After more than three months of single-minded concentration on
defeating terrorism, the Bush administration faces a potentially more
dangerous foreign policy crisis in the confrontation between
nuclear-armed India and Pakistan.
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Amid an intense
U.S. effort to defuse tensions between two
nuclear-capable countries, India’s government appeared to back off
Wednesday, at least for the moment, from a threat to impose sanctions on
neighboring Pakistan.
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The head of Afghanistan’s newly created Ministry of Women’s Affairs
challenged Secretary of State Colin
L. Powell on Monday to pick women for
high-profile jobs at the
U.S. Embassy in the war-ravaged country.
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Israeli armor and infantry early today occupied a Palestinian city
in the northern Gaza Strip, sealing off all roads and using loudspeakers
to call on Islamic militants to surrender, witnesses said.
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As furious fighting swept the hillsides here Thursday, killing
dozens of anti-Taliban soldiers, it seemed likely that fruitless attempts
to broker the surrender of besieged Al Qaeda fighters may have done more
harm than good.
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After a day of intense negotiation and heavy bombing, Afghan tribal
commanders said Wednesday that they have given hundreds of Al Qaeda
fighters a new ultimatum: Climb down from their mountain hide-out,
surrender themselves and their weapons and hand over Osama bin Laden, or
face further assault.
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In another sign of the Bush administration’s growing impatience
with Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, the State Department
has begun publicizing rewards for the arrest and conviction of
Palestinians accused of killing Americans in Israel, the West Bank and
the Gaza Strip, officials said Tuesday.
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Relaxed and apparently enjoying himself, Osama bin Laden
recounts–in a conversation caught on videotape–his satisfaction with
the Sept.
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Despite a kick in the stomach and the threat of death, John Walker
Lindh, the captured American Taliban fighter, refused to say a word to
two
CIA interrogators, including Johnny “Mike” Spann–who just hours
later became the first
U.S. combat fatality in Afghanistan.
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After months of urging Israel to act with “restraint,” the Bush
administration abandoned the word Monday and endorsed Israel’s right to
defend itself in any way it sees fit.
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