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Indonesia's Megawati Sworn in After Wahid Ouster

JAKARTA (Islamweb & Agencies) - Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid was kicked out of office on Monday and his deputy Megawati Sukarnoputri sworn in after lawmakers finally lost patience with what is dubbed in the press as his erratic rule. (Read map caption below) The decision by the country's top legislature came after it rejected Wahid's declaration.. More

1192 06/04/2001
World Clinches Climate Deal, U.S. Isolated

BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Ministers from nearly 200 countries clinched a historic deal Monday that should force most rich industrial nations to curb the air pollution blamed for global warming, but left the United States isolated.(Read photo caption below). An all-night bargaining marathon in Bonn saw European Unionministers finally break a deadlock.. More

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Israel Assassinates Another Resistance Activist and Murders Another Teenager

JERUSALEM, GAZA, BEIRUT (Islamweb & Agencies)- An Islamic Jihad Resistance activist, Mustafa Yassin, 28, was assassinated Monday night by an elite Israeli borderguard unit near the West Bank town of Jenin.He was suspected of having sent a Palestinian to carry out a bomb attack in northern Israel Sunday. Yassin's family told Reuters that Israeli occupation.. More

1201 06/04/2001
Resistance Mounts to Indian-Rule in Kashmir

SRINAGAR/JAMMU, Indian-Ruled Kashmir (Islamweb & Agencies) - Occupationforces in the Indian-Ruledviolence-racked Kashmir state fanned out across the mountainous region on Monday another futile bid to track down Resistance menwho allegedly shot villagers dead during the weekend.But despite the massive search and heightened security, Resistance men triggered.. More

1203 06/04/2001
Russia Falsely Claims Credit For Killing a Chechen Resistance Commander

MOSCOW (Islamweb & Agencies) - Russia's invasion troops have falsely claimed credit on Monday for killing a senior Resistance commander in the occupied Republic of Chechnya, but other accounts said he was gunned down by a teenager avenging his father's death.General Vladimir Moltenskoi, Russia's top invasion command man in the 22-month-old drive against.. More

1204 06/04/2001
Macedonian Truce in Tatters

TETOVO, Macedonia (Islamweb & Agencies) - Macedonian Slav-dominated forces and ethnic Albanian Resistance men fought a fierce battle for control of the suburbs of a flashpoint town on Monday, ripping apart an 18-day truce and savaging peace prospects.Sniper shots rang through Tetovo's main square and heavy close-quarter exchanges of small-arms and machine-gun.. More

1205 06/04/2001
Bush heads to Kosovo

ROME, (AFP) -President George W. Bush makes his first speech to US troops abroad Tuesday, thanking US peacekeepers in a NATO-led multinational force in Kosovo and urging allies to help hasten the day when they can go home. (Read photo caption below). "First and foremost, the president wants to thank our troops for their service there (and) thank the.. More

1206 06/04/2001
One dead in Israeli shelling of Palestinian Authority

JERUSALEM, (Islamweb & Agencies) -A Palestinian was killed in an Israeli shelling attack on the Palestinian Authority offices Friday in the West Bank, where earlier an angry crowd of some 10,000 buried three Palestinians killed the day before by settlers. (Read photo caption below). The man was killed by shrapnel from an Israeli shell, while a number.. More

1158 05/04/2001
Iraq Fires at US Aircraft

WASHINGTON (AP) - Iraq hasfired a surface-to-air missile at a U.S. surveillance plane in Kuwaiti airspace, Pentagon officials said Friday. The U.S. plane was not hit. The crew of a Navy E2-C surveillance aircraft flying in Kuwaiti airspace on Thursday reported seeing the plume of a surface-to-air missile apparently fired from inside Iraqi territory,.. More

1159 05/04/2001
Chechen Resistance Shoots Down 4 Russian Helicopters

MOSCOW (Islamweb & Agencies) - Russia's military said on Friday that Chechen Resistancehad attacked one of its helicopters, killing a serviceman on board, the day after another helicopter crashed in the separatist region, killing nine. (Read photo caption below). The Resistance said the two incidents were part of a series of strikes on Russian helicopters... More

1160 05/04/2001
A New Pro-Islamists Political Party in Turkey

ANKARA: (BBC)-A new pro-Islamist political party has been set up in Turkey by members of the Virtue Party, which was shut down a month ago.Half of the Virtue Party's 102 deputies in parliament will become members of Saadet - roughly translated as "happiness" or "prosperity". The Virtue Party was banned by the Constitutional Court for anti-secular activities.T.. More

1161 05/04/2001
Genoa faces biggest anti-globalisation demoGENOA,

Italy, July 21 (AFP) -World leaders launch into the second day of a G8 summit Saturday despite calls to cancel the talks after widespread violence, in which an anti-globalisation rioter was shot dead, cast a pall of gloom over the meeting. However, the anti-globalisation movement said it would go ahead with the biggest demonstration yet against the.. More

1162 05/04/2001
U.N. Small Arms Conference Seeks Last-Minute Deal

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.N. conference on small arms, faced with a hard-line U.S. stance in defense of gun rights, signaled on Friday its willingness to compromise to reach a last-minute agreement on a strategy against global firearms trafficking. Meeting on the final day of the two-week conference, delegates scrambled behind closed doors to cobble.. More

1163 05/04/2001
Arafat Calls for G8 Reprimand of Israel

JERUSALEM (Islamweb & Agencies) - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat accused Israel on Saturday of escalating Middle East violence and called on world leaders at a Group of Eight summit to rein in Israeli ``aggression'' in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.The appeal capped a week of inter-communal violence between Israelis and Palestinians, locked in 10.. More

1164 05/04/2001
List of Palestinian Intifadha Martyrs Growing by the Day

JERUSALEM (Islamweb & Agencies) - Israeli occupation soldiers killed a Palestinian on Sunday, just hours after world leaders at a Group of Eight summit in Italy pressed the warring sides to accept outside observers in the troubled region.Palestinian security sources said an Israeli tank shell killed a 48-year-old Palestinian when it hit his home in.. More

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