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Arab Journalists Union criticizes the government; Some 11 Algerian dailies refrain publication
The Cairo-based Arab Journalists Union (AJU) is "deeply worried" by the "deterioration" of the situation of the media in Algeria -- which led yesterday 11 newspapers to refrain publishing in protest of government's harassment -- where, it said, "the freedom of speech is threatened" by judicial and administrative actions taken against journalists and newspapers.
Algeria-Regional, Politics, 9/23/2003
Butaflika appoints a committee for people missing due to politics
Algerian President Abdul Aziz Butaflika has appointed a national committee to consider the question of hundreds of missing who disappeared in the framework of the wave of violence which effected the country, in a remarkable attempt before the presidential elections, in order to close this file which raised criticism from local and international legal groups.
Algeria, Politics, 9/23/2003
Khartoum, the rebels sign agreement extending truce for two months
The Sudanese government and the main group of the rebels yesterday signed an agreement extending the truce between the two sides for two months in order to allow time for a peace agreement that ends a 20 year old war in which two million people were killed.
Sudan, Politics, 9/23/2003
Al-Assad confers with Iraqi Tribes council delegation
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad received yesterday a delegation representing Iraq's Tribal National Council headed by Chairman of the Council, Hussein Ali Shaalan.
Syria-Iraq, Politics, 9/23/2003
Libyans call on the US to pay compensations
More than 200 Libyans including children and elderly who lost their relatives during the American bombardment in 1986 demonstrated in front of the European headquarters of the UN in Geneva calling to be compensated over the loss of members of their families.
Libya-USA, Politics, 9/23/2003
Syrian- Russian party talks
Vice President and Deputy Chairman of the National Progressive Front, Zohair Masharqa, received in Damascus on Monday head of the Russian National Resurrection, People's Will Party, Sergy Paporin and an accompanying delegation.
Syria-Russia, Politics, 9/23/2003
Spanish, South Moroccan trade chambers sign cooperation agreement
The trade chambers of Morocco's southern provinces signed on Saturday a tri-partite cooperation agreement with the chambers of commerce, industry and navigation of Las Palmas (Spain) and the chamber of commerce and industry of the Azores (Portugal) to develop economic and cultural relations between the three regions.
Morocco-Spain, Politics, 9/23/2003
Spanish, Southern Morocco ports sign cooperation accord
The Port Authority of Las Palmas signed over the week end with three Moroccan Atlantic southern ports (Tan-Tan, Laayoune and Dakhla) a cooperation agreement to consolidate cooperation in training, trading expertise and technical, trade, sea transports and maritime transportation information.
Morocco-Spain, Economics, 9/23/2003
US association calls for immediate release of moroccan POWs
A newly created American NGO called for the "immediate release of Moroccan POWs held captive by Algeria and the Polisario Front" in Tindouf, Algeria.
Morocco-USA, Politics, 9/23/2003
Multinational team unearths 180 million-year old dinosaur
A multinational geology team has unearthed a 180 million-old dinosaur in the high Atlas, near Ouarzazate (southern Morocco), unveiling an important part on the ground eco-systems that lived on earth before north America was separated from Africa.
Morocco, Local, 9/23/2003
Explosion at UN headquarters in Iraq kills two
Two persons were killed at least and other 8 wounded when a booby trapped car went off at a car garage situated behind the headquarters of the UN in Baghdad.
Iraq-USA, Military, 9/23/2003
Arafat committed to Roadmap; Hamas activist killed under house ruins in Hebron
Palestinian sources in Hebron said yesterday that the Israeli occupation forces took out the body of Bassel al-Qawasmi, one of the Hamas cadres from under the ruins of a house it had destroyed in Hebron earlier in the day.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 9/23/2003
Hizbullah expects to complete Prisoners deal soon; Israel includes 400 detainees
Palestinian and Israeli sources stressed similarly that a nearby deal for exchanging prisoners will be made between the Hizbullah and Israel. It will include releasing 400 detainees including at least 200 Palestinians for Hizbullah and handing over three Israeli soldiers and an intelligence officer held by it.
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 9/23/2003
Morocco ousts Britain, return to world tennis pantheon
It took Morocco five painstaking matches to oust Britain (3-2) in Casablanca and return to the Davis Cup World Group.
Morocco, Sports, 9/23/2003
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Morocco's King Mohammed VI arrived in New York Sunday to take part in the general debates of the United Nations General Assembly 58th session that will open Tuesday to examine the situation in Iraq following the war led in the region, Israel's decision of principle to expel Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat and the reform of the United Nations.
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Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah Ibn Abdul Aziz has called the Islamic and Arab states to exert each possible effort in order to confront the current challenges.
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Morocco and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed, in Abu Dhabi Sunday, an agreement on cooperation in the judicial and legal fields.
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Director General of the Arab Organization of Agrarian Development, Prof. Salim Al-Louzi, opened in Damascus yesterday the the 3-day 24th Session of the Board of Arab Institute of Forests and Pastures dedicated for improving the Institute's performance in the rehabilitation of technical personnel.
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The court of appeal of Fez sentenced this Monday to ten years in prison Abdelali al Moujahidi, a member of the underground radical group "Salafia Jihadia."
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Moroccan athlete El Arbi Khattabi on Sunday came in second at the Philadelphia semi-marathon, after Kenya's Laban Kimpemboi.
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Israeli peacemaker Shimon Peres said yesterday that Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, now shunned by Israel and the United States, deserved the Nobel Peace Prize they both won with Yitzhak Rabin in 1994.
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Fahd bin Majid al Ma'amari, Deputy President of Majlis A'shura, received today a delegation of the UK's Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS), and he briefed "on the Shura march in the Sultanate and the Majlis election procedures," Oman's ONA news agency reported yesterday.
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