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  • Saudi Soothes Oil Consuming Nations' Fears

    HIGHLIGHTS: OPEC Holds Current Oil Curbs Despite a Price Near dlrs 30 a Barrel for Crude||Non-OPEC Oil Producers Wouldn't Fundamentally Change World's Energy Landscape||Emerging Substantial New Reserves From Central Asia Further Consolidate Petroleum's Position a Free Energy Source|| STORY: The world's biggest oil exporter Saudi Arabia on Saturday moved.. More

  • Hamas armed wing claims Tel Aviv bus bombing

    The armed wing of the Islamist movement Hamas claimed responsibility for a resistance bombing that killed the Palestinian attacker and five others and wounded more than 60 on a Tel Aviv bus. "At 12:55 this afternoon, a martyr from the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades took bus number 4 and blew himself up amid the Zionist passengers," the group said in a.. More

  • Bush-Hitler Comparison Colors German Campaign Close

    An alleged remark by Germany's justice minister likening President Bush's methods to Hitler's threatened to hurt Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder Friday two days before a cliffhanger election. Newspapers gave front-page coverage to Justice Minister Herta Daeubler-Gmelin's alleged remarks at a campaign rally saying Bush's saber-rattling on Iraq was a way.. More

  • U.S. Official: Bomb Attack on Musharraf Thwarted

    A top U.S. official said Pakistan's intelligence services had thwarted a plot to blow up President Pervez Musharraf, although Pakistani officials earlier denied any such attack had been planned. Testifying Thursday at a joint hearing of the Senate and House intelligence committees into last year's Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard.. More

  • Arafat Compound Under Siege

    HIGHLIGHTS: Israel Demands the Handover of 20 Resistance Activists, it Says, Hiding inside the Arafat Compound||Israel's List of Wanted Activists Includes, Twfiq Tirawi, Powerful Head of West Bank General Intelligence||Two Arafat Guards Wounded in Gun Battle at Beginning of Operation||PA Calls on International Community to Intervene to End Aggression||Two.. More

  • Knocked off Balance By Iraq's Sudden Decision to Readmit UN Inspectors, Bush Falls Back on Old Threat: 'Unilateral Action Against Baghdad'

    HIGHLIGHTS: U.S. Threatens to Block UN Inspectors Going Back to Iraq Unless UN Security Council Issues New Resolution on Iraq||Bush Asks Congress for a Free Hand Against Saddam||Saddam Raises Spectre of Denying Inspectors Access to Eight Presidential Palaces||Blix Says Inspectors Could be in Iraq by Mid-October & Work Could Begin in Two Months after.. More

  • Ivory Coast Army Readies for Fight to Retake Cities

    Ivory Coast's army mobilised to recapture cities held by renegade troops after former junta leader Robert Guei was killed in what the government said was an attempt to seize power again in the West African country. The worst strife to hit Ivory Coast since turbulent elections in 2000 revived fears the world's biggest cocoa producer, riven by ethnic.. More

  • At Least Five Dead in Tel Aviv Blast

    A suspected Palestinian Resistancebomber blew himself up on a bus in Tel Aviv on Thursday, killing at least five people and wounding about 40 others, police said. The blast followed a Palestinian Resistance bombing in northern Israel on Wednesday which killed an Israeli policeman and ended a six-week lull since the previous Resistance attack, raising.. More

  • OPEC eyes steady oil production as US and Iraq face off

    OPEC is expected to leave oil production unchanged with current levels seen as enough to offset any price rise stemming from the Iraqi war risk. OPEC president Rilwanu Lukman said the 11-nation oil cartel had reached a consensus not to increase oil production as current stocks were adequate for global demand. "There's been an agreement, a consensus.. More

  • Indian Team Heads for Kashmir Amid Fresh Violence

    Eight soldiers were hurt in a land mine blast Thursday in Indian Kashmir as the nation's chief election commissioner began a tour of the state ahead of the second round of a violence-plagued poll. The Election Commission has said it fears further bloodshed in the next three stages of the high-stakes assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir which is at.. More

  • US & Britain Seek Tougher Terms for UN Inspections in Iraq

    HIGHLIGHTS: Sabri Pledges Full Cooperation with UN Weapons Inspectors|| Bush & Aides Keep up the Rhetorical Heat on Saddam Hussein||Russia Opposes New UN Resolution on Iraq & France Wavers on the Issue||Britain Expected to Take Lead in Drafting New Resolutions||US Foreign & Defense Secretaries to Separately Meet Their Russian Counterparts Thursday-Friday||Bus.. More

  • U.S., Qatar Discuss Cooperation

    The head of the U.S. Central Command discussed military cooperation with HH the Emir of Qatar Wednesday as the Pentagon considers beefing up the U.S. military presence in the Gulf nation. At a time when the United States is threatening possible military action against Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is considering putting a forward command.. More

  • Bush to Seek Congress Leaders' Backing on Iraq

    President Bush, taken aback by Iraq's offer to let U.N. arms inspectors return, will try to regain the initiative on Wednesday by seeking Congressional support for tough action against Baghdad. The Iraqi offer, made on Monday under mounting international pressure, was greeted with scorn by Bush, skepticism by his British allies and relief by Arab states.. More

  • Palestinian, Israeli slain as "quartet" backs EU plan for peace

    A Palestinian activist was killed in the West Bank and an Israeli found dead near Jerusalem, a day after the international diplomatic "quartet" on the Middle East adopted an EU roadmap to create a Palestinian state by 2005. The Palestinian was identified as Tarek Bsharat, 23, a member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a violent offshoot of Palestinian.. More

  • World Leaders Split on Iraq, US War Plans March On

    HIGHLIGHTS: Iraq & UN Kick Off Talks on Mechanics of Allowing Inspectors Resume Work||International Community Split into Two Camps: Those who Want to Disarm Iraq at Any Cost and Those Who Want to Avert Attack on Iraq||Bush Urges UN Security Council Not to be 'Fooled' by Iraq's Offer||Oil Prices Recede as Fears of Military Action Recede||No Word on When.. More