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  • U.S. Diplomat Shot Dead Outside Jordan Home

    A senior U.S. diplomat was gunned down with three bullets to the chest outside his Amman home on Monday in the first assassination of a Western diplomat in Jordan, officials said. An unidentified assailant shot the official, named by diplomats as Lawrence Foley, a senior administrator at the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID, at 7:30.. More

  • Palestinian teenager shot dead by Israeli occupation tank in Tulkarem

    A 16-year-old Palestinian boy was shot dead by machine-gun fire from an Israeli tank as youths stoned an occupation army column during curfew in the northern West Bank town of Tulkarem.Palestinian security officials said Ahmed Ombus, was killed Monday at the entrance to the Tulkarem refugee camp as the youths pelted stones at the tank and occupation.. More

  • U.S. Forces in Weekend Firefights in Afghanistan

    U.S. troops exchanged fire with opposing forces in southern Afghanistan twice at the weekend and called in air support in one incident, but there were no casualties, the U.S. military said on Monday. U.S. military spokesman Colonel Roger King said the exchanges happened in the Deh Rawud area of Uruzgan province on Saturday and Sunday nights, the same.. More

  • Resistance Bomber Kills Three Israeli Occupation Soldiers

    HIGHLIGHTS:Two Palestinian Resistance Groups Claim Settlement Attack||Two Palestinian Resistance Activists Shot Dead in Nablus, a Third in Jenin||Israeli Government Split over Preferential Financial Treatment to Internationally Illegal Isolated Settlements with Labour Threatening to Vote against Budget Wednesday||Arafat to Present New Cabinet to Parliament.. More

  • France Repeats U.S. Proposal on Iraq Needs Changes

    HIGHLIGHTS: Villepin Says American Draft Contains Contradictory Elements, There is Therefore Work to Do||Russia & France Circulate Counter Draft Resolutions to the American Text||France Proposes Council Session at Ministerial Level|| STORY:France on Sunday resisted U.S. pressure for action on Iraq, saying Washington's proposed U.N. resolution needed.. More

  • Russian-EU Summit Moved to Brussels after Danes Refuse to Cancel Chechen Meeting

    HIGHLIGHTS: Chechen Congress Meets in Copenhagen Monday to Discuss Peaceful Solution to Russian-Chechen Conflict||Questions Mount as Russia Mourns Theatre Dead||Deposed Elected Chechen Leadership Says Theatre Attackers Beyond its Control, Warns OthersCould Strike again with Catastrophic Consequences for Chechnya, Russia & Europe||STORY: A European Union-Russi.. More

  • Kashmir Coalition to Free Some Detainees

    Indian Kashmir's new ruling coalition moved to reconcile nationalists Sunday, by vowing to release some political prisoners and probe custodial deaths, but left it to the federal government to open talks with the fighters."The goal of the coalition is to heal the physical, psychological and emotional wounds inflicted by 14 years of militancy," said.. More

  • Chechnya Peace May Be Casualty After Moscow Raid

    HIGHLIGHTS: No. of Hostages Killed in the Russian Raid Now Put at 90||Russian Officials Won't Reveal Kind of Gas Used Making it Difficult for Doctors to Treat Survivors Suffering from Gas Poisoning; No. of these Now Tentatively Put at over 330||Russian Politicians Applaud Putin's Refusal to Give in To Chechen Attackers' Demands||Putin Asks for Forgiveness.. More

  • Israeli Incursion into Rafah after Palestinian Teenager Dies of Wounds

    HIGHLIGHTS: Two Palestinians Wounded in Rafah as Occupation Troops Demolish Structures Near the Border with Egypt||Curfew Imposed on Jenin||Occupation Troops Arrest Dozens of Palestinians in the West Bank City Including an Alleged Bomber||Relatives of Recent Hudeira Bomber Detained in Jenin||Aqsa Brigades Resistance Men Shoot Two Women Collaborators.. More

  • APEC Leaders Reach Landmark Anti-Terror Deal

    HIGHLIGHTS: The Battle against Extremist Violence Tops theAgenda for The Second Year||Disarming Iraq and North Korea Dominate Discussions at the Summit||Washington, Tokyo & Seoul Issue Joint Statement on North Korea||Leaders Agree Security Essential Ingredient of Prosperity||Washington Wants a Crusade against What it Calls "Terror"|| STORY: Leaders.. More

  • Moscow Theater Siege Ends, 67 Hostages Die

    Sixty-seven hostages were killed when Russian special forces stormed a Moscow theater at dawn on Saturday to end a three-day siege by Chechen attackers. Deputy Interior Minister Vladimir Vasilyev said 750 hostages held since Wednesday night by the heavily armed fighters in the capital had been saved in the operation. Nearly all the attackers, 34, were.. More

  • US envoy leaves Israel as occupation troops hold Jenin for second day

    US envoy William Burns concluded his peace mission to the region with very little to show for his effort as Israel looked to crush hardline groups in Jenin, now in the second day of full-fledged reoccupation.Burns, who flew off for Yemen Saturday morning, was promoting a US-backed plan for a peace settlement within three years, but failed to win any.. More

  • Huge anti-war demo planned ahead of more UN talks on Iraq stalemate

    Thousands of anti-war activists are preparing to march here to protest any US-led strike on Iraq, as the UN Security Council remained stalemated over a tough US draft resolution on disarming Baghdad.The council, which will resume talks on the draft Monday after a weekend break, was under heavy pressure from President George W. Bush, who said the United.. More

  • Israeli Occupation Troops Storm Jenin, Pull Back from Areas in Hebron, Al-Khalil

    HIGHLIGHTS: Pull Back from Hebron, Al-Khalil, Propoganda Stunt:Palestinians||5 Palestinians Injured in Jenin Including 17-year Old Boy in Serious Condition||Men Rounded up in Jenin, Some Taken Away||Occupation Army Takes Area, South Gaza & Sets Army Post There||Occupation Army Briefly Enters Rafah, Destroys House|| STORY: Israel launched its biggest.. More

  • New U.S. Proposal on Iraq Challenged

    HIGHLIGHTS: Washington Wants Vote by Next Week||Bush Fails to Get Zamin's Support on Iraq||Council to Be Briefed By Blix & El-Baradei Monday|| STORY: Russia and France challenged the new U.S. resolution on Iraq Friday, introducing rival proposals eliminating tough U.S. language that they fear could authorize military force. But President Bush insisted.. More