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  • Israel Builds a Jewish Neighborhood in Arab Jerusalem; Work on Security Fence to Begin Next Week & Hizbollah & Israel Discuss Swapping Prisoners of War

    HIGHLIGHTS: Palestinians Clash with Israeli Police in East Jerusalem||First Segment of Security Fence 110 KMS LongGerman Mediators on the Move to Facilitate a Prisoners of War Swap Between Hizbollah & Israel|| STORY: In East Jerusalem, and for the second time in as many days, dozens of Palestinians pelted Israeli police with stones Sunday at the construction.. More

  • India Reopens Airspace to Pakistan

    HIGHLIGHTS: New Delhi Says More Steps to Come||Cross Border Shelling Continues Despite Diplomatic Thaw Ahead of Rumsfeld's arrival in South Asia||Markets Rally on Good News|| STORY: India took its first step Monday to ease a six-month military standoff with Pakistan over Kashmir, reopening its airspace to Pakistani over flights and promising more measures.. More

  • Israeli Forces Destroy Buildings at Arafat Compound

    HIGHLIGHTS: Arafat's Compound Besieged Yet Again||Israel Makes Usual Claim of Intending to Arrest Militants & Destroy So-called 'Terror Infrastructure'||Palestinian Police Arrests Abadallah Shami of Islamic Jihad|| STORY: Israeli occupation troops raided Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's compound early on Monday, bulldozing buildings damaged in.. More

  • Explosion Rocks Jabliya Refugee Camp; New PA Cabinet Meets Monday

    HIGHLIGHTS: 40 Palestinians Wounded, 8 Seriously; Cause of Blast Unknown||Reduced Cabinet Will Prepare for Municipal, Legislative & Presidential Elections||Hamas & DFLP Slam Reforms as Superficial|| STORY: Around 40 Palestinians were wounded, eight seriously, by an explosion inside a house in the Jabaliya refugee camp early on Monday, Palestinian residents.. More

  • Start of Afghan Loya Jirga Delayed

    HIGHLIGHTSDifferences Between Northern Alliance & King's Group Cast Shadow Over Key Stage in Country's Transition to Stability||Pashtun Feel Sidelined||Warning of a Security Threat from Disaffected Minority of Islamists|| STORY: Political bickering has delayed for five hours the start on Monday of Afghanistan's grand assembly of tribal elders, or Loya.. More

  • Palestinian Resistance Attacks More Settlers & Settlements as Arafat Drops New PA Ministers' Names

    HIGHLIGHTS: Settler Wounded in Gaza Strip Shooting Attack|| Gassan Al Khtaib, Sheikh Mohammed Hosan, Salem Fayed and Dr. Samir Ghosheh among New Recruits in New PA Cabinet||Ben-Eliezer Wants Japan to Control Funding to Palestinians|| STORY: An Israeli settler was lightly wounded by Palestinian gunfire near the internationally illegal settler community.. More

  • Hamas Claims Responsibility for Attack on Karmei Tzur Settlement While DFLP Says Its Men Carried Out the Assault on Yitzhar

    HIGHLIGHTS: Fire Breaks out in Kibutz||Palestinian Resistance Activists Arrested Near Khan Yunis||Qalandiya Checkpoint Closed After Security Alert||Hizbollah Resistance Men Again Fire at Israeli Planes in Southern Lebanon|| STORY: Palestinian Resistance groups have intensified their attacks on Jewish settlers in the West Bank.Palestinians see the settlers.. More

  • Second Attack on an Israeli Settlement in Less Than 24 Hours

    HIGHLIGHTS: Israel Blames Attacks on Settlers on PA||Israeli Opposition Leader Wants Bush to Pressure Sharon to Freeze Building Settlements in the West Bank||Peres Speaks of Trading Settlements for Palestinian Refugees' Right of Return|| STORY: In the West Bank, four Israelis were injured in an attack on the Jewish settlement of Yitzhar, south of Nablus,.. More

  • Bush Rebuffs Mubarak on Timing

    HIGHLIGHTS: Bush Cites Recent Violence for Reluctance to Put Timetable on Palestinian Statehood||Mubarak Warns Violence Will Continue Indefinitely Unless Palestinian Aspirations for Sovereignty are Met||Bush & Mubarak Also Differed Over Arafat's Future Role in the Peace Process|| STORY: As violence flared anew in the Middle East, President Bush said.. More

  • 7 Killed as Sharon Heads to U.S.

    HIGHLIGHTS: Sharon Determined No Peace Talks Before Armed Resistance Stops||No Major Developments Expected of 6th Bush-Sharon Washington Talks Monday||Palestinian Cabinet Reshuffle Expected Shortly|| STORY:In a trio of deadly episodes Saturday in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Palestinian Resistance men killed three settlers at a mobile home settlement,.. More

  • India-Pakistan Tensions Ease

    HIGHLIGHTS: U.S. Envoy Expects India to Take Steps to Cool Conflict in Next Few Days||Dispute Over Kashmir Remains Hot as Armitage Briefs Rumsfeld in Estonia||International Pressure Working|| STORY: A senior U.S. peace envoy said on Saturday tensions had eased between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan and that he expected India to take steps.. More

  • Occupation Troops Foil a Resistance Attack on Another Israeli Settlement as 3 Palestinians Get Killed Planting an Explosive Device

    HIGHLIGHTS: Attacker Was targeting Dugit Settlement in the Gaza Strip||Palestinians See Settlers as Part of an Army Usurping Arab Land||Attacks Underline Futility of Israel's Daily Incursions into Palestinian territory|| STORY: The occupation army said a fresh attack was thwarted when a naval patrol killed a Palestinian Resistance man trying to swim.. More

  • Palestinian Resistance Kills Three Settlers As Bush Prepares to Present Mideast Peace Ideas

    HIGHLIGHTS: One of Two Assailants Killed; Another Escaped||Israel's Futile Rolling Raids Continue with Incursions reported in Tulkaram, Jenin & Jabaa||Arab World Now Understands the Need to be Involved in Pushing Peace, Says Bush||Mubarak Defends Arafat Against Accusations Made by Bush & Sharon|| STORY: Palestinian Resistance meninfiltrated a Jewish.. More

  • Pakistan Downs Spy Drone as U.S. Cools Tempers

    HIGHLIGHTS: Islamabad is Ready to Do Whatever Is Consistent With Honour & Dignity to Avoid War with India, Armitage Tells India||Rumsfeld Has Specific Proposals to Present to India and Pakistan, Shortly||Fears of a Nuclear War in South Asia Dormant for Now But Still Ticking|| STORY:Pakistan said its jets shot down an unmanned Indian spy plane as U.S... More

  • Central Asian Summit in Anti-Terror Action

    HIGHLIGHTS: Uzbekistan Govt. Still Worried About Islamists in Afghanistan||Russia Re-assures Old Allies of Loyalty||China Worried Russia's Pro-Western Policy Could Bring NATO to its Borders|| STORY: Russia, China and four Central Asian states pledged on Friday to step up action against international terrorism as Uzbekistan voiced fears of fresh Islamic.. More