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  • Global Warming Talks Progress

    BONN, Germany (AP) - Talks to rescue a treaty on combatting global warming moved into their decisive phase Saturday after making major progress in drafting the final negotiating positions - including what appeared to be significant concessions to the United States. Environmental activists said the parties looked headed for a deal, but delegates were.. More

  • Crush at Japan Fireworks Show Kills 10, Injures 100

    TOKYO (Reuters) - At least 10 people were killed, including eight children, and about 100 were injured in a crush of people as crowds poured out of a fireworks' display at the Japanese seaside town of Akashi on Saturday, officials said. (Read photo caption below). Security guards blamed inadequate exit routes which caused overcrowding at the only.. More

  • Israel Toys with G8 Monitors' Plan as Arafat Seeks Arab Mini-summit

    JEDDAH, Jerusalem, (Islamweb & Agencies) -Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat sought Saudi support Sunday for an Arab mini-summit on the Middle East conflict, an Arab diplomatic source in Jeddah said. According to the source the question will be raised in talks which Mr. Arafat will have with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz on Monday. He gave.. More

  • Burst of Fighting Rocks Macedonia's Fragile Truce

    TETOVO, Macedonia (Islamweb & Agencies) - Macedonian's Slave dominated government forces and ethnic Albanian fighters fought on Sunday in a serious breach of a 17-day cease-fire rendered fragile by the failure of local leaders to agree a permanent peace deal. Heavy machine-gun, mortar and small-arms fire echoed for almost two hours across the hill-sides.. More

  • Bush, Putin Talk Arms Control

    GENOA, Italy (AP) - Seeking a post-Cold War formula for arms control, President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged Sunday to pursue deep cuts in their nuclear arsenals and link the offensive weapons talks to tougher negotiations over Bush's missile defense plans. Their differences still deep, both leaders hailed the surprise announcement.. More

  • A Top Conservative Leader Goes To Jail in Britain

    LONDON (Reuters) - Disgraced British politician and best-selling novelist Jeffrey Archer was jailed for four years on Thursday after being found guilty of perjury and perverting the course of justice in a sensational London trial. (Read photo caption below). The flamboyant Archer, a peer in the House of Lords, was convicted of three charges of perverting.. More

  • G8 leaders meet amid security clampdown

    GENOA, Italy, (AFP) -Radicals are threatening to breach tight security as world leaders begin meeting here Friday for a Group of Eight summit to discuss poverty, disease and a stuttering world economy. (Read photo caption below) Some 30,000 protesters from disparate anti-globalisation groups marched peacefully through part of the city late Thursday.. More

  • Ethnic Albanians Boycott Talks

    SKOPJE, Macedonia (Islamweb & Agencies) - Ethnic Albanian parties boycotted peace talks and two Western diplomats postponed a visit Thursday, raising fears negotiations to end Macedonia's five-month ethnic Albanian revolt for equal rights with the country's Slav majority could collapse. Violence also erupted as two bomb blasts shook the suburbs of the.. More

  • Russian Rights Abuses Show No Signs of Abating in Chechnya

    MOSCOW (Islamweb & Agencies) - Russia's top official in Chechnya on Thursday demanded that top army brass be held responsible for rights abuses in the troubledregion, Interfax news agency reported.Akhmad Kadyrov, head of Chechnya's pro-Moscow administration, said he wanted military leaders to answer alongside six soldiers accused of crimes against civilians.. More

  • Israeli Settlers Murder Three Palestinians

    HEBRON, AL-KHALIL, West Bank (Islamweb & Agencies) - Israeli gunmen killed three Palestinians, including a baby boy, in a shooting that drew an urgent appeal from the Palestinian Authority for foreign observers in the West Bank and Gaza.Three-month-old Diya' Tmeizi is the youngest person killed in 10 months of Israeli-Palestinian fighting. Israel Radio.. More

  • Thirteen Dead in Kashmir Shootouts

    SRINAGAR, Indian-ruled Kashmir: (Islamweb & Agencies) - Fighting betweenIslamic Resistance men and Indian troops in Kashmir killed 13 people Thursday, three days after a summit with Pakistan ended in discord over the disputed region, police said. (Read photo caption below). There were several armed confrontations across India's Jammu-Kashmir state,.. More

  • Israel Mobilizes Occupation Troops To Recapture Territories

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & Agencies) - Israeli military officials said the occupation army had begun to send infantry and armored reinforcements to the West Bank overnight on Wednesday after an escalation in 10 months of a Palestinian uprising, intifadha, against Israeli occupation. The move came after a day of tit-for-tat violence in which Israeli helicopter.. More

  • Jordan trade deal hits snag in US Congress

    WASHINGTON,(AFP) -A landmark US-Jordan free trade deal hit a snag in Congress on Tuesday, as a prominent Republican senator threatened to block a vote on ratification, objecting to the pact's labor and environmental provisions. Senator Phil Gramm of Texas said he could use procedural means to stop the bill from reaching the Senate floor as his amendment.. More

  • Bush stands firm on defense and environment

    LONDON, (AFP) -President George W. Bush arrives in London Wednesday with the firm message that the United States is not prepared to budge on its controversial positions on missile defense and the environment. Speaking on the eve of his arrival in Europe ahead of a G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, Bush said that the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty.. More

  • G8 Ministerial Session in Rome Wednesday

    ROME (Reuters) - Big power foreign ministers will seek common ground on thorny issues ranging from U.S. missile defense to sanctions on Iraq when they meet in Rome on Wednesday ahead of a weekend summit of Group of Eight leaders.Controversial U.S. plans for a missile defense shield and its effects on the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) are.. More