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  • Karla del Ponte Will Charge Putin Over Chechniya

    THE HAGUEThe chief prosecutor at The Hague tribunal on former Yugoslavia has threatened to book Russian President Vladimir Putin on charges of war crimes in Chechnya. Karla del Ponte, who indicted former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic, has reportedly promised Chechen leader Ahmed Zakayev, a senior aide to ousted anti-Moscow Chechen leader.. More

  • Hindus head for Ayodhya

    NEW DELHI, 13 March Thousands of Hindus were trying yesterday to head toward the northern Indian town of Ayodhya - a lighting rod for Hindu-Muslim tension for a decade - ahead of a court ruling which could stoke religious strife. The Supreme Court was to decide today whether to allow Hindus to hold what they call a prayer ceremony in Ayodhya despite.. More

  • UN Support Palestinian State, Israeli Terror Doesn't Stop

    After the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, strongly criticized Israel yesterday, telling the Jewish state to rein in its attacks on Palestinian civilians and end its "illegal occupation" of Palestinian lands, today the UN passed a resolution first time in the history, calling for a Palestinian state alongside Israel. The US-drafted document "affirming.. More

  • Mugabe Wins Zimbabwe Elections

    HARARE, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe swept back to power in Zimbabwe Wednesday but the opposition said he stole victory and critics condemned the election as unfair. Registrar-General Tobiawa Mudede declared Mugabe the winner after results were in from all 120 constituencies. He said the former guerrilla won his fifth term as leader after taking.. More

  • 'We have no legal rights,' Says Guantanamo Hunger Striker

    GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba One of the Afghan war detainees participating in a hunger strike at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said "nobody cares" about their plight. In a recording heard by CNN, the prisoner on Monday night shouted in English: "We are on a hunger strike. We've been on a hunger strike for 14 days, and nobody cares. We need the.. More

  • The Missing American Pilot May Be The Excuse For The US To Attack IRAQ

    WASHINGTONThe Washington Post newspaper has recently published information about the fate of a military pilot of the US Air Force who went missing in Iraq during Gulf War. According to information from the CIA, which the newspaper referred to in the article, Lieutenant Commander Michael Speicher was shot down in an F-18 Hornet fighter over Iraq in 1991.. More

  • Beaten Anti-Globalization Activists On The European Union summit in Barcelona

    BARCELONA, SPAINIn the city's first sign of street trouble during the leaders' gathering, though it took place in the Gothic old part, well away from the main summit venue.The police broke up a crowd of several hundred anti-globalisation activists, beating several. Shops in the downtown Ramblas district closed up, quickly.Barcelona had been bracing.. More

  • Sheikh Al-Subail Dies After Weeks In Coma

    JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIASheikh Omar ibn Muhammad Al-Subail, 43, who was imam and khateeb of the Grand Mosque in Makkah for the past 11 years, died at the Armed Forces Hospital in Hada near Taif yesterday after entering a coma two weeks ago following a traffic accident.Funeral prayers for the imam will be held at the Grand Mosque today after Asr prayers.Sheikh.. More

  • New violence in India, At Least Three Dead Muslims

    ARODYA, GUJARAT, INDIAThree men were killed in fresh Hindu-Muslim clashes as mobs set shops on fire and attacked mosques in India's riot-torn Gujarat state in an explosive row over a demolished mosque, Indian police said. On the other side, Indian security forces have virtually sealed off the flashpoint town of Ayodyha amid fears of further clashes.. More

  • Zinni 'Optimistic' at Middle East Talks

    RAMALLAH, PALESTINEDespite Israel bowing to pressure to withdraw its tanks from Ramallah, following US envoy Anthony Zinni's visit, the army is still occupying the outskirts of the west bank cities of Bethlehem as well as Nablus Jenine and Hebron.In Ramallah residents ventured out into the streets for the first time in 3 days to view the destruction.. More

  • 10 Dead Babies Found in Moscow

    MOSCOW, RUSSIA The bodies of two newborn babies were found this week in Moscow, the latest of 10 babies who apparently have been killed by their mothers in the city since the beginning of the year, Interfax reported Thursday, citing the police.The body of one baby, believed to be 5 or 6 days old, was found Wednesday in the Moscow River near Lyotnaya.. More

  • School's actions against Muslim professor Sami Al-Arian examined

    TAMPA, FLORIDAA national professors group is investigating whether the University of South Florida is violating academic freedoms in its actions against a professor who is accused for ties to Islamic terrorists. A delegation from the American Association of University Professors met separately Friday with university president Judy Genshaft and Sami.. More

  • Young Pakistani man claims he killed American journalist Pearl

    A young man Thursday claimed that he has killed American journalist Daniel Pearl in Karachi and threw his body into the sea. Muhammad Adnan Khan, claiming to be member of the Kashmiri independence group, Jaish Muhammad, entered the offices of Urdu-language newspaper Khabrain in Lahore city yesterday and told journalists there that he killed Pearl, the.. More

  • U.S. Mideast Envoy Meets Arafat Again, Palestinians Bury mother and Four Children

    JERUSALEM , PALESTINEZinni met Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah for the second time since arriving on Thursday. The former U.S. Marine Corps general was due to meet Prime Minister Ariel Sharon later in the day at the Israeli leader's farm in the Negev Desert, again for the second time in two days. In a statement.. More

  • At least 18 Palestinians killed

    JABALYA / GAZA, PALESTINEIsrael stormed a refugee camp and pounded security targets in the Gaza Strip on Monday in fighting that killed 18 Palestinians and set back peace hopes raised by the ending of Yasser Arafat's confinement in the West Bank. In a heavy offensive on the eve of a truce mission by U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni, tanks also rumbled into.. More