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Bahrain's prime minister arrives in Damascus
on top of an official delegation in a visit to Syria during which he will preside over the Bahraini side to the meetings of the Syrian- Bahraini joint higher committee which will be held in Damascus on April 7 and 8th.
Syria-Bahrain, Politics, 4/6/2002
Morocco says it is premature to envision its ambassador's return to Madrid
Morocco has said that it is premature to envision the return of its ambassador to Spain to his post in Madrid, although it conceded that positive signals exist in this connection.
Morocco-Spain, Politics, 4/6/2002
Demonstrators attack the Jordanian embassy in Damascus
The London based al-Hayat daily issued on Friday said in a report from Damascus that several demonstrators attacked the headquarters of the Jordanian embassy in Damascus by throwing stones at its doors before the arrival of scores of order keeping force to prevent the flow of demonstrators to the headquarters of the Egyptian and Jordanian embassies at Abu Rummaneh streets.
Syria-Regional, Politics, 4/6/2002
Saudi police disperse massive demonstration in support of Palestinians
The chairman of the Saudi people's committee in support of Palestine Abdul Hameed al-Sheikh has announced that the Saudi police on Friday prevented thousands of demonstrators from gathering in front of the US consulate in al-Zahran, to the east of Saudi Arabia, and arrested several persons.
Saudi Arabia-Palestine, Politics, 4/6/2002
Demonstrations of anger sweeps Jordan
Large demonstrations prevailed the Jordanian cities and started from mosques and public squares following Friday's prayers as an expression of the anger of the Jordanian masses by all their groups over the fierce Israeli aggression officially backed by the US administration.
Jordan-Palestine, Politics, 4/6/2002
Moroccans march sunday in solidarity with Palestinian people
The Moroccan association of support to the struggle of the Palestinian people, supported by several political parties, trade unions and non-governmental organizations, will stage on Sunday in Rabat a march in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Morocco-Palestine, Politics, 4/6/2002
Powell to meet soon Mubarak and Saudi Crown Prince
U.S Secretary of State Colin Powell will proceed to the Middle East Sunday in a bid to stop the deteriorating situation in the Palestinian lands.
Regional-USA, Politics, 4/6/2002
Zinni, Powell confer with Arafat
An American official has announced that the US envoy to the Middle east started on Friday his meeting with the chairman of the Palestinian authority Yasser Arafat in Ramullah.
Palestine-USA, Politics, 4/6/2002
Powell's mideast mission, a very strong signal, morocco
The trip US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, will make next week to the Middle East is "a very strong signal," Moroccan foreign affairs and cooperation minister, Mohamed Benaissa, told the New York Times on Friday.
Morocco-USA, Politics, 4/6/2002
Powell cancels visit to Germany after he was assigned to head to ME
An official at the US state department said on Friday that the US secretary of state Colin Powell has canceled a visit to Germany next week, as he was presumed to give a lecture on the relations between the two sides of the Atlantic, after he was assigned to head for the Middle East.
Regional-USA, Politics, 4/6/2002
Morocco renews decry of Israeli invasion
Morocco on Friday renewed its denunciation of the Israeli invasion of the Palestinian territories and of the siege imposed on Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.
Morocco-Regional, Politics, 4/6/2002
World Writers' Association, Israel commits Nazi crimes
What the Israeli army is doing in the occupied Palestinian territories is nothing but a copy of what the Nazi did in the World War II. We must ring alarm bells all over the world to stress that what Palestine witnesses is a crime that must be stopped, said the Portuguese man-of-letters Jose Saramago, winner of the Nobel Prize of Literature 1998.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/6/2002
Arafat holds telephone calls with Abu al-Ragheb
The chairman of the Palestinian authority Yasser Arafat on Friday discussed with the Jordanian prime minister Ali Abu al-Ragheb the grave conditions in the occupied Palestinian territories during a telephone call he received from him on Friday.
Palestine-Jordan, Politics, 4/6/2002
Powell can only meet with Arafata
Israeli premier Ariel Sharon continued to opt for military solution without recognizing that such solution will never bring him any political or security gains, Palestinian cabinet Secretary Ahmed Abderrahman said.
Palestine-USA, Politics, 4/6/2002
American- Kurdish meeting
In a statement, the Kurdistan Democratic Party announced that a delegation representing the US State Department has recently met with several Iraqi Kurds officials in North Iraq.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 4/6/2002
UN resolution 1403 calls for Israeli forces withdrawal from the Palestinian cities
Following the Syrian amendments, the UN security council unanimously approved the withdrawal of the Israeli forces from the Palestinian cities without a delay and backed the decision taken by the US President George Bush to delegate his secretary of state Colin Powell to the region.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/6/2002
Alarmed by Palestinians' plight, UN rights body sends Robinson to occupied territories
Condemning the "frightening" increase in the loss of life in the occupied Palestinian territory, the main United Nations rights body on Friday requested the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, to lead a high-level fact-finding mission to the region immediately and report back on its findings.
Palestine-International, Politics, 4/6/2002
Clashes in south Lebanon between the resistance and the Israeli forces
The Lebanese border line with Israel witnesses violent confrontation between the Lebanese resistance fighters and the Israeli occupation forces following the Israeli violations of the Lebanese sovereignty in land and sea.
Lebanon-Israel, Military, 4/6/2002
The Israeli aggression continues, 20 Palestinians killed
In Hebron, at least 11 Palestinians were wounded, two in a critical health condition, one of them is an eight year old child when two Israeli helicopters fired two missiles at a car aimed at assassinating Ziad Shweiki, one of the key cadres of the Islamic Jihad movement.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 4/6/2002
Observers and Bush's declaration
The Monte Carlo radio correspondent in occupied Jerusalem quoted observers in the Palestinian territories as saying that avoiding linking the call made by the US President George Bush for the Israeli withdrawal from all cities of the West Bank to the word " immediate" and delaying the arrival of the US secretary of state Colin Powell to the Middle East until next week offers Israel a period of time of 4 to five days to continue its "open aggression against the Palestinian people.
Palestine-USA, Politics, 4/6/2002
NGOs group unveils ordeal of Tindouf sequestered population
A group of non-governmental organizations from the Moroccan southern provinces has recently held a large-scale campaign in Geneva to shed light on the ordeal of the population detained forcibly by the Polisario separatists in the Algerian south-western rear base of Tindouf.
Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 4/6/2002
Palestinian civilians in desperate need of aid, head of UN relief agency warns
The head of the United Nations agency assisting Palestinian refugees urged Israeli authorities on Friday to heed repeated UN appeals for access by humanitarian workers to the civilians who are in desperate need of life-saving aid in the occupied territories.
Palestine-International, Politics, 4/6/2002
Accelerating economic reforms
Egyptian economy has not yet reached a crisis stage; it is only facing a state of sluggishness. The momentum of the government's economic reform that started in 1991 can speed up the performance of the Egyptian economy, said executive director of the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies, Ahmed Galal.
Egypt, Economics, 4/6/2002
Catholic church in Morocco decries situation in Palestinian territories
The Catholic church in Morocco on Friday denounced the situation currently prevailing in the Palestinian territories.
Morocco-Morocco, Politics, 4/6/2002
Jordanian prince and the American efforts
Former Jordanian crown prince and brother of the late Jordanian King al-Hussein Bin Talal has warned that the American efforts for mediation to reach a cease fire in the Middle East is doomed to failure in case Washington ignores the economic and social problems in the unstable region.
Jordan-USA, Politics, 4/6/2002
Handicraft sector in Morocco employs two million persons
Some two million Moroccans work in handicraft, representing 20 percent of the active population in the country, the handicraft department said.
Morocco, Economics, 4/6/2002
Israel promotes false currencies, drugs in Jordan
The Jordanian weekly al-Itijah has unveiled that Israeli sides have promoted false foreign currencies use in the Jordanian market and smuggling drugs and very bad kind of Israeli tobacco as well as smuggling the Jordanian sand to Israel.
Jordan-Israel, Local, 4/6/2002
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The political editor of the Syrian Arab News Agency ( SANA) has learnt that Syria will not take part in the emergency meeting of the Arab foreign ministers due to be held in Cairo at the level of the foreign ministers and Syria's representation will be confined to the level of its permanent representative at the Arab league. This decision is in "protest of not implementing the recent Beirut Arab summit, especially the decisions provided for halting relations with Israel and revitalizing the Arab boycott of Israel in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their heroic Intifada."
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The Syrian deputy premier and foreign minister on Friday evening received telephone calls from each of the Libyan people's general committee for African Unity Ali Abdul Salaam al-Tureiki in Libya; the Yemeni foreign minister Abu Baker al-Qurabi; the Algerian foreign minister Abdul Aziz Balkhadem and the secretary general of the Arab league Amr Moussa.
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak received on Saturday Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal, currently visiting Egypt. Maher denied that Mubarak has discussed with Faisal the idea of holding an emergency Arab summit that was floated by some Arab states.
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Some 20,000 Bahrainis on Friday demonstrated in al-Manama and 10 explosives were thrown at the headquarters of the US embassy in al-Manama during a solidarity march with the Palestinians. The demonstrators destroyed the site dedicated for the guards in front of the embassy which was then closed and broke by stones a restaurant for the US Macdonald series.
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"Israeli soldiers fired warning shots and threw stun grenades this morning at a group of reporters, who have become the Israeli Army's bugbears in recent weeks," The New York Times reported today.
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"The Pentagon has prepared detailed plans to move its military command post in Saudi Arabia to Qatar in the event the Saudi facility comes under attack or Saudi authorities attempt to deny the United States access to it," US defense officials said yesterday, The Washington Post reported today.
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Switzerland has sent humanitarian aid at a cost of one million Swiss Franc to the Palestinian people who have been exposed to the aggressions of the brutal Israeli forces in the occupied Arab territories.
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The American embassies in Bahrain, Egypt and Lebanon have called on its citizens in these countries to be cautious and careful amid the increasing people's anger as a result of the Israeli aggressive acts against the Palestinian people.
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The Moroccan tennis open, the Hassan II Grand Prix, will start on Monday with several world players participating. The first round will climax with a strong showdown between two Moroccans, namely Hicham Arazi and Karim Alami.
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