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  • International Pressure Mounts on Macedonian Leaders to Honour Peace Deal

    SKOPJE, (Islamweb & News Agencies) -British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw flies into Skopje Thursday to boost international pressure on Macedonian leaders to keep their part of the peace bargain as Albanian fighters hand in weapons to NATO troops. Straw's trip follows a similar diplomatic sortie by NATO Secretary General George Robertson here Wednesday. Robert.. More

    1543 15/04/2001

  • Australia Shrugs off International Calls to Show Compassion for Boat People

    CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia insisted on Thursday it could legally force a cargo ship overflowing with boatpeople out of its territorial waters and refused to bow to growing international pressure to show compassion. Australian troops boarded the Norwegian freighter carrying more than 400 asylum seekers, after it defied government orders and steamed.. More

    1544 15/04/2001

  • Israel Attempts New Assassination Despite Fresh Ceasefire Hopes

    GAZA CITY, (Islamweb & News Agencies) -Israel attempted to kill a Palestinian Resistance leader early Friday and moved tanks and troops into the Gaza Strip, after its withdrawal from the Palestinian town of Beit Jala under international pressure boosted hopes for ceasefire talks. (Read photo caption below) Israeli occupation troops fired anti-tank missiles.. More

    1545 15/04/2001

  • U.S. Planes Bomb Iraqi Radar

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. F-16 warplanes attacked a radar at a military-civilian airport near Basra in southern Iraq on Thursday in the second such raid against Baghdad's air defenses this week, U.S. defense officials said.(Read map caption below) The officials, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters four F-16 jets conducted the raid with precision-gu.. More

    1546 15/04/2001

  • Jordan's King, Discusses The Middle East and Iraq with Putin in Moscow

    MOSCOW (Islamweb & News Agencies) - King Abdullah of Jordan and Russian President Vladimir Putin called Tuesday for an end to the international isolation of Iraq, saying it would help stabilize the entire Middle East. During 90 minutes of one-on-one talks in the Kremlin the two men also discussed spiraling intifadh confrontations between Israel and.. More

    1527 15/04/2001

  • Durban Criticizes Powell Boycott on Behalf of Zionism

    DURBAN (Islamweb & News Agencies) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan added his voice Tuesday to those urging the United States to take part in a U.N. conference on racism, saying it was an issue affecting all countries.``I hope the U.S. will participate and that they will come and sit with other governments to move the process forward,'' Annan told.. More

    1528 15/04/2001

  • Refugee boat steams for Christmas Island despite Australian ban

    PERTH, Australia, Aug 29 (AFP) - A Norwegian freighter packed with hundreds of refugees, many of them sick, was Wednesday heading for the nearest island despite Australia's refusal to take in the desperate Afghan asylum-seekers. The harbour master at Christmas Island, a tiny Australian territory perched in the Indian Ocean, said the Tampa was about.. More

    1530 15/04/2001

  • Armed Resistance And International Criticism Force Israeli Occupation Troops out of Beit Jala

    BEIT JALA, West Bank, Aug 30 (AFP) - Israeli troops completed their withdrawal from the autonomous Palestinian town of Beit Jala in the West Bank at dawn Thursday, an Israeli military source said. Tanks, jeeps and armoured personnel carriers took the troops out of the little town, key areas of which they had occupied for some 50 hours, according to.. More

    1539 15/04/2001

  • Bomb Injures 34 in Algeria Capital

    ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - A bomb exploded Wednesday in the heart of Algiers, injuring 34 people, five seriously, in the first attack in the capital in more than two years, security forces said. (Read photo caption below) No one was killed in the blast, which went off on a street near the capital's ancient Casbah, witnesses said. There was no immediate.. More

    1540 15/04/2001

  • Bombs explode as NATO prepares to collect Albanian Fighters Arms in Macedonia

    SKOPJE, (Islamweb & News Agencies) -NATO troops begin the task of collecting ethnic Albanian fighters' weapons at dawn Monday, just hours after two bomb blasts and amid a row with the Macedonian government over the number of arms to be handed in.(Read photo caption below) In the latest violence, a large bomb exploded in northern Skopje late Sunday,.. More

    1517 14/04/2001

  • Israel Assassinates Palestinian PFLP Leader

    RAMALLAH, West Bank (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israel assassinated the leader of a Palestinian Resistance group in a missile strike Monday on the group's offices in the West Bank city of Ramallah.Abu Ali Mustafa, the 64-year-old head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was assassinated when two missiles fired by helicopter.. More

    1518 14/04/2001

  • Iraq Shoots Down U.S. Spy Plane

    BAGHDAD (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Iraq said on Monday its upgraded air defenses had shot down a U.S. reconnaissance plane over southern Iraq.The U.S. military confirmed that a 3.3 million unmanned RQ-1B Predator aircraft had gone missing over Iraq and may have crashed or been shot down while operating to enforce a ``no fly'' zone over much of the.. More

    1519 14/04/2001

  • NATO Mission in Macedonia Rolls On

    SKOPJE (Islamweb & News Agencies) - NATO soldiers were set on Tuesday to collect hundreds more weapons from ethnic Albanian fighters in Macedonia after an initial day's haul of more than 400, but several potential obstacles to peace loomed on the horizon.(Read photo caption below)Vowing not to be deterred by the death on Monday of a British soldier.. More

    1524 14/04/2001

  • Palestinian Resistance Attacks Gilo Despite Reoccupation of Beit Jala and Forces Occupation Troops to Withdraw from Deir Al-Balah

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Bullets and mortar bombs hit an internationally illegal Jewish settlement on the edge of Jerusalem overnight despite an Israeli occupation army's thrust into a nearby Palestinian-ruled town that was intended to silence such shooting.Israeli troops had reoccupied parts of the West Bank town of Beit Jala early Tuesday.. More

    1525 14/04/2001

  • General Sworn in as President of Pakistani Kashmir

    MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - A newly retired army general was sworn in as president of the Pakistan-ruled part of disputed Kashmir on Saturday. Major-General Mohammad Anwar, who retired as the army's vice-chief of general staff in July, replaced veteran politician Sardar Ibrahim Khan, who has completed his five-year term. The.. More

    1509 14/04/2001

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