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  • Saudi oil key to energy markets if U.S. attacks Iraq

    HIGHLIGHTS: There's Definitely a War Premium, Otherwise Oil Prices Would be in Mid-twenties, Oil Expert||For How Long Can Washington Keep Consumer Gasoline Prices Flat is a Million Dollar Question||How Far Would OPEC Ministerial Council be Affected by War Talk When it Convenes to Review Oil Prices?-Another Vexing Question||A dlrs 40 Oil Barrel Could.. More

  • Israel Postpones Security Talks with Palestinians

    Israel's defense minister called off talks set for Wednesday with the Palestinian interior minister on easing an Israel military clampdown, after mortar shells were fired into a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli minister, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, postponed the meeting with Abdel-Razzek Yahya after what Israel called a "grave incident" overnight.. More

  • Iraq Says Ready for Dialogue but America Wants War

    Iraq said on Wednesday there was still room for a diplomatic solution to avert war with the United States, but that Baghdad had to prepare for conflict because Washington did not want a peaceful solution. "We believe that dialogue has not totally been cut off, but it is being blocked by American pressure," Iraqi Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan told.. More

  • Bin Laden at Afghan Border, Officials Tell Paper

    U.S. commanders appear to have concluded that Osama bin Ladenis moving among mountain hideouts along a 250-mile stretch of the border between Afghanistanand Pakistan, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. The newspaper cites some American officers as saying the assumption driving the manhunt is that the al Qaeda leader and his top lieutenant, Ayman.. More

  • Israeli Assault in Gaza Further Overshadows Security Plan

    HIGHLIGHTS: Resistance Men Waiting on the Periphery of Gaza City for any Further Israeli Advance||Yahya Pledges Proper Policing in Areas with Restored Self-Rule||Despite Grave Doubts, Ben-Eliezer Pleased with Progress in Implementation of so-called 'Gaza-Bethlehem First' Security Plan||Israel Detains PFLP & Hamas Leaders in Ramallah, Nablus & Hebron,.. More

  • U.S. in Two Minds about U.N. Inspectors' Return to Baghdad

    HIGHLIGHTS: Both U.S. & Iraq Skeptical about Return of UN Inspectors to Baghdad||Using Force Would not Help Solve the Iraqi Issue, Says China||Iraq Won't Allow Inspectors' Return without a Price|| STORY: The United States still wants U.N. inspectors to return to Iraq but only if they have "unfettered and unconditional access" to search any sites they.. More

  • Iraq Defiant, Arabs Alarmed by New U.S. War Talk

    HIGHLIGHTS: U.S. Planes Attack Mousil||Saddam Tells Qatari Foreign Minister Baghdad Has Fulfilled its UN Obligations||Mubarak Warns of Mideast Chaos if Iraq is Attacked||Bush Pledges to Consult with Saudi Arabia as He Approaches a Decision on Military action||Return of UN Inspectors Futile, if Washington Attacks, Says Ramadan|| STORY: Renewed U.S. talk.. More

  • Israel to Partially Ease Bethlehem Closure

    The Israeli occupation army said on Tuesday it would relax restrictions on some Palestinians entering Israel from Bethlehem after "relative quiet" took hold in the West Bank city under a new security plan. The United States urged the Israelis and Palestinians to renew efforts to revive the stalled Gaza-Bethlehem plan, which has been seen as a test case.. More

  • Iraq Mounts Diplomatic Drive for Arab Support

    Iraqi Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan arrived in Syria on Tuesday seeking to build diplomatic defenses against the threat of U.S. attack, as the United States stepped up its war talk against Baghdad. U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney on Monday laid out the case for pre-emptive action against Iraq citing mortal danger to the United States. He warned.. More

  • U.S. envoy leaves China with positive mood set for summit

    A U.S. envoy left China for Japan on Tuesday, having set the scene for an October Sino-U.S. summit by clearing the air on Taiwan and announcing the addition of a Chinese separatist group to Washington's terrorism blacklist. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, whose trip coincided with a Chinese sweetener on missile exports, said earlier.. More

  • Seven Israeli Arabs Arrested as Doubts About Truce Grow

    HIGHLIGHTS: Hamas Leader of the Jenin Region, Abu el-Heijah, Detained||Prolonged Conflict Corrupting Jewish Culture, Says Chief Rabbi in Britain||U.S. Backs Truce Plan|| STORY: Israeli occupation forces said they had arrested a group of Israeli Arabs accused of helping a Palestinian bomber blow up a bus and Washington urged renewed efforts to revive.. More

  • Qatar Minister in Iraq to Discuss Arms Inspections

    Qatar's foreign minister arrived in Iraq Monday for talks to try and persuade Baghdad to resume U.N. weapons inspections. Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani's state visit was the first by a Gulf Arab foreign minister to Iraq in at least four years and would focus on arms inspections as a key to averting a potential U.S. attack on Iraq. "We will.. More

  • Cheney Presses Case for Iraq Action

    U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney warned Monday that the United States could face devastating consequences from any delay in acting to remove Saddam Hussein as president of Iraq. Lawmakers urged President Bush to get their support before any invasion, even though White House advisers say congressional assent is not legally required. Cheney's remarks were.. More

  • Israel Raids Jenin Camp, Reaffirms Security Deal

    Israeli troops swept into Jenin refugee camp Monday and hunted house-by-house for Palestinian militants, witnesses said, as Israel's defense chief insisted a security deal meant to ease violence remained intact. The so-called "Gaza-Bethlehem First" arrangement, in which Israeli forces vacated Bethlehem last week, is viewed as a test for a wider withdrawal.. More

  • U.S. Envoy in China Talks, Missile Rules a Boon

    U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage held talks with officials in Beijing on Monday, buoyed by China's publications of rules tightening controls on missile-related exports, a key sticking point in relations. Just hours after Armitage arrived in the Chinese capital on Sunday to prepare for a Sino-U.S. summit in October, Beijing published the.. More