There are 18270 articles

  • Deal On Bethlehem About To Be Finalized As Washington Mulls Israeli Interim & Arab Complete Peace Plans

    HIGHLIGHTS 13 Would Be Exiled to Italy, 26 to Be Sent to Gaza. || Five Palestinians Detained in Beit Sahur & Near Nablus||4 Palestinians Killed Early Tuesday As Occupation Forces Enter Tulkarm||STORY: A deal was struck Tuesday to end a month-long standoff between the Israeli army and Palestinian militants holed up inside Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity,.. More

  • Pakistan Dismisses India's Allegations Over Riots in Gujarat

    HIGHLIGHTS: 'Another Lame Indian Excuse, ' Aziz Khan. ||BJP Backs Opposition Motion on Gujarat||Opposition Accuses BJP of Bias Towards Country's 120 Million Muslim Minority||STORY: Pakistan has dismissed India's allegations over fermenting riots in Gujarat describing them as another lame excuse. Aziz Ahmed Khan, Pakistan foreign ministry spokesman,.. More

  • EU Denies Aid Funded Bombers; UN Estimates Damage To Palestinian Property at 300-400 M. US Dollars

    HIGHLIGHTS: Reconstruction Work From a Year to 18 Months to Complete||Worst Hit Was the Old City of Nablus||Priority Would be given to Housing & Institutions and Government Ministries ransacked by the Israelis|| STORY: The EU has refuted claims by the Israeli government that aid to the Palestinian National Authority was used to fund Palestinian Resistance.. More

  • Powell Denies Being Undercut By Colleagues

    HIGHLIGHTSTwo Senators Accuse Bush Administration of Undercutting Powel on Mideast Efforts||Powell Admits Differences But Denies Being Frustrated|| Opposition to Powell Comes From So-called Hardliners Including Rumsfeld & Deputy||STORY: US Secretary of State, Colin Powell has denied that he was being undercut by White House colleagues in trying to bring.. More

  • Possible Deal on Bethlehem Reported

    HIGHLIGHTS: Conflicting Israeli & Palestinian Accounts of Progress on Standoff at Bethlehem||Deal Similar to the Arafat-Release Agreement, Palestinian Sources||Two Palestinians Killed in Gaza; One, in Tulkarm||Sharon's Dossier on Arafat Terror Link, Bag of Lies, Say Palestinians||STORY: Palestinian and Israeli officials gave conflicting accounts about.. More

  • Iraq Decides to Resume Oil Exports

    After failing to win support for an oil embargo against the United States and other allies of Israel, the Iraqi Cabinet voted Sunday to resume oil exports beginning midnight on Tuesday, national television reported. President Saddam Hussein presided over the Cabinet meeting, television reported .Referring to Iraq's unilateral suspension of oil exports,.. More

  • Chirac Wins Landslide Vote Crushing Le Pen

    France dealt a heavy blow to far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen Sunday in a presidential election runoff that returned conservative Jacques Chirac to power by a landslide after two weeks of street protests. Exit polls showed Chirac scored about 82 percent against around 18 percent for Le Pen, an anti-immigrant populist whose shock success in a first.. More

  • Occupation Troops Kill a Woman and Two Children As Two Top Egyptian Officials Meet Arafat in Ramallah

    HEADLIGHTS: Trigger Happy Occupation Soldiers Allegedly Mistook Three Victims for Bombers||Baz & Mahir First Arab Officials to Meet Arafat After Release||STORY: Israeli occupation soldiers killed a Palestinian woman and two children Sunday allegedly by mistake when they opened fire after a roadside bomb hit their armored vehicle near the West Bank city.. More

  • President Bush Reviews Two Mideast Plans Ahead of a Projected Mideast Peace Conference

    HIGHLIGHTSSharon's Peace Plan Would Leave Israeli Settlements in Place||'Israeli Withdrawal from Palestinian Territories, Then Mideast Conference, ' Mahir of Egypt||Ups & Downs at Standoff in Bethlehem||Arab Foreign Ministers To Meet in Cairo to follow up on Saudi-inspired Peace Plan||STORY: US President George Bush will review two plans for a political.. More

  • Chirac favored To Win Landslide

    HIGHLIGHTS: Newspapers of all Colour Urge Voters to Support Chirac||Anti-Le Pen Protests Expected to Continue||Poll Gives Chirac 75-82 per cent of Vote||STORY: After a two-week campaign that mobilized France, conservative President Jacques Chirac appeared likely to win his re-election bid against ultra-right contender Jean-Marie Le Pen. On the eve of.. More

  • 116 Killed in Nigeria Plane Crash

    A Nigerian airliner crashed into a densely populated district of the northern city of Kano on Saturday, killing at least 116 people, including 40 on the ground, aviation officials said. The airliner, bound for the commercial capital Lagos, crashed as it took off from Kano's airport, plowing into shacks and a mosque and starting a number of fires, the.. More

  • Occupation Troops Kill a Palestinian in Khan Younis & Another in Bethlehem

    Israeli occupation forces have killed a Palestinian member of the national guard in Khan Younis and wounded another Palestinians inside the Church of Nativity in Bethlem. The wounded man died later in hospital. At the same time, occupation forces raided the West Bank city of Tulkarm before dawn and combed through several homes in the town, witnesses.. More

  • Pressure Mounts on Arafat From Both Friend & Foe

    HIGHLIGHTS:So-called Quartet Group Toys with Mideast Conference Proposal||Arabs To Move Jenin Question to UN General Assembly||Palestinians Demand Reform & Washington Wants Arafat to Show Leadership||Talks to Resolve Standoff at Bethlehem Collapse||STORY: The United States, Europe, Russia and the United Nations- a "quartet" set up to co-ordinate the.. More

  • UN-Iraq Talks End Upbeat

    Iraq and the United Nations moved a bit closer on Friday toward ending their disputes but Baghdad gave no definitive reply on whether it would allow U.N. arms inspectors back into the country. Calling his talks with Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri positive, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he hoped Baghdad would make a decision on the inspectors.. More

  • Bangladesh Ferry Sinks -Hundreds Feared Dead

    A ferry carrying 400 passengers sank in a storm in southern Bangladesh and most are feared dead, the BBC said on Saturday. The ferry sank late on Friday in the southern coastal district of Chandpur, the BBC Web site said, quoting officials, and only 15 passengers had so far managed to swim ashore. The ferry was traveling to Patuakhali from the capital.. More