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A phone call was made yesterday between Colonel Moammar Gaddafi, leader of the Libyan revolution, and John Garang, leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Army. During the phone call, they emphasized that there is a great opportunity for achieving national reconciliation in Sudan and that all parties are ready to support Colonel Ghaddafi's efforts concerning this matter to stop the bleeding so that the Sudanese people will be able to establish their country and work with their African neighbors to achieve African unity to be able to confront the challenges of the new millennium. Go

The Lebanese newspaper Lewaa reported yesterday on Israeli proposals that it said were refused by Lebanon fo establish 10 early-warning centers after the occupation forces withdraw to be staffed by mult-national personnel with US leadership and with French participation. Go

King Mohammed VI on Thursday chaired a working session with an expert committee in charge of investments promotion. Go

The Itar-Tass news agency stated on Wednesday that the Russian Foreign Ministry recommended that all its citizens to avoid traveling to Lebanon. The Russian Foreign Ministry based its decisions on the "recent complications of the situation in Lebanon due to the revival of extremist forces and the danger resulting from that of the safety of the Russian citizens." Go

News reports from the occupied part of south Lebanon said that Lebanese workers who work in Israel stated that the Israeli government has completed the installation of a network of pipes, each with a diameter of 15 inches, starting from Banias town's spring in the Golan until al-Mattalah settlement which adjoins the border with Lebanon near Kafer Kalla town and that water has started to flow to this settlement and that this water is used for drinking and irrigation. Go

An Iraqi statement issued today said that the railway system in the country suffers from a severe lack of equipment and spare parts, which negatively effects the interior transportation movement, especially transferring supplies exported to Iraq according to agreements with the UN. Go

Bahraini Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Issa Al-Khalifa received a written message from UK Prime Minister Tony Blair in which Blair congratulated Sheikh Hamad on the Lesser Bairam. Go

Two persons were sentenced Thursday to life jail for having raped and killed a 7-year-old child in the town of Settat, near Casablanca. The two convicts were also sentenced for perverted sexual behavior and drug consumption. The case had provoked the anger among the public opinion in the town. Go

Mohammed El-Ghamarawi, head of the general organization for investment and the Egyptian free zones, decided to establish a data center to link between all the organization's sectors and local and international data centers, aiming at presenting data for local and foreign investors who wish to invest and to limit the procedures to save time for the investors. Go

The Israeli forces on Thursday at dawn arrested three Egyptians from the Sinai district under the pretext of that they were trying to cross into the Rafah area. Israeli Radio said on Thursday that the detainees were taken to the Israeli police center in Dimona for interrogation. Go

The Israeli daily Haaretz said on Thursday that vast Israeli military maneuvers have taken place in the past few days in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. Go

Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery near Bashiqah fired on aircraft enforcing the northern Iraq "no-fly zone" yesterday, the US European Command said, adding that the aircraft "responded to the Iraqi attack by dropping ordnance on elements of the Iraqi integrated air defense system." The incident marked the third straight day clashes have been reported in the northern no-fly zone. Go