The US vetoed a UN resolution that called on Israel to halt threats to expel Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from the West Bank.

UN diplomats said they would give France more time to reach agreement on its demands for new compensation from Libya for a 1989 bombing of a French airliner before voting to lift sanctions against the North African country. But they stressed that France needs to move quickly.

UN diplomats said they would give France more time to reach agreement on its demands for new compensation from Libya for a 1989 bombing of a French airliner before voting to lift sanctions against the North African country. But they stressed that France needs to move quickly.

Israel’s ambassador has used a UN Security Council meeting on terrorism to attack Syria as “one of the world’s foremost sponsors of terrorism”.

US President George Bush today warned Iraq that any delay in admitting United Nations weapons inspectors will be regarded as a breach of yesterday’s Security Council resolution.

SADDAM HUSSEIN was left friendless in the UN last night after the Security Council unanimously approved a tough new resolution aimed at forcing the Iraqi dictator to disarm or face “serious consequences” that would almost certainly mean war.

THE US took a final draft of its Iraq resolution to the UN Security Council yesterday hoping to win approval from wary allies concerned it could trigger a new war against Saddam Hussein.