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  • Party Revolt Leads Blair to Diplomacy

    Prime Minister Tony Blairresumed his diplomatic offensive for action against Iraq Thursday after many members of his party revolted against his hardline policy. Blair was flying to Spain Thursday to meet Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, whose government has joined with Britain and the United States in proposing a second Security Council resolution that.. More

  • Israel Blows Up Home of Resistance Bomber

    Israeli occupation troops blew up the home of a resistance bomber in the West Bank and thwarted a car bombing on Thursday, hours before Prime Minister Ariel Sharonwas to present his new hard-line government to parliament for approval. Israel's occupation soldiers activity against the Palestinians has not halted despite an unusual snowstorm that debilitated.. More

  • Arabs Prepare for Summit on Iraq Despite Divisions

    The 22-member Arab League held preparatory talks ahead of a summit on the Iraq crisis, which has opened divisions within the ranks.Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri said Baghdad hoped the summit in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh would adopt "a firm stand" against the threatened US-led attack on his country."The Arab people and the Arab street.. More

  • Bush: Removing Saddam Would Help Arab-Israeli Peace

    President Bush, offering new justification for war in Iraq, said Wednesday that "ending this direct and growing threat" from Saddam Hussein would pave way for peace in the Middle East and inspire democracy throughout the Arab world. While saying the Iraqi regime still has time to avoid war, Bush told conservative backers that U.S. troops are ready for.. More

  • U.S. Says N. Korea Has Restarted Reactor

    North Korea has reactivated a nuclear reactor, U.S. officials said Wednesday, in what could be a first step toward production of additional nuclear weapons. U.S. intelligence officials said a telltale plume was spotted at the reactor shortly after Secretary of State Colin Powell said Pyongyang had made "a wise choice if it's a conscious choice" not.. More

  • Saddam Says No to Exile to Avoid a War

    Iraqi leader Saddam Husseinsays he would rather die than leave his country and that he would not destroy its wealth by setting fire to its oil wells in the event of a U.S.-led invasion. Saddam, in an interview with CBS' Dan Rather, dismissed any idea of going into exile to avoid war. "We will die here. We will die in this country and we will maintain.. More

  • Turkish Lawmakers Debate U.S. Deployment

    The leader of Turkey's governing party summoned lawmakers Wednesday in an attempt to persuade them to agree to let in more than 60,000 U.S. troops for a possible war with Iraq. The prospect of a war is extremely unpopular in Turkey, and Justice and Development Party leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan faces a difficult political battle. Some lawmakers are already.. More

  • Palestinian Official: Give PM Major Power

    A future Palestinian prime minister must be given the authority to form a new Cabinet and formulate policy, the Palestinian parliament speaker said Wednesday in what appeared to be a challenge to Yasser Arafat. Earlier this month, Arafat reluctantly agreed - under intense pressure from Mideast mediators - to create the position of prime minister, which.. More

  • Islamic Nations Meet to Stave off War on Iraq

    Leaders of Islamic countries met on Wednesday to discuss how to avoid a war in Iraq in a race against time as the United States pushes for U.N. approval for an attack. The leaders are in Malaysia following a two-day summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) that ended on Tuesday. It was unclear whether the Islamic states could stray far from a resolution.. More

  • Blix Says Iraq Signaling Real Cooperation

    Iraq is providing new information about its weapons and has reported the discovery of two bombs, including one possibly filled with a biological agent - moves that the chief U.N. weapons inspector said Tuesday signal real cooperation. President Bush, however, predicted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein would try to "fool the world one more time" by revealing.. More

  • Palestinian Teen Killed in Gaza Conflict

    Israeli occupation soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian teenager in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, and a Hamas activist was critically wounded in an explosion in his home. Along the Gaza border with Egypt, a 13-year-old Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli occupation soldiers who were clearing territory in an Israeli-controlled buffer zone near.. More

  • Britain's Blair Attacks Franco-German Iraq Plan

    Britain's Tony Blair dismissed on Tuesday a Franco-German plan for peaceful disarmament of Iraq, saying it was "absurd" to think United Nations inspectors could find lethal weapons without Baghdad's full cooperation. "The idea that inspectors could conceivably sniff out the weapons and documentation relating to them without the help of Iraqi authorities.. More

  • Agreement on Troops Eludes Turkey, U.S.

    Turkish and U.S. officials failed to agree on conditions for deploying tens of thousands of American troops here during overnight talks, likely delaying a parliamentary vote authorizing the move, diplomats said Tuesday. Turkey's Cabinet on Monday approved hosting the U.S. troops for a possible Iraq war, but the prime minister's office has yet to send.. More

  • Thousands Bury Resistance leader Killed by Israel

    A Hamas activist was critically wounded Tuesday in an explosion in his home, while thousands marched in the funeral procession of another Islamic resistance leaderkilled earlier this week during the demolition of his home by Israeli occupation troops. The cause of Tuesday's explosion in the Bureij refugee camp, south of Gaza City, was not immediately.. More

  • Britain Submits Iraq Resolution to U.N.

    Seeking U.N. approval for war, the United States and key allies Britain and Spain submitted a resolution Monday to the Security Council declaring Saddam Hussein has missed "the final opportunity" to disarm and indicating he must now face the consequences. But France, Russia and Germany, which oppose the military option, circulated an alternative plan.. More