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  • Israel Strikes Palestinian Police HQ, Wounding 15

    GAZA (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israeli warplanes launched a missile strike in the Gaza Strip on Friday on the Palestinian Authority's main police headquarters, wounding at least 15 officers, witnesses and hospital officials said. Israel launched Friday's attacks just hours after U.S envoy Anthony Zinni met Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah.. More

  • Taliban Give Up Kandahar, Bin Laden Nowhere To Be Found

    KABUL/QUETTA, Pakistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Taliban fighters began surrendering in Kandahar on Friday as the militia that had imposed its harsh version of Islam on Afghanistan finally disintegrated after weeks of pulverizing U.S. air strikes. The battered country's new designated leader, cutting through earlier uncertainty about how he would.. More

  • Palestinian Internal Strife Looms Over the On-going Arrest of Resistance Leaders

    GAZA (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Gunfire erupted when thousands of Palestinians clashed with police on Thursday, venting fury at the Palestinian Authority's decision to put militant Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin under house arrest. One protester and a policeman were slightly injured in the gunfire outside Yassin's home as Israel and the United.. More

  • UN to Endorse Afghan Share-power Accord

    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - France and Britain introduced a U.N. Security Council resolution on Wednesday that would endorse a landmark accord reached among Afghan factions but hold off on a peacekeeping force until the United States agrees to one. The 15-member council expects to vote on Thursday, its current president, Moctar Ouane of Mali, said after.. More

  • Air Strikes May Have Killed A Bin Laden Son And Zawahri’s Family

    WASHINGTON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Unconfirmed intelligence reports suggest that U.S. airstrikes on Afghanistan may have killed a son or son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, a U.S. official said on Wednesday. ``There are reports that perhaps a son or son-in-law might have been killed, can't confirm either,'' the official told Reuters on condition of.. More

  • Macedonia Pardons 11 Albanian Fighters

    SKOPJE (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski pardoned 11 jailed ethnic Albanian fighters on Wednesday, launching an amnesty regarded as crucial to sustaining an August peace settlement. Justice ministry sources told Reuters the 11 were freed from Skopje's grim Sutka detention center later in the day and another 77 on the.. More

  • Russia and U.S. cut nuclear arsenals to comply with treaty

    MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and the United States said on Wednesday they had slashed their strategic weapons stockpile down to the levels required by the START-1 treaty, signed by the United States and the Soviet Union in 1991. A Russian Foreign Ministry statement said Russia had cut the number of vehicles to 1,136 and the number of nuclear warheads.. More

  • Israel's Fiercest Air Attacks in 14 Months

    RAMALLAH, West Bank (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israeli occupation authorities have launched their fiercest air attacks in 14 months of conflict on Tuesday, firing one missile near Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's West Bank office while he was inside. Arafat was not hurt, but a 15-year-old bystander and a policeman were killed in Gaza and dozens.. More

  • Afghans Agree to Government Plan in Bonn While Taliban Fights On in Kandahar

    BONN/KABUL (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Afghan factions agreed on a blueprint for an interim government at talks in Germany on Tuesday as fighting raged around the last strongholds of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. The breakthrough came after a week of grueling talks between the rival groups in a top-security hotel outside Bonn. U.N. officials said.. More

  • Malaysia Braces for Influx of Philippine Refugees

    KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia must be prepared to face a possible flood of Philippine refugees following the conflict in the southern part of that country, Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi was quoted as saying on Sunday. Violence flared in the southern Philippines last month after followers of Filipino Muslim leader Nur Misuari staged a failed.. More

  • Nepal deploys more troops to fight Maoist rebels

    KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal reinforced troops fighting an uprising by Maoist insurgents on Sunday as the rebels attacked government installations and a foreign aid agency, officials said. The rebels, fighting to replace the impoverished kingdom's constitutional monarchy with a communist republic, attacked the office of Adventist Development and Relief.. More

  • China Ends AIDS Silence, Mandela Calls for Drugs

    LONDON (Reuters) - A veil of secrecy still shrouds AIDS in some countries 20 years after it first reared its head but on Saturday China, the latest convert to openness, marked World AIDS Day by airing a shocking TV drama on the disease. In South Africa, where more people live with HIV/AIDS than in any other country and the government is widely criticized.. More

  • Alliance Ready to Seal Deal at Afghan Talks

    BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Afghan rivals made a final push toward forming a post-Taliban government on Saturday as the dominant Northern Alliance appeared to put aside internal differences and agree to form a small interim administration. With billions of dollars in foreign aid at stake and the United Nations sponsors of the talks pushing for a conclusion.. More

  • U.S. Bombers Hit Taliban Redoubt, Afghans Near Deal

    KABUL/CHAMAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - U.S. bombing and tribal warriors racked up pressure on the Taliban's last bastion of Kandahar on Saturday as anti-Taliban factions pursued efforts to complete a power-sharing deal at talks in Germany. The Taliban said their fighters had shot down a U.S. warplane near Kandahar airport. The U.S. military denied the.. More

  • BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq accepted on Saturday an extension of

    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq accepted on Saturday an extension of its oil-for-food deal with the United Nations, but rejected a ``goods review list'' of items that Security Council members would have to approve separately. ``The Republic of Iraq will continue to implement the memorandum of understanding (with the U.N.) in its (new) 11th phase,'' said a.. More