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- Lebanese resistance retaliates for Israeli attacks
The Lebanese resistance on Sunday attacked two Israeli positions in Sweida and Tebeh in the occupied part of south Lebanon. In a statement, the resistance forces said that two resistance groups attacked, using rockets and machine guns, the two military positions and destroyed several detachments and fortifications. Lebanon, Military, 8/16/99 - Kuwait gives Jordanians, Sudanese work licenses
A Kuwaiti daily quoted Kuwaiti Minister of Trade, Industry, Social Affairs and Labor Abdul Wahab al-Wazzan as saying that the Kuwaiti authorities have recently offered work permits to Jordanian and Sudanese citizens, in the context of restoring relations with the two countries to normalcy. Kuwait, Politics, 8/16/99 - Inter-Arab consultations for Damascus declaration, AL council meetings
The Egyptian diplomatic sources said that Moussa stressed the importance of the arrival of the GCC and Syrian foreign ministers in Cairo one day before convening the AL council meeting in order to convene a preliminary meeting of the Damascus Declaration member states as well as several bilateral or three-member meetings with the objectives of unifying stances or avoiding surprises from Iraq and certain countries backing it. Regional, Politics, 8/16/99