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  • Somalia Accuses Ethiopia of Armed Incursion

    MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's provisional government said on Wednesday that Ethiopian troops had crossed the border, in the largest of several recent incursions, to try to capture the southern port of Kismayu.(Read map caption below) Ethiopia's government denied the accusation, saying it did not have a single soldier on Somali territory. Officials.. More

  • Indonesia's Megawati to Name Make or Break Cabinet

    JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri will unveil her cabinet Thursday after more than two weeks of political power-broking which has frayed the nerves of the country's financial markets. Few Indonesian cabinet announcements have been as closely watched or attracted such high expectations. The team will be named at 11 a.m. (midnight.. More

  • Macedonia Hovers Between War and Peace

    OHRID, Macedonia (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Macedonia hovered between war and peace Thursday after an agreement meant to end an ethnic Albanian revolt for equal rights was reached amid widespread violence. Western envoys, who had struggled to mediate a peace deal for 12 days, persuaded Macedonian and ethnic Albanian party leaders to initial the accord.. More

  • United States, Russia End 'Positive' Security Talks

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and Russian defense teams completed on Wednesday two days of detailed and ``very positive'' talks on U.S. missile defense plans and bilateral security cooperation, a senior Pentagon official said. The official, who asked not to be identified, spoke with Reuters about the meetings ahead of a visit to Moscow by Defense Secretary.. More

  • A Palestinian Resistance Bomber Kills 5 Israelis and Wounds Several Others

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - A Palestinian Resistancebomber blew himself up in a Jerusalem fast-food restaurant on Thursday, killing several people and wounding at least 20 others. Ambulance crews reported at least four people were killed and several dozen wounded, 12 seriously, in the blast which occurred during the busy lunch hour at a Sbarro's.. More

  • Indonesian Leader Unveils Cabinet

    JAKARTA, Indonesia (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Newly elected President Megawati Sukarnoputri named a coalition Cabinet dominated by nonpartisan specialists who she said will try to pull Indonesia back from the brink of ``disintegration.'' Thursday's announcement of the lineup, which also includes retired generals and feuding politicians, ended three.. More

  • Palestinians Blame Sharon For The Blast

    GAZA CITY, (BBC)-Palestinian power brokers have laid the blame for Thursday's bombing of a Jerusalem restaurant at the feet of prime minister Ariel Sharon.The people in the Palestinian territories meanwhile, are battening down in case of Israeli reprisals.The military wing of Islamic Jihad may have claimed responsibility for the bombing, but popular.. More

  • Palestinians Reject Israeli Most-Wanted List

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The Palestinian Authority refused on Monday to arrest any of the seven men on an Israeli most-wanted list that could mark them for death under a widely condemned hunt-and-kill policy.Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo said Israel must first take action against its own activists before the Authority.. More

  • Israel's ' Hit List' Snubbed

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - A stand-off between the Palestinian Authority and Israel over the arrest of activists wanted by each side aggravated tensions on Tuesday and gunfire rang out overnight in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.The Palestinian Authority has refused to arrest seven men on an Israeli most-wanted list that could mark them for.. More

  • Israel Assassinates Another Resistance Activist And Defiantly Marks The Next 7 on its Hit List

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israel and the Palestinians on Sunday engaged in a tit-for-tat senario of revenge Killings. Israeli occupation forces killed a Palestinian activistin the northern West Bank, just hours after a Palestinian Resistance man sprayed occupation soldiers with automatic fire near the Israel War Ministry in Tel Aviv. At.. More

  • Khatami's Inauguration Delayed

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Saturday ordered a delay in President Mohammad Khatami's inauguration following a factional row over the election of new members to a state body.``It is necessary to postpone the inauguration until all legal ambiguities are removed surrounding this important ceremony,'' Khamenei said.. More

  • Car Bomb Rocks London

    LONDON (Reuters) - A suspected car bomb ripped through a busy area of west London late on Thursday, causing several injuries, and informed security experts pointed a finger at the dissident Northern Irish Real IRA guerrilla group.(Read photo caption below). ``I can confirm that there was an explosion outside the Townhouse pub in Ealing Broadway,''.. More

  • Philippine Muslim Resistance Sign Unity Deal

    CYBERJAYA, Malaysia (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The Philippines' two main Muslim Resistancegroups, which for years waged independent liberation wars against Manila, initialed a unity agreement on Friday after decades of estrangement.(Read photo caption below). One group, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), has already struck a peace deal with.. More

  • Cheney's Defence of Israel's Murderous Policies Arouses Palestinian Anger And Takes the World By Surprize

    WASHINGTON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Remarks made by US Vice President, Dick Cheney on Friday in sympathy with Israel's so-called pre-emptive active self-defence - targetting suspected Palestinian intifadha, uprising, activists have aroused Palestinian anger and have taken the rest of the world by surprize. (Read photo caption below) The remarks.. More

  • Palestinians Hunt Down Collaborators with Israel

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The Palestinian Authority said Friday it was trying to stop Islamic militants from exacting vigilante justice by killing Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel.``The Palestinian Authority rejects and condemns every attempt by any party to take the law into its hands and it will pursue any such attempt.. More

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