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  • U. S. Lawmakers Caution Bush against Hasty Military action against Iraq

    HIGHLIGHTS: U.S. Senate Opens 2-Day Hearings on Assessing the Iraqi Threat||Experts Warn Iraqi Military Capabilities Cannot Be Dismissed||France & Russia Required on Board if Military Action Against Iraq Were to succeed||STORY: Top Republican and Democrat lawmakers as well as regional experts cautioned President George W. Bush against hastily and unilaterally.. More

  • Khartoum Fighting Rebels to Secure Oil Areas

    HIGHLIGHTS: Fighting in Mayom County in Western Upper Nile Not New, Says Khartoum||Government Denies Targeting Civilians||Sudan Wants Egypt, Libya & the Arab League to Attend Peace talks with Rebels Later this Month||Egypt Opposed to Independence for Southern Sudan|| STORY: The Sudanese government said that its forces had engaged in "military battles".. More

  • Palestinian Resistance Bomber Kills Seven, Injures 70 in Cafeteria Blast

    HIGHLIGHTS: Israeli Police Believes It Was a Planted Bomb & Not a Bomber||Unconfirmed Reports Say Hamas Claimed Responsibility||PA Condemns Blast|| STORY: A bomb exploded in a crowded cafeteria at Hebrew University during lunchtime Wednesday, killing at least seven people and wounding more than 70.The blast in the university's Frank Sinatra International.. More

  • Nine Palestinians Arrested in West Bank, Explosive Lab Discovered

    HIGHLIGHTS: Israel Pays Palestinian Funds without conditions||Pentagon Plans to Reduce Sinai Observer Force||Israel Indicts Alleged Resistance Activists|| STORY: Israeli occupation troops arrested nine Palestinians in their ongoing sweep of the West Bank, in searches that also unearthed an explosives laboratory. Four Palestinians were arrested by the.. More

  • Iraq Accuses U.S., Britain of Blocking Oil-for-food Programme

    Iraq has accused anew the United States and Britain of blocking five billion dollars worth of contracts concluded within the framework of the UN-administered oil-for-food programme, the foreign ministry said in a statement.The accusation was levelled by Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri during a meeting late Tuesday with the newly-appointed UN humanitarian.. More

  • Hamas Says No to Arafat's Ceasefire Efforts

    HIGHLIGHTS: Jesse Jackson Set to Meet Hamas' Spiritual Leader Wednesday||Occupation Army Arrests Young Palestinian Woman in Ramallah||Jordan's King Abdullah Calls U.S. Mideast Role 'Essential'||UN Report on Jenin to be Published Thursday||EU Poses New Conditions for Palestinian Aid|| STORY: Palestinian Resistance group Hamas rejected President Yasser.. More

  • Sudan Fighting Follows Peace Accord

    HIGHLIGHTS: Reports Speak of Hundreds Killed in Fighting||A Kenyan Aid WorkerReportedly Killed by Government Forces||Khartoum Government Denies Killing Civilians|| STORY: Sudanese government-backed forces killed a foreign aid worker and abducted three others in an oil-rich area of Sudan, a U.N. official said Tuesday. A rebel leader said the government.. More

  • Rwanda and Congo Sign Peace Deal in South Africa

    The leaders of Congo and Rwanda proclaimed a peace agreement a key step in efforts to end a war that has embroiled six African nations and left 2.5 million people dead. "No more blood must run," Congolese President Joseph Kabila said Tuesday before signing the agreement with Rwandan President Paul Kagame at a ceremony in South Africa. The deal, the.. More

  • Jerusalem Bomber Injures 4 Israelis

    HIGHLIGHTS: Palestinian Shot Dead after Stabbing a Settler Near Nablus||Two Settlers Shot Dead South of Nablus||Palestinian Factions Urge Arab States to Punish U.S. Economy, Military|| A Palestinian bomber wounded four other people when he blew himself up in downtown Jerusalem, in the first such attack in Jerusalemin nearly six weeks, police said. "There.. More

  • Powell Assures Malaysia on Middle East

    Secretary of State Colin Powell reassured frequent critic Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Tuesday that Washington backs a Palestinian state as the way to achieve peace in the Middle East. Powell, in Malaysia for less than a day as part of an eight-nation tour of Asian allies, met Mahathir for 40 minutes for talks that also covered the.. More

  • North and South Korea Agree to Resume Talks

    North and South Korea agreed on July 30 to hold talks later this week, seizing on fresh momentum in diplomacy on the divided peninsula and reported stirrings of economic reform in the impoverished communist state. As South Korea's main allies contemplated contacts with North Korea, Seoul's Unification Ministry said it would accept the proposal to.. More

  • Palestinians Still Pushing for Inter-faction Peace Plan

    HIGHLIGHTS: Haim Ramon Presents Text ofPalestinian Ceasefire Call to Knesset Defense Committee||UN Security Council Resumes Mideast Discussions Behind Closed Doors|||King Abdullah II of Jordan & Shimon Peres to Meet in Washington||Jordan Pushes for Detailed Peace Work Plan||Peres Backs Calls for International Mideast Conference Soon|| STORY: Palestinian.. More

  • 'Assassination plot' Revealed in Kabul

    HIGHLIGHTS: Car Loaded with Explosives Intercepted in Afghan Capital||Rumsfeld Is Not Surprised||Karzai Asks to Be Protected by American Bodyguards|| STORY: Authorities in Afghanistan say they have foiled an attempt to blow up government ministers. Afghan television said a would-be assassin was intercepted in Kabul when his car, loaded with explosives,.. More

  • Musharraf Regrets War 'Excesses'

    HIGHLIGHTS: Comments Took Many Bangladeshi Officials By Surprise||Islamabad Won't Pay Any More Compensation for Suffering Inflicted in War||So-called 'Stranded Pakistanis' Demand Permission From Musharraf to Emigrate|| STORY:Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has expressed regret for excesses committed in the Bangladesh war of independence. In a.. More

  • Meeting of Israeli, Palestinian Finance Ministers Canceled; Hamas Member Killed in Gaza

    HIGHLIGHTS: Abu Rudeina: Collective Punishment Continues Despite Israeli Claims Measures Are Being Taken to Ease Restrictions in Occupied Palestinian Cities||Eliezer to Discuss Security Pilot Scheme with Palestinians||Palestinians Defy Curfew in Nablus|| STORY: A meeting of Israeli and Palestinian finance ministers was cancelled without any immediate.. More