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  • 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

  • Somalis Celebrate Independence Anniversary

    MOGADISHU (Reuters) - For the first time in a decade, thousands of Somalis joined celebrations in Mogadishu on Sunday to mark the anniversary of their country's independence. The ceremony, the first of its kind to be held in the capital since Somalia dissolved into chaos after the overthrow of President Mohamed Siad Barre in January 1991, was staged.. More

  • Iraq Protests US Airstrikes

    BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.S. and British airstrikes on Iraq amount to an undeclared war against the country, the Iraqi government said in a protest to the United Nations on Sunday. (Read photo caption below). In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, acting Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz asked him to take measures ``to put a stop to these illegal.. More

  • Car bombs rock Israeli town

    Two car bombs have exploded in the central Israeli town , near Tel Aviv, raising tension after a series of clashes between Palestinians and the Israeli army. Five people were lightly wounded in the first blast, which went off in a car park near a kindergarten. The blasts follow the deaths of five Palestinians, including a prominent activist from.. More

  • A Week-long Test for Compliance with Mideast Ceasefire Terms

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & Agencies) - Secretary of State Colin Powell holds new talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Friday to build on an agreement on a week-long test for compliance with a U.S.-brokered truce. Powell and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said they had agreed in a session on Thursday on a seven-day-long test period for Palestinian.. More

  • Annan sworn in for second term as head of UN

    UNITED NATIONS,(AFP) - Hailed as "a global citizen", Kofi Annan took the oath of office of UN Secretary General for the second time Friday, saying he hoped in his new term to make individuals feel closer to the organisation. (Read photo caption below). "Only if their confidence in the United Nations has been strengthened will your confidence in me have.. More

  • EU Envoy Starts Macedonia Mission

    SKOPJE, Macedonia (Islamweb & Agencies) - The European Union's new Balkans envoy, Francois Leotard, (photo) met Friday with Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski on the first step of his mission aimed at averting a new war in the Balkans. Macedonian troops fired occasional machine-gun and mortar rounds at ethnic Albanian fighters positions just above.. More

  • Milosevic Move Brings Belgrade Cash And Crisis

    THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Slobodan Milosevic was behind bars in The Hague on Friday after being delivered to the war crimes tribunal in a move that won Yugoslavia pledges of aid from grateful Western powers but kindled a crisis in Belgrade. The United Nations' chief war crimes prosecutor said the handover meant others who did Milosevic's bidding in a decade.. More