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  • Five Israeli Occupation Soldiers Wounded in Latest Incursion in the Towns of Tubas & Rafah

    HIGHLIGHTS:Occupation Troops Attacked with Gunfire in Tubas and with Mortar Shells in Rafah||A FATAH Leader Arrested in Gaza||60 Palestinians Arrested in Ramallah|| STORY: Five Israeli occupationsoldiers were wounded early Thursday morning while combing the northern West Bank and southern Gaza Strip for Palestinian Resistance activists and weaponry,.. More

  • Israeli Forces Withdraw From Ramallah

    HIGHLIGHTS: Occupation Troops Take up Positions Round the City Keeping it Encircled||Powell Appears at Odds with Bush Over Mideast Conference & Palestinian Statehood||Al-Faisal Meets Bush Thursday||First UN Security Council Mideast Public Debate Thursday||Reshuffled Palestinian Cabinet Meets for First Time Thursday|| STORY: Israeli tanks and occupation.. More

  • Pakistan Denies U.S. Al-Qaeda Claims

    HIGHLIGHTS: Claim Made By Rumsfeld During Talks with Indian Leaders||Rumsfeld Lacks Knowledge of Realities on the Ground in Kashmir, Says Pakistan||India-Pakistan Border Situation Remains Tense Despite India's Conciliatory Gestures|| STORY: Pakistan has denied suggestions by US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that terrorists from Osama bin Laden's.. More

  • Three dead in US aircraft crash in Afghanistan

    HIGHLIGHTS: U.S. Military Say Crash Not the Result of Hostile Fire||45M U.S. Dollar Plane, an Upgraded Version of Workhorse C-130 ||Another Version of Plane Crashed in a Mountain in Pakistan January, 2002|| STORY: A U.S. military MC-130 special operations aircraft crashed on takeoff in southeastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing three of the 10.. More

  • Mideast Violence Kills 9 Palestinians

    HIGHLIGHTS: Joint Palestinian Statement Claims Responsibility for Netzarim Attack in Gaza||Bush Pleases Israelis & Angers Palestinians||Arafat's Headquarters for a Second Day|| STORY:Israeli occupation troops shot and killed five armed Palestinians and a 9-year-old boy in separate incidents near a Jewish settlement.Just before midnight Tuesday, troops.. More

  • Rumsfeld Pushes India, Pakistan to Lower Tensions

    Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Wednesday India had taken constructive steps toward averting a war with Pakistan, but that Washington was anxious to see tensions lowered further. Rumsfeld, expected to press nuclear-armed India and Pakistan for a series of goodwill measures to reduce the risk of war, was holding meetings with senior Indian.. More

  • Ethnic Rivalry Overshadows Activities of the First Afghan Loya Jirga Session in Decades

    Dozens of angry delegates walked out of Afghanistan's grand assembly on Wednesday, saying they were not being consulted, as the gathering prepared to choose a leader to rule the country for the next 18 months. The Loya Jirga, a traditional Afghan parliament, is expected to vote later on a new president with Hamid Karzai, interim leader and favorite.. More

  • Israel's Rolling Raids on Palestinian Cities Continue as More Israelis & Palestinians Die in On-going Intifadha Confrontations

    HIGHLIGHTS: An Israeli Killed, Another Stabbed & Eleven Others Wounded||Four Palestinians Killed, Several Others Wounded & More Arrested||Ramallah (Arafat's HQ Included) Under Siege & Curfew for the Second Day Running||PFLP Second-in-Command Arrested|| STORY: A Palestinian bomber blew himself up in a restaurant just north of Tel Aviv on Tuesday, killing.. More

  • Saudis Intensify Diplomatic Contacts With Washington Ahead of Bush's Mideast Statement

    HIGHLIGHTS: Saud Al-Faisal Makes Unannounced Stop in Cairo to Discuss Mubarak's Recent Meeting with Bush||Saudis to Push Bush to Honour Pledge on Palestinian Statehood||Al-Faisal's Unannounced Visit to Washington Intended to Counter Sharon's Trip to the White House|| STORY: U.S. President George W. Bush soon will tell the American people and the world.. More

  • Rumsfeld Starts India-Pakistan Mission

    HIGHLIGHTS: Monitoring Indian-Pakistani Border Key Challenge to Breakthrough in Crisis|| Rumsfeld Warns that Qaeda & Taliban Could Use Kashmir Issue to Stir Trouble in the Himalayas||Cross-border Shelling Claims More Lives|| STORY: U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld began a peace mission to India and Pakistan Tuesday, aiming to build on an easing.. More

  • Palestinian Resistance Continue Targeting Settlers & Settlements

    HIGHLIGHTS: Three Settlers Wounded in Explosion Near Hebron, Al-Khalil||Settlements Expanding Under Sharon||Two Collaborators Shot Dead in & Near Hebron, Al-Khalil Respectively|| STORY:At least three Israeli Settlers were wounded by an explosion near their armored bus outside the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba in the West Bank on Tuesday. Kiryat Arba.. More

  • Loya Jirga Gathers, Ex-Afghan-King Bows Out

    HIGHLIGHTS: Ex-King Defuses Crisis Exposing His Country's Ethnic Divide||Some Ex-King Supporters Cry Foul Play on Washington's Part||Deeper Divisions Still Need to be Resolved|| STORY: Former warlords and tribal leaders gathered on Tuesday for a grand assembly to choose Afghanistan's next government as the former king renounced any role, defusing a.. More

  • India Takes More Little Steps to Cool Tensions

    HIGHLIGHTS: Indian Steps Indicate Acknowledgement That Islamabad is Honouring Pledges to Halt Militant Incursions into Indian Ruled Kashmir||Musharraf Unimpressed By India's Moves So Far||Border Shelling Continues as Rumsfeld Heads to the Region|| STORY: India on Tuesday said its warships were moving away from off the coast of Pakistan as U.S. Defense.. More

  • Israeli Occupation Troops Kill a Palestinian in Gaza & Arrest Several More Others in Ramallah

    HIGHLIGHTS: Tanzeim Activist, Mahmoud Naifeh Evades Arrest||EU to Expand So-called Terrorist List to Include: Hizbollah, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, and the (PFLP). ||150 Jewish Families From New York & Marseilles Respectively to Settle in The West Bank By End of June||STORY: Israeli occupation army sources said they have killed a Palestinian man claiming.. More

  • Bush Paints a Rosy Picture of Sharon as Occupation Troops Kill a Palestinian Policeman & Arrest 27 Other Palestinians in Ramallah

    HIGHLIGHTS: A Palestinian Policeman Killed in Ramallah, Two Israeli Occupation Soldiers Wounded & At Least 20 Palestinians Arrested||Chances for a Proposed Mideast Summit Now Look Remote||Recent Palestinian Reforms Appear to Have Succeeded in Stealing Some of the Thunder Out of Sharon's Anti-PA Campaign|| STORY: Upholding Israel's so-called right to.. More