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  • Mideast Quartet Adopts EU Roadmap for Palestinian state by 2005

    HIGHLIGHTS: A Strict Monitoring Regime Needed to Ensure Compliance by Both Sides, Says Danish Foreign Minister of the EU||The 3-phase Proposal Calls for: Sweeping Palestinian Security Reforms Coupled with Israeli Withdrawal from Reoccupied Palestinian Territory; a Palestinian State with Provisional Borders by 2003 & Palestinian State with Final Borders.. More

  • Egypt President Fuels Talk of Mubarak Dynasty with Senior Post for Son

    HIGHLIGHTS: President Stresses 'Smooth handover' of Power||Appointment Gives Veil of Democracy to Planned Succession||Gamal Accuses Time-servers of Obstructing Economic Development & Reform|| STORY: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak named his son Gamal to a senior post in the ruling National Democratic Party, fuelling speculation a new dynasty was in.. More

  • Iraq Says It Robbed U.S. of Reason to Wage War

    Iraq said Tuesday it had robbed the United States of any justification for waging war against it by agreeing to re-admit U.N. weapons inspectors and meeting demands of the international community. But the United States and its main ally Britain were hostile to the point of dismissing Iraq's move as a ruse. London warned against letting Saddam "make.. More

  • Bomb Wounds Five Children at Palestinian School

    A bomb exploded in a Palestinian elementary school in the West Bank Tuesday, slightly wounding five pupils, Palestinian officials and Israeli military sources said. Police said they were investigating the explosion at the school, which is in an area under full Israeli security control south of the West Bank city of Hebron, but did not have any leads.. More

  • Scattered Violence in Kashmir after First Phase of Voting

    Grenades thrown into a market and a political party office killed one person and injured 18 in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Tuesday, a day after large numbers of voters cast ballots in the first round of legislative polls. Kashmiri nationalists fighting for independence or merger of the Himalayan region with Pakistan had threatened to kill voters, politicians.. More

  • Iraq Agrees U.N. Inspectors Return, U.S. Skeptical

    Iraq agreed on Monday to the unconditional return of U.N. arms inspectors in a high-stakes face-off with the United States over disarmament, but the White House was skeptical and warned the world not to be taken in by Baghdad's "tactics."After delivering a letter from the Iraqi government to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan agreeing to readmit the.. More

  • Israeli Tanks Push into Gaza Town, Destroy Two Activists' Houses

    Tens of Israeli tanks, backed by helicopters, moved several kilometers into a town in the southern Gaza Strip and destroyed the houses of two Palestinian militants, Palestinian security sources said. The tanks pushed into the town of Khanun, just north of Khan Yunis, and began demolishing the two houses, which belonged to Palestinians who were recently.. More

  • U.S. takes custody of al Qaeda suspects from Pakistan

    The United States took custody of key al Qaeda suspect Ramzi Binalshibh in Pakistan and flew him and four other suspects to a secret location outside that country, U.S. and Pakistani officials said on Monday. The U.S. officials told Reuters that Binalshibh, captured last week in Karachi and accused of playing a key role in planning the September 11,.. More

  • Palestinian Man Shot Dead in Gaza

    Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian near an Israeli-controlled road crossing in the Gaza Strip on Monday, Palestinian police officials said. Separately, in the West Bank town of Nablus, soldiers raided an apartment building in search of a wanted activist, Palestinians said. The incidents took place as Israeli Jews marked Yom Kippur, the holiest.. More

  • India Says Kills 17 Kashmiri fighters Intruding Into Kashmir

    Indian security forces killed 17 Kashmiri fighters who tried to cross into Indian Kashmir from Pakistan to try to disrupt Monday's elections in the state, the state government said. Eight guerrillas were killed in two operations on Monday in Surankote and Keran areas near the Line of Control dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan. Nine others were.. More

  • Sri Lanka Peace Talks Open Amid Guarded Optimism

    Sri Lanka's government and Tamil Tiger rebels began talks on Monday to end one of the world's longest-running wars but their opening remarks, while guardedly optimistic, highlighted a deep gulf. After the speeches at a beach resort in Thailand, delegates were whisked away to a nearby naval base at Sattahip for their first direct talks in seven years.. More

  • Iraq Resists Mounting U.S. Pressure on Disarmament

    The United States and its allies vowed to force Iraq to honor U.N. resolutions on Sunday as diplomats from around the world sought to convince Baghdad to readmit arms inspectors to avoid war. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said he expected quick action from the international community to condemn what he called Iraq's defiance of Security Council.. More

  • Palestinians Defy Curfew & Protest Security Post in Nablus

    With Israel on high alert for attacks on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, about 200 Palestinians defied an Israeli-imposed curfew to march through Nablus Sunday in protest of a new security checkpoint in the middle of the West Bank town. In Jerusalem, meanwhile, an east Jerusalem Arab was indicted on suspicion of plotting to poison diners at a popular.. More

  • Syria Says 'Blind Bias' Behind Focus on Iraq

    Syria said on Sunday "blind bias" was behind threats against Iraq at a time when Israel violates U.N. resolutions, possesses nuclear weapons and uses U.S. weapons against Palestinians under occupation. "Why should the world request Iraq to adhere to Security Council resolutions, while Israel is allowed to be above international law?" Syrian Foreign.. More

  • Riyadh urges Baghdad to let in arms monitors and spare Iraqis a new war

    Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal has called on Baghdad to agree to UN weapons inspections to spare the Iraqi people a war which risks breaking up the country. "Since Iraq says it does not possess weapons of mass destruction and has no plans to produce any, why doesn't it agree to the return of inspectors to settle the issue which will.. More