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  • Rockets Explode Near U.S. Kabul Embassy as Politicians Wrangle over Formation of New Cabinet

    HIGHLIGHTS: Karzai Wants to Be Inaugurated President Wednesday||Rockets Fall Some Distance from U.S. Embassy & Near Residence of Former Afghan King||Security Stepped up at Loya Jirga Tent After Attacks|| STORY: Two Rockets Landed in the vicinity of the U.S. embassy in Kabul as Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Loya Jirga (Grand Assembly) wrangled.. More

  • A Prominent American Jew Calls For Killing Bombers' Families to Deter Further Resistance to Israeli Occupation

    HIGHLIGHTS: Lewin Suggests Families of Bombers Should be Executed Unless They Denounce Bomber & Refuse Financial Compensation||Analysts Say Suggestion Indicates Shift in U.S. Jewish Communities Discourse||Some Jewish Quarters Appear to Find the Suggestion Ethically Acceptable|| STORY: A prominent Washington attorney and Jewish communal leader has raised.. More

  • Israel Under Attack on Two Fronts & Israeli Leaders Admit Paying Heavy Price

    HIGHLIGHTS: Palestinian Resistance Fires at Occupation Troops Near Jerusalem, in the West Bank & Gaza While Hizbollah Fires at Israeli Jets in the North||Four Palestinians Arrested Near Hebron Overnight||Israeli Leaders Fault Almost Everybody But Themselves|| STORY: As Israelis woke up again at the shock of a devastating bus blast this time in Southern.. More

  • Latest Palestinian Jerusalem Resistance Bombing Kills 19 & Injures Scores of Others Some Seriously

    HIGHLIGHTS: Hamas Claims Responsibility||Israel Yet Again Holds Arafat Responsible||The Blast Takes Place Despite Security Alert in Jerusalem Since Monday|| STORY:A Palestinian Resistance bomber blew himself up on a crowded city bus in Jerusalem during rush hour Tuesday morning, killing at least 19 people and injuring more than 52, Israeli police said... More

  • PA Offers Peace Proposal as Israeli Brutalities Against Palestinian Resistance to Occupation Continue

    HIGHLIGHTS: New Proposal Soft on Refugees 'Right of Return'; Yields Sovereignty to Israel Over Jewish Quarters in East Jerusalem & Limits Future Palestinian State's Possession of Weapons||Two Palestinians Killed in Israel's Targeted Assassinations & Rolling Raids in Palestinian Territory||Bush Suspends Building American Embassy in Jerusalem||Palestinians.. More

  • Vajpayee Claims Victory Over Pakistan as Cross-Border Shelling Falls down

    HIGHLIGTES: Vajpayee Indicates Stepping Back From Option of War||India Claims Destroying 5 Bunkers in Pakistani-ruled Kashmir||Pakistan-ruled Kashmir Reports 'Complete Lull' in Cross-border Firing||Clashes Between Indian Troops & Kashmiri Nationalists Rage on|| STORY: India's prime minister said Pakistan's promises - not American pressure on New Delhi.. More

  • Kharazi Fails to Break Afghan Impasse

    HIGHLIGHTS: Only Top Ministers-Defence, Interior, Justice, Finance & Foreign Affairs to Be Presented to Loya Jirga||Delegates Frustrated by the Slow Pace of Proceedings||Impasse Reflects North-South Divided|| STORY: New Afghan President Hamid Karzai failed Monday to break an impasse in the Loya Jirga, or grand assembly, over forming a parliament and.. More

  • Clashes as Occupation Army Patrols Jenin

    HIGHLIGHTS: Occupation Troops Under Fire in Jenin & Yabed||EU Keeps Hizbollah off So-called 'Terror List'||U.S. Democrats' Leader Supports Replacement of Arafat||34th Zionist Congress Opens Monday in Jerusalem with Pledge of Solidarity with Israel & Concludes in Two Weeks Time with the Inauguration of New Settlement|| STORY: An Israeli armored column.. More

  • Khartoum & Riyadh Discuss Mideast Situation

    HIGHLIGHTS:Developing Unified Arab Position Before Mideast Conference, Top on Agenda||Crown Prince phones Bush||Khartoum Hands over Man Suspected ofFiring Missile at U.S. Plane in Saudi Arabia|| STORY: Israeli injustices against Palestinians must end and an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital should be formed, the leaders of.. More

  • Sharon: Time Not Ripe to Discuss Palestinian State

    HIGHLIGHTS: Rice Rules out PA Role in Statehood||A Palestinian Shot Dead Near Nablus||Israelis Say Hamas is Planning to Use Chemical Weapons Against Them||Israel Officially Begins Building West Bank Fence|| STORY: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told his cabinet on Sunday that now was not the time for talks on setting up any type of Palestinian.. More

  • Kashmir Violence Flares as Cross-border Firing Eases

    HIGHLIGHTS Sunday's Death Toll Highest Since May 14, 2002||No Casualties in Routine Cross-border Shelling|| STORY: Violence in the disputed Kashmir region, the crux of the row between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, hit its highest level in more than a month on Sunday with 21 people killed. Sunday's deaths mark the highest daily toll since May 14,.. More

  • Bush Orders CIA to Topple Saddam Hussein

    HIGHLIGHTS: Order Includes Authority to Use Lethal Force to Capture Saddam||CIA Tells President Covert Action Should Be Viewed as Prelude for Military Action||Sources Say Economic Pressure & Diplomacy to Precede Military Strike|| STORY:The Washington Post has reported that President Bush early this year signed an intelligence order directing the CIA.. More

  • Palestinian Resistance Kills 2 Occupation Soldiers & Wounds 4, One Seriously

    HIGHLIGHTS: Hamas Claims Responsibility||Resistance Keeps Occupation Troops Busy in Gaza & Hebron||U.S. Team Huddles on Mideast Policy Speech|| STORY: A firefight near an internationally illegal Jewish settlement in the northern Gaza Strip left two Israeli occupation soldiers killed and four wounded, one seriously, and one of the Palestinians was killed... More

  • India Allows Troops to Take Leave

    HIGHLIGHTS: Indian Army Says Allowing Troops to Take Leave Won't Affect Military Preparedness||Kashmir Resistance Attacks Chief Minister|| No Troops Withdrawals, Says Fernandes|| STORY: India has allowed its troops to go on leave for the first time in nearly six months, in yet another sign its tense military standoff with Pakistan may be easing, officials.. More

  • Coup Jitters In Venezuela

    HIGHLIGHTS: Country Plagued by Lingering Uncertainty Since April Coup||Security Measures Taken to Protect President||Chavez Leaves Caracas to Visit Pro-government Rallies West & Southwest of the Capital|| STORY: Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through Caracas on Saturday urging President Hugo Chavez to resign as his government tried to quell.. More