Two Kenyans said to be among al-Qaida’s top operatives on the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list were killed in a US strike in Pakistan on New Year’s Eve, an American official said today.

NICARAGUA’S National Police have declared an alert because of the “possible presence” of two suspected members of the al-Qaida terrorist network in Central America.

Kenyan police are trying to determine the identity of a man they arrested believing he was involved in the 1998 bombing of the US Embassy in Kenya that killed more than 200 people.

President George Bush is to announce a new "most wanted" list of suspected terrorists.