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  • Rebels say they cut oil flow to Khartoum as Kenyan mediator starts work

    Sudan's southern rebels said they had cut off oil supplies to Khartoum just as a Kenyan mediator opened talks aimed at convincing the government to return to the negotiating table."A commando unit of the 20th brigade ... penetrated the oil collection and production complex in Heglig and destroyed the main station," said the Sudan People's Liberation.. More

  • Arafat Leads Outcry Against U.S. Law on Jerusalem

    HIGHLIGHTS: Outcry Resounds Throughout Arab & Islamic Capitals around the World||Arafat Wins Temporary Reprieve from FATAH over Announcing New Cabinet & Appointing a Premier||Israel Arrests Pro-Iraqi Palestinian Chief & Brushes Blair's Call for Talks Before Year-end||Despite On-going Israeli Repression, Intifadha Clashes Rage on Unabated Across the.. More

  • Russia Might Consider New UN Move on Iraq-Ivanov

    HIGHLIGHTS: Russia to Take Decision after Blix's Report Thursday||A Painful Choice for Russia Between Losing Face in the Arab World, a Traditional Region of Influence, or Jeopardizing its Partnership Posture with Washington||Kuwait Shares Moscow's Concerns over Unilateral Military Action Against Iraq|| Bush Gets Backing From Congressional Leaders for.. More

  • American, Suspected Philippine Bomber Die in Blast

    A bomb that killed an American soldier in the southern Philippines was believed to have been set off by one of two Filipinos who also died in the blast, officials said Thursday. Another American soldier was among 23 people wounded in Wednesday evening's blast, the second incident involving U.S. casualties since American forces arrived in the Philippines.. More

  • Palestinian Reformers Nix PM Idea

    Bringing reform efforts to a temporary halt, Yasser Arafat's Fatahfaction abandoned the idea of prodding the Palestinian leader to relinquish some power by appointing a prime minister, officials said Wednesday. The Fatah campaign had been the most serious political challenge to Arafat in years. It was cut short by Israel's 10-day siege of Arafat's compound.. More

  • US is 'afraid of inspections'

    The United States is afraid of letting weapons inspectors into Iraq because it knows they will find no illegal weapons in the country, Iraq's deputy prime minister says.Tariq Aziz was speaking the day after the United States declared it would block a deal Iraq struck on Tuesday with the inspectors for them to return to work. Mr Aziz said the US should.. More

  • Eight killed, 14 hurt as buildings collapse in Syrian city

    Eight persons were killed and 14 more hurt when a number of old buildings collapsed in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, the official SANA news agency reported."The collapse occurred as the result of a landslide over the buildings, which were built atop ancient caves," Aleppo Governor Osama Uday was quoted as saying.Rescue operations were underway.. More

  • Arabs Angered by U.S. Move on Jerusalem

    HIGHLIGHTS: Qatar Current Chairman of OIC Describes Move as Violation of UN Resolutions While Palestinians Describe it as an Actagainst Peace||State Department Says Washington Still Believed Future Status of Jerusalem Should be Decidedin Negotiations Between Israel & the Palestinians||Blair Puts Washington on Notice that Policy Towards Israel Must be.. More

  • Iraq Opens Door to Inspectors, U.S. Unimpressed

    HIGHLIGHTS: Iraq Shows Good Faith by Handing over Long Overdue Information about Nuclear Facilities|| U.S. Attempts to Win Support for its Approach Continued to Face Resistance from France, Russia and China||White House Says Would Welcome the Assassination or Exile of Saddam Hussein by His Own People||U.S. Threatens 'Thwart Mode' if U.N. Inspectors.. More

  • 18 People Killed in Kashmiri Nationalist Fighter Attacks

    HIGHLIGHTS: No One Claims Responsibility for Attack on Bus||18 People Killed in Kashmiri Nationalist Fighter Attacks Tuesday Marking the 3rd Phase of General Elections to Choose New State Government||U.S. Secretary of State for South Asia Meets Musharraf in Islamabad|| STORY:Suspected Kashmiri nationalists set off a bomb in a bus near Jammu on Wednesday,.. More

  • Bush Signs Bill Calling Jerusalem Israel's Capital

    President Bush , at the risk of angering the Arab and Muslim worlds, signed legislation on Monday that requires his administration to identify Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Faced with a choice between endorsing the controversial bill passed by Congress and shutting down U.S. diplomatic activity, Bush put his signature on the Foreign Relations Authorization.. More

  • Iraq Faces Crucial Cooperation Test at Talks

    Iraq faced a test of its cooperation with U.N. weapons inspectors on Tuesday as the United States An Iraqi delegation and top U.N. weapons inspectors were meeting in Vienna for a second and final day of talks on the return of inspectors to Iraq in an attempt to prevent a threatened military strike by the United States and Britain. The extent to which.. More

  • Voters Shun Indian Kashmir Vote; Kashmiri nationalist fighters Kill Seven

    Fighterskilled seven people on a bus in Indian KashmirTuesday and attacked several election stations as voters shunned the third round of elections in the troubled state's India has billed the vote, which ends on Oct. 8, as a test of Pakistan's pledge to curb the flow of militants across the border into the Muslim-majority state, but more 600 people.. More

  • 3 Palestinians Including Two Boys One of them a 10-year Old, an Israeli Occupation Soldier Killed in West Bank & Gaza Clashes

    HIGHLIGHTS: Fighting Surges in Nablus||Occupation Soldiers Attack a House in Nablus & Commandeer another across the Street From Arafat's office in Ramallah||Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazin) Critical of Intifadha Tactics While Legislative Council Calls for Reassessment of Performance||Israelis Criticize Sharon's Handling of the Siege in Ramallah||Yedioth Ahronoth.. More

  • U.N. Inspectors Make Progress in Iraq Talks

    HIGHLIGHTS: U.S. Intensifies Lobbying Support for a New Tough U.N. Resolution on Iraq at the U.N. Security Council||Russia, France & China Strongly Resist Anglo-American Efforts at the U.N. Security Council with Moscow Accusing Washington of Timing an Air Raid against Iraq to Coincide with Vienna Talks||Domestic Opposition to War Growing Both in the.. More