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  • India-Pakistan Promising Despite Clashes

    AGRA, India (Islamweb & Agencies) - Despite more cross-border firing by their soldiers in Kashmir, the leaders of bitter rivals India and Pakistan pursued peace and nuclear security during their first formal talks in more than two years on Sunday. They also agreed to meet again soon. (Read photo caption below). With the white marble domes of the Taj.. More

  • Egypt Arrests 25 From Banned Group

    CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Egyptian security agents arrested 25 members of a banned political group, the Muslim Brotherhood, on Sunday, a lawyer for the group said. The men were arrested during a 6 a.m. raid on a meeting in Cairo's working-class Imbaba district, lawyer Abdul Moneim Abdul Maqsoud told The Associated Press. Interior Ministry officials declined.. More

  • Arab League chief Amr Mussa wraps up Saudi visit

    JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, (AFP) -Arab League chief Amr Mussa wrapped up a brief visit to Saudi Arabia on Sunday that focused on the Middle East conflict and plans to restructure his organisation. During his visit of several hours to the Red Sea city, Mussa met separately with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal and Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdel.. More

  • Former King Becomes Premeir

    SOFIA (Islamweb & Agencies) - Bulgaria's former King Simeon II, the first ex-monarch to regain political power after the downfall of communism in eastern Europe, agreed on Thursday to be the country's next prime minister. (Read photo caption below). Parliament was expected to approve Simeon's nomination and the new government on July 24. The prime ministershi.. More

  • Fiercest Intifadha Battle in Hebron, Al-Khalil

    HEBRON, Al-Khalil, West Bank (Islamweb & Agencies) - A Palestinian attack in which two Jewish settlers were wounded triggered the fiercest gunbattle in the West Bank city of Hebron, Al-Khalil,on Friday since the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation began nine months ago.(Read photo caption below). Witnesses said several Israeli tanks shelled.. More

  • Algeria Set on Reforms

    WASHINGTON, (Islamweb & Agencies) -Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika Thursday said he had assured US President George W. Bush he is committed to economic and political reforms and establishing the rule of law in the Arab North African nation. (Read photo caption below)."Algeria is resolutely committed to pursuing ongoing economic and political.. More

  • No Indian Set Proposals on Kashmir

    NEW DELHI (Islamweb & Agencies) - India said on Thursday that it was ready to discuss the disputed territory of Kashmir at this weekend's summit with Pakistan, but would not be making any new proposals on the matter.(Read photo caption below) ``India has not ever fought shy of talking to Pakistan on Jammu and Kashmir,'' External Affairs Minister Jaswant.. More

  • The Taj Mahal Summit Draws Near

    NEW DELHI (Islamweb & Agencies) - The leaders of India and Pakistan will focus on troubled Kashmir -- cause of two of the three wars between their nations -- at a weekend summit despite New Delhi's desire for a broader agenda. (Read photo caption below). The meeting between Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari.. More

  • US Objections Threatens UN Conference on Small Arms

    UNITED NATIONS, (AFP) -France on Friday urged the United States to ease its opposition to regulation of small-arms sales in order to rescue from failure a United Nations conference on trade in weapons. (Read photo caption below). "There will be no result (from the conference) if there are no concessions made here and there," French Cooperation Minister.. More

  • N. Irish Peace Talks Resume

    WESTON PARK, England (Reuters) - Rival Northern Ireland factions held urgent peace talks hosted by the British and Irish prime ministers under the shadow of some of the worst rioting in Belfast for years. (Read photo caption below)The talks at a secluded country house in the English midlands were reconvened late on Friday only hours after more than.. More

  • Death threat after Beijing wins 2008 Olympics

    MOSCOW,(AFP) - A death threat has been sent to an International Olympic Committee (IOC) member after the IOC awarded the 2008 Olympic Games to Beijing. (Read photo caption below). Irish IOC member Pat Hickey said the threats had been received in his office in Dublin. "I have had three death threats from a group calling themselves the Liberation Army.. More

  • India-Pakistan Summit Opens Today

    AGRA (Islamweb & Agencies) - The leaders of India and Pakistan meet on Sunday in the shadow of the subcontinent's most famous monument hoping to find a way out of more than a half century of enmity between the two populous nations.While India wanted to discuss many issues in the talks, which have no formal agenda, it was clear the disagreement over.. More

  • Mideast Diplomacy Shifts To Cairo

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & Agencies) - Middle East peace diplomacy shifts on Sunday to Cairo, where Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres are due to have separate talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Sources in Mubarak's office said it was unlikely Arafat would meet Peres, who is also due to discuss the Israeli-Pales.. More

  • Russian Atrocities in Chechnya Show No Signs of Abating

    NAZRAN, Russia (Islamweb & Agencies) - Russia's invading troops searched for Resistance commanders in Chechnya's capital on Saturday, three days after a general admitted troops committed large-scale crimes in similar search operations elsewhere in the region. (Read photo caption below). Interior Ministry police swept one neighborhood in Grozny, the.. More

  • Bosnia Muslims Open Mosque in the Country's Serb Half

    BOSANSKA GRADISKA, Bosnia (Islamweb & Agencies) -Bosnian Muslims on Saturday opened a new mosque in this Serb-controlled northern town to replace one destroyed during the 1992-5 war. Hundreds of Muslim believers gathered to inaugurate the mosque, built on the spot where the medieval Obradovacka mosque stood before it was blown up by Bosnian Serb extremists.. More