Arabic News Daily Page for 6/27/1998
Weekend Edition - Saturday, June 27, 1998
- US regrets investigation results over Khobar explosion
The US defense department has expressed regret over investigations relating to the explosion which killed 19 members of the US military at Khobar Towers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The spokesman for the US Defense department said: "there's frustration in this government with the inability to bring these killers to justice." Saudi Arabia-USA, Politics, 6/27/1998 - Mubarak receives a telephone call from Yeltsin
President Muhammad Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Russian President Boris Yeltsin discussed the situation in the Middle East and the crisis facing the Middle East peace process. This was in a telephone call President Mubarak received on Friday from his Russian counterpart. Egypt-Russia, Politics, 6/27/1998 - Opposition is not a threat to security says official
A Moroccan Islamic official stated that the Islamic opposition is neither negative nor does it threaten the country's security, as Abdul-Elah Bankir, deputy secretary-general of the Popular Constitutional Democratic Movement, excluded the possibility of Islamic extremism transferring from Algeria to Morocco. Morocco, Politics, 6/27/1998 - Islamic courts, militias emerge in Somalia
Acts of violence have been renewed in Somalia at a time when a new side has emerged in the conflict, namely the Islamic courts militias. Somalia, Politics, 6/27/1998 - Calm restored in Yemen
The Yemeni authorities have restored calm to Yemen on Thursday following confrontations between the demonstrators and the tribes on the one hand and the police on the other Yemen, Local, 6/27/1998 - Libya accuses US and Israel of planing to strike it
In a statement issued by the Libyan Foreign Ministry on Friday, Libya accused the US and Israel of planning to launch an attack on its territories from their belief that Tripoli is developing weapons of mass destruction with the assistance of Iraqi experts. Libya, Politics, 6/27/1998 - Egypt's trade should rise with COMESA membership
Diplomatic sources in the Egyptian Foreign Ministry stated that Egypt's membership in the assembly of the southern and eastern African countries, known as the COMESA (Komisa) assembly, will help support commercial and investment relations between Egypt and the assembly's 19 member states Egypt, Economics, 6/27/1998 - Turkish - Egyptian cooperation with Balkan countries and Africa under discussion
Ambassador Fathi El-Shazeli, Egypt's assistant foreign minister for European affairs, confirmed that he discussed with Turkish officials an arrangement for convening meetings of the joint economic committee and the joint tourism, committee in July, in addition to visit by a governmental delegation with Turkish businessmen during October. Egypt-Turkey, Politics, 6/27/1998 - Egyptian foreign minister approves of visit by Spanish prime minister
Moussa said that there are continued communications between the two countries on all economic, political and cultural levels. Egypt-Spain, Economics, 6/27/1998 - Hanan Ashrawi calls Arab states to act against Israeli expansionist project
Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestinian government, called Friday on the Arab nation to set up a common strategy to counter the Israeli Zionist project to expand the occupied city of Jerusalem. Palestine-Regional, Politics, 6/27/1998