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  • Mahathir Warns U.S. Against Attack on Iraq

    HIGHLIGHTS: Mahathir Was Addressing an International Forum of Islamic Scholars in Kuala Lumpur||Iraq to Protest to UN over U.S. Visas Denial||Senate Republican Urges Debate over Bush's Iraq Plans|| STORY: Malaysia - Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad warned Friday that a U.S. military campaign to oust Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein would infuriate Muslims.. More

  • Sheikh Omar's Lawyers File Appeal in Pearl Case

    HIGHLIGHTS: Defense Lists 10 Grounds for Conviction to be Overturned||3 Co-accused Have Already Filed Appeal||Threats to Kill Officials if Execution is Carried out|| STORY: Lawyers defending British-born Islamic militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh said they had appealed on Friday against his conviction and death sentence for the kidnap and murder of U.S... More

  • Arab FMs Encouraged By Their Talks with Quartet & Bush

    HIGHLIGHTS: Bush Says Resistance Bombings Timed to Coincide with Top-level Mideast Diplomacy Talks in Washington Are Not Coincidental||Bush Presses FMs on Palestinian Reform While FMs Present Detailed Plan on Palestinian Statehood||FMs & Powell Present a Surprisingly Unified Assessment of Bush's Vision on Mideast Peace||Israel Acknowledges It Couldn't.. More

  • U.N. Urges Israel, Palestinian Peace

    HIGHLIGHTS: Council Endorses 3-Track Plan to Establish Palestinian Statehood Within 3 Years||UN Security Council Statement Stresses Importance ofComprehensive, Just & Lasting Peace in the Middle East||Despite Differences Over Future of Arafat & Priorities Arab FMs Give Positive Assessment of Talks with Powell|| STORY: The U.N. Security Council urged.. More

  • Spain Awaits Morocco Response

    HIGHLIGHTS: Madrid Wants Neither Country to Fly Their Flag over Leila (Perejil) Islet||Spanish Patrol Boats Shoo Away Sightseers, Journalists||Standoff Captures Worldwide Interest|| STORY: Spain waited for Morocco to respond to its pledge to withdraw from a disputed Mediterranean island if the Arab nation agreed to stay off, too. (Read photo caption)"No.. More

  • Israel Maintains Tight Restrictions

    HIGHLIGHTS: Intifadha Clashes Rage on Unabated with Occupation Troops Killing a Resistance Leader in Salit Dahir & Arresting Several Others in the West Bank||PA Denounces Tel Aviv Bombing||Hamas Accuses PA of Trying to Shut Down its Internet Site||International Mediators Say Israel's Withdrawal from Palestinian Cities & Towns Key to Palestinian Reform||.. More

  • Spain Says No Need for Mediator in Morocco Spat

    Spain on Thursday ruled out mediation in its dispute with Morocco over the islet of Perejil, as Spanish forces dug themselves in on the rock on North Africa's coast a day after ousting Rabat's troops. Morocco compared Spain's pre-dawn swoop on Wednesday by 28 members of a Spanish special forces team to a "declaration of war," but, despite intense rhetoric,.. More

  • Armed Kashmiri Nationalists, Indian Soldiers Clash at Mosque

    Indian security forces surrounded a mosque in Kashmir on Thursday and exchanged fire with suspected armed Kashmiri nationalists hiding inside, hours after three Indian soldiers were killed in a separate ambush, police said. Seven people -- four soldiers and three armed nationalists -- have been killed in at least three clashes in the past 24 hours in.. More

  • Resistance Bombers Kill Three in Tel Aviv

    HIGHLIGHTS: Attack OnceMore Exposes The Fragility of Israel's American-backed Concept of Security||Israel Suspends So-called'Measures to Ease Palestinian Suffering Under Occupation'||Israeli, Five Palestinians Including Baby Born Prematurely Killed Wednesday||International Mediators Facing Difficulties Reviving Peace-Making||Bush to Meet Quartet Thursday||Ara.. More

  • Morocco Describes the Eviction of its Troops From Perijil Island by Spain as Equivalent to a " Declaration of War "

    Morocco's Foreign Minister Mohamed Benaissa said today that Spain's dispatch of troops to the disputed island of Perejil was equivalent to a "declaration of war."Demanding the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of the Spanish from the island, Morocco protested to the UN calling on the international body to order an immediate withdrawal of Spanish.. More

  • Pakistan Conducts Military Exercises As Armed Kashmiri Nationalists Attack Camp Killing 3

    Mapping out battle scenarios, Pakistan's military kicked off its largest war exercises ever Tuesday as a marketplace explosion in the disputed Kashmir region killed 3 people and injured several others. President Gen. Pervez Musharraf defended the need for the 10-day maneuvers, saying proper training was critical for Pakistan's defense.ARMED NATIONALISTS.. More

  • Arab Nations Back Statehood Plan

    HIGHLIGHTS: Key Arab Ministers Support Quartet Plan to Move from Violence to Peace in the Middle East||A Benchmark Is Needed to MonitorProgress to Ensure that Political Visions Are Translated into "A Workable Plan of Action"||Assad Attacks U.S. Policy Toward Israel||STORY: Despite differences with the United States over the future of Palestinian leader.. More

  • Saddam Scorns Threats to Iraq & Says U.S. Targets All Arabs

    Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has said that "evil tyrants and oppressors" will not be able to unseat him and his government. The US has branded Iraq part of an "axis of evil" supporting terrorism, and President George W Bush has vowed to pursue the Iraqi leader's removal. "You will never defeat me this time. Never!" said Saddam Hussein, speaking in a.. More

  • Moroccan Troops Forced Out of Island

    Spanish troops forced a unit of Moroccan soldiers off of an uninhabited Mediterranean island Wednesday, taking six Moroccans prisoner for a few hours in the process and intensifying the two nations' dispute over the soccer-field sized speck of land. The Moroccan government warned it would "not fail to act" in response. The Spanish operation was the.. More

  • Foreign Envoys Resist Bush on Arafat

    HIGHLIGHTSLeaders Tell Powell They Supported Arafat & Demanded Progress on Palestinian Statehood Issue||Washington Insists Ending Violence Take Precedence over All Other Goals||A U.S.-led Task Force to Go to the Region in Two Weeks to Install New Security Mechanisms in the Territories||Quartet Expresses Concern over Humanitarian Conditions in Palestinian.. More