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  • Latest Incursion into Jenin & Bush Invites Sharon to Washington After Talks With Mubarak of Egypt

    HIGHLIGHTS: Occupation Forces Remain Outside Refugee Camp||Washington's Mideast Three-part Approach Diplomacy Kicks Off||A New Jewish Settlement in East Jerusalem|| STORY: Israeli tanks and troops swept into the West Bank city of Jenin early on Tuesday, Palestinian security officials and witnesses said. They said troops fired in the air as the tanks.. More

  • Eyes on Possible India-Pakistan Meeting

    HIGHLIGHTS: CICA & International Community Hope to Put an End to Brinkmanship||Spotlight on Putin||In Retaliatory Attacks, Pakistan Killed & Wounded 35 Indians Monday||STORY: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, their nuclear-armed countries on the brink of war, attend a forum together on Tuesday amid.. More

  • Israel Arrests 400 at Refugee Camp While Palestinian Court Orders Release Ahmad Saadat

    HIGHLIGHTS: Occupation Forces Enter Qalqilya||Israeli Cabinet Divided Over Rolling Raids on Palestinian Areas||Despite Release Order, No Sign Saadat was Leaving Jail|STORY: Israeli occupation troops raided a West Bank refugee camp Monday and rounded up about 400 Palestinians. (Read photo caption)In Monday's raid, tanks surrounded the Ain Beit Ilma refugee.. More

  • Hamas Rejects Offer to Join Cabinet

    The Islamic resistance movement Hamas rejected a Palestinian Authority offer to join a revamped Cabinet under Chairman Yasser Arafat, hampering Palestinian efforts to reform their government. Isma'eel Abu Shanab, a senior Hamas movement leader in Gaza, told United Press International late Sunday that after an internal Hamas leadership debate on the.. More

  • Arafat Offers Cabinet Posts to Hamas

    HIGHLIGHTS: Three Opposition Groups Reject Offer But Hamas Weighing Proposal|| Arafat's Concept of Reform on Collision Course with That of Washington & Tel Aviv||Israel Keeps Grip on Nablus as Arafat Plays Host to Western Diplomats Converging on the Region||STORY: Yasser Arafat has offered Cabinet posts to Hamas and other militant groups involved in.. More

  • Pro-Palestinian conference opens in Iran

    Iran's supreme leader accused the United States of undermining Palestinian statehood in a message Sunday to a pro-Palestinian conference in Tehran that brought together leaders of militant Palestinian groups. Among those attending the two-day conference, marking the anniversary of the 1989 death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, father of Iran's 1979.. More

  • India Allays Fears of Nuclear War with Pakistan

    India's defense minister, allaying fears of nuclear war with Pakistan, has said their confrontation could end if Islamabad handed over Indian terrorist suspects and cross-border raids ended. Fernandes is attendingan Asian security conference in Singapore. Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf are attending.. More

  • Arafat to Reshuffle Cabinet & Egypt Tells Sharon 'No Alternative to Arafat'

    Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's political advisor Osama al-Baz said he had told Israeli leaders during his visit to Jerusalem to stop demanding an alternative Palestinian leadership to Yasser Arafat. "I told them they had no right to talk about the Palestinian leadership and to judge whether it is reliable or not, able or not," said al Baz, who conveyed.. More

  • Ben Eliezer Warns Situation Far More Explosive Than Aknowledged

    CIA Director George Tenet arrived in the region Sunday morning. Tenet was dispatched by US President George W. Bush with a mandate to streamline the 12 different PA security bodies into three or four, under one unified command. Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs, William Burns, already in the region, met Sunday morning with Israel's.. More

  • Israel's Occupation Army Keeps Grip on Nablus, Envoys Talk Peace

    HIGHLIGHTS: A Political Process Needs to Be Put Forward to Alleviate the Suffering of Ordinary Palestinians||Israel Kills a Palestinian in Nablus & Destroys a Christian Holy Site||Envoys From the United States, EU & Egypt Coordinate Efforts Ahead of Visit to Washington By President Mubarak of Egypt||STORY: Israeli troops kept their stranglehold on.. More

  • India, Pakistan Head for Asian Security Meeting

    HIGHLIGHTS: India Rules Out Face-to-Face MusharrafVajpayee Meeting in Almaty||Russian President Putin Will Separately Meet With the Two Leaders||Musharraf Believes Nuclear Option is Unthinkable||STORY: The leaders of India and Pakistan fly to central Asia on Sunday for a 16-nation Asian security summit, with Russia hoping to bring them together and.. More

  • Bush Warns of Continuing Danger As Rival Factions Fight It Out in Afghanistan

    HIGHLIGHTS: Pre-emptive Strikes-a New Component of Bush's Anti-terror Campaign||Fighting Terror Marks an Historic Shift in International Relations||At Least 10 People Were Killed in Factional Fighting in Southwestern Afghanistan||STORY: The United States will strike pre-emptively against suspected terrorists if necessary to deter attacks on Americans,.. More

  • British Paper Says Israelis & Palestinians Held Secret Talks

    The British newspaper, The Guardian, has disclosed that senior Israeli and Palestinian politicians have held three days of secret talks in a new bid to end their conflict. The Guardian, which hosted the meeting in central England, also invited key figures from Northern Ireland's peace process. The talks produced a surprising degree of agreement between.. More

  • U.N. Orders Families Out of Pakistan

    Hundreds of U.N. staff members in Pakistan and India have been ordered to send their families home as fears grow of war between the nuclear-armed neighbors, a U.N. official said Saturday. The military standoff at the India-Pakistan border persisted, with India's defense minister saying there is little hope of a swift resolution. In Kashmir, the flash.. More

  • U.S. Admits Killing Afghan Allies By Friendly Fire

    U.S. special forces mistook a group of Afghan allies for al Qaeda fighters and opened fire, killing three of them, in the latest friendly-fire mishap of the Afghan war. The shooting took place on Friday in the region in the east of the country where U.S. and British troops are hunting for remnants of the Taliban and al Qaeda fighters. U.S. army spokesman.. More