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  • Defiant Saddam warns US a new war is doomed to failure

    President Saddam Hussein issued a haunting warning to the United States that any new war was doomed to bloody failure, as fears mount that Washington will unleash military strikes on Iraq. "All empires and evil coffin-bearers have been buried with their sick dreams when they have sought to harm Arab and Muslim nations," the Iraqi strongman said, conjuring.. More

  • British Minister Meets Gadhafi

    The first British Cabinet minister to visit this country in two decades met with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on Wednesday, saying Libya was making a serious attempt to move away from its international pariah status. Gadhafi said "the right things on a whole range of issues" including weapons of mass destruction and the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight.. More

  • Palestinian Envoy Argues for Arafat

    HIGHLIGHTS: Only Israel's Withdrawal from the West Bank, Gaza & East Jerusalem Would End the Violence Now Gripping the Territories: Saeb Ereqat||Rumsfeld Refers to the West Bank as a "So-Called" Occupied Territory and Speaks of a Palestinian "Entity" Instead of a Palestinian "State"||Condoleezza Rice & Colin Powell Plan Separate Meetings with Palestinian.. More

  • U.S. Denied Access to Saudi Bases

    Saudi Arabia will not give the United States access to bases in the kingdom for an attack on Saddam Hussein, but the foreign minister said Wednesday the longtime U.S. ally does not plan to expel American forces from an air base used for flights to monitor Iraq. In an interview with The Associated Press, Prince Saud said the 70-year-old U.S.-Saudi alliance.. More

  • Saddam to Address Iraq; Bush Vows Patience

    HIGHLIGHTS: Bush & Cheney Make Clear No Decision Has Been Taken on Iraq||Key U.S. Allies Back Away From Iraq Attack||Iraq Defiant over U.S. Threats|| STORY: President Saddam Hussein announced plans to address his nation as nervous Iraqis feared war was inevitable, while President Bush said on Wednesday Baghdad posed "real threats" but that he would.. More

  • PA leadership agrees with Israel security plan

    HIGHLIGHTS: Further Plans Still Need to Be Discussed: Palestinian Officials||Hamas Describes Security Plan as a Recipe for Civil War||Israeli Assassination Squads Kill Aqsa Brigades Chief in Tulkarm, in the West Bank& a Hamas Member in Khan Yunis, in Gaza||Occupation forces Arrest Aqsa Brigades Chief in Bethlehem & Demolish His Rented House||Rumsfeld.. More

  • Iraqi MPs in special session; Annan insists Iraq accept UN terms

    Iraqi MPs held a special session to discuss US threats to topple President Saddam Hussein's regime, in the wake of the US rejection of two new arms initiatives and Kofi Annan's insistence that Baghdad implement Security Council resolutions on UN terms.The parliament convened Wednesday for the second such emergency meeting in a month, and a day after.. More

  • Taiwan Scraps War Games to Defuse China Tension

    Taiwan scrapped planned war games on Wednesday as part of efforts to defuse tensions with China, but Beijing told President Chen Shui-bian he may risk attack if he presses ahead with a referendum on independence. Taiwan's military announced it was canceling anti-submarine drills off eastern Taiwan set for August 15 to "avoid speculation and misunderstanding".. More

  • Israeli Tanks Raid Northern Gaza, Policeman Killed

    Dozens of Israeli tanks firing heavy machineguns raided the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday and troops shot dead a Palestinian policeman, witnesses and officials said. The incursion underlined the serious obstacles to peace that remain after Israeli-Palestinian talks resumed this week and Washington announced high-level meetings with Palestinians in.. More

  • U.S. Confirms Powell-Palestinian Talks This Week

    HIGHLIGHTS: Two Occupation Soldiers Wounded in Gun Battle in Jenin||Occupation Army Captures Palestinian Infiltrator from Egypt||Palestinians Condition Security Talks on Withdrawal from Ramallah|| STORY: Secretary of State Colin Powell will meet a Palestinian delegation that is visiting Washington Thursday and Friday, the State Department said on Tuesday... More

  • Annan Formulates Reply to Iraq's Offer for Talks

    HIGHLIGHTS:Jordan & Turkey Fear Impact of Iraq Attack||UK Clergy Urge against Iraq Strike||Schroeder Warns Attack against Iraq Could Endanger Anti-terror Coalition|| STORY: Secretary-General Kofi Annan planned to tell Iraq on Tuesday the chief U.N. arms inspector would go to Baghdad for talks if Iraq showed willingness to allow weapons inspectors back.. More

  • Pakistan school raid suspects "blow themselves up"

    Three men suspected of attacking a church school in Pakistan earlier this week, killing six people, blew themselves up on Tuesday after being challenged by police, an official said. Tahir Quyoom, deputy inspector general for police in the northern city of Muzaffarabad, told Reuters the body of one of the men, who had killed themselves besides a river,.. More

  • Israeli Occupation Forces Kill Two More Palestinians

    Israeli occupation forces killed two Palestinian Resistance menTuesday, including one wanted for plotting a bombing, as they were returning to their hiding place in a West Bank cave. The killings came after the first high-level talks in months between Israelis and Palestinians on ways to end 22 months of violence in which more than 2,000 people have.. More

  • U.N. To Ask Iraq about Inspectors

    Secretary-General Kofi Annan was seeking to clarify whether Saddam Hussein is prepared to accept the return of U.N. weapons inspectors under the conditions laid out by the Security Council. If Iraq agrees to the council's roadmap, Annan said, he would look at Iraq's invitation to chief weapons inspector Hans Blix to visit Baghdad for technical talks.. More

  • Pentagon Disavows Negative Report on Saudi Arabia

    The Defense Department in Washington distanced itself Tuesday from a defense think tank recommendation that the United States "target" Saudi oil fields and financial assets if the Arab nation doesn't do more to fight terrorism. The suggestion was made in a briefing to the Defense Policy Board, a group of intellectuals and former senior officials that.. More