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  • Iraq Shoots Down U.S. Spy Plane

    BAGHDAD (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Iraq said on Monday its upgraded air defenses had shot down a U.S. reconnaissance plane over southern Iraq.The U.S. military confirmed that a 3.3 million unmanned RQ-1B Predator aircraft had gone missing over Iraq and may have crashed or been shot down while operating to enforce a ``no fly'' zone over much of the.. More

    1519 14/04/2001

  • Israeli Tanks Reoccupy Selected Palestinian Areas

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israeli tanks surged into the Palestinian-ruled village of Beit Jala near Jerusalem and the Rafah refugee camp in the GazaStrip early on Tuesday in what the occupation army claimed were reprisal raids for earlier attacks.The occupation army sent in the tanks, bulldozers and armored vehicles a day after assassinating.. More

    1520 14/04/2001

  • Powell Will Boycott U.N. Racism Conference

    WASHINGTON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Secretary of State Colin Powell will not attend the U.N. conference on racism opening in South Africa this week because of language critical of Israel, the State Department said on Monday.``It is clear to us now that the secretary (Powell) will not go to this conference. The secretary will not attend this conference... More

    1521 14/04/2001

  • Chechen Resistance Seizes Territory in Mountains

    MOSCOW (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Chechen Resistance said on Monday they had taken control of a mountain town and village in a new upsurge of fighting in the strategic southern mountains of the war-racked CaucusRepublic. (Read map caption below) Russian military officials quoted by news agencies dismissed reports of fighting, but the Resistance said.. More

    1522 14/04/2001

  • Diplomats Hope to Meet Taliban on Aid Workers

    KABUL (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Western diplomats hope to meet Taliban officials on Tuesday to arrange a second visit to eight foreign aid workers held in Afghanistan on charges of promoting Christianity.(Read photo caption below)The three diplomats were allowed to spend about two hours on Monday with the six women and two men arrested by the ruling.. More

    1523 14/04/2001

  • NATO Mission in Macedonia Rolls On

    SKOPJE (Islamweb & News Agencies) - NATO soldiers were set on Tuesday to collect hundreds more weapons from ethnic Albanian fighters in Macedonia after an initial day's haul of more than 400, but several potential obstacles to peace loomed on the horizon.(Read photo caption below)Vowing not to be deterred by the death on Monday of a British soldier.. More

    1524 14/04/2001

  • King of Jordan Visits Russia

    MOSCOW (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Jordan's King Abdullah II arrived in Moscow on Sunday for talks on trade and on the on-going Israeli occupation of Arab and Palestinian lands, where he was expected to urge Russia to play a bigger role in peace efforts.(Read photo caption below)The king's first official trip to Russia could also include talks on purchasing.. More

    1515 14/04/2001

  • Red Cross Sees Western Aid Workers Detained in Kabul

    KABUL (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Sunday it had seen eight foreign aid workers heldby Afghanistan's ruling Taliban since early August on charges of spreading Christianity.(Read photo caption below) Robert Dominin, head of the ICRC delegation in Kabul, told reporters he could not reveal the condition.. More

    1516 14/04/2001

  • Palestinian Resistance Attacks Gilo Despite Reoccupation of Beit Jala and Forces Occupation Troops to Withdraw from Deir Al-Balah

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Bullets and mortar bombs hit an internationally illegal Jewish settlement on the edge of Jerusalem overnight despite an Israeli occupation army's thrust into a nearby Palestinian-ruled town that was intended to silence such shooting.Israeli troops had reoccupied parts of the West Bank town of Beit Jala early Tuesday.. More

    1525 14/04/2001

  • Turkish, Jewish Tycoon Stabbed to Death

    ISTANBUL, Turkey (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The chairman of one of Turkey's largest business holdings and a prominent member of its Jewish community was found stabbed to death Saturday, police said.(Read photo caption below) A suspect apprehended a few hours later confessed to the killing of 72-year-old Uzeyir Garih, police said. The suspect's name.. More

    1508 14/04/2001

  • General Sworn in as President of Pakistani Kashmir

    MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - A newly retired army general was sworn in as president of the Pakistan-ruled part of disputed Kashmir on Saturday. Major-General Mohammad Anwar, who retired as the army's vice-chief of general staff in July, replaced veteran politician Sardar Ibrahim Khan, who has completed his five-year term. The.. More

    1509 14/04/2001

  • Sri Lanka Gov't, Opposition Meet

    COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - The government opened talks with opposition leaders Saturday to try to end the crippling political uncertainty in this island nation and possibly discuss a coalition government, officials said. ``Extensive discussions were held on current national issues,'' said a joint statement by President Chandrika Kumaratunga's People's.. More

    1511 14/04/2001

  • Mideast Antagonists Further Apart Than Ever

    JERUSALEM, (Islamweb & News Agencies)-Intifadha, uprising,against Israeli occupation continues in the West Bank in tit-for-tat attacks in which at least 11 people died- four Palestinians and seven Israelis. . The bloodshed has left the two sides further apart than ever in efforts to end 11 months of the intifadha and seek a peace settlement.Israeli.. More

    1512 14/04/2001

  • Arab Criticism of USA's Inaction in the Middle East on the Rise

    CAIRO, AMMAN, (Islamweb & News Agencies)-Egypt and Jordan have accused the US of failing to curb the escalating violence between the Palestinians and Israelis.Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned that if the US continued to hold back, security in the whole region would be jeopardised."The situation requires America take a stand. If the Americans.. More

    1513 14/04/2001

  • Islamists Vow to Block UN Monitors

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Several hundred hard-line Islamists vowed Sunday to block the deployment of U.N. monitors along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, saying that it compromised the country's sovereignty.(Read photo caption below) ``People of Pakistan won't tolerate the presence of U.N. monitors on their soil,'' Sami-ul.. More

    1514 14/04/2001

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