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  • Egypt Intensifies Contacts with Washington & Tel Aviv as Palestinians Intend to Convince White House They're Serious about Reform

    HIGHLIGHTS: Egypt Intends to Maximize Positive Points in Bush's Mideast Statement, Mahir Says||Mahir, Moashar & Al-Faisal to U.S. for Quartet Session on Tuesday||Top Level Egyptian-Israeli Talks Scheduled for Sunday & Monday||PA Determined to Persuade Washington to Reconsider Decision Not to Deal with Arafat||Palestinian Resistance Man Fires at Occupation.. More

  • 25 Hindus Killed in Kashmir Attack; 13 Injured in Pakistan Explosion

    HIGHLIGHTS: Attack Likely to Stoke Tensions Between the Nuclear-Armed Neighbours, India & Pakistan||No One Claims Responsibility for Attack Also Injuring 20 Others||Injuries in Pakistan Included 7 Germans, 3 Austrians & 3 Pakistanis|| STORY: Gunmen disguised as Hindu holy men shot dead at least 24 civilians, including a child, in a mainly Hindu slum.. More

  • Jordan "surprised" by Prince Attending Iraqi 0pposition Meeting

    Jordan distanced itself Saturday from an Iraqi opposition meeting in London, saying a Jordanian prince's participation in the forum was an "individual act." More than 200 former Iraqi military officers and opposition leaders attended an open forum in London Friday to discuss how to bring down Saddam Hussein's regime and secure democracy in the Arab.. More

  • Israel Postpones Meeting with Palestinians

    HIGHLIGHTS: Israeli Official Says Meeting Postponed for Technical Reasons||Occupation Forces Intercept Car Packed with Explosives South of Qalqilya||Israeli Defense Minister to Alexandria for Talks with Mubarak Monday|| STORY: Israel said on Saturday it had delayed indefinitely a meeting with Palestinian ministers to ease security and economic restrictions.. More

  • Bush Endorses Iran Protest Movement

    HIGHLIGHTS: No Explanation Given to Statement Issued as an Official U.S. News Release||Official Iranian Press Says 140 Iranians Defying Ban on Demonstrations Arrested||Bush Supports Iranians Wanting to Build Modern, Prosperous, Free as well as Islamic State in Teheran|| STORY: President Bush said Friday the United States endorses the cause of Iranians.. More

  • U.S. Peacekeepers Given Year's Immunity From New Court

    HIGHLIGHTS: Missions in Bosnia & Croatian Pennisula of Prevlaka, Held Hostage by Dispute May Now Be Renewed||American Demands for Blanket Immunity Strongly Resisted By All Council Members||At the End on the One Year Exemption Council Will Have to Renew Request|| STORY: The Security Council today concluded an unusual wrangle between the United States.. More

  • Arafat Opens Dialogue with Washington as Violence Flares in the Territories

    HIGHLIGHTS: In a Long Letter to Powell Arafat Lists Reforms He Intends to Undertake & Seeks Washington's Help to Implement Them||Hamas Defies Israel in Gaza||Six Palestinians Seriously Wounded in Gaza as Israel Rounds up Scores of Palestinians Across the West Bank|| STORY: Three weeks after President Bush demanded the ouster of Gasser Arafat, the Palestinian.. More

  • Arab FMs: Saudi Initiative Remains Bases for Mideast Peace

    HIGHLIGHTS: Initiative Offers Israel Normal Ties With Arab States in Return for Full Withdrawal From All Arab Lands it Occupied in 1967||Mahir, Moashar Meet 'Quartet' Tuesday in New York & July 18, Two Men Meet Faisal-Powell in Washington||'Other Mideast Initiatives Should be Close to Ours,' Sharaa|| STORY: Arab foreign ministers and senior officials.. More

  • Iraq Opposition Talks Saddam Ouster

    HIGHLIGHTS: The London Meetings Arranged by Iraqi National Coalition Military Alliance and Not Iraqi National Congress||Congress Head, Prince Al-Hassan of Jordan & American Embassy Personnel Attend Meetings||Meeting to Discuss Role in Supporting Opposition to Topple Saddam|| STORY: Former Iraqi military officers and civilian opposition groups seeking.. More

  • Israeli Occupation Army Kills 3 Palestinians

    HIGHLIGHTS: Scores of Palestinians Arrested Across the West Bank||Arab Foreign Ministers Meet in Cairo To Coordinate Positions Ahead of Quartet Meeting in New York on Tuesday||Arafat Says Won't Step Aside But Makes No Decision on Re-election Bid in January|| STORY:Israeli occupagtion forces shot dead a Palestinian policeman and a 13-year-old boy in.. More

  • Von Sponeck Warns Against US Attack On Iraq

    A former UN assistant secretary general and humanitarian coordinator for Iraq warned against an eventual US attack on that country, saying it would further destabilise the Middle East. "Promoting peace while fighting terrorism would provide the double pronged instrument needed to show the kind of leadership the world expects from the United States,".. More

  • Khamenei Appeals for Calm AfterAccepting Resignation of Top Religious Leader

    Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appealed for calm in a bid to defuse unprecedented political tension in the Islamic regime following the shock resignation of a top religious leader and anti-clerical attacks. State radio repeatedly broadcast the text of a letter Khamenei wrote to Ayatollah Jalaledin Taheri, prayer leader in the central city.. More

  • Occupation Troops Kill a Palestinian Police Officer in Gaza as Diplomacy Intensifies Ahead of a Quartet Meeting in New York Next Week

    HIGHLIGHTS: Two Palestinian Photographers Wounded in Jenin||Occupation Army Discovers Tunnel on Egypt-Israel Border||An Israeli Minister Arrives in Cairo & Bush Telephones Mubarak||France Warns that Vacuum Could Strengthen Radical Groups in the Middle East|| STORY: Early Friday, a Palestinian was killed in a clash in Gaza, Palestinians said. Israeli.. More

  • Muslims Stream Into Indian Camps Fearing Attacks

    Terrified Muslims streamed into relief camps in the western Indian state of Gujarat on Thursday on the eve of a Hindu procession some fear could trigger new religious bloodshed. "People told me there would be rivers of blood, it would be worse than before," said Shah Jahan Bano, 18, her face a swollen mass of burn scars from being attacked by a Hindu.. More

  • Annan Expects Sudan Peace Deal by July 20

    HIGHLIGHTS:Work on Economic & Social Development Comes After Peace is Achieved: Annan||Ismail Describes Visit as 'Important'||Garang Wants Annan to Visit South|| STORY: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said that he expects a peace deal to be struck between the government and rebels in Sudan before July 20."I expect an agreement will be reached for ending.. More