Arabic News Daily Page for 8/10/1998
Daily Edition - Monday, August 10, 1998
- Europe adds obstacles before Egyptian Potatoes
A new crisis broke out between Egypt and the European Union around conditions for exporting potatoes. Egypt-European Union, Economics, 8/10/1998 - Arab countries need $110 billion to produce electric energy up to 2015
The amounts required to be invested in the field of electric energy production in Arab countries during the coming seven years are assessed at about 50 billion dollars, according to a Lebanese weekly which referred to recent studies Regional, Economics, 8/10/1998 - Joint Egyptian - U.S. forces training
The Egyptian Air Forces and the US Marines are starting today a new round of joint military training. Egypt-USA, Military, 8/10/1998 - Moroccan police dismantle international forgery gang
The Moroccan police have dismantled lately in Casablanca an international gang specializing in forging bank-notes, especially the Bahraini dinar, and car number plates. Morocco, Local, 8/10/1998 - Moroccan athletes excel at Monaco meet
Moroccan field and track star Hicham El-Guerrouj has enhanced his chances for bagging the one million dollar IAAF-jackpot after winning Sunday the 1500 m race of the Monaco meet. Morocco, Sports, 8/10/1998 - Identification operation would be meaningless if Moroccan Sahrawis deprived of right to be identified, house speaker says
Speaker of the chamber of representatives (lower house of the Moroccan bi-cameral parliament), Abdelouahed Radi, said that to deprive Moroccan Sahrawis from their right to be identified as would-be voters in the referendum the United Nations is planning to hold in the Moroccan southern provinces would render the operation meaningless. Morocco, Politics, 8/10/1998 - 800,000 Moroccan expatriates crossed Strait of Gibraltar since holidays
Some 820,277 Moroccan nationals settled in Europe have crossed the Strait of Gibraltar since June 15, 1998, going back home for the summer holidays. Morocco, Economics, 8/10/1998 - Prince Moulay Rachid in Portugal for Expo-98
Prince Moulay Rachid, youngest son of King Hassan II, praised Saturday in Lisbon the soundness of Moroccan-Portuguese relations. Morocco-Portugal, Economics, 8/10/1998 - Egypt getting ready for Mediterranean ministerial conference
Fathi El-Shazeli, the Egyptian assistant foreign minister for European affairs, said after coming back from Italy and Germany that he discussed with officials in the German and Italian Foreign Ministries the issue of arrangements for the Mediterranean - European ministerial conference which is to be held in Stuttgart, Germany in April 1999. Egypt-Germany, Politics, 8/10/1998