Arabic News Weekly Edition for Local, 7/26/2004
Weekly Edition, Local - Week of July 26, 2004
- Higher Council for Education to be set up, King
King Mohammed VI of Morocco has decided to set up a Higher Council for Education, part of the reform underway in this sector. Morocco, Education, 7/31/2004 - 140,000 children back to school thanks to informal education program
More than 140,000 children have returned to school thanks to the informal education program set up jointly with the civil society, said Wednesday, Moroccan State Secretary for Literacy and Informal Education, Anis Birou. Morocco, Education, 7/30/2004 - Nabil Amre's leg amputated
Daughter of the former Palestinian minister of information Nabil Amre, who was injured in his right leg in an attack 10 days ago in his house in Ramullah stressed that his leg was amputated in a surgery in Germany. Palestine, Local, 7/30/2004 - World village meeting in Amman Regional-Jordan, Local, 7/30/2004
- Royal Pardon granted to over 2000 detainees Morocco, Local, 7/30/2004
- Al-Assad meets Arab archeologists Syria-Regional, Local, 7/29/2004
- Amman's Islamic-Christian Discourse Conference concludes recommendations
The participants in the already -concluded Islamic-Christian Discourse Conference held in the Jordanian capital of Amman recommended that elements of the discourse when addressing vital issues of the Arab Nation be united and cohesive. Regional-Jordan, Religion, 7/29/2004 - Palestinian Authority appeals Washington, Europe to solve Rafah crisis; Israel demolishes 21 Palestinian houses
Palestinian security sources said that the Israeli occupation army demolished yesterday 21 houses in Gaza in three incursion operations. Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers yesterday at dawn broke into the Palestinian territories from Mourag settlement to Ghazzan al-Najjar area near Khan Younis to the south of Gaza and demolished 20 houses before they withdraw later. Palestine-Israel, Military, 7/29/2004 - 'Calls of distress' to help Sahel, W. African countries face locusts invasion Maghreb, Local, 7/29/2004
- Jordanians, Pakistanis kidnapped in Iraq
One Iraqi armed group said that its had kidnapped two Jordanian drivers. Another Iraqi group calling itself "The Islamic army in Iraq " said it kidnapped two Pakistanis and one Iraqi working for a Kuwaiti company. Iraq, Military, 7/27/2004 - Toulkarem eulogizes its killed Palestinians, al-Aqsa vows revenge
People of Toulkarem held a funeral for six Palestinians assassinated by Israeli special forces in an ambush on Sunday evening and thousands of angry Palestinians took part in the funeral of five members of al-Aqsa groups of the Palestine national liberation movement ( Fatah) and one officer in the Palestinian intelligence. Palestine-Israel, Military, 7/27/2004 - One Iraqi official assassinated, several Iraqis killed in various operations
Gunmen in Baghdad killed yesterday one senior official at the Iraqi ministry of the Interior, Col. Musab al-Awadi, as he was out of his house escorted by two guards. Iraq, Military, 7/27/2004 - Information Minister meet with distinguished Syrian Opera Singer
Minister of information Ahmad al-Hassan on Monday received the Syrian opera signer Miss Talard Karminjian who was chosen as one of ten best opera singers in the world in an international competition organized in the Belgian capital of Brussels. Syria, Local, 7/27/2004 - Maghreban, West African countries examine coordination to fight locusts
Maghreban and West African countries will meet, in Algiers Tuesday, to examine coordination in the fight of locusts. Maghreb, Local, 7/27/2004 - Some 14 Iraqis were killed near Baqouba
One American military spokesman said that the national guards forces and the Iraqi police killed 13 gunmen during clashes that took place in Bahraz town to the south of Baqouba city. Iraq, Military, 7/26/2004 - Nabil Amre transported to Germany to rehabilitate his right leg
The medical team supervising the treatment of member of the Palestinian Legislative council Nabil Amre in Amman decided to take him to Germany to complete treatment. Palestine, Local, 7/26/2004 - An explosion in Ein al-Helweh Lebanon, Local, 7/26/2004
- Oman buys 20 French military helicopter
The Sultanate of Oman signed a contract provides for buying 20 military helicopters with the French NHA company of "F H 90" jointly manufactured by several European countries in order to improve the defense potentials of the Omani air force. Oman, Military, 7/26/2004 - Amman's Islamic and Christian Conference Regional-Jordan, Local, 7/26/2004