Arabic News Daily Page for 5/27/1998
Daily Edition - Wednesday, May 27, 1998
- Parry - compensation payment Saudi Arabia-UK, People, 5/27/1998
- Oman - India fertilizer Oman-India, Business, 5/27/1998
- Palestine - UAE cooperation United Arab Emirates-Palestine, Culture, 5/27/1998
- US State Department - UNRWA Palestine-USA, Economics, 5/27/1998
- OIC meeting concludes Regional-Iran-OIC, Politics, 5/27/1998
- Oman - Iraq Oman-Iraq, Business, 5/27/1998
- Butler - Iraq Iraq, Politics, 5/27/1998
- Oman - Viagra Oman, Health, 5/27/1998
- Palestinian authority's dues in Israel are about half billion dollar
A Palestinian official said that the Palestinian governments' dues of tax and customs revenues from Israel total more than half a billion dollars. Palestine-Israel, Economics, 5/27/1998 - Palestinian leaders meets king Fahd Palestine-Saudi Arabia, Politics, 5/27/1998
- Oman bans import of Viagra for at least two years
The Ministry of Health in the Sultanate of Oman decided yesterday to ban the import of the impotence drug Viagra to the Sultanate. The ministry said that Oman requires a drug to be marketed in the producer's home country for two years before it will approve sale of the new medicine. Oman, Health, 5/27/1998 - Arafat will visit south Africa during August
Palestinian sources told ArabicNews.com that Palestinian President Yasser Arafat will pay an official visit south Africa; in next August according to president of South Africa Nelson Mandela's invitation. Palestine, Politics, 5/27/1998 - Kurdish - Arab discussions start today in Cairo
Two days of Kurdish - Arab discussions with the participation of the Egyptian committee for solidarity, the Kurdish Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan began this morning. Iraq-Regional, Politics, 5/27/1998 - Abdul Meguid to visit Lebanon
Arab League Secretary-General Esmat Abdul Meguid will head on May 30 to Lebanon for a two-day official visit. Lebanon-Regional, Politics, 5/27/1998 - Algeria: National Assembly distributes posts among its members
The political bureau of Algeria's ruling National Democratic Assembly party held a meeting yesterday evening in order to distribute posts among its 15 members, who were elected on May 14-15. Algeria, Politics, 5/27/1998 - Meeting with President al-Assad, fruitful, Sheikh Yassin says
Founder of the Palestinian resistance movement (Hamas) Sheikh Ahmad Yassin has praised Syria's national stances towards the Arab causes, and its continued support for the cause of Palestine and the struggle of the Palestinian people to liberate their territories and establish their own independent state on their national soil. Palestine, Politics, 5/27/1998 - Message from Chirac to president al-Assad
Syrian President Hafez al-Assad on Tuesday received a message from French President Jacques Chirac, conveyed during talks with director of the Middle East and North Africa department at the French Foreign Ministry, Jean Claude Coesseran. Syria-France, Politics, 5/27/1998 - AL condemns Israeli settlement policy in the Golan
Arab League Assistant Secretary for political affairs Muhammad Zakarya Ismael, said in a Tuesday statement that the announcement of 380 housing units in the occupied Syrian Golan and to sell them to Jewish settlers is a new evidence of lies told by the Likud government of Benjamin Netanyahu as regards Israel's allegations it wants peace and resumption of negotiations. Syria-Regional, Politics, 5/27/1998