Arabic News Daily Page for 2/28/2004
Weekend Edition - Saturday, February 28, 2004
- Rafsanjani deplores Israeli practices against the Palestinians
Chairman of Iran's Expediency Council (EC) Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Friday strongly denounced the "brutal oppressive practices perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinian people and the US support to Israel." Iran-Israel, Politics, 2/28/2004 - Aid dropped in Mountainous regions, relief supply gains momentum
Copters have started to drop humanitarian aid in several hamlets and localities in most difficult areas of the Al Hoceima province, jolted on Tuesday by a powerful quake that killed at least 570 people and injured hundreds of others. Morocco, Local, 2/28/2004 - Nablus municipality head resigned
Chairman of Nablus municipality Ghassan al-Shakaa announced his resignation from his post yesterday because of the chaos prevailing the city since a while. Palestine, Politics, 2/28/2004 - Two American soldiers wounded, occupation detains five Iraqis
Two American soldiers were injured yesterday in a hand- made explosive in Takrit ( 180 Km to the north of Baghdad), according to an American military source. Iraq-USA, Military, 2/28/2004 - Morocco, Spain move to activate labor agreement
Morocco and Spain recently adopted in Marrakesh a labor agreement which they have signed in July 2001 in Madrid, to regulate the flow of labor and fight the exploitation of illegal workers, said Morocco's employment promotion agency -ANAPEC. Morocco-Spain, Economics, 2/28/2004