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Sharon Rejects EU Peace Call As Occupation Army Kills Two Palestinians in Gaza

JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The Israeli occupation army said it killed two armed Palestinians near a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Stripon Sunday. Israeli media reports said two other Palestinian Resistance men in the squad escaped. There was no immediate comment from Palestinian security officials on the incident. Israeli Prime Minister.. More

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Russians Say Ball In Chechens' Courtyard

MOSCOW (Islamweb & News Agencies) - A Russian special envoy said on Monday it was up to thel Chechens to make the next move after ground-breaking weekend talks. Viktor Kazantsev, presidential envoy for southern Russia, held a two-hour meeting Sunday near Moscow with Akhmed Zakayev, representative of Chechen deposed elected leader Aslan Maskhadov. It.. More

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Russia Ships Nuclear Reactor Shell to Iran

St. PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russia began shipping the shell of a nuclear reactor to Iran on Friday under a deal that has enraged Washington. Moscow signed a 1 billion contract with Tehran to build a nuclear power station at Bushehr in 1995, but the project was slow to get off the ground, in part because of intense U.S. pressure on Russia to renege.. More

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Taliban Won't Leave Kandahar, Opponents Divided

KABUL/SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The Taliban vowed on Saturday not to give up their southern Afghan stronghold of Kandahar without a fight, as new cracks opened among the fractious factions and foreign forces arrayed against them.The Taliban's sole ambassador, the envoy to Pakistan Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, returned from Afghanistan.. More

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Israeli Pullback Reportedly Sets Stage for EU Talks

JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israel announced a troop withdrawal from a Palestinian city ahead of talks on Sunday with a European Union delegation that has called for the relaunch of the Middle East peace process.The Israeli occupation army said on Saturday it had left Tulkarm, the latest pullout under U.S. and international pressure from.. More

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Kosovo Votes in Poll Hailed by West as Historic

PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The voters of Kosovo have chosen members of a fledgling legislature in a ballot hailed by the West as the first free and democratic general election in the history of the Yugoslav province.It will be several days before official results reveal the exact makeup of the Kosovo assembly but it was clear.. More

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Macedonia Says Reforms Bind Albanians to Accept State

SKOPJE (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Macedonia said on Saturday the passage of reforms crucial to a peace accord meant that former Albanian fighters who fought police a week ago had no more grounds to resist the return of state authorities in the near future.Bowing to Western diplomatic pressure, parliament enacted improvements to the civil rights of.. More

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Eight die in new violence in Indonesia's Aceh province

JAKARTA, (AFP)-At least eight people were killed in the latest violence in Indonesia's rebellious Aceh province, residents and aid workers said. The bodies of a man and a woman were found on Friday in the Babah Lueng village in the northern Aceh district of Bireun, a humanitarian activist said Saturday. He said the corpses bore gunshot wounds. Separately,.. More

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Tribal Leaders Could Take Over From Taliban in Kandahar

KABUL (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Afghanistan's beleaguered Taliban decided on Friday to withdraw from their southern stronghold, Kandahar, and to take to the mountains, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) said.Almost seven years to the day since he captured Kandahar, Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar decided to hand it over to two former mujahideen.. More

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Confusion Over Alliance - European Military Cooperation in Afghanistan

PARIS (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Britain, France and Germany led European moves on Friday to send troops into Afghanistan, but there was confusion over whether they would actually be welcome when they arrived.As the multi-national mission to protect the distribution of food to millions of needy Afghans gathered momentum, the victorious anti-Taliban.. More

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Little Clue to the Shape of a Future Government in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Amid political confusion, Afghanistan's Northern Alliance stamped its control on Kabul on Wednesday as defecting tribal leaders and relentless U.S. air raids pushed the hard-line Taliban into a shrinking corner. The fundamentalist movement, engaged in a last stand against rebel tribal leaders at their.. More

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Military Campaign Outpaces Political Maneuvers, As UN Approves Policy Plan

UNITED NATIONS (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The U.N. Security Council approved on Wednesday a blueprint for the international community to follow to fill the void in Afghanistan after the unexpected flight of the Taliban.In a resolution adopted by a 15-0 vote, the council supported plans by Lakhdar Brahimi, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's special.. More

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Nuclear Bomb Papers Found in Kabul House Used By Al-Qaeda

LONDON (Reuters) - Documents giving details of how to build a nuclear bomb have been found in a looted Kabul house used by Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network, The Times newspaper reported on Thursday. The paper said its reporter had discovered the partly burned papers in the building abandoned by Al Qaeda as the city was overrun by fighters from the.. More

2439 14/05/2001
Afghan Aid Worker Detainees Free

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. helicopters swooped into a field in Afghanistan on Wednesday to lift to freedom eight Western aid workers held for months by the Taliban under threat of execution.``This effort involved many people and several entities. U.S. forces performed the extraction well and the American people can be proud of them,'' Defense Secretary.. More

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Israeli Occupation Forces Enter Khan Younis, 13 Hurt

GAZA (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israeli tanks rumbled into a Palestinian-ruled town in the southern Gaza Strip early on Thursday and troops wounded at least 13 Palestinians in heavy shooting, witnesses and medical officials said.The occupation army had no immediate comment on the night raid into Khan Younis, which has reportedly followed a mortar.. More

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