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  • Pakistan PM to Boost Border Security

    Pakistan's Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali held talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai yesterday and promised to increase security to stop attacks across the two countries' border. Making his first official visit to Afghanistan, Jamali said his government was determined to combat extremism in all its forms. Karzai described the effort to.. More

  • Israel Invites al-Asad for Peace Talks

    Israeli President Moshe Katsav has invited his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Asad to come to Jerusalem for "serious negotiations" on a peace accord between the hostile neighbours. Negotiations between the two countries, technically still at war, collapsed in 2000. But al-Asad has recently urged the United States to help revive the talks. "I invite.. More

  • Desertion Blow to Afghan Military

    Thousands of Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers have deserted the fledgling service after completing training given by instructors from the United States, France and Britain, defence ministry officials said yesterday. "Some 3,000 ANA soldiers have fled the army," ministry spokesman General Mohammad Zahir Azimi said. "The defence ministry has announced.. More

  • Khatami Raps Poll Ban on Reformists

    Iranian President Mohammad Khatami yesterday attacked the actions of a conservative watchdog that banned thousands of reformist candidates from running in February's parliamentary election. Outraged members of parliament vowed to resist, and one complained of a "coup d'etat" by the Guardian Council, a 12-member conservative oversight body that has.. More

  • Latin Americans Resist U.S. at Regional Summit

    Latin American nations resisted U.S. efforts on Sunday to push trade issues and tough sanctions against corrupt governments center stage at a regional summit this week. U.S. officials want leaders throughout the Americas to commit to reaching a 34-nation free trade pact by January 2005, and they are proposing that the most corrupt governments face.. More

  • Blair Says WMD may Never be Found in Iraq, Unrest in British-Run South

    British Prime Minister Tony Blair suggested that Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction may never be found in Iraq as unrest continued in the British-run southern part of the country. "In a land mass twice the size of the UK it may well not be surprising you don't find where this stuff is hidden", Blair told BBC television. "You can't.. More

  • Nine Killed in Southern Afghanistan Clashes

    Five soldiers were among nine killed and three others were injured in two separate incidents of violence in southern Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday. Afghan troops clashed with drug smugglers near a government post in a remote area of Kandahar province on Saturday, said Mohammad Anas, deputy governor of the province. The fighting left five.. More

  • US-Islamic Forum Starts in Doha

    The US-Islamic World Forum opened in Doha on 10 January amid an outpouring of concern over the deteriorating Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Inaugurating the conference, the Amir of Qatar, Shaikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani said conditions in the occupied territories had worsened to an "unacceptable" extent. He urged the United States and international.. More

  • Israeli Troops Raid Rafah, Wound Four Palestinians, Use Civilians as Human Shields in West Bank

    The Israeli occupying forces invaded yesterday evening the city of Rafah, south of Gaza Strip, and demolished a house there, as four Palestinian citizens were wounded in Nablus and others were held as human shields during raids in Beit Reema. Palestinian security sources said that the Israeli occupying forces invaded today evening the Al Salam neighborhoo.. More

  • British Muslims Unhappy with Apology from TV Star over Anti-Arab Remarks

    The head of Britain's leading Muslim organisation said that an apology from one of the country's most popular TV talk show hosts for making inflammatory remarks against Arabs did not go far enough. Robert Kilroy-Silk, whose show is broadcast by BBC television, wrote a commentary in Britain's Sunday Express paper published on January 4 in which he.. More

  • Iraqi Police Kill Six Protesters as Pentagon Lawyers Say 'Saddam is POW'

    Iraqi police fired into a crowd of stone-throwing protesters angry over the lack of jobs in the southern town of Amarah on Saturday, killing at least six people and injuring 11, witnesses and a hospital doctor said. Earlier, a BBC reporter said seven Iraqis killed. Hundreds of protesters gathered opposite the office where British security forces.. More

  • Pakistan Sentences French Journalists

    A Pakistani court has convicted two French journalists for violating the country's visa regulations but suspended the six-month jail terms for a week to allow an appeal. Defence lawyer Nafees Siddiqui applied for a suspension immediately after reporter Marc Epstein and photographer Jean-Paul Guilloteau of French weekly L'Express were found guilty.. More

  • Illegal Albanian Immigrants Die in Crossing

    Around 19 people have died trying to reach Italy's coast from Albania. The illegal immigrants were found in an inflatable boat by Italian coastguards. Around ten young men survived the ordeal. The vessel left the Albanian shore and was spotted in rough seas by an Italian helicopter. It was towed back to Albania. The survivors, some in a state of.. More

  • Iraqi Council Agrees on Kurdish Self-Rule

    Iraq's interim Governing Council has agreed to a federal structure for the country and to enshrine Kurdish self-rule in three northern provinces. The US-appointed body will incorporate the pledges into "a fundamental law" that will precede national elections in late 2005, council member Judge Dara Nur al-Din said on Friday. The fate of three more.. More

  • Orthodox Anglicans May Split From Church

    Nearly 3,000 Episcopalians opposed to the church's election of an openly gay bishop last year are gathering in northern Virginia this weekend to discuss a possible formal split in the national Episcopal Church. Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh, a vocal opponent of the church's recent softening on gay issues, said Friday the "Plano-East Conference".. More