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  • Iraq Says to Consider Return of Weapons Monitoring

    BAGHDAD (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Iraq said it would consider accepting monitoring of its weapons program if trade sanctions imposed by the United Nations were lifted. ``We will consider a return of the monitoring (of weapons) after the lifting of sanctions,'' Iraq's Foreign Minister Naji Sabri said in an interview with the London-based Arabic-language.. More

  • Security Tight as Berlin Prepares for Afghan Talks

    BERLIN (Reuters) - Leaders of Afghan's ethnic and political groups will converge amid tight security in Berlin Monday for talks to forge an interim government in the war-ravaged country. Representatives of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, backers of the exiled king, exiles in Iran and Pakistan-based refugees are invited to the United Nations (news.. More

  • Israel Mocks US Peace Vision For Mideast Peace

    GAZA (Islamweb & News Agencies) - A day after the United States announced a so-called new Middle East peace drive, Israel made a mockery of US Secretary of state, Colin Powell's vision of a 2-state solution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict demolishing Palestinian houses in Gaza on Tuesday and defiantly announcingit would build new homes for Jewish.. More

  • 30 Injured in Algiers Bus Blast

    ALGIERS, Algeria (Islamweb & News Agencies) - A bomb ripped through a bus station in the Algerian capital during morning rush hour on Tuesday, injuring 30 people, five of them seriously, the nation's official news agency said. The device was stashed in a satchel left in the Tafourha bus station in central Algiers, police said. Two people injured in.. More

  • Bush pledges military and economic aid to Philippines

    WASHINGTON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The United States said on Tuesday it would boost military and economic aid to the Philippines for its fight against religious Muslim separatists, calling it an extension of the U.S.-led war against terrorism. "We're going to fight terror wherever exists. And we will work with our allies and friends to use whatever.. More

  • Court Clears Argentina's Menem

    BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Former president Carlos Menem was freed from house arrest on Tuesday, cleared by Argentina's Supreme Court of charges he ran an illicit arms smuggling ring while in office. The decision to release the flamboyant, two-term president dealt a setback to efforts to prosecute Menem in one of several corruption.. More

  • Dostum & Rumsfeld Pledge No Mercy For Besieged Afghan Arabs

    UNITED NATIONS (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The United Nations said on Tuesday it did not have the means to handle the surrender of thousands of Taliban forces under siege in Kunduz and urged the forces surrounding the key northern Afghan town to respect the laws of war in dealing with them.U.N. officials said they had been formally contacted in Islamabad.. More

  • Chechen Resistance Leader Holds First Publically Acknowldged Talks with The Kremlin

    MOSCOW (Islamweb & News Agencies) - A Chechen Resistance leader said he was optimistic about a peace deal with Russia after a lightning visit to Moscow Sunday, for the first publicly acknowledged talks with the Kremlin since war started two years ago. The talks were the first fruits of a shift in President Vladimir Putin's policy announced in September.. More

  • Rugova Claims Kosovo Vote Win

    PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Moderate Kosovo Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova claimed a historic general election victory Sunday and urged the world to recognize the territory as an independent state immediately. Although preliminary results will not be released until Monday, Rugova said it was clear his Democratic League of Kosovo.. More

  • Global Finance Leaders Grapple with New World Order

    OTTAWA (Reuters) - The guardians of the global economy ended three days of meetings on Sunday with plans to bolster world output battered by the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States and choke off funding for terrorists.The meetings yielded some solid results, with the world's advanced economies promising to cut interest rates further if they had to.. More

  • Battle For Kunduz Intensifies & Rumsfeld Says Won't Allow Omar to Escape Kandahar

    BANGI, Afghanistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The battle for the Taliban's last northern stronghold of Kunduz intensified Monday.U.S. bombing moved closer to the encircled city of Kunduz, and alliance artillery joined in what appeared to be the heaviest attacks at the front in days. Alliance commanders continued to negotiate a surrender using two-way.. More

  • U.S. Accuses Iraq, Iran & North Korea of Germ Labs

    GENEVA (Islamweb & News AGencies) - The United States accused Iraq, North Korea and four other countries on Monday of building germ-warfare arsenals, and said it worried one of them might be helping Osama bin Laden in his quest for biological weapons.``We are concerned that he (bin Laden)could have been trying to acquire a rudimentary biological weapons.. More

  • Manila Puts Nur Misuari Under "Preventive Suspension"

    MANILA (Islamweb & News Agecnies) - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo stripped a former Muslim Resistance leader of his power as governor of a southern autonomous region after his supporters launched an armed uprising, officials said on Tuesday. Presidential spokesman Rigoberto Tiglao told local radio dzMM that Nur Misuari, the governor of.. More

  • Taliban Hold on In Kandahar & Kunduz

    KABUL (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Afghanistan's Taliban clung onto their last two main strongholds Sunday in the face of withering U.S. bombing as their only diplomatic envoy said for the first time Osama bin Laden was no longer in territory under their control.The Taliban ambassador to Pakistan said the Saudi-born militant, accused of masterminding.. More

  • UN Negotiator Sees Afghan Elections in Three Years

    LONDON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Top U.N. negotiator Francesc Vendrell sees elections taking place in Afghanistan within three years. And the first step to a stable government could take place within a week with Northern Alliance leaders and representatives of the former King Zahir Shah meeting in a neutral overseas venue. Vendrell, plotting out.. More