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  • Koreas Seek Nuclear Resolution, but Eyes on U.S.

    North and South Korea agreed on Wednesday to seek a peaceful resolution to North Korea's nuclear arms program, an issue that will be the focus of intensive U.S. diplomacy with Asian and Pacific leaders this weekend. Faced with U.S. evidence, senior North Korean officials acknowledged early in October their country had been processing uranium to build.. More

  • U.S. Mideast Mediation Proceeds as Israel Launches What it Calls Limited Operations

    HIGHLIGHTS: 23 Palestinians Injured as Occupation Forces Enter Rafah and Shell Khan Younis||Palestinian Homes of Relatives of Late Resistance Men Demolished in Nablus & Gaza||More So-called Limited Occupation Army Operations Are Being Prepared||Israeli Defence Minister Admits Running out of Military Options against Palestinian Resistance||Burns Arrives.. More

  • US Faces Opposition After Hardening Iraq Proposals

    Since a series of compromises last week, the United States hardened its draft U.N. resolution but France, Russia and China on Tuesday still found the proposals difficult to accept. The Bush administration had dropped an earlier demand for explicit U.N. authorization for military action against Iraq. But in insisting on intrusive U.N. weapons inspections,.. More

  • Sudan Slams US for Blocking Assets, Bush's Signing of "War Act"

    Sudan slammed the United States for its planned sanctions against Khartoum, accusing it of trying to pressure the government in peace talks and of bias toward the southern rebel movement. The US Treasury Department's decision to block the financial assets of 12 Sudanese firms and President George W. Bush's signing Monday of a congressional Sudan Peace.. More

  • Israel Demolishes Houses of Bomber

    Israeli occupation troops on Tuesday demolished the family homes of a resistance bomber and another suspected resistance mannear the West Bank city of Nablus, the occupation army and witnesses said. In the Balata refugee camp, occupation troops surrounded the home of Ibrahim Naji, who blew himself up in an attack in Tel Aviv in July that killed five.. More

  • Moscow Hosts High-Level Iraq Talks

    Russia's foreign minister played host Tuesday to a senior U.S. diplomat and the chief U.N. weapons inspector for talks on Iraq, while news reports said that Moscow was "disappointed" with a new U.S. draft resolution on disarming Saddam Hussein . Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov was to have separate meetings with U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton.. More

  • Hamad Ben Jassim Opposes Toppling Saddam

    The foreign minister of Qatar said Monday he disagreed with the U.S. goal of trying to oust Saddam Hussein. "We disagree with the idea of regime change in Iraq," Sheik Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani said in remarks at the close of a three-day conference on U.S. relations with the Islamic world. A change of regime "cannot be done except through.. More

  • Israel Weigh Response to Resistance Bombing that Killed at Least 14 in Israel Monday Night

    HIGHLIGHTS: Attack Likely to Cloud a U.S. Peace Mission Due to Begin Later this Week||Bomber Uses Tactic Rarely Applied Before||Islamic Jihad Claims Responsibility for Attack in Revenge of Recent Israeli Raids in Gaza & the West Bank Killing Several Civilians||Arafat Rejects Attacks on Civilians Be they Israeli or Palestinians||Israeli Pull Back from.. More

  • UN Security Council Considers New Iraq Draft Resolution

    HIGHLIGHTS: Bush Says Policy Remains Centered on 'Regime Change' in Iraq Adding that if Iraq Accepts New Terms for UN Inspectors to Return that in Itself Would Signal Regime Has Changed in Baghdad||New U.S. Text Contains Elements Designed to Ease French-Russian Objections|| USS Constellation to Deploy to the Gulf Early November on a "compressed timetable'||.. More

  • Kremlin Maintains Hard Line on Russian-Chechen Talks

    HIGHLIGHTS: Moscow Insists Nationalist Fighters Disarm Before Talks can Begin||Informal Contacts Between the Two Sides Opened Last Wednesday & a Pro-Chechen Russian Deputy is to Meet Deposed Elected Chechen President Maskhadov Soon||First Official Talks Last November Were Inconclusive||Russian Public Opinion in Favour of Talks Despite Official Hardline||4,600.. More

  • Resistance Bomber Kills at Least 14 in Israel

    HIGHLIGHTS: Attack Likely to Cloud a U.S. Peace Mission Due to Begin Later this Week||Bomber Uses Tactic Rarely Applied Before||Islamic Jihad Claims Responsibility for Attack in Revenge of Recent Israeli Raids in Gaza & the West Bank Killing Several Civilians||Arafat Rejects Attacks on Civilians Be they Israeli or Palestinians||Israeli Pull Back from.. More

  • Israeli Occupation army Orders Limited Pullback in Hebron

    Israeli occupation forces have been ordered to carry out a limited pullback in the West Bank city of Hebron later this week, Israeli security sources said Monday, in an apparent goodwill gesture ahead of a U.S. peace mission. But violence flared in the Gaza Strip , where the Israeli occupation army said it killed two armed Palestinians in a gun battle.. More

  • Bashir Would Face Death Penalty over Charges

    A Muslim religious leaderdetained as Indonesia moves to crack down on terrorism after bomb blasts in Bali faced allegations Monday, including a plot to assassinate President Megawati Sukarnoputri, that could bring him execution. Achmad Michdan, a lawyer for Abu Bakar Bashir, told Reuters the alleged plot, when Megawati was vice president, was listed.. More

  • China Denies Helping N.Korean Nuclear Program

    China dismissed U.S. accusations that it helped North Korea's nuclear-weapons program as baseless rumors and urged all sides on Monday to resolve the issue through peaceful political dialogue. "What you said in your question is absolutely unfounded rumor," a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said when asked for China's reaction to accusations by U.S. officials.. More

  • France's Chirac Warns Threat of Iraq War Still Strong

    HIGHLIGHTS: A Controlled Indisputable Disarmament Mechanism Would Diminish Threat of War, Chirac||UN Security Council Expected to Vote on New Resolution on Iraq Friday||Syria & Jordan Applaud French Position as Balanced||French Speaking Nations Rebuke Washington & Stress Primacy of International Law and The Primordial Role of the United Nations|| STORY:.. More