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  • Palestinians Mark Nekbah (Catastrophe) Day Amid Reports of a Split Within Their Ranks Over Reform

    HIGHLIGHTS: Arafat Addresses His People Wednesday||Arafat Endorses Bill Granting Independence of the Judiciary||Palestinian Authority Rejects Sharon's Demands for Reform But Lawmaker Says FATAH Has Plans to Limit Arafat's Authority||STORY: Palestinians mark Nekbah (Catastrophe) day (the day Israel was created in 1948) Wednesday. They have called for.. More

  • U.N. Approves Iraq Sanctions Overhaul

    HIGHLIGHTS:Vote Victory to Washington with Backing From Russia, Saddam's Most Powerful Ally||A New Harassment to the Iraqi People, Iraqi UN Ambassador|| Council Experts Reject A Series of Syrian Amendments to Resolution||STORY: The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved an overhaul of sanctions against Iraq on Tuesday in a bid to tighten the 11-year-old.. More

  • Karzai Faces Biggest Challenge to His Authority in Paktia

    HIGHLIGHTS: Ultimatum Served to Zadran To Surrender By Wednesday||The Battle for Control of Paktia Biggest Challenge to Karzai Authority Ever||Paktia & Khost Former Taliban Strongholds||STORY: Afghan leader Hamid Karzai said on Tuesday a large military force was poised to capture renegade warlord Padshah Khan Zadran if he did not surrender by the time.. More

  • NATO, Russia Reach Historic Deal

    HIGHLIGHTS: A NATO-Russia Council on Counter-terrorism Meets Outside Rome, May, 28, 2002||2nd Russian Friendship Gesture in a WeekTowards Former Enemies||Prague NATO Summit in November to Discuss Expansion Eastwards & Modernization||STORY: Heralding the Cold War's funeral, NATO and Russia reached a historic agreement Tuesday to combat common security.. More

  • Barghouthi Prevented From Meeting Attorney & Asfour Says Israel Could Be Behind Attack

    Israel's all-out war against the Palestinians is continuing on all levels the military and the phsychological. On the phsychological level, the Israeli High Court of Justice, on one hand,has rejected a petition filed by Marwan Barghouthi's attorney, Jawad Bulus, in which he demanded the cancellation of a Shin Bet security service ban on him meeting.. More

  • Kashmiri Resistance Attacks Army Camp Killing 30 People

    Suspected Islamic militants opened fire on bus passengers and attacked an army camp in Indian Kashmir on Tuesday, killing nearly 30 men, women and children before being gunned down, the army said. (Read photo caption)It was the bloodiest attack in nearly eight months in the region, the focus of a military buildup between India and Pakistan, and coincided.. More

  • U.S. expanding ties with Iraqi opposition groups

    Washington is expanding its ties and contacts with Iraqi opposition groups in its determination to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, a prestigious American daily reported Monday. A secret and unpublicized meeting took place last month in Germany between a high-ranking Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) official and the leaders of two Kurdish.. More

  • Two Palestinian Police Officers Killed; Israeli Minister Wants Some Political Movement With Palestinians

    Israeli occupation troops killed two Palestinian Authority intelligence officers early Tuesday in the West Bank town of Halhoul, north of Hebron. The incident took place as occupation soldiers were searching for wanted activists, Israeli media sources reported. One wanted Palestinian was detained. The head of the PA intelligence in Halhoul was among.. More

  • Arafat Promises Statehood Despite Likud Vote

    HIGHLIGHTS: Arafat Seeking to Reaffirm His Leadership||Likud Vote Arouses Arab Condemnation & International Concern||Vote Won't Affect Sharon's Actions, Say Israeli AnalystsSTORY: Yasser Arafat toured West Bank cities for the first time in five months Monday and reassured Palestinians they would win their own state, brushing aside a vow from Ariel Sharon's.. More

  • Masked Men Assault Palestinian Cabinet Minister

    Masked men attacked a Palestinian Cabinet member near his house in the West Bank city of Ramallah Monday in an assault described by a Palestinian official as a "criminal act." Hassan Asfour, minister of nongovernmental organizations affairs, was taken to hospital with light injuries after five masked men attacked him as he got out of his car, an aide.. More

  • Coalition Forces Claim Killing Five Qaeda & Taliban Suspects

    U.S. special forces killed five suspected al Qaeda or Taliban militants and detained 32 others in a raid on a compound in southern Afghanistan, military officials said Monday. U.S. Marine Captain Steven O'Connor said the special forces team was shot at Sunday evening as it raided the compound suspected of being a sanctuary for senior al Qaeda or Taliban.. More

  • Arafat Tours West Bank

    Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat toured battle-scarred West Bank cities Monday just hours after Israel's ruling Likud party voted never to accept the creation of a Palestinian state. Arafat visited the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, site of a five-week Israeli siege, and Jenin, scene of devastation during a recent Israeli offensive, in his first.. More

  • Bush Announces Arms Pact with Russia

    HIGHLIGHTS: Some Weapons Will Be Dismantled, Others Will Be in Storage||Details Worked Out in Moscow Recently||Treaty to Be Signed May, 24||STORY:President Bush on Monday announced an agreement with Russia on a treaty to sharply cut the two countries' nuclear arsenals to 1,700-2,200 from current levels of about 6,000 to 7,000. "This treaty will liquidate.. More

  • Mini-Arab Summit Backs Peace Plan

    HIGHLIGHTS: Egyptian-Saudi Summit Discusses Reactivating Arab Unity & Coordination With the Palestinians||Trilateral Summit Condemns Israel & Back s Palestinians||Ministers Meeting on Sidelines Say Arabs Will Triumph Over Israeli Provocations||STORY: President Hosni Mubarak and Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah wrapped up two days of talks Sunday, while their.. More

  • Likud Rejects Palestinian State

    HIGHLIGHTS: Vote Reveals Sharon's Political Weakness||Netanyahu Appears Poised to Replace Sharon as Likud Leader||Ereqat Says Vote Reveals That Israel's War Against Palestinians Is Not Against Terror||STORY: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud party voted Monday to reject the creation of a Palestinian state, a major defeat for Sharon.(Read photo.. More

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