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Arafat Calls for G8 Reprimand of Israel

JERUSALEM (Islamweb & Agencies) - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat accused Israel on Saturday of escalating Middle East violence and called on world leaders at a Group of Eight summit to rein in Israeli ``aggression'' in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.The appeal capped a week of inter-communal violence between Israelis and Palestinians, locked in 10.. More

1164 05/04/2001
List of Palestinian Intifadha Martyrs Growing by the Day

JERUSALEM (Islamweb & Agencies) - Israeli occupation soldiers killed a Palestinian on Sunday, just hours after world leaders at a Group of Eight summit in Italy pressed the warring sides to accept outside observers in the troubled region.Palestinian security sources said an Israeli tank shell killed a 48-year-old Palestinian when it hit his home in.. More

1170 05/04/2001
31 Killed in Kashmir

SRINAGAR, India (Islamweb & Agencies) - Thirty-one people including Resistance men and Hindu pilgrims trekking to a shrine were killed in separate incidents in Indian Kashmir. Resistance men exploded a bomb and then fired at police, pilgrims and porters at a camp on the route to the Amarnath mountain-cave shrine. Six Hindu pilgrims, two policemen and.. More

1171 05/04/2001
Four Russians Killed in Chechnya

MOSCOW (Islamweb & Agencies) - Four Russian invasion soldiers were killed in the Chechen capital Grozny on Saturday when their armored vehicle was blown up by a remote-controlled mine and then came under fire from a Resistance sniper. (Read map caption below). RIA news agency quoted pro-Russian Chechen police as saying the armored personnel carrier.. More

1172 05/04/2001
G8 Leaders Wrap Up Protest-Marred Summit

GENOA, Italy (AP) - Closing out a protest-marred summit, President Bush and other world leaders failed Sunday to resolve sharp differences over global warming but found accord on ways to alleviate global poverty.(Read photo caption below).The leaders also vowed to go forward with their annual meetings, which started nearly three decades ago, despite.. More

1173 05/04/2001
Global Warming Talks Progress

BONN, Germany (AP) - Talks to rescue a treaty on combatting global warming moved into their decisive phase Saturday after making major progress in drafting the final negotiating positions - including what appeared to be significant concessions to the United States. Environmental activists said the parties looked headed for a deal, but delegates were.. More

1174 05/04/2001
Crush at Japan Fireworks Show Kills 10, Injures 100

TOKYO (Reuters) - At least 10 people were killed, including eight children, and about 100 were injured in a crush of people as crowds poured out of a fireworks' display at the Japanese seaside town of Akashi on Saturday, officials said. (Read photo caption below). Security guards blamed inadequate exit routes which caused overcrowding at the only.. More

1179 05/04/2001
Israel Toys with G8 Monitors' Plan as Arafat Seeks Arab Mini-summit

JEDDAH, Jerusalem, (Islamweb & Agencies) -Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat sought Saudi support Sunday for an Arab mini-summit on the Middle East conflict, an Arab diplomatic source in Jeddah said. According to the source the question will be raised in talks which Mr. Arafat will have with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz on Monday. He gave.. More

1183 05/04/2001
Burst of Fighting Rocks Macedonia's Fragile Truce

TETOVO, Macedonia (Islamweb & Agencies) - Macedonian's Slave dominated government forces and ethnic Albanian fighters fought on Sunday in a serious breach of a 17-day cease-fire rendered fragile by the failure of local leaders to agree a permanent peace deal. Heavy machine-gun, mortar and small-arms fire echoed for almost two hours across the hill-sides.. More

1184 05/04/2001
Bush, Putin Talk Arms Control

GENOA, Italy (AP) - Seeking a post-Cold War formula for arms control, President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged Sunday to pursue deep cuts in their nuclear arsenals and link the offensive weapons talks to tougher negotiations over Bush's missile defense plans. Their differences still deep, both leaders hailed the surprise announcement.. More

1185 05/04/2001
A Top Conservative Leader Goes To Jail in Britain

LONDON (Reuters) - Disgraced British politician and best-selling novelist Jeffrey Archer was jailed for four years on Thursday after being found guilty of perjury and perverting the course of justice in a sensational London trial. (Read photo caption below). The flamboyant Archer, a peer in the House of Lords, was convicted of three charges of perverting.. More

1154 04/04/2001
G8 leaders meet amid security clampdown

GENOA, Italy, (AFP) -Radicals are threatening to breach tight security as world leaders begin meeting here Friday for a Group of Eight summit to discuss poverty, disease and a stuttering world economy. (Read photo caption below) Some 30,000 protesters from disparate anti-globalisation groups marched peacefully through part of the city late Thursday.. More

1153 04/04/2001
Ethnic Albanians Boycott Talks

SKOPJE, Macedonia (Islamweb & Agencies) - Ethnic Albanian parties boycotted peace talks and two Western diplomats postponed a visit Thursday, raising fears negotiations to end Macedonia's five-month ethnic Albanian revolt for equal rights with the country's Slav majority could collapse. Violence also erupted as two bomb blasts shook the suburbs of the.. More

1152 04/04/2001
Russian Rights Abuses Show No Signs of Abating in Chechnya

MOSCOW (Islamweb & Agencies) - Russia's top official in Chechnya on Thursday demanded that top army brass be held responsible for rights abuses in the troubledregion, Interfax news agency reported.Akhmad Kadyrov, head of Chechnya's pro-Moscow administration, said he wanted military leaders to answer alongside six soldiers accused of crimes against civilians.. More

1151 04/04/2001
Israeli Settlers Murder Three Palestinians

HEBRON, AL-KHALIL, West Bank (Islamweb & Agencies) - Israeli gunmen killed three Palestinians, including a baby boy, in a shooting that drew an urgent appeal from the Palestinian Authority for foreign observers in the West Bank and Gaza.Three-month-old Diya' Tmeizi is the youngest person killed in 10 months of Israeli-Palestinian fighting. Israel Radio.. More

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