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  • Jordanian Minister of Information Naser al-Lewzy announced that the Egyptian foreign minister along with his Jordanian counterpart and the Palestinian minister responsible for peace negotiations are going hold a three-way- meeting in Amman within days. Go
  • Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa announced that the request of Iraq to the Arab League to lift the air embargo from southern and northern Iraq, the so-called no-fly zone, would be presented at the coming Arab foreign ministers' meeting. Meanwhile, he renewed his confirmation of the Arab League's refusal to divide Iraq in any way. Go
  • The Iraqi authorities on Saturday executed eight persons who were convicted of assassinating two clergymen in 1998 and of an attempt to kill a third. Iraqi dailies published on Sunday said, quoting a statement released by the general security directorate, that the eight executed persons admitted to the assassination of Ayatollah Ali al-Ozawi and Sheikh Ali Muhammad al-Brujerdi in 1998 and the attempt to assassinate Ayatollah Ali al-Yetsani in 1996. Go
  • Columbian President Andres Pastrana is expected in Morocco next Wednesday on a one-day working visit to give a new momentum to cooperation between the two countries in various sectors. Go
  • More than 10,000 Iraqi children and elderly died last January of malnutrition against 766 lives claimed during the same month in 1989. The Iraqi health department said some 9,162 children and elderly died last February in Iraq against 835 recorded during the same month in 1989 before the enforcement of the UN sanctions against Baghdad in 1990 after the Gulf War. Go
  • Saleh al-Armouti has won the post of chairman of the Bar Association in Jordan in succession of Hussein Majli. In elections that began on Friday al-Armouti won some 1,430 votes from the 2,622 voters who took part in the elections. Go
  • Palestinian Agriculture Minister Hikmat Zaid arrived Sunday in Morocco for talks with Moroccan officials on ways of boosting partnership between the two sides in matters of agriculture and related sectors. Go
  • Syrian President Hafez al-Assad on Saturday in Damascus received Omani Minister of Higher Education Yahyah Bin Mahouz al-Munziri and members of his accompanying delegation who conveyed a message from Sultan Qaboos Bin Saeed of Oman. Go
  • Algerian security forces on Sunday killed two members of the extremist Armed Islamic Group near the headquarters of Medea municipality, 90 km from the capital, Algiers, said the Algerian daily al-Chaab. Go
  • Some 22 persons were killed on Sunday in confrontations that erupted between warring groups in the northern parts of the Somali capital, Makadishu. AFP quoted local Somali dailies as saying the confrontations took place between armed men from a certain Somali faction, which it did not identify, and others working for businessmen in the area of the Somali capital. Go
  • The fourth Syrian-German-Lebanese neurosurgery conference on the treatment of epilepsy and traumas of the nervous system was opened on Sunday in Damascus under the patronage of Syrian Prime Minister Mahmoud al-Zou'bi. Go
  • The organization of the "Hawks of revenge for Abu" which is pro the Kurdistani Workers Party (PKK) has announced responsibility for the attack carried out on Saturday against a trade center in Istanbul and resulted in killing 13 persons. The Turkish daily Hurriyet said on Sunday that an unidentified person phoned the Turkish "TF star Networking" private TV and stressed that the said organization carried out the attack. This is the third attack which targeted a trade center in Istanbul during this week. Go
  • President of Kuwait Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah on Sunday received the first deputy for the Parliament speaker in the Republic of Djibouti, Fahmi Ahmad for bilateral talks. Go
  • Lebanese Prime Minister Salim al-Hoss will inaugurate the works of ninth session of the Arab National Conference today in Beirut, in association with 230 intellectuals, researchers and persons concerned with Arab affairs in all the Arab states. Go
  • A Palestinian center for human rights demanded that United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan intervene with the Israeli government to uncover the fates of 57 missing Palestinians. An overlooked atrocity: slavery in Sudan U.S. Jets Bomb More Iraqi Sites Kurd Rebels Threaten War on Tourism Jordanian editors press for freer expression Almost 500,000 Muslim pilgrims in Saudi Arabia for hajj U.S. Jets Bomb More Iraqi Sites Israel Police to Question Netanyahu Politicians defend Algerian Islamist's poll bid Netanyahu vows to respond forcefully if Palestinians declare state Death penalty fallout puts Arafat's iron grip in question ETHIOPIA / ERITREA FIGHTING UPDATE Netanyahu Promises To Expand Jewish Settlement Emirates threatens to pull out of $8 billion deal for F-16s Go

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