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Palestinian - Israeli final status negotiations resumed today at Erez passage. Palestinian sources said, "These negotiations will focus on discussing the Israeli settlement cause in the occupied Palestinian lands." An Israeli spokeswomen said Israel intends to release Palestinian prisoners within days according to what was stated by the Sharm El-Sheikh accord, which calls for the release of a new set of prisoners in Ramadan month. Go

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak received a detailed report from Foreign Minister Amr Moussa concerning Moussa's talks with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa. Moussa returned yesterday from a visit to Syria to put a limit to the coolness in relations between the two states, and Moussa conveyed a message from the Egyptian president to Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. Go

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is due to receive Palestinian President Yasser Arafat during the current week to discuss peace process developments and means of moving to confront the obstacles facing the peace process, topped by the Israeli government's non-implementation of agreements signed between the two sides. Go

Israeli Minister of Agriculture Haim Oron from the Merets movement has expressed his conviction that efforts should be made in order to permit the citizens of the Golan Heights to have lands in the Galilee or Negev and to rebuild their villages in these territories after their evacuation from the Golan in the course of a peace settlement with Syria. Go

The Israeli settlers in the Golan Heights decided to continue demonstrations before the Israeli Knesset today aimed at keeping the Golan under Israel's control, as the demonstrators stated that they are against any endeavor for the withdrawal from Golan and they threatened to refuse any procedure taken against the settlers in Golan. Go

The chairman of the scientific research and technology academy in Egypt and the chairman of the current session of the federation of the council on Arab scientific research, Dr. Muhammad Yusri, is making contacts and consultations with the officials in charge of scientific research in the member states of the federation in order to study the possibility of founding a complex for protecting intellectual property and promoting renovation and creativity in the Arab homelands. Go

An official source in Algiers said on Sunday that Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has agreed to deliver a speech before the French Parliament at the invitation of its speaker, Laurent Fabuis. Go

Lebanese official statistics stated that the ratio of people aged 65 years and older has increased from 5% in 1970 to 7% in 1996, and 42% of them are working. It added that this increase is due to increasing health and social care for elderly people in Lebanon. Go

Egyptian antiquities and tourism investigators in El-Minya governorate arrested Mahmud Morsi Abas, the antiquities guard in the Sheik Ebada area of Malawi district, accusing him of trading in stolen antique pieces and currencies, as 15 currency pieces from the Roman age, pottery pieces of different sizes and the remainders of mummies' coffins were found in his home in the village. Go

Born in 1970 in el-Bouti village, the Northern Oases, Mohamed Eid records the social life of his village using clay. The customs, traditions and activities of the Oases are all manifested through Eid¹s clay sculptures. The Oases¹ lanes, coffee shops and houses are also portrayed in his works. Eid uses natural materials such as clay and hydro-oxides. Go

Morocco's Raja club of Casablanca won the African champions league. Go