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King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia on Monday in al-Riyadh met with the executive President in Pakistan Lt. Gen. Bruweiz Musharraf and members of the accompanying delegation, who arrived in al-Riyadh earlier in the day. Bilateral relations between the two countries and means of strengthening them were reviewed. The two sides reviewed conditions on the Islamic and international arenas. Go

Two requests were presented to the people assembly and Shura council to form a new party called El-Karama (dignity) Party from the Moslems and Copts, which is loyal to Naserism (the late of Egyptian president Gamal Abd El-Naser), while adhering to the Islamic principle. Go

Syrian foreign minister Farouk al-Sharaa on Monday evening at his home in Damascus received the Sudanese minister of Justice Ali Mahmoud Othman, currently visiting Syria. Earlier in the day, al-Sharaa received his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Hamad Bin Jasem Bin Jaber al-Thani. Go

Jordanian King Abdullah II on Sunday night made a telephone call with Libyan President col. Moammar Gaddafi. An official Jordanian source said the two sides reviewed during the telephone call current conditions in the region and bilateral relations between their two countries. Go

Kuwaiti Crown Prince and Prime Minister Sheikh Saad al-Abdullah al-Sabah on Monday received in two separate meetings the British minister of state for foreign affairs, Peter Hain, and the British minister of state Muhimat Chilgger. Go

The Israeli authorities on Monday permitted the secretary general of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine Nayef Hawatemah to get into the territories under the Palestinian self-rule. In a statement, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said he agreed to the return of Hawatemah in response to a decision submitted by the chairman of the Palestinian Authority in this respect, in light of Hawatemah's announcement of backing the Oslo agreement and his readiness to join the final status negotiations with Israel. Go

The visiting speaker of the Jordanian senate, Zayd Arrifai, met in Rabat on Monday with heads of political groups at the chamber of advisors (upper chamber of the parliament). The Jordanian delegation expressed, during the meeting, their country's full backing for Morocco's territorial integrity. Go

While the Moroccan Journalists' Union was staging a one-day protest for state-run media reporters in front of the finance and economy department building, at midday at the newswire, it was business as usual. The official media demo is meant to protest total absence of feedback from the finance department to reporters' material grievances and as a the next move by the Union trying to elicit government's response before announcing Nov 15 its action program. Go

Joint Jordanian-British military maneuvering started on Monday in al-Qatranah district, Southern Jordan. It was attended by the Jordanian army chief of staff Lt. Gen. Muhammad Malkawi; high ranking Jordanian military men and the British ambassador in Amman. Go

Iraq said that US jets killed two and injured another 7 in shelling operations. Iraq said through a military spokesman that nine formations of US jets implemented attacks from the Turkish airspace in 11 civilian areas in northern Iraq, adding that U.S jets flew above Mosul city and shelled a site for Iraqi air defense missiles and that the Iraqi artillery strongly retaliated. Go

A statement released by the Iraqi communist Party on Monday in London said that the Iraqi regime on October 12 executed 19 Iraqi prisoners in Abu Gharib jail because of their political stances and their opposition to the regime. Go