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  • Bin Laden Warns Against Backing U.S. 'Butchers'-al-Jazeera TV

    HIGHLIGHTS Washington to Analyze Voice on Tapeto Determine if it Is Indeed that of Bin Laden|| Message Particularly Addressed to the People of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Australia|| Speaker HailsBali Bomb Blasts, the Killing of a Marine in Kuwait, the Bombing of a French Oil Tanker off Yemen & the Chechen Hostage-Taking in Moscow||.. More

  • Israel Raids Refugee Camp

    Israeli occupation tanks and occupation troops swept into a refugee camp in the West Bank Tuesday after a Palestinian resistance manshot dead five Israelis, including two children in their beds, in an attack on a kibbutz. Sunday's kibbutz killings and the raid in Tulkarm refugee camp could complicate a U.S. peace mission that began Monday. Witnesses.. More

  • Bombs Damage U.S. Chains in Lebanon

    Small bombs exploded outside three American fast-food restaurants early Tuesday, causing damage but no casualties, police said. The bombs blew out windows at the Pizza Hut and Winners restaurants just outside Jounieh, a coastal town about 13 miles north of Beirut, and at the Pizza Hut in the northern city of Tripoli, police officers said, speaking on.. More

  • British Ferry Ports on Alert

    British ferry ports are on a heightened state of alert for possible terrorist attacks, port officials said Tuesday. Authorities said they were conducting random searches of trucks and questioning drivers at ports including Dover on England's south coast."We've received several pieces of information indicating that ports around the country, including.. More

  • Israeli Occupation Soldiers Kill a Palestinian Toddler

    Israeli occupation soldiers killed a Palestinian toddler and wounded two others in Gaza Monday, hospital officials and witnesses said. The shooting came as Israeli leaders weighed a military response to a Palestinian shooting rampage that killed five people. In the second straight day of violence, the 2-year-old boy was killed shortly after 7 p.m. while.. More

  • Blair Warns of Terror Threat, Demands Mideast Move

    British Prime Minister Tony Blair dramatically raised the alarm Monday over terror attacks in Britain, saying he was bombarded almost daily with new intelligence about threats to national interests. Urging Britons to be on their guard at all times, Blair also used his major foreign policy speech of the year to call on Washington to see the big picture.. More

  • Saddam to Have Final Say on U.N. Resolution

    Iraq's parliament reconvenes on Tuesday to vote on a motion to reject a new U.N. resolution on disarmament, but the assembly speaker said deputies would leave the final say to President Saddam Hussein. Deputies gathered in emergency session on Monday to hear speaker Saadoun Hammadi denounce the tough U.N. text as a violation of Iraqi sovereignty and.. More

  • Iraq Debates UN Disarmament Plan under US WarTthreats

    Iraq's President Saddam Hussein called an emergency session of parliament amid continuing signs he may accept tough UN terms to disarm and avert the war Washington warns is the only other option. MPs were to meet behind closed doors at about 7:00 p.m. (1600 GMT) on the new Security Council disarmament Resolution 1441, parliamentary sources said."The.. More

  • Arafat Sets up Committee to Probe Kibbutz Attack

    Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat announced he has set up a committee to probe whether a deadly kibbutz attack was a bid by an armed Fatah offshoot to sabotage talks between his faction and the Islamic resistance group Hamas. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades -- an armed offshoot of his Fatah group -- claimed responsibility in a statement for a shooting attack.. More

  • Indonesia Links Religious Leader Bashir to Bali Bomb Suspect

    Indonesian police said on Monday the chief suspect in the Bali bomb blasts was a student of detained Muslim religious leader Abu Bakar Bashir, alleged spiritual head of a Southeast Asian militant Islamic group linked to the attack. A Jakarta court on Monday ruled Bashir's arrest on separate accusations was legal, a major boost for police who detained.. More

  • Israel Fires on Gaza After Shooting

    At least one Palestinian resistance manbroke into an internationally illegal Israeli farming community late Sunday and went on a shooting rampage, killing five people. The attack came just a few hours after a car exploded nearby, killing its two Palestinian occupants in what police believed was a failed attemot at a resistance attack. Two hours after.. More

  • Iraqi Parliament to Meet to Decide on UN Vote

    Iraq's parliament convenes in an emergency session on Monday to decide on a tough new U.N. resolution calling on Baghdad to disarm or face possible military action. Iraq has until November 15 to agree to a Security Council resolution passed unanimously on Friday demanding that Baghdad allows U.N. arms experts unhindered access to sites suspected of.. More

  • Three Dead in Clashes in Jordan's Maan City

    Three people were killed and scores injured in clashes in the southern Jordanian city of Maan after a major security sweep to round up Islamist activists ahead of a possible war in Iraq, witnesses and officials said. Witnesses said heavy gunfire broke out at dawn between hundreds of masked armed youths and police after security forces stormed the city,.. More

  • Iraq, Under Pressure, Calls Parliament on UN Text

    UPDATEThe Iraqi parliament will convene in emergency session on Monday to decide on a U.N. resolution to disarm Iraq, and Egypt said on Sunday Baghdad's position on the new text was positive. "The parliament will convene at 7 p.m. on Monday in accordance with a decision by President Saddam Hussein an Iraqi parliamentary source told Reuters. "Parliament.. More

  • Palestinian leadership in new talks with Hamas on end to resistance bombings

    Representatives of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement launched fresh talks with Hamas aimed at securing a halt to the Islamic resistance group's attacks against civilians in Israel.Palestinian international cooperation minister Nabil Shaath stressed the importance of the two sides agreeing a common strategy in the face of the hardline.. More