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Egyptian Minister of Industry Mohammed Soleiman Reda is heading on August 19 to Baghdad, heading a delegation of 50 Egyptian businessmen on a five-day visit to fulfill Baghdad's needs for some goods in the framework of the oil-for-food agreement. Reda told ArabicNews.com that the delegation includes investors in food, medicine and medical equipment as well as hospital equipment, tractors, herbicides, veterinary medicines and fodder. Go

Jordan has fulfilled 74% of the Jordanian -Syrian Electricity Grid project. Project directorates at the Jordanian Ministry of Planning prepared a report on the cost of the project amounting to US $75 million, including the establishment of a 400 kilovolt relay station to the north of the capital, Amman, and the setting up of a line of single circuit of alternating current, between the relay station to the north of Amman and the Syrian border at a length of 60 km. Go

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak that starting from this week, President Mubarak will hold a series of summits with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Jordanís King Abdullah and Sultan Qaboos Bin Said of Oman. Go

Jordanian Minister of Labor Aid el-Fayez on Saturday in Amman discussed with his Mauritanian counterpart, Baba Ould Sidi, cooperation between the two countries in vocational training and means of exchanging expertise and experts in order to promote training. Go

The assistant secretary general for African affairs at the Libyan Foreign Ministry, Ali al-Turkeiki, met on Saturday in Tripoli with the leader of the United Revolutionary Front, Fudan Sankouh, who is also vice president in Sierra Leone. The two sides discussed means of carrying out reconciliation in Sierra Leone and efforts to make all sides abide by what had been agreed upon to establish security and stability in the country. Go

Eight soldiers were killed in Djibouti on Sunday in the crash of a helicopter that was taking them in the northern part of the country. AFP quoted a statement by the Djibouti Defense Ministry as saying that the helicopter from the Djibouti armed forces crashed for technical reasons near Eidalo in Tajourah district. The helicopter which was carrying five members and three soldiers from medical units in the armed forces was on a routine mission. Go

Israel Radio said on Sunday that Palestinian President Yasser Arafat intends to build a new casino in the Palestinian self-rule area, and in particular in Ramallah, in the West Bank. Israel Radio quoted Arafat as saying during his meeting with a group of businessmen and industry from Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians that the Palestinian Authority also intends to set up five industrial zones, one of which is in Tulkarem. Go

Six persons were killed and another ten wounded in armed confrontations that took place during the past two days between an armed militia and Somali security forces. The security forces, which try to impose the law in the absence of a real government, were able to deter the attackers. Go

The US planes positioned at the Turkish Incirlik base have struck an Iraqi position 460 km north of the capital, Baghdad. A statement by the US European Command stationed in Germany said that US F-15 planes dropped laser-guided bombs against the Iraqi position to the north of Baghdad. Go

The spokesman of the Israeli army said today that Israel is lifting the siege imposed on Palestinian villages in the northern West Bank where a Jewish settler was attacked on August 10. Go