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  • Palestinians Dismiss Sharon's Talk of 'Breakthrough' as Nonsense

    HIGHLIGHTS: Resistance Groups Spurn Yahya's Call to Switch for Civil Disobedience||Sharon Accepts EU Peace Plan But Insists on Sidelining Arafat||Annan Blasts Expelling Palestinians||UN Envoy Bertini Warns of Palestinian Humanitarian Crisis||Fighting in Lebanon Leaves 3 Dead|| STORY: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Wednesday a breakthrough.. More

  • Saddam Vows to Defeat US Attack, Hopes War Avoided

    HIGHLIGHTS: "We'll Fight them in a Way that Will Please You (Arabs) & Annoy (the) Enemies," Saddam||Arab Ministers & Parliamentarians, Meeting in Cairo & Baghdad Respectively,Oppose Threats of Military Action Against Iraq & Call for Lifting of U.N. Sanctions on the Arab Country|| " World Must Know that Saddam is Duping the World by Developing Weapons.. More

  • Future of World Mega-Summits in Doubt

    HIGHLIGHTS: The Summit was an Exercise in the Dialogue of the Deaf, Says Venezuelan President||World Leaders Have Sold out to WTO and Big Business, Says Chairman of Friends of the Earth||'Plan of Implementation' Offers More Promises, No Action||Age of Mega-Summits over?-Remains to be Seen!|| STORY: As the remaining delegates left the Earth Summit on.. More

  • Israel Expels Two West Bank Palestinians to Gaza

    Israel deported the brother and sister of a Palestinian activist from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip Wednesday as part of an internationally condemned policy it said was aimed at deterring attacks on Israelis. Lawyers for Kifah and Intisar Ajouri, siblings of a activist accused by Israel of organizing a resistance bombing that killed five people in.. More

  • Iraq on Agenda as Arab Foreign Ministers Meet

    Arab foreign ministers began a two-day meeting of the Arab League in Cairo Wednesday expected to focus on U.S. threats to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Israeli-Palestinian violence. About 20 foreign ministers from the League's 22 member states -- including Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri -- were attending the regular twice-yearly meeting,.. More

  • Powell Defends U.S. at World Summit

    Repeatedly interrupted by activists' jeers and protests, Secretary of State Colin Powell defended the United States' environmental record and its efforts to help the poor in the developing world at the World Summit on Wednesday. "The United States is taking action to meet environmental challenges, including global climate change," he said to loud booing.. More

  • Congress Wants Say in Iraq Decision

    HIGHLIGHTS: Bush to Hold Briefing on Iraq||Washington & London to Publish Dossiers of Evidence on Saddam's Efforts to Develop Weapons of Mass Destruction||Iraq Says Return of Weapons Inspectors Must be Linked to Broader Issues ||Arab Foreign Ministers Discuss Iraq in Cairo Wednesday||Gulf States Oppose US Strike|| STORY: After winning the Gulf War,.. More

  • Mediators Confident of Peace in Sudan

    HIGHLIGHTS: Two Sides Nearly Have Everything on the Table-Never Gone this far Before, Says IGAD Team, Mediating the Peace Talks||Talks Broke for Circumstances Beyond Negotiating Table||Mediators Confident Talks Would Resume Even if Fighting on the Ground Continues||Rebels Say Government Looking for Pretext to Leave Talks Because it Feels it Gave Too.. More

  • Russia to Ratify Kyoto Protocol

    HIGHLIGHTS: Criticism of U.S. for not Signing Kyoto Continues||Russia's Ratification Meets Last Requirement Needed for Accord to Come into Effect|| Fighting Against Terrorism is O.K. But Same Impetus & Financial Resources Should be Devoted to Fight Against Poverty, Says Ecuador's president, Gustavo Noboa||70-odd Page Plan to Turn Rio Promises into Reality.. More

  • Israel Set to Deport Two Palestinians to Gaza

    HIGHLIGHTS: Ereqat Describes Decision as Marking a Black Day for Human Rights and Hamas Threatens Retaliation with an Escalation of Violence||Two More Palestinian Civilians Killed by Occupation Army Tank Fire Near Nablus||Occupation Forces Kill Resistance Man Near an an Internationally Illegal Settlement in Gaza||Resistance Groups Reject Yahya's Call.. More

  • Iraq's Aziz Says Ready to Work with UN

    HIGHLIGHTS:Israel Prepares for Possible U.S. Attack on Iraq After November 1||Iraq Urges Arabs to Close Ranks||Oil Prices Cool as Iraq Talks Cooperation|| STORY: Iraq is ready to cooperate with the United Nations to find a comprehensive solution to the country's crisis with the United States, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz said on Tuesday. "As.. More

  • Sudan Braces for More Fighting After Talks Fail

    Sudan geared up for fresh fighting on Tuesday as government and rebel negotiators headed home after the collapse of landmark talks to end Africa's longest-running civil war. Sudan's government suspended the negotiations on Monday after rebels seized the strategic southern town of Torit, their biggest victory since capturing the town of Kapoeta in June... More

  • World Summit Agrees on Poverty Plan

    HIGHLIGHTS: Plan Urges Using Variety of Energy Sources Including Both Wind & Solar Power as well as Fossil Fuels||Annan Urges World Leaders to Commit Firm Action to Turn Rio Promises, Made a Decade ago, into Reality||Developing Countries Side with U.S. & Japan against Targets Sought by EU Countries||Plan Calls for Reducing No. of People Living without.. More

  • Iraq to Discuss U.N. Inspections with Annan

    HIGHLIGHTS: Return of U.N. Inspectors to be Taken up Within Context of 'A Comprehensive Settlement,' Tariq Aziz||Saddam Says U.S. Covets Mideast Oil||World Discord with Washington over Policy on Iraq Gets Louder with Mandella Appalled by it||Discord within U.S. over Policy Getting Louder, Too, With Powell Breaking Silence||Israel, Only U.S. Partner.. More

  • Sudan suspending peace talks with rebels, cites takeover of southern of southern town

    HIGHLIGHTS: President Orders Army to 'Take Every Path & Use All Weapons' to Retake Torit||Rebels' Spokesman Accuses Government of Starting the Fight for the East Equatoria Town||Experts Do not Expect Fighting & Freeze on Talks to Last Long||Military Preparations for a Major Offensive to Retake Torit Already Underway|| STORY: The Sudanese government.. More