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  • British Paper Says Israelis & Palestinians Held Secret Talks

    The British newspaper, The Guardian, has disclosed that senior Israeli and Palestinian politicians have held three days of secret talks in a new bid to end their conflict. The Guardian, which hosted the meeting in central England, also invited key figures from Northern Ireland's peace process. The talks produced a surprising degree of agreement between.. More

  • U.N. Orders Families Out of Pakistan

    Hundreds of U.N. staff members in Pakistan and India have been ordered to send their families home as fears grow of war between the nuclear-armed neighbors, a U.N. official said Saturday. The military standoff at the India-Pakistan border persisted, with India's defense minister saying there is little hope of a swift resolution. In Kashmir, the flash.. More

  • U.S. Admits Killing Afghan Allies By Friendly Fire

    U.S. special forces mistook a group of Afghan allies for al Qaeda fighters and opened fire, killing three of them, in the latest friendly-fire mishap of the Afghan war. The shooting took place on Friday in the region in the east of the country where U.S. and British troops are hunting for remnants of the Taliban and al Qaeda fighters. U.S. army spokesman.. More

  • No Mideast Peace Initiative Has Emerged Despite An Unprecedented Flurry of Diplomatic Activity

    HIGHLIGHTS: Once Drawing Widespread International Criticism, Israeli Incursions into Palestinian Territory Now Go Largely Un-noticed||Sharon Hosts Burns & El-Baz||Mideast Peace Conference Now Possible by Year End||STORY: Israeli occupation forces have moved into the West Bank towns of Tulkarm and Bethlehem in the latest in a series of fresh incursions.. More

  • Israeli Occupation Army Arrests Hundreds of Palestinians in The West Bank

    HIGHLIGHTS: Occupation Soldiers Blow up a Bomber's House||Resistance Sets off Two Mines Under Israeli Tanks||23 Palestinians Arrested in the Gaza Strip||STORY: Israeli armor surrounded a refugee camp in the West Bank town of Bethlehem early on Saturday, after forces detained hundreds of people in West Bank raids on Nablus and Tulkarm.Three Israeli tanks.. More

  • World pressure builds to prevent South Asia war

    HIGHLIGHTS: G8 Steps Up Pressure on Pakistan to Stop So-Called Cross-Border Terror||All Out Nuclear War Could Kill 12 Million People in Subcontinent||A Number of Western Countries Reduce Diplomatic Staff in Islamabad and New Delhi & Issue Travel Warnings to Their Nationals||STORY: The world's top industrial nations have steppedup pressure on Pakistan.. More

  • A Palestinian Resistance Man Rakes Havoc in Shavei Shomron Settlement North of Nablus Before Getting Killed; Another Manages to Escape

    HIGHLIGHTS: Palestinians View Settlements Illegally Built on Palestinian Territory as Legitimate Targets||Head of FATAH Movement in Nablus Arrested||El-Baz & Tenet Join Burns in Stepped up Mideast Diplomacy||STORY: A Palestinian Resistance man succeeded in penetrating Israeli defenses around the internationally illegal settlement of in Shavei Shomron.. More

  • Israeli Troops Raid Nablus

    HIGHLIGHTS: Balata & Askar Refugee Camps Surrounded||Time to Restore Some Sense of Hope, William Burns||More Pressure on Arafat to Implement Reforms||STORY: Israeli occupation troops and armor thrust into the West Bank city of Nablus early on Friday and surrounded the Balata refugee camp, the base of the militant Palestinian group allegedly behind a.. More

  • Yemen Holds 85 al-Qaida Suspects

    HIGHLIGHTS: No Details on Charges Leveled at Some Suspects ||Yemeni Officials Back From Guantanamo Bay, Cuba||No Terrorist Groups Linked to Al-Qaeda in Yemen, Al-Ahmar||STORY: Yemen is holding 85 detainees suspected of links to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network, the country's state-run news agency reported Thursday. The SABA news agency quoted.. More

  • India, Pakistan Fire Artillery in Kashmir

    HIGHLIGHTS: Intensity of Fire Less Ferocious Now||Tension in Subcontinent Negatively Affects Anti-Qaeda Campaign in Afghanistan||A String of High-level Western Officials Visits Islamabad & New Delhi||STORY: Indian and Pakistani forces fired mortars and artillery across their cease-fire line in disputed Kashmir on Friday as international pressure mounted.. More

  • Israeli Army Leaves Hebron Amid New Diplomatic Push

    HIGHLIGHTS: 12 Palestinians Detained in Rolling Israeli West Bank Raids||Dahlan Leading Candidate to Head Palestinian Security Establishment||Diplomatic Efforts Stepped up a Gear||Security in Jerusalem on High Alert||Tension on the Border with Lebanon||STORY: Israel has intensified raids into West Bank cities after bombings it blames on Yasser Arafat... More

  • Algerian Election Marred by Violence, Boycott

    HIGHLIGHTS: Undeclared Civil War Claims 100, 000 Lives||Vote is First Since Annuled Elections Islamists Were Poised to Win in 1992||Ruling (FLN) Expected to Win||STORY: Strife-torn Algeria voted on Thursday under the shadow ofarmed opposition killings in a parliamentary election boycotted by other political opposition parties and pro-democracy ethnic.. More

  • Drums of War Getting Louder By The Day In the Subcontinent

    HIGHLIGHTS: Number of Troops Withdrawn From Afghan Border Not Disclosed||Armed Kashmiri Nationalists Again Attack an Indian Army Camp Killing Three Indian Soldiers||Washington Warns of War & Announces Contingency Plan to Withdraw 60,000 Americans From Sub-continent||STORY: A Pakistani spokesman who declined to be identified said on Thursday it had.. More

  • Israel's Rolling Raids into Palestinian Territory Continue & Resistance Activities Show No Signs of Abating

    HIGHLIGHTS: Israelis Kill a Palestinian Near Nablus & a Palestinian Woman Dies of Exhaustion at Abu Holly Crossing in Gaza||Despite a Security Alert, a PalestinianWould-Be Bomber Slips Away after Being Stopped at Ramallah Crossing||STORY: Israeli occupation troops deployed near the West Bank city of Nablus shot and killed Wednesday night a Palestinian.. More

  • Sharon Should Choose Between Peace & Bloodshed, Prince Abdullah

    HIGHLIGHTS: No One in the Region Shall Be Spared if Peace Efforts Fail||Tenet Likely to Follow Burns Now in the Region||Mubarak Bush to Discuss Time Table For Steps Leading to Ending Israeli Palestinian Stalemate in Washington Next Week||STORY: Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah warned Israel Wednesday against going too far on the road of "oppression, stubbornness.. More