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  • U.N. Race Meeting Split on Slavery

    DURBAN (Reuters) - The United Nations' race conference broke a deadlock over the Middle East Friday but stayed split on slavery as it went into ``extra time.''Muslim states said they would not block a South African-proposed compromise on wording on the Middle East, although it fell short of demands for a condemnation of Israel. But hopes for a breakthrough.. More

  • Improving Resistance Security Arrangements Abort Latest Israeli Assassins' Attempt

    AL BIREH, West Bank (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Improved Palestinian Resistance security arrangements have saved the life of Muhammed Mansour, the Fatah leader in Ramallah, who had left his office moments before Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles at an office of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction on Saturday, casting a pall.. More

  • U.N. Race Meet Seals Deal, Bitterness Lingers

    DURBAN, South Africa (Reuters) - A U.N. conference overcame nine days' wrangling over the Middle East and African demands for reparations for slavery to seal an agreement on fighting racism ``wherever it can be found.''The Durban declaration came a day after the conference was due to close, and bad feelings lingered, but exhausted delegates from some.. More

  • Dead Migrants Found in Morocco

    RABAT, Morocco, (BBC)- Moroccan rescue services are searching for dozens of people still missing at sea after 13 bodies were washed ashore.A survivor said the 13 were from a group of 50 would-be migrants whose boat had capsized off Morocco's coast. According to Moroccan television, there were as many as 60 people on board at the time. The TV showed.. More

  • South Lebanon back to polls for first time in decades

    TYRE, Lebanon, (AFP) -The people of southern Lebanon will have a chance to vote in municipal elections Sunday for the first time since 1963, following decades of Israeli occupation, civil war and other troubles. The rest of the country went to the polls in 1998, nearly a decade after Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war ended, but the south did not have the.. More

  • Israeli Missiles Destroy Palestinian Security Offices in Gaza

    BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip (Islamweb & News Agencies) - In line with its declared internationally criticized policy of using improportianate military response to Palestinian Resistance to occupation, Israel fired missiles at Palestinian security offices in the Gaza Strip Wednesday in yet another brutal act that coincided with preparations for possible.. More

  • Iraq Says Five Expelled U.N. Staff Were Spies

    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq on Wednesday accused five U.N. aid officials it expelled from Baghdad of being involved in acts that infringed on its national security. ``Iraqi authorities have evidence that the five U.N. staffers have carried out acts that violate their assignment in a way that infringes on Iraq's national security, so they were expelled,''.. More

  • UN Race Meet Still Split on Middle East, Slavery

    DURBAN, South Africa (Reuters) - Negotiators at a U.N. race conference still face deadlock over the Middle East and slavery, although the European Union stepped back from a threat to withdraw from the meeting.``The European Union is waiting. No decision has been taken to withdraw,'' EU spokesman Koen Vervaeke told Reuters late on Wednesday.(Read photo.. More

  • Israel Labour Party Result Delayed

    JERSUALEM, Israel, (BBC)-Israel's Labour Party is heading for a protracted legal battle over the election of a new leader amid charges of vote-rigging.With almost all the votes counted, Knesset speaker Avraham Burg holds a narrow lead, but acrimony over the result brought the counting to a halt on Wednesday. Mr Burg's rival - current Defence Minister.. More

  • Final Timor results give resistance party majority seats

    DILI, East Timor, Sept 6 (AFP) -Veteran resistance party Fretilin has won 55 of the 88 seats in East Timor's first freely-elected legislature, according to final provisional results announced by the United Nations on Thursday. The yet-to-be-certified results give Fretilin, the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor, a simple majority in the.. More

  • Germany, France Hopeful on Macedonia

    BERLIN (Islamweb & News Agencies) - German and French leaders said Wednesday they are optimistic that a plan to prevent civil war in Macedonia will succeed, and pledged to work closely together on measures to establish peace there after NATO's mission to collect weapons. ``We both assume the mission will be successful and contribute to the existence.. More

  • Latest Victims on Israel Assassins' Hit List

    TULKARM, West Bank (Islamweb & News Agencies) - An Israeli helicopter gunship fired missiles at a jeep in the West Bank town of Tulkarm on Thursday, killing two people and wounding an a Palestinian Resistance activist on Israel Assassins' hit list, Palestinian officials said.The Israeli occupation army had no immediate comment. Israel's assassins' squads.. More

  • Hopes Fade Ahead of India-Pakistan Talks in New York

    NEW DELHI (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Leaders of India and Pakistan are headed into another peace-seeking meeting this month but there are few signs either side is ready to bend on the decades-old dispute over Kashmir. (Read photo caption below) The two nations have stepped up the rhetoric and separatist violence in Indian-administered Kashmir has.. More

  • Yugoslavia Pressured on War Crimes

    BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - The chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor renewed her call Tuesday for the extradition of indicted Serb suspects, but also suggested charges could be filed against rival ethnic Albanians for attacks in Kosovo. Carla Del Ponte met Tuesday with Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic and other pro-democracy leaders who overthrew former.. More

  • Taliban Say Christian Aid Workers Now on Trial

    KABUL (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The chief justice of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban said Tuesday the trial of eight foreign aid workers accused of promoting Christianity had begun but Western diplomats in Kabul said they remained in the dark. (Read photo caption below) ``The trial proceedings started from today, but we can't say how long it would take.. More