Learn what will happen during the tribulation period from beginning to end
Your comments and questions are always welcome. To send comments and questions please click here to go to our main page. December 16, 2002 Blair
Ups Peace Effort Amid More Mideast Violence (Reuters) Egypt
wants Washington to present Mideast peace roadmap before Israeli election (Associated
Press) Britain
Invites Palestinians for Talks (Associated
Press) EU
Says Historic Enlargement Comes Cheaply (Reuters) Powell
offers assurance to North Korea but rules out nonaggression treaty (Associated
Press) Israeli
military kills three Palestinians in Gaza but eases travel restrictions in West
Bank (Associated Press) Pastor Malone
Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip Monday shot dead two Hamas
Islamic militants trying to plant explosives and a Palestinian man tending to
songbirds in his backyard, witnesses said.
Egypt urged the United States on Friday to quickly lay out its
so-called "roadmap" for establishing a Palestinian state, saying
Washington should not delay the plan until after Israeli and Palestinian
elections next month.
Prime Minister Tony Blair said Monday he has invited Palestinian
leaders to London in the new year to discuss progress on reform in Yasser
Arafat's self-rule government and ways to further the Mideast peace process.
The European Union's historic decision to take in 10, mostly
ex-communist countries in 2004 will extend the zone of stability and prosperity
in Europe at a rock-bottom price, the EU's top budget official said Monday.
Secretary of State Colin Powell offered assurances Monday to
North Korea that the United States had no plan to attack it but he rejected an
overture for a nonaggression treaty.
President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
discussed the situation in the Middle East in a telephone call Monday, Putin's
office said.
Israeli soldiers on Monday killed three Palestinians in Gaza, at
least two of them armed, while easing a key travel restriction in the West Bank.