Today's Headlines
- US wants greater redeployment
Peres: I don’t hear voices from the Arab side calling for war. Now that it’s clear to us that Assad doesn’t want war and that someone lied to us, we will make a mistake if we postpone the process. The price of peace will not go down, but the cost of victims is likely to rise. Regional-Palestine, Politics, 12/8/1997
- Mossad revelations on its agent with the false information on Syria
But so far, at least one person seemed to have won in this affair. That is the present head of the Mossad, Dani Yatom, whose name and career were damaged in the ill-fated Mossad attempt on the life of Hamas political figure Khaled Mishal in Amman. Israel-Syria, Politics, 12/8/1997
- Turkish - Syrian - Iraqi dispute over water
In January 1990, Turkey stopped the water of the Euphrates river from flowing to Syria and Iraq in order to fill the reservoir of the Ataturk Dam. Fertile Crescent Region, Analysis, 12/8/1997
- Al Baz: If peace fails, there will be other Arab alternatives
Dr. Osama Al Baz confirmed that Egypt had no intention to boycott the Middle East-North Africa Summit that was held in Doha, but the Israeli intransigence in the peace process led to this boycott. Egypt, Politics, 12/8/1997
- Terrorism and international cooperation, Part 2
Confronting terrorism itself requires some kind of effective and positive cooperation or mutual help in police fields and the judicial domain, exchanges of information related to the subject between countries. Regional, Politics, 12/8/1997
- Jacques Chirac to visit Emirates
French President Jacques Chirac will pay a two day visit to United Arab Emirates on December15-16; during the visit a contract will be signed for the purchase of 30 Mirage 2000-9 jets. United Arab Emirates, Politics, 12/8/1997
- Lebanese resistance attacks occupation positions
Hizbullah on Sunday warned Israel it will hit back on its northern territories if Israeli troops continue their attacks on innocent civilians in south Lebanon. Lebanon, Military, 12/8/1997
- OIC ministers approve Syrian draft resolution
The approved decision called upon countries which have started relations with Israel in the course of the peace process to reconsider their relations with Israel Regional, Politics, 12/8/1997
- Restoration of sphinx, ten archeological tombs on Pyramid Plateau complete
The secretary general of the EAHC declared that the completion of the new sites is concurrent with finishing the restoration works of the sphinx which are nearly done. Egypt, History, 12/8/1997
- Successful tentative operation of Egyptian nuclear reactor
The reactor will help in producing radioactive cognates which will be used for medical, agricultural and industrial purposes. They will be also used in engineering and physics and in other peaceful purposes. Egypt, Science, 12/8/1997
- Another Mossad mess up
A year ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with top US officials and gave them information which stunned them. Netanyahu told the Americans that Iraq was much closer to manufacturing nuclear arms than had been thought. Israel, Politics, 12/8/1997
- Morocco tries not to renew fishing treaty with Europe
The European Union will compensate Morocco with 140 million eco ( 1.5 billion dirham). This amount includes permit costs for fishing in Moroccan territorial waters. Morocco, Economics, 12/8/1997
- EU for Middle East just peace
Poos added that the EU and the US are working on a joint declaration on the Middle East peace process following meetings US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright held in Paris with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. Palestine, Politics, 12/8/1997
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