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Yemeni President Calls for Violence-Free Polls
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh called for the third parliamentary elections since reunification in 1990 to pass off without incident and free from the violence that has marred previous polls. "I hope Sunday's elections pass off safely and peacefully," Saleh said in a rare press conference at the converted warehouse headquarters of the Supreme Commission.. More -
Religious Power Sets Alarm Bells Ringing in Washington
Senior Sunni and Shiite Muslim religious leaders call for a quick end to the occupation of their country by US-led coalition forces but US Defense Secretary told reporters in Washington that those forces will remain in Iraq as long as possible to ensure that no theocracy on Iran's image will fill in the vacuum after the fall of the Saddam regime in.. More -
Two US Soldiers Killed, Several Wounded in Afghan Clash
Two US soldiers were killed and several other US and Afghan soldiers were wounded in a clash with unknown attackers in southeast Afghanistan, the US military said. The attack took place on Friday morning near a rocket launch site previously used by Afghan forces east of Fire Base Shkin near the Pakistan border in Paktika province 230 kilometers (140.. More -
Powell Plans Mideast Trip Next week: US Officials
US Secretary of State Colin Powell will visit the Middle East next week in a new bid to advance the peace process, US officials said. Powell is to leave Thursday for Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria. However, the Israeli and Palestinian stops depend on the Palestinian legislature's confirmation of Mahmud Abbas as prime minister,.. More -
' Iraq May Have Destroyed Arms': Bush
US President George W. Bush nearly declared the war in Iraq over, and for the first time suggested that Baghdad may have destroyed the banned arms at the core of his argument for military action.US-led forces scouring Iraq for the chemical and biological weapons that Saddam Hussein always denied possessing have yet to turn up any evidence to back.. More -
U.S. Wants to Shut Down UN Controls on Iraq's Oil
After extending until June 3 emergency arrangements for Iraq oil-for-food plan, the U.N. Security Council faces contentious U.S. demands that U.N. controls be struck entirely from the multibillion-dollar plan. President Bush has said several times he wants the sanctions, imposed in 1990, lifted entirely and diplomats said the United States was crafting.. More -
Three People Killed in Kashmir Resistance Attack
Kashmiri nationalists launched a human bomb attack on a security camp in Indian-ruled Kashmir on Friday, killing two Indian soldiers and a civilian, a security official said. At least three fighters stormed a Border Security Force (BSF) camp in Bandipur, 35 miles north of Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, a BSF spokesman said. "They.. More -
China seals off second big hospital, denies martial law imminent
A second major Chinese hospital was sealed off and the government was forced to deny martial law was imminent as roadblocks were thrown up around Beijing to combat SARS. The Ditan Hospital, treating more than 100 SARS patients including foreigners, was quarantined with some 600 medical staff told they cannot go home, hospital officials said. "Before.. More -
Tariq Aziz Surrenders, New Iraq Govt Talks Next Week
The United States said Iraq's former Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz, the internationally best-known face of Saddam Hussein's toppled inner circle, has surrendered to U.S. forces and the business of setting up a new Iraqi government in Baghdad will start next week. Aziz, No. 43 on a U.S. list of 55 most-wanted members of Saddam's ruling elite, gave.. More -
Syria Says Mideast Peace Begins When Israeli Occupation Ends
A top Syrian official spurned US charges that Damascus has fomented terror, and insisted that a lasting Middle East peace can be won only by resolving the Palestinian question. "The only solution to the Middle East is to end occupation and settlement," said Syria's Information Minister Bouthaina Shaaban, during a speech in Washington sponsored by the.. More -
China Confirms Korean Nuclear Talks End Amid Claims Pyongyang Has Nuclear Weapons
Talks in Beijing between the United States, North Korea and China on North Korea's nuclear program ended on Friday morning, the official Xinhua news agency said. The report comes after new revelations about North Koreas nuclear programme emerged in Washington. Xinhua quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying the three sides "worked to seek a peaceful.. More -
Resistance Bombing in Israeli Town Kills One
A Palestinian resistance bomber killed a guard in a rush-hour attack at an Israeli train station Thursday, a day after the incoming Palestinian prime minister formed a Cabinet that clears the way for a new U.S. peace plan. An apparent breakaway faction of a militia linked to Yasser Arafat 's Fatah movement claimed responsibility for the attack in.. More -
Iran Warns US Over Border "red line", Alarmed Over Opposition Deal
Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi warned US troops not to violate the "red line" of its border with Iraq, and voiced alarm over a reported ceasefire deal between the US and the Iraq-based People's Mujahedeen armed opposition group.Saying US forces on the border were "not a new phenomenon" since the beginning of the war on Iraq, Kharazi added, "it.. More -
Garner to Meet Possible New Iraqi Leaders in Baghdad
The U.S.-led team in charge of Iraqi reconstruction went into talks with local leaders in Baghdad on Thursday, saying it did not want to see the country ruled by religious fundamentalists. Retired U.S. general Jay Garner, head of the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, invited selected Iraqis who have shown leadership qualities to.. More -
U.S. Welcomes Palestinian Deal
The United States has welcomed the end of a standoff between Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and his new prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, over appointments to the new Palestinian cabinet. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said the US would now publish its latest peace plan, the so-called "road map", as soon as the Palestinian legislature officially.. More
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