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  • Al-Jabali To Resign and to Run For President; Arafat Names Rajoub's Successor

    HIGHLIGHTS: PA in Chaos over Security Chiefs||Arafat Names Former Jenin Governor, Zuhair al-Manasreh to Take Over from Rajoub||Israel Claims to Have Contained Top Rank & File of Palestinian Resistance Cadres|| STORY: The Palestinian police chief decided on Thursday to resign and run for president following a controversy over whether Yasser Arafat had.. More

  • Iraq, U.N. Begin Talks on Inspectors

    UN officials and Iraqi diplomats reported progress in talks Thursday on whether to allow the return of weapons inspectors to Iraq, emerging from a closed-door meeting relaxed, smiling and hopeful. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan sidestepped questions, however, on whether the world body and Baghdad were close to a deal that would permit the return of.. More

  • A Sudanese Cargo Plane Crashes in Central African Republic Killing 20 as Relatives of Russians Killed in Mid-air Collision over Germany Visit Crash Site

    A Sudan Airways cargo plane smashed into a residential district of the Central African Republic capital of Bangui on Thursday killing around 20 people, witnesses said. The plane had been heading to Congo Republic but made a detour to Bangui because of technical problems and crashed short of the main airport, a source at regional air authority Asecna.. More

  • Mideast Diplomacy Takes up Centre Stage as Mystery Surrounds Fate of Arafat's Security Chief

    HIGHLIGHTS: PA Reforms, an Internal Palestinian Affair, Emir of Qatar||Rajoub Says Would only Step Down if Served with a Presidential Decree||Whatever Arafat Does, He's Unlikely to Mollify U.S. & Israeli Critics, Political Observers||Powell to Meet 'Quartet' & Arabs||EU Calls for a Joint International Mideast Peace Initiative||21 Injured in Inter-Palestinian.. More

  • U.S. Beefs up 4th July Security As American Muslims Keep Low Profile During Events Marking the Occasion

    HIGHLIGHTSBiggest Security Operation of its Kind on the Occasion Follows Warning that Terror Groups Might Strike||Reassurances By Top Officials Including President Bush Himself Fall on Deaf Years, Poll Says||American Muslims Fear Being Racially Profiled By Security Officials as Well as By Ordinary Citizens|| STORY: Military jets are set to patrol the.. More

  • US Backs UN Bosnia Mission, Deferring Court Demand

    HIGHLIGHTS: Washington Wants Blanket Immunity for its Peacekeepers from International Criminal Court||Annan Describes U.S. Fears of Vulnerability to the Court as Over-exaggerated||EU Describes ICC (International Criminal Court) as the Most Important Advance in International Rule of Law Since the Establishment of the UN|| STORY: The U.N. Security Council.. More

  • Israel to Ease West Bank Curfews

    HIGHLIGHTS: British Official Meets Palestinian Leaders Despite U.S. Calls for a New Palestinian Leadership||Security Officials Defy Arafat's Decision to Fire them||Fatah Comes Out in Support of Arafat in the Streets of Gaza City While Palestinian Police Clashes with Hamas Protesters in Rafiah|| STORY:Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his security.. More

  • Iraq Promises Progress in U.N. Talks

    HIGHLIGHTS: 'Time for Concrete Understanding on Return of UN Inspectors,' Says UN||Iraq Says All Depends on UN Answers to Two Key Issues: Lifting Sanctions & U.S. Threats to Topple Saddam||Iraq & UN Meet in Vienna for Their 3rd Such Encounter Since Early March|| STORY: Iraq is promising some progress from new talks starting Thursday with Secretary-General.. More

  • Pakistan Police Kills Qaeda Suspects & Says Has Evidence Network Involved in Karachi U.S. Consulate Attack

    HIGHLIGHTS: 4 Suspects & One Police Officer Killed in Clash Southwest of Peshawar||Evidence Suggests Qaeda Financed Attack on U.S. Consulate in Karachi|| Pakistan's Pro-Taliban Newspaper "Ummat" Publishes Photos of wanted persons, Calling Them 'Warriors of Islam.'|| (Read photo caption)|| STORY: Pakistani police have shot dead four al-Qaeda suspects.. More

  • Arafat Fires Security, Police Chiefs

    HIGHLIGHTS: Sackings Seen as Major Step Toward Reforming Security Services||UK Too Calls for a New Palestinian Leadership||Mubarak Sending Envoys to Israel & Palestinians||Occupation Troops Kill 15 Palestinians over Past 12 Days While No Israelis Were Killed During the Same Period of Time||Israelis Re-Enter Qalqilya & Two Israeli Occupation Soldiers.. More

  • The Question of Who is Killing Whom in Algeria-Subject of a Real Trial in France

    HIGHLIGHTS: Nezzar Says Under Obligation to Defend the Honour of the Algerian Army||Weeklong Trial Features Numerous Witnesses Including a Former Algerian Premier||Writer of "The Dirty War" Says Nezzar Played a Pivotal Role in Aborting Second Round of legislative Elections in January 1992, TheIslamic Salvation Front Was Set to Win|| STORY: A former.. More

  • UN: 'AIDS Epidemic Surges, 70 Million May Die.'

    HIGHLIGHTS: AIDS, An Unprecedented Epidemic in Human History||AIDS No Longer Just a Disease-It's Now an Issue for Economic & Social Development & Even for Security||Latestin Anti-AIDS Medicine to Be Discussed at Next Week's International Conference in Barcelona|| STORY:AIDS will kill 70 million people over the next 20 years, mostly in Africa, unless.. More

  • Israeli Occupation Army Arrests Students in Hebron & Denies 18 Americans Entry to Israel

    HIGHLIGHTS: Curfew Eased on Jenin, Hebron & Bethlehem But Remains in Force in 4 Other Palestinian Cities||Israel Now Suspects that Palestinian Students in Technical Fields May be Involved in Bomb-Making||Head of Palestinian Guard in Hebron Arrested, Beaten & later Released||Top Palestinian Officials Continue Criticizing Bush's Call for Arafat's Removal||Ben-E.. More

  • U.S. Denies Errant Bombing in Afghanistan

    HIGHLIGHTS: U.S. Investigators Take Reporters & Government Representatives to the Bombing Site||U.S. Officials Claim Falling Anti-Aircraft Artillery Could Have Caused Civilian Casualties||Incident Underlines Dangers Inherent in U.S.-Led Mission in Afghanistan|| STORY: It appears an errant bomb dropped by the United States was not responsible for scores.. More

  • Israel Buoyed By Washington's Open Ended Support; Palestinians Frustrated By It

    HIGHLIGHTS: Ben-Eliezer: Labor Must Remain in Government||Sharon Claims to be Working on a Peace Initiative||Arafat Distances Himself From a Fatah Statement Calling for Boycotting Israeli & American Negotiators||Israel Arrest 4 Resistance Leaders and Dozens Others in the West Bank & Gaza||Palestinian Street Anger Tilting Against PA But Not Against Arafat||.. More