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Diplomatic & Public Pressure Mount Against Israel

* EU Ministerial Session Discusses Mideast Wednesday; * Robinson To Send Fact-Finding Mission; *Iraq Proposes Cutting Off Oil Supplies to USA; *Anti-Israeli Demos Erupt Across the Globe; Will Egypt & Jordan Sever Ties With Israel? ____WORLD CAPITALS, (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israel meanwhile came under mounting diplomatic pressure on Tuesday.. More

13437 03/04/2002
UN's Rwandan Genocide Trial Begins

ARUSHA, Tanzania (AP) - The trial of four former Rwandan army officials charged with masterminding the 1994 massacre of more than 500,000 people opened Tuesday with U.N. prosecutors accusing them of unleashing "a legion of ferocious demons" on the victims. Col. Theoneste Bagosora faces 12 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and rape for his.. More

13436 03/04/2002
Israeli Tanks Entered into Bethlehem

BETHLEHEM, PalestineIsraeli tanks thrust into the centre of Bethlehem early today as Israeli forces fanned across the West Bank in a hunt for Palestinian 'militants' behind a wave of bomb attacks. Witnesses in Bethlehem said Israeli tanks pulled up a few hundred meters from the Church of the Nativity. Earlier, Israeli forces raided the Deheisheh refugee.. More

13429 02/04/2002
16 Suspected Al-Qaeda Members Arrested in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, PakistanPakistan Police said they had arrested 16 mostly Arab men suspected of having links to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda group during raids in Lahore. "We have taken into custody 16 foreigners, mostly Arabs. They had come from Afghanistan and they were hiding in Lahore," said Lahore police chief Javed Noor. "There was no resistence. We caught.. More

13427 02/04/2002
Congress Considers Yanking Arafat Visa

The Palestinian Authority's Washington office could also be shut down and its assets seized under the measure pushed by Sens. Dianne Feinstein, Democrat-California, and Mitch McConnell, Republican-Kentucky.. "I think it is time for the United States, through its Congress, to indicate that unless Yasser Arafat is prepared to take the steps to stop the.. More

13425 02/04/2002
Mideast Crisis At Boiling Point Monday

* Palestinian-ruled Areas Reoccupied: * Resistance Continues; *Definition of Terror Taken up At OIC Conference; Another UN Security Council Resolution; Arab Protests on the Rise ______OCCUPIED TERRITORIES, WORLD AND ARAB CAPITALS (Islamweb & News Agencies)-The international dimesions of the crisis in the Middle East cast its shadows across the globe.. More

13424 02/04/2002
Anti-Israeli Occupation Protests Likely to Be Mistaken for Anti-Semitic Deeds

* Four Synagogues Attacked Across Europe* 1,000 police men deployed at Jewish sites in France____PARIS (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Anti-Israeli sentiments appear to be on the rise in Europe following Israel's latest brutal measures against Palestinians and their President, Yasser Arafat. (Read photo caption within) However, Arab and Muslim Political.. More

13423 02/04/2002
Powell Defers Decision on Frozen Yugoslav Aid

* Aid to Serbia Frozen-To Yugoslavia,Defferred*Deferral Not Open-ended; * ____WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell on Monday deferred a ruling on whether Yugoslavia should get the rest of its aid this year pending more help from Belgrade to a U.N. war crimes tribunal, a U.S. official said. (Read photo caption within)We've decided.. More

13422 02/04/2002
Execution of Collaborators, Israel Pressures Arafat

Occupied Palestine Israel's siege of Arafat's headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah has provoked fury across the Arab world and a Jordanian official said Amman was considering expelling Israeli ambassador David Dadon in protest. Palestinian gunmen killed in intelligence building in the West Bank town of Tulkarm eight suspected collaborators.. More

13421 01/04/2002
Belgrade Fails to Meet U.S. War Crimes Deadline

BELGRADE, YugoslaviaYugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica is at the centre of a political storm after being blamed for Belgrade's failure to meet today's U.S. deadline for handing over war crimes suspects.And the cost could be dear, adding up to a freeze in millions of dollars of American aid.The finger of accusation is being pointed at Mr Kostunica.. More

13420 01/04/2002
Mahathir Mohamad Branded Israel Troops and Palestinain Bombers as Terrorists

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia Islamic nations denounced Israel's crackdown in the Palestinian territories as state terrorism on Monday and accused the Jewish state of dragging the Middle East toward all-out war. Foreign Ministers from the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), meeting in Malaysia to discuss the root causes of global terrorism as Israel.. More

13419 01/04/2002
Musharraf, 'India Treats Pakistan Like Scum'

ISLAMABAD, PakistanPresident Pervez Musharraf today warned India against treating his country like "scum" and called for a UN role in de-escalating military tensions which have left the South Asian nuclear rivals on a war-footing. In an interview with the Hindu newspaper, Musharraf blamed Indian intransigence for the continued border face-off and confessed.. More

13418 01/04/2002
Israel Troops Execute Palestinians and Extend West Bank Grip

Occupied Palestine The Israeli Army yesterday launched a campaign of mass executions against Palestinians. At least 39 members of the Palestinian security forces in occupied Ramallah were killed in cold blood in two separate incidents. Once again, the United States, remained silent in the face of such outrage."The Israelis assassinated around 30 Palestinians.. More

13417 01/04/2002
LATEST Bomb Attack Kills 15 Israelis in Haifa

HAIFA At least 15 people were killed and over 30 injured, five seriously, when a Palestinian bomber blew himself up in the "Matza" restaurant, at around 2:40 P.M. on Sunday, in the Neveh Sha'anan neighborhood of Haifa, near the "Grand Kanion" shopping mall. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, with Hamas official Abdel Aziz Rantisi telling Abu.. More

13416 31/03/2002
Arafat Hangs Up in CNN Interview when Asked About U.S. Criticism

Washington, USPalestinian leader Yassir Arafat became angry during a live telephone interview with CNN and hung up when he was asked about the U.S. call for him to reign in Palestinian violence. "Are you asking me, who is under a complete siege?" he asked correspondent Christiane Amanpour after her question about comments made by U.S. Secretary of State.. More

13414 30/03/2002

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