Arabic News Daily Page for 2/19/2004
Daily Edition - Thursday, February 19, 2004
- Egypt, Morocco to beef up trade exchange, investments
The Egyptian-Moroccan Chamber of Commerce has called for the acceleration of setting up an Egyptian-Moroccan joint bank to materialize trade exchange volume increase. Egypt-Morocco, Economics, 2/19/2004 - Eight Iraqi soldiers killed, one Baathist assassinated, 11 Iraqis killed in explosion targeting Polish contingent
Some 11 Iraqis were killed and other 23 others wounded including 8 coalition members as a result of an attack that targeted yesterday morning a Polish base in al-Hellah city to the south of Baghdad. Iraq, Military, 2/19/2004 - American- Yemeni joint maneuvers in the Gulf of Aden on Saturday
A Yemeni official source stressed that the leader of the American central leadership John Abizaid stressed he will pay a visit to Yemen on Saturday in order to attend joint military maneuvers between Yemen and the USA. Yemen-USA, Politics, 2/19/2004 - Lebanon conference of the Islamic world and Europe continues deliberations
The international conference of "the Islamic World and Europe from Dialogue to Understanding" continued its activities for the second day in Beirut on Wednesday, where several interpositions were presented. Regional-European Union, Local, 2/19/2004 - One Egyptian killed, one wounded by Israeli bullets
The Israeli police said that police members killed one Egyptian weapons smugglers and wounded another yesterday in Negev where they sneaked from Egypt. Egypt-Israel, Politics, 2/19/2004