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Ten Arab leaders absent from Arab summit
Arab leaders participants in the 18th Arab summit arrived in Khartoum, Sudan, amid expectations of the absence of ten Arab leaders from attending this summit which will start deliberations today, Tuesday.
Regional, Politics, 3/28/2006
Mubarak seeks implementation of election promises
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak said that he has instructed the government to draw up timetables for carrying out his electoral platform over the next six years.
Egypt, Politics, 3/28/2006
Inter- Lebanese session closed without resolving Presidency issue
The speaker of the Lebanese parliament Nabih Berri announced the postponement of the dialogue sessions until next Monday, noting that the session which was held on Monday did not reach a result concerning the unresolved difference of views regarding the issue of President Emile Lahoud and his stay in office.
Lebanon, Politics, 3/28/2006
Al-Assad: USA will sink in Iraq swamp
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he cautioned American lawmakers and officials before the invasion of Iraq in 2003 that the US would get bogged down in a quagmire after toppling the Saddam Hussein's dictatorship.
Syria-Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/28/2006
Lebanese Ex-PM calls Arab summit to support Syria
Lebanese Ex-Premier Salim al-Hoss on Monday called upon the 18th Arab Summit, held in the Sudanese Capital of Khartoum, to support Syria politically and economically to face US and Israeli pressures against her.
Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 3/28/2006
Ahmadinejad: Any decision denying Iran's right to access nuclear energy, worthless
The Iranian Embassy in Moscow today rejected a press report on a statement attributed to the Embassy saying that Iran will set up an international center for uranium enrichment.
Iran, Politics, 3/28/2006
Iranian official on US threats against Iran
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mohammadi said on Monday that the US cannot put into practice its threats against Iran.
Iran-USA, Politics, 3/28/2006
NY Times: Bush was determined to make war against Iraq
The New York Times (NYTimes.com) reported yesterday that prior to the US attack on Iraq, US president George W. Bush gave Iraq a blunt ultimatum "disarm or face war" with Bush "certain that war was inevitable."
Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/28/2006
Rumsfeld says patience needed in Iraq
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld counseled those anxious to see an end to the US presence in Iraq to exercise patience while Iraqi security forces become more experienced in quelling violence and defending their new government.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/28/2006
Khalilzad: Iran finances, trains Shiite militias
The American ambassador in Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad accused Iran of financing and training Shiite militias in Iraq.
Iraq-Iran-USA, Politics, 3/28/2006
Special Iraqi forces carried out al-Huseineyah operation
In another military development in Iraq, the American army said that its forces are not responsible for breaking into Huseneyat al-Mustafa in Baghdad which resulted in killing 17 Shiite, stressing that the special Iraqi forces led this operation.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/28/2006
40 Iraqis killed in attack on Iraqi- American base
The Iraqi police said that 40 persons were killed at least in an explosion for a joint Iraqi-American base near Tel Afer, north Iraq.
Iraq, Military, 3/28/2006
UN envoy hopeful over Lebanon-Syria border issue
The United Nations' envoy charged with resolving conflict between Syria and Lebanon said on Monday he was optimistic that a border dispute could be settled and normal diplomatic relations resumed.
Syria-Lebanon-UN, Politics, 3/28/2006
Syria's FM discusses bilateral relations with Cypriot and Cuban counterparts
Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Muaallem on Monday discussed with Cyprus Foreign Minister George Iacovou bilateral relations between the two neighboring countries, issues related to the Syrian-European relations and means of developing them.
Syria-Cuba, Politics, 3/28/2006
UNHCR: Return of south Sudan's refugees from Uganda
Some 170,000 southern Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda, representing over half those who fled the bloody, 21-year civil war, are now able to go home after a repatriation agreement was signed yesterday in the Ugandan capital with the United Nations refugee agency.
Sudan-Uganda, Politics, 3/28/2006
Israelis vote in critical elections
Israeli voters head today to the ballot centers to choose their representatives in the Knesset (Parliament).
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 3/28/2006
Expected results for the Israeli elections
With the exception of an unexpected victory for the parties of the so-called extremist right, the Israeli elections will green light the next government to separate from the Palestinians after 39 years of occupation, but eventually such separation will not be from all the lands Israel had occupied in 1967.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 3/28/2006
US government report on United Arab Emirates' human rights
United Arab Emirates, Politics, 3/28/2006
New Human Rights Commission to meet June 19
The much-criticized United Nations Human Rights Commission ended its last meeting yesterday after adopting a resolution to transfer all its work to the recently created and stronger Human Rights Council, which is scheduled to hold its first meeting on 19 June in Geneva after the UN General Assembly votes on its members in May.
Regional-UN, Politics, 3/28/2006
Armed men kidnap 16 workers in Baghdad
It was announced in Iraq that one armed group kidnapped 16 employees working in a trade establishment west of Baghdad.
Iraq, Local, 3/28/2006
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The Israeli occupation forces stormed al-Yamoun town, west Jenin, and killed today besieged the house of Palestinian Samer Farhat, 21, and "opened fire at him. Farhat was instantly killed," Wafa reported.
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"President of Sudan and of the Arab Summit, Omar al-Bashir confirmed that the Palestinian people should not be punished for their democratic choice," Wafa reported todday.
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"President of Algeria Abdelaziz Bouteflika affirmed Tuesday that Arab states refuse threats against the Palestinian people's choice for their representatives to the PLC," Wafa reported today adding "He described threats to boycott the Palestinian people for their democratic choice as a flagrant violation to their rights, saying that pressures exerted on Palestinians contradict the democracy that the international community calls for."
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Syria's President Bashar al-Assad arrived in Khartoum, Sudan, on Monday to participate in the Arab Summit meeting due to start today. Later, he received Lebanese counterpart Emile Lahoud at his official residence in the Sudanese capital on Monday.
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Syria's Information Minister, Muhsen Bilal, said Monday that Syria is working effectively to make the Arab Summit, due in Khartoum tomorrow, a success. "The decisions which will be issued by the summit will come in the interest of the Arab nation, particularly regarding the first Arab issue, Palestine, as well as helping the Iraqi people reach an Arab unified and independent Iraq," Minister Bilal told the Sudanese official News Agency SUNA in an interview.
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