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  • Diplomacy Appears to be Making Headway in Averting War in South Asia

    HIGHLIGHTS: Bush Praises Putin's Efforts with the Two South Asian Nuclear Rivals||Pakistan Rebuffs Indian Proposal of Joint Patrols to Monitor Porous Border While New Delhi Dismisses Suggestions of Joint Anglo-American Patrols||Cross Border Shelling Kills 9 Civilians in Pakistani-ruled Kashmir|| STORY:Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf told a senior.. More

  • NATO Reluctant to Pledge Cash to Counter New Terrorists' Threats

    HIGHLIGHTS: NATO Told Pre-emptive Action Required to Head Off Terrorist Biological Attacks||Simulation Exercise Shows Smallpox Could Spread to 25 U.S. States & 15 Other Countries Within 13 Days|| Yawning Capability Gap between the United States&Other NATO Members Raises Doubts About Alliance's Military Offensive Capabilities|| STORY: Western allies.. More

  • Two Palestinians Killed & Several Wounded At Mukata Battle in Ramallah

    HIGHLIGHTS: Buildings Within Arafat's Compound Bulldozed to the Ground||Siege & Bockade Imposed on Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarm, and Kalkilya||Ten Palestinians Arrested Overnight|| STORY: The occupation army blew up several buildings in Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah this morning, in retaliation for Wednesday's bus.. More

  • Occupation Army Partially Pulls out of Arafat's Compound & Plans to Widen Incursions Into Palestinian Territory As U.S. Support for Israel Grows

    HIGHLIGHTS: Occupation Troops Blow up Palestinian Intelligence Service Offices in Ramallah||A Palestinian Guard Killed But Arafat Unharmed||Palestinian Trade Office in Jerusalem Closed||Washington Says Incursion into Arafat Compound Not Helpful in the Push for Peace But U.S. Governors Voice Support for Israel & House Panel Stages Hearing on Arafat &.. More

  • Islamic Jihad Identifies Bomber & Sharon Delays U.S. Visit

    HIGHLIGHTS: Hamas & Islamic Jihad Vow to Continue Resistance Operations Until the Land of Palestine Is Liberated|| Islamic Jihad: Small But Deadly||Shin Bet Proposes Re-occupying Palestinian Territory Until So-called Security Fence Is Set up||Number of Israelis Killed in the Blast Now Put at 17||Katsav Wants International Community to Cut Off Ties with.. More

  • Israel Launches An Offshore Attack Against Targets in the Gaza Strip Killing One Palestinian

    HIGHLIGHTS: Occupation Army Claims Pinpoint Attacks Targeting So-Called Wanted Militants||White House Again Joins Tel Aviv in RaisingQuestions About Arafat's Relevance to the Peace Process||PA Security Officials Under Orders to Arrest Islamic Jihad Members|| Israelis Claim Cyanide-bomb Attempt || STORY: The Israeli Navy is shelling Palestinian targets.. More

  • Pipe Bomb Dismantled in Jerusalem

    HIGHLIGHTS: Device Arouses Suspicion Due to an Overall Security Alert Throughout Israel Wednesday||First Israeli Killed in Afula Bomb Attack Identified||Ereqat Links Afula Bus Blast to 35th Anniversay of 1967 War|| STORY: Israeli Police demolition experts safely dismantled a small pipe bomb today in downtown Jerusalem, a spokesman said. The bomb was.. More

  • Bomber Car Bomb Kills at Least 16 in Israel As Tanks Roll Back into Jenin

    HIGHLIGHTS: Islamic Jihad Claims Responsibility||Many of the Passengers Were Occupation Soldiers||PA Condemns Attack||Occupation Army Sweeps Back Into Jenin & Hebron|| STORY: A Palestinian bomber attacker detonated a powerful car bomb Wednesday morning alongside a crowded bus in northern Israel, killing at least 16 people and wounding more than about.. More

  • Bus blows up near Israeli Town of Afula

    HIGLIGHTS: A Car Booby-trapped With Explosives Detonated Next to the Bus||Bombing Follows Warning By Lebanon's Hizbollah & Palestinian Resistance of a 'Mega Attack' Inside Israel||Bombing Prompts Angry Reaction in Israel|| STORY|| A huge bomb went off near a bus Wednesday morning in the area of Afula. At least 10 people are reported to have died and.. More

  • Mubarak Proposes Palestinian State in Early 2003

    HIGHLIGHTS: Declaration Would Underpin International Consensus That Palestinian Statehood is No Longer Just a Dream, Says Egypt||Arafat Presents Security Plan As Dahlan Resigns||Occupation Troops Kill Teenager||Sharon Approves Fence Plan|| STORY:Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who visits the United States this week amid a flurry of Middle East diplomacy,.. More

  • Dam Collapses in Northern Syria

    HIGLIGHTS: An Elderly Woman Was Killed & Another Died ofInjuries|| Dam Built 1996||In Areas Submerged Under 13 Feet, Floods Receded Quicklyto 3 Inches||Cause of Collapse Being Investigated|| STORY:A dam collapsed in northern Syria and flooded several villages Tuesday, killing at least two people, residents said. Some people fled into mountains in a.. More

  • Vajpayee, Musharraf Leave Almaty with No Agreement

    HIGHLIGHTS: A Number of Indian Troops & 2 Pakistani Civilians Killed in Cross Border Shelling||Musharraf Waited in Vain For Vajpayee To Reciprocate a Handshake He Initiated at a Previous Asian Summit||Moscow & Washington Speak of Positive Signals From Both Sides|| Annan Meets Putin in Moscow Wednesday|| STORY:Intense negotiations on the fringes of an.. More

  • India, Pakistan Deadlock Unresolved at Almaty Summit

    HIGHLIGHTS: India Ready to Talk But Conditions Have to be Met First, Vajpayee||Russia & China Plan Separate Talks with India & Pakistan respectively||Tough Balancing Act Required of Leaders in India & Pakistan|| STORY:Indian and Pakistani leaders sat down at the same table for the first time in five months on Tuesday, but stuck to the same positions.. More

  • Palestinian Resistance Ambushes An Israeli Truck Near Hebron & Attacks Occupation Troops Near Ramallah and in the Gaza Strip

    HIGHLIGHTS: Israelis' Truck Pelted With Stones, Then Shot At||Hebron First Palestinian Town Israelis Moved into After 1967 War||Theoretically, Palestinians Have 80 Per Cent Control Over Hebron, Al-Khalil|| STORY: An Israeli occupation army spokesman has said that two Israelis were wounded one of seriously in a Palestinian Resistance shooting attack.. More

  • Mubarak Leaves For Washington; Palestinian Cabinet Blocks Saadat's Release

    HIGHLIGHTS:Egypt Wants Washington To Put Timetable on Palestinian Statehood & Mideast Conference||Israel Threatens Assassination if Saadat is Released||Court Says No Evidence Against Saadat|| STORY: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will urge President Bush this weekend to set a timetable for creation of a Palestinian state and for an end to Israel's.. More