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  • Israeli Troops End Jenin Raid; Palestinians Want 2-Year Plan on Statehood

    HIGHLIGHTS: Chokehold Around Palestinian Cities Maintained||Sha'ath Discusses Palestinian Statehood Issue with Powell||Mideast Experts from Quartet-U.S., EU, Russia & U.N. Met in Washington Friday|| STORY: Israeli occupation troops ended a brief so-called anti-militant sweep in the West Bank city of Jenin early on Saturday. Several armored personnel.. More

  • Israeli Troops Enter Jenin & Leave Tulkarem

    HIGHLIGHTS: No reports of Casualties in Jenin, Curfew Imposed||Occupation Troops Withdraw from Tulkarem After Plunging the City in Darkness Overnight||Israel Begins Building Fence Sunday||(Read photo caption)|| STORY: Israeli occupation forces entered two Palestinian cities in the northern West Bank, carrying out searches for Palestinian militants,.. More

  • Powell Discusses Palestinian Statehood with Arab Leaders as Tension Mounts on the Lebanese Border & Noose Tightens on Palestinian Resistance Groups

    HIGHLIGHTS: No Details About Topics Discussed at the Al-FaisalPowell Meeting||Shaath Stresses to Powell Need to Set Timetable to Palestinian Statehood||Palestinian New Security Chief Promises Crackdown on So-called 'Terror'||EU to Add Three Palestinian Groups to So-called 'Terror List'||Gathering Storm on the IsraeliLebanese Border||UN Expert Accuses.. More

  • U.S. Attacks Targets in South Iraq

    HIGHLIGHTS: U.S. Command Says Damage to Radar Station Being Determined||Baghdad Says Civilian & Service Installations were Hit||Attacks Becoming More Frequent Fuelling Speculation That Washington May Be Preparing to Invade Iraq|| STORY: U.S. and British warplanes staged an attack on southern Iraq on Friday that Baghdad said struck civilian targets.. More

  • Five Killed in Disputed Kashmir as U.S. Considers Cutbacks in Pakistan

    HIGHLIGHTS: Two Armies Exchange Heavy Artillery, Mortar & Machinegun Fire ||No Americans Died in Karachi Blast|| Previously Unknown "Tarjuman-Al-Qanoon" Claims Responsibility for Karachi Blast|| STORY:At least five people were killed as Pakistani and Indian troops traded heavy fire in disputed Kashmir on Friday, hours after Defense Secretary Donald.. More

  • Palestinian Shot Dead in West Bank; Israeli Occupation Forces Raid Hebron

    HIGHLIGHTS: A Hamas Activist Arrested in Hebron||Occupation Forces Withdraw from Tubas, North of Nablus|| Palestinians Say Any U.S. Plan Must End Occupation|| STORY: A Palestinian was shot dead Friday morning near the west Bank settlement of Qdumim, Israel Radio reported. According to this report, the Palestinian tried to stab a settler who in response.. More

  • U.S. Leaning Toward Mideast Negotiation Timetable

    HIGHLIGHTS: Al-Faisal Pleased with What He Heard From the President||Arafat to Set Date for Legislative & Presidential Elections, Soon||Peres Backs Powell Plan||Poll Shows Americans' Support for Israel on Decline|| STORY: The Bush administration is strongly leaning toward announcing some type of timetable next week for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations,.. More

  • Karzai Wins Afghan Presidency

    HIGHLIGHTS: A Woman Doctor Won 121 Votes & A 3rd Contender Won Only 89 Votes||General Elections in 18 Months Time||Loya Jirga-Chosen Parliament Sits As Soon As Government Is Chosen|| STORY: Hamid Karzai, U.S.-backed scion of a royalist family, was elected president of Afghanistan on Thursday and faces the tough task of healing a country torn by 23.. More

  • Rumsfeld Sees Progress After South Asia Trip

    HIGHLIGHTS: 6 People Killed in Cross-border Shelling||Rumsfeld Plays Down Significance of Comments on Qaeda Link|| STORY: U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ended a visit to India and Pakistan on Thursday saying he saw progress in reducing tensions and averting a catastrophic war between the nuclear-armed rivals. (Read photo caption)But Pakistan.. More

  • Sharon Open to Palestinian Statehood Declaration & Senior Military Officers Mull Dismantling Isolated Israeli Settlements

    HIGHLIGHTS: Sharon's Openness to Declaration Hinges on What he calls 'Cessation of Violence & Terror"||Powell-Bush Conflicting Statements Explained||Occupation Army Sources Say Decision to Dismantle Isolated Israeli Settlements Already Taken-Question Now is 'When?'|| STORY: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon indicated to US President George W. Bush.. More

  • Rumsfeld Meets Musharraf in Bid to Defuse Kashmir Tension

    HIGHLIGHTS: Despite an Easing of Tensions Each Side Waiting for the Other to Make Next Move||Musharraf: 'Situation Remains Grim Until Disengagement on Borders Takes Place.'||No Final Decision on Checking Cross-border Infiltrations|| STORY: U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld met Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf on Thursday to try to avert a.. More

  • World Food Summit Concludes In Rome

    HIGHLIGHTS: Delegates Critical About Proliferation of Biotech Crops & Complain About Inaction to End World Hunger||Italy Defends Absence of Western Leaders From Summit||Food Diversity (Key component to Food Security) Lost, Thanks to U.S. Biotech Corporations|| STORY: The U.N. World Food Summit ended in Rome Thursday much as it began, with criticism.. More

  • Five Israeli Occupation Soldiers Wounded in Latest Incursion in the Towns of Tubas & Rafah

    HIGHLIGHTS:Occupation Troops Attacked with Gunfire in Tubas and with Mortar Shells in Rafah||A FATAH Leader Arrested in Gaza||60 Palestinians Arrested in Ramallah|| STORY: Five Israeli occupationsoldiers were wounded early Thursday morning while combing the northern West Bank and southern Gaza Strip for Palestinian Resistance activists and weaponry,.. More

  • Israeli Forces Withdraw From Ramallah

    HIGHLIGHTS: Occupation Troops Take up Positions Round the City Keeping it Encircled||Powell Appears at Odds with Bush Over Mideast Conference & Palestinian Statehood||Al-Faisal Meets Bush Thursday||First UN Security Council Mideast Public Debate Thursday||Reshuffled Palestinian Cabinet Meets for First Time Thursday|| STORY: Israeli tanks and occupation.. More

  • Pakistan Denies U.S. Al-Qaeda Claims

    HIGHLIGHTS: Claim Made By Rumsfeld During Talks with Indian Leaders||Rumsfeld Lacks Knowledge of Realities on the Ground in Kashmir, Says Pakistan||India-Pakistan Border Situation Remains Tense Despite India's Conciliatory Gestures|| STORY: Pakistan has denied suggestions by US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that terrorists from Osama bin Laden's.. More