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<p>ATHENS -- After nearly 10 years of study, a US researcher says he has assembled evidence to prove that the fabled lost island of Atlantis existed off the shores of Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea.</p> <p>Robert Sarmast says Atlantis was not simply a figment of the imagination of the Greek philosopher Plato, who vividly described the seafaring civilization and how it had been "swallowed up by the earth," but a real place replete with stone temples, bridges, canals, and roads.</p>

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders promised to decide by March 10 whether to hold public referenda on a United Nations plan to reunify their divided island, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said Friday. Annan, on a three-day visit to Cyprus, proposed the idea of referenda on both sides of the island after it became clear the leadership of neither side would accept his plan without further changes. Annan's plan envisages Cyprus as a single country with Greek and Turkish Cypriot ``constituent states'' linked through a weak central government. As he left Cyprus on Friday, Annan said...

Afghans give surprise to US-led coalition American objectives lost in Afghanistan's north-south conflict By Kamran Khan The News: Jang (Pakistan) October 23, 2001 KARACHI: Unforeseen developments inside Afghanistan have derailed the projections made by the United States and Pakistani military strategists that Mulla Omar-led Taliban regime may be crushed under a political and military rebellion within first few days of US aerial strikes over Afghanistan. Because of these developments the US military is meeting roadblocks in achieving military targets in northern Afghanistan, while in the south and east Pakistani officials have not yet been able to cobble together a moderate ...