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  • Etna Lava Flow Licks Refuge Car Park

    NICOLOSI, Sicily (Reuters) - Rescue workers on Thursday battled to divert lava spewing from Europe's highest and most active volcano, Mount Etna, from engulfing a building housing a scientific monitoring center.The lava flow reached a car park 10 yards away from the Sapienza refuge, a popular tourist spot offering shelter from bad weather, after bulldozers.. More

  • Iraq Fires Missile at US Spy Plane

    WASHINGTON (AP) - By firing a surface-to-air missile at an American U-2 spy plane over southern Iraq, President Saddam Hussein's government has signaled a significant change in its targeting strategy against patrolling U.S. and British planes, officials said. The high-flying U.S. plane was not hit, but the missile flew so close Wednesday that the plane's.. More

  • Combatants Agree to Renew Macedonia Truce-Diplomats

    SKOPJE, Macedonia (Islamweb & News Agencies) - NATOhas won the agreement of the Slav-dominated Macedonian government forces and ethnic Albanian fightersto reinstate a cease-fire shattered by three days of fighting, diplomatic sources said late on Wednesday.Under the deal, brokered by NATO special envoy Pieter Feith, the National Liberation Army (NLA).. More

  • OPEC Agrees on Tough New Oil Supply Limits

    LONDON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - OPEC on Wednesday agreed to curtail oil supplies for the third time this year in a bid to lift crude prices back toward its 25-a-barrel target. Ministers, in an agreement reached over the telephone, reduced output by a million barrels a day, or four percent, from September 1. Western experts say, the tough new restrictions.. More

  • Kyoto Deal Approved After Long Wrangles

    BONN, Germany (Reuters) - The political deal to save the Kyoto accord on global warming was finally accepted on Wednesday, after last-minute technical wrangling held up its final approval at a U.N. forum in Bonn for two days. It took delegates from the 180-odd countries present just three minutes of a much-delayed plenary meeting to see the text formally.. More

  • EU, US working to put in place mechanism for truce

    AMMAN, (Islamweb & Agencies) -European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Wednesday that Europe and the United States were striving to put a "mechanism" in place for a truce between Israel and the Palestinians based on the Mitchell Report. "The European Union is very engaged and is trying to help as much as possible," Solana said after talks.. More

  • US Rejects Anti-Germ Warfare Accord

    GENEVA (AP) - The United States abandoned seven years of global talks on enforcing a treaty banning germ warfare Wednesday, surprising even its allies and prompting criticism for the latest in a string of go-it-alone U.S. positions. The Bush administration insisted it still stood by the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention but said it had too many objections.. More

  • Macedonia heads for all-out war

    SKOPJE, (Islamweb & Agencies) -Macedonia faced the threat of all-out war Wednesday amid fresh fighting in Tetovo between ethnic Albanian fighters and security forces, as thousands of people rioted in the capital Skopje, targeting Western embassies and offices in a show of mounting ethnic intolerance. (Read photo caption below). About 2,000 Slav demonstrators.. More

  • Bush Targets Macedonia Arms

    CAMP BONDSTEEL, Yugoslavia (Islamweb & Agencies) - Fifty miles from heavy fighting, President Bush urged ethnic Albanians in Kosovo to stop what he called sneaking weapons across the border to Macedonia where Albanians are fighting for equal rights in the Slav-dominated Rebulic. The president, in his first trip to the troubled region, also renewed his.. More

  • Sri Lankan Airport Reopens After Suicide Attack

    COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's only international airport reopened on Wednesday, a day after a suicide attack by Tamil Tiger rebels destroyed passenger jets and closed the airport, stranding several thousand tourists. (Read photo caption below)The first flight was UL 679 with 160 passengers from Sydney, which had been diverted to Madras.. More

  • ASEAN: Reduce U.S.-China Tension

    HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Southeast Asian nations stressed that peace in the region is linked to stable U.S.-China ties, as Secretary of State Colin Powellreturned here Tuesday for the first time since the Vietnam War. Powell is attending regional security talks, which begin Wednesday. The meeting will include the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.. More

  • Officials Haggle Over Kyoto Accord Fine Print

    BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Officials from some 180 nations haggled on Tuesday over the fine print of a deal to salvage the Kyoto accord -- agreed in principle -- which will force most rich nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions. (Read photo caption below). Technical delays held up formal agreement of the compromise text, however. It was due to take.. More

  • Megawatti's First Day in Office

    JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's new President Megawati Sukarnoputri starts her first full day in office on Tuesday faced with the sensitive task of trying to coax her predecessor and erstwhile friend from the presidential palace.Abdurrahman Wahid, shocked over his sacking by the top assembly on Monday for incompetence, has refused to vacate the sprawling.. More

  • Chinese Mine Disaster Leaves 100 Feared Dead

    BEIJING (Reuters) - More than 100 Chinese miners were feared to have died in a blast at an illegally operated pit in the southeastern province of Jiangsu, state media and rescue officials said on Monday. The bodies of 15 miners were recovered and 91 were missing, presumed dead, said an official in charge of the rescue effort, who declined to be identified. Th.. More

  • Jakarta Assembly Reopens Wahid Impeachment Hearing

    PHOTO CAPTION:JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's top assembly resumed impeachment proceedings against President Abdurrahman Wahid on Monday, defying the embattled leader's order to disband. The supreme People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) is almost certain to dump Wahid, possibly within hours, after the Muslim cleric declared a state of emergency earlier.. More