Arabic News Daily Page for 7/14/1997
Daily Edition - Monday, July 14, 1997
- Islam-West forum opens today
Cairo has set the scene to host a landmark gathering on "Islam and the West" set to open today under the patronage of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, seeking to deepen Islamic-Western communication on the world's second largest religion. Egypt, Religion, 7/14/1997 - Somalis end peace conference in Ethiopia
A peace conference bringing together many of Somalia’s feuding factions ended last night an appeal from Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin. Mesfin told participants, including powerful North Mogadishu faction leader Ali Mahdi Mohamed, to pursue dialogue as the best way of Africa country. North Africa Region, Politics, 7/14/1997 - Uzbekistani team cooperation talks
The deputy remier of Uzbekistan arrived yesterday, heading a large delegation which will participate in the second session of the meetings of the Egyptian-Uzbekistani joint committee, to be held next week. Egypt, Politics, 7/14/1997 - UN studies Iraqi request
United Nation experts are in Baghdad to study an Iraqi proposal to import goods via its new friend Syria, giving the sanctions-hit country a fourth outlet, a UN official in Baghdad said. Iraq, Economics, 7/14/1997 - Tel Aviv growing increasingly isolated
"Monte Carlo" radio said Israel is undergoing a growing isolation in the international arena despite America's unlimited support for Tel Aviv's policy against just peace and international resolutions. Israel, Local, 7/14/1997 - Sudan militia leader recaptures towns from rebels
The commander of a militia allied with the Sudanese government said his forces helped recapture five southern towns from rebels, a Khartoum newspaper reported on Sunday. Sudan, Politics, 7/14/1997 - Two Israeli soldiers injured in South Lebanon
Two Israeli soldiers were wounded on July 13 when Lebanese resistance men rocketed their outpost in South Lebanon, pro-Israeli militia sources said. Lebanon, Local, 7/14/1997 - Silence over sacrilege condemned by Fadlallah
A campaign by Jewish fundamentalists slandering the prophet Mohammed and the Virgin Mary came under heavy fire from Muslim clerics. Israel, Religion, 7/14/1997