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  • Ukraine Appears to Retreat on Missile Denial

    SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Ukraine appeared to concede for the first time on Friday that its military might have accidentally shot down a Russian airliner over the Black Sea, where rough conditions were hampering salvage operations.As darkness fell, trawlers and other vessels were combing the seas with nets for debris to try to unravel the mystery mid-air.. More

  • Fatah leader rejects ceasefire call

    GAZA, Palestine, BBC-A key factional leader has rejected the latest call by the Palestinian authority for a united commitment to a ceasefire with Israel.The influential Marwan Bargouthi, who leads Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement in the West Bank, said it was the right of Palestinians to defend themselves. (Photo) The news came as Palestinian.. More

  • Taliban Dealt Body Blow by Pakistan

    KABUL (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban were dealt a potentially fatal body blow on Thursday when neighbor Pakistan said it had seen enough evidence to justify an indictment in the suicide plane attacks on the United States.With Washington on a war footing in pursuit of chief suspect Osama bin Laden, the Taliban held a special.. More

  • Sharon Accuses Washington of Appeasing Arabs At the Expense of Israel

    JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon aimed unusually harsh words at the United States Thursday after a string of Palestinian Resistance attacks, urging Washington not to ``appease'' Arab states at Israel's expense.Sharon stopped just short of cancelling a U.S.-backed cease-fire, but said that Israeli security forces would do whatever.. More

  • Muslim, Christian Leaders Set Up Cooperation Group

    ROME (Reuters) - Christian and Muslim leaders attending a peace conference in Rome agreed on Thursday to set up a contact group to work out how religions can cooperate to promote understanding and campaign against terrorism. The contact group was set up at the end of a two-day meeting hosted by the Sant' Egidio Community, a group that promotes peace.. More

  • Russia Plane Explosion Kills 76

    ADLER, Russia (AP) - A Russian airliner carrying at least 76 people from Israel exploded and plunged into the Black Sea on Thursday, raising fears of a terrorist attack. But U.S. officials said a missile fired during Ukrainian military exercises apparently downed the plane.Russian President Vladimir Putin said terrorists may have caused the crash and.. More

  • Belgium Hands Over 'Mastermind' of Rwanda Genocide

    ARUSHA, Tanzania (Reuters) - Belgium has handed over an alleged mastermind of Rwanda's 1994 genocide to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Tanzania to face charges of crimes against humanity. Protais Zigiranyirazo, 63, was the brother-in-law of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, whose death when his plane was shot down sparked.. More

  • Western Commandos in Afghanistan

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Burhanuddin Rabbani, president of the internationally recognized Afghan government, said Western special forces were already operating inside Taliban-controlled areas of Afghanistan, an Iranian newspaper said Wednesday. (Read photo caption below) There have been a number of unconfirmed reports of elite U.S. and British commando units.. More

  • Musharraf Discusses Afghan Gov't

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - In a clear warning to the United States and Russia, Pakistan's president said Wednesday that no government could successfully replace the Taliban in Afghanistan if it were imposed from abroad. (Read photo caption) At the same time, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said any new Afghan government must be ``broad-based'' and.. More

  • Macedonian Plan to Reoccupy Albanian Zones Rocks Truce

    SKOPJE (Islamweb & News Agencies) - International officials brokering peace in Macedonia appealed to the government to drop plans to redeploy police unilaterally into Albanianregions on Thursday, warning that the move could ignite new violence. (Read photo caption below) The peace process stumbled into crisis on Wednesday when the nationalist interior.. More

  • Bangladesh Election Turns Deadly

    DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Officials began hand counting ballots Monday after Bangladeshis voted at the end of a deadly parliamentary campaign.Five people were killed and 300 injured in scattered election-day violence, in what was considered a modest casualty toll given that at least 157 people were killed and 2,500 injured since the July 15 start of.. More

  • Mideast Truce Wilts After Tit-for-tit Attacks

    GAZA (Islamweb & News Agencies) - An Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire was in tatters on Wednesday after Palestinian Resistance menkilled two Israeli settlers and wounded about 15 during a surprise raid into an internationally illegalJewish settlement in the Gaza Strip. Israeli occupation authorities hit back by firing missiles into Gaza City and tanks.. More

  • Bush Dispatches Rumsfeld to Mideast

    WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush sent Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on a four-nation mission Tuesday that could be a prelude to military strikes against terrorists. Bush warned Afghanistan's ruling Taliban ``there will be a consequence'' if they fail to surrender Osama bin Laden and his followers. (Read photo caption below) The defense secretary.. More

  • Taliban Seek Direct Talks, Evidence on Bin Laden

    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban said on Wednesday they did not want a war with the United States and called once again for direct talks and evidence linking Osama bin Laden to the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington.Taliban ambassador to Pakistan Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef told CNN in an interview that the suicide hijacking.. More

  • U.S. Says Campaign Will Pursue Kashmiri Militants

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Tuesday that its campaign against terrorism will pursue Kashmiri militants as well as the al Qaeda group blamed for the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. President Bush said last month the campaign would target all ``terrorist'' groups with global reach, but U.S. officials have been reluctant to.. More