Today's Headlines
- New Syrian parliament speaker seeks political role for parliament
The Syrian People's Assembly opened yesterday its first session of the 8th Legislative Session. The new members elected Mohammed Naji Otari as the Head of the new People's Assembly for the 8th legislative term. Syria, Politics, 3/10/2003
- Fez city: 7 women out of 10 victim of violence, survey
A survey conducted in the city of Fes on domestic violence reveals that 7 women out of ten are victim of violence, and that 5 out of 10 do not report it. Morocco, Culture, 3/10/2003
- Moroccan women's role in public affairs management highlighted
Morocco's Human Rights Minister, Mohamed Aujjar highlighted, here on Friday, Moroccan women's role in public affairs management, based on equal political rights with men. Morocco, Politics, 3/10/2003
- E- government in Egypt is on its way
The e-government project will pave the way for an informatics based Egyptian society, able to cope with the IT revolution and narrowing the digital divide between Egypt and the advanced countries, an IT expert told the Egyptian Mail. Egypt, Economics, 3/10/2003
- Iraq considers receiving Arab summit delegation on the crisis
The Arab League announced that Baghdad has agreed to receive its ministerial committee stemmed from the recent Arab summit in order to hold talks with the Iraqi officials concerning the current crisis. Iraq-Regional, Politics, 3/10/2003
- Riyadh: American forces in Saudi bases for defense
The Saudi defense minister Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz has stressed that his country's authorities have actually closed Ar'ar airport in the north east of Saudi Arabia near the borders with Iraq before civil aviation. Saudi Arabia-USA, Politics, 3/10/2003
- Mrs. Mubarak stresses literature in child development
She described child literature as the finest forms of creativity and said each child should have books. Egypt, Culture, 3/10/2003
- Al-Ahram: US may know of illigal weopan in Iraq because it supplied them
Former Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Khalil said that the law of nations would be enforced in case of the contradiction between the Egyptian-Israeli peace accord and the joint Arab Defense Treaty. Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/10/2003
- Sudan urges Arab states to hurry in rebuilding the south
The Sudanese government has warned the Arab states and its voluntary organizations against linking contributions to rebuilding the south to achieving peace, and urged them to hurry in financing developmental projects so as to reach a voluntary unity between the northern and southern parts of the country. Sudan-Regional, Politics, 3/10/2003
- Palestinian resistance retaliates by al-Qassam missiles, Israeli forces bomb homes
The Israeli armed forces yesterday continued attacks against the Palestinians, who retaliated by bombarding Sderout settlement with al-Qassam missiles. Palestine-Israel, Military, 3/10/2003
Short Takes
- A 32 per cent increase in Egyptian exports from the food, textile, agricultural and metallurgical sectors is expected in 2003, according to the Ministry of Foreign Trade's export promotion programme, which is concentrated on products in high demand on foreign markets. Go
- Israeli sources disclosed yesterday that the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon had met during 2002 for several times with the Jordanian King Abdullah II. Go
- Two explosive went off yesterday in Ein al-Helweh camp in south Lebanon near two houses for member in the Fatah movement. Go
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