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  • Gunmen Take 41 Hostage in South Russia-Agencies

    MOSCOW (Islmaweb & Agencies) - Unidentified gunmen took hostage 41 people traveling on a bus in southern Russia on Tuesday, Russian news agencies said. RIA news agency quoted local police as saying that two gunmen seized the commuter bus traveling from the town of Nevinnomyssk in the regional capital of Stavropol at around 7 a.m. RIA said the gunmen,.. More

  • Albanian language issue at heart of Macedonian peace talks

    SKOPJE, (Islamweb & Agencies) -The question of whether Albanian should become an official language in Macedonia is at the centre of ongoing peace talks here and could make or break moves to prevent the Balkan country sliding into civil war. In another development, the United States on Monday accused ethnic Albanian rebels of breaking a truce in Macedonia... More

  • China Tin Mine Floods; 200 Feared Dead

    SHANGHAI (Reuters) - More than 200 miners are trapped and feared dead in a flooded tin mine in China's southern region of Guangxi, state media said on Tuesday, but mine officials said the reports were highly exaggerated.(Read map caption below). The official Wenhui Daily said more than 70 bodies had been found and alleged that the mine owners had tried.. More

  • Washington Warming up in Defence of Zionism and Slavery in Durban

    NEW YORK, The Unite Nations, (Islamweb & News Agencies)- A 1975 UN resolution equating Zionism with racism was repealed in 1991 after strong opposition from the US and Israel, but recent violence in the Middle East has led to calls for its revival.(Read photo caption below). Zionism is the political movement which emerged in the late 19th century which.. More

  • Macedonia Peace Talks to Resume on Saturday

    SKOPJE (Islamweb & Agencies) - Macedonia's polarised politicians resume peace talks on Saturday after top European Union and NATO officials twisted their arms in a new bid to stave off civil war. (Read photo caption below). President Boris Trajkovski will chair the talks, in the lake resort of Okhrid, between the leaders of four mainstream parties.. More

  • Israeli Missiles Target Gaza Alleged Weapons Factory

    GAZA (Islamweb & Agencies) - Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles at a building in the Gaza Strip on Saturday which the Jewish state's army said was used by Palestinians to produce arms, including mortar bombs. The military said it attacked near the Khan Younis refugee camp in southern Gaza and that pilots returned to base reporting direct hits... More

  • Sudanese Peace March

    WAD MADANI, Sudan, (BBC)-Thousands of people including large numbers of children have begun a march towards to Sudanese capital, Khartoum, in an effort to bring an end to a protracted civil war. The peace march began at Wad Medani, about 150km from Khartoum with an estimated 1,000 participants, but within hours the numbers are reported to have swelled.. More

  • Battle Rages for Somali Town, 15 Reported Dead

    MOGADISHU (Reuters) - At least 15 Somali gunmen were killed on Friday as rival militias fought for a second day for control of the southern port town of Kismayu, radio reports from the area said. Residents said hundreds of fighters loyal to warlord General Mohammed Morgan launched a major attack on rivals of the Juba Valley Alliance, a clan-based grouping.. More

  • Powell Begins Fence-Mending Visit to China

    BEIJING (Reuters) - US Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived in Beijing on Saturday for a day of top-level talks on improving China-U.S. relations roiled by a series of security and human rights spats in the first half of this year.Powell, the most senior Bush administration official to visit China, flew in from Seoul after Beijing removed one obstacle.. More

  • Israel Backs Down on Jewish Temple Plan

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israel said Saturday it would prevent a fringe right-wing Jewish group from inflaming Muslim sensitivities by ensuring it did not place a new cornerstone on the sensitive Jerusalem Temple Mount holy site. Palestinians warned that attempts by the Jewish Temple Mount Faithful group to carry the 4.5-ton stone into.. More

  • Ten Killed in Algeria

    ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Unidentified armed assailants killed 10 people in an overnight attack south of Algiers, the nation's official news agency said Saturday. The attack occurred in the Mousziz region, 35 miles from the capital, according to APS. No other details were released. Islamic militants have waged a nine-year campaign of violence to try.. More

  • European Court to rule on Turkish ban of Islamist party

    STRASBOURG, July 29 (AFP) -The European Court of Human Rights will rule Tuesday on whether a decision by Turkey to dissolve the pro-Islamist Refah party in 1998 was legitimate. Most recently the constitutional court in Turkey banned anoth Islamic affiliated party which now under its former leader, Recai Kutan, has come back under a new name: (Saaddet)._[Photo.. More

  • Pressure builds for peace accord in Macedonia

    OHRID, Macedonia, (AFP) -Pressure was building Sunday for peace talks underway in Macedonia to reach an agreement that will end a five-month ethnic Albanian revolt for equal rights in the north of the country. President Boris Trajkovski, Prime Minister Ljubco Georgevski and the leaders of the two ethnic Albanian parties in the ruling coalition, Arben.. More

  • UN Tribunal Urges Hunt for Fugitive Croat General

    THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The United Nations war crimes court urged Croatia on Thursday to track down a fugitive general charged with crimes against humanity after a fellow commander surrendered earlier this week to face trial. (Read photo caption below). The international court said it expected Zagreb to find retired general Ante Gotovina. Another veteran.. More

  • Castro Leads Cuba's Biggest Anti-U.S. March

    HAVANA (Reuters) - In a show of physical vigor belying his collapse on stage last month, President Fidel Castro (news - web sites) led more than 1.2 million Cuban marchers on Thursday in the largest anti-U.S. protest in four decades of hostilities.Wearing white tennis shoes and his trademark olive-green military garb, Castro marched at the head of a.. More