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Jewish Settlers Mirror Apartheid Rulers

COPENHAGEN, (Islamweb & News Agencies) -The lifestyle of Jewish settlers in the Palestinian territories resembles that of whites under the former racist apartheid system, the head of the Danish Red Cross said here Wednesday. (Read graph caption below) Freddy Karup Pedersen told the Danish Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee following a visit to.. More

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Somalia Accuses Ethiopia of Armed Incursion

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's provisional government said on Wednesday that Ethiopian troops had crossed the border, in the largest of several recent incursions, to try to capture the southern port of Kismayu.(Read map caption below) Ethiopia's government denied the accusation, saying it did not have a single soldier on Somali territory. Officials.. More

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Indonesia's Megawati to Name Make or Break Cabinet

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri will unveil her cabinet Thursday after more than two weeks of political power-broking which has frayed the nerves of the country's financial markets. Few Indonesian cabinet announcements have been as closely watched or attracted such high expectations. The team will be named at 11 a.m. (midnight.. More

1364 10/04/2001
Macedonia Hovers Between War and Peace

OHRID, Macedonia (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Macedonia hovered between war and peace Thursday after an agreement meant to end an ethnic Albanian revolt for equal rights was reached amid widespread violence. Western envoys, who had struggled to mediate a peace deal for 12 days, persuaded Macedonian and ethnic Albanian party leaders to initial the accord.. More

1365 10/04/2001
United States, Russia End 'Positive' Security Talks

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and Russian defense teams completed on Wednesday two days of detailed and ``very positive'' talks on U.S. missile defense plans and bilateral security cooperation, a senior Pentagon official said. The official, who asked not to be identified, spoke with Reuters about the meetings ahead of a visit to Moscow by Defense Secretary.. More

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A Palestinian Resistance Bomber Kills 5 Israelis and Wounds Several Others

JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - A Palestinian Resistancebomber blew himself up in a Jerusalem fast-food restaurant on Thursday, killing several people and wounding at least 20 others. Ambulance crews reported at least four people were killed and several dozen wounded, 12 seriously, in the blast which occurred during the busy lunch hour at a Sbarro's.. More

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Indonesian Leader Unveils Cabinet

JAKARTA, Indonesia (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Newly elected President Megawati Sukarnoputri named a coalition Cabinet dominated by nonpartisan specialists who she said will try to pull Indonesia back from the brink of ``disintegration.'' Thursday's announcement of the lineup, which also includes retired generals and feuding politicians, ended three.. More

1368 10/04/2001
U.S. Urged to Apologize for Slavery

GENEVA (AP) - After threatening to boycott a U.N. conference on racism, the United States moved closer Monday toward a compromise with African nations that are demanding an apology from former slave-trading nations. African negotiators to the upcoming World Conference Against Racism have demanded that a draft declaration include ``an explicit apology''.. More

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Palestinians Blame Sharon For The Blast

GAZA CITY, (BBC)-Palestinian power brokers have laid the blame for Thursday's bombing of a Jerusalem restaurant at the feet of prime minister Ariel Sharon.The people in the Palestinian territories meanwhile, are battening down in case of Israeli reprisals.The military wing of Islamic Jihad may have claimed responsibility for the bombing, but popular.. More

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Palestinians Reject Israeli Most-Wanted List

JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The Palestinian Authority refused on Monday to arrest any of the seven men on an Israeli most-wanted list that could mark them for death under a widely condemned hunt-and-kill policy.Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo said Israel must first take action against its own activists before the Authority.. More

1342 09/04/2001
Israel's ' Hit List' Snubbed

JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - A stand-off between the Palestinian Authority and Israel over the arrest of activists wanted by each side aggravated tensions on Tuesday and gunfire rang out overnight in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.The Palestinian Authority has refused to arrest seven men on an Israeli most-wanted list that could mark them for.. More

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Iran Council Paves Way for Khatami Swearing-In

TEHRAN (Reuters) - A top Iranian state body intervened on Monday to allow reformist President Mohammad Khatami to be sworn in for a second term, ending a bitter row which had brought the country to a political impasse. The Expediency Council, which has the final say in Iranian political disputes, voted to enable Khatami to take the oath of office with.. More

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Blast in Indonesia's E. Java, One Killed

JAKARTA (Islamweb & News Agencies) - An explosion rocked a residential area in the East Java capital of Surabaya early on Tuesday, killing one and injuring another, Indonesian police said. The explosion, believed to be from a bomb, hit around 6:00 a.m. near the front entrance of a house. There have been several unsolved bomb attacks in Indonesia in.. More

1346 09/04/2001
Lawyer Calls on Suharto's Son to Give himself up

JAKARTA (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Former Indonesian President Suharto's fugitive youngest son, linked to a spate of bombings and the murder of a senior judge, must give himself up, his lawyer said on Tuesday.(Read photo caption below) The call followed a bomb blast in the East Java capital of Surabaya, killing one person and injuring another. Police.. More

1347 09/04/2001
New Macedonian Slav Demands Rock Peace Talks

OHRID, Macedonia (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Western mediators meet Macedonian leaders on Tuesday to try to persuade them to drop a demand for guarantees of full ethnic Albanian guerrilla disarmament that could derail a delicate peace process. (Read photo caption below).The Macedonians sprung the demand on some mediators during talks on Monday that.. More

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