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As War Fears Grow, Pakistan Urges Talks with India

NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - With the shadow of war looming larger, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf said he wanted to meet his Indian counterpart at a regional summit but India was silent on the offer on Saturday. As the nuclear-armed neighbors mass troops on the border and trade tit-for-tat sanctions, President Bush said the United States.. More

3047 02/06/2001
Afghans Want End to U.S. Bombing

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's government said on Friday Osama bin Laden had probably fled to Pakistan and said U.S. warplanes should soon halt bombing raids blamed for killing hundreds of innocent civilians since October 7. The world's most wanted man had probably left Afghanistan for the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, interim Defense Minister.. More

3048 02/06/2001
Report: Al Qaeda Probed Nuclear Weapons Use

LONDON (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network was investigating the use of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons against the West and had conducted experiments on animals, a British newspaper reported on Saturday. The Times said this had emerged from detailed examination of documents it discovered in abandoned al Qaeda houses in the Afghan.. More

3049 02/06/2001
U.N. Kosovo Chief Hans Haekkerup Resigns - Report

PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (Reuters) - The U.N.'s chief Kosovo administrator, former Danish defense minister Hans Haekkerup, has resigned, independent television in the southern Yugoslav province said on Friday. Independent RTV 21 television gave no source for its report and no reason for the resignation of Haekkerup, whose one-year mandate was due to expire.. More

3050 02/06/2001
Milosevic's Daughter Goes on Trial for Shooting

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Slobodan Milosevic's daughter denied on Friday she had endangered people's lives as her father was taken to prison, telling a Belgrade court she had fired at the sky because she felt miserable, the Beta news agency said. Marija Milosevic went on trial accused of endangering public safety by firing shots as the ousted president.. More

3051 02/06/2001
Israeli Occupation Soldiers Tear Gas Foreigners & Palestinian Protesters

JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israeli occupation soldiers fired tear gas and warning shots on Saturday at groups of Palestinians and foreigners protesting in the West Bank against Israel's blockade of Palestinian areas. (Read photo caption below) Palestinian police said they had arrested three Islamic Jihad activists and confiscated weapons,.. More

3059 02/06/2001
Denktash Makes Landmark Visit to Southern Cyprus

NICOSIA (Reuters) - Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash crossed to the southern side of divided Cyprus for the first time in more than a quarter of a century on Saturday to dine with his Greek Cypriot rival, President Glafcos Clerides. Billed as a social event, diplomats see the meeting between the two leaders, who have negotiated inconclusively for.. More

3060 02/06/2001
At Least 60 Dead, 50 Injured in Peru Blaze

LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - At least 60 people died and 50 were injured Saturday in a fire in a historic commercial district in Lima, firefighters said. Firefighters said the fire was sparked by an explosion in a fireworks store and had destroyed at least three buildings. Radio reports said the fire was still burning and numerous people were trapped on.. More

3063 02/06/2001
India-Pakistan Tension Mounts Despite Peace Push

NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) applied pressure on India and Pakistan to talk peace instead of war as villagers fled border areas on Sunday while more troops and tanks took up positions. In separate telephone calls to Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee (news - web sites),.. More

3064 02/06/2001
Pentagon: US Bombs Taliban Building

WASHINGTON (AP) - American-led forces pursued Osama bin Laden and clues to his whereabouts Saturday in a campaign President Bush said involved new tactics to ``rout a new kind of enemy.'' Two B1-b bombers struck a complex occupied by members of the fallen Taliban leadership that harbored bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorists, Maj. Brad Lowell of the U.S... More

3066 02/06/2001
New Argentine Cabinet Offers to Quit After Riots

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's new cabinet offered to quit Saturday after new protests at the government's inability to end a long recession sparked clashes with police outside the presidential palace and looting of Congress. Barely a week after deadly riots forced out a previous president, a dozen police were injured after using tear gas to.. More

3067 02/06/2001
Opposition's Mazoka Leads Zambia Presidential Poll

LUSAKA (Reuters) - Opposition leader Anderson Mazoka remained in the lead on Sunday after more than half the results were declared in Zambia's close-fought presidential election but joined other politicians in alleging vote-rigging. The ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) led in parallel parliamentary elections but analysts forecast no party.. More

3068 02/06/2001
OIC President Calls for Islamic Satellite TV Channel

DOHA, (Islamweb & News Agencies)-HH the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, who is also chairman of the 9th session of the Islamic Conference Organization (OIC),Saturday called for the setting up of an Islamic satellite channel to create a cultural awareness and influence public opinion in different countries. Addressing the third meeting.. More

3075 02/06/2001
Twenty-Two Killed as Resistance Surges in Kashmir

SRINAGAR, Indian-ruled Kashmir (Islamweb & News Agencies) - At least 22 people have been killed and 45 wounded in fresh separatist violence across the revolt-racked Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Thursday. One civilian died and 27 others were wounded on Thursday when unidentified militants lobbed a grenade at a security patrol in.. More

3029 01/06/2001
A New Four-Point Palestinian Peace Proposal

GAZA (Islamweb& News Agencies) - A senior Palestinian negotiator said on Thursday that talks between Palestinians and Israelis were focusing on a four-point document that could lead to a final settlement of their decades-long conflict. Nabil Shaath, also a cabinet minister, was presenting details of recent meetings between Israeli Foreign Minister.. More

3030 01/06/2001

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