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  • Bush Meets Katzav as Israel Urges More U.S. Action

    [See photo caption below] WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli President Moshe Katzav said on Thursday he was ``very, very satisfied'' with U.S. involvement in the Middle East, while Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) urged Washington to do more to stop eight months of violence. After an Oval Office meeting with President Bush (news -.. More

  • Violence Persists in Middle East

    [See photo caption below] JERUSALEM (AP) - Palestinians fired mortar shells at a tiny Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip early Friday, a day after a West Bank drive-by shooting victim became the fourth settler to be killed this week. Four shells fell near the Jewish settlement of Slav in the Gush Katif bloc of enclaves in the southern part of Gaza,.. More

  • Arafat Warns of Israeli Attack

    [See photo caption below] BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat claimed Thursday that senior Israeli officials were preparing a ``new war'' to paralyze his Palestinian Authority. ``I have received a letter saying the (Ariel) Sharon government has adopted the principle of a new war against the Palestinian people,'' he said in a speech.. More

  • Russia's Putin Opens Ex-Soviet States Summit

    MINSK, June 1 (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin met heads of 10 other former Soviet states Friday amid efforts to end conflict in Nagorno Karabakh and Islamic unrest in Central Asia as well as joint moves to boost trade. Putin launched the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) summit that groups 12 former Soviet republics minus the three.. More

  • Military Seizes Power in Comoros

    MUTSAMUDU, Comoros (AP) - Military troops overthrew the government and seized power in a bloodless coup Thursday on Anjouan, an island that has declared independence from the Comoros chain in the Indian Ocean, officials said.(Read photo caption below) ``The coup occurred late in the morning when soldiers took over the national radio, the airport, the.. More

  • Indigenous Peoples Organize at United Nations

    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Tribal chiefs from Canada to Peru and beyond on Thursday sought to get the grievances of indigenous people heard at the United Nations and said they were even shut out of a upcoming conference on racism. Honoring the Seventh International Day of the World's Indigenous People, more than 700 activists, many of them from the.. More

  • In The Face of International Indifference, Israeli Brutality Crosses All Red Lines

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - In the face of on-going international indifference, Israel in the space of two days openly admitted murdering 14 Palestininians including children,literally in cold blood and continued to boast that its so-called strategy of pre-emptive killings will go on unchecked until the people of Palestine and the international.. More

  • NATO Vanguard May Be in Macedonia by End of Week

    SKOPJE (Islamweb & News Agencies) - A vanguard of British soldiers could arrive in Macedonia by the end of this week to prepare the ground for a 3,500-strong NATO force intended to help pull the country back from the brink of civil war.There was sporadic shooting in parts of the strife-torn republic overnight but a new cease-fire -- a precondition of.. More

  • Annan Warns Taliban

    UNITED NATIONS (Islamweb & News Agencies) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan told Afghanistan's Taliban rulers on Friday they were in violation of international law for denying legal or consular representation to foreign aid workers held for allegedly promoting Christianity. He also cautioned in a statement that the detention of the aid workers could.. More

  • Gun Battles Flare as Israel Escalates Its Lawless Vigalante Security Attacks

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & New Agencies) - Shots, mortar blasts and calls for vengeance echoed through the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Thursday as Israel escalates it vigalante security attacks. The Palestinian Islamic Resistance group Hamas has vowed to avenge Tuesday's missile strike in the West Bank which killed two top officials in the group.Six others,.. More

  • Israel braces for feared Palestinian Resistance bombings

    JERUSALEM, (Islamweb & News Agencies) -Israel was braced for more Resistance bombings Saturday after occupation troops shot dead one Palestinian and wounded 10 others, and occupation authorities arrested two Palestinian Resistance men they say intended to set off a bomb in a crowded port city. As occupation intelligence reports warned of further attacks,.. More

  • International Powers Slam Israeli Retaliation

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & Agencies) - Major world powers have blasted Israel for its takeover of Palestinian headquarters in Arab East Jerusalem in response to a Palestinian Resistance bombing in the Jewish western part of the city.Israeli police seized Orient House, the main East Jerusalem office of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and reoccupied.. More