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British Minister Quits over U.S. Role

Anti-Muslim Attacks Penetrate U.S. 'Hallowed Halls of Ivy'

Shias Rise to Split Power

IAEA Fears over Damage at Nuclear Plant

U.S. Again Flouts World Opinion by Lifting Sanctions - Group

She Must Have Been Crazy to Oppose Saddam

Next Target: Iran?

Palestinian Groups Forced to Shut Shop

Who's in Charge in Washington?

Damascus Stands Up to U.S. Pressure

Saudi-U.S. Realignment Political, Not Military, Strategy

U.S. Occupation of Japan a Model - or Warning - for Iraq

East Europe Looks for its Dollar of Flesh

Groups Wary of WEF 'Cooperation' Meeting in Jordan

Anti-War Demonstrators Report Torture

U.S. Forces Fail Iraqi Treasures Again

Turkey's Kurd Fears Prove Unfounded

Mosul Finds More Than a Leader or Two

Washington Taps Free Market Alumni to Run Economy

Aid Channel Opened through Syria

Aid to Iraq Hides Falling Generosity - Analysts

Unease Grows over a U.S. Neighbourhood

France Looks for a Way between U.S. and UN

Now the Ethnic Re-Cleansing Begins

Oil Giant Makes its Absence Felt

Mending Fences with the U.S.

Mideast Nuclear Weapons Free Zone a Non-Starter

Islamic Challenge Rises in Neighbouring Yemen

After Iraq, View of U.S. Double Standards Sharpens

Israel Perhaps the Major Beneficiary of U.S.-led Invasion

Shia Pilgrims Progress Past Saddam

Bargaining in the Air as Security Council Talks Sanctions

U.S. Neo-Conservatives Launch War at Home

Namibians Make Financial Donations

ICFTU Ready to Assist Workers

Divisions Among Neighbours Add to Stability Concerns

Were U.S. Weapons Claims Exaggerated?

Saddam's Diplomats Remain in Latin American Posts

Cluster Bomb 'Duds' Leave Behind a Minefield

U.S. Takes Tentative Steps to Transform Region

Still at Home with Saddam

U.S. Faces Uphill Battle to Lift U.N. Sanctions

UN Resolution Sought to Protect Treasures

U.S. Controls Just a Square Mile of Baghdad

GCC Discusses UN Role, But Focuses on Syria

Iranian Businessmen Smell Money

Economic Damage Could Far Surpass 1991 War, U.N. says

Hundreds of U.S. Soldiers Emerge as Conscientious Objectors

Worldwide Move to Stop Sale of Loot

Japan Walks Tightrope on Pushing for U.S. or U.N. Role

Godfather Role Became Dictator Rule

Groups Launch War Crimes Probe

Gulf Economies Peg Boom to Reconstruction

Syria in the Crosshairs of Familiar Group of Hawks

Jordan Caught in Political Crossfire

Suicide Bomber Lives, and Rules

U.S. Pyrrhic Victory Should be a Humbling Experience

Anti-War Groups Call for Boycott of U.S. Products

Shias Emerge from the Shadows

Embedded or In-Bed-With?

Syria Battles with the Reality of Regime Change

Activists Stunned by U.S. Debt Forgiveness Plan

U.N. Condemns 'Incredible' Civilian Deaths

Fight Against War Continues

After Iraq, South Asia's Nukes May be Next U.S. Target

Many Circling Around the Vacuum

Street Battles Still Rage in Baghdad

U.S. Set to Bypass U.N.

Portugal Also Keen on Winning Reconstruction Contracts

Australia's Post-war Plan Short on Humanitarian Efforts

Road Map Or Road to Damascus?

Muslim Paradoxes Exposed as Regime is Collapsing

Russia Remains Unconvinced of U.S. Success

No Celebrations at the Hospitals

Europe Welcomes the Fall of Saddam

Gulf Arabs Seek to Overcome Past by Focusing on Future

Blair Emerges as the Hero of Baghdad

U.S.-led Invasion Raises Tough Questions for Burma

With War, Age of Fence-sitting Over in South-east Asia

U.S. Govt Accused of War Crimes against Journalists

Syria Not to Recognise Any U.S. Military Government in Baghdad

What Next?

OPEC Interests a Possible War Casualty

Anti-War Sentiment Weakens Aznar Government

Media Groups Condemn U.S. Killings

Divided, They Celebrate

Bloody Anarchy, Rather than Democratic Order, Looms

Care Available, But Not Where Needed

Blood Splashed Across Arab Media

Another Diplomatic Row over UN Role

Sri Lankan Workers Still Going to the Middle East

For Bangladeshi Workers, End to War Means Return of Jobs

Pentagon Parachutes Favourite into Position

A Divided Opposition Heads Back

Supposedly United, They Fell Before

Australian Firms Eye Spoils of War in post-Saddam Era

Meanwhile, Back in Afghanistan

Iraqi War A Wake Up Call For Africa

The West May Try to Impose its Definition of Democracy on Africa - Mbeki

Media Wage Their Own War

Australian Firms Eye Spoils of War in post-Saddam Era

Defiance of the Silent Surfaces in Baghdad

'Keep a Low Profile', U.S. Arabs Advised

British Want a Bigger Slice of the Cake

On a One-Way Ticket from Yemen

Watch Woolsey

War on Iraq Threatens U.N. Poverty Goals

'Revolution' Officers Speak Out against War

Putin Changes the Tune

South Africa Turns Down U.S. Request to Expel Iraqi Ambassador

Asian Activists Seek Louder Voice against Invasion

In Syria it Comes Down to a Cartoonist

India's Scientists Mix Technology, Politics to Protest War

U.S. Rewards War Backers

Eden in the Line of Fire

Mexicans on the Front-Line

Caribbean Leaders Strive to Regain Unanimity on War

Arab Volunteers to become 'Freedom Martyrs'

Tourism Becomes a Casualty in Egypt

Till War Do Us Part

'Sunny' Caribbean Clouded by War and SARS

After Saddam's Call, All Eyes on Asia's Angry Young Muslims

Anti-War Australians Dejected by Rising Support for Conflict

Pakistanis Try to Find Their Way in Media War

There's No Business Like War Business

Rumsfeld Under Heavy Fire at Home

The War As Seen Through The African Lens

Iranian Reformists Back Hardliners Against War

French Fear 'Dr. Strangelove' May Have Stepped Out of Fiction

Bombs Could Hurt the U.S. More

Battle for Baghdad Flounders in Sea of Deception

Mexico Assumes Presidency of Security Council at Tough Time

War on Everyone's Minds on Afghan-Pakistani Border

Iranian Special Forces Take a Hand

Occupation Struggle Pits Pentagon Against Powell, Europe

The West Could Lose Its Grip On Africa Say Analysts

Worries over North Korea Push Japan to U.S. Side

New Fears from Depleted Uranium

Shadow of Israel over the War

U.N. Agreed on Aid Role but Skirted Political Minefield

Poll Finds U.S. Public Rallying to Bush and Supporting U.N.

Bombs Rain in at Harvest Time

War Tests Freedom of Press in the Gulf

Kashmir Problem Muddies India's Stand on Iraq

Food Waits For Fighting to End

Opposition Turns On U.S., Not Saddam

Political Crossfire Within Jordan

Arab Australians Fear Being Used to Blunt Anti-War Protests

More Journalists Jailed in Climate of 'War On Terrorism'

Brazil Leads Weekend of Anti-War Protests

IRAQ: Rights of Protesters Violated, says Amnesty

IRAQ-SPAIN: Anti-war Sentiment Spreads to New Fronts

NORTH AMERICA: Hemisphere Entangled in U.S.-Woven Net

IRAQ: British MP Sees Catastrophe Ahead

IRAQ: Artists in Latin America Act Out Against the War

IRAQ: Anti-war Protests Picking up in India, More Coming

IRAQ: Doubts Haunt Turkey's Kurds

POLITICS-U.S.: Neo-Con Nosedive?

IRAQ: Syria Joins Battle of Words

New Fear Dawns over Baghdad

Russia Fights a Battle of Words with U.S.

Gulf Widens between Arab Aspiration and Government Reaction

Aid Groups See Hard Times Ahead

Islamic Anger Rises in Yemen

South Africa Ponders Over U.S. Request to Expel Iraqi Ambassador

South African Anti-War Protestors Remain Steadfast

Student Spring Break on the Anti-War Picket Line

Anti-‘Yanqui’ Feeling Fed from Afar

Coalition of the Cowed and Corrupt

U.S. Moves to Block U.N. Emergency Session on War

U.S. Media Along for the Ride

Historic Miscalculation in the Making

Islamisation Begins to Take Root

Darkness at Noon over Baghda

Gulf Aid Groups Swing into Action

U.N. Heading for Standoff Over Relief Aid

European Union All Set to Provide Humanitarian Relief

Opposition to War Grows in Spain's Parliament, on Streets

Holocaust Colours German Jews' View of the War

Italians Feel Intensely about War and Peace

Washington to Use Seized Iraqi Money to Pay Contracts

The Split is Forever, Author Argues

Springtime for Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood

U.S. Ambassador Raps Canada's Anti-war Stand

Software Stakes in U.S. Ensure Muted War Protests in India

Amid War, Malaysian Groups Cross Political Divide

Bombs Begin to Hit Also the Survivors

'Shock and Awe' Today, 'Terror and Panic' in Vietnam Before

Bombs Rain Where Civilisation Grew

UN Commission Divided Over Iraq

U.N. Chief Defends U.S.-Ordered Exit

Venezuela's Chávez Adds Voice to Criticism of United States

Caribbean Feels U.S. Pressure

Ominous Signs Grow for U.S, Britain in 'Shock and Awe' War

France Warns Again of Veto

New Differences Surface in Middle East

South Pacific, far away...

Level of Resistance May Influence U.S. Future Plans

Pakistan: Amid War

The Road to Baghdad May be Long

Waking up to a nightmare

'Our world seemed to shake'

A Language for the Moment

Arab Media Condemns War

Latin American Media Seek Own Vision in War Coverage

Trail of Refugees Heads for Syria

Baghdad Too Switches to War on TV

U.S. Bombs Trigger Protests Country-wide

Neo-Conservatives Enlist Democrats for Post-War Goals

Forecasts of Massive Refugee Flows Miss the Mark, So Far

Foes India and Pakistan 'United' against War

Egyptian Police Clamp Down on Anti-War Rallies

Attack on Iraq Sparks Angry Rallies, Strikes Muddassir Rizvi

'Not in Our Name', Protesters Say of Iraq War

Activists to Keep Up Anti-War Vigil at U.S. Embassy

The High Stakes Game of Oil

U.S. Accused of Using Food as Weapon

U.S.-led War Shrinks Room for Tolerant Islam in Indonesia

Gulf Arabs Endorse the End, Not the Means

Latent Split on Post-War Plan Emerges Among Bush Hawks

'Saddam Scores with Propaganda Hit'

Muted Protests Across Middle East on Day One

War Looks Lost Even Before First Shot

'Martyrdom Bonus' For Families of Palestinian Suicide Bombers

U.S. Will Need U.N. to Rebuild Country, Warn Diplomats

Activists Worldwide Prepare Day-After Demonstrations

When 'Orange' is 'Black' - U.S. Muslims Brace for Backlash

Gulf War Raises Fresh Fears of Terrorist Attacks in Kenya

Azores Summit, a Declaration of War on UN, Say Analysts

An Attack on Iraq a Mistake - African Intellectuals

Activists Heading for Iraq to Serve as Human Shields

Bush Deaf to Protests, say Marchers

New Rallies Held, But the Old were on Target

Peace Movement Finds Ally in Trade Unions

Iraq to Overshadow Debates in UN Commission

South Africa Plays Down Africa's Vote in the UN

Bush Faces Rising Scepticism About 'Morning After' Plans

Uncertainty About War Plans Brings U.S. Economy Down

Spotlight Turned on Role Played by U.S. Jews in Crisis

Third World Group Tells Members in UN Council to Vote 'No'

Will Iraq Crisis Signal U.N.'s Final Disappearing Act?

Iraq Decision Will Ring Throughout Region - U.N. Chief

U.S. Soldiers and Families Oppose War Aims, Preparations

Nobel Laureate Saramago on Why War Is Wrong

Islamic Nations' Meet Shows Disagreement amid Iraq Crisis

Oil Benefits Will Flow to U.S. from Iraq - Experts

Inspectors Losing Patience, Saddam Time

Building a 'Coalition of the Coerced'?

The Shields Are Only Human

U.S. Flexes Economic Muscle to Garner U.N. Votes

Groups Protest U.S. Expulsion of U.N.-based Iraqi Reporter

Drive to Iraq Puts Western Alliance System at Risk

France Spearheads Move to Slow March to War on Iraq

UN Divided Despite New US 'Evidence' against Iraq

Bush Revives Alleged Al-Qaeda-Baghdad Link

Most Security Council Members Back Inspections

Anti-War Demonstrators tell U.N. - 'Not in Our Name'

Anti-War Activists Travel to Live with Iraqi People

Groups Protest 'Registration' of Arab, Muslim Men

U.S. Continues to Push U.N. to End Iraq Arms Inspections

Military Spending Inadequate, Hawks Tell Bush

War Would Be 'Catastrophic' for Iraqi Children - Report

U.S.-backed Iraqi Opposition Mobilises Western Corporate Support

Powell Argues for War, Dismisses Humanitarian Disaster Talk

War on Iraq would Affect WTO Talks

Not Love But Sympathy for Saddam

Iraq's Neighbours Reject War, Ask Saddam to Assist

U.N.'s Veto-Wielding Members Split Over War on Iraq

New NATO Allies Ready to Support Washington against Iraq

Expectations Surrounding Iraq, Venezuela Keep Prices High

POLITICS-IRAQ:Anti-War Protests Across Arab World

POLITICS:Anti-War Protests Grow in US, Abroad

POLITICS:U.N. Arms Chief Says no 'Smoking Gun' to Indict Iraq

POLITICS: Too Soon to Decide on War with Iraq, says U.N. Chief

POLITICS-MIDEAST: Arabs Blast U.S. Dichotomy on Iraq, North Korea

POLITICS-U.S.: Korea is Iraq Spelled Backwards

POLITICS : World Obsessed with Iraq Must Not Ignore Africa - UN

POLITICS-YEMEN:An Ally Fights the U.S. Shadow

POLITICS-SYRIA:Assad gets a letter from Saddam

MIDDLE EAST:Saudi Anti-war Call Unlikely to Close Arab Ranks

ECONOMY: New War May Trigger Major Crisis, U.N. Warns

POLITICS-U.S.: The Unreality of Imminent War