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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
Egypt, Jordan Denounce Israel, Urge Peace Talks

AMMAN (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Egypt and Jordan, Israel's only Arab neighbors to have signed peace treaties with it, denounced the Jewish state's ``policy of assassinations'' against Palestinians and called on Saturday for peace talks. (Read photo caption below) Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah expressed these views during.. More

1559 15/04/2001
Gadhafi Blasts the United States

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi railed against the United States Saturday in a speech to mark the 32nd anniversary of his rise to power - saying it was controlled by 400 powerful families and mocking it for being afraid of a skinny man called Osama bin Laden.(Read photo caption below) The speech culminated two days of celebrations.. More

1560 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
Dispute-riven racism conference getting under way

DURBAN, South Africa, (AFP) -A UN conference on racism already marred by bitter disputes over Israel's treatment of Palestinians was to get under way Friday in Durban, as thousands of protesters demonstrate outside. (Read photo caption below) Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and President Fidel Castro of Cuba arrived Thursday; twelve other foreign heads.. More

1548 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
Arafat Blasts Israel as Racist and Accuses it of Ethnic Cleansing

DURBAN, South Africa (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Anti-Israeli protesters take to the streets of this port city on Saturday as conflict in the Middle East casts a deepening shadow over a U.N. conference against racism.At the opening of the conference on Friday, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat blasted Israel as a ``racist'' state and accused it of ethnic.. More

1552 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

1553 15/04/2001
Many British Vets Report Gulf War Health Problems

LONDON (Reuters) - Seventeen percent of British Gulf War veterans believe they are suffering from Gulf War Syndrome, a mysterious illness blamed for a range of symptoms linked to the 1991 conflict in Kuwait.(Read photo caption below) If a survey of nearly 3,000 veterans, by researchers at Guy's, King's and St. Thomas's School of Medicine in London,.. More

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