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  • UN Weapons Inspectors to Establish a Hotline with Iraqi Authorities as Iraq Insists US Wrong on Arms Charges

    Baghdad repeated that UN inspectors due to start work this week in Iraq will find no prohibited arms, as Washington signalled it might accept President Saddam Hussein staying in power if he gives up his alleged weapons of mass destruction.But Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri charged that Washington is seeking to use as a pretext for military action.. More

  • Fresh Clashes in Southern Jordan

    Reports from Jordan say at least one person has been killed and several others injured, during renewed clashes in the southern town of Maan. Violence erupted following a dispute between residents and police. The authorities are reported to have imposed a curfew on the town and sent in reinforcements. It is not yet known whether the latest violence is.. More

  • Ten Die in Kashmiri Fighter Attacks on Indian Targets

    At least 10 people died when suspected Kashmiri nationalist fighters attacked two Hindu temples in Indian-ruled Kashmir on Sunday as Kashmiri fighters warned a new state government the long anti-Indian revolt was not dead.Nearly five hours after the first temple was attacked in the 150-year-old Raghunath temple complex, gunfire continued at another.. More

  • Israeli Occupation troops Block Bethlehem Church, Storm a Mosque in Tubas and Search 3 others

    Israeli occupation troops cordoned off the square around Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, preventing worshippers from attending services Sunday. Bethlehem's residents have been under curfew since Friday, when Israeli occupation troops entered the town following a resistance bombing in Jerusalem that killed 11 people on Thursday. The Palestinian.. More

  • Iraq: U.N. Plan Is Pretext for War

    In a long, stern letter to the United Nations , Iraq's foreign minister complained the new Security Council resolution on weapons inspections provides a pretext for the United States to wage war against his country. "There is premeditation to target Iraq, whatever the pretext," Foreign Minister Naji Sabri wrote to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan ,.. More

  • Pakistan dismisses North Korea arms deal report

    Pakistan on Sunday strongly denied a report that it had helped North Korea develop its nuclear weapons programme in return for missile technology that would strengthen its hand against India. "There is no truth in these reports whatsoever," said presidential spokesman Major-General Rashid Qureshi. "I do not know where the New York Times gets its information.. More

  • Mitzna Describes Arafat as a 'Terrorist' & Rules out Conducting Peace Talks with Him If Elected Premier in January as Israel Admits its Occupation Troops Kill U.N. Worker

    HIGHLIGHTS UN Refutes Israeli Claims that Palestinians Fired at Occupation Troops from Inside UN Compound where Hook Was Killed|| UN Also Denies Hook Was Armed- What the Israelis Mistook for a Gun Was Only a Cell Phone|| Two Palestinian Resistance Men Blow themselves up Damaging an Israeli Naval Boat & Wounding 4 Soldiers|| Israel's Savage Response.. More

  • More U.N. Staff, Gear Land in Iraq as Washington Continues to Beat the Drums of War

    HIGHLIGHTS Opposition Group Now on a Visit to Baghdad Continues Discussions With Iraqi Vice President on Reforms Including a New Constitution Allowing a Multi-Party Political System & a Free Press|| Major Opposition Groups Describe Talks as a Ploy by Saddam|| Anglo-American Jets Bomb a Mobile Radar System in Southern Iraq|| Bush Urges NATO to Defeat.. More

  • Sudan to Set up Multi-party Post-war Government: Khartoum

    HIGHLIGHTS Third Round of Talks in January to Deal with Distribution of Wealth|| Christian and animist south to Decide at the End of a Six Year Interim Period whether to Secede or Stay United with Muslim-dominated North.|| General Elections to be Held during Transitional period, to Give Southern Sudanese Equitable Representation in Civil Service & Both.. More

  • Palestinian Resistance Bombers Hit Israeli Naval

    Two Palestinian resistance bombers blew up an explosives-laden fishing boat close to an Israeli patrol craft on Saturday, wounding four sailors, in the first such attack since the start of the Palestinian uprising.The resistance Islamic Jihad group said the two resistance bombers, aged 19 and 21, were killed in the overnight attack on the 20-meter.. More

  • ISAF General Sees 'Terrorist' Strikes from Iraq War

    The Turkish commander of the international peacekeeping force in Afghanistansaid on Friday he feared that a war against Iraq could lead to "terrorist" attacks against his forces in Kabul. Gen. Hilmi Akin Zorlu also told reporters he believed the 4,800-strong International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) that has a U.N. mandate to help provide security.. More

  • Pakistan PM sworn in as president urges continuity

    Pakistan's newly elected prime minister was sworn in on Saturday as the country returned to civilian rule, ending three years of military dictatorship. Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali of the pro-military Pakistan Muslim League (PML) repeated the oath after President Pervez Musharraf, who with the power to dismiss parliament and five more years in office.. More

  • Opposition Group in Baghdad to Discuss Working with Saddam

    HIGHLIGHTS Group to Discuss New Constitution to Create a Multi-Party System & Enshrine Press Freedom|| Izzet Ibrahim Appointedby Saddam to Head a Commission Tasked with Drawing up the New Constitution|| Visiting Group of 'The National Coalition' Calls for a Multi-Party System in Iraq But Does Not Back the Overthrow of Saddam || Group Leader Abdel Jabbar.. More

  • U.N. Accuses Israel Over Aid Worker's Death

    HIGHLIGHTSOccupation Troops Arrest Scores of Alleged Palestinian Resistance Men in the West Bank & Gaza|| Occupation Army Demolishes House of Bomber Relatives in Bethlehem|| Arafat Reissues Call for "Immediate Cessation of Attacks against Israeli Civilians|| STORY: The death of a senior United Nations relief official in an Israeli-Palestinian gun battle.. More

  • Miss World Pageant Quits Nigeria After Fatal Riots

    Promoters of the Miss World pageant bowed to Nigerian Muslim anger Friday, moving this year's event in Abuja to London after protest riots killed more than 100 people in the West African country. The organizers issued a statement around midnight, after a third day of rioting in the northern city of Kaduna and an unexplained stampede at the main mosque.. More