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On cabinet reshuffle in Syria
Well-informed Syrian sources expected a ministerial reshuffle within two weeks, noting that this reshuffle will target most of old ministers in the government of Muhammad Mustafa Miro.
Syria, Politics, 8/2/2001
Egypt rejects Israeli government's policies towards Palestinians
On whether he was optimistic about the possibility of achieving something positive with Ariel Sharon in power in Israel, Siegman said officials would have to make initiatives and exert all possible efforts to try to return the peace process to its rational track.
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 8/2/2001
Lahoud stressed just, durable peace in ME
The Lebanese President Emil Lahoud has stressed that Lebanon is an advocate of a just and comprehensive peace based on the implementation of UN resolutions, the land for peace formula and the return back of the Palestinian refugees to their territories.
Lebanon-Regional, Politics, 8/2/2001
Israeli attempts to build third temple doomed to fail
Egyptian Presidential Political Adviser Osama A1 Baz Wednesday stressed that all Israeli attempts to lay the foundation stone for the alleged third Temple were doomed to failure. "No side is supporting Israeli desecration of the Islamic holy places," Baz said.
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 8/2/2001
Inter-Arab investments grow by 4.3% in 2000
Inter-Arab investments reached in 2000 some US$ 2.28 billion, posting a 4.3% growth compared to 1999, says the Arab Investments Guarantee Organization.
Regional, Economics, 8/2/2001
UN Security Council extends for UNIFIL
The UN Security Council has unanimously on Tuesday renewed the mission of UNIFIL ( UN forces working in Lebanon) for 6 more months without making a change in the mission of these forces. But the UN assigned the UN secretary general kofi Annan to prepare a detailed report after making consultations with the Lebanese government on " a possible defining of these forces as an observatory mission."
Lebanon, Politics, 8/2/2001
Radio Monte Carlo highlights Mubarak statements
This would lead to a situation that could be difficult to control, according to Mubarak.
Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 8/2/2001
On relations between Syria and Turkey
The Turkish daily Joumhoreyat said on Wednesday that the current visit made by the Syrian deputy foreign minister Mrs. Siba Nasser to Ankara will pave the way for the visit of the Turkish foreign minister Ismael Cim to Damascus and the visit of the " young" Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to Ankara.
Syria-Turkey, Politics, 8/2/2001
Bahrain is to be a Kingdom before 2003
Bahrain, Politics, 8/2/2001
President Mubarak presides over ministerial economic group meeting
The meeting discussed a number of ministerial reports, particularly as regards following up and regulating the exchange market and realizing stability in the financial exchange market and daily follow up of changes related to this.
Egypt, Economics, 8/2/2001
Ode denies to have embraced Shiite sect
Ode Saddam Hussein, the elder son of the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has denied what has been rumored that he had embraced the Shiite sect.
Iraq, Politics, 8/2/2001
The water issue between Turkey and Israel
The Turkish daily Millet said on Wednesday that Israel proposed to Turkey providing it ( Israel) with water against renovating several Turkish tanks at a total cost estimated at USD one billion.
Turkey-Israel, Economics, 8/2/2001
US refuses Jordanian proposal on tanks to Lebanon
The Israeli radio has quoted the Jordanian daily " Jordan Times," as saying that Washington refused a request proposed by Jordan to give Lebanon more than 50 Jordanian tanks, made by the US.
Jordan-Lebanon, Politics, 8/2/2001
Nearly $ 150 million will be injected in supermarkets in Morocco
The Moroccan government and two groups operating in supermarkets signed in Tangiers Wednesday an investment agreement worth 1.7 billion Dirhams (about $ 147.82 million).
Morocco, Business, 8/2/2001
International denunciation of the Israeli massacre
The massacre committed by Israel in Nablus claiming the lives of eight Palestinians including two children has evoked highly resounding reactions.
Regional-Palestine, Politics, 8/2/2001
Egypt warns against Juadizing Jerusalem's antiquities
Egyptian Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni called for holding an emergency meeting by the UNESCO world heritage committee to discuss Israeli measures aiming at Juadizing Islamic heritage of the Palestinian people.
Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 8/2/2001
Imam exhorts Muslims to defend Jerusalem
On the other hand, Tantawi stressed that there has been no Solomon Temple under Al-Aqsa Mosque as the Jews claim. He pointed out that the Israeli allegations are sheer lies aiming at misleading the international public opinion.
Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 8/2/2001
King Mohammed dedicates Tetuan library
Morocco's King Mohammed VI dedicated on Wednesday in Tetuan ( northern city) the general library and archives center after it was revamped.
Morocco, Culture, 8/2/2001
Spanish judge agrees to look into human rights violations in Tindouf camps
Spanish judge, Baltasar Garzon, who became renowned after the Chilean dictator Pinochet's case, said he was ready to examine the case of human rights violations in the Tindouf camps (stronghold of the Polisario in southwestern Algeria).
Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 8/2/2001
Iraq denies rocketing American planes
The chairman of the Arab and international relations at the Iraqi national council Salem al-Kubeisi on Wednesday denied the US claims speaking about Iraq's rocketing an American " AWACS " plane over the Saudi airspace, considering this news as falling in the course of the provocation to justify a new aggression against Iraq.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 8/2/2001
Gov't role in luring investments increases
Egyptian Prime Minister Atef Ebeid stated in press statements yesterday that the role of the government will be maximized in future to attract more investment in certain fields.
Egypt, Economics, 8/2/2001
Egyptian investors intend to hold projects in al-Aqaba private district
The chairman of the private economic al-Aqaba district commissions board Aqil Beltaji has stressed that Arab businessmen and investors are to hold various investment projects in the " private area," with the aim to benefit from the competition and investment environment in Jordan, especially in al-Aqaba.
Jordan-Egypt, Economics, 8/2/2001
Germany seeks to enhance trade ties with Egypt
Officials at the German -Arab Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Cairo discussed the possibility of enhancing trade ties between Germany and Egypt on one side and with Arab states on the other.
Egypt-Germany, Economics, 8/2/2001
Morocco's central bank announces end of transactions in european currencies in 2002
Bank Al-Maghrib, Moroccan central bank, announced that it will stop all transactions in the European currencies starting next January 1st, 2002.
Morocco, Economics, 8/2/2001
Photo exhibition on Arab world environment held in Casablanca
The two-day exhibition, initiated by Kuwait's embassy in Morocco, is meant to draw attention to the negative effects of pollution and seek solutions to this problem that is affecting the whole world.
Regional-Morocco, Environment, 8/2/2001
Ethiopia and Sudan
The Sudanese embassy in Addis Ababa said on Wednesday that Ethiopia which has sea coasts has transferred its trade of imports and exports to the " Port Sudan" port in reply to the restrictions imposed at Djibouti outlet.
Sudan-Ethiopia, Economics, 8/2/2001
Sudanese die of 'sun stroke'
Some 37 persons died out of 89 who were hit by " sun strokes " in the Port Sudan city, capital of the Sudanese Red Sea province during the two past months.
Sudan, Health, 8/2/2001
EU rejects giving privileges to Israel products
European commission in Brussels decided to refer the issue of products manufactured in Israeli settlements in Gaza strip, West Bank, East Jerusalem and occupied Syrian Golan height to a private committee to discuss whether these products will enjoy the privileges set by European- Israeli partnership.
Israel-European Union, Economics, 8/2/2001
Excavators unearth remains of church from Byzantine age in Marsa Matruh
In the west coastal city of Marsa Matruh a group of Egyptian excavators have unearthed the remains of a church that dates back to the fourth and fifth centuries AD of the Byzantine age.
Egypt, History, 8/2/2001
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The secretary general of the Arab League (AL) Amr Moussa has criticized the military cooperation and alliance between Turkey and Israel manifested in training the Israeli pilots in Turkey and then after that these pilots striking the Palestinians by missiles and bombs.
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Morocco's Prince Moulay Rachid, King Mohammed VI's brother, flew on Wednesday to Saudi Arabia.
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The secretary general of the Arab League (AL) Amr Moussa has called on all the Arabs to eliminate their differences and try to achieve inter- Arab reconciliation and to abstain from all matters that undermines Arab solidarity and the national security for any of the Arab states.
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The Iraqi daily al-Thawra on Wednesday warned the Kuwaiti foreign minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah against continued providing facilities for the American and British planes which monitor the " No fly zone area " in south Iraq.
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The al-Quds daily issued in the occupied Arab territories on Wednesday said that chairman of the Lebanese Socialist Progressive party will be meeting in Amman on August 17 a delegation representing the Palestinians of 1948.
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The Iraqi foreign minister Muhammad Mahdi Saleh said on Tuesday that Iraq, at the meantime is carrying out an operation to renovate the sector of producing flower after it had imported 22 modern mills in the context of modernizing the flower- production technology and to maintain a high standard quality of this material.
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Equatorial Guinea's president, Teodore Obiang Nguema, on Sunday toured the Moroccan oil-refining company (SAMIR) in Mohammadia (60 km south of Rabat) at the invitation of the company's major shareholder "Corral International Holding."
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The African basket ball union is holding its general assembly in Casablanca this august 1-2 to discuss the moral and financial report of the union. The assembly, held on the sidelines of the 21st African basket ball championships to kick off Saturday, will also elect the members of the union central bureau.
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Moroccan international football player, Abdeslam Ouaddou, has signed a four-year contract with the London Fulham 1st division club. This young defender, 22, was playing for Nancy, a French 2nd division plan. According to the Guardian daily, he has been spotted by Fulham's coach, Jean Tigana (French) during a training session.
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