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  • US outcry over "no-fly" zones aimed at derailing inspections: Iraq

    Iraq accused the United States of trying to thwart the mission of UN arms inspectors and pave the way for an attack by claiming that Baghdad's firing on its warplanes in "no-fly" zones breaches disarmament Resolution 1441."This is an attempt to shuffle the cards, sabotage the return of the inspectors, and foil their mission so that US lies about Iraq's.. More

  • Iraq Agrees to Meet December 8 U.N. Deadline

    Iraq vowed on Tuesday to meet a U.N. December 8 deadline to produce a full account of its weapons programme and said the world body's inspectors would be given complete access to all sites. "Within 30 days, as the (U.N.) resolution says, a report from Iraq will be submitted on all the files -- nuclear, chemical, biological and missile files," President.. More

  • Five Palestinians Killed as Labour Elects Mitzna

    Five Palestinians died Tuesday when Israeli occupation soldiers swept through the West Bank town of Tulkarem, one a leading resistance activistand another a teenager who had climbed on top of an Israeli armored vehicle, Palestinians said.Mideast violence that has persisted for two years shows no signs of abating, despite efforts by the United States,.. More

  • Yemen acknowledges U.S. role in attack against al-Qaida

    A Yemeni minister criticized U.S. officials Tuesday for prematurely revealing how a Hellfire missile strike from an unmanned CIA aircraft killed six al-Qaida suspects, and said that a seventh man escaped death by getting out of the car just before the strike. Interior Minister Rashad al-Eleimi's remarks, made after a weekly Cabinet meeting and carried.. More

  • UN, Iraq pursue arms inspections as US retracts war hints

    UN officials were to hold further talks in Baghdad on resuming "no-notice" arms searches after Washington retracted hints that Iraqi fire on its warplanes could spark a war.Chief UN disarmament envoy Hans Blix was to meet Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri later Tuesday after reporting "progress" on Monday, when he kicked off the UN mission to hunt for.. More

  • Divided Iraqi opposition shifts conference to Britain

    A rift-plagued conference of six Iraqi opposition groups to plan a post Saddam Hussein era will now be held in Britain next month, the organisers told AFP."The conference will now take place in December in Britain," Nabil Mussawi, a member of the preparatory committee which has had to call off the meeting twice already, said Tuesday."There is an agreement.. More

  • Israel's Labour party set to choose dovish new chief, as occupation army raids Gaza

    Israel's centre-left Labour party chooses a new leader to battle out January elections with the right-wing Likud of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who once again sent his tanks to raid Gaza overnight, leaving three Palestinians injured.The Labour primaries were expected to be won by dovish Haifa mayor Amram Mitzna, a former general who favours a swift.. More

  • Israeli Settler Killed, Arafat Slams Hebron Plan

    Palestinian resistance men killed an Israeli woman settler in the West Bank on Monday as Israeli plans to bolster security in Hebron stirred land-grab fears among Palestinians in the predominantly Palestinian ancient city. Esther Galia, 48, from the settlement of Kochav Hashachar, was ambushed as she drove near Ramallah, seat of Palestinian power in.. More

  • UN Inspectors Begin First Full Day of Work in Iraq as Anglo-American Jets Continue Attacking Iraqi Positions

    U.N. chief arms inspector Hans Blix and a team of about 30 experts begin their first full day of work in Iraq on Tuesday, preparing the ground for a mission to search for alleged weapons of mass destruction. U.S. President George Bush said he was going to a NATO summit in Prague seeking support for his hard-line policy against Iraq, and for shifting.. More

  • New Turkish Government Takes Office

    Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP) took office on Monday after the president approved the cabinet list with little to surprise nervous financial markets and Western allies. The AKP, which won by a landslide on November 3, says it has broken with roots in two banned Islamist parties. Its leader, Tayyip Erdogan, remains barred from office due.. More

  • 12 Palestinians arrested in West Bank

    Israeli occupation troops arrested 12 wanted Palestinians during a security sweep throughout the West Bank overnight.Seven Palestinians were arrested in Doura, near Hebron, three in Nablus, one near Bethlehem and another north of Tulkarem, the Israeli army said in a statement Monday.Following a wave of killings in Israel, the occupation army has reoccupied.. More

  • U.N. inspectors arrive in Iraq to relaunch weapons search

    A team of U.N. arms inspectors arrived in Iraq on Monday to relaunch a search for weapons of mass destruction on a mission that could trigger a U.S.-led war. Chief weapons inspector Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, flew into Baghdad from Cyprus with a team of about 30, the first U.N arms inspectors.. More

  • Saudi says terror suspect caught after shootout in Riyadh

    A suspected terrorist was wounded and captured after a shootout with police in the Saudi capital, an interior ministry spokesman said."Mohammad al-Sahim, wanted on security charges, tried to flee and shot at security forces who managed to arrest him after shooting him in the right leg," the spokesman said.He said no policemen were hurt in Saturday's.. More

  • U.N. Inspectors Vow Not to Accept Iraqi 'No'

    U.N. arms inspectors gathered in Cyprus to relaunch the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq on Monday, vowing not to take no for an answer if they wanted to inspect a site. Leaders of the first U.N. arms inspections in four years said Iraq's fate -- the lifting of sanctions or war -- depended on its hiding nothing. The last inspectors left.. More

  • Israeli Tanks, Helicopters Raid Edge of Gaza City

    Israeli tanks rumbled into the outskirts of Gaza City on Sunday and a helicopter gunship fired two missiles at the nearby Palestinian preventive occupation force headquarters. There were no reports of any casualties in the missile strike and the extent of the damage was not immediately clear. The witnesses said a column of tanks later approached the.. More