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...Members of the Taliban, a rebel group led by ex-seminary students, stormed the city at about 1 a.m. Friday from several directions. They quickly located former President Najibullah and his brother at a U.N compound, where they had been hiding since losing power four years ago. TIME's Meenakshi Ganguly, reporting from New Delhi, says TIME stringers witnessed Najibullah's bullet-riddled body hanging from a lamppost; the public has gathered at the spectacle. The Taliban, who since 1994 have captured most of the countryside, are in total control of Kabul. Says Ganguly: "People almost welcome them because they...
...Reported by John Colmey/Katmandu, Meenakshi Ganguly/New Delhi, Jenifer Mattos/New York and Simon Robinson/Auckland
...Anthony Spaeth. Reported by Meenakshi Ganguly/New Delhi and Mia Turner/Beijing
...choose the Panchen Lama. Wednesday, the government chose Gynincain Norbu, born six years ago when the 10th Panchen Lama died, as the "legitimate" 11th incarnation of the Panchen Lama. With the Dalai Lama in exile, the Panchen Lama is the chief religious leader in the country, and TIME's Meenakshi Ganguly reports that the battle for his position is one of enormous political significance: "In the absence of a Dalai Lama, the Panchen Lama becomes the spiritual head of the Tibetan community, although he has no political power. What interests China is his religious right to locate the reincarnation...
...James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, Sally B. Donnelly, Yuri Zarakhovich, Felix Rosenthal Rome: John Moody Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer, Ron Ben-Yishai, Jamil Hamad Cairo: Dean Fischer Beirut: Lara Marlowe Nairobi: Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod Cape Town: Peter Hawthorne New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy, Anita Pratap, Meenakshi Ganguly Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz, Mia Turner Southeast Asia: William Dowell Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond Melbourne: John Dunn Ottawa: Gavin Scott Latin America: Laura Lopez Rio de Janeiro: Ian McCluskey...