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Two governorates reject Iraqi referendum
Information relating to the results of the referendum on the Iraqi draft constitution was contradictory, however, preliminary results expect the consent of the Iraqi voters on the draft constitution.
Iraq, Politics, 10/17/2005
New opposition coalition in Syria for comprehensive change
Several opposition parties in Syria called on Sunday for the foundation of a new alliance that includes all national and liberal forces in order to ensure vaster political participation.
Syria, Politics, 10/17/2005
Egyptian Muslim Brother leading figure released
News reports in Cairo said that the Egyptian state security attorney released the leading Muslim Brother figure Issam al- Aryan who spent five months in custody together with five of his colleagues, on Sunday.
Egypt, Politics, 10/17/2005
Concern about health of editor Mohamed Benchicou
Reporters Without Borders has called on international organizations to urgently send a doctor to check the worsening health of newspaper editor Mohamed Benchicou, who has been in prison since June 2004 serving a two-year sentence for libel.
Algeria, Politics, 10/17/2005
Saudi Arabia permits cinema for the first time
A source in a private Saudi media company announced on Sunday that its company, in an agreement with Riyadh city secretariat, will display a children cinema retrospective during the three days of Eid al-Fitr to be the first cinema shown in the Kingdom, 20 years after banning such shows.
Saudi Arabia, Politics, 10/17/2005
Yemen: No crisis with Saudi Arabia
Sanaa denied on Sunday that a crisis is looming with Saudi Arabia, on the background of the request it asked Riyadh to hand over its former foreign minister Abdullah al-Asnaj.
Saudi Arabia-Yemen, Politics, 10/17/2005
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine for investigating Arafta's death
The General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Ahmed Saadat demanded the necessity of forming an International Investigation Committee to probe the circumstances of the death of the late Palestinian PresidentYaser Arafa, JANA reported yesterday.
Palestine, Politics, 10/17/2005
Al-Thawra: Syrian stock exchange market in early 2006
Chairman of Syrian Chambers of Commerce, Rateb al-Shalah, said that transparency and adequate accounting system are the main factors for making the Syrian stock exchange market a success, the daily added.
Syria, Economics, 10/17/2005
Rice 's remarks on Iraq constitution referendum results
While selection process of the votes to approve the Iraqi constitution were still ongoing, the US secretary of state Condaleezza Rice told journalists in London that the Iraqis seem to have approved the constitution.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 10/17/2005
Unveiling truth is a Syrian-Lebanese necessity, speaker says
Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Berri, said Sunday that unveiling the truth about the assassination of Lebanese former Premier Rafiq Hariri is a necessity for Lebanon, Syria and the Arabs in seeking Lebanon's salvation.
Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 10/17/2005
Iran suspends NPT additional protocol until IAEA recognizes its rights
The Iranian Majlis' National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Sunday approved the general outlines of a single-urgency bill providing for the suspension of the government's voluntary implementation of the Additional Protocol to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), IRNA reported.
Iran-UN, Politics, 10/17/2005
Forum on Syria's role in a changing world
"Syria had already said it rejected the logic of wars, aggressions, and occupation...it has always asserted that wars will not solve the problem of terrorism but rather aggravate it, and opens the way for terrorism to exploit the environment of war, aggression and occupation," the minister said.
Syria-Regional-USA, Politics, 10/17/2005
Human Rights Watch calls for fair trial for Saddam Hussein
Human Rights Watch organization on Sunday warned any violations of the international law during the trial of the toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Iraq, Politics, 10/17/2005
Moussa: I am going to Iraq in the name of all Arabs
Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa Sunday said he was going to Iraq despite all the intimidation and skepticism surrounding his trip.
Regional-Iraq, Politics, 10/17/2005
Six American soldiers killed in Iraq
the British defense office announced that a high ranking investigator in the British army was found dead in a British base in Basra, south Iraq.
Iraq-USA, Military, 10/17/2005
Abbas's round on Arab, foreign states
In the course of the Palestinian diplomatic efforts for regional support, the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas heads for Paris today and from there to Madrid and then Washington in a tour he started on Sunday in Jordan and Egypt in order to gather support for reviving negotiations with Israel on settling the conflict following the phase of the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
Palestine-Regional, Politics, 10/17/2005
On Israel's interference in Palestinians' democratic elections
In the course of the Palestinian preparations for the next legislative elections, the Palestinian Authority renewed rejection to pressure made by Israel to prevent Hamas from participating in the legislative elections due on January 25th, 2006.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 10/17/2005
Three Israeli settlers killed in the West Bank by al-Aqsa group
Three Israeli settlers were killed and other four other injured in an attack carried out by Palestinian gunmen near Ghoushe Asyoun settlement in the West Bank
Palestine-Israel, Military, 10/17/2005
$1.7 billion Egyptian exports to Arab states and COMESA
The value of Egypt's exports to Arab markets within Arab free trade zone last year wave estimated at 1.290 billion compared with imports of $918 million.
Egypt-Regional, Economics, 10/17/2005
National security council established in Saudi Arabia, chaired by Bandar
The Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz on Sunday issued two separate royal decrees for forming as national security council in Saudi Arabia and appointing the former Saudi ambassador to the USA prince Bandar Bin Sultan as a secretary general for the council at the level of a minister.
Saudi Arabia, Politics, 10/17/2005
Cairo hosts world gathering on dialogue among divine religions
The Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar, Mohamad Sayed Tantawi, Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark Diocese and Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, in addition to a number of Muslim and Christian clerics, will attend proceedings of the annual meeting of the Episcopal Church bishops in the southern Hemisphere.
Egypt, Religion, 10/17/2005
Syria is free of bird flu until this date
Symptoms detected in humans infected with the virus can be summarized as fever, muscle weakness, dry cough, inflammation of pharynx, and headache.
Syria, Local, 10/17/2005
Gold coins from Fatimid era found in Fayyoum
Egypt's Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni announced the discovery of a number of rare gold coins dating back to the Fatimid era.
Egypt, Local, 10/17/2005
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The Leader leader Muammar al-Qathafi addressed two letters one to the current chairman of the Arab Summit President Abdulaziz Bautafliqa of Algeria and another to the Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa in which he urged them to take the necessary measures and steps with the concerned bodies to set up an international investigation committee to probe the killing of the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, JANA reported yesterday.
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The Islamic resistance movement ( Hamas) has strongly criticized the Palestinian Authority. The chairman of the political bureau of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal, described the performance of Abbas as negative, noting that the movement will not accept promises and agreements that are not implemented on the ground.
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Egypt's Presidential spokesman Soliman Awwad described the summit meeting between President Hosni Mubarak and Libyan Leader Muammar al-Qathafi on Sunday as cordial. He told MENA that the summit centered on probing Arab issues, particularly those of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories and Darfur.
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Syria is facing great media attacks and psychological pressures due to her national direction, Information Minister Mahdi Dakhlallah said Sunday.
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An official source at the Syrian Foreign Ministry on Sunday said that what is being circulated by some mass media of information on Syrian-American contacts to strike a deal regarding controversial issues which negatively affect bilateral relations are baseless.
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The latest report released by the General Authority of Insurance Control said that Egypt leads the insurance markets in Africa.
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San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom opened the Hatshepsut exhibition entitled "Hatshepsut: Queen to Pharaoh," which is being held at the De Young Museum of Arts on the occasion of the reconstruction of the museum which was destroyed in 1989.
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