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  • New Palestinian Victims as Allies Criticize Israel

    GAZA CITY, (Islamweb & Agencies) -The latest casualty in on-going intiifadha confrontations in the Territories was a Palestinian who was killed near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Palestinians say the 39-year-old man was playing soccer near a Jewish settlement when Israeli occupation soldiers shot him dead. Two Palestinians were meanwhile wounded.. More

  • Nigeria: Christian Mob Threatens to Lynch Muslim

    JournalistBAUCHI, Nigeria,(Islamweb & Agencies) -A Muslim journalist working for Agence France-Presse was forced out of a town in northern Nigeria under police protection early Wednesday after being menaced by a mob of Christian youths.(Read photo caption below) Aminu Abubakar, a freelance correspondent for AFP based in the northern city of Kano, had.. More

  • Russia Supports Ousted Afghan Government

    MOSCOW:(Islamweb & Agencies) -Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov offered support on Wednesday to the ousted government of Afghanistan and called on regional powers to abide by a UN resolution banning the supply of arms to the Islamic Taliban regime. (Read photo caption below) The reference to arms supplies appeared aimed directly at the government.. More

  • Russian Brutality Sends Chechens Fleeing

    SLEPTSOVSKAYA, Russia (Islamweb & Agencies) - Hundreds of civilians fled Chechnya for refugee camps Wednesday amid reports of summary executions by Russian forces as troops combed villages in the war-shattered republic for rebels. (Read photo caption below). The search operation in Sernovodsk and Assinovskaya, near Chechnya's western border with the.. More

  • Karadzic, Mladic, on Trail To The Hague

    THE HAGUE, (Islamweb, Agencies) -The Bosnian Serb entity is ready to send the two most wanted war crimes suspects from the Bosnian conflict -- Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic and his military chief Ratko Mladic -- to The Hague for trial, the Bosnian Serb prime minister said late Wednesday. Speaking at Amsterdam's international airport,.. More

  • Arafat condemns violence on both sides

    FRANKFURT, (Islamweb & Agencies) -Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has condemned violence by both the Israelis and the Palestinians in an interview in a German newspaper (the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) Thursday. The lifting of Israel's blockade on Palestinian areas and the resumption of serious negotiations would be the best way to create.. More

  • Nigeria: Islamic Banking approved

    Abuja, Rabi Thani 12/July 3 (IINA) – The Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr. Shamsuddin Usman, announced here that the Federal Government has approved the granting of two licenses for the establishment of Islamic banking in the country. Usman said that the introduction of an Islamic monetary policy could affect the existing.. More

  • Macedonia Peace Talks Resume

    SKOPJE (Islamweb & Agencies) - Leaders across Macedonia's ethnic divide restarted peace talks on Tuesday with help from Western envoys but progress appeared likely to be difficult after an Albanian Resistance ambush killed a Macedonian soldier. (Read photo caption below). U.S. envoy James Pardew and his European Union counterpart Francois Leotard joined.. More

  • New Islamic party to be set up in Turkey

    ANKARA, (AFP) - The former leader of Turkey's banned pro-Islamic Virtue Party, Recai Kutan, announced Tuesday that a new political entity intended to unite the Islamic movement in Turkish politics was being set up as swiftly as possible. (Read photo caption below). "The name and the leaders, who will be democratically elected, of our new party will.. More

  • UN Council Extends Iraq Oil-For-Food Plan

    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Tuesday for a routine five-month extension of the ``oil-for-food'' program for Iraq after Russia threatened to veto a U.S.-British plan to revamp 11-year-old sanctions against Baghdad. (Read photo caption). Despite Iraq's apparent victory, haggling continued until the last minute.. More

  • Mideast Truce in Tatters

    JERUSALEM,(Islamweb & Agencies) - Israel and the Palestinians turned up the rhetoric on Tuesday with each accusing the other of murder and a lack of will for peace, as an unsteady US-brokered ceasefire seemed finally to have run out of hope. (Read photo caption below). Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's true.. More

  • 145 killed in Russian Plane Crash

    MOSCOW, (AFP) - All 145 passengers and crew were killed when a Russian plane crashed, for reasons as yet unknown, in southern Siberia overnight, the interior ministry said Wednesday. The three-engined jet, owned by regional airline Vladivostokavia, had been flying from Yekaterinburg in the Ural mountains to the Far East port city of Vladivostok.(Read.. More

  • OPEC leaves production unchanged

    VIENNA, (AFP) - The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil-producing countries left its production quotas unchanged Tuesday, a statement said.(Read photo caption below). "The conference has decided to maintain current production levels unchanged," said the statement, read out after a two-hour formal session of the 11-member grouping. OPEC,.. More

  • Macedonia Awaits U.S. Envoy Verdict on Peace Talks

    SKOPJE (Islamweb & Agencies) - Macedonia waited on Tuesday for U.S. envoy James Pardew's first verdict on the prospects for kick-starting stalled peace talks after another night of army helicopter strikes on ethnic Albanian fighters. Diplomats warned against expecting miracles from the man Washington appointed at the weekend to intensify Western efforts.. More

  • Chirac, Putin Differ on Yugoslavia, Chechnya

    MOSCOW (Reuters) - The presidents of Russia and France differed openly on the fate of Yugoslavia's former leader Slobodan Milosevic and the future of Chechnya during talks at the Kremlin on Monday. (Read photo caption below). The sensitive issue of press freedom in post-Soviet Russia also arose, with Jacques Chirac stressing to university students that.. More