Today's Headlines
- Qatar downgrades status of Mena summit and sends invitations
The name change is an apparent response to the various uneasy reactions of several Arab states over Israel being represented at Mena while peace negotiations remain deadlocked and Tel Aviv is failing to fulfil its obligations under the Oslo accords. Qatar, Politics, 10/2/1997
- Israel surprised by PNA readiness for combat
Israel reported lately its surprise at the scope of PNA readiness in case a military conflict breaks out with the Israeli army. Israeli military sources claimed the PNA has at its disposal some 30,000 pieces of weapons Palestine, Military, 10/2/1997
- Saudi Arabia gets serious about kicking illegals out
"The response has been very good so far. We are providing our people with valid travel documents and other consular services including handling their exit visas to help them leave smoothly," said Tekleab Kebebe, Consul General of Ethiopia in Jeddah. Saudi Arabia, Local, 10/2/1997
- Jordanian student killed in Iraq
A Jordinian student has been killed inside Iraqi territory after highway robbers attacked a car with Jordanian license plates with five students studying in Baghdad University on board. Iraq-Jordan, Local, 10/2/1997
- Retrial for Sidon terrorist ordered
Bilal Khaled Sheiti, a member of Esbat Al Ansar, had been convicted of detonating a bomb at the Hilton cinema in Sidon on the pretext that it showed pornographic films, and of firing a gun at an army patrol near Ain el Hilweh refugee camp. Lebanon, Judicial, 10/2/1997
- Positive developments in the Algerian crisis
One of the Gulf countries played a major role in getting the views of the Algerian government and the ISF closer to stopping violence and adopting the method of negotiations Algeria, Politics, 10/2/1997
- PNA will continue manhunt of Hamas
Palestinian sources said Thursday that the PNA will continue its manhunt of Hamas activists involved in military activities regardless of Israel's release of the spiritual leader of the movement.The sources expressed anger at the way Israel handled the release of Sheikh Yassin Palestine, Politics, 10/2/1997
- Pope Shenouda III rejects foreign intervention in Copts' affairs
The Patriarch of the Orthodox Copts of Egypt, the Middle East and Africa returned to Cairo after his tour of Britain, the USA, Canada, and Germany. In this tour he celebrated the opening of Coptic churches and met with Egyptian expatriates. Egypt, Religion, 10/2/1997
- Syria to divert Euphrates
Syria avoided criticizing the Turkish government which did not officially inform Syria of its agreement to regulate the flow of the Euphrates in order to help the experts implement the project. Syria-Turkey, Economics, 10/2/1997
- Sudan forsees imminent Eritrean offensive
A spokesman for the Sudanese army, Lieutenant General Mohammed Al Senousy warned of an imminent Eritrean offensive against the Sudanese territories through the eastern borders between the two countries. Sudan, Military, 10/2/1997
- Spanish-Moroccan timetable for Sebta and Melila
Moroccan members of the Islamic Committee in the city of Melila lying in the north of Morocco and occupied by Spain expressed their displeasure regarding the equivocation of the Spanish authorities in applying the plan to include Islamic education in the city's curriculums. Morocco, Local, 10/2/1997
- Pact on linking bourses in Kuwait and Bahrain
The agreement paves the way for a Kuwaiti clearing company and a Bahraini commercial bank to step up a share settlement system that will make it easiest for investors in one market to trade directly on the other. Bahrain-Kuwait, Economics, 10/2/1997
- Tunisian privatization program on schedule
In 1996 officials announced that the government, in a plan to speed up its privatization program, had selected 62 public firms with assets worth 1.4 billion dinars. Tunisia, Business, 10/2/1997
- Foreign investment to be organized
Kuwait's new investment law, which soon will be completed, will organize foreign investment in the country and the possibility of opening representation offices for Gulf banks Kuwait, Economics, 10/2/1997
- Kofi Annan could open Beirut Escwa building
Boueiz repeated his opposition to any further cuts in the Unrwa budget, saying that he feared this financial issue could switch to a political issue with the host countries forced to integrate Palestinian refugees. Lebanon, Politics, 10/2/1997
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