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  • Israeli Tank Kills Two in Gaza Strip

    HIGHLIGHTS: "I saw a scene I can never forget, a woman in a pool of blood," Palestinian Eyewitness||Subhi Shurab, 44, Dies by Israeli Fire as He Walks From Khan Yunis to His Home Just Outside Town||Arafat Meets His New Security Chiefs|| STORY: An Israeli tank machine-gunned a taxi in the Gaza Strip Saturday, killing a woman passenger and her two-year-old.. More

  • Seven Killed in Resistance Attacks in Indian Kashmir

    HIGHLIGHTS: Deaths Include General Secretary of a Pro-India Political Party||Attacks Cover Summer Capital Srinigar, Doda District in the Southeast as Well as Elsewhere||Indian Forces Kill 2 Armed Kashmiri Nationalists in Doda District|| STORY: Seven people including a pro-India politician have been killed in resistance shootouts in the restive Kashmir.. More

  • Afgan Vice President Qadir Gunned Down

    HEADLIGHTS: Though a Pashtun, Qadir Was Member of the Tajik-Led Northern Alliance||He Was Brother to Abdul-Heq, Captured & Hanged By Taliban||Police Arrests 10 guards, Appointed by Qadir's Predecessor at the public works ministry, Abdul Khaliq Fazal|| STORY: Haji Abdul Qadir, one of Afghanistan's three vice presidents, was assassinated outside his office.. More

  • Two Bombs Rock Algeria, 35 Dead, Scores Injured

    HIGHLIGHTS: The Market Bomb Near the Capital Is the Deadliest Attack on Civilians this Year||No. Of Injuries in First Blast Around 80; in the Second 2||The Attacks Appear to Have Come in Response to Army Claims Two Days Earlier it Has Won the War Against Armed Opposition Groups|| STORY: Two bombs rocked Algeria as the country marked its 40th independence.. More

  • Jenin Deaths Video Implicates Occupation Army

    HIGHLIGHTS: Israel Claims Tank Crew Fired at Palestinians Approaching Tank, Footage Shows Palestinians Running Away from Tank Before Being Fired upon||Arafat Reportedly Blames Yemen & Sudan for Funding Bombing Attacks Against Israelis||Poll Indicates Majority of Israelis Favour Expulsion of Arafat|| STORY: The BBC has obtained video footage which appears.. More

  • UN Fails to Reach Accord With Iraq on Weapons Inspections & Pentagon Reportedly Drafts Plans to Invade Iraq

    HIGHLIGHTS: Iraq Wants Another Session of Discussions-No Date Was Set||Iraq Insists U.S.-Led UN Security Council Answers Questions it Tabled on Timetable for Lifting Sanctions & Threats to Topple Saddam Hussein||Iraq to Return Kuwait's National Archives Looted During 1991 Gulf War|| STORY: The UN failed to reach an accord with Iraq on Friday to resume.. More

  • Arafat's New West Bank Security Chief Pledges to Stop Resistance Bombers

    Pledging to try to stop Resistancebombings, a new commander was ready to take over the powerful West Bank Preventive Security force Friday after the former chief, dismissed by Yasser Arafat, ended a two-day standoff by accepting the ruling. Jibril Rajoub, deposed by Arafat in a Tuesday ruling, finally met Arafat late Thursday and accepted the decision.. More

  • Israel Says Attack on El Al Was Terrorist Act

    HIGHLIGHTS: FBI Identifies Assailant as Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, an Egyptian||FBI Won't Jump to Conclusions But Israel Describes Attack as 'Terrorist' Until Proven Otherwise||Aqsa Brigades Vows to Avenge Assassinated Activists, Jehad al-A'marin, & Wael al-Namara ||Israeli Occupation Army Chief Says His Troops to Remain in Re-occupied Palestinian Cities.. More

  • Bomb in Sewer Kills 30 in Algeria

    A bomb ripped through an open-air market outside the capital on Algeria's Independence Day Friday, killing at least 30 people and wounding 36 others, the official APS news agency reported. The bomb was hidden in the mouth of a sewer at a market in Larba, about 15 miles southeast of the capital, APS said, quoting a statement from military authorities.. More

  • 3 People Killed in Attack on Al-Al Ticketing Desk in L.A.

    HIGHLIGHTS: Attack Eclipses Arafat's Security Shake up||Conflicting U.S.-Israeli Assessments About Perpetrators of the Attack|| Israel Assassinates two Aqsa Brigade Resistance Leaders|| STORY: Yasser Arafat staged an unprecedented shakeup of his inner circle but the Palestinian upheaval was eclipsed by a shooting spree at an Israeli airline ticketing.. More

  • U.S. Bombs Iraqi Targets in Mosul As UN & Baghdad Make Weapons Progress in Vienna

    HIGHLIGHTS: Usual Conflicting U.S.-Iraqi Accounts of Raid||Annan Says 'Satisfied' With Vienna Session, 3rd of its Kind Since March||Iraq & UN Close to Agreement on Returning Kuwait's National Archives Looted By Baghdad During 1991 Gulf War|| STORY:American warplanes bombed an Iraqi air defense system Thursday. According to the U.S. European Command.. More

  • Afghans Outraged After U.S. Attack

    HIGHLIGHTS First Anti-American Demo in Kabul Since Taliban Collapse Last Year||Afghans Beginning to Wonder if U.S. Is At All Concerned About Afghan Lives||Karzai Now Wants U.S. to Closely Laison With Him in All Military Operations in the Country|| STORY: Having once seen Americans as liberators, a growing number of Afghans are beginning to question.. More

  • Al-Jabali To Resign and to Run For President; Arafat Names Rajoub's Successor

    HIGHLIGHTS: PA in Chaos over Security Chiefs||Arafat Names Former Jenin Governor, Zuhair al-Manasreh to Take Over from Rajoub||Israel Claims to Have Contained Top Rank & File of Palestinian Resistance Cadres|| STORY: The Palestinian police chief decided on Thursday to resign and run for president following a controversy over whether Yasser Arafat had.. More

  • Iraq, U.N. Begin Talks on Inspectors

    UN officials and Iraqi diplomats reported progress in talks Thursday on whether to allow the return of weapons inspectors to Iraq, emerging from a closed-door meeting relaxed, smiling and hopeful. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan sidestepped questions, however, on whether the world body and Baghdad were close to a deal that would permit the return of.. More

  • A Sudanese Cargo Plane Crashes in Central African Republic Killing 20 as Relatives of Russians Killed in Mid-air Collision over Germany Visit Crash Site

    A Sudan Airways cargo plane smashed into a residential district of the Central African Republic capital of Bangui on Thursday killing around 20 people, witnesses said. The plane had been heading to Congo Republic but made a detour to Bangui because of technical problems and crashed short of the main airport, a source at regional air authority Asecna.. More