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A Week-long Test for Compliance with Mideast Ceasefire Terms

JERUSALEM (Islamweb & Agencies) - Secretary of State Colin Powell holds new talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Friday to build on an agreement on a week-long test for compliance with a U.S.-brokered truce. Powell and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said they had agreed in a session on Thursday on a seven-day-long test period for Palestinian.. More

896 28/03/2001
Annan sworn in for second term as head of UN

UNITED NATIONS,(AFP) - Hailed as "a global citizen", Kofi Annan took the oath of office of UN Secretary General for the second time Friday, saying he hoped in his new term to make individuals feel closer to the organisation. (Read photo caption below). "Only if their confidence in the United Nations has been strengthened will your confidence in me have.. More

897 28/03/2001
EU Envoy Starts Macedonia Mission

SKOPJE, Macedonia (Islamweb & Agencies) - The European Union's new Balkans envoy, Francois Leotard, (photo) met Friday with Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski on the first step of his mission aimed at averting a new war in the Balkans. Macedonian troops fired occasional machine-gun and mortar rounds at ethnic Albanian fighters positions just above.. More

898 28/03/2001
Milosevic Move Brings Belgrade Cash And Crisis

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Slobodan Milosevic was behind bars in The Hague on Friday after being delivered to the war crimes tribunal in a move that won Yugoslavia pledges of aid from grateful Western powers but kindled a crisis in Belgrade. The United Nations' chief war crimes prosecutor said the handover meant others who did Milosevic's bidding in a decade.. More

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Direct Talks on Western Sahara Get UN Green Light

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council gave a green light on Friday to five months of talks between Morocco and the Polisario Front independence movement on a draft autonomy plan for Western Sahara. (Map). But the council instructed U.N. special envoy and former Secretary of State James Baker, who drafted the plan, to also keep on the.. More

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Shebaa clashes highlight regional peace dangers in Middle East

JERUSALEM, (AFP) - Prospects for peace in the Middle East again looked bleak Friday, with violence in the tinderbox Shebaa Farms area prompting Israeli warnings against Syria.(Read photo caption below). An Egyptian policeman meanwhile fell victim to Israeli-Palestinian unrest in the Gaza Strip when he was killed by a stray bullet near Gaza. Referring.. More

902 28/03/2001
New UN Western Sahara Plan Attacked

NEW YORK, UNITED NATIONS (BBC)-The special United Nations envoy for Western Sahara, James Baker, has defended his proposal that the territory (map) become an autonomous region under Moroccan rule. He said his plan was another approach to what he described as a very difficult problem. Mr Baker was responding to Algerian accusations that UN officials.. More

894 28/03/2001
Ethnic Violence in Central Nigeria

NASAWARA STATE, CENTRAL NIGERIA, (Islamweb & Agencies)-Villagers in central Nigeria say more than 50 people were killed two days ago in an attack by youths from a rival ethnic group. The news comes amid worsening ethnic clashes in Nasawara state which have forced tens of thousands of people from their homes. Residents of Tudun Adabu, who belong.. More

893 28/03/2001
Bush is optimistic

[Palestinians youths hurl stones and a petrol bomb at Israeli occupation soldiers during clashes in the West Bank town Hebron, Al-Khalil on June 26, 2001. Read photo caption below]. WASHINGTON, June 26 (Islamweb & Agencies) - With fresh gunbattles in the West Bank again puncturing a shaky cease-fire, talk by the Israeli Prime Minister on his second.. More

874 28/03/2001
Renewed Fighting in Macedonia

[ SKOPJE(Islamweb & Agencies)The Slave-dominated Macedonian forces have resumed shelling of positions held by ethnic Albanian fighters, as western diplomats try to shore up support for the government. The shelling of the village of Nikustak, which began on Tuesday, follows the evacuation of Albanian fighters from nearby Aracinovo in a Nato-led operation... More

881 28/03/2001
Annan Nominated for Second U.N. Term

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Both powerful and impoverishednations on the Security Council gave Kofi Annan a unanimous vote of confidence on Wednesday, nominating him for a second five-year term as secretary-general of the United Nations. The official nomination by the 15 council members - more than six months before Annan's first term expires on Dec. 31.. More

882 28/03/2001
Politicians 'Support' Musharraf on India Trip

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Nineteen politicians met with Pakistani military ruler General Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday and offered him ``complete support'' ahead of a summit in India next month, a government statement said. In turn, the general, who assumed the country's presidency last week by decree, assured the politicians he would consult them on ``all.. More

883 28/03/2001
Russia Claims Chechen Resistance Cleared From Gorge

MOSCOW (Islamweb & Agencies) - Russia claimed Wednesday its invading forces had cleared a remote mountain gorge of Chechen Resistance men after a major battle. The fighting followed a weekend battle that ended in the death of a top nationalist Resistance chief, which prompted media speculation that Moscow was switching tactics after many months of.. More

884 28/03/2001
Powell Appoints Sharon Judge And Executioner

US Secretary State Colin Powell meets Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Thursday hoping to build on the fragile ceasefire agreed two weeks ago without, according to observers,putting too much pressure on the two sides. Powell will hold talks with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank town of Ramallah, before meeting Israeli Prime Minister.. More

886 28/03/2001
Fears Of Another Balkan Civil War

SKOPJE, (Islamweb & Agencies)-A new European Union peace envoy has arrived in Macedonia to try to help end fighting between Macedonian security forces and ethnic Albanian fighters that have raised fears of another Balkan civil war. Former French Defence Minister Francois Leotard (Photo)was appointed on Monday as resident EU representative to Macedonia.. More

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