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October 31, 2002

Settlements tear apart Sharon govt

Australia raids Muslim homes

US will deploy Stealth bombers closer to Iraq

Restoring ancient Arabic manuscripts

Worldwide warning of attacking Iraq

Schroeder insists: no German role in possible attack on Iraq

A Palestinian youth martyred scores arrested

October 30, 2002

Chechen rebels down Russian chopper

Arafat wins cabinet vote; Israel coalition in chaos

Reform or risk upheaval, forum warns Arab leaders

Arafat Cabinet OK’d

UN vote on Iraq may be delayed

Moscow siege gas was ‘opium-based’

Libya seeks Arab League meeting

Southern Iraqi marshlands ablaze

Qatar denies coup rumors

'Jordan, Egypt to pursue efforts to restore Arab solidarity'

Sharon willing to pay price of coalition collapse

Pakistan's deadlocked parties to hold joint talks

N. Korea rejects call to give up nuclear weapons: Japan

No more arrests of Muslim leaders: Indonesian leader

Australia deported Al Qaeda man to S.Arabia-media

October 29, 2002

Israeli curbs force Palestinians to delay Cabinet vote

Blix seeks broad UN Council unity over Iraq

US diplomat shot dead in Amman

Chechen leader tells Moscow to make peace or face more attacks

Humaid blasts West for double standard

Large Saudi team to attend Arar border post reopening

Lebanese cleric calls for confronting Western 'political, cultural aggression' against Islam

Yemen parties seek new vote register

U.S.: It's time for UN to act on Iraq

US Congressional races to watch

Rumsfeld picks team of experts to find Iraqi terror link

October 28, 2002

Assassination of a US diplomat in Jordan today

Thousands make voices heard against war on Iraq

Gas killed all but 2 hostages

3 Israeli soldiers killed in attack on settlement

Saudi Arabia and Egypt call for united Arab front

Inspector Blix may help resolve Iraq impasse

War with Iraq will spur terrorism: Alliot-Marie

Israel reoccupies Jenin as US mission ends

Kuwait seals north, west for foreign troops

Warring Somali factions sign ceasefire agreement

October 27, 2002

A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 4 and injures tens of Israeli soldiers in the West Bank

Global protests assail Bush's Iraq plan

Massacre in Moscow

Survivors recover from poison gas

PA minister savages US ‘peace plan’

Iraq step laudable and must avert US strike — Saud

Libya rebuffs Arab League plea

France puts pressure on US over Iraq

Sayeed to head coalition govt in Kashmir

Hizbullah ready to spoil ‘Sharon’s plans’

Yemen loses heavily due to insurance fee hikes

10 killed in Kashmir violence

October 26, 2002

Russian special forces storm theater: Bloody ending of hostage crisis

Israeli troops take over Jenin

Russia, France float own UN Iraq drafts

Islamists score victory in Bahrain poll

Occupation forces kill another child

Excerpts of new US draft peace plan for Middle East

Iraq accused United States of steering Iraqi diplomats into 'betraying their country'

October 25, 2002

Hostage killed in Moscow theater siege

Washington sniper caught napping

Bahrainis ignore boycott call, vote in large numbers

UN to discuss US draft on Monday

Gadhafi abandons Arab League

Burns talks peace as Israel kills child

US envoy in Israel with peace 'road map'

Israel holds 10 bedouin soldiers for espionage

Israeli reservists tell supreme court: Occupation is illegal

Arab nations will not support attack on Iraq: League

US forces dig a hole, strike Afghan weapons

WHO teams investigate mystery Afghan 'epidemic'

October 24, 2002

50 Chechen suicide bombers take 700 Russians as hostages in Moscow and call for an end of war in Chechnya

US pro-Israel policy fueling Arab ire: Saud

US calls Security Council meeting

US military rethinks invasion of Baghdad

Israeli MPs support deportation

US draft resolution "declaration of war": Iraqi minister

US envoy in Israel with peace "roadmap"

Burns: I conveyed Bush's vision

US threats will hamper peace talks: Sudan

Trigger-happy Iraqis told to hold their fire

Bahrain election boycott campaign draws thousands to rally

US puts pressure on UN over Iraq

Revised resolution not acceptable: Russia

S Korean leader opposes sanctions against North

US cannot understand events in Mideast — Assad

The two faces of Bush's 'axis of evil'

Egypt court urges end to 21-year emergency as it frees 101 Islamists

October 23, 2002

Russia ‘no’ to new US resolution on Iraq

Israel redeploys army in Hebron, kills two in Gaza

Israeli minister calls for Palestinian villages dismantling

Evangelical Christians back eviction

Attack a blow to Palestinian state: US

US to free some Guantanamo prisoners

Washington area sniper kills again

Britons continue opposing anti-Iraq war

US offers Israel huge aid package to shelter it from any strike on Iraq

Saddam will have to go, insists Bush

October 22, 2002

14 killed and 50 injured in a car bomb in northern Israel

10 killed in Kashmir

Algerian rebels kill seven villagers: newspaper

UN Big-5 discuss new US resolution on Iraq

Half of Europe rejects EU expansion

Hamad urges huge turnout as debate rages over boycott

Kuwait takes delivery of Iraq-seized archive

Security court begins trial of 26 Islamists

Swedish prosecutors reject war crimes case against Sharon

Hasina granted bail

Letter from Lahore: Politics behind closed doors

EU pushes Israel down 'road map' to peace

Baghdad woos exiles after amnesty

October 21, 2002

Saddam empties jails

Saddam pardons all political prisoners in Iraq

Kuwait, Iraq meet at border on national archive

Diplomats see U.N. deal on Iraq resolution in days

EU relief over Irish ‘yes’ vote

US, Turkish military meet over Iraq

Iran, EU open joint energy office

UN investigator visits Afghan mass graves

Israel arrests Palestinians; soldiers injured by their own explosives

Palestinians abandon village, citing terror attacks, harassment by Jewish settlers

PA: Peace plan ‘must contain guarantees’

Iraq war 'unjustifiable', says Bush's church head Ed Vulliamy in New York

U.N. Resolutions Frequently Violated 

Palestine Activism Spammed

Al-Azhar Sheikh denounces congressional decision on Jerusalem

Chirac says force should be last resort in Iraq

October 20, 2002

US weighing Israeli plan to disarm Iraq

Value-based growth plan urged

Tanks rumble back into Jenin

Fresh initiative to form govt

France, Russia undecided on new Iraq proposals by U.S.

Arab ministers approve media charter

Burns launches Mideast tour as US lashes Israel

Israel arrests more Palestinians amid US calls for calm

US softens stance on UN resolution

Another US carrier for Gulf

Arab American News

Mahathir warns attack on Iraq will sharpen West-Muslim divide

Abdullah back home after Abu Dhabi talks

US seeks to freeze accounts of Saudis for ‘financing’ Al-Qaeda

North Korea confesses to have a nuclear program

October 19, 2002

Mahathir warns attack on Iraq will sharpen West-Muslim divide

Abdullah back home after Abu Dhabi talks

US seeks to freeze accounts of Saudis for ‘financing’ Al-Qaeda

Israel delays pullout from Hebron

2 children among 8 Palestinians killed by Israeli tanks

Syria courts Kurds as it worries about ouster of President Saddam

Church figures appeal to Arabs to defend Iraq

French minister hopeful about compromise with US on Iraq

Kuwait national archives seized by Iraq en route back home

India puts Kashmir under direct rule

North Korea confesses to have a nuclear program

US officials in Beijing to discuss N Korea crisis

General strike sees 1mn Italians take to the streets

Palestinian children in occupied areas deeply disturbed

October 18, 2002

Israelis kill 8 Palestinians injure 55 in cold blood

Mahathir: US strike will spur animosity

Israeli rights group criticises army enforcement of curfews

Chirac urges ‘confidence’ in Lebanon’s future

Wazzani pump swings into action at long last

Joint Yemen, Sudanese, Ethiopian summit sends message

Yemen signs agreements to join GCC

The resurrection of Alexandria Library

Millions would die in Iraq war: Syria

Yemen finally admits deadly French tanker blast was terror attack

Palestinians say disappointed with Sharon-Bush meeting

Abed Rabbo says he will not join new Palestinian government

Nations protest US war plans; US readies new text

Iraq better prepared to fight after vote: Saddam

Iran, Turkey agree on Iraq, Kurds: Khatami

Bush, Sharon keep world guessing over war on Iraq

War is worst solution, says Chirac

30,000-45,000 Australians rally against war with Iraq

October 17, 2002

Carter: US "In Bed" with Israel

Bush signs Iraq war legislation

Israelis torturing Barghouti, says wife

EU condemns Israel over Fatah killing

Massive turnout in Iraq referendum

Iraqis vote in festive mood

Iraqis say ‘yes’ to Saddam as UN remains split over resolution

Saddam, a truly popular president?

U.S. 'policy on Iraq unjustified'

Beirut set to turn on  Wazzani pumps

Mubarak warns Iraq-obsessed world it is missing key to stability

Musa: Arabs will not fight Iraq

Sudan government, rebels sign truce ahead of talks

14 killed in Kashmir

13 villagers, five soldiers killed by extremists in Algeria

 

October 16, 2002

Israeli police briefly detain, humiliate Jerusalem Mufti

Iraqis queue up to vote for Saddam and "fire a shot at Bush"

Musharraf tells EU to mind its own business

Cleric stays calm despite terror accusations

Police hunt Jemaah Islamiah suspects in Philippines

Attack on Iraq could lead to nuclear terrorism: Mahathir

Attempt to hijack Saudia flight foiled

Gunmen fire at US troops in 3rd Kuwait attack in a week

Indonesia blames Al Qaeda for Bali attack

Muslims protest near Vajpayee residence

Israel assassinates 2 Islamic Jihad activists

Nasrallah hails ‘political’ Francophonie

Arms experts probe alleged Ukrainian sale to Iraq

Arab-American News

EU offers development plan for southern Lebanon amid water row with Israel

No Arab soldier would join US attack on Iraq: Arab League chief

Khatami: US plan to attack Iraq runs counter to UN charter

Malaysia seeks urgent OIC meeting on Iraq -Mahathir

Sudan army claims wins ahead of fresh peace talks

October 15, 2002

Palestinian territories largest detention camp in world, says UK envoy

Greek Orthodox Palestinians protest Israeli plan to demolish their homes

Saudi Arabia won’t help US in Iraq war: Sultan

Damascus demands US ambassador explain Washington's anti-Syria comments

Omar Abdullah resigns after Kashmir poll drubbing

Investigators arrive in Ukraine to probe radar sales to Iraq

Turks demonstrate amid growing opposition to US attack on Iraq

Opposition to US planned war against Iraq increases

Iran lashes out at US insistence on attacking Iraq

October 14, 2002

Israeli troops kill six Palestinians

182 killed, hundreds injured in a car bomb, in Bali, Indonesia. Most are Australian tourists.

Premier's party sweeps Algeria's elections; vote marred by violence

Saudi Arabia will fingerprint Americans

Divers seek seabed evidence at gutted Yemen tanker

Sudan government, rebels to resume talks

Aziz vows iron resistance to any US strike

Benazir plea rejected

October 13, 2002

Arafat set to announce new Cabinet within 10 days

Saudi Arabia not bound by UN resolution on Iraq’

US Embassy in Paris issues 2 alerts

EU observers say Pak poll seriously flawed

Parties haggle over govt formation in Kashmir

Arab states to back Iraq at UN: envoy

October 12, 2002

Former US President Carter wins Nobel Peace Prize

Carter opposed to Bush's Iraq plan

 Israelis bar Palestinians from praying at Al-Aqsa

Iraqis gear up to snub Bush by voting for Saddam in referendum

US plans postwar occupation of Iraq

Pakistan heads for hung Parliament

U.S. compromise sought on Iraq

Inspectors can visit palaces: Iraq

Massive Iran rally targets U.S., Israel

Kuwait arrests 26 suspects in "terrorist" plot

Israeli forces kill woman in Nablus, a man in Gaza, and arrests Hamas ctivists in the West Bank

Iraq squabbles over inspectors; UN to meet on Iraq

US, UK forces take position

Post-Saddam Iraq plan on anvil

Al Jazeera asked to be polite about Arabs

Thousands of Iranians rally against US and Israel

'Turkey to make no concession over Cyprus to get EU membership date'

16 policemen killed in Chechnya blast

Suicide bombing foiled in Tel Aviv

Egypt, Kuwait, Iran, Jordan may accept a "justified" war with Iraq: Straw

Lebanon prepared to restrict controversial water tapping: report

'Iraq to be focus of Bush-Sharon meeting'

Turk PM urges US not to back Kurd state in Iraq

October 11, 2002

US military confirms air strikes in southern Iraq

Iraq invites US officials to visit weapons sites

Suicide bomber kills one in Israel; clash in Gaza

Attack follows Israeli attacks in Gaza

US, UK jets kill four civilians: Iraq

Al Jazeera to air rare Saddam interview

Straw fails to secure Iran support on Iraq

Musharraf to transfer power Nov. 1

Israelis kill 2 more Palestinian boys

Indian Kashmir’s ruling party loses poll

Sudan's oil for peace

Iranian envoy slams American preacher’s anti-Islamic bile

Wazzani pump passes first test

Olive harvest comes to end as Israeli security fence cuts through West Bank

October 10, 2002

12 killed in Kashmir

Four Iraqis killed in air raids

Israel kills 2 Palestinian boys in Gaza

US soldier shoots at Kuwaiti car

Vote honest people to power: Musharraf

Sharon praises strike which killed 15 people as success

World leaders hope Bush speech might mean no Iraq war

Sudanese army recaptures stronghold from rebels

US, British jets attack Iraqi air defence: military

Eight injured as Israeli gunfire rips through Gaza school: Palestinians

US wants to destroy Iraq and then divide Arab world: Aziz

October 9, 2002

Two Kuwaitis and one American marine are killed in a fire exchange in Kuwait

Gunmen who attacked US marines dead: Pentagon

Sharon to press on with offensive

Russia backs France on Iraq-deputy minister

GCC to consult Europe on monetary union

Trimble wants Sinn Fein out of government

Pro-government "volunteers", Muslims, clash in Ivory Coast capital

Bush says Iraq threat growing

Annan fears Israeli raid may escalate conflict

Is oil fuelling America's oust-Saddam drive?

Zayed advises Iraq not to give U.S. reason to attack

Poll: Bush too preoccupied with Iraq, overlooking economy

Tens of thousands of Americans protest US' Iraq policy

US, Britain seek support for tough line on Iraq

Iran will not allow US to use its airspace to attack Iraq

Hariri meets US officials on water row with Israel

October 8, 2002

Israeli blitz kills 14 Palestinians

Investigation begins on crippled supertanker

Unity of the Arab Maghreb, Algeria's strategic option

As Bush stups up the pressure, a rising tide of world opposition     

Arabs feel US should be more balanced — poll

Iraq opens door to new UN resolution ahead of arms regime debate

October 7, 2002

14 Palestinian civilians massacred and 110 injured by Israeli occupation forces in Gaza

Palestinian Authority signs law making Jerusalem capital

Solana meets Israeli, Palestinian officials

Explosion in a French oil tanker off the Yemeni coast

Naif calls for global stand to oppose war on Iraq

Saudi detainees in Afghanistan put at 100

Fingerprinting likely for Americans

Israeli occupation troops kill another Palestinian boy

Bush says war with Iraq may be unavoidable

'No Iraqi missiles aimed at Israel so far'

Afghanistan pays a heavy price for US attack

Benazir threatens anti-govt drive

Iraq softens stand on new UN resolution

Sharon asks ministers to keep mum on Iraq

Saddam helps Bush forget Bin Laden

New Bin Laden threat to US

October 6, 2002

Bush says Iraq strike may be unavoidable

PM to get all powers, says Musharraf

Arab League panel to discuss US Jerusalem law

Saudi Arabia may stay away from AGCC meet

Thousands flock to anti-war rallies in Italy

Bush pushes Congress on Iraq resolution

Thousands rally against Azerbaijan's government

Thousands stage anti-govt protest in I Coast town

Rival Cypriot leaders decide to reunify island

October 5, 2002

Lawmakers assailed for ‘unpatriotic’ trip to Iraq

Israeli soldiers storm Islamic holy site

Effective Muslim media need of the hour: Sudais

Barghouthi rejects Israel's right to try him

Blix briefs UN on Iraq deal, as hard US line faces opposition

Arafat appeals to Christians to oppose US law on Jerusalem

US rejects comparing Iraqi and Israeli WMD

Kurdish parliament to endorse peace deal at landmark meeting

US, Britain move goalposts again on Iraq oil, MEES

Bosnians vote in crucial elections

EU defence force plan hit by Iraq concerns

US News Focus: DeLay: Once an Opponent, Always an Opponent

Regime Change in Germany?

Figures on the devastation of the Palestinian population

Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) is organizing a filibuster on the Bush Administration's war resolutions

Quotes from Grassley, Clinton, Paul, Crnyn, & Zogby's book

Lantos behind House Resolution 1646 about occupied Jerusalem as Israel's capital

October 4, 2002

New US Jerusalem bill alienates Muslims

Muslims are opposed to use of force: Turki

Barghouti stays defiant in court

13 killed in Algeria

Arafat leads outcry against U.S. law on Jerusalem

Anger swells in Arab, Muslim world

Iraq, U.S., UN in diplomatic tussle

Benazir party victory in polls predicted

Israeli Jewish lawyer comes to rescue of Barghuthi

Iran calls for Islamic summit on US Jerusalem law

Palestinian killed by Israeli troops in Jenin

Inspectors await new mandate

White House spurns call for Bush-Saddam duel

Palestinians call for US boycott

Five killed in US-British raids: Iraq

Bush says force is 'my last choice'

Bulgaria offers base for any US attack

Barghouthi urges Palestinians to defy army curfews

Israeli tank fire kills Palestinian vendor: medics

Russia unhappy with US-British resolution on Iraq

US House Defeats the Houses of Worship Political Speech Protection Act

October 3, 2002

Riyadh decries new US law on Jerusalem

Bush gets Congress backing on Iraq

Palestinian child killed by Israel

Syria-Egypt urge UN to force Israel implement resolutions

EU ministers: "UN must be driving force"

Blair faces revolt!

U.S. move on Jerusalem antagonises Arab world

22 killed in Kashmir

Congress boost for Bush plan

Russia signals shift towards US Iraq policy

AGCC slams US law on Jerusalem

Europeans say no to war on Iraq

US warplanes await orders for Iraq strike

Iraq rejects move for new resolution

Iran govt upbeat over Khatami reform bills

 

October 2, 2002

Arabs lambaste US over Jerusalem

US Congress forces Bush's hand on Israel capital

U.N. inspectors make progress in Iraq talks

Four dead, fighting surges in Palestinian city

Palestine is still the issue: A documentary that portrays Palestinian plight

New US terms for inspection

White House would welcome slaying of Saddam by Iraqis

OIC sees backlash over US move on Jerusalem

Greece cracks down on smokers

Egypt, Syria urge firm stance against Iraq strike

October 1, 2002

Riyadh blast was no terror attack, Prince Nawaf

Four killed in gunbattle near British embassy in Yemen, witnesses

Sharon can be prosecuted for war crimes

UN for unfettered arms inspection

Bush signs bill calling Jerusalem Israeli capital

Two Palestinian boys killed in Israeli gunfire

US steps up lobbying for Iraq resolution

US carrier in Gulf poised for Iraq attack

97 members of the Israeli academe warn that the Israeli government may be contemplating more crimes against humanity when war breaks out

 

 

 

 

 


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