their service areas, the government said Wednesday.

Bush, Uribe forge strong bonds
WASHINGTON -- President Bush promised Colombia's president Wednesday that the United States will help the South American nation fight terrorists and get development aid from international banks.

Bush nominates health economist to lead FDA
WASHINGTON -- Dr. Mark McClellan, an authority on the wonky price side of health care, faces a completely different challenge as President Bush's choice to head the agency responsible for the safety of medical and consumer products used by every American.

Washington in brief
Conservatives stall spending measure

Iraq helping al-Qaida, Rice says
WASHINGTON -- President Bush's national security adviser on Wednesday accused Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's regime of sheltering members of the al-Qaida terrorist network in Baghdad and helping Osama bin Laden's operatives in developing chemical weapons.

Bell Labs fires star researcher, says work faked
TRENTON, N.J. -- A star researcher in electronics at Bell Labs has been fired after an outside review committee found he falsified experimental data.

Nation in brief
INS agents charged in beating

Christian workers slain by gunmen in Pakistan
KARACHI, Pakistan -- Armed assailants tied up Christian charity workers, taped their victims' mouths closed and shot them execution-style Wednesday, a bullet each to the head.

Fighting terror: notebook
Homeland bill goes nowhere in the Senate

World in brief
3 houses of terror suspects blown up



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Flashpoint: Afghanistan
Multimedia Coverage of the Terror Attacks
Latest News on the Terror Attacks
Updated List of Victims
Terror Attack Multimedia Gallery
Terror's Path: An Interactive Map
Missing: A Multimedia Essay
Terror Attack: Minute by Minute
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