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  • Israeli Aircraft Hit Palestinian Target in Gaza

    Israeli aircraft fired at least one missile at a building in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian witnesses and security sources said. The target of the Israeli strike was not immediately clear. Some witnesses and security sources said it was a building housing security facilities and an office of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction... More

  • India Condemns Kashmir Raid as Toll Rises

    India Sunday condemned a raid in Kashmir by gunmen, some dressed as Hindu holy men, who killed 27 slum dwellers and the government said it would give its response Monday.After an emergency cabinet meeting, India sent Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani to the scene of the worst attack in disputed Kashmir since a May raid on an India army camp that.. More

  • Man Pulls Gun Near French President

    PARIS - Police arrested a man who pulled a rifle out of a guitar case as French President Jacques Chirac was inspecting troops Sunday during the annual Bastille Day military parade, police and witnesses said. Cries of alarm from the crowd lining the parade route apparently alerted police, and the gunman fired a single shot as he was wrestled to the.. More

  • Egypt Intensifies Contacts with Washington & Tel Aviv as Palestinians Intend to Convince White House They're Serious about Reform

    HIGHLIGHTS: Egypt Intends to Maximize Positive Points in Bush's Mideast Statement, Mahir Says||Mahir, Moashar & Al-Faisal to U.S. for Quartet Session on Tuesday||Top Level Egyptian-Israeli Talks Scheduled for Sunday & Monday||PA Determined to Persuade Washington to Reconsider Decision Not to Deal with Arafat||Palestinian Resistance Man Fires at Occupation.. More

  • 25 Hindus Killed in Kashmir Attack; 13 Injured in Pakistan Explosion

    HIGHLIGHTS: Attack Likely to Stoke Tensions Between the Nuclear-Armed Neighbours, India & Pakistan||No One Claims Responsibility for Attack Also Injuring 20 Others||Injuries in Pakistan Included 7 Germans, 3 Austrians & 3 Pakistanis|| STORY: Gunmen disguised as Hindu holy men shot dead at least 24 civilians, including a child, in a mainly Hindu slum.. More

  • Jordan "surprised" by Prince Attending Iraqi 0pposition Meeting

    Jordan distanced itself Saturday from an Iraqi opposition meeting in London, saying a Jordanian prince's participation in the forum was an "individual act." More than 200 former Iraqi military officers and opposition leaders attended an open forum in London Friday to discuss how to bring down Saddam Hussein's regime and secure democracy in the Arab.. More

  • Israel Postpones Meeting with Palestinians

    HIGHLIGHTS: Israeli Official Says Meeting Postponed for Technical Reasons||Occupation Forces Intercept Car Packed with Explosives South of Qalqilya||Israeli Defense Minister to Alexandria for Talks with Mubarak Monday|| STORY: Israel said on Saturday it had delayed indefinitely a meeting with Palestinian ministers to ease security and economic restrictions.. More

  • Bush Endorses Iran Protest Movement

    HIGHLIGHTS: No Explanation Given to Statement Issued as an Official U.S. News Release||Official Iranian Press Says 140 Iranians Defying Ban on Demonstrations Arrested||Bush Supports Iranians Wanting to Build Modern, Prosperous, Free as well as Islamic State in Teheran|| STORY: President Bush said Friday the United States endorses the cause of Iranians.. More

  • U.S. Peacekeepers Given Year's Immunity From New Court

    HIGHLIGHTS: Missions in Bosnia & Croatian Pennisula of Prevlaka, Held Hostage by Dispute May Now Be Renewed||American Demands for Blanket Immunity Strongly Resisted By All Council Members||At the End on the One Year Exemption Council Will Have to Renew Request|| STORY: The Security Council today concluded an unusual wrangle between the United States.. More

  • Arafat Opens Dialogue with Washington as Violence Flares in the Territories

    HIGHLIGHTS: In a Long Letter to Powell Arafat Lists Reforms He Intends to Undertake & Seeks Washington's Help to Implement Them||Hamas Defies Israel in Gaza||Six Palestinians Seriously Wounded in Gaza as Israel Rounds up Scores of Palestinians Across the West Bank|| STORY: Three weeks after President Bush demanded the ouster of Gasser Arafat, the Palestinian.. More

  • Arab FMs: Saudi Initiative Remains Bases for Mideast Peace

    HIGHLIGHTS: Initiative Offers Israel Normal Ties With Arab States in Return for Full Withdrawal From All Arab Lands it Occupied in 1967||Mahir, Moashar Meet 'Quartet' Tuesday in New York & July 18, Two Men Meet Faisal-Powell in Washington||'Other Mideast Initiatives Should be Close to Ours,' Sharaa|| STORY: Arab foreign ministers and senior officials.. More

  • Iraq Opposition Talks Saddam Ouster

    HIGHLIGHTS: The London Meetings Arranged by Iraqi National Coalition Military Alliance and Not Iraqi National Congress||Congress Head, Prince Al-Hassan of Jordan & American Embassy Personnel Attend Meetings||Meeting to Discuss Role in Supporting Opposition to Topple Saddam|| STORY: Former Iraqi military officers and civilian opposition groups seeking.. More

  • Israeli Occupation Army Kills 3 Palestinians

    HIGHLIGHTS: Scores of Palestinians Arrested Across the West Bank||Arab Foreign Ministers Meet in Cairo To Coordinate Positions Ahead of Quartet Meeting in New York on Tuesday||Arafat Says Won't Step Aside But Makes No Decision on Re-election Bid in January|| STORY:Israeli occupagtion forces shot dead a Palestinian policeman and a 13-year-old boy in.. More

  • Von Sponeck Warns Against US Attack On Iraq

    A former UN assistant secretary general and humanitarian coordinator for Iraq warned against an eventual US attack on that country, saying it would further destabilise the Middle East. "Promoting peace while fighting terrorism would provide the double pronged instrument needed to show the kind of leadership the world expects from the United States,".. More

  • Khamenei Appeals for Calm AfterAccepting Resignation of Top Religious Leader

    Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appealed for calm in a bid to defuse unprecedented political tension in the Islamic regime following the shock resignation of a top religious leader and anti-clerical attacks. State radio repeatedly broadcast the text of a letter Khamenei wrote to Ayatollah Jalaledin Taheri, prayer leader in the central city.. More