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  • World Protesters Gather on Iraq Conflict

    Protesters turned out Friday in Bahrain and the Gaza Strip to rally against a possible war against Iraq, while demonstrators planned to take to the streets in several European cities. Protests on Saturday in Brussels and the German cities of Hamburg and Cologne were to coincide with similar demonstrations across the United States. German demonstrators.. More

  • Powell Expects Proof Iraq Not Cooperating

    Secretary of State Colin Powell was quoted on Friday as saying that Washington believed that by the end of January it will have been clearly proven that Iraq is not cooperating with U.N. weapons inspectors. U.S. crude oil futures leapt to a two-year high of DLRS. 34 a barrel on Powell's comments. On January 27, when U.N. weapons inspectors are due to.. More

  • A Palestinian Fighter & An Israeli Settler Killed in a Resistance Attack Near Hebron, Al-Khalil

    An Israeli settler and a Palestinian fighter have been killed in a clash near the West Bank city of Hebron. According to Israeli occupation army sources two Palestinian resistance men opened fire on a settler near the small internationally illegal Jewish settlement of Givat Harsina. Another settler fired back, killing one of the two attackers, but the.. More

  • Chirac Says U.N. Inspectors Must Be Given Time

    French President Jacques Chirac said Friday United Nationsweapons inspectors should be given the necessary time to complete their work in Iraq, adding that France believed war was the worst of all solutions. "The inspectors have asked for more time... Wisdom obliges us to respond to their request and give them the necessary time to be able to deliver.. More

  • Saddam: Any Invasion of Iraq Will Fail

    President Saddam Hussein , in a speech marking the 12th anniversary of the Gulf War , vowed Friday to defeat his enemies and said any attempt to conquer his nation will fail. "Everyone who tries to climb over its walls ... will fail in his attempt," Saddam said. He called on the Iraqi people to "let your guns wait in ambush for him" - a reference to.. More

  • Khartoum to Send Delegation to Kenya for Peace Talks

    The Sudanese government Thursday decided to send a delegation to Kenya for peace talks next week aimed at ending the African country's civil war. The move follows the government's no-show this week at a separate Kenyan-brokered peace forum with the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army. Sudan's chief negotiator Ghazi Salah Eddin Attabani said in a statement.. More

  • S.Korea's Roh Urges U.S. to Talk to North on Crisis

    South Korean president-elect Roh Moo-hyun urged the United States on Friday to open talks with communist North Korea to try to solve the nuclear crisis on the peninsula. In a sign Washington is eager to end a standoff that has become a distraction from its campaign to disarm Iraq, a senior U.S. official said earlier the United States was prepared to.. More

  • US Official Plays Down Significance of Finding Chemical Weapons Casings in Iraq

    U.N. weapons inspectors in Iraq said they found empty rocket warheads designed to carry chemical warfare agents, but a U.S. official said the discovery did not amount to a "smoking gun" that could trigger war. Iraq, which marks 12 years since the Gulf War on Friday, insisted it had declared the weapons casings to the United Nations last month. It was.. More

  • Egypt Convenes Palestinian Resistance Groups, Palestinians Demonstrate in Support of Iraq & Israel Sentences Hamas Activisits to 15 Life Sentences

    Egypt is inviting leaders of Palestinian resistance groups to Cairo next week - six days before Israel's election - to declare an end to attacks against Israeli civilians, Palestinian officials said Thursday. Israeli officials expressed skepticism. A clear truce declaration might influence Israel's Jan. 28 election because Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.. More

  • Israel Destroys Eight Houses in Gaza Strip, Two In West Bank

    The Israeli occupation army demolished eight Palestinian houses in the Gaza Strip overnight and two belonging to Palestinian activistsin the West Bank, Palestinian security sources told AFP.In the Brazil neighbourhood of Rafah refugee camp, the occupation army bulldozed five houses near the border with Egypt, the sources said Thursday.In the northern.. More

  • UN Experts in Surprise Visit to Iraq Scientists Home

    U.N. arms experts paid surprise visits to the homes of two Iraqi scientists in Baghdad on Thursday, in their first foray into private residential quarters in search of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. On the eve of the 12th anniversary of the 1991 Gulf War, witnesses said an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team arrived unannounced in Baghdad's.. More

  • U.S. Envoy: No Quick Fix on North Korea

    The search for a peaceful resolution to the standoff between the United States and North Koreaover its nuclear weapons programs will be a "very slow process," a top U.S. envoy to the region said Thursday. The call for patience from U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly followed North Korea's angry rejection of American offers to consider energy.. More

  • Israel Kills Three Palestinians, Razes Bomber Homes

    Israeli occupation forces killed three Palestinians in the West Bank Wednesday and razed the East Jerusalem homes of resistance activists behind a resistance bombing at Hebrew University in which seven people died, including five Americans. Occupation troops also closed the Islamic University and Polytechnic Institute in Hebron, calling them a "hotbed.. More

  • Russia Begins Peace Mission to Baghdad

    Russia flexed its diplomatic muscle on Thursday, starting a peace mission in Baghdad to avert a U.S.-led war against Iraq after U.N. experts hunted for banned weapons deep inside President Saddam Hussein's main palace. "We have to seize any chance to achieve and find a diplomatic and peaceful solution," said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander.. More

  • Resolving N.Korea Crisis Seen a 'Slow Process'

    The top U.S. envoy for Asia said on Thursday resolving a standoff with North Korea would be a slow process after Pyongyang poured cold water on U.S. offers of aid once suspicions about the North's nuclear intentions are cleared.James Kelly stressed global agreement that the Korean peninsula should be free of atomic weapons, a position reinforced by.. More