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  • 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

  • Explosion Rocks Israeli City of Netanya

    [See photo caption below] NETANYA, Israel (Reuters) - A bomb exploded near a school in an industrial area of the Israeli coastal city of Netanya on Wednesday but caused no serious injuries, an ambulance service spokesman said. A witness, who gave his name as Gil, told Israel Radio that the blast had been a car bomb. ``There was a huge explosion. I.. 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

  • An Ex-Bosnian Serb Official Sentenced for Torturing Muslims

    THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - The U.N. war crimes court sentenced a former Bosnian Serb police chief to 10 years in prison on Tuesday, saying he made his punishment far less severe by pleading guilty and testifying against other war crimes suspects.The court said Stevan Todorovic, convicted earlier this year of crimes against humanity, had abused his.. More

  • 18 Killed in Kashmir as Resistance Mourns 3 Martyrs

    SRINAGAR, Indian-ruled Kashmir (Islamweb & News Agencies) - In the latest upsurge in violence in the troubled Indian-ruled state of Kashmir, Resistance groups set off a bomb killing one person while security forces killed five Resistance men on Tuesday as more than 20,000 mourners marched at a funeral for three Islamic Resistance menkilled in a battle.. More

  • Pakistan Devolution Moves Continue

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, (BBC)-Elections are being held on Thursday for the last phase in the Pakistani Government's programme to bring in what it has called grass roots democracy.The election commissioner said all arrangements were in place for free and fair polls for the heads and deputy heads of district councils. The new system, which will replace the.. 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

  • A Breakthrough on Key Language Isssue in Macedonia Peace Talks

    OHRID, Macedonia, (Islamweb & News Agencies) -Macedonia started celebrating its National Day public holiday Thursday amid growing hopes that peace is at last within reach following a preliminary agreement between ethnic Albanian and Macedonian Slav parties. Peace talks on Wednesday ended with Western mediators hailing a conditional agreement on the.. 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

  • American, British Planes Pound Iraqi Defenses

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dozens of U.S. and British warplanes struck three air defense sites in southern Iraq with bombs and missiles on Friday in a raid targeting Baghdad's increasingly sophisticated anti-aircraft network, the Pentagon said.(Read map caption below)The jets struck an air defense control center that uses fiber-optic communications cables.. 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