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  • Iraq Wants Talks with U.N. on Arms Inspections

    HIGHLIGHTS: Baghdad Preparing for the "Worst"||Iraq Warns Neighbours of Dangers they Face Too if U.S. Attacks||U.S. to Free Eight Million Dollars for Iraqi Opposition|| STORY: A top Iraqi official said in remarks broadcast on Thursday that Baghdad was ready to discuss the return of U.N. arms inspectors provided the talks are not preceded by any conditions... More

  • Privileged US-Egypt relations going through turbulence

    Differences on Iraq, Sudan and human rights have started to cloud relations between the United States and Egypt, its main Arab ally and partner. Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher Thursday bluntly told Washington not to interfere with his country's affairs after US press reports said President George W. Bush had decided to oppose new aid to Egypt.. More

  • New Israeli-Palestinian security meet to discuss "Gaza First

    HIGHLIGHTS: Palestinians Fear Withdrawal Will Become "Gaza Only"||Ramallah up for Discussion: Peres||A Second Palestinian Killed in Tubas in the Northern West Bank||Hamas Vows Revenge||More Palestinians Detained in Gaza & Jennin|| Collaborator Gunned Down in Tulkarm||Mandela to Join 'Free Barghouti Campaingn' || STORY: Israeli Defence Minister Binyamin.. More

  • Vajpayee Accuses Pakistan of Interfering in State Elections in Indian-ruled Kashmir

    India's prime minister, using his strongest language against Pakistan since the two countries pulled back from the brink of war in June, accused Islamabad on Thursday of "cross-border terrorism" in disputed Kashmir. Atal Behari Vajpayee's speech appeared to be in response to an address by Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf who said India's plans to.. More

  • East Timor's ex-police chief acquitted

    An Indonesian court found a former East Timor police chief not guilty of crimes against humanity over the territory's bloody independence vote in 1999, a ruling rights groups labelled absurd. The verdict for Brigadier General Timbul Silaen was the second handed down by Indonesia's special human rights court over a string of cases on the East Timor carnage... More

  • Israel to release 15 million dollars to Palestinians Monday

    HIGHLIGHTS: Plans Being Laid out to Increase Number of Work Permits for Palestinians||Discussions Cover 'Gaza First' Security Plan||Israeli Security Cabinet Approves Route of Security Fence Along West Bank||Resistance Groups Still Locked in Talks on Unified Leadership|| Barghouti's Trial to Resume 5th September, 2002|| STORY:Israel is to release another.. More

  • Iraqi Air Defenses Hit, U.S. Says

    HIGHLIGHTS: Iraqi Kurdish Leader, Jalal Talabani, Denies Offering Military Help to U.S. to Attack Baghdad||U.S. Navy Contracts Ships to Move Military Hardware||Rumsfeld Says Allowing UN Inspectors Back in Iraq Is Not Enough||Oppostion Group Claims Saddam's Son Wounded||STORY: Aircraft from the U.S.-British coalition patrolling southern Iraq bombed two.. More

  • Arab League Secretary General Calls on Member States to Accept Khartoum-SPLA Agreement

    Arab League Secretary General, Amr Moussa call on all Arab countries to accept the agreement between the Khartoum Government and the rebel Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA). Speaking after a meeting with U.S. envoy to Sudan, John Danforth, Mr. Moussa stressed that practical steps should taken to consolidate Sudan Unity during the six-year interim.. More

  • Palestinian Leader Defiant as Israel Indicts Him

    Israel indicted Marwan Barghouthi, one of the top leaders of the Palestinian uprising, Wednesday over the killings of scores of Israelis in a revolt which the handcuffed prisoner vowed would be victorious. "The Intifada will win," a defiant Barghouthi shouted in Hebrew at reporters who packed a Tel Aviv District court where Israel is conducting its.. More

  • U.N. envoy expects Iraq to return Kuwait's national archives "within weeks"

    A U.N. envoy on Wednesday praised Iraqi cooperation in organizing a return of Kuwait's national archives that were looted during the 1990 invasion, saying the process was expected to start "within weeks." Iraq agreed to return the archives during talks last month with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, one of the demands of the U.N. Security Council.. More

  • Zimbabwe Militants Start Evicting White Farmer

    Black militants armed with clubs and stones began evicting a white farmer from his land in northeastern Zimbabwe Wednesday, the first seizure since a government eviction order expired last week. Nearly two thirds of the 2,900 farmers targeted under President Robert Mugabe's land drive have defied the August 8 deadline to handover their farms to landless.. More

  • Palestinian Uprising Leader Faces Israeli Trial

    HIGHLIGHTS: Resistance to Occupation a Crime Under Israeli JUSTICE||Israel's High Court Issues Temporary Injunction against Deportation||CIA Chief Works on Mideast Security||Bush Rejects a 5.1 Billion dollar Aid Package to Israel & the Palestinians|| STORY: Israel will Wednesday indict Marwan Barghouthi, a popular leader of the Palestinian uprising,.. More

  • U.S. Keeps Up War of Words Against Iraq

    HIGHLIGHTS: U.S. Press Reports Speak ofActivity Spotted at Iraq Weapons Plants|| U.S., Iraqi Opposition See Post-Saddam Democracy||Experts: 'Iraq WouldBe noPush over for U.S.'||Spanish Foreign Minister Cautions U.S. on Iraq||Speculation About a Future Attack Not Sufficient for a State to Use Force against another, Warn International Law Experts|| STORY:.. More

  • Pakistan Rejects India Kashmir Poll, Stands Defiant

    Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday dismissed planned elections in Indian-controlled Kashmir beginning next month as a farce which denied the people of the disputed region a real choice. He also said Pakistan could not be blamed for the separatist violence that has wracked the Indian sector of the Himalayan region since an insurgency began.. More

  • Israel Demolishes 2 Suspects' Homes

    HIGHLIGHTS: Hamas & Jihad Reject a PA Proposal to Stop Attacks against Israel||Expulsions against International and Humanitarian Law, Says Arafat||Israeli-Palestinian Talks to Resume Wednesday|| STORY: Israel demolished the homes of two Palestinian Resistance activist suspects Tuesday and prepared to expel three relatives of Palestinian bombers, intensifying.. More