Arabic News Daily Page for 8/18/1999
Daily Edition - Wednesday, August 18, 1999
- Eritrea President expresses cautious optimism
Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki on Monday expressed cautious optimism over the possibility of ending the15-month old border war with Ethiopia. Eritrea-Ethiopia-USA, Politics, 8/18/1999 - King Mohammed receives Moroccan investors abroad
King Mohammed VI received in Rabat Tuesday afternoon a group of Moroccan investors operating abroad. Morocco, Economics, 8/18/1999 - Syrian defense minister confers with Lebanese counterpart
Syrian deputy commander in chief of the armed forces, Deputy Premier and Defense Minister Lt. Gen. Mustafa Tlass on Tuesday in Damascus received the commander of the Lebanese army, Gen. Michael Suleiman, and members of the accompanying delegation. Syria-Lebanon, Politics, 8/18/1999 - Congress report: Libya may be removed from list of terror sponsors
Reports by the US Congress' Congressional Research Service stated that the Clinton administration is seeking to remove Libya from the US list of the terrorism-sponsoring states and that Syria will not be far from a similar measure. Libya-Syria-USA, Politics, 8/18/1999 - Algerian daily says criminals fled to the Moroccan territories
The Algerian daily al-Watan on Tuesday said that the Islamist extremists who slaughtered some 29 persons on Saturday night at a false barrier in Bashar district, 950 km southwest of Algiers fled into the Moroccan territories. Algeria, Politics, 8/18/1999 - Commission on compensations for missing persons or victims of arbitrary detention meet
The independent arbitration commission set up on Monday by King Mohammed VI to study compensations for missing persons and victims of arbitrary detention and their rightful claimants held on Tuesday its first session. Morocco, Politics, 8/18/1999 - Israeli court jails German citizen for helping Hizbullah
An Israeli court convicted yesterday a German who believed in Islam, on charges of threatening Israeli security by planning with the Lebanese Hizbullah to attack Israel. Israel-Germany, Judicial, 8/18/1999 - Phosphates production in 1998 maintains same level as in 1997
The Moroccan state-owned phosphates company "Office Cherifien des Phosphates" (OCP) produced 22.9 million tons of phosphates in 1998, maintaining almost the same production level as in 1997 (23.08 million tons), despite the financial upheavals in southeastern Asia and the economic crisis in Eastern Europe and Russia. Morocco, Economics, 8/18/1999