US authorities have informed Germany that they will not extradite 13 suspected CIA agents sought in the alleged kidnapping of a German citizen.

A British man working for a private security company was shot dead in Kabul, Afghanistan, today, the Foreign Office said.

A state of emergency could be declared in Pakistan because of “external and internal threats” and deteriorating law and order in the volatile north-west near the Afghan border, the government said today.

FRANCE’S foreign intelligence service learned as early as January 2001 that al-Qaida was preparing a hijacking plot likely to involve a US airplane, former intelligence officials said yesterday, confirming a report that also said the CIA received the warning.

Arrest warrants have been issued for 13 people in connection with the alleged CIA-orchestrated kidnapping of a German citizen in the agency’s extraordinary rendition programme.

Militants attacked a police checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan, sparking a battle with officers that left one insurgent dead, police said today.

The international Red Cross today said it hoped to visit the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, this week because of the suicides of three inmates.

The international Red Cross said today it hoped to visit the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, this week because of the suicides of three inmates.

At midnight on an autumn night two years ago, a Boeing passenger plane with seven people carrying US passports touched down at a little-used airport deep in the pine forests of north-eastern Poland, officials say.

European Union human rights chiefs and the Red Cross are to investigate claims that the CIA set up secret jails in eastern Europe and elsewhere to interrogate al-Qaida suspects.

Allegations that the CIA set up secret jails in eastern Europe and elsewhere to interrogate al Qaida suspects today triggered a flurry of denials from governments in the former Soviet bloc and prompted European Union officials, the continent’s top human rights organisation and the international Red Cross to investigate.

A PLANE used by the United States for an alleged illegal snatch of a terrorist suspect passed through Shannon during the operation, it has been revealed.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has strongly condemned terrorist attacks in Israel and Russia and the gruesome murder of 12 Nepalese civilians in Iraq. The UN Security Council condemned the Israeli suicide bombings and “all other acts of terrorism”.

Former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan has been deported to Afghanistan.

The Northern Alliance have claimed responsibility for the attacks on Kabul, Afghanistan.