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  • Palestinian Girl, 9, Killed in Gaza

    Israeli occupation soldiers shot dead a nine-year-old girl outside her home in the Gaza town of Khan Younis on Saturday, Palestinian security sources said. The violence in Gaza came a day after two Palestinian resistance men dressed in occupation army uniform shot dead four Israeli settlers in the internationally illegal Jewish settlement of Otniel.. More

  • Iraq Lists 500 Scientists from Arms Programs

    Iraq on Saturday provided the names of about 500 scientists who had worked on its weapons of mass destruction programs, while U.S. officials said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has ordered a sharp increase of forces in the Gulf in case of war with Baghdad. U.N. spokesman said Iraq handed over to arms inspectors the names of personnel the United States.. More

  • U.N. Nuclear Inspectors Leave North Korea Next Week

    The U.N. nuclear agency said on Saturday its inspectors would leave North Korea early next week after the communist state said it would expel them and press on with plans to reactivate a mothballed nuclear research facility. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) described North Korea as a country "in defiance of international obligations" and.. More

  • Iraq Shrugs Off U.S. Troop Deployment

    The Iraqi government scoffed Saturday at Washington's decision to deploy thousands of additional troops to the region in preparation for possible war, as U.N. arms inspectors visited five suspected weapons sites in and around the capital. "Whoever dares to strike Iraq and its people will pay a high price," the official Iraqi army newspaper, Al-Qadissiya,.. More

  • Israel Razes Palestinian Homes After Attack

    Israel destroyed two homes of Palestinian Activists in the West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday after gunmen shot dead four seminary students at a nearby Jewish settlement, military sources said. Israeli occupation troops shot and killed the two gunmen who had entered the dining hall of a religious seminary in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Otniel.. More

  • Kenyan Opposition Scores Early Poll Successes

    Kenya's opposition appeared on course for a landmark victory on Saturday as unofficial results trickled in from general elections marking the end of President Daniel arap Moi's 24-year rule. If the trend continues, Kenya could record one of the most remarkable democratic changes in Africa by peacefully retiring one of the continent's last old-style.. More

  • Four Israelis and Two Palestinians Killed in a Resistance Attack on an Internationally Illegal Settlement Near Hebron, al-Khalil

    HIGHLIGHTSCar Bomb in Jerusalem Injures Detonator|| Hebron Under Curfew after Attack|| Jihad Claims Responsibility for Attack|| 'Israel Shall Not Feel Safe Until it Ends Occupation of Arab Lands', Ahmad Yassin|| STORY: In an operation in response to Israeli undercover attacks in which nine Palestinians were killed in the West Bank and Gaza on Thursday,.. More

  • Death Toll Now Put at 46 in Chechnya Bombing & Rising

    Rescuers, laboring in the pre-dawn cold Saturday, searched the rubble for survivors of a resistance bombing in Chechnya that killed at least 46 people and injured dozens more. The blasts wrecked much of the headquarters of the Kremlin-backed administration in Grozny, and dealt a severe blow to the Russian government's efforts to portray the republic.. More

  • Turkey to Follow U.N. Lead on Iraq

    Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Turkey would hold back from concrete promises of support for a U.S. war on Iraq until initial results of United Nations weapons inspections are clear. The United States is pressing its close NATO ally for a decision on the extent of its support for any war on its southern neighbor and on Friday sent.. More

  • Israel to "Turn up the Heat" on Palestinians after Day of Violence

    One of the most violent days of the intifada in recent weeks, with nine Palestinians killed in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, came as the Israeli government ordered the occupation army to "turn up the heat" on the Palestinians.Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz commanded the occupation army to "step up the pressure and act with all the force required.. More

  • U.N. Inspectors Mark First Month of Work

    U.N. arms experts marked their first month of inspections Friday by visiting an engineering plant in Baghdad, the Iraqi government said. The inspectors went to the Al Nassir Al Atheem State Company in Baghdad, a plant formerly known as the State Heavy Engineering Company, the Iraqi Information Ministry said. It gave no details about the plant and did.. More

  • Report: 25 Killed in Grozny Explosions

    Two powerful truck bombs ripped through the Chechen government headquarters in the regional capital Grozny on Friday, killing at least 25 people, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. NTV television showed stunned and bleeding people stumbling out of the rubble of the administration building, one of the few in the war-shattered Chechen capital to have.. More

  • Israeli Occupation Troops Kill 7 in W. Bank, Re-Enter Bethlehem

    Israeli occupation troops shot dead seven Palestinians in raids across the West Bank and swept back into Bethlehem to re-impose a curfew on Thursday, ending a brief Christmas respite from occupation. The flurry of Israeli army operations drew vows of revenge from Palestinian resistance groups, aggravating hostilities which the United States wants kept.. More

  • Iraq Stockpiles Food for War

    HIGHLIGHTS In one Month of Intrusive Inspections, UN Inspectors Find No Evidence of Biological, Chemical or Nuclear Weapons|| Iraq to Submit Within Days a List of Hundreds of Scientists Who Had Worked in its Previous Weapons Programs|| Inspections Continue Despite Seasonal Holidays|| UN Inspectors' Next Report to UN on Jan 7, 2002; Final Report Due.. More

  • N. Korea to Restart Reactor in Two Months -IAEA

    North Korea plans to restart within two months a reactor that could produce plutonium for nuclear weapons, the UN's nuclear watchdog said on Thursday, while a Bush administration official said Russia and China had yet to show interest in curbing Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions. Secretary of State Colin Powell has been pressing Russia, China and others.. More