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  • Direct Talks on Western Sahara Get UN Green Light

    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council gave a green light on Friday to five months of talks between Morocco and the Polisario Front independence movement on a draft autonomy plan for Western Sahara. (Map). But the council instructed U.N. special envoy and former Secretary of State James Baker, who drafted the plan, to also keep on the.. More

  • Shebaa clashes highlight regional peace dangers in Middle East

    JERUSALEM, (AFP) - Prospects for peace in the Middle East again looked bleak Friday, with violence in the tinderbox Shebaa Farms area prompting Israeli warnings against Syria.(Read photo caption below). An Egyptian policeman meanwhile fell victim to Israeli-Palestinian unrest in the Gaza Strip when he was killed by a stray bullet near Gaza. Referring.. More

  • New UN Western Sahara Plan Attacked

    NEW YORK, UNITED NATIONS (BBC)-The special United Nations envoy for Western Sahara, James Baker, has defended his proposal that the territory (map) become an autonomous region under Moroccan rule. He said his plan was another approach to what he described as a very difficult problem. Mr Baker was responding to Algerian accusations that UN officials.. More

  • Ethnic Violence in Central Nigeria

    NASAWARA STATE, CENTRAL NIGERIA, (Islamweb & Agencies)-Villagers in central Nigeria say more than 50 people were killed two days ago in an attack by youths from a rival ethnic group. The news comes amid worsening ethnic clashes in Nasawara state which have forced tens of thousands of people from their homes. Residents of Tudun Adabu, who belong.. More

  • Bush is optimistic

    [Palestinians youths hurl stones and a petrol bomb at Israeli occupation soldiers during clashes in the West Bank town Hebron, Al-Khalil on June 26, 2001. Read photo caption below]. WASHINGTON, June 26 (Islamweb & Agencies) - With fresh gunbattles in the West Bank again puncturing a shaky cease-fire, talk by the Israeli Prime Minister on his second.. More

  • Renewed Fighting in Macedonia

    [ SKOPJE(Islamweb & Agencies)The Slave-dominated Macedonian forces have resumed shelling of positions held by ethnic Albanian fighters, as western diplomats try to shore up support for the government. The shelling of the village of Nikustak, which began on Tuesday, follows the evacuation of Albanian fighters from nearby Aracinovo in a Nato-led operation... More

  • Annan Nominated for Second U.N. Term

    UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Both powerful and impoverishednations on the Security Council gave Kofi Annan a unanimous vote of confidence on Wednesday, nominating him for a second five-year term as secretary-general of the United Nations. The official nomination by the 15 council members - more than six months before Annan's first term expires on Dec. 31.. More

  • Politicians 'Support' Musharraf on India Trip

    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Nineteen politicians met with Pakistani military ruler General Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday and offered him ``complete support'' ahead of a summit in India next month, a government statement said. In turn, the general, who assumed the country's presidency last week by decree, assured the politicians he would consult them on ``all.. More

  • Russia Claims Chechen Resistance Cleared From Gorge

    MOSCOW (Islamweb & Agencies) - Russia claimed Wednesday its invading forces had cleared a remote mountain gorge of Chechen Resistance men after a major battle. The fighting followed a weekend battle that ended in the death of a top nationalist Resistance chief, which prompted media speculation that Moscow was switching tactics after many months of.. More

  • Powell Appoints Sharon Judge And Executioner

    US Secretary State Colin Powell meets Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Thursday hoping to build on the fragile ceasefire agreed two weeks ago without, according to observers,putting too much pressure on the two sides. Powell will hold talks with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank town of Ramallah, before meeting Israeli Prime Minister.. More

  • Fears Of Another Balkan Civil War

    SKOPJE, (Islamweb & Agencies)-A new European Union peace envoy has arrived in Macedonia to try to help end fighting between Macedonian security forces and ethnic Albanian fighters that have raised fears of another Balkan civil war. Former French Defence Minister Francois Leotard (Photo)was appointed on Monday as resident EU representative to Macedonia.. More

  • China, India in fresh border talks

    BEIJING, (BBC)-Officials from India and China have met as part of an ongoing process to resolve a long-running border dispute between the two countries. India and China share a border more than 4,000km long (2,500 miles) - and they have been arguing about its demarcation for several decades. But this latest round of talks came soon after signs of.. More

  • Clarke enters Tory battle

    Clarke enters Tory battle Clarke finally puts his name forward Ken Clarke has staked his claim to lead the Conservatives, saying he is the only candidate who can win back the millions of lost voters to the party. The former chancellor ended two weeks of speculation to announce he was standing for the job and immediately dismissed all his rivals.. More

  • Macedonian president defends Albanian evacuation plan

    [The Slav-dominated Macedonian army fires at the ethnic Albanianstrong- hold village of Nikushtag, some 20 km north-east of the capital Skopje on June 26, 2001.Read photo caption below]. SKOPJE, (Islamweb & Agencies) - Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski on Tuesday defended a controverisal NATO-backed plan to transport hundreds of armed ethnic Albanian.. More

  • Russia rejects US-backed proposals on Iraqi sanctions, submits counterplan

    [Sergey Lavrov, Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations. Read photo caption below]. UNITED NATIONS, (Islamweb & Agencies) - Russia told the Security Council on Tuesday it could not accept a US-backed plan to revamp the UN's Iraqi sanctions regime, and submitted a counter-proposal with a timetable for suspending sanctions. The move cast new doubt.. More