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  • Syrian women in the occupied Golan heights on Friday staged a sit in at the headquarters of the International Red Cross in the occupied town of Majdal Shams. The al-Bayader al-Seyassi magazine which is based in Jerusalem said in its recent issue added that those Syrian women vowed to " continue the struggle until the Golan is fully liberated." The women who participated in the sit in called for allowing the Syrians in the Golan' without exception or discrimination, to visit their families and relatives in their homeland, Syria. Go
  • The first session of strategic dialogue between Egypt and Germany is to be held on coming Wednesday and Thursday in Cairo. The Egyptian side is chaired by Assistant Foreign Minister for European Affairs Fathi El-Shazely, and the German side is headed by Ofa Kestner, the political director in the German Foreign Ministry. Go
  • Lebanese Prime Minister Salim al-Hoss will on Sunday visit the United Arab Emirates UAE in the course of his tour to several states in the region. The UAE news agency said that during his visit which will last for two days, the Lebanese Premier will meet with President of the UAE Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan al-Nahyan and discuss with him means of strengthening bilateral relations and issues of mutual concern. Go
  • Lebanon's ambassador in Cairo, Hisham Demashkeh, told ArabicNews.com that the British Foreign Office Minister Derek Fatchett visit to Lebanonn on Monday is a call to resume peace talks on the Lebanese and Syrian tracks to reach a just settlement in the area, adding that this requires from Britain to urge Israel to implement UN Security Council resolution 425, which calls for Israel's withdrawal from Lebanese territory. Go
  • Chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat has said that the Palestinians can resume the Intifada (uprising) if Israel tries to prevent them from carrying out their rights in establishing their own independent state. In a speech he delivered on Friday before members of the Fatah movement in Ramallah Arafat added that the " Palestinian state will be established and Jerusalem will be its capital if Israel accepts that or does not." Arafat refrained from disclosing whether he will announced the establishment of the Palestinian state in the 4th of May. The Israeli radio reported. Go
  • A royal decree was released in Amman on Friday on accepting the resignation of the chairman of the Jordanian Royal court Abdul Karim al-Kabariti and Adnan Abou Odeh, the King's political advisor from the membership of the Jordanian al-Ayan Council ( upper house). This measure, however, came to prevent having double jobs between the two men's royal posts and their membership in the al-Ayan council. Go
  • Turkish sources in Cairo said that the regular trips by the Israeli airline El Al will resume to Istanbul airport starting from tomorrow, after being stopped since last Thursday. The company cancelled two trips that were to be made on Thursday to Istanbul as a security procedure against a possible attack by terrorist elements on the occasion of El-Nairouz feast celebrated by the Kurds. Go
  • "Arab poetry between the past and the present, what specificity?" is the theme of the first Arab Poetry Congress to be held in Fes on April 27-30. U.S., British planes attack targets in southern Iraq Balloonists head for Egypt after making aviation history Palestinians Losing Faith in Arafat Iraqi Kurd copes with Europe's asylum quagmire Kurdish suicide bomber killed in southeastern Turkey Saudi Arabia Oil Iraqi opposition group claims many killed in Basra clashes Go

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