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  • Israeli Defence Minister to Meet Palestinian Interior Minister

    HIGHLIGHTS: Meeting Still to be Confirmed by Israel||PLO Former Treasurer Accuses Arafat of Corruption||Palestinian Peace Moves Blocked by Internal Friction||Occupation Army Stepping up Demolition Policy||Sharon's Popularity Plummeting||Israelis Having Second Thoughts About Wisdom of Barghouti Trial|| STORY: Israeli Defence Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer.. More

  • Sudan President Renews House Arrest of Turabi; Government Differences Blamed for Aborted Release

    Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir ordered the renewal of a house arrest order against his ousted right-hand man, Islamist ideologue Hassan al-Turabi, the official SUNA news agency reported. President Beshir, on the basis of Article 132 of the constitution and Article 15 of the Law on Emergency and Public Security of 1998, has taken an extraordinary.. More

  • Europe Faces Huge Costs as Floods Still Threaten

    HIGHLIGHTS: Leaders to Meet in Berlin to Discuss Cost of Destruction Wrought Across the Region||91 Killed, Tens of Thousands Evacuated & Many Lose their Homes||Museums & Opera Houses Forced to Close & May Need Extensive Repairs||Czech Republic Witnesses Largest Post-war Evacuation|| STORY: Record floods threatened a string of historic towns on Sunday.. More

  • Israelis Reinstate Hebron Curfew

    HIGHLIGHTS: More Arrests in Gaza & Nablus||Palestinian-Israeli Security Talks Planned for Sunday||No Palestinian Unity if Dependent on Acknowledgment of Israel, Says Hamas|| STORY: Palestinians in the divided West Bank city of Hebron chafed against the Israeli curfew reimposed Saturday while a report of an army contingency plan to expel Yasser Arafat.. More

  • Bahrain king reaches out to Iran

    The king of Bahrain has flown to Tehran for the first visit by the country's head of state to Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Bahrain's official BNA news agency said Sheikh Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa would meet President Mohammad Khatami to "develop and enhance cordial relations bonding the two Islamic nations". Relations between the two countries.. More

  • Sudan Court Denies Ordering Release of Turabi

    Sudan's official news agency said Saturday a court had not ordered the release of Islamist leader Hassan al-Turabi, hours after a Turabi lawyer said a ruling had set him free from 19 months in detention. SUNA quoted the head of the constitutional court, Jalal Ali Lutfi, as saying the judge reviewing the case had not reached a decision yet. "The constitutional.. More

  • Anger Over Plan to Oust Arafat

    HIGHLIGHTS: More Palestinians Arrested in Hebron, Al-Khalil||PA Seeks Support in Arab Capitals||'Gaza-First' Withdrawal Talks to Resume|| STORY: Palestinian officials were outraged Saturday by an Israeli television report claiming the army had a contingency plan to expel Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat by force. The report, which did not cite any sources,.. More

  • Washington Takes Germany to Task for Stance on Iraq

    HIGHLIGHTS: Iraqi Media Warns Kurds Not to Join U.S. Attack against Iraq||Russia, Iraq Plan 5-year 40 Billion U.S. Dollar Economic Deal||Baghdad Ends Oil Surcharge for Some Clients: MEES||Iraq Leaves Door Open for Return of UN Inspectors|| STORY: The United States has expressed official displeasure about critical comments made by German Chancellor Gerhard.. More

  • Moderate Arab states are not immune from US designs: Syria

    HIGHLIGHTS: Accusations of Riyadh Funding Terrorism & Threats to Cut Aid to Egypt Part of an "American Policy of Blackmail": Tishrin||The Planned Ouster of Saddam Hussein is Only the Beginning: Ath-Thawrah||Syria Frustrated by Being Left out of Key Mideast Talks in Washington in July|| STORY: Syria's state-run media warned key pro-Western states Egypt.. More

  • Israeli Occupation Army Has Plan to Expel Arafat by Force

    HIGHLIGHTS: Lebanon a Possible Destination||Commitment to Washington Not to Injure Arafat Stands||Split over Contingency Plan within Occupation Army Ranks Reported||Plan Faces Heated Opposition From Coalition Partner, Labour|| STORY: The Israeli army has a contingency plan to grab Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from his West Bank headquarters and.. More

  • Iraq Gives its Response to Annan's Letter

    HIGHLIGHTS: Baghdad Urges "Technical Discussions" on Renewed UN Arms Inspections||Delegation Could Prepare for a Re-establishment of the Surveillance System and Prepare for Application of All the Pertinent Security Council Resolutions||Bush Defends His Iraq Policy against Criticism from within His Own Republican Party|| STORY: Iraq has urged fresh "technical.. More

  • Egyptian Rights Activists Troubled

    HIGHLIGHTS: American Move Insincere & Aimed at American & Not Egyptian Interests: Rights Activists||Public Image of Human Rights Activists in Egypt: Moneymaking " Human Rights Boutiques" || Human Rights Activists Fail in Creating Grass Roots Movement in Egypt|| STORY: Egyptian rights activists said Friday cutting additional aid to Egypt to protest the.. More

  • Palestinians Seek to Rescue Floundering Unity Talks as Israel Demolishes More Homes

    Highlights: Two Homes Belonging to Resistance Bombers Destroyed, Relatives Detained||Hamas Rejects Document on United Leadership But Continues Talking & Protests Being Singled out as Only Obstacle to Agreement||More Bloodshed Overnight||Ereqat Meets Jordanian Foreign Minister in Amman|| STORY: The Palestinians were attempting to revive stalled talks.. More

  • Sharon urges US to press on with Iraq strike

    HIGHLIGHTS: Israeli Leaders Believe Delaying Attack or Canceling it Is More Dangerous Than Not Assailing Baghdad||If Attacked by Iraq, Israel Won't Exercise Restraint as in 1991||Iraq Demands Neutral Observers Accompany UN Weapon's Inspectors||Blair Blocks Cabinet Debate on Iraq|| STORY: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has urged the United States.. More

  • Three Palestinians killed as talks falter on all fronts

    HIGHLIGHTS: Occupation Troops kill 5-year Old Ayman Fares of Khan Yunis||Security Talks to Resume coming Few Days||Inter-Palestinian Differences Derail Talks on Future of Intifadha, Uprising against Occupation||Fayad Responds to U.S. & Israeli Pressures on Reform|| STORY: Three Palestinians, including a boy and two Resistance activists caught trying.. More