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U.S. Accuses Iraq, Iran & North Korea of Germ Labs

GENEVA (Islamweb & News AGencies) - The United States accused Iraq, North Korea and four other countries on Monday of building germ-warfare arsenals, and said it worried one of them might be helping Osama bin Laden in his quest for biological weapons.``We are concerned that he (bin Laden)could have been trying to acquire a rudimentary biological weapons.. More

2496 15/05/2001
Manila Puts Nur Misuari Under "Preventive Suspension"

MANILA (Islamweb & News Agecnies) - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo stripped a former Muslim Resistance leader of his power as governor of a southern autonomous region after his supporters launched an armed uprising, officials said on Tuesday. Presidential spokesman Rigoberto Tiglao told local radio dzMM that Nur Misuari, the governor of.. More

2498 15/05/2001
Jakarta calls ex-president Habibie for graft probe

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's Attorney-General's office said it had summoned former president B.J. Habibie for questioning on Wednesday over a 54.6 billion rupiah (5.3 million) scandal involving state food agency Bulog. The summons follows earlier investigations into parliamentary speaker Akbar Tandjung and former military chief Wiranto who both.. More

2499 15/05/2001
Taliban Hold on In Kandahar & Kunduz

KABUL (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Afghanistan's Taliban clung onto their last two main strongholds Sunday in the face of withering U.S. bombing as their only diplomatic envoy said for the first time Osama bin Laden was no longer in territory under their control.The Taliban ambassador to Pakistan said the Saudi-born militant, accused of masterminding.. More

2482 15/05/2001
UN Negotiator Sees Afghan Elections in Three Years

LONDON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Top U.N. negotiator Francesc Vendrell sees elections taking place in Afghanistan within three years. And the first step to a stable government could take place within a week with Northern Alliance leaders and representatives of the former King Zahir Shah meeting in a neutral overseas venue. Vendrell, plotting out.. More

2483 15/05/2001
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

2484 15/05/2001
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

2497 15/05/2001
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

2466 14/05/2001
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

2471 14/05/2001
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

2472 14/05/2001
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

2473 14/05/2001
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

2474 14/05/2001
IMF Urges Rate Cuts, Protests Fizzle

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Saturday pressed the world's richest nations to cut interest rates more if needed to bolster a bleak world economy as boisterous anti-globalization protesters braved the Canadian chill.With the IMF taking center stage on the second day of international financial meetings here, police made more than.. More

2475 14/05/2001
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

2476 14/05/2001
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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