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  • Israel Arrests Resistance Leader in Gaza Strip Raid

    HIGHLIGHTS: Occupation Forces Enter Deir al-Balah Make Arrests, Destroy Houses and Briefly Take over Police and Intelligence Headquarters||Israeli Occupation Army Clears itself of Killing Palestinian Civilians in Cold Blood||Israel Clamps Further Strict Security Measures on Palestinian Cities as it Prepares to Celebrate a String of Holidays|| STORY:Israeli.. More

  • U.N. Nuclear Experts Detect Changes at Iraqi Sites

    HIGHLIGHTS: No Conclusions Drawn on Significance of Changes Until Inspectors See them on the Ground||Bush Efforts to Secure Support of UN Security Council Hit Tough Resistance From Russia||Butler Rejects Cheney's Assessment of UN Inspectors' Work in Iraq|| STORY: U.N. experts studying satellite photos of Iraq have identified new construction at several.. More

  • Afghans Arrested After Bid to Assassinate Karzai

    HIGHLIGHTS: Karzai Blames Qaeda or Taliban for Attempt on His Life & Says Won't Take Additional Security Measures to Protect Himself||All Detained Suspects Afghans and From Kandahar||Taxi Driver Detained as Suspect in Kabul's Devastating Explosion Shortly Before Attempt on Karzai's Life in Kandahar||Twin Strikes Underline Fragility of the Karzai Regime||Karza.. More

  • Two Palestinians Killed in Jenin

    In the West Bank city of Jenin, two armed Palestinian were found shot to death in the street in the early morning. Palestinian witnesses said Israeli soldiers had raided their hideout and shot Kamal Silawi of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and another Palestinian, Samir Qandil. On Thursday night, Israeli security forces erected roadblocks throughout.. More

  • Former UN inspector Ritter to return to Iraq, meet top officials: report

    Former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter will return to Iraq and meet with senior Iraqi officials over the weekend, CNN reported. According to CNN Ritter will also address the Iraqi national assembly, but it is unclear if he will meet with President Saddam Hussein. Ritter, 40, a former captain in the US Marines who was once dubbed a "cowboy".. More

  • Sudan moves to retake lost town

    Hundreds of government supporters have been out on the streets of Sudan's capital, Khartoum, to protest against the rebel capture of a southern town. Addressing the crowds, President Omar al-Bashir once again vowed that the garrison town of Torit would be retaken by government forces. Only six weeks ago, both sides reached a framework deal aimed at.. More

  • Israel Retaliates for Attacks with Strike on Gaza

    HIGHLIGHTS: Resistance Kills 2 Occupation Soldiers & Wounds 3 Others||Resistance Blows up Israeli Merkava Tank||Israeli Occupation Forces Foil Huge Car Bombing||Barghouti Challanges Israeli Court's Right to Try Him|| STORY: Israeli helicopter gunships destroyed a metal-working factory in the Gaza Strip early on Friday in apparent retaliation for Palestinian.. More

  • Anglo-American Jets Attack Iraq as Bush Campaigns for Support at Home & Abroad

    HIGHLIGHTS: Bush Cites Saddam's Invasion of Iran & Kuwait & the Gassing of the Kurds as Evidence 'Sufficient' to Justify Ousting the Iraqi Leader||Opponents to Bush Iraq Policy at Home & Abroad Remain Unconvinced||Iraq Demands U.N. Investigates Allegations U.S. Usedits Weapons' Inspection Mission in Iraq for Spying on Baghdad||Mussa Warns U.S. Attack.. More

  • At Least 40 People Killed in Acts of Violence in Afghanistan since the Fall of Taliban Including Two Cabinet Ministers

    HIGHLIGHTS: Karzai Leaves Kandahar for Kabul on a Military Plane after Assassination Attempt||Attacker Identified as Abdur Rahman, Employed in the Army Less than a Month Ago||Karzai's American Guards Kill at Least One Attacker|| STORY: Afghan President Hamid Karzai left Kandahar for Kabul early on Friday after surviving an assassination attempt in the.. More

  • Israel Thwarts Bomb Attack as Gaza Violence Surges

    Israeli police said they had thwarted a massive car bomb attack in northern Israel on Thursday, but several Israelis were injured in the Gaza Strip by a shooting attack and a mine explosion. The incidents took place after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Wednesday a peace breakthrough looked feasible for the first time, because Palestinians.. More

  • Arabs send "unanimous" message to world to avert war on Iraq

    Arab foreign ministers said they were sending a "unanimous" appeal to avert a war against Iraq at a time when US President George W. Bush sought to rally world support for military intervention. "We adopted unanimously a resolution concerning Iraq. We expressed our support to Iraq and we stood firmly against any attack on Iraq," Libyan Minister for.. More

  • Car Bomb Blast Rocks Kabul, Many Dead

    A powerful car bomb exploded in the busy business district of the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 10 people and possibly many more, police said. One senior police officer blamed Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network and Afghanistan's ousted Taliban rulers, who once sheltered bin Laden and his supporters. Witnesses said thousands of people.. More

  • Palestinians Dismiss Sharon's Talk of 'Breakthrough' as Nonsense

    HIGHLIGHTS: Resistance Groups Spurn Yahya's Call to Switch for Civil Disobedience||Sharon Accepts EU Peace Plan But Insists on Sidelining Arafat||Annan Blasts Expelling Palestinians||UN Envoy Bertini Warns of Palestinian Humanitarian Crisis||Fighting in Lebanon Leaves 3 Dead|| STORY: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Wednesday a breakthrough.. More

  • Saddam Vows to Defeat US Attack, Hopes War Avoided

    HIGHLIGHTS: "We'll Fight them in a Way that Will Please You (Arabs) & Annoy (the) Enemies," Saddam||Arab Ministers & Parliamentarians, Meeting in Cairo & Baghdad Respectively,Oppose Threats of Military Action Against Iraq & Call for Lifting of U.N. Sanctions on the Arab Country|| " World Must Know that Saddam is Duping the World by Developing Weapons.. More

  • Future of World Mega-Summits in Doubt

    HIGHLIGHTS: The Summit was an Exercise in the Dialogue of the Deaf, Says Venezuelan President||World Leaders Have Sold out to WTO and Big Business, Says Chairman of Friends of the Earth||'Plan of Implementation' Offers More Promises, No Action||Age of Mega-Summits over?-Remains to be Seen!|| STORY: As the remaining delegates left the Earth Summit on.. More