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  • Four Bombs Go Off in Jerusalem, Five Injured

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Four bombs exploded in Jerusalem early on Monday, slightly wounding at least five people, Israeli police said.They said three of the bombs went off in the French Hill neighborhood in northern Jerusalem, the latest a car bomb that injured one person. Earlier on Monday a bomb went off near an apartment building in.. More

  • Five bombs off in Jerusalem, Five injured

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Four bombs exploded in Jerusalem early on Monday, slightly wounding at least five people, Israeli police said.They said three of the bombs went off in the French Hill neighborhood in northern Jerusalem, the latest a car bomb that injured one person. Earlier on Monday a bomb went off near an apartment building in.. More

  • Two Palestinians Killed in Hebron, Al-Khalil

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) -In a day of bitter intifadha confrontations on several fronts, two Palestinians were killed and at least 20 were wounded, while at least six Israelis were hurt.In the center of Hebron, heavily armed Israeli occupation soldiers and lightly armed Palestinian Resistance men battled Monday evening. Two Palestinians.. More

  • Middle East Conflict Takes Centre Stage in World Diplomacy

    WORLD CAPITALS, (Islamweb and News Agencies)-From Durban to Moscow, and on to Washington and Middle East capitals, the middle East conflict appeared as intractable on the world diplomatic stage as it is on the ground on the ancient lands of Palestine. In Durban, South Africa, the United States and Israel pulled out of the World Conference Against Racism.. More

  • Blast Rocks Jerusalem, Several Casualties

    JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A suspected Palestinian Resistance bomber blew himself up in Jewish West Jerusalem on Tuesday, causing several casualties, police said. No one has so far claimed responsibility for the blast which appears to have come in retaliation for on-going Israeli attacks against Resistance leaders. (Read photo caption below) The blast occurred.. More

  • Macedonian Parliament Resumes Discussing Peace Plan

    SKOPJE (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Macedonia's nationalist prime minister Ljubco Georgievski has blasted a NATO-backed peace plan but called on parliament to ratify the blueprint because the small Balkan state could not afford to defy the West.Georgievski spoke out in a key parliamentary debate on the peace plan on Monday evening, after a day dominated.. More

  • Asylum Seekers Steam to Papua New Guinea

    CHRISTMAS ISLAND, Australia (Reuters) - Hundreds of mostly Afghan asylum seekers headed for Papua New Guinea on an Australian navy ship on Tuesday after a nine-day standoff as a court sat to decide their final destination.But while the fate of the 433 unwanted boat people remained uncertain, Australian Prime Minister John Howard was reaping voter support.. More

  • Putin Slams NATO Expansion on Finland Visit

    HELSINKI (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin lashed out Monday at plans to expand NATO eastwards and said only a ``sick mind'' could believe Moscow posed an aggressive threat to European security.(Read photo caption below) ``I underline that we don't see any objective reason for the Baltic states to become members of NATO,'' Putin told a news.. More

  • Palestinian Resistance Bomber Injures 13 in Down Town Jerusalem

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - A Palestinian Resistance bomber disguised as a bearded ultra-Orthodox Jew blew himself up in Jerusalem Tuesday, wounding 15 people in the context of the on-going intifadha, uprising, against Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. (Read photo caption below) A policeman who confronted the bomber just before.. More

  • Iraq Expels Five U.N. Officials

    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iraq has expelled five U.N. aid officials -- four Nigerians and a Bosnian -- for what it called an infringement of its national security, the United Nationsreported on Tuesday. In response, U.N. officials protested but withdrew the four Nigerians, three men and one woman, citing safety reasons. (Read photo caption below)The.. More

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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