Arabic News Daily Page for 4/15/2004
Daily Edition - Thursday, April 15, 2004
- Morocco, Bahrain examine means to foster trade exchanges
Morocco and Bahrain are currently looking into means to foster economic relations and develop trade exchanges. Morocco-Bahrain, Economics, 4/15/2004 - Polisario member gets 5-year prison sentence for stealing explosives in mauritania
A member of the Algerian-backed separatist movement "Polisario" was sentenced, in Nouakchott Tuesday, by a Mauritanian court to five years in prison for stealing and selling explosives. Mauritania-Algeria, Politics, 4/15/2004 - Syria seeks to attract more investors; Kuwaiti official
The Syrian government is on the look out to surmount all obstacles facing investors as to guarantee their investments and their growth. This would be done by laws, modern and updated legislations, Minister of Finance Mohammed Hussein said in Kuwait on Tuesday. Syria-Kuwait, Economics, 4/15/2004 - Occupation agrees to change al-Mahdi army to a political organization, one Italian hostage is killed in Iraq
A group calling itself the "Green contingent" announced it had killed one of the four Italians held by it. In a statement, the group said it killed him to be a lesson to whom may concern, threatening the killing of the other three Italian hostages, one by one, unless its demands are met. Iraq-USA, Politics, 4/15/2004 - 1st Islamic Forum-wraps up deliberations
The participants to the First Islamic Forum wound up meeting in Damascus Wednesday with a statement calling on Arab and Moslem clerics and intellectual to concentrate on the civilized aspects of Islam and its work for peace and dialogue among civilizations. Regional, Religion, 4/15/2004 - One police man was killed, one injured near al-Riyadh, Saudi Oftaa committee deplores al-Falujja besiege
One Saudi Arabian police man was killed and another wounded when their patrol was attacked near Riyadh in a clash which is the first of its kind between the security forces and extremists gunmen during three days. Saudi Arabia, Local, 4/15/2004 - Canadian companies prospect for oil in Upper Egypt
Minister of Petroleum Sameh Fahmi said that the government was exerting to lure oil exploration investments to Upper Egypt through inviting renown international oil companies that employ state-of-the-art technology as part of President Hosni Mubarak's directives. Egypt-Canada, Economics, 4/15/2004 - Morocco's Gharib and Mouaziz top runners in London marathon
Morocco's world champion Jaouad Gharib and Abdelkader Mouaziz are among the top runners in the London Marathon that will take place next Sunday. Morocco, Sports, 4/15/2004