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26 Iraqis, 11 children, 7 women killed by the US
Preliminary news reports from Baghdad said that 20 Iraqis including 11 children and 7 women were killed after the American- British missiles fell on the two sides in the outskirts of Baghdad. Three houses were completely destroyed and other houses were damaged and the rescue teams were able to aid scores of wounded Iraqis.
Iraq, Politics, 4/1/2003
Debates to abandon the Arab League
The call advocated by the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to lay executive mechanisms to found an advanced Arab collective security that copes with the "spirit of the age, coincides with an assertion made by an Arab diplomatic source, on the beginning of consultation to rebuild an entity that totally differs from the Arab League, and that will exclude certain states, according to "negatives of previous experience."
Regional, Politics, 4/1/2003
Syria: We decided to side with the Iraqi people, international law
A Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman announced on Monday the following: Yesterday, American Secretary of States Colin Powell said in front of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual conference, which is the strongest Zionist lobby in the U.S., and it seemed obviously that he was offering a bill of his latest achievements to ensure that what the American administration is doing in our region serves the Israeli schemes and interests and satisfies Sharon.
Syria-Iraq, Politics, 4/1/2003
Mubarak: our relations with Syria cannot be shaken
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak has described Egyptian- Syrian relations as historic and strategic that cannot be shaken.
Egypt-Syria, Politics, 4/1/2003
Moroccan speaker calls Iraq war human catastrophe
Speaker of the Moroccan House of Representatives (lower chamber of parliament), Abdelouahed Radi, on Monday condemned the ongoing Iraq War as a "human catastrophe."
Morocco-Iraq, Politics, 4/1/2003
Sabri: Certain Arab regimes are stabbing Iraq from the back
The Iraqi foreign minister Naji Sabri stressed yesterday that the Arab governments that stab Iraq from the back will be held accountable before history and the Arab nation.
Iraq-Regional, Politics, 4/1/2003
On the Yemeni general elections
The number of nominees for the public elections which will be carried out in Yemen as of Sunday reached 776.
Yemen, Politics, 4/1/2003
Suzanne Mubarak announces campaign to accept citizens financial aid for Iraqi people
The Egyptian Red Crescent, at a meeting Sunday under Egypt's First Lady Suzanne Mubarak, chairperson of the Red Crescent, decided to extend relief aid to the people of Iraq and to accept financial donations from citizens
Egypt-Iraq, Politics, 4/1/2003
Morocco to earmark 1% of gdp to scientific research by 2010, minister
Moroccan Minister in charge of scientific research, Omar Fassi Fihri, said Morocco will earmark 1% of its GDP to scientific research by 2010.
Morocco, Science, 4/1/2003
On Iraq's war effect on political reform in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has been facing strong resistance for reforms from a religious pressure group, provoked by the war led by the US against Iraq.
Saudi Arabia-Iraq, Politics, 4/1/2003
Al-Anba': Syrian Information Minister: relations with Kuwait are good
Syria's Minister of Information Adnan Omran stressed on Monday that the relations between Syria and Kuwait is good.
Syria-Kuwait, Politics, 4/1/2003
Mahfouz: Iraq war to harm Arab-West ties for years
Mahfouz expressed his personal dislike of the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and described him as bloody dictator, but at the same time, he does not agree with Bush's acts of using illegal mechanisms to push Anglo-American soldiers into an unfair war against innocent Iraqis.
Egypt-Iraq, Politics, 4/1/2003
Riyadh asks Hussein to quit
The Saudi foreign minister prince Saud al-Faisal has asked the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to resign "as a sacrifice for his country's sake."
Saudi Arabia-Iraq, Politics, 4/1/2003
Powell to visit after Bush's stern warning to Turkey
US Secretary of State Colin Powell will travel to Ankara and Brussels this week to discuss post-war issues with Turkish officials and members of the European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher said.
Turkey-USA, Politics, 4/1/2003
Israeli forces broke into Khan Younis, large campaign of detention
The Israeli forces yesterday broke into the city of Khan Younis and launched a campaign of arrest.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 4/1/2003
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Lebanese President Emile Lahoud denounced on Monday the threats delivered by the countries participating in the aggression on Iraq especially U.S.A against Syria and Lebanon. Lahoud said, during a meeting with Lebanese political officials, that these threats are a part of similar campaigns by Israel and another by its allies that target the "two brotherly countries" to affect their pan- Arab stances that reject the killing and destruction.
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Syria's Foreign Minister, Farouk al-Shara, received on Monday a phone call from his Iranian counterpart, Kamal Kharazi that "dealt with the situation on the Iraqi region in the light of the American- British invasion of Iraq which caused the death of hundreds of innocent civilians," the official news said.
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Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Didier J Cherpitel, said the federation has received only a few number of refugees since the outbreak of war in Iraq, contrary to its expectations. Cherpitel told Morocco's first TV channel on Friday that "the federation expected at the beginning to welcome a first group of 250,000 refugees but only a few persons have arrived so far."
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Syrian women staged on Monday a sit-in in front of the Women General Union's headquarter in opposition to the American - British war on Iraq. They expressed condemnation against the "American - British terrorism against the Iraqi women and children."
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A Moroccan delegation, led by Mohammed Azeroual, Ambassador and director of Arab and Islamic affairs at the Ministry of foreign affairs arrived in Algeria on Saturday to participate in a meeting of the Algerian-Moroccan workgroup scheduled on March 30-31.
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A group of associations of survivors of the Tindouf camps (south-western Algeria where the Polisario separatists are based) sent President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria a "Call," urging him to put an end to the ordeal of "thousands of Moroccan citizens still forcibly detained in the camps by the Polisario. The Tindouf Camps survivors called on President Bouteflika to "intervene for an end to the ordeal thousands of Moroccan citizens are enduring in the south of your brotherly country at the hands of a small group called Polisario."
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The Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas has met in Gaza with a delegation representing the Palestinian national resistance movement Hamas.
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US President George Bush on Monday appoints Roland Schlisher as the US ambassador to Tunisia. Schlisher is currently running a work group on Iraq, formed by the US administration. He earlier served as the American general consul in Israel and a director for the Egyptian and north Africa affairs at the US Department of State which used to cover Tunisia also.
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The US Secretary of State Colin Powell has indicated the possibility of achieving progress in reviving negotiations between the Palestinian and Israeli sides.
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Morocco's tennis player Younes El Aynaoui moved to 9th from 16th on the latest ATP champions race.
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