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Human rights organizations urge Butaflika to re-try a political activist
The spokesman for the Arab committee for human rights, Haitham Manaa, has warned against the deterioration of the health conditions of the Algerian activist in the area of human rights, Salah Seidhum.
Algeria, Politics, 10/10/2003
Chirac: best weapons against fanaticism are education, jobs and hope
Visiting French president, Jacques Chirac hailed Morocco's "bold and exemplary political transition" under the leadership of King Mohammed VI, at a dinner banquet hosted in his honor, Thursday evening in Fez, by the Moroccan monarch.
Morocco-France, Politics, 10/10/2003
French president voices 'total support' to Morocco's stand on the Sahara
French president said, in Fez Thursday, his country totally and infallibly supports the Moroccan stand regarding the Sahara issue and the Kingdom's territorial integrity.
Morocco-France, Politics, 10/10/2003
King Mohammed pays tribute to French president as a 'committed' statesman
Morocco's King Mohammed VI paid tribute this Thursday to visiting French president, Jacques Chirac, as "committed head of state," "a man of conviction" and to France "the homeland of the Declaration of the rights of man and citizen."
Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 10/10/2003
Al-Assad confers with Larsen; Syria praised for using diplomacy
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad received on Thursday the international Peace Envoy to the Middle East, Terje Roed-Larsen and an accompanying delegation on the Israeli aggression on Syrian lands.
Syria-UN, Politics, 10/10/2003
War in Iraq forces UN to face 'fundamental questions',Frechette
"Some countries see terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, transnational criminal networks and the ways in which these may be coming together to reinforce each other as self-evidently the dominant threats to peace and security," Frechette said. But, she said, others see a greater danger in civil wars, AIDS, poverty, environmental degradation, oppression and violations of human rights.
Regional-UN, Politics, 10/10/2003
Arab League warns of consequences to US sanctions on Syria
Arab League has stressed that an adoption of the so-called "Syria Accountability Act" sanctions legislation, and the US accusations against Syria, will increase tension situations in the Middle East and will block the way for peace.
Regional-Syria-USA, Politics, 10/10/2003
Demonstration of protest in Damascus
In the first people's reaction to the Syria's accountability law and the Israeli raid against the Syrian territories, more than 500 Syrian citizens representing parties and non- governmental organization yesterday took the streets in Damascus in a protest demonstration calling for boycott of American goods.
Syria-USA, Politics, 10/10/2003
EU will not impose sanctions on Syria similar to the American's
The European Commission has announced that EU doesn't agree on USA's new direction to impose sanctions on Syria clearing that the EU's stance towards Syria didn't change.
Syria-European Union, Politics, 10/10/2003
Microcredit aids poor, especially women, UN envoy for developing countries says
The top United Nations advocate for poor countries said today that microcredit programmes are the most effective way to aid in development, particularly for impoverished women, and urged Member States to contribute to the funds that supply the money that backs the loans.
Regional, Economics, 10/10/2003
Gabon warns against serious dangers of Baker's new plan for the Sahara
Gabon warned on Wednesday against the serious dangers underlying the new plan for the Sahara mooted by the UN secretary general's personal envoy for the Sahara, James Baker, and called for continuing negotiations to reach a settlement accepted by all parties to the conflict
Morocco-Gabon, Politics, 10/10/2003
Sahrawi delegation exposes to Chilean officials reasons of their refusal of baker's plan on sahara
A delegation of Moroccan southern provinces wound up a four-day visit to Chili where their briefed Chilean officials on the latest developments of the Sahara issue with a particular empahsis on the rejection by the people of these provinces of the latest peace plan mooted by the UN secretary general's personal envoy for the Sahara, James Baker.
Morocco-Chile, Politics, 10/10/2003
Eight Iraqis, one American killed, Spanish military attache assassinated
An American military spokeswoman said that one US soldier was killed in an attack by a missile at a military vehicle to the north of Baghdad early Thursday morning.
Iraq-USA, Military, 10/10/2003
Arafat advisor denied Qrei's resignation
Nabil Abu Rudeineh, special advisor to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, denied that the designated prime minister Ahmad Qrei had submitted his resignation.
Palestine, Politics, 10/10/2003
Israeli pilot kicked out of air force for saying Israeli acts are immoral
Israeli film producer Grienstehl said"the government of Sharon is a war one and it carries out everything that escalates the situation and complicates it, because it's afraid of peace more than war."
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 10/10/2003
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Lebanese President Emile Lahoud has stressed that the Syrian and Lebanese complaints lodged to the UN against Israel had called the Security Council to immediately convene in order to condemn the Israeli aggression on Syria and Lebanon.
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French president Jacques Chirac has called for the "immediate and total" release of Moroccan prisoners of War (POWs), held captive for more than a quarter century by the Algerian-backed separatist movement "Polisario" in the Tindouf Camps, southern Algeria.
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Syria's President Bashar al-Assad received on Thursday Kuwait's Minister of Finance Mahmoud al-Nouri and Trade Minister Abdullah Abdul Rahman al-Tawil on the results of the meetings of the joint Syrian-Kuwaiti Committee and the bilateral relations.
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Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak Wednesday received the visiting Pakistani Senate Speaker with the Pakistani Ambassador to Egypt attending, regarding " topics tabled on the agenda of the Islamic Summit to be held soon in Malaysia and resolutions to be adopted in the interest of the Islamic nation."
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Algerian President, Abdul Aziz Butaflika, received Wednesday Libya's General Mustapha Muhammad al-Kharoubi and his accompanying delegation, the official Libyan news agency reported.
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Higher Representative of the European Security and Foreign Policy, Javier Solana has called the Arab states to reactivate the Arab Peace Initiative in the Middle East stressing the importance of maintaining regional stability and security.
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The chairman of the Trade, Industry and Services Chamber in Marrakesh was sentenced Wednesday to 10 months in jail for complicity in forging administrative documents during the local polls held in Morocco last September 12.
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Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Fayza Abul Naga will start on Sunday a visit to India and Kazakhstan to promote trade with them.
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Egyptian officials said that a sum of L.E. 1.6 billion has been assigned for subsidizing essential commodities such as bread, sugar, rice, bean, lentils, food oil and tea.
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Moroccan director Faouzi Bensaidi won on Wednesday the best director award at the Mideast Cinema Festival of Beirut for his first feature "Mille Mois" (A Thousand Months).
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, were congratulated by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on being selected as the recipients of the 2003 Bishop John T. Walker Humanitarian Award from Africare saying "Time and again, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has demonstrated its visionary approach to the use of wealth for the greatest public good, in areas from education to public health in this country and the developing world."
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The South African Minister of Defense, Mwasio Likota, warned African countries against accepting conditioned aid from foreign donars, calling on African countries "not to show leniancy on the issue," as by doing so, foreign donars were seeking to halt the pace of proress in the continent and spread unstability, JANA reported yesterday.
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The US defense department ( Pentagon) announced that the army offered contracts worth 278 million dollars for American companies to protect the American rebuilding employees and the military engineers in Iraq.
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