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  • Differences Between The USA And Arab Leaders Remain Substantial

    HIGHLIGHTS: Bush Praises Arafat & Cautions Sharon||King Abdallah II of Jordan Warns Israel That for Every Palestinian it Kills a Hundred Others Will be Born||Arab Foreign Ministers Meet in Cairo Thursday||Baz Compares Palestinian Fighters With French & British Resistance Leaders||STORY: Despite intense diplomacy between Arab leaders and the White House,.. More

  • U.N. Council Delays Vote on Iraq

    The U.N. Security Council delayed a vote on an overhaul of sanctions against Iraq at Russia's request, Western diplomats said Wednesday. The five veto-wielding permanent council members - including Russia and the United States - introduced a resolution Monday aimed at tightening the 11-year-old military embargo on Saddam Hussein's regime while easing.. More

  • Arafat & Sharon Separately Pledge to Fight Terror Attacks Against Civilians.

    HIGHLIGHTS: Isreal's so-called Inner Security Cabinet Mulls Response||Gaza Strip Braces for Possible Israeli Assault||Talks to Resolve Standoff in Bethlehem Resume||STORY: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon returned Wednesday from a trip to the United States which he cut short following a Palestinianbombing, and convened his security cabinet to discuss.. More

  • U.S. Sticks to Middle East Plans Despite Bombing

    HIGHLIGHTS: US State Department Shows Signs of Disappointment with Israel||Tenet Expected in The Region Soon||White House Seeking Solution Not Only from Arafat. ||New US Code for Restraint||STORY: The United States stuck on Wednesday to its drive for a political solution in the Middle East despite the bombings in Israel and an Israeli demand for Palestinian.. More

  • U.N. Special Session On Children Opens in New York

    HIGLIGHTS: Children Participate in Session for the first time||Rich Nations Fail to Honour Pledges to Social Welfare in Developing Countries||USA & Somalia Only Two Nations that Failed to Ratify the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child ||STORY: Grown-ups have failed the world's children, allowing malnutrition, disease and abuse to ravage young.. More

  • New Bombing Slows U.S. Peacemaking

    A Palestinian Resistancebomber blew himself up at a road junction near the northern port city of Haifa on Wednesday, killing himself but causing no other casualties, police said. Earlier reports said an Israeli soldier was killed and a number of others were wounded. The bomber was walking along Megiddo Junction when the blast went off, possibly prematurely... More

  • U.N. Assembly Condemns Israeli Actions

    The U.N. General Assembly voted to condemn Israel on Tuesday for its assault on Palestinian cities and for rejecting a U.N. fact-finding mission into the Israel army's actions in the Jenin refugee camp. The 189-nation assembly approved the Arab resolution 74 to four with 54 abstentions. The United States voted against it. The fact-finding mission was.. More

  • Palestinian Bomber Kills 15 in Israel

    HIGHLIGHTS: Sharon Cuts Short US Visit||Sharon's 6th Attempt to Persuade Bush to ostracize Arafat fails||Bush To Send Tenet to the Region||Implementation of Bethlehem Church Deal Delayed||STORY: A Palestinian Resistance bomber killed at least 15 people and wounded 55 others in an Israeli billiards club in Rishon Letzion, just south of Tel Aviv, in central.. More

  • Egyptian Pilot Saves Lives By Dumping Fuel Tank Before Crash Landing in Tunisia

    Egyptian pilot of EgyptAir Boeing 737-500 has saved lives when he decided to dump a fuel tank before smashing into a hillside near Tunis airport Tuesday. A local official in Tunis said the death toll could have been higher if the captain had not dumped thefuel tank. Tunisian civil aviation managing director Hamadi Ben Khalifa said the Tunis airport.. More

  • Egyptian Pilot Saves Lives By Dumping Fuel Tank Before Crash Landing in Tunisia

    Egyptian pilot of EgyptAir Boeing 737-500 has saved lives when he decided to dump a fuel tank before smashing into a hillside near Tunis airport Tuesday. A local official in Tunis said the death toll could have been higher if the captain had not dumped thefuel tank. Tunisian civil aviation managing director Hamadi Ben Khalifa said the Tunis airport.. More

  • Italy Won't Receive Exiled Palestinians Until Further Notice, Israeli Incursions Continue

    HIGHLIGHTS: Rome Wants Sufficient Details Before Allowing Deportees Into Country||Withdrawal From Bethlehem Timed to Coincide With BushSharon Talks at White House||Occupation Troops Invade Tulkarm & Raid Rafah Refugee Camp Killing a 17-yerar old Youth. ||STORY: Complaining that his country has been treated arrogantly in an intolerable way, a senior.. More

  • Syria, Libya & Cuba Added To Washington's 'Axis Of Evil' List

    HIGHLIGHTS: Washington Has Evidence Three Countries Are out to Acquire Weapons of Mass Destruction||Russia's Nuclear Cooperation With Iran Top on Bush-Putin Summit Agenda Later in May||No Specific Threats of Military Action. ||STORY: The United States has expanded its original 3-country list of 'The Axis of Evil' accusing three more states -- Libya,.. More

  • Deal On Bethlehem About To Be Finalized As Washington Mulls Israeli Interim & Arab Complete Peace Plans

    HIGHLIGHTS 13 Would Be Exiled to Italy, 26 to Be Sent to Gaza. || Five Palestinians Detained in Beit Sahur & Near Nablus||4 Palestinians Killed Early Tuesday As Occupation Forces Enter Tulkarm||STORY: A deal was struck Tuesday to end a month-long standoff between the Israeli army and Palestinian militants holed up inside Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity,.. More

  • Pakistan Dismisses India's Allegations Over Riots in Gujarat

    HIGHLIGHTS: 'Another Lame Indian Excuse, ' Aziz Khan. ||BJP Backs Opposition Motion on Gujarat||Opposition Accuses BJP of Bias Towards Country's 120 Million Muslim Minority||STORY: Pakistan has dismissed India's allegations over fermenting riots in Gujarat describing them as another lame excuse. Aziz Ahmed Khan, Pakistan foreign ministry spokesman,.. More

  • EU Denies Aid Funded Bombers; UN Estimates Damage To Palestinian Property at 300-400 M. US Dollars

    HIGHLIGHTS: Reconstruction Work From a Year to 18 Months to Complete||Worst Hit Was the Old City of Nablus||Priority Would be given to Housing & Institutions and Government Ministries ransacked by the Israelis|| STORY: The EU has refuted claims by the Israeli government that aid to the Palestinian National Authority was used to fund Palestinian Resistance.. More

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