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U.S. Planes Bomb Iraqi Defenses

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. fighter jets bombed Iraqi air defenses in separate attacks Tuesday in the southern and northern ``no-fly'' zones, defense officials said.(Read map caption below)The official Iraqi news agency said the strike in the south injured four people. The Pentagon generally does not comment immediately on casualties related to patrols over.. More

1580 16/04/2001
Perez Meets Two Senior Palestinian Officials

JERUSALEM, AMMAN,(Islamweb & News Agencies)-Efforts to end the bloodshed in the Middle East accelerated - despite another Palestinian Resistance bombingin Jerusalem, injuring 13 other people. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators said they were preparing for several rounds of high-level talks later in the week.On Monday night European Union foreign policy.. More

1581 16/04/2001
UN Race Meet Bids to Break Impasse Over Mid-East

DURBAN, South Africa, (Islamweb & News Agency)-Five delegates to the UN World Conference Against Racism were due to meet Wednesday morning in Durban to fine-tune a new text on the Middle East. The five, representing South Africa, Belgium (on behalf of the European Union), the Arab League, Norway and Namibia will then present their tweaked draft to small.. More

1582 16/04/2001
Macedonian Parliament Moving Closer to a Vote on Peace Plan

SKOPJE (Islamweb & New Agencies) - Macedonia's parliament is set to resume debate on Wednesday on a Western-backed peace plan, moving closer to a vote on whether to start the process of changing the constitution in line with the blueprint. Western diplomats had originally hoped the vote, seen as a crucial part of efforts to end an ethnic Albanian insurgency.. More

1583 16/04/2001
Pioneering heart transplant surgeon Christiaan Barnard dies at 78

NICOSIA, Sept 2 (AFP) - Christiaan Barnard, the pioneering South African surgeon who made medical history by performing the world's first heart transplant, died in Cyprus on Sunday at the age of 78.(Read photo caption below) The colourful Barnard, who became a worldwide celebrity after the 1967 operation and had an outsized ego to match, died by his.. More

1566 15/04/2001
New Zealand and Nauru to Take Boat People

CHRISTMAS ISLAND, Australia (Reuters) - Australia on Saturday said New Zealand and the Pacific island of Nauru had agreed to take in hundreds of asylum seekers stranded on a Norwegian cargo ship in the Indian Ocean for the past six days. (Read photo caption below)The deal ends a diplomatic stalemate over the fate of the mainly Afghan boat people who.. More

1555 15/04/2001
Fire in Crowded Tokyo Nightspot Leaves 44 Dead

TOKYO (Reuters) - An explosion and fire ripped through a nightclub building in central Tokyo's crowded Shinjuku entertainment district early on Saturday, killing 44 people trapped inside.It was the worst such tragedy to hit Japan in nearly 30 years. ``We confirmed that 44 people perished. We believe that they died either of severe burns or from carbon.. More

1556 15/04/2001
U.N. Racism Talks Resume After NGOs Condemn Israel

DURBAN, South Africa (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israel was branded a ''racist apartheid'' state early on Sunday by thousands of non-governmental organizations meeting in South Africa. (Read photo caption below)The harsh anti-Israeli language in the NGO Forum's final declaration injected new Middle East tensions into the parallel U.N. World Conference.. More

1557 15/04/2001
Khatab, Latest Victim on Israel's Assassins' List

GAZA (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Palestinians accused Israel of assassinating a senior security official in a car blast in Gaza on Saturday that cast a shadow over efforts to arrange talks aimed at ending more than 11 months of bloodshed. (Read photo caption below) A senior Israeli political source denied any Israeli involvement in the death of Taiseer.. More

1558 15/04/2001
Two Palestinians Killed in Hebron Fighting

JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israeli occupation soldiers killed two Palestinians in gun battles in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron on Sunday, providing a violent backdrop for efforts to arrange talks on ending more than 11 months of bloodshed.(Read photo caption below) Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres warned against unrealistic.. More

1561 15/04/2001
EU's Solana to Push for Middle East Truce Meeting

JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana was expected to pursue a diplomatic drive on Monday to bring about talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders on ending more than 11 months of violence. (Read photo caption below)While painstaking diplomacy continued in the region itself, Middle East politics.. More

1562 15/04/2001
Macedonian Deputies Set to Resume Peace Debate

SKOPJE (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Macedonia's parliament is set on Monday to resume debating a peace plan Western powers see as vital to averting civil war in the former Yugoslav republic.The debate was suspended for two days by parliament's nationalist speaker Stojan Andov, who alleged ethnic Albanian fighters were harassing civilians and demanded.. More

1564 15/04/2001
Australian Court rules refugees can be moved

CHRISTMAS ISLAND, Australia, (BBC)-An Australian court has ruled that more than 400 mainly Afghan asylum seekers can be moved, pending a final ruling on whether Australia acting lawfully in refusing to accept them. The decision clears the way for the people to be transferred from the Norwegian ship which rescued them a week ago, and put on board an.. More

1565 15/04/2001
Macedonian MPs to vote on peace as German troops move in

SKOPJE, (Islamweb & News Agencies) -Macedonia's parliament was to meet Friday to approve a peace accord aimed at ending an ethnic Albanian uprising for equal rights as a German military convoy moved in from Kosovo to join the NATO operation to collect weapons from ethnic Albanian fighters. (Read photo caption below) On the eve of the key parliamentary.. More

1549 15/04/2001
West Pushes Mideast Peace

JERUSALEM, (Islamweb & Agencies)-The United States and European Union are trying to build on Israel's withdrawal from Beit Jala to start new dialogue between the Israelis and the Palestinians, despite ongoing intifadha confrontations.But just a day after Israel ended an incursion into the town, the Israeli army reportedly entered two Palestinian areas.. More

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