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  • OPEC leaves production unchanged

    VIENNA, (AFP) - The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil-producing countries left its production quotas unchanged Tuesday, a statement said.(Read photo caption below). "The conference has decided to maintain current production levels unchanged," said the statement, read out after a two-hour formal session of the 11-member grouping. OPEC,.. More

  • Macedonia Awaits U.S. Envoy Verdict on Peace Talks

    SKOPJE (Islamweb & Agencies) - Macedonia waited on Tuesday for U.S. envoy James Pardew's first verdict on the prospects for kick-starting stalled peace talks after another night of army helicopter strikes on ethnic Albanian fighters. Diplomats warned against expecting miracles from the man Washington appointed at the weekend to intensify Western efforts.. More

  • Chirac, Putin Differ on Yugoslavia, Chechnya

    MOSCOW (Reuters) - The presidents of Russia and France differed openly on the fate of Yugoslavia's former leader Slobodan Milosevic and the future of Chechnya during talks at the Kremlin on Monday. (Read photo caption below). The sensitive issue of press freedom in post-Soviet Russia also arose, with Jacques Chirac stressing to university students that.. More

  • UN Drops Vote on Plan on Iraqi Sanctions UNITED NATIONS

    (Reuters) - Faced with a Russian veto, Britain and the United States on Monday dropped for now a plan to revamp sanctions against Iraq and instead decided to extend the current U.N. humanitarian program without change. (Read photo caption below). Britain, which drafted the resolution on the new plan, told council members that in light of Russia's objections,.. More

  • Syria seeks to avoid war with Israel despite air strikes

    DAMASCUS, (AFP) - Syria is leaving it up to the Lebanese Hezbollah Resistance group to respond to Israeli attacks on its troops in Lebanon, in order to avoid an Israeli trap aimed at dragging it into war, analysts said Monday.Israeli warplanes on Sunday destroyed a Syrian radar station in eastern Lebanon for the second time since mid-April, wounding.. More

  • Israelis, Palestinians meet under US pressure

    JERUSALEM, (Islamweb & Agencies) - Palestinian and Israeli security officials met under US watch Monday, while Washington voiced criticism over violence which saw four dead in just 24 hours.(Read photo caption below). Israeli television reported the security meeting, attended by a representative of the US intelligence agency, the CIA, and security.. More

  • Three key Arab leaders consult in Egypt

    ALEXANDRIA,(Islamweb & Agencies) - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz here Monday for talks on the deepening Arab-Israeli crisis ahead of separate talks with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. (Read photo caption below). Mubarak, who is staying at the presidential palace in the Mediterranean.. More

  • Cheney procedure went well, will return to work Monday: doctors

    WASHINGTON, 30 (AFP) - A procedure to fit US Vice President Richard Cheney with a "pacemaker-plus" Saturday went "exceedingly smoothly," cardiologist Jonathan Reiner told reporters, adding that Cheney's activities would be "unrestricted." (Read photo caption below) Doctors who performed the procedure to implant a pacemaker and an implantable cardioverter.. More

  • Trimble Resigns, Plunging N.Ireland Into Crisis

    BELFAST, July 1 (Reuters) - Protestant leader David Trimble resigned on Sunday as Northern Ireland's First Minister, plunging the British province into a political vacuum and threatening a hard-won peace deal with minority Roman Catholics. (Read photo caption below). In the hours leading up to Trimble's midnight resignation, there were minor clashes.. More

  • Albanians Recall Atrocities

    RACAK, Yugoslavia (AP) - For six hours, Rame Shabani lay motionless, his face pressed to the dirt, while Serb police and army units shot and mutilated 25 men on a hillside above the Albanian village of Racak. He escaped by throwing himself into a ravine when they opened fire. (Read photo caption below). Now with former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.. More

  • Italy's Eni Signs $1 Billion Oil Deal with Iran

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Italian energy group Eni signed a 1 billion oil contract with Iran on Saturday that will be the first test of extra-territorial U.S. sanctions under the presidency of George W. Bush. (Read photo caption below). Eni Chief Executive Officer Vittorio Mincato signed the deal to develop the Dharkovin oilfield in southwest Iran with Iranian.. More

  • Mideast Peacemaking in Balance As Intifadha Confrontations Simmer

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & Agencies) - Israel-Palestinian peacemaking moves hung in the balance on Sunday as both sides waited to see whether their weekend efforts would bear fruit despite low level violence and conflicting demands. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres shook hands publicly at a Lisbon conference on.. More

  • Macedonian soldier killed in clashes with Albanian fighters

    SKOPJE,(Islamweb & Agencies) - A Macedonian soldier was killed late Sunday during clashes with ethnic Albanian fighters near the northwestern town of Tetovo, an army spokesman told AFP. Suspected members of theNational Liberation Army (NLA) "opened fire on Macedonian army positions at Kale, in the heights above Tetevo, and a soldier was killed," Colonel.. More

  • Milosevic Remains Defiant Even in Captivity

    BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - Slobodan Milosevic plans to tell the U.N. war crimes tribunal when he appears before it this week that he is being put on a show trial, the victim of NATO revenge because he refused to give up Kosovo, his lawyers said Sunday. (Read photo caption below) Milosevic is to appear Tuesday before the tribunal for an initial hearing.. More

  • Pakistan Cinema Blast Kills Two, Hurts 14

    KARACHI (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in a cinema in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Sunday, the eve of municipal elections, killing two people and injuring 14, state television reported. (Read photo caption below) Police earlier said one person was killed and at least six other people injured by the bomb that went off during an evening film show.. More