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The Turkish daily Hurriet issued on Monday indicated the short meeting held between President Bashar al-Assad and the Turkish President Ahmad Nacdat Cezar in the framework of the Islamic summit in Doha. The paper added during the meeting that al-Assad will visit Turkey within a very short time and that President Cezar responded positively. Go

The British daily The Independent reported that an unauthorised British flight headed to Iraq last week in defiance of the UN sanctions and the British and American Governments. It said that organizers, including George Galloway, a Labor MP, "claimed a victory after the Foreign Office in London, which has always maintained that such missions were illegal" Go

Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak described this year's elections, held under judicial supervision for the first time ever in Egypt's parliamentary history, as a leading and excellent experience, and hoped that in the future elections would witness larger turnouts because this time, it was not as high as expected, especially in the cities. "We hope the voters trust what we say because we want members of parliament to be elected on sound and firm bases," he added. Go

The Kuwaiti daily al-Seyasah issued on Monday said that the Kuwaiti minister of oil and acting information minister Sheikh Saud al-Nasser al-Sabah is on the top of the assassination list targeted by the extremist networking recently arrested in Kuwait. The paper added that Sheikh Saud was the target of the Political Islamic parties since he was information minister in the previous governments. Go

The Hebrew- language Israeli radio quoted an official source in the Fatah movement as saying that members of this organization on Sunday assassinated a Palestinian who was working for the Israeli intelligence as he leaked information about the activities and moves of Hussein Abbeyat who was killed during an operation carried out by an Israeli military unit on Saturday. Go

Morocco's Speaker of the house of representatives, Abdelouahed Radi, met in Rabat Monday with Alfonso Perales, member of the autonomous government of the Spanish southern region of Andalusia. They reviewed Moroccan-Spanish relations and the contribution of Spain, particularly Andalusia, in the development of Morocco's northern provinces. Go

Morocco and Spain signed in Rabat Monday two memos on financing by the Spanish government worth $ 2.4 million of drinking water projects in northern Morocco. Go

Muslims launched on Monday a fund-raising operation in favor of the Organization of Islamic Conference OIC, which wound up its 9th summit in the Qatari capital city, Qatar's ruler, Sheikh Hamad Ben Khalifa Al-Thani, announced. Qatar and Kuwait donated $ three million each, while Saudi Arabia donated $ 10 million to the OIC, Sheikh Hamad said in a speech at the closing session of the summit. Go

Malaysia will host in 2003 the 10th summit of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), said the final communique of the OIC 9th summit, held over the weekend in Doha, Qatar. Go

The Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak on Sunday evening briefed the Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a telephone conversation, with the question of kidnapping the Russian plane which landed at an Israeli military airport on Sunday morning. Go

Searching and lifting of remains continued in the two buildings collapsed in al-Naemah district in South Beirut after it was said that one person is still missing, as number of victims increased to 9 and the wounded to 29. Go