ASEAN agrees to fight terrorism Leaders of 10 Southeast Asian

ASEAN agrees to fight terrorism Leaders of 10 Southeast Asian nations adopted Sunday a joint statement condemning terrorism "in the strongest terms" and agreed to cooperate to combat it following the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the United States. "We unequivocally condemn in the strongest terms the horrifying terrorist attacks in New York City, Washington DC and Pennsylvania on Sept. 11 and consider such acts as an attack against humanity and an assault on all of us," the statement said. --AFP

Faith in U.S. action dwindling: Nearly half the French public believes the four-week-old U.S. military action in Afghanistan is failing, a poll released on Sunday showed. The survey by pollsters Ipsos for the Journal du Dimanche weekly showed 47 percent thought the campaign was failing, with just 17 percent confident of success. The remainder of the 969-head sample, interviewed on Nov. 2, gave no response or said the outlook was unclear. No definition for what constituted success or failure was given. --Reuters