Today's Headlines
- Lebanese leaders try to reassure people
Lebanese citizens are extremely anxious about the situation; they fear the worst, but Lebanese President Hrawi and Prime Minister Hariri seems less pessimistic about the future. Lebanon, Politics, 8/21/1997
- Iraqi US secret trade transactions
Some diplomatic sources said the USA and Iraq secretly made trade transactions in spite of the mutual accusations between the two countries. Iraq, Economics, 8/21/1997
- Algerian demonstration against terrorism
In a very crowded demonstration, thousands Algerian people gathered, chanting in one voice "no to terrorism, stop killing the innocent." Algeria, Politics, 8/21/1997
- Disney defends latest film
Responding to accusations from an American-Arab group that its new film, G.I. Jane, portrays Arabs in an unfair and inaccurate light, Hollywood Pictures, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney company, said in a statement that there is "no intent to disparage any people." Regional, International, 8/21/1997
- War expectations escalate in south Sudan
One of the senior commanders of the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) expects the rebels to step up the war before the next peace talks in Kenya. Sudan, Politics, 8/21/1997
- Bahraini fugitive captured in Egypt
Alexandria police forces yesterday arrested a fugitive Bahraini national, charged in his country by authorities with murder and arson Bahrain, Judicial, 8/21/1997
- Sharon advises economic destruction of Lebanon; Hariri calls Israel a terrorist state
Four Israeli warplanes raided Lebanon and fired rockets at the area of Jenata in Bekaa valley near Baalbek, wounding four civilians and causing damages. Lebanon, Politics, 8/21/1997
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