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  • Somalian Government Seeks U.N. Force

    Somalia's transitional government on Saturday formally called for the U.N. Security Council to send an armed force to the Horn of Africa nation. In a letter to the United Nations, Prime Minister Hassan Abshir Farah said a strong central government would be impossible to establish without the help of an international force to disarm the country's warring.. More

  • Mystery Surrounds Fate of Palestinian Resistance Men Holed up in Hebron PA HQ Leveled to the Ground By Israel's Occupation Army

    HIGHLIGHTS: The Blind Random Destruction Reveals The Brutal Nature of Israeli Occupation, Abed Rebbo||Curfew Temporary Lifted Across West Bank Except in Hebron||Palestinian Woman Killed in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza|| Powell Upbeat About International Support for Bush on Arafat|| STORY: With a pair of thunderous nighttime explosions, Israel destroyed the hulking.. More

  • Four S.Koreans Killed, 18 Hurt in Clash with North

    Four South Korean navy men were killed and 18 wounded in a clash with North Korean patrol boats on Saturday off the west coast of the divided peninsula, South Korea said. One South Korean vessel was sunk in the clash in the Yellow Sea, the defense ministry said. South Korea has been co-hosting the World Cup soccer finals and the South Korean team is.. More

  • Rocket Lands Near Kabul Airport

    A rocket struck near Kabul's airport on Saturday, a key base of foreign peacekeeping troops, but caused no casualties or damage, an Afghan Interior Ministry official said. General Deen Mohammad Jurat, the ministry security chief, said the Russian-made rocket, called a BM1, landed after dawn on the perimeter of the airport to the northeast of the city... More

  • Israel Blows Up Palestinian Police HQ in Hebron, Al-Khalil

    HIGHLIGHTS: Occupation Authorities Restrict Media Access to Hebron, Al-Khalil||No Reports on Casualties So Far||Mideast 'Quartet' to Meet in Washington Tuesday|| 'Toddler Bomber Photo, a Party Joke,' Says Toddler's Family || STORY:A massive blast shattered the Palestinian Authority police headquarters in Hebron Friday after Israeli occupation troops.. More

  • Hamas founder appears in public despite house arrest

    HIGHLIGHTS: Palestinian Police Flanks Procession Without Intervening|| 'Whoever Defends His Land is Not a Terrorist,' Sheikh Ahmed Yassin||Rally Held to Protest 35th Anniversary of East Jerusalem Annexation But Focused on Protesting Bush's Demand for a New Palestinian Leadership Instead|| STORY: The spiritual leader of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, defied.. More

  • U.S. Pilots Blamed in Canadian Afghan Deaths

    HIGHLIGHTS: Two Reports-Canadian & Joint Canada-U.S. Concur on Findings|| Incident Represents Failure of Airmanship & Technique of the Wingman & of Leadership of the Flight Leader||All Disciplinary Options Are Open in the Case|| STORY:The U.S. F-16 pilots who mistakenly bombed Canadian troops in Afghanistan in April, killing four soldiers and injuring.. More

  • Israel Steps up Hebron Siege

    HIGHLIGHTS: An Ultimatum By Occupation Authorities to Besieged Palestinians Goes Unheeded||Occupation Troops & Besieged Palestinians Exchange Fire||600,000 Palestinians Under Curfew|| STORY:Israeli tanks and bulldozers began smashing holes in a Palestinian Authority headquarters in Hebron on Friday to try to force Resistance men holed up there to surrender,.. More

  • 19 People Die in Fresh Resistance Attacks in Indian-Ruled Kashmir

    HIGHLIGHTS: Attacks Could Disrupt State Elections Being Organized by India||Elections Seen By India as Prelude for Talks on Kashmir With Pakistan||Pakistan Says People of Kashmir Have a Right to Self Determination|| STORY:Armed Kashmiri nationalist groups fighting Indian rule in Kashmir pledged on Friday to keep up their revolt, a move that could disrupt.. More

  • Ammunition Blast Kills At Least 19 in Afghan

    HIGHLIGHTS: 15 Soldiers on Duty at Depot Missing||Qaeda Rocket May Have Triggered off the Chain of Explosions||Wires, Explosives & a Rocket Found Under Car in Kabul|| STORY: At least 19 Afghan soldiers and civilians were killed when an ammunition dump blew up on Friday, unleashing a chain of explosions that spread damage across a wide area, witnesses.. More

  • Hebron Siege Goes On as PA Pushes on With its Reform Programme

    HIGHLIGHTS3 Palestinians Wounded in Qalqilya Including 10-year Old Boy||Arafat Signs Decree Bringing 2 Police Branches Under Umbrella of Newly Created Interior Ministry||Hizbollah at Work in Israel|| STORY:Israel's occupation army on Friday maintained its siege of the Palestinian Authority headquarters in Hebron, the seventh West Bank city reoccupied.. More

  • OIC voices solidarity with Palestinians & Tackles Wide Range of Islamic & Global Issues

    HIGHLIGHTS: The Final Communiqué of the OIC's 29th Ministerial Session Makes No Mention of Bush's Mideast Statement||Bush Mideast Doctrine to Be Further Studied By Saudi Arabia||OIC Tacitly Rebuffs Bush's Call for Arafat to Go|| STORY: Foreign ministers and senior officials from 57 Muslim nations pledged their support for Palestinians and their leadership.. More

  • Russia Gets G8 Cash, Africa Gets Kind Words

    HIGHLIGHTSWar Against Terror Nudges Africa Out of Summit Priorities||Summit Agrees on Palestinian Reforms But Differs on Arafat Question||Summit Premises Accessible Only to Delegates & Security-cleared Media|| STORY: A 20 billion U.S. dollar deal designed to stop extremist groups getting hold of nuclear bombs nudged Africa out of the spotlight at a.. More

  • Israeli Occupation Troops Kill Palestinian Resistance Man in Gaza & Wound Four Others in Separate Clashes in Qalqilya & on the Outskirts of Jerusalem

    HIGHLIGHTS: |20 Palestinian Policemen Arrested in Nablus||NizarRamadan of Hamas Arrested in Nablus||Ten Palestinian Buildings Demolished in Gaza|| STORY: Four Palestinians were reportedly wounded today by occupation army gunfire in separate clashes in Qalqilya and on the outskirts of Jerusalem, including a 10-year-old boy listed in critical condition... More

  • Bush Won't Rule Out Military Action to Oust Arafat; Israel Tightens Siege of PA HQ in Hebron, Al-Khalil

    HIGHLIGHTS: Bush Won't Deal With Arafat Even if He Wins Re-election||Key U.S. Allies Express Little Enthusiasm For Bush's Call For Replacing Arafat||Fearing Confrontation with Palestinian Resistance Men, Occupation Army Uses Helicopter Gunships & Relatives to Force Besieged Palestinians in Hebron to Surrender||Occupation Forces Kill an 8-year Old Boy.. More