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  • Baghdad Keeps up Invective as US Confers with Iraqi Opposition Leaders

    HIGHLIGHTS: Opposition Confers Via Video Link with Dick Cheney||Iraq Threatens Americans & Regional Stability if Washington Attacks Baghdad||Bush Describes Saddam as A 'Danger' & An 'Enemy'|| STORY: Senior US officials consulted with Iraqi opposition leaders as Baghdad stuck to hard-line invective against the "delinquent clique" in Washington. Representative.. More

  • Turk PM Appoints New Econ Minister as Dervis Quits

    Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit appointed the little-known MP Masum Turker as crisis-hit Turkey's new economy minister on Saturday after the resignation of respected economist Kemal Dervis earlier in the day. Former World Banker Dervis was the architect of a multi-billion dollar IMF plan that saved Turkey's economy from collapse last year. Markets.. More

  • Three Palestinians Die in Gaza; Talks in Washington over Security Reform Continue

    HIGHTLIGHTS: Eight Injured Including Four Children||ThreeMore Palestinians Die of Previous Injuries||Palestinian Delegation Conferred with Burns Friday, to Meet Tenet Saturday||Arafat Accepts Foreign Involvement in Reforming His Security Forces||Palestinian Minister of the Interior Endorses Israel Withdrawal|| STORY: Three more Palestinians died in.. More

  • Ivanov, Annan against Military Solution in Iraq

    HIGHLIGHTS: Russian Foreign Minister & UN Chief Discuss Situation on the Phone||Bush May Not Make Decision on Iraq this Year||U.S. Republican Majority Leader of the House of Representatives Opposed to Unprovoked Military Action Against Iraq|| STORY: Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan are agreed on the.. More

  • Rescues Seek Survivors, Clues in Afghan Explosion

    Rescuers searched for survivors on Saturday after a powerful blast in Jalalabad killed at least 26 people and knocked out power to the eastern city, stoking fears about Afghanistan's volatile security climate. Provincial officials said stored explosives at the Afghan Construction and Logistic Unit (ACLU) on the outskirts of Jalalabad could have accidentally.. More

  • US Consults Exiles on Ousting Saddam

    HIGHLIGHTS: Policy of Containing Saddam Hussein Not Working: Rumsfeld||Cheney to Address Opposition Gathering through Video Link||Opposition Leader Proposes Targeted Approach Toppling Saddam Hussein||Schroeder Rules out German Participation in Iraq Attack||Britain Warns Washington against Iraq Attack||Amr Moussa Says Attack Would Generate Chaos in Internation.. More

  • Hamas Says Will Target Israeli Leadership

    The Palestinian Resistance group Hamas said on Friday that it will target Israeli leaders in response to the Jewish state's tactic of killing senior Palestinian Resistance activists behind attacks on Israelis. Usama Hamdan, who heads Hamas in Lebanon, said Israel's killing in recent weeks of two senior Hamas figures -- one in an air strike that left.. More

  • Parents held over net child abuse

    An international ring of paedophiles has been uncovered in which parents allegedly abused their own children and then posted the images on the Internet, the United States Customs Service says. Ten people have been arrested in the US and 10 in Europe, including in England. The head of the US Customs Service, Robert Bonner, described it as the most despicable.. More

  • Israel arrests two explosives-ladened Palestinian Activists in West Bank

    HIGHLIGHTS: Occupation Army Arrests Hamas Member in Qalqilya||Curfew Lifted on Hebron & Qlaqilya||Tenet to Meet Palestinian Minister to Discuss New Security Plan||Palestinians Accuse Sharon of Planning to Sabotage Their Talks With Top U.S. Officials in Washington|| Israel Deploys a Second Battery of Arrow Anti-missile Missiles|| STORY: Two Palestinian.. More

  • Saudis lash US 'Christian extremists'

    The Saudi press has launched a vitriolic attack on what it describes as Christian fundamentalism in the United States. One newspaper, al-Watan, said Christian fundamentalism was no less dangerous to international peace and security than other forms of religious extremism. The newspapers were responding to reports of a Pentagon briefing during which.. More

  • More Than 20 Killed in Blast Near Jalalabad

    More than 20 people were killed and many others wounded near the Afghan city of Jalalabad on Friday in an explosion at an office of a non-governmental organization, an Afghan news agency reported. The Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) said the explosion happened at the offices of the Afghan Construction and Logistics Unit six miles west of the eastern city... More

  • US and UN Dismiss Saddam's Fiery Speech

    A defiant President Saddam Hussein said Thursday he was not scared by U.S. threats to topple him and said those who attack Iraq will be digging their own graves. His 22-minute televised speech to the nation was high on rhetoric but Washington branded it irrelevant and the United Nations said it gave no rise to optimism that Iraq would admit U.N. arms.. More

  • Sharon Blasts Palestinians as They Seek Timeline to State in Washington Talks

    HIGHLIGHTS: Israel and the Palestinians Agree to a Second Round of Talks Next Week||Washington Talks to continue Through Friday||Occupation Army Lifts Blockade on Rafah||Ex-Minister Quits Israel Parliament||Right-wing Israelis Try to Enter Aqsa Mosque|| STORY: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon dismissed the Palestinian Authority on Thursday as a "gang.. More

  • Apparent Grenade Attack in Pakistan Kills Four

    Four people, including three nurses from a Christian missionary hospital, died in Pakistan on Friday in an apparent grenade attack, and up to 20 people were wounded, hospital and police officials said. "The nurses were coming out of the chapel when someone threw explosives," said Clement Bakhshi, an accounts officer at the hospital in Taxila, about.. More

  • Palestinian killed as Israel steps up raids after security talks founder

    A Palestinian was killed as Israeli forces stepped up their policy of raids, arrests and house demolitions after security talks between Israeli and Palestinian officials about the so-called "Gaza First" plan failed to make headway. The 21-year-old Palestinian was fatally wounded as the Israeli army staged a new incursion into the town of Beit Lahia.. More