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  • Spain, Morocco Start Crucial Talks After Islet Row

    The foreign ministers of Spain and Morocco meet face to face on Monday to try to consolidate a weekend truce brokered by the United States over the islet of Perejil. Spain's Ana Palacio will travel to the Moroccan capital Rabat for talks with Mohamed Benaissa that should provide an opportunity for both sides to end the bitterness which culminated in.. More

  • WorldCom Files For Bankruptcy

    The scandal-hit telecoms giant, WorldCom, has applied for bankruptcy protection in the largest case of insolvency in US corporate history. The company, which has 85,000 employees and operates in 65 countries, has buckled under the pressure of massive scandal over a 3.85 billion U.S. dollarsaccounting fraud which made the company look profitable when.. More

  • Israeli Train Attacked After High-Level Talks

    A bomb planted under an Israeli passenger train wounded its driver Sunday in an attack that clouded prospects for easing Israeli restrictions on Palestinians under curfew in seven reoccupied West Bank cities. The blast, which police called a terror attack, occurred only hours after Foreign Minister Shimon Peres told Palestinian leaders that Palestinian.. More

  • Bus hits land mine in central Afghanistan; 13 killed

    A bus carrying people to a picnic area hit a land mine in central Afghanistan, killing 13 passengers and injuring six others, a U.N. official said Sunday. The accident occurred Saturday near Bamiyan, some 200 kilometers (120 miles) west of the capital, Kabul, said U.N. spokesman David Singh. Passengers urged the driver to take a detour because of land.. More

  • Border guards in Tajikistan kill five suspected drug smugglers

    Russian border guards in Tajikistan killed five suspected drug smugglers in a five-hour gunbattle on the border with Afghanistan ,officials said Sunday. According to border guards spokesman Gen. Maj. Gen. Sergei Zhilkin, a patrol encountered a group of 16 gunmen crossing the Pyandzh River into Tajikistan from Afghanistan Saturday night. (Read photo.. More

  • An Israeli Train Engineer Injured in a Blast South of Tel Aviv

    HIGHLIGHTS: Palestinians Demand Withdrawal from West Bank Cities & Release of Withheld Tax Money|| Palestinians Say Success from Meetings would be contingent on Israel's withdrawal from Reoccupied Palestinian Cities & Towns||Occupation Soldiers Arrest 25 Palestinians over the Weekend||U.S. State Department Report Finds No Conclusive Evidence Arafat.. More

  • Spanish Forces Leave Disputed Islet After Deal With Morocco

    HIGHLIGHTS: Deal Reached After Intense U.S. Mediation||Island to Be Demilitarized with Forces of Neither Side Occupying It.||Moroccan & Spanish Foreign Ministers to Meet in Rabat Monday|| STORY: A Spanish garrison withdrew from a disputed islet after an accord brokered by Washington ended a row with Morocco that turned an obscure outcrop in the Mediterranean.. More

  • Sudan Peace Talks Reach Breakthrough

    HIGHLIGHTS: Agreement Covers Two Contentious Issues: State Versus Religion & Self-determination (for the south)||No Ceasefire Until All Issues Are Resolved||Successful Peace Talks Could Help Turn Sudan into a Major Oil Exporter|| STORY: Sudan's warring factions said on Saturday they had made a major breakthrough in talks to resolve the 19-year-old conflict.. More

  • Israel, Palestinians to Resume Delayed Talks

    HIGHLIGHTS: Meeting Not Yet Confirmed, Ereqat||Israeli Officials Meet Condoleeza Rice in Washington Next Week||Israel & the Palestinians Discuss Ceasefire Plan Through Third Parties||Occupation Army DemolishesWorkshop in Gaza|| STORY: Israeli and Palestinian officials were expected to hold talks on Saturday evening that Israel postponed after two deadly.. More

  • Leila (Perejil) Deal Close After U.S Role

    Spain believes an agreement with Morocco over the disputed islet of Perejil can be reached soon, after intense diplomatic pressure from the United States galvanized negotiations between the neighboring countries. A government source said on Saturday that even though Spanish Foreign Minister Ana Palacio has not spoken directly with her Moroccan counterpart,.. More

  • UK's Straw in Pakistan on Last Leg of Peace Tour

    British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw arrived in Pakistan on Saturday under pressure to lean on Islamabad to stop Islamic militants attacking Indian targets in the disputed Kashmi region. He was due to hold talks with Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Inam-ul-Haq, but it was not immediately clear whether he would meet President Pervez Musharraf... More

  • UN, U.S., Warn Israel on 'Collective Punishment'

    HIGHLIGHTS: Exile an Option for Family Members with Proven Link to the Plans for Attacks||22 Relatives Detained so far||Hamas Threatens More Attacks If Deportations Were Carried out||Car Explodes Near Tel Aviv-1 Dead|| STORY: Israel's attorney general has set terms for the possible deportation of relatives of Palestinian Resistance men, a step aimed.. More

  • Morocco Appears to Backtrack on a Pledge Not to Reoccupy Leila Islet (Perejil) if Spain Withdraws its Troops

    U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell mediated intensively between Spain and Morocco on Friday and a senior U.S. official said he hoped to help them resolve their dispute over the island of Perejil. Powell made several calls to King Mohammed of Morocco and Spanish Foreign Minister Ana Palacio. He is seeking a solution along the lines of restoring the.. More

  • U.S. Warplanes Kill five Iraqis and Injure 17 Others

    HIGHLIGHTS: U.S. Central Command Says Military Facility Attacked in Southern Iraq While Baghdad Says Civilian & Service Installations Attacked in Qadissiyah||Iraq Increases Challenges to U.S. Aircraft, U.S. Central Command Says||Warplanes Use Precision-guided Weapons in Attack|| STORY: U.S. and British warplanes destroyed a military communications facility.. More

  • Israel Arrests Relatives of Palestinian Attackers, Destroys Houses

    HIGHLIGHTS: Fathers & Brothers to be Expelled to Gaza Strip||Hamas Threatens Unique Response||Curfew Partly lifted in Four Palestinian Cities||Al-Nazir Claims Responsibility for the Twin Tel Aviv Resistance Bombing Attack||2 Houses Destroyed, 16 Palestinians Detained||Israelis Begin to Doubt the Wisdom of Their Government's So-called 'Anti-terror Policy'||A.. More