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  • U.N. Inspects Former Bioweapons Factory

    U.N. inspectors drove into the desert Wednesday to the former center of Iraq's programs for weapons of mass destruction, making a return visit to check that arms building had not resumed. Earlier U.N. inspectors in the 1990s had demolished the al-Muthanna State Establishment, located in wastelands 40 miles northwest of Baghdad, after finding it had.. More

  • Denmark Frees Chechen Fighter Envoy Zakayev

    Denmark Tuesday released Akhmed Zakayev, a senior Chechen fighter held by Copenhagen since October, saying it had insufficient evidence to comply with Russian demands for his extradition. The release is a blow to Russia, which has been battling for Zakayev's return since he was arrested days after Chechen gunmen took hundreds hostage in a Moscow theater... More

  • UN Assembly Pressures Israel on Mideast Conflict as Occupation Army Arrests Scores of Palestinians & Kills a 95-Year Old Palestinian Woman

    The U.N. General Assembly approved by lopsided margins on Tuesday a string of resolutions aimed at promoting Palestinian rights and pressuring Israel to withdraw from Palestinian territories. In what has become an annual exercise in the 191-nation assembly, just a handful of nations -- led by Israel and its closest ally the United States -- voted against.. More

  • Annan Upbeat About Iraqi Cooperation as Bush Maintains War Rhetoric

    In New York, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Tuesday that Iraqi cooperation with weapons inspectors had been good so far and praised the arms experts for using their authority to visit one of Saddam Hussein's presidential compounds. In Shreveport in Louisiana, president George W. Bush meanwhile remained skeptical saying Tuesday the critical.. More

  • Saudis Dispute Terror Funding Allegation

    Saudi Arabia went on the diplomatic offensive Tuesday, announcing new measures to deny funds to terror groups and disputing allegations it has done a poor job in keeping the money out of terrorists' hands. State and Treasury departments immediately issued statements complimenting the Arab kingdom's efforts and muting calls by the White House last week.. More

  • Iraq Will Hand in Weapons Declaration on Dec. 7

    Iraq will hand in a key declaration on its military programs on Dec. 7, a senior Iraqi official said Tuesday. But he again denied that Baghdad had any weapons of mass destruction.Hussam Mohammed Amin, the chief Iraqi official liaising with U.N. arms experts, told reporters who asked if the declaration would contain any new elements: "Of course the.. More

  • U.N. Teams Flex Muscle, Inspect Palace

    Flexing U.N. muscle, international inspectors roared up to one of Saddam Hussein's presidential palaces Tuesday and demanded and received quick entry, in an early test of new powers to hunt for weapons of mass destruction anywhere, anytime in Iraq. A key Iraqi official said, meanwhile, that the Baghdad government, in a long-awaited declaration later.. More

  • Palestinian woman shot dead by Israeli occupation troops near Ramallah

    A Palestinian woman was killed when Israeli occupation troops opened fire on her car at an entrance to the West Bank city of Ramallah.The incident took place near the Beit El Jewish settlement, northeast of Ramallah, as Palestinians were queuing up to enter the West Bank city where the curfew had been lifted by the occupation army, Palestinian medical.. More

  • Bush Warns Iraq Over Arms as Sunday Deadline Looms

    U.S. President Bush stepped up his war of words on Iraq to come clean on whether it possessed weapons of mass destruction by a U.N. Sunday deadline, or reject the chance of peace. Bush delivered his warning on Monday in a speech to military leaders at the Pentagon, already laying plans to go to war against Baghdad if it fails to disarm, as U.N. arms.. More

  • Statement Claims Al Qaeda Attacked Kenya Hotel, Jet

    The United States offered on Monday to help hunt down those behind the attacks on Israelis in Kenya, while a statement purporting to be from al Qaeda claimed it carried out the assaults on a hotel and airliner: "The fighters of al Qaeda return to the same place where the Crusader-Jewish coalition was hit four years ago," said the statement posted on.. More

  • Two Palestinians Killed in Clashes

    Israeli occupation troops shot dead a Palestinian resistance mantrying to enter an internationally illegal Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip on Monday, and a Palestinian teenager was killed when a group of stone throwers clashed with occupation troops in the West Bank town of Jenin. In Gaza, the Palestinian resistance man - disguised in Israeli occupation.. More

  • Four Palestinians killed as clashes rage in West Bank and Gaza

    Israeli occupation troops killed a Palestinian teenager and injured 22 other stone-throwers during a raid on Jenin, and also shot dead a man in the Gaza Strip a day after the occupation army resumed its policy of "targeted killings." Another two Palestinians were killed in the territories in crossfires between Israeli troops and resistance activists... More

  • Inspectors Visit Iraqi Factory as London Accuses Saddam of Oppressing His People

    U.N. inspectors visited alcoholic beverage plants and a factory that once made parts for now-banned missiles, while Britain charged on Monday that Saddam Hussein uses torture, rape and terror to oppress his people.On the fifth day of the renewed search for weapons of mass destruction under a tough U.N. mandate, the inspection team went to a Baghdad.. More

  • Mulla's Kin Detained in Afghanistan; Qaeda Hunt Continues

    Afghanistan has captured a close relative of ousted Taliban leader Mullah Omar, but it faces a long struggle to root out the al Qaeda network, an adviser to U.S. President George Bush said Monday. Zalmay Khalilzad, special presidential envoy for Afghanistan, told Reuters that forces had captured the son- in-law of Taliban leader Mullah Omar, who was.. More

  • Israel Kills Two in Gaza Raid Before Gunship Attack

    Israeli occupation forces killed two people in a raid on a Gaza Strip town and wounded four others in a helicopter gunship attack nearby.According to Palestinian sources The helicopter fired two missiles at a car carrying three members of the Islamic Jihad organization between the town of Beit Lahiya and Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip,.. More