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As War Fears Grow, Pakistan Urges Talks with India

NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - With the shadow of war looming larger, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf said he wanted to meet his Indian counterpart at a regional summit but India was silent on the offer on Saturday. As the nuclear-armed neighbors mass troops on the border and trade tit-for-tat sanctions, President Bush said the United States.. More

3047 02/06/2001
Afghans Want End to U.S. Bombing

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's government said on Friday Osama bin Laden had probably fled to Pakistan and said U.S. warplanes should soon halt bombing raids blamed for killing hundreds of innocent civilians since October 7. The world's most wanted man had probably left Afghanistan for the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, interim Defense Minister.. More

3048 02/06/2001
Report: Al Qaeda Probed Nuclear Weapons Use

LONDON (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network was investigating the use of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons against the West and had conducted experiments on animals, a British newspaper reported on Saturday. The Times said this had emerged from detailed examination of documents it discovered in abandoned al Qaeda houses in the Afghan.. More

3049 02/06/2001
U.N. Kosovo Chief Hans Haekkerup Resigns - Report

PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (Reuters) - The U.N.'s chief Kosovo administrator, former Danish defense minister Hans Haekkerup, has resigned, independent television in the southern Yugoslav province said on Friday. Independent RTV 21 television gave no source for its report and no reason for the resignation of Haekkerup, whose one-year mandate was due to expire.. More

3050 02/06/2001
Milosevic's Daughter Goes on Trial for Shooting

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Slobodan Milosevic's daughter denied on Friday she had endangered people's lives as her father was taken to prison, telling a Belgrade court she had fired at the sky because she felt miserable, the Beta news agency said. Marija Milosevic went on trial accused of endangering public safety by firing shots as the ousted president.. More

3051 02/06/2001
Israeli Occupation Soldiers Tear Gas Foreigners & Palestinian Protesters

JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israeli occupation soldiers fired tear gas and warning shots on Saturday at groups of Palestinians and foreigners protesting in the West Bank against Israel's blockade of Palestinian areas. (Read photo caption below) Palestinian police said they had arrested three Islamic Jihad activists and confiscated weapons,.. More

3059 02/06/2001
Denktash Makes Landmark Visit to Southern Cyprus

NICOSIA (Reuters) - Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash crossed to the southern side of divided Cyprus for the first time in more than a quarter of a century on Saturday to dine with his Greek Cypriot rival, President Glafcos Clerides. Billed as a social event, diplomats see the meeting between the two leaders, who have negotiated inconclusively for.. More

3060 02/06/2001
New Argentine Cabinet Offers to Quit After Riots

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's new cabinet offered to quit Saturday after new protests at the government's inability to end a long recession sparked clashes with police outside the presidential palace and looting of Congress. Barely a week after deadly riots forced out a previous president, a dozen police were injured after using tear gas to.. More

3067 02/06/2001
Opposition's Mazoka Leads Zambia Presidential Poll

LUSAKA (Reuters) - Opposition leader Anderson Mazoka remained in the lead on Sunday after more than half the results were declared in Zambia's close-fought presidential election but joined other politicians in alleging vote-rigging. The ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) led in parallel parliamentary elections but analysts forecast no party.. More

3068 02/06/2001
Twenty-Two Killed as Resistance Surges in Kashmir

SRINAGAR, Indian-ruled Kashmir (Islamweb & News Agencies) - At least 22 people have been killed and 45 wounded in fresh separatist violence across the revolt-racked Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Thursday. One civilian died and 27 others were wounded on Thursday when unidentified militants lobbed a grenade at a security patrol in.. More

3029 01/06/2001
A New Four-Point Palestinian Peace Proposal

GAZA (Islamweb& News Agencies) - A senior Palestinian negotiator said on Thursday that talks between Palestinians and Israelis were focusing on a four-point document that could lead to a final settlement of their decades-long conflict. Nabil Shaath, also a cabinet minister, was presenting details of recent meetings between Israeli Foreign Minister.. More

3030 01/06/2001
Israel to Lift Bethlehem Cordon for All but Arafat

JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israel said it would lift an army cordon on the West Bank town of Bethlehem for continuing Christian seasonal festivities, but Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was still banned from going to Jesus's birthplace. The measure came toward the end of a day of relative calm and talk of ideas to end 15 months of bloodshed.. More

3031 01/06/2001
Bin Laden Warns U.S. Its End Is Imminent

DUBAI (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Osama bin Laden warns the United States in his latest video message that it will soon collapse, regardless of whether he lives or dies, as Muslims around the world ``awaken to its tyranny.'' Qatar's al-Jazeera television broadcast the full tape on Thursday, after airing excerpts on Wednesday. In it, the world's most.. More

3032 01/06/2001
Turkey Says U.S. to Discuss Any Action Against Iraq

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said on Thursday the United States had promised to discuss with Ankara any steps it might consider taking against Iraq in its war on terrorism. NATO member Turkey has opposed strikes against neighboring Iraq, fearing that taking military action against Iraq for its refusal to allow U.N. weapons.. More

3033 01/06/2001
Pakistan Asks India to End Border Standoff

ISLAMABAD (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Pakistan urged India on Wednesday to pull its troops back to peacetime locations and said it would only move the ``bare minimum'' of its own forces to the border as tensions mounted between the two nuclear rivals. A foreign ministry spokesman Aziz Ahmed Khan told CNN Islamabad did not want to aggravate the situation.. More

3013 31/05/2001

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