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  • Bosnia Mission Threat Clouds World Court's Birth

    HIGHLIGHTS: U.S. Threatens to Block U.N.-Backed Missions|| ICC Becomes a Reality Despite U.S. Threats||NATO Ambassdors Meet in Brussels to Consider Implications for S-FORin Bosnia|| STORY: The birth of the first global war crimes court was overshadowed by a U.S. threat to United Nations peacekeeping missions, but senior officials tried to play down.. More

  • At least 95 feared dead in plane collision over Germany

    At least 95 people were feared dead after a Russian-made plane travelling from Moscow to Barcelona collided with a cargo plane bound for Brussels over southern Germany late on Monday. Officials said on Tuesday the two aircraft collided in mid-air at 2140 GMT (2340 local time) above Lake Constance on the German-Swiss border, spreading debris over a.. More

  • U.S. Bombs Kill or Wound at Least 120 Afghans

    HIGHLIGHTS: Touchy Americans Bomb Wedding Party as Locals Fired in the Air as Customary on Such Occasions in Afghanistan||Scores were Killed & Scores Others Were Injured||Pentagon Speaks of Errant Bomb Hitting Wedding Claiming Planes Were Bombing Anti-Aircraft Artillery that Was Firing at U.S. Planes|| STORY:U.S. aircraft attacked a village Monday while.. More

  • Israel Hails, Palestinians Condemn & Hamas Vows To Avenge Killing

    HIGHLIGHTSPalestinians Accuse Washington of Giving Green Light to Israel for Targeted Assassinations & Condemn Shameful International Silence||Palestinian Youth Wounded in Deheisha Camp Near Ramallah Sunday Dies Monday & Occupation Troops Demolish Seven Palestinian Houses in Rafah, Gaza||An Aqsa Brigade Activist Leader Arrested in Salfit Near Nablus||Second.. More

  • Syria To Stick by Hizbollah & Palestinians

    HIGHLIGHTS: Hizbollah Needs No Military Help From Syria & Palestinian Groups Give Political Representation to 400,000 Palestinians Living in Syria||Syria Stands Ready to Defend Itself Against Any Israeli Action||Israel Threatens to Launch Attacks Against Syrian Positions in Lebanon in Retaliation for Attacks on Israel by Hizbollah|| STORY:Syrian President.. More

  • Rocket-propelled Grenades Hit Airfield in Afghanistan

    HIGHLIGHTSU.S. Forces Could Not Determine Direction Grenades Came From||U.S. & Allied Troops Repeatedly Came Under Attack in Recent Weeks in Afghanistan||Evidence Suggests that Cave Facilities Uncovered By Allied Search Parties Were in Recent Use by Possible Qaeda & Taliban Elements|| STORY:Two rocket-propelled grenades were fired at an airfield in.. More

  • Israeli Occupation Forces Kill Senior Hamas Militant

    HIGHLIGHTS: One of Tahir's Deputies Also Killed in Raid & a Third Wounded||Israel Begins Construction of Jerusalem Fence||Occupation Troops Dismantle Laison Office With Palestinians in the Bethlehem Region|| STORY: An Israeli assassination squad killed a top Resistance leader of the military wing of the Islamic group Hamas in a raid on Sunday on a house.. More

  • Powell, Rice Warn Palestinians

    HIGHLIGHTS: 'For Arafat, the Presidency is a Mission Not a Post,' Palestinian UN Representative|| Egypt Stands by Arafat||Washington Abandons Call for Mideast Conference for Now||STORY:The Bush administration warned the Palestinians on Sunday they would cloud their prospects for nationhood by re-electing Yasser Arafat as their leader.The Palestinian's.. More

  • Bomb Found on Car in Saudi Arabia

    A bomb was found attached to the bottom of a car belonging to an American hospital worker, and what was termed a "suspicious object' was located stuck to the underside of a Briton's vehicle, according to a U.S. Embassy security circular obtained by The Associated Press on Sunday. The devices were removed without incident, the circular said, adding that.. More

  • EU Enlargement Big Issue as Denmark takes Presidency

    Denmark takes over the presidency of the European Union from Spain on Monday, determined to push for EU expansion to enhance security and prosperity, not least its own.A second major commitment is the Middle East, where the EU has become more and more involved.The Danes are among the greatest eurosceptics in the EU. But the public is growing warmer.. More

  • Palestinian Resistance Attack An Israeli Passenger Train Wounding 4 People

    HIGHTLIGHTS: Palestinian Resistance Targets Israeli Trains For the First Time||Dozens Detained at Amary Refugee Camp Near Ramallah||Sharon Hints at Resuming Talks With the Palestinians|| STORY: A bomb has exploded on a railway track near the central Israeli town of Lod. The blast occurred as a train passed over the spot, but only four people were slightly.. More

  • World War Crimes Court to Open Despite U.S. Concern

    HIGHLIGHTSCourt also Faces Opposition From Russian & China||Human Rights Groups Hail Court's Creation||Anyone-From Head of State to Ordinary Citizen-Will Be Liable to Prosecution For Human Rights Violations|| STORY:The world's first permanent war crimes court starts work on Monday but faces opposition from Russia, China and the United States, which.. More

  • North Korea Accuses South Korea of starting Sea Border Clash

    HIGHLIGHTSNorth Accuses South of Planning Surprise Attack||North Demands Northern Limit Line (Western Sea Border) Be Demolished||Two Koreas Share the World's Most Heavily Armed Border|| STORY: The North Korean navy accused the South Korean military Sunday of creating "noisy false propaganda," and denied that its patrol boats provoked a deadly naval.. More

  • A Palestinian Boy Killed in Jenin; Demolition of PA Hebron HQ Unaccomomplished Mission; Ten So-called 'Rogue; Settlements to Go

    HIGHLIGHTS: Tanks Fire Live Bullets At Stone-Throwers||Palestinians Say Aim of Destroying PA HQ in Hebron Was to Level A Symbol of Palestinian Independence||So-called 'Rouge Settlements'-a Deliberate Israeli Attempt to Legalize Under Israeli Law What's Illegal Under International Law|| STORY: A Palestinian boy was killed by Israeli gunfire in the al-Fara.. More

  • Live bombs litter streets after Afghan arms blast

    Live rockets, missiles and mortars littered the streets of the scruffy Afghan border town of Spin Boldak on Saturday after an arms dump blew up, killing at least 25 people and leaving a trail of destruction. Firemen were still struggling to control a blaze at the smouldering weapons depot in Spin Boldak, 90 km southeast of Kandahar, more than 24 hours.. More