Libyan troops will leave the Central African Republic (CAR), where they have been protecting President Ange-Felix Patasse since a coup attempt in May 2001, and will be replaced by a Central African peacekeeping force, a CAR official said on Wednesday.
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein set himself on an early collision course with the US and Britain this week by defiantly continuing to insist he has no weapons of mass destruction. He bowed to international pressure by accepting weapons inspectors.
Adoption by the UN Security Council of the resolution on Iraq, tabled this week by the US, will set in motion a detailed timetable that could take the world to war within months. The resolution sets out tough new powers for UN weapons inspectors to use.
Washington this week revealed its intention to use United Nations weapons inspections as a possible first step towards a military occupation of Iraq by sending in troops, sealing off ”exclusion zones” and creating secure corridors throughout the country.
Director Luay Qasha of the Mansour hospital in Baghdad is, like so many Iraqis after 20 years of war, a fatalist. He smokes heavily, loves rich foods and is preparing his hospital for an attack by the United States.
Rival Palestinian militant groups, after six months of behind-the-scenes negotiations, have come close to a breakthrough that could alter the course of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Thirteen factions have been meeting to try to end their historic squabbles and put together a united front.
A TRAGIC new twist was added to the Middle East conflict when three 14-year-old Palestinian classmates were buried in Gaza this week after mounting a futile attack that ended with them being shot by Israeli soldiers
WEAPONS from Eastern Europe are being smuggled through Syria into Iraq, as Saddam Hussein builds up his defences in anticipation of a United States-led assault, according to three Iraqi officers who have fled to Europe.
Support is growing for the people’s general and Yasser Arafat’s potential successor.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak was on Wednesday preparing to send a team of negotiators to Washington to meet a Palestinian delegation.
