Arabic News Daily Page for 3/15/2004
Daily Edition - Monday, March 15, 2004
- Germany for revitalizing the ME Peace Process
The Chief of the Foreign Relations at the German Parliament, Folcker Roukh, on Sunday stressed the necessity of an effective international role to move the peace process in the Middle East forward. Regional-Germany, Politics, 3/15/2004 - Occupation tightens control on Iraqi borders; Four American soldiers killed in two attacks in Baghdad
The American army announced that four of its soldiers were killed in two separate explosions in Baghdad. A spokesman for the occupation forces said that three soldiers were killed and another was injured in an explosion that took place in an area to the south east of the capital, while the forth was injured by another explosion and died yesterday because of his wounds. Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/15/2004 - Okaz: Fattouh criticized the Greater Middle East initiative
The new speaker of the Palestinian legislative Council Rouhi Fattouh strongly criticized the so-called Greater Middle East, saying that Washington wants a big Middle East on its own standards and vision. Palestine-USA, Politics, 3/15/2004 - Sharon: we will not pay one penny to return back the Egyptian ambassador Egyptian companies export cement to build the wall
The Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday that he is not ready " to pay one penny " for returning back the Egyptian ambassador to Israel while Egyptian parliamentarians call for disclosing names of Egyptian companies and businessmen who exported cement shipments to Israel to build the wall of separation in the West Bank. Egypt-Israel, Politics, 3/15/2004 - 5000 year old antiques unearthed in Abydos
Egypt's Culture Minister Farouk Hosni said the funerary fence of King Hor A-ha (Fighter Horus), the first of the early dynasties' kings (3000 BC), and the remains of 10 donkeys believed to have been used to carry sacred items to the underworld were unearthed. Egypt, Local, 3/15/2004 - Five persons killed in Yemen including three security men
News reports in Yemen said that five persons were killed and others wounded in a clash that took place yesterday between armed men and the security forces in the central and western parts of Yemen. Yemen, Local, 3/15/2004