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US, EU & Russian Mideast Envoys Meet in Beirut

BEIRUT, (Islamweb & Agencies) -Middle East envoys from the United States, Europe and Russia have met for consultations, Russian envoy Andrei Vdovin said here Friday. The head of the Middle East department of the Russian foreign ministry said he met Thursday with US Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East, William Burns, and the European Union's.. More

1004 01/04/2001
Ceasefire Exists in Name Only

JERUSALEM (Islamweb & Agencies) - An Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire appeared to exist in name only as Intifadha confrontations in the West Bank and Gaza spilled into Saturday in the absence of agreement over how to tackle the situation. (Read photo caption below). At the same time,Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon returned home on Friday from a lightning.. More

1005 01/04/2001
Iraq to Resume Oil Exports

UNITED NATIONS (Islamweb & Agencies) - Iraq will resume oil exports after a month-long halt and has accepted the terms of a new Security Council resolution extending the U.N. oil-for-food program, Iraq's U.N. ambassador said Thursday. (Read photo caption below). But hours after Mohammed al-Douri said that ``everything will be normalized,'' Iraq had.. More

994 31/03/2001
Hobeika Ready To Testify Against Sharon

BEIRUT, (Islamweb & Agencies) -A former militia official, who was implicated in the 1982 massacres at the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps, said Thursday he was ready to testify in Brussels, which is probing whether to try Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for his role in the killings. (Read photo caption below). "For 19 years now, I have.. More

995 31/03/2001
New Palestinian Victims as Allies Criticize Israel

GAZA CITY, (Islamweb & Agencies) -The latest casualty in on-going intiifadha confrontations in the Territories was a Palestinian who was killed near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Palestinians say the 39-year-old man was playing soccer near a Jewish settlement when Israeli occupation soldiers shot him dead. Two Palestinians were meanwhile wounded.. More

996 31/03/2001
Nigeria: Christian Mob Threatens to Lynch Muslim

JournalistBAUCHI, Nigeria,(Islamweb & Agencies) -A Muslim journalist working for Agence France-Presse was forced out of a town in northern Nigeria under police protection early Wednesday after being menaced by a mob of Christian youths.(Read photo caption below) Aminu Abubakar, a freelance correspondent for AFP based in the northern city of Kano, had.. More

975 31/03/2001
Russia Supports Ousted Afghan Government

MOSCOW:(Islamweb & Agencies) -Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov offered support on Wednesday to the ousted government of Afghanistan and called on regional powers to abide by a UN resolution banning the supply of arms to the Islamic Taliban regime. (Read photo caption below) The reference to arms supplies appeared aimed directly at the government.. More

977 31/03/2001
Russian Brutality Sends Chechens Fleeing

SLEPTSOVSKAYA, Russia (Islamweb & Agencies) - Hundreds of civilians fled Chechnya for refugee camps Wednesday amid reports of summary executions by Russian forces as troops combed villages in the war-shattered republic for rebels. (Read photo caption below). The search operation in Sernovodsk and Assinovskaya, near Chechnya's western border with the.. More

978 31/03/2001
Karadzic, Mladic, on Trail To The Hague

THE HAGUE, (Islamweb, Agencies) -The Bosnian Serb entity is ready to send the two most wanted war crimes suspects from the Bosnian conflict -- Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic and his military chief Ratko Mladic -- to The Hague for trial, the Bosnian Serb prime minister said late Wednesday. Speaking at Amsterdam's international airport,.. More

979 31/03/2001
Arafat condemns violence on both sides

FRANKFURT, (Islamweb & Agencies) -Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has condemned violence by both the Israelis and the Palestinians in an interview in a German newspaper (the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) Thursday. The lifting of Israel's blockade on Palestinian areas and the resumption of serious negotiations would be the best way to create.. More

982 31/03/2001
Nigeria: Islamic Banking approved

Abuja, Rabi Thani 12/July 3 (IINA) – The Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr. Shamsuddin Usman, announced here that the Federal Government has approved the granting of two licenses for the establishment of Islamic banking in the country. Usman said that the introduction of an Islamic monetary policy could affect the existing.. More

949 30/03/2001
Macedonia Peace Talks Resume

SKOPJE (Islamweb & Agencies) - Leaders across Macedonia's ethnic divide restarted peace talks on Tuesday with help from Western envoys but progress appeared likely to be difficult after an Albanian Resistance ambush killed a Macedonian soldier. (Read photo caption below). U.S. envoy James Pardew and his European Union counterpart Francois Leotard joined.. More

951 30/03/2001
New Islamic party to be set up in Turkey

ANKARA, (AFP) - The former leader of Turkey's banned pro-Islamic Virtue Party, Recai Kutan, announced Tuesday that a new political entity intended to unite the Islamic movement in Turkish politics was being set up as swiftly as possible. (Read photo caption below). "The name and the leaders, who will be democratically elected, of our new party will.. More

952 30/03/2001
UN Council Extends Iraq Oil-For-Food Plan

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Tuesday for a routine five-month extension of the ``oil-for-food'' program for Iraq after Russia threatened to veto a U.S.-British plan to revamp 11-year-old sanctions against Baghdad. (Read photo caption). Despite Iraq's apparent victory, haggling continued until the last minute.. More

954 30/03/2001
Mideast Truce in Tatters

JERUSALEM,(Islamweb & Agencies) - Israel and the Palestinians turned up the rhetoric on Tuesday with each accusing the other of murder and a lack of will for peace, as an unsteady US-brokered ceasefire seemed finally to have run out of hope. (Read photo caption below). Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's true.. More

955 30/03/2001

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