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Syrian secular opposition rejects US funding
Secular opposition groups in Syria on Tuesday rejected a US plan to allocate five million dollars to pro-reform activists.
Syria-USA, Politics, 2/22/2006
Fatah considers joining Hamas
Fatah, the Palestinian organization of the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, has indicated its willingness to join the upcoming Hamas-led government. Other groups have indicated willingness to do the same.
Palestine, Politics, 2/22/2006
Hamas leader: we are focused on our mandate
Mashaal said: said that establishment of diplomatic relations between some Arab states and Israel will be detrimental to the Palestinian nation and a bonus to Israel, to which it is not entitled, given the pursuance of its policies in the occupied lands
Palestine-Iran, Politics, 2/22/2006
Syrian exports to Iraq exceed $800 million
Syrian private sector exports to Iraq exceeded $800 million in 2005 through direct deals with Iraqi businessmen, sources at the Syrian Chambers of Commerce said Tuesday.
Syria-Iraq, Economics, 2/22/2006
Syria, Iraq to solve Iraqi assets issue
Head of the Syrian Commercial Bank, Duraid Dirgham, said on Tuesday the Syrian and Iraqi sides are working together to solve the Iraqi assets issue in Syria.
Syria-Iraq, Politics, 2/22/2006
Iran vice president Syria visit to strengthen ties
"Iran attaches special importance to its political, economic and cultural relations with Syria. The two sides have always desired to expand their relations," he said.
Syria-Iran, Politics, 2/22/2006
Lebanon inclined to expand investigations into the assassinations
The Lebanese minister of Justice Charles Rizq announced that two Lebanese judges will be heading within days to the UN headquarters in New York in order to discuss the establishment of an international court to consider the assassination operations carried out in Lebanon.
Lebanon-UN, Politics, 2/22/2006
Qatar's first deputy premier in Damascus
Qatar's First Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem Bin Jabor al-Thani, and his accompanying delegation arrived in the Syrian capital last evening on a two-day visit.
Syria-Qatar, Politics, 2/22/2006
Jaafari: formation of government is internal decision
The Iraqi prime minister whose term of office is expired, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, refused (the unprecedented) statements by the American ambassador in Baghdad Zalmay Khalilzad in which Khalilzad warned against forming the next Iraqi government on sectarian bases.
Iraq-UK, Politics, 2/22/2006
Rice says Egypt making democratic progress, despite setbacks
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told reporters in Egypt February 21 that the United States has no right to be "arrogant" in discussions about democracy, but democracy is a basic right that the United States will continue to address in its discussions with other nations.
Egypt-USA, Politics, 2/22/2006
Explosion in Samara destroys a dome
member of the Sunni Muslims scholars in Iraq described the explosion as a terrorist act aiming at implanting sectarian sedition among the Iraqis
Iraq, Military, 2/22/2006
Iraqi minister survives bomb, a day of violence
unidentified men assassinated the spokesman for the national dialogue council, Saad al-Janabi after he went missing since three days.
Iraq, Military, 2/22/2006
Somali capital fighting leads to civilians death
Fall said "I am also alarmed by reports that hundreds of families have been forced from their homes by the indiscriminate exchange of fire from heavy weaponry"
Politics, 2/22/2006
Israeli settlers uproot Olive trees, child injured
WAFA reported today that Israeli settlers supported by the Israeli occupation forces in Sossiya uprooted today of olive trees in al- Nawaja lands, east of Yatta village, in the West Bank (WB) city of Hebron, according to witnesses, while the occupation forces destroyed a home in city of QalqilIya under pretext of not having a building licence.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 2/22/2006
Syria permits import of private cars
Syria's minister of economy and trade Amer Lutfi Hosni issued a decision that permits importing new private cars whose manufacture date did not exceed two years from the country of origin or the non-origin exclusively through Syrian ports, including Syrian and non Syrian free zones.
Syria, Economics, 2/22/2006
Regional seminar on competition in the Euro-Mediterranean partnership
A four-day seminar under the title "competition in the Euro- Mediterranean partnership" is held on February 20 through 24 in Berlin with 40 participants from Euro- Mediterranean countries.
Regional-European Union, Economics, 2/22/2006
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The Lebanese Daily Star reported that Iraqi religious and political leader Muqtada al-Sadr is in Lebanon for about one week visit to Syria and Lebanon(corrected), and will meet with the president and various groups, and expressed will to help ease Syria-Lebanon tensions.
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Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak received yesterday a phone call from Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Darfur developments and the coming Arab summit held in March in Sudan.
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