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  • Israel Raids Palestinian Village

    TEL, West Bank (Islamweb & News Agencies) - In a 10-hour raid Monday on a Palestinian village, Israeli occupation troops killed an Islamic Resistance leader and arrested 45 residents, including 16 on Israel's so-called wanted list.Israel also continued to hold parts of two Palestinian towns in the northern part of the West Bank. Occupation troops moved.. More

  • Trade Round Hopes Rise After WTO Deal on Drugs in Doha

    DOHA, Qatar (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Negotiators clinched a tentative deal Monday to get cheap drugs to developing countries, boosting the chances of reaching a broader pact to launch a new round of world trade talks.Diplomats said they hoped that settlement of the dispute on terms broadly favorable to the developing world would generate the goodwill.. More

  • Peace Hopes Revived in Macedonia

    SKOPJE, Macedonia (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Macedonia appeared to step back from fresh civil warfare Monday when hundreds of special forces rumbled out of territory that is home to nervous former Albanian fighters after their foray triggered bloodshed.The partial pullout was coupled with the release of 39 Macedonians seized by ethnic Albanian fighters.. More

  • Optimism About Agreement in Doha

    DOHA (Islamweb & News Agencies) - World trade ministers, shielded by thousands of Arab security guards and shadowed by U.S. marines, sought on Friday to launch a new round of free trade talks that many say is crucial to revive the stuttering world economy.Delegations from more than 140 nations began a five-day meeting in the Gulf state of Qatar hoping.. More

  • Bin Laden Has Nuclear Weapons -Paper

    ISLAMABAD (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Pakistan's Dawn newspaper said on Saturday that in an interview from inside Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden said he had nuclear and chemical weapons and might use them to respond to U.S. attacks.``I wish to declare that if America used chemical or nuclear weapons against us, then we may retort with chemical and nuclear.. More

  • Four Killed in Crackdown on Pakistan Protesters

    SARGODHA, Pakistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Pakistani police opened fire on pro-Taliban protesters on Friday, killing four, in a crackdown on a strike called by Islamic parties against government support for the U.S.-led attacks on Afghanistan.The strike, which shut down most bazaars but attracted only small crowds, was called by the 35-party Afghanistan.. More

  • Arab Ministers Doubt U.S. Wisdom in Snubbing Arafat

    WASHINGTON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Arab ministers said they doubted the wisdom of President Bush's reluctance to meet Palestinian President Yasser Arafat while the two leaders are in New York over the weekend.``Any sober and rational calculation would reveal that this (a meeting) would not only be helpful to the Palestinians and Israelis. This.. More

  • World Backs Anti-Terrorism; Uneasy About Afghans

    UNITED NATIONS (Islamweb & News agencies) - Under unprecedented security, world leaders on Saturday gave President Bush a warm but muted greeting during his maiden speech to the United Nations, a short distance from the Sept. 11 carnage at the World Trade Center.All speakers at a U.N. General Assembly session strongly endorsed and promised participation.. More

  • Paper: U.S. Finds Potential Afghan Chemical Sites

    WASHINGTON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Two Afghan sites suspected of involvement in efforts by Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda followers to produce deadly chemicals have been identified by the United States, The New York Times reported in Sunday editions.``The American bombing has spared the sites, even though American intelligence officials believe.. More

  • Trading Nations Growl Over Terms for New Talks in Doha

    DOHA (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Big powers and poor countries which united on Saturday to admit China to the world trade body, on Sunday tackle the far more divisive issue of whether to call a new round of talks on tearing down barriers to global commerce.But initial closed-session skirmishes -- and formal speeches by ministers setting out their countries'.. More

  • Rome Split by Pro-US and Anti-War Rallies

    ROME (Islamweb & News Agencies) - War and peace divided Rome on Saturday where tens of thousands of people attended a pro-U.S. rally at the same time as protesters denounced the Afghan conflict just blocks away. Holding aloft a sea of U.S. and Italian flags, which fluttered wildly in the blustery wind, the American supporters chanted ``USA, USA'' and.. More

  • Kyoto Pact to Prompt Big Changes

    MARRAKECH, Morocco (Islamweb & News Agencies) - From insulation hidden behind walls at home to highly visible power plants outdoors, the first international treaty to fight global warming is poised to change landscapes, and lives, around the world - except in the United States. In the final moments of a two-week conference in Morocco, negotiators.. More

  • Bush, Musharraf Oppose Afghan Alliance Taking Kabul

    NEW YORK (Islamweb & News Agencies) - President Bush said on Saturday the United States could accomplish its military mission in Afghanistanwithout the Northern Alliance taking the capital of Kabul and discouraged it from trying.With Bush at his side in a joint news conference, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said he feared a Northern Alliance.. More

  • U.S. to Boycott U.N. Meeting on Nuclear Test Ban

    UNITED NATIONS (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The United States will stay away from a U.N. conference opening on Sunday to promote a global ban on nuclear weapons tests, a senior State Department official said on Friday. ``We will not attend the conference,'' said the official, who asked not to be named. He did not elaborate on the reasons. The aim of.. More

  • U.S. Jets Bomb Taliban Front in Fierce Night

    KABUL/JABAL-US-SARAJ (Islamweb & News Agencies) - In one of the heaviest nights of bombing in the 34-day-old U.S. war on the ruling Afghan Taliban, waves of jets pounded front line positions of the hard-line militia into the dawn Friday.At least 40 bombs were heard exploding on the front line where Taliban fighters are dug in facing the forces of the.. More