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  • U.N. Visits Missile Fuel Factory, Plant

    U.N. experts on Friday inspected a pharmaceutical plant and made a return visit to a missile fuel factory, one day after U.N. officials told the Security Council that Baghdad must do more to prove that it is free of weapons of mass destruction. Bad weather prevented inspectors from visiting other undisclosed sites outside the capital for a second straight.. More

  • Israel Demolishes Resistance Bomber's Home

    Israeli occupation soldiers demolished a West Bank home where a female resistance bomber had lived and shut down three military liaison offices, forcing out the Palestinian police officers and taking their weapons, the occupation army and Palestinian officials said. In the Beit Wazzin village near Nablus, occupation troops used explosives on Friday.. More

  • Inspectors Give Mixed Verdict on Iraq, U.S. Adamant

    U.N. inspectors on Thursday gave a mixed interim report on Iraq's arms programs, providing ammunition both to those backing U.S. preparations for a possible conflict and for the anti-war camp. Chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said his teams had so far found no "smoking gun" but added Iraq had failed to answer many questions about its armaments. Baghdad.. More

  • Britain Says London Mideast Conference Will Convene on Schedule in One Form or Another; Palestinians Discuss Draft Constitution

    Britain said on Thursday Israel had rebuffed Prime Minister Tony Blair's personal plea to let Palestinians attend Middle East peace talks in London next week but vowed that dialogue would go ahead "in one form or another." In a sign of growing tension, Blair's spokesman said Israel had delivered its response after postponing a planned meeting between.. More

  • Pakistan Arrests Yemeni, Egyptian after Grenade, Gun, Battle in Karachi

    Pakistani police arrested at least two foreign militants after a grenade and gun battle in Karachi on Thursday, but officials said it was too early to say if they were members of the shadowy al Qaeda group. A senior police officer said one of the men was apparently a Yemeni national and the other an Egyptian. They had been hiding in a house on the outskirts.. More

  • Bad Weather Thwarts Aerial Inspection in Iraq

    Bad weather forced U.N. weapons inspectors to abandon aerial searches of suspect sites in Iraq on Thursday, but experts on the ground pushed ahead with a hunt for alleged weapons of mass destruction. The searches came hours before chief inspectors were due to give the Security Council a more detailed analysis of Baghdad's arms declaration and an initial.. More

  • Arafat Defies Israel on Meet Ban as Israeli Court Lifts Ban on Arab MPs

    A quarter of the members of the Palestinians' highest legal body gathered at President Yasser Arafat's headquarters on Thursday in a show of defiance against an Israeli travel ban blocking a full quorum. "We're giving the message that no one can stop us," Arafat told reporters in his battered complex in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Israel tightened.. More

  • India Tests Missile, Boosts Nuclear Security

    India Thursday test fired a shorter-range version of its nuclear-capable Agni missile, capable of striking almost anywhere in Pakistan, that analysts said would boost its defenses against its nuclear-armed neighbor. The test at a remote site in eastern Orissa state over the Bay of Bengal "was a textbook launch, everything went perfectly," a senior defense.. More

  • Syria & Israel Give Conflicting Accounts of the First Border Incident of its Kind Between the Two Countries in 15 Years

    HIGHLIGHTS|| Hezbollah Has No Plans of Automatic Attacks Against Israel in Case of War in Iraq|| Israeli Occupation Troops Kill Two More Palestinians || Israel Adamant in Refusing to Allow Palestinians Attend London Conference|| EU Asks Palestinians to Declare Unconditional Ceasefire||STORY: Syria's official Sana news agency quoted a military spokesman.. More

  • UN Officials to Say Iraq Is Not Providing Answers

    HIGHLIGHTS|| France Urges UN Security Council Members to Give UN Weapons Inspectors Data|| EU to Send Mediation Mission on Iraq to Arab Countries|| American Jets Raid a Radar Site in Southern Iraq|| US Soldiers Begin Arriving in Kuwait|| UK Minister Warns Saddam of Consequences|| War of Words Between Baghdad & Washington Continues||STORY: U.N. arms.. More

  • Seventy-Five Killed in Turkish Airliner Crash

    A Turkish Airlines passenger plane crashed in southeast Turkey and burst into flames as it tried to land, killing 75 people, officials and witnesses said. Prime Minister Abdullah Gul ruled out a "terrorist" attack, saying the cause of Wednesday's crash appeared to be the heavy fog that had enshrouded the city of Diyarbakir for several days. Five passengers.. More

  • Iraq: U.S. Preparing a 'Devastating' War

    A top Iraqi official said Wednesday the United States and Britain were preparing a "devastating" war against Iraq to subjugate the Middle East and renewed charges that U.N. weapons inspectors were exceeding their mandate. The remarks by Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, made to a visiting South African delegation, came one day after the United States.. More

  • North Korea Denounces U.S. After Talks Offer

    North Koreaaccused the United States Wednesday of increasing the danger of war on the Korean peninsula, just hours after Washington changed tack and signaled a willingness to talk about their nuclear standoff. The reclusive communist state's KCNA news agency made no mention of the U.S. offer, nor of the U.N. watchdog's deadline for it to readmit nuclear.. More

  • Barghuti Transferred to New Prison

    West Bank Fatah leader Marwan Barghuti, who is facing various counts of murder in an Israeli court, has been moved to a prison in southern Israel and placed in solitary confinement, one of his lawyers said."He was transferred yesterday from Hadarim prison (near Ramla) to Beersheva prison, where is being held in solitary confinement," Khadr Shkeirat.. More

  • Israeli Occupation Troops Kill Two Palestinians & Demolish Houses in Gaza Strip

    Israeli occupation troops killed two Palestinians in separate clashes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip early Wednesday and demolished the home of a suspected resistance activist,the occupation army and witnesses said In the Khan Younis refugee camp in Gaza, occupation troops killed a Palestinian taxi driver who was watching Israeli tanks moving through.. More