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Pentagon Disavows Negative Report on Saudi

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

21326 06/08/2002
Israel, Palestinians in Talks After Violence Surges

HIGHLIGHTS: Ben-Eliezer Declines Comments on Talks||Peres Claims His Government is Seeking a Ceasefire||Israelis Claim Destroying a Palestinian Arms Factory in Gaza||UN Calls for Israel's Withdrawal from Reoccupied Palestinian Cities||Occupation Troops Kill a 14-year Old Palestinian in Nablus|| STORY: Israel and the Palestinians held high-level security.. More

21245 06/08/2002
Iraq Offers Tour for U.S. Lawmakers

HIGHLIGHTS: UN Welcomes Iraqi Overtures But U.S. Rejects them as Ploy to Avoid Military Strikes||U.S. and British Planes Bomb Military Facility in Southern Iraq||Bush Reviews Military Options||Israel Begins Producing Smallpox Vaccine in Anticipation of an Iraqi or Palestinian Resistance Attack|| STORY: Iraq has made its second offer in less than a week.. More

21244 06/08/2002
Ugandan Rebels Attack Refugee Camp

Rebels overran a U.N. camp for Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda Monday, killing 14 people, abducting four and destroying equipment and supplies, a U.N. spokeswoman said. The 24,000 Sudanese refugees living in the refugee camp in Acholipii, 185 miles north of Kampala, fled the area, said Bushra Malik, spokeswoman in Uganda for the U.N. High Commissioner.. More

21243 06/08/2002
Peres Begins Talks with Mubarak

HIGHLIGHTS: Egypt to Propose Peace Plan to Peres||Israel Bans Palestinians from Driving in West Bank Cities, Cuts Off Rafah||Saudi Press Blames Sharon, U.S. for Latest Spate of Palestinian Resistance Attacks against Israelis||Sharon under Pressure for Failure to Stem Palestinian Resistance Attacks|| STORY: Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres began.. More

21237 05/08/2002
Iraq Invites Congress to Send Mission to Baghdad

Iraq's speaker of parliament invited the U.S. Congress Monday to send a mission of congressmen and arms experts to Baghdad to investigate American allegations that Iraq is developing weapons of mass destruction. Speaker Saadoun Hammadi, in a letter to Congress, extended the invitation for a delegation "comprising whatever number of congressmen you see.. More

21236 05/08/2002
Six Dead in Attack on Pakistan Church School

Six people were killed and at least three wounded on Monday in a gun attack on a Christian school near Murree, northeast of the Pakistan capital of Islamabad, local officials and school staff said. The attack was at least the third on a Christian minority target since Pakistan began supporting the U.S.-led war on terror after the September 11 attacks.. More

21235 05/08/2002
Palestinian Resistance Flares up as Israeli Agression Continues

HIGHLIGHTS: 2 Israelis, 2 Palestinians Killed Monday Morning|| TheSpate of Attacks Pointed to a Concerted Effort by Several Palestinian Resistance Groups||Shaath Slams Hamas for Attacks on Israeli Civilians||Occupation Army Moves to Expel 3rd Palestinian||U.S., EU & UN Urge Peace Talks After Latest Bloodshed|| STORY: Two Israelis were shot dead in the.. More

21139 05/08/2002
U.S. Senators Do Not Rule Out War with Iraq

HIGHLIGHTS: Senator Lieberman Wants Bush to Secure Congressional Authority First||U.S. Press Reports on Plans under Discussion to Attack Iraq||Iraqi Opposition Figure Says Baghdad to Use Bio-weapons Soon|| STORY: The chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Sunday urged President Bush to build domestic and international support before.. More

21137 05/08/2002
Car-Bomb Blast in Spain Kills Two

A powerful car bomb killed two people, including a six-year-old girl, when it exploded outside a police barracks in a Spanish tourist resort on Sunday in an attack officials blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA. About 25 people were injured, four of them seriously, in the attack in Santa Pola near the southern city of Alicante, a local government.. More

21136 05/08/2002
Three Israelis killed in the Second Resistance Attack Sunday

HIGHLIGHTS: Occupation Army Kills an Armed Palestinian in Gaza Strip||Palestinians, Israelis in War of Words over Bus Blast Earlier Sunday||Hamas & Qassam Brigades Claim Responsibility for Bus Bombing||Occupation Army Demolishes Nine Palestinian Homes|| STORY: Three people were killed when a Palestinian Resistance man opened fire near east Jerusalem's.. More

20909 04/08/2002
Rival Koreas to resume high-level talks

North and South Korea agreed on Sunday to hold ministerial talks in Seoul in mid-August, in a new bid to resume halting efforts at reconciliation in tandem with fresh U.S. and Japanese dialogue with the communist North. South Korea's Unification Ministry said in a statement, issued after officials from the rival states met for the first time in four.. More

20662 04/08/2002
Iraq Urges UN to Stand Up to U.S. on Inspections

UPDATED||HIGHLIGHTS: Taha Yassin Ramadan: 'Offer is genuine.'||Bush Dismisses Baghdad's Arms Inspection Offer||Germany, Saudi Arabia and Iran Voice Concern|| STORY: Iraq's press urged U.N. members on Sunday to stand up to the United States and accept Baghdad's offer to hold talks with weapons inspectors. "All members of the United Nations must fulfil.. More

20472 04/08/2002
Nine Killed in Israel Bus Blast

UPDATED||HIGHLIGHTS: Israeli Buses on Sunday MorningUsually Packed with Soldiers|| Israeli Occupation Troops Force Palestinian Civilians to Lead them in Potentially Dangerous Searches||Sharon Now Willing to Meet Yehya & Peres to Meet Mubarak in Cairo Monday||Former Arafat Adviser Launches New Political Party|| STORY: A bomb exploded on a bus in northern.. More

20460 04/08/2002
Russia & Georgia at Logger Heads Over Chechnya

HIGHLIGHTS: Chechen Fighters Kill 10 Russian Soldiers & Wound 13 Others||Russia Accuses Georgia of Doing Nothing to Curb What It Calls 'Terrorism'||Tensions Escalate as U.S. Army Officers Prepare to Train Georgian Troops to Fight International Terrorism||Georgia Arrests Seven Chechen Fighters; Russia Unimpressed|| STORY: Russian officials reported new.. More

20459 04/08/2002

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