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Esmat Abd El-Maguid, the Arab League Secretary General assured that the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon came due to the hard efforts of the Lebanese people and resistance over 22 years, assuring that the Arab right will never be relinquished no matter how long the occupation lasts, emphasizing Lebanon's right in resistance as long as Israel occupies the Shebaa farms area. Go

News reports in Amman said on Wednesday that King Abdullah II of Jordan will on tomorrow start a tour which will cover Iceland, Britain and the USA.The Jordanian daily al-Arab al-Yaoum said that King Abdullah will start his visit in Iceland for one day and then he will leave to Britain also for one day. On Saturday the Jordanian King will arrive in the US in a visit which will last for 10 days during which he will meet with the US President Bill Clinton and his US secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Go

It was announced in Cairo on Wednesday the postponement of the visit of the Arab League Secretary General Ismat Abdul Meguid to China during the period on June 12 to a date to be set by the two Arab and Chinese sides due to business engagements the two sides have. Go

In solidarity with the Syrian prisoners in the Israeli jails, the prisoners friends, students of the occupied Golan, the national union of the Syrian students in cooperation with the Damascus University Baath Arab socialist party branch will observe a sit in Thursday to express total solidarity with the Syrian prisoners who are in a hunger strike since May 18th. The sit-in will be carried out in front of the International Red Cross headquarters in Abu Rummaneh street in Damascus. Go

France has told the Israeli government it will withdraw its forces taking part in UNIFIL in South Lebanon is calm will not prevail in South Lebanon within the few coming weeks. Go

Lebanese Premier and foreign minister Salim al-Hoss on Wednesday signed a note saying that all state establishments and departments are to be closed off today ( Thursday) in an implementation of the decision taken by the Lebanese Cabinet on marking this day which follows Liberation is a national day for Lebanon. Go

Pope Shenouda lll of Alexandria and Patriach of St. Mark's Diocese following a visit to the Egyptian Coptic exhibition, currently held in the Paris-based Arab World Institute, he expressed admiration of the exhibition which grouped a unique collection of antiquities indicative of Egyptian Coptic art. Go

Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Hizballah asserted that the time of the Arab defeats is over and the Lebanese president Emil Lahud congratulated the Lebanese people and the Islamic resistance depicting the Israeli withdrawal of being a great victory for Lebanon, assuring his country's adherence to retaking Shebaa farms and denounced the denial of the report of the U.N Secretary General to this occupied area of the Lebanese lands in the frame of carrying out UN resolutions No. 425 and 426. Go

The 6th inventions and innovations exhibition is held here this May 25-29, with the participation of 20 countries. Over 200 companies and individuals will display 500 new products and technologies. The two best inventions will be awarded the Hassan II prize. In parallel, the fourth exhibition of water techniques and innovations will be held to promote new technologies that would help face challenged of water production, management, supply, transport and use. Go

The Saudi royal court in al-Riyadh on Wednesday announced the death of prince Mashari Bin Abdul Aziz Bin Abdul Rahman al-Saud on Tuesday outside Saudi Arabia at 68, after a long suffering of pain of a chronicle disease. The prince is one of the brothers of King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia. Go

The Algerian dailies al-Yaoum and al-Khabar said on Wednesday that the armed groups in Algeria killed four citizens and two others were wounded during the past 24 hours. Go

The United Nations food and refugee agencies today said they continued efforts to provide urgent humanitarian aid to arriving Eritrean refugees in Sudan, where more than 20,000 people had been registered over the past week. Citing Eritrean officials, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said 20,000 to 40,000 people had left their homes and were scattered along the Eritrean border prepared to move into Sudan if the fighting worsened, A UN statement said. Go

Iraq's President Saddam Hussein has received Russian President's envoy, Special Tasks Ambassador Nikolai Kortozov delivering a letter from Russian President Vladimir Putin, pertaining to bilateral relations and willingness to promote them in line with the deep-rooted friendship ties, the Iraqi news agency said. Go