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  • Vajpayee Spurned Peace Says Pakistan

    Pakistan accused Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee of distorting President Pervez Musharraf's remarks and spurning peace by rejecting his "constructive" peace proposals presented at the United Nations. "Prime Minister Vajpayee has distorted President Musharraf's statement....By rejecting the president's constructive proposal for dialogue.. More

  • Israel Closes Down Palestinian Territories

    Israel has closed off the Palestinian territories after Israeli soldiers killed a leader of the Islamic Jihad movement and three other Palestinians in raids in the Gaza strip and the West Bank. Gunmen killed an Israeli soldier during the raids, which immediately prompted some of the bloodiest clashes in weeks. The violence has dealt yet another blow.. More

  • US Soldier Killed in Kirkuk as Powell Speaks about Iraqi Constitution

    One US soldier was killed and two others were injured during an ambush in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said Friday. The incident occurred at about 11 p.m. Thursday when unknown attackers fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the soldiers' vehicle in the city of Kirkuk. Also, a mortar blast in a market north of Baghdad, killed Thursday night eight.. More

  • Close Call for Japan Shaken by Quake

    Japan has had a very lucky escape after the year's strongest earthquake, hitting eight on the Richter scale, smashed into the mainland of the northern island of Hokkaido after coming in from below the pacific. A feared giant Tsunami tidal wave never materialised, or the casualty figures of one dead and nearly 400 injured would surely have been much.. More

  • Payback Promise after Islamic Jihad Leader Killed

    Israeli soldiers have killed a leader of the Islamic Jihad movement and three other Palestinian activists in raids on the Gaza Strip and West Bank, which drew immediate vows of revenge. Diab Shyoukhi, Islamic Jihad's leader for the southern West Bank, was shot dead along with another militant at their hideout near the city of Hebron. Two more Palestinians.. More

  • Iraqi Governing Council Member Dies, UN Cuts Staff in Baghdad

    A leading female Iraqi politician has died from gun shot wounds. Akila al-Hashemi was one of three of women who sat on the US-backed Iraqi Governing Council. She was attacked on Saturday and had been fighting for her life ever since. She was hit in the abdomen when her car came under fire near her home in western Baghdad. The politician was a former.. More

  • Strong Quake Hits Japan North Island of Hokkaido

    A strong earthquake struck the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido on Friday and Japanese authorities issued a tsunami tidal wave warning on television. The quake measured up to six on the Japanese scale of one to seven. Under the Japanese seismic classification, an intensity-6 earthquake is strong enough to damage houses, trigger landslides and.. More

  • Four Palestinians, Israeli Soldier Killed in New Clashes

    Four Palestinians and an Israeli soldier were killed early Thursday in two separate operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Six Israeli soldiers were wounded. In the central Gaza Strip, two Palestinians were killed and six Israeli soldiers were injured early Thursday during an Israeli raid on the Bureij refugee camp, Israeli military and Palestinian.. More

  • More American Troops May Face Iraq, US Inquiry May Not Have WMD Proof

    The United States may have to alert thousands more National Guard and Reserve troops within weeks that they are needed for duty in Iraq, the Pentagon's second-ranking general said Wednesday. The Bush administration still hopes that Turkey, India, Pakistan or South Korea will contribute thousands of troops for security duty in Iraq, said Marine Corps.. More

  • Khartoum, Sudan Rebels Agree on Key Peace Process Issues

    The main rebel group in Sudan and the Khartoum government moved closer to ending 20 years of devastating civil war on Wednesday, when they announced a breakthrough in marathon peace talks. The two sides clinched a deal about the position and strength of their respective armed forces, but still have many issues to iron out before they can sign a comprehensi.. More

  • Ahmed Yassin Says Hamas Won't Disarm

    Emerging for a news conference for the first time since Israel tried to kill him, the founder of the militant group Hamas said Wednesday his group will not disarm or accept a truce with Israel. Sheik Ahmed Yassin rebuffed the incoming Palestinian prime minister and sent a defiant message to Israel, which tried to kill him Sept. 6 by bombing a Gaza.. More

  • 'Only U.N. Can Legitimize Iraq Future' Says Schroder

    German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder appealed Wednesday for a decisive role for the United Nations in the reconstruction of Iraq but softened past differences with the United States. Addressing the U.N. General Assembly a day after President Bush urged other nations to help pacify and rebuild Iraq, Schroeder said Germany was prepared to provide humanitarian,.. More

  • German Muslim Teacher Wins Headscarf Case

    In a landmark decision Germany's highest court has ruled a woman teacher should not be prevented from wearing a traditional Muslim headscarf in the classroom. The Federal Constititional Court ruled that school authorities in Stuttgart were wrong to bar Fereshta Ludin from a teaching post on the grounds that her scarf would violate the state's religious.. More

  • Palestinian Youth Killed in Gaza, Palestinians Disappointed by Bush's U.N. Speech

    Israeli troops shot dead a 15-year-old Palestinian youth on Wednesday while raiding a Gaza Strip refugee camp, Palestinian medics and witnesses said. Palestinian medics and witnesses said the 15-year-old, who was unarmed, was killed by a tank shell that wounded 11 others. Palestinians said the Israeli incursion followed Palestinian mortar shelling.. More

  • Chirac Warns Unilateralism Leads to Anarchy

    Jacques Chirac used his address to the UN General Assembly to warn that there is no alternative to the United Nations. The French president offered several suggestions as to how the world body could solve what he described as the "crisis" of the last few months. But he also gave the United States a sharp rap on the knuckles over the unilateral nature.. More