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  • Iraq Faces Burning Questions, US Doubles Gulf Force

    U.N. arms inspectors will demand answers from Iraq this week to burning questions that could spark a U.S.-led war against Baghdad, as Washington more than doubles its troops in the Gulf region to 150,000. The two top U.N. inspectors, Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei, will travel to Baghdad next weekend to confront Iraqi officials over what they say are.. More

  • U.S. Envoy Says U.S. Willing to Speak to N.Korea

    U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly, on a mission to help defuse a nuclear crisis with communist North Korea, said on Monday Washington was still willing to talk Pyongyang. "We are of course willing to talk to North Korea about their response to the international community (over their nuclear program)," the top U.S. envoy on Asia told reporters.. More

  • 9 Palestinians Killed in Israeli Strikes

    At least nine Palestinians and one Israeli are reported to have been killed in a day of widespread violence in the Palestinian territories and Israel. The incidents include an Israeli helicopter gunship attack that Palestinians say mistakenly killed two teenagers. Palestinian resistance men have also tried infiltrating into Israel from across the border.. More

  • Israel Raids Gaza Strip Town and Camp

    Israeli occupation troops raided a Gaza Striptown and a refugee camp early Sunday, killing a resistance man and an apparent bystander and destroying several metal workshops the occupation army said were used for making weapons.Fourteen Palestinians were wounded in exchanges of gunfire. Palestinians said the operation in the Khan Younis refugee camp.. More

  • U.S. Keeps War Footing Despite Skeptical Allies

    The United States ordered thousands more troops to the Gulf at the weekend, despite signs of European reluctance to rush to war with Iraq. As the military build-up went ahead, sources in London said British Prime Minister Tony Blairwould meet President Bushsoon after U.N. weapons inspectors present a key report on Iraqi arms on January 27. The inspectors.. More

  • U.S. Sends Envoy to Seoul to Defuse Nuclear Crisis

    With the world gripped by fear of a nuclear-armed North Korea, a U.S. envoy arrived in Seoul Sunday to try to defuse the crisis amid warnings from Russia too much pressure on the communist state could backfire. North Korea again denied it had ever admitted to having a covert nuclear weapons program and warned the United States its people would disappear.. More

  • Israeli Army Raids Gaza Towns, One Dead in Clashes

    HIGHLIGHTS|| 10 Factories Blown up & 14 Palestinians Injured in Khan Yunis|| Arafat Urges Resistance Groups to Stop Attacking Israeli Civilians Ahead of Israeli Elections Later This Month|| House of Palestinian Martyr Destroyed in Beit Hanoun|| Likud's Election Lead Slips|| STORY: The Israeli occupation army raided a major city in the Gaza Strip, blew.. More

  • U.S. Says N.Korea Failed to Address Concerns

    The United States said on Saturday that North Korea had failed to address "issues of concern" at talks in New Mexico, and warned that threats to end a moratorium on missile testing would only increase Pyongyang's isolation.As North Korea became the world's first country to withdraw from a treaty preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, a senior North.. More

  • Blair to Meet Bush Amid Europe's Iraq War Doubts

    HIGLIGHTS|| A U.S. Force of About 150,000 Personnel to Be Ready for War By Late February|| The Largest Seaborn British Force Since the Falklands War Heads to the Gulf|| British Officials Now Say War Against Iraq is More Likely than Not|| UN Weapons Inspectors Conduct Second Air Inspection Since Arrival in Iraq Last Month|| US Military Begin an e-Mail.. More

  • Mecca Pilgrimage Seen as Security Nightmare in Event of Early Iraq War

    The coincidence of quickening US war preparations against Iraq with the annual Muslim pilgrimage, which is expected to draw more than two million to Mecca next month, could prove explosive for key US ally Saudi Arabia, analysts warn. Orders delivered Friday for an additional 35,000 US troop to deploy to the Gulf are set to bring total US troop numbers.. More

  • Weapons Inspectors Scour Iraq, U.S. Readies Troops

    U.N. weapons inspectors scoured more sites in Iraq Saturday in search of weapons of mass destruction as the United States ordered nearly 35,000 more troops to the Gulf for a possible war. The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, overseeing the laborious arms inspections, has called on the United States to provide more specific intelligence to help in the search.. More

  • Israeli Occupation Army Carries out Incursion in Jenin

    Israeli occupation troops have exchanged fire with Palestinians during an incursion into the West Bank town of Jenin and its adjacent refugee camp, sources from both sides said.Some 50 armoured vehicles and 300 infantry moved into the area early Saturday, and occupation soldiers carried out house-to-house searches before withdrawing to their positions.. More

  • UN Wants U.S. Help on Iraq; Europe Urges Restraint

    The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, overseeing arms inspections in Iraq, called on the United States on Friday to provide more specific intelligence to help in the search for banned weapons. The appeal came from Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), while top officials in Europe spoke out against a rush to war on the basis.. More

  • Israeli Occupation Troops Kill A Palestinian Teenager as Sharon's Election Campaign Faces Mounting Problems

    Israeli occupation troops killed a 16-year-old Palestinian stone-thrower in the West Bank's Aida refugee camp Friday and wounded two others as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's scandal-plagued election campaign faced mounting problems on Friday after a news conference in which he denied wrongdoing and assailed his main rival was yanked off the air... More

  • N. Korea Leaves Treaty, Triggers Alarm Around World

    North Korea became on Saturday the first country to withdraw from a pivotal global treaty preventing the spread of atomic weapons, triggering alarm around the world and frantic diplomatic activity to restore calm. However, the United States appeared to play down the nuclear standoff, acknowledging that the latest move by the reclusive communist state.. More