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  • Israeli Occupation Troops Claim Arresting 2 Would-be Palestinian Bombers

    Two Palestinian would-be bombers en route to carry out separate attacks were among 22 Palestinians arrested by Israeli occupation troops in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, an Israeli occupation army spokesman said.Of those arrested, 21 were on Israel's so-called wanted list and at least seven belonged to the Palestinian resistance group Hamas, the spokesman.. More

  • Lockerbie Bombing Compensation Deal Said Reached

    Libya reached agreement with the United States and Britain on Tuesday to accept responsibility for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and compensate victims' families, a source close to the talks told Reuters. The deal would end a lingering dispute between the Western powers and an Arab state shortly before a possible U.S.-led war against Iraq. "History is.. More

  • U.S., Britain Delay Vote on Iraq at U.N.

    Facing almost certain defeat, the United States and Britain delayed a vote to give Saddam Husseinan ultimatum to disarm and signaled they might compromise to try to win support from Security Council members who oppose a rush to war. The Bush administration had talked of a vote as early as Tuesday, but with France and Russia threatening to veto the current.. More

  • Occupation Soldier, Resistance man Killed in Hebron Battle

    Israeli occupation troops on Tuesday fired a tank shell at a three-story apartment building, then razed it, killing a Palestinian resistance man who several hours earlier had attacked an Israeli occupation army patrol, the occupation army and witnesses said. One Israeli occupation soldier was killed and five wounded in the ambush late Monday in the.. More

  • Afghans Say Al Qaeda Suspects Held at Border

    U.S.-led coalition forces have captured two people suspected of links with al Qaeda and the Taliban on Afghanistan's southern border with Pakistan, an Afghan official said on Tuesday. Separately, U.S. forces in the southeastern Khost region detained a man after finding a cache of anti-personnel mines on Monday, a military spokesman said. The arrests.. More

  • Six Undecided on UN Council Seek Iraq Compromise

    The six undecided members of the U.N. Security Council weighed delaying a deadline for Iraqi compliance to April 17, a month later than demanded in a U.S.-British-Spanish draft resolution, diplomats said on Monday. But Pakistan's U.N. ambassador, Munir Akram, said this was not yet a common position, with some of the six wanting a shorter and others.. More

  • N.Korea Tests Missile, U.S., Seoul Unmoved

    North Korea fired a cruise missile into the Sea of Japan Monday as it tries to force the United States into nuclear negotiations but Washington appeared unmoved by the action. President Bush showed no signs of impatience with the diplomatic process and consulted with the leaders of Japan and China about a peaceful solution to the crisis over North Korea's.. More

  • Israel Boosts Security for Ministers

    Israel has increased security for Cabinet ministers after the Palestinian resistance group Hamas threatened to target Israeli leaders, an official said Monday. Hamas made the threat in response to Israel's killing of a Hamas founder, Ibrahim Makadmeh, in a missile attack in Gaza over the weekend. An aide to Interior Minister Avraham Poraz said the Defense.. More

  • Russia May Vote Against Iraq Resolution

    Foreign Minster Igor Ivanov warned Monday the Kremlin would vote against the U.S. and British resolution that gives Saddam Husseina March 17 deadline to disarm, news agencies reported.This marks the first time that Russia has explicitly said it would vote against the resolution before the U.N. Security Council, but Ivanov did not use the word veto... More

  • Israeli Occupation Forces Arrest 19 Palestinians

    Israeli occupation forces arrested 19 Palestinians in overnight raids across the West Bank."Most of them are suspected of involvement in anti-Israeli attacks and were wanted by the army or the security services," an occupation army spokesman said Monday.Others were detained for questioning, he said.Six of the suspects were captured near Nablus in the.. More

  • Last-Ditch Cyprus Meeting Opens in The Hague

    UN chief Kofi Annan opened a one-day meeting with the rival Cypriot leaders warning that they faced one final chance to end their island's division before it joins the European Union.Annan summoned Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos and Turkish-Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash to the Dutch capital in a bid to persuade them to put a UN peace plan to their.. More

  • Powell Optimistic over U.N. Vote on Iraq

    U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell held out hope Sunday that the U.N. Security Council, allies across the globe and the American public would come to support an American-led war with Iraq, as the United States pressed for an ultimatum giving Saddam Hussein until March 17 to prove he has disarmed. Powell said he was within "striking distance" of the.. More

  • Abbas Says Won't Accept Palestinian Ceremonial Portfolio

    Yasser Arafat will retain control of security forces and peace negotiations even after his deputy Mahmoud Abbas is appointed prime minister, a senior Palestinian official said Sunday.The deal would sidestep key reform demands by Israel and the United States that Arafat hand over authority to a powerful prime minister and retain only a ceremonial role... More

  • Erdogan to Become Turkish Premier, Decisions Loom

    Tayyip Erdogan, leader of Turkey's ruling party, won a by-election on Sunday, propelling him from the sidelines of Turkish politics toward his long-awaited goal of becoming prime minister. But Erdogan's first days in office, which could begin as early as this week, were likely to be consumed with the dual foreign policy issues of Iraq and Cyprus. As.. More

  • U.S., France Step Up Diplomatic Battle on Iraq Vote

    The diplomatic battle dividing the West intensified on Sunday as the United States and France each scrambled to woo undecided Security Council members before a key U.N. vote on war in Iraq. French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin was to begin a whistle-stop tour of Guinea, Cameroon and Angola to persuade them to reject a U.S.-backed draft resolution.. More