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  • Iraqi Air Defenses Down an American Predator Aircraft as U.N. Inspectors Question Iraqi Scientists

    U.S. officials said Iraq shot down an unmanned U.S. surveillance drone over the country's southern no-fly zone. Iraqi television, quoting an unidentified military official, said the DLRS. 3.7 million Predator drone left from neighboring Kuwait. The incident is the first apparent downing of a U.S. aircraft in the no-fly zone since a new U.N. disarmament.. More

  • Arafat Cool Toward U.S.-Backed Peace Plan, Slams Israel Grip on Bethlehem at Christmas

    Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat expressed reservations Monday about a U.S.-backed Mideast peace plan, while a visiting U.S. Senator and key backer of Israel spoke out in favor of a Palestinian state. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., said a solution to the Mideast conflict must include a "strong and peaceful" Palestinian state. Lieberman also said Monday.. More

  • Ukrainian Plane Crashes in Iran, 46 Dead

    A Ukrainian passenger plane carrying aerospace experts crashed in Iran on Monday killing all 46 people on board, the Iranian transport minister said. Iranian television said the passengers were senior Ukrainian aircraft industry officials traveling to the Iranian city of Isfahan to test a new plane."All 46 passengers including the crew have been killed... More

  • U.N. Experts Swoop Down on Iraqi Sites

    Scores of U.N. arms experts swooped down on at least three sites near Baghdad on Monday, a day after Iraq said it had no secret weapons to hide.Iraqi officials said a biological weapons team from the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) spent two hours at what the officials described as a closed baby milk plant in Abu Ghreib,.. More

  • Israeli Occupation troops Kill Two Hamas Activists

    Israeli occupation troops killed two Hamas activists, including a leading militiaman, Monday as the men rode a tractor near the West Bank town of Jenin, Palestinian security officials said. The Israeli occupation army said it was checking the report. Palestinian officials said the bodies of the two men were riddled by bullets and accused Israel of killing.. More

  • China Steps Up Fight Against Muslim Extremists

    China's Communist party boss in the northwestern region of Xinjiang has called on officials to intensify their fight against separatists and religious extremism, the semi-official China News Service said on Monday. It quoted party chief Wang Lequan as saying government and party officials should step up their campaign against "three forces," previously.. More

  • Iraq Invites CIA to Join UN Weapons Inspectors

    Iraq launched a public relations offensive against the United States and Britain, saying it had nothing to hide and that Washington was even welcome to send in CIA agents to direct U.N. arms inspectors to any suspect sites. President Saddam Hussein and his officials said on Sunday Iraq was doing all it could to cooperate with the United Nations and.. More

  • Palestinians Postpone Election, Truce Call Unheeded

    Palestinian leaders said on Sunday they were postponing elections scheduled for January because of Israeli military occupation of West Bank cities, and a new international call for a truce seemed doomed. In new violence, the Israeli occupation army said it shot a Palestinian resistance activist in the Gaza Strip. Israeli media said he was killed. Israel.. More

  • Gulf Summit Ends With Decry of Saddam

    Gulf nations condemned Saddam Hussein for threatening Kuwait and said Sunday that Mideast peace is possible only if Israel withdraws from Palestinian territories. The six-state Gulf Cooperation Council, a loose political and economic alliance, convened its annual two-day summit Saturday in Doha, Qatar with four heads of state missing and the threat.. More

  • GCC Condemns Iraq's Half-Hearted Apology to Kuwait, Approves the GCC's Customs Union

    The annual year-end summit of the six Gulf Arab states is concluded in Doha Sunday condemning Iraq's half-hearted apology to Kuwait on the 7th of December describing it as an incitement of hatred and division because it contain language despiteful of the Kuwaiti leadership and condoning recent terrorist acts in the Emirate-action strongly condemned.. More

  • US, UK Said to Plan Amphibious Invasion for Iraq

    The United States and Britain were reported at the weekend to be planning a massive seaborne invasion if war broke out against Iraq, a war for which Syria said there would be no justification. The top U.S. military commander, Gen. Richard Myers, said his forces were ready to go into battle against Iraq and the New York Times reported in its Sunday.. More

  • Missile Attack Kills Afghan Soldier in Kandahar

    An Afghan soldier was killed and three were wounded when a missile was fired at their car on the outskirts of the southern Afghan city of Kandahar Sunday, police and witnesses said. The attack came on the first anniversary of the inauguration of President Hamid Karzai as Afghan leader, after a U.S.-led military coalition toppled the fundamentalist Taliban.. More

  • Palestinian Girl Shot to Death in Gaza -Now Divided by Occupation Troops into 3 Cantons

    An 11-year-old Palestinian girl died of a gunshot wound Saturday in the Gaza Strip, where Israeli occupation troops reinforced a blockade aimed at deterring shooting attacks against Jewish settlers living in internationally illegal settlements built on occupied Palestinian territory. The Palestinian girl died in Rafah Hospital while undergoing surgery.. More

  • Seven Killed as German Helicopter Crashes in Kabul; American Soldier Killed in Eastern Afghanistan

    Seven German servicemen were killed on Saturday and two Afghan girls were missing after a helicopter crashed into a house in Kabul, Germany's defense minister said. There was some confusion about the fate of the two girls as earlier a military spokesman at the crash scene in the Afghan capital said no children were involved. The cause of the crash was.. More

  • Jordanian Airliner Delay in UAE as Bomb Found-CNN

    A Royal Jordanian passenger plane due to leave Abu Dhabi was delayed when a man tried to board the plane with a bomb, CNN reported on Sunday. Jordanian and Abu Dhabi authorities were questioning a man who may have had a bomb, CNN reported. Airline sources said the man was behaving suspiciously. He was detained and was found to have a bomb. There were.. More