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  • Rocket Lands Near Kabul Airport

    A rocket struck near Kabul's airport on Saturday, a key base of foreign peacekeeping troops, but caused no casualties or damage, an Afghan Interior Ministry official said. General Deen Mohammad Jurat, the ministry security chief, said the Russian-made rocket, called a BM1, landed after dawn on the perimeter of the airport to the northeast of the city... More

  • Israel Blows Up Palestinian Police HQ in Hebron, Al-Khalil

    HIGHLIGHTS: Occupation Authorities Restrict Media Access to Hebron, Al-Khalil||No Reports on Casualties So Far||Mideast 'Quartet' to Meet in Washington Tuesday|| 'Toddler Bomber Photo, a Party Joke,' Says Toddler's Family || STORY:A massive blast shattered the Palestinian Authority police headquarters in Hebron Friday after Israeli occupation troops.. More

  • Hamas founder appears in public despite house arrest

    HIGHLIGHTS: Palestinian Police Flanks Procession Without Intervening|| 'Whoever Defends His Land is Not a Terrorist,' Sheikh Ahmed Yassin||Rally Held to Protest 35th Anniversary of East Jerusalem Annexation But Focused on Protesting Bush's Demand for a New Palestinian Leadership Instead|| STORY: The spiritual leader of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, defied.. More

  • U.S. Pilots Blamed in Canadian Afghan Deaths

    HIGHLIGHTS: Two Reports-Canadian & Joint Canada-U.S. Concur on Findings|| Incident Represents Failure of Airmanship & Technique of the Wingman & of Leadership of the Flight Leader||All Disciplinary Options Are Open in the Case|| STORY:The U.S. F-16 pilots who mistakenly bombed Canadian troops in Afghanistan in April, killing four soldiers and injuring.. More

  • Israel Steps up Hebron Siege

    HIGHLIGHTS: An Ultimatum By Occupation Authorities to Besieged Palestinians Goes Unheeded||Occupation Troops & Besieged Palestinians Exchange Fire||600,000 Palestinians Under Curfew|| STORY:Israeli tanks and bulldozers began smashing holes in a Palestinian Authority headquarters in Hebron on Friday to try to force Resistance men holed up there to surrender,.. More

  • 19 People Die in Fresh Resistance Attacks in Indian-Ruled Kashmir

    HIGHLIGHTS: Attacks Could Disrupt State Elections Being Organized by India||Elections Seen By India as Prelude for Talks on Kashmir With Pakistan||Pakistan Says People of Kashmir Have a Right to Self Determination|| STORY:Armed Kashmiri nationalist groups fighting Indian rule in Kashmir pledged on Friday to keep up their revolt, a move that could disrupt.. More

  • Ammunition Blast Kills At Least 19 in Afghan

    HIGHLIGHTS: 15 Soldiers on Duty at Depot Missing||Qaeda Rocket May Have Triggered off the Chain of Explosions||Wires, Explosives & a Rocket Found Under Car in Kabul|| STORY: At least 19 Afghan soldiers and civilians were killed when an ammunition dump blew up on Friday, unleashing a chain of explosions that spread damage across a wide area, witnesses.. More

  • Hebron Siege Goes On as PA Pushes on With its Reform Programme

    HIGHLIGHTS3 Palestinians Wounded in Qalqilya Including 10-year Old Boy||Arafat Signs Decree Bringing 2 Police Branches Under Umbrella of Newly Created Interior Ministry||Hizbollah at Work in Israel|| STORY:Israel's occupation army on Friday maintained its siege of the Palestinian Authority headquarters in Hebron, the seventh West Bank city reoccupied.. More

  • OIC voices solidarity with Palestinians & Tackles Wide Range of Islamic & Global Issues

    HIGHLIGHTS: The Final Communiqué of the OIC's 29th Ministerial Session Makes No Mention of Bush's Mideast Statement||Bush Mideast Doctrine to Be Further Studied By Saudi Arabia||OIC Tacitly Rebuffs Bush's Call for Arafat to Go|| STORY: Foreign ministers and senior officials from 57 Muslim nations pledged their support for Palestinians and their leadership.. More

  • Russia Gets G8 Cash, Africa Gets Kind Words

    HIGHLIGHTSWar Against Terror Nudges Africa Out of Summit Priorities||Summit Agrees on Palestinian Reforms But Differs on Arafat Question||Summit Premises Accessible Only to Delegates & Security-cleared Media|| STORY: A 20 billion U.S. dollar deal designed to stop extremist groups getting hold of nuclear bombs nudged Africa out of the spotlight at a.. More

  • Israeli Occupation Troops Kill Palestinian Resistance Man in Gaza & Wound Four Others in Separate Clashes in Qalqilya & on the Outskirts of Jerusalem

    HIGHLIGHTS: |20 Palestinian Policemen Arrested in Nablus||NizarRamadan of Hamas Arrested in Nablus||Ten Palestinian Buildings Demolished in Gaza|| STORY: Four Palestinians were reportedly wounded today by occupation army gunfire in separate clashes in Qalqilya and on the outskirts of Jerusalem, including a 10-year-old boy listed in critical condition... More

  • Bush Won't Rule Out Military Action to Oust Arafat; Israel Tightens Siege of PA HQ in Hebron, Al-Khalil

    HIGHLIGHTS: Bush Won't Deal With Arafat Even if He Wins Re-election||Key U.S. Allies Express Little Enthusiasm For Bush's Call For Replacing Arafat||Fearing Confrontation with Palestinian Resistance Men, Occupation Army Uses Helicopter Gunships & Relatives to Force Besieged Palestinians in Hebron to Surrender||Occupation Forces Kill an 8-year Old Boy.. More

  • Sudan Vigorously Defends Islam As OIC Debates Terrorism

    Sudan on Wednesday made a spirited defense of Islam and said Muslim nations, rather than the West, were the primary targets of terrorism. Mahdi Ibrahim, Sudan's information minister, said foreign ministers and senior officials from the 57 nations of the Organization of the Islamic Conference debated terrorism in a closed-door session. The meeting in.. More

  • WorldCom Scandal-Another Example of Business Ethics Trashing Under Technology Boom

    WorldCom Inc. teetered toward what would be the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history after shocking Wall Street - and the president - with yet another corporate scandal: 3.8 billion U.S. dollars in expenses hidden from investors.Stocks plunged Wednesday after the disclosure by the long-distance and Internet services company, the latest revelation of how.. More

  • Arafat to Run for Election; Israel Arrests 9 Palestinians as Grip on West Bank Tightens; Palestinians Reportedly Target Nuclear Bomb Warehouse

    Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, whose political future is under threat from the United States, will run in elections scheduled for January next year, a Palestinian cabinet member said Wednesday. "My information is that he (Arafat) will run for election again," Palestinian minister Nabil Shaath told a London news briefing.In a speech Monday charting.. More