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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak today received the chairman of the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and held with him a round of bilateral talks. Later the meeting was joined by the Egyptian Foreign and information ministers, President Mubarak's advisor for political affairs Dr. Osama el-Baz. Go

Moroccan Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Minister Abdellatif Filali will tour as of Sunday some Latin American countries. Filali will pay official visits to Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay at the invitation of his peers in these three countries. Go

King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia has agreed to pay for the cost of a kidney transplant for a Moroccan female student. The Saudi embassy in Rabat said that Salma Abkar had appealed to the Saudi king to be treated at King Faisal Hospital in Riyadh. Abkar, a student at the medical college of Rabat, suffers from kidney failure. Go

The Saudi minister of finance and national economy Ibrahim al-Assaf today in Riyadh signed with the federal chancellor for national economy and the Swiss economy minister an agreement to avoid double taxation on revenues arising from international air transport and employees bonuses between the Saudi and Swiss governments. Go

Iraqi trade minister Mahdi Saleh on today in Amman held with the Jordanian industry and trade minister Muhammad Saleh al-Hourani talks on means of strengthening economic cooperation and trade exchange between the two states. The meetings of the two ministers, however, comes in preparation for the Jordanian minister to Iraq, next week to attend the meetings of the joint Iraqi- Jordanian committee on the ministerial level in Baghdad,in order to discuss various bilateral co operation issues. Go

The Yemeni Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Abdul Qader Baj'mal arrived in the United Arab Emirates UAE today in a one-day visit where he will convey a message to the President of the UAE from the Yemeni President, Gulf news agency reported. Go

It was announced in Baghdad today Saturday' that a prominent Shiite man of religion Ayatollah al-Ozma Muhammad Sadeq Sader was killed together with his two sons in an attack took place on Thursday night. Go

France has expressed deep concern over the Israeli occupation of the LebanesAmoun town in South Lebanon. Spokeswoman for the French Foreign Ministry said that the Israeli occupation of Arnoun is not acceptable, noting that such an Israeli act would increase tension in the region. Go

Palestinian officials denied a report in Foreign Report calling into question the health of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, Gulf Daily News reported. Go

Qatar has said that 82 documents whose authenticity was questioned by Bahrain in a case before the International Court of Justice dealing with a territorial dispute between the two Gulf states can be disregarded, Gulf Times reported. Go

80,000 pirated videos were confiscated by a task force from Oman's Ministry of National Heritage and Culture in an operation that took place earlier this year, Oman Daily Observer reported. Go

The Middle East Oil Show and Conference will begin today and last until February 23 at Bahrain International Exhibition Center, Bahrain Tribune reported. Go

Arab League Secretary General Esmat Abdul Meguid will head tomorrow to Morocco for a five-day visit during which he will meet with King Hassan II to discuss new developments in the Arab arena. Go

The Egyptian authorities cancelled an Arab symposium under the title of "Challenges of Zionist project and Arab confrontation," which was to begin on Sunday. Among the expected participants are the leader of the People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Geroge Habash, and the head of Hamas' political bureau Khaled Mishal, who Israel tried to assassinate in 1997, were to attend. Go

The Euro-Mediterranean chambers of trade and industry will hold their first conference next March 1-2 in Milan, Italy. The conference will launch a two-year initiative to reinforce the role of trade and industry chambers in the development of business flows and trade exchange. Go

Two Italian non-governmental organizations agreed to assist Morocco in developing handicrafts in its northern region of Chefchaouen. Under the accord, the two Italian NGOs commit to carry out projects supporting handicraft in the Moroccan region through training, workshops, marketing and micro-loans. Go

Several students were wounded and scores were arrested by the police during riots at Fez University, the Moroccan press reported. The students were trying to stage a sit-in at the university, when the police intervened to disperse the crowd, Map reported. Go

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, winner of the 1997 Noble Prize for physics, will give several lectures in Morocco. Cohen-Tannoudji teaches at the College de France and is director of a French atomic physics laboratory. He is visiting Morocco at the invitation of the Moroccan secretariat of state for scientific research. Go

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein called for convening an Arab expanded meeting on a summit level or on any other official level. The call came in a communique sent by Hussein to the Arab League Secretary General Esmat Abdul Meguid at the beginning of this month. Go