Egyptian Foreign Minister dismisses Arab fears of Euro-Med union

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit has dismissed concerns in Arab countries that a proposed Euro- Mediterranean union is a European attempt to control them and merge them into an unwanted alliance with Israel, a local newspaper reported Wednesday.

Abul-Gheit told Egypt's semi-official daily al-Ahram that the new union was an extension of the Barcelona...

Egyptian Foreign Minister dismisses Arab fears of Euro-Med union
 
 

Suicide bombers kill 22 army recruits in Iraq
Two suicide bombers killed 22 people and wound 57 others in an attack Tuesday at an army recruitment station in Diyala province, officials said. Medical workers said the two attackers detonated their explosive vests about two minutes apart in the attack at the Saad military barracks in Baquba, capital of the province. Diyala,...

Suicide bombers kill 22 army recruits in Iraq

Tony Blair cancels visit to Gaza
Former British prime minister Tony Blair cancelled a visit to the Gaza Strip scheduled for Tuesday morning, Israel Radio reported. The radio would give no reason, but one official speaking on condition of anonymity said the Israeli authorities had warned Blair at the last minute of new intelligence information from Gaza, as he was...

Tony Blair cancels visit to Gaza

Germany jails trio for Iraq assassination plot
German judges gave 10 years jail Tuesday to the chief plotter in a failed attempt to assassinate a prime minister of post-Saddam Iraq during a visit to Berlin four years ago. Ata R, aged 34, was convicted of membership in a foreign terrorist organization, the radical Iraqi Muslim organization Ansar al-Islam. His fellow plotters,...

Germany jails trio for Iraq assassination plot

sraeli cabinet okays prisoners swap with Hezbollah
The Israeli cabinet Tuesday gave final approval for a prisoners exchange deal with Lebanon's Hezbollah movement. Under the deal, Israel is to hand over five Lebanese prisoners and the bodies of some 199 fighters, in return for two Israeli soldiers captured in a July 2006 cross-border raid by Hezbollah.

sraeli cabinet okays prisoners swap with Hezbollah

Palestinian official: Swap will include 160 Fatah bodies
The head of the Palestinian Fatah movement in southern Lebanon said Sunday that the expected swap between Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrilla movement and Israel will include the bodies of Palestinian guerrillas who fell in Lebanon or carried out attacks inside Israeli territories during the 1970s. 'Among the bodies that Lebanon will...

Palestinian official: Swap will include 160 Fatah bodies

Report: Iran to appoint new foreign ministry spokesman
Iran is to appoint Mohammad-Mehdi Akhoundzadeh as new spokesman of the foreign ministry, Mehr news agency reported Monday. An official source told Mehr that Akhoundzadeh would replace Mohammad-Ali Hosseini, who has been appointed deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs. Akhoundzadeh is a former ambassador...

Report: Iran to appoint new foreign ministry spokesman

Iranian official: Talks between Syria and Israel unacceptable
Iran is unhappy about ongoing indirect talks between Syria and Israel and believes that any ensuing peace agreement would lead to radical changes in Syrian-Iranian relations, an Iranian official said in remarks published Monday. Hussein Shariatmadari, an advisor to Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told the Saudi...

Iranian official: Talks between Syria and Israel unacceptable

Police question Olmert third time on "money envelopes"
His political future becoming increasingly uncertain, Ehud Olmert was probed for a third time Friday on suspicions that he illegally accepted at least tens of thousands of US dollars in cash from an American fundraiser. Police questioned Olmert for more than two hours at his Jerusalem residence Friday morning, Police Spokesman...

Police question Olmert third time on "money envelopes"

Police announce new suspicions against Israeli premier
Israeli police Friday announced new, 'serious' suspicions of corruption against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Israel Radio reported. Olmert is suspected of claiming travel expenses for trips made around the world as a public figure from various bodies at once, the radio said, quoting a joint statement issued by the Israeli justice...

Police announce new suspicions against Israeli premier

Cautious calm prevails in Tripoli as army deploys
A cautious calm prevailed over the northern city of Tripoli early Thursday as weary citizens waited for the army and security forces to carry out a redeployment plan and halt clashes that have killed five people and wounded more than 80. The Mufti of Tripoli, Sheikh Malek Shaar, told Deutsche Presse- Agentur dpa that an 'agreement...

Cautious calm prevails in Tripoli as army deploys
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