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  • Powell Seeks to Persuade Skeptical World on Iraq

    Secretary of State Colin Powell will use satellite photographs and recorded Iraqi conversations on Wednesday to try to persuade a skeptical world that Iraq is concealing its weapons of mass destruction and that war may be necessary to disarm it, U.S. officials said. Powell's "multimedia" presentation at the U.N. Security Council, scheduled for 10:30.. More

  • Israeli Occupation Troops, Tanks Enter Gaza Camp

    Israeli tanks and occupation troops entered a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday, exchanging fire with resistance men, Palestinian security officials and witnesses said. A 62-year-old bystander was wounded, apparently while watching the incursion into the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza from his window, Palestinians said... More

  • Fireworks Blast Kills 17 in Pakistan

    Shipping containers full of fireworks caught fire and exploded in Sailkot, Pakistan Tuesday, blowing in walls of a nearby school and raining fiery debris on surrounding buildings. At least 17 people were killed, including two children. Dozens of others were injured in the blasts at a trucking depot near the town of Sialkot as the fireworks were being.. More

  • Saddam Denies Having Weapons of Mass Destruction

    Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in remarks broadcast on Tuesday on the eve of a key Security Council session on the U.S. case against Iraq, denied that Baghdad had weapons of mass destruction or links to al Qaeda. "There is only one truth, and therefore I tell you as I have said on many occasions before, that Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction,".. More

  • EU Says Arab Summit Moved Up from End-March

    The Arab League has brought forward its annual summit to late February or early March, Greek Foreign Minister George Papandreou said Tuesday, after calls to hold it soon due to the threat of a U.S.-led war on Iraq. The summit had been scheduled for late March in Bahrain. Papandreou, whose country now holds the European Unionpresidency and said the bloc.. More

  • Anti-War Protesters Rally as Australia Debates Iraq

    Hundreds of anti-war protesters gathered in front of Australia's parliament Tuesday as Prime Minister John Howard began an emotional debate over the government's staunch support for the tough U.S. stance on Iraq. With a fresh opinion poll showing overwhelming opposition to Australian participation in a U.S.-led war on Iraq, Howard canceled regular debate.. More

  • Settler Seriously Hurt in Gaza Shooting

    Palestinians seriously wounded a Jewish settler in a shooting attack in the Gaza Stripon Tuesday, and witnesses said Israeli occupation troops demolished eight Palestinian-owned homes. The Islamic resistance group Hamas claimed responsibility for the shooting in the Kfar Darom settlement. One or more attackers sneaked into the settlement and opened.. More

  • Iraq Under Pressure Ahead of Powell Speech

    Pressure mounted on a defiant Iraq on Monday, with Secretary of State Colin Powell pledging to provide "sober and compelling proof" that Baghdad was hiding banned weapons from U.N. arms inspectors. In Baghdad, President Saddam Hussein's chief scientific adviser, Amir al-Saadi, said the "so-called evidence" would not show a "smoking gun," because if.. More

  • Israeli Tank Fire Kills 2 Palestinians

    Israeli tank fire killed two Palestinian farmers in the Gaza Strip on Monday, and occupation soldiers arrested a leader of Yasser Arafat's Fatah group on the West Bank. Meanwhile, an opinion poll indicated that Palestinians are increasingly feeling the economic pinch of their 28-month-old conflict with Israel. In the village of Abassan in the Gaza Strip,.. More

  • Mbeki Urges African Summit to Tackle Region's Wars

    South African President Thabo Mbeki opened an African Union summit Monday with a call for leaders to speed up the creation of a continent-wide security council to tackle the region's many wars. The first special summit of the African Union, which was born out of the Organization of African Unity last July, brought together the continent's leaders to.. More

  • Iraq Will Do its "Best" For Success of UN Inspectors Visit: Official

    Iraq will do its best to make the scheduled visit of chief UN weapon inspectors for more talks on the disarmament process "successful," a senior Iraqi official said here."We understood the letter of (chief UN arms inspector) Hans Blix, we read it and I think it (does not contain) conditions, but he hoped that some measures should be taken, should be.. More

  • Curfew Imposed on Five Villages Near Jenin

    Five Palestinian villages near the northern West Bank town of Jenin were placed under curfew and sealed off by the Israeli occupation army Monday, Palestinian security sources told AFP.They said two occupation army helicopters were hovering above the area.The villages of Anin, Taybeh, Bartaa, Rumani and Zbuba lie on the Green Line which separates the.. More

  • Bomb in Pakistan's Karachi Kills One, Wounds Two

    At least one person was killed and two wounded on Monday in a powerful explosion near the headquarters Pakistan's state oil company in the heart of Karachi, police said. The explosion caused extensive damage to one side of the modern, glass structure of the Pakistan State Oil (PSO) headquarters and also blew out windows of nearby buildings. No organization.. More

  • British Ex-MP Conducts TV Interview with Saddam

    British Labor politician Tony Benn said he had filmed an hour-long television interview with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein Sunday, the first in over a decade. He said he had asked Saddam "very simple and very short questions" during the interview that dealt with weapons of mass destruction, links to al-Qaeda terror network and oil. "This was a much.. More

  • Israeli Army Demolishes West Bank Houses

    The Israeli occupation army, citing a lack of building permits, demolished nine houses belonging to Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron on Sunday, leaving dozens homeless. In another development, dozens of Palestinian inmates rioted at an Israel army prison in the southern desert, and soldiers used tear gas and stun grenades to subdue them,.. More