Arabic News Daily Page for 1/29/2003
Daily Edition - Wednesday, January 29, 2003
- Jordan gets three Patriot batteries
A Jordanian official said yesterday that Jordan will received "in the coming weeks" three antimissile US Patriot missiles batteries in order to reinforce its defense means of fears of the war against Iraq. Jordan-USA, Politics, 1/29/2003 - Kuwait: Five convicts in al-Doha attack before the attorney
A Kuwaiti security source stressed yesterday that the Kuwaiti who was held in custody on charge of attacking Americans one week earlier together with other four were brought before the court for investigation. Kuwait-USA, Politics, 1/29/2003 - UAE, Egypt sign air transport agreement
Minutes of meeting were signed yesterday at the United Arab Emirates UAE foreign ministry on exchanging ratified documents on the bilateral agreement on air transport between the UAE and Egypt. United Arab Emirates-Egypt, Economics, 1/29/2003 - Egypt, Germany sign contract for building zafarana power station
Egypt and Germany represented in the New And Renewable Energy Authority (NREA) and a consortium of German and Egyptian companies signed to build a 47 MW wind farm at Zafarana area with a value of 36.6 million Euro besides LE 33.80 million LE. Egypt-Germany, Economics, 1/29/2003 - International fisheries trade experts meet in casablanca
Arab states have sea riches able to ensure them food security at affordable prices, provided that resources be exploited, distributed and marketed rationally, director of the specialized magazine "Info Samak," said. Morocco-Regional, Economics, 1/29/2003 - Iraq issue tops OIC-Russia talks
The situation in Iraq and the Middle East and the fight against terrorism topped talks in Moscow between Secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), Abdelouahed Belkziz and Russian foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, said Tuesday spokesman for the Russian foreign ministry, Alexandre Yakovenko. Regional-Russia, Politics, 1/29/2003 - Leprosy prevalence in morocco decreases
The prevalence rate of leprosy in Morocco has considerably decreased from 32 cases per 100,000 inhabitants recorded in 1990 to 1.14 in 2002 thanks to the modern and efficient poly-chemotherapy, says the health ministry. Morocco, Health, 1/29/2003 - Moroccan fisheries: coastal catches value ups by 43% end of november 2002
The value of Morocco's coastal catches reached 3.2 billion Dirhams (US$ 304 million) by the end of November 2002, which is a 43% rise in comparison with 2001, the directorate of general economic policy said in its latest newsletter. Morocco, Economics, 1/29/2003 - EIB to finance environmental projects in Syria
Syrai's Minister for Environmental Affairs, Adnan Khozam, and the delegation of the European Investment Bank headed by, Peter Bandellah discussed yesterday relations of cooperation in the domain of financing environmental projects in Syria. Syria, Environment, 1/29/2003