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The Israeli occupation forces on Thursday killed a Syrian child from Masaada village in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights when the child was killed by an Israeli tractor. News reports from the Golan said the child is four years old. The occupation authorities said that the accident took place when the Israeli tractor was moving backward. Go

Saudi Arabia and Iran have agreed to exchange military attaches after the visit held by Saudi Minister of Defense Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz to the Iranian capital. Iranian Minister of Defense Admiril Ali Shamkhani described this agreement as a great achievement, stating that they will arrange to exchange visits between the two countries' militaries. Go

Foreign ministers of the five Arab Maghreb Union (UMA) member states will hold a meeting of the union's follow-up committee on May 15-16 in Algiers, the Tunisian Ashorouk daily reported. Go

The works of the Egyptian - Pakistani high committee are to start on June 6 in Islamabad under the chairmanship of Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa and his Pakistani counterpart, Sartaj Aziz. Meanwhile the Egyptian assistant FM for Asian affairs, Nagi El-Gatrifi, said that during the three-day-meetings the praticipants will endorse a number of mutual cooperation agreements and discuss cooperation on political issues of mutual concern through activating the role of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, especially in relation to the problems of Islamic countries. Go

Morocco was elected chairman of the UN Information Committee for a two-year mandate. The election was made Thursday during the ongoing 21st session of the UN committee which is looking into several topics germane to ways of promoting contacts and communications between UN member states and UN bodies in addition to the UN information strategy in the next millennium. Go

King Hassan II received on Wednesday in Marrakesh Prince Hassan Bin Talal of Jordan, who is paying a private visit to Morocco to take part in the spring session of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco. Prince Talal was designated by King Hassan II as a member of this Moroccan scientific and cultural institution in 1990. Go

The Arab Fund for Social and Economic Development, headquartered in Kuwait, decided to lend to Algeria the amount of $130 million dollars to be used to help Algeria sustain high efforts to meet the requirements of Algerian consumers of electric energy. With this loan, the fund has presented loans to Algeria worth $700 million during the past two years to implement several projects to upgrade the basic infrastructure in Algeria. Go

Ahmed Tibaoui, an Algerian economic delegate who took part in last month's meetings in Stuttgart, Germany on European - Mediterranean cooperation, said that the volume of direct foreign investment in Algeria outside the petroleum sector is $220 million US, Algerian News Agency reported. "Our growth potential vis-a-vis our brother countries and the European Union, notably Germany, is extremely wide," the report quoted him as saying. Go

The country manager for India at the Bahrain Promotion and Marketing Board said that Bahrain is trying to promote investments from India by offering full ownership, and "tax-free repatriation of profits, capital and royalties," Bahrain Tribune quoted the official, Ganesh Raja, as saying. Go

The first-ever Mediterranean Travel Fair will take place in Cairo on March 1-3, 2000, Reed Travel Exhibitions announced, focusing on the non-European Mediterranean states, Khaleej Times reported. Go

90 percent of a Saudi serial entitled "Thank You..." is being filmed in Bahrain for broadcast during Ramadan, Gulf Daily News reported. The remainder of the serial will be filmed in Saudi Arabia, the report said. Go

The new permanent representative of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations, Fawzi Bin Abdul Majeed Shoboksh, presented his credentials to Secretary General Kofi Annan yesterday. Shoboksh's previous posts have included terms as the Saudi ambassador to the Russian Federation, Japan and the Philippines. Go

A statement by the Higher Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq said that Baghdad had transferred planes and missiles to al-Basra, in southern Iraq. In a statement, the council's representative in London, Hamid al-Bayati, said that "The [Iraqi] regime reinforced its missiles in Jabal Snam area on the border with Kuwait by ground missiles." He added that the Iraqi authorities also transferred three jet fighters to Saddam Hussein International Airport in al-Basra. Go