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  • An Israel-Hizbollah Prisoners Deal Appears to Be on The Cards

    A Lebanese newspaper, Al-Mustaqbal, reported Wednesday what it has described as a "positive development" emerging in negotiations for a prospective Israeli-Hizbollah prisoner exchange. According to the newspaper, the deal could involve a release of Tanzim leader Marwan Barghouti, who Hizbollah is interested in freeing from Israeli custody. The newspaper,.. More

  • Survivors of Sabra & Shatillah Massacres to Appeal Belgian Court Ruling Dropping War Crimes Against Sharon

    A Belgian appeals court ruled Wednesday that Belgium couldn't investigate war crimes charges against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon related to a 1982 massacre in two Palestinian refugee camps. The three-judge panel said a case could not proceed against a person who is not in Belgium, despite a 1993 Belgian law granting Belgian courts "universal.. More

  • Islamic Conference Organization Discusses Anti-Islamic Backlash, Mideast

    HIGHLIGHTS: Bashir Warns Islamic World Risks Being Further Marginalized if They Fail to Bridge the Gap with The Industrialized World||Qatar Hopes Bush's Mideast Statement Would Help End Conflict in the Middle East||Belqaziz: 'Adding Insult to Injury Muslims Are now Being Accused of Being Terrorists'|| STORY:Muslim leaders shined a critical light on.. More

  • Israel Presses Ahead with Offensive as U.S. Seeks Arab Help to Implement Bush's Mideast Proposals

    HIGHLIGHTS: Israel Says Occupation Troops Will Remain in Palestinian Cities as Long as Necessary||Bush to Press For Arafat Ouster at G8||Annan Says Bush's Call for a New Palestinian Leadership May Backfire||Mideast International Conference Unlikely Before Year End||Ahmed Tibi's Movements Restricted|| STORY:Israel kept Palestinians in seven West Bank.. More

  • Morocco Arrests Three More Al Qaeda Suspects

    HIGHLIGHTSTotal Number of Qaeda Suspects Arrested in Morocco up to Now Ten|| Sophisticated Manual for Making Explosives and Home-made Bombs Seized by Police||Suspects to Appear Before an Examining Magistrate This Week|| STORY:Morocco has arrested three more Moroccans suspected of plotting attacks on U.S. and British warships for Osama bin Laden's al.. More

  • Bush's Mideast Peace Plan Criticized By Politicians in France, Israel & the Arab World

    HIGHLIGHTS: De Villepin: 'The Plan Narrows the Scope of Diplomatic & Political Efforts in the Region'||Peres: 'Plan Does Not Offer Mechanism to End Violence'||Immad Shueibi: ' The Worst Speech in History of U.S.-Arab Relations'|| STORY: French foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin has President Bush's Middle east statement saying that it narrows the.. More

  • Arafat, Sharon Hail Bush Speech

    HIGHLIGHTS: Arafat Ignores Bush's Calls for New Palestinian Leadership|| Bush Stops Short of Mentioning Arafat By Name||Bush Says Israel Has to Ultimately Agree to Pull Back to Lines Before the 1967 Mideast War.|| STORY: Yasser Arafat welcomed President Bush's Mideast policy speech Monday as a "serious effort to push the peace process forward," but.. More

  • Israel Assassinates More Hamas Activists & Sharon Plans Gaza Offensive

    HIGHLIGHTSIsrael Kills 8 Palestinians Including 2 Policemen||Hebron Under Curfew||Hamas Renews Threats Against Israel|| STORY:Israeli occupation forces killed eight Palestinians, including two policemen early Tuesday, during their latest incursion into Palestinian territory, and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed to wage a "massive campaign".. More

  • Tanzania Train Crash Kills at Least 200

    HIGHLIGHTS: Passengers Leap from Speeding to Train in Desperate Attempt to Save their lives||Train Goes off Railway Tracks Rolling Backwards & Smashing into Another Train||Two Days of Mourning When Flags Would Fly at Half-mast|| STORY: At least 200 people were killed and hundreds more were hurt on Monday when a runaway passenger train, hurtling backwards.. More

  • Pressure Builds on Bush for Mideast Speech

    With pressure rising at home and abroad for President Bush to lay out his Middle East policy, he was giving no word on whether he would deliver the much-anticipated speech Monday. "You'll hear when I'm ready," Bush told reporters during a day trip to Newark, New Jersey. He was due back early in the afternoon, and it remained possible he would give.. More

  • Afghan Cabinet Sworn in as Sun Pierces Clouds

    The sun pierced a cloudy sky as Afghan President Hamid Karzai swore in his cabinet on Monday, completing what he called a difficult job -- and one that had threatened to unravel as candidates jockeyed for position. About half of the 29 ministers belong to the Northern Alliance, which swept the Taliban from power last year, with Karzai sticking to the.. More

  • Arafat's Compound Surrounded; PA Arrests Hamas Leader Sheik Ahmad Yassin

    HIGHLIGHTS: Battles Rage on in Gaza||Israeli House-to-House Arrests in Jenin||Eight Palestinians Wounded in Various Clashes Across the Territories ||Occupation Forces Enter Tulkarm||Arafat and Jordanian Foreign Minister Condemn Israel's Reoccupation Policy||STORY: Israeli tanks rolled into the West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday, witnesses said, surrounding.. More

  • Iran Quake Toll Revised Down to 222

    HIGHLIGHTSSteps Taken to Prevent Disease Spreading||Iran Stops Short of Accepting American Offer of Help||25,000 Made Homeless; 15, 000 Injured|| STORY: Iran's Red Crescent on Sunday revised down the number of dead in a powerful earthquake in northern Iran to 222 from an earlier estimate of 500 as rescuers picked through rubble to find any remaining.. More

  • Afghanistan's Karzai Offers Qanuni New Post in Govt

    HIGHLIGHTS: Power Struggle Briefly Threatens Government||Justice & Women's Affairs Portfolios Still to Be Named||Fears That Warlords Will Continue Forming Fiefdoms Ruled by The Gun Still a Major Threat|| STORY:Afghan President Hamid Karzai has given former interior minister Yunis Qanuni a new job as a special security adviser, an official said on Saturday,.. More

  • The Threat of a Second Israeli Front with Lebanon Still Alive; Peres Threatens To Resign over Security Fence

    HEADLIGHTS: Rockets Fragments Destroy House||Fence Will Do a Lot of Political Damage, Peres||Sharon Would Accept Proposals to Ammend Fence Plan Until End of June||STORY: A house in a northern Israeli border town was damaged Sunday by Hizbollah anti-aircraft fire aimed at an Israeli aircraft, Israeli media reports said. (Read photo caption)According.. More