Al Bawaba back issues from December 2004:
Tunisia FM meets Israeli peer
Dec 01, 2004 ... At their meeting on Tuesday in the Hague, Tunisian ForeignMinister Abdel Baki Hermassi told Israeli Deputy Prime Minister andForeign Minister Silvan Shalom that "Tunisia will continue to assistand strengthen every peace effort between Israel and thePalestinians." The meeting took place ...
AIDS stable in Tunisia
Dec 01, 2004 ... The spread of AIDS in Tunisia is stable, according to Jean MichelDelmotte, the official representative of UNICEF in Tunisia andpresident of a local AIDS support group in the country. Tunisia hasrecorded 1,200 HIV positive cases. This is considered a success forthe efficiency of systems ...
Haifa Wahbi to spend New Years Eve with Ragheb Alama and Shireen
Dec 01, 2004 ... Lebanese singer Haifa Wahbi is scheduled to hold a liveperformance on New Years Eve in Lebanon alongside Lebanese singerRagheb Alama and Egyptian singer Shireen. The concerts are expectedto achieve great success due to the popularity the three singershave.Director Dawood Abdul Alsaid has ...
Ahmad Zaki turns down Dubai Film Festival
Dec 01, 2004 ... Prominent Egyptian actor Ahmad Zaki has turned down an invitationfrom the Dubai Film Festival, which he had received from Abid HamidJum'a executive president of the festival. According to the Londonbased daily, Al Sharq Al Awsat, Ahmad had justified his not beingable to take part in the ...
Elham Shahin refuses to accept less than 3 million EGP
Dec 02, 2004 ... Prominent Egyptian actress Elham Shahin has notified officials atthe Egyptian Broadcasting Company that she will not abide by theirnew salary scale and will not accept less than 3 million Egyptianpounds for acting in a television drama. Elham stressed that shedeserves such a high wage ...
Samira Said finally makes her return to the spotlight
Dec 02, 2004 ... Moroccan singer ...
Palestinian presidential elections: Barghouti decides to run
Dec 02, 2004 ... Associates close to Marwan Barghouti said Wednesday the jailedleader has decided to run for president, reversing an earlierdecision. Saed Nimr, head of the campaign to free Barghouti from an Israelijail, confirmed the candidacy. According to The AP, his office saidBarghouti's ...
Queen Rania opens Jordan's first Intel Computer Clubhouse
Dec 02, 2004 ... Jordan's Queen Rania Al-Abdullah on Monday inaugurated thecountry's first Intel Computer Clubhouse - an after-school programset up to provide community-based technology-learning programs,enabling youth in underserved areas to acquire the tools necessaryfor personal and professional ...
Two people die in Baghdad mortar blasts
Dec 02, 2004 ... Few mortar rounds landed in central Baghdad on Thursday, includingtwo in the Green Zone, the protected areawhich houses Iraq's interimadministration and several foreign embassies. At least one person waskilled. A few minutes later,additional shellshit the other side of ...
King of Spain given presentation on Dubai
Dec 02, 2004 ... The King of Spain Juan Carlos I visited the Dubai stand at theEuropean Incentive Business and Travel Meetings (EIBTM) fair beingheld in Barcelona, Spain till December 2, 2004. The King was received by the Dubai Department of Tourism ...
Tunisia plays rugby in Dubai and Johannesburg
Dec 02, 2004 ... The Tunisian national rugby team has travelled to Dubai toparticipate in an international tournament in preparation for theupcoming rugby world cup expected in March 2005 in Hong Kong. The team is due to play in Dubai December 2 to 3 and inJohannesburg December 10 to 12. The team ...
FedEx opens new facility in Bahrain
Dec 02, 2004 ... A brand new FedEx facility, purpose built to further expand andenhance customer service and Bahrain's connectivity with the FedExworldwide network has been officially opened at Bahrain InternationalAirport by Captain Abdulrahman Al Gaoud, Undersecretary for CivilAviation Affairs, ...
Colin Powell to become co-President of Morocco for the Future Forum
Dec 02, 2004 ... The American secretary of state Colin Powell is to co-Preside theMoroccan Forum for the Future together with the Moroccan foreignminister Mohamed Benassa. The Forum is due to take place December 11in Rabat, according to PANA, which bases its report on an officialsource in the Moroccan ...
National Bank of Sharjah launches world's first Islamic card for university students
Dec 02, 2004 ... The National Bank of Sharjah has launched the world's first Sharia-compliant card for university students, the NBS Affinity card. Launched in conjunction with Visa International and the AmericanUniversity of Sharjah, the Affinity card is designed to provideuniversity students with ...
Earthquake in Algeria
Dec 02, 2004 ... Another earthquake, this time on a scale of 5.7 degrees on therichter scale in the north of the country, hit Algeia Wednesdayafternoon. Fifteen people were injured according to the AlgerianNational Radio which quoted the Algerian Center for Research inAstronomy, Astrophysics and ...
Assi Hilani and Shireen Abdul Wahab rock Canada
Dec 02, 2004 ... Lebanese singer Assi Hilani and Egyptian singer Shireen AbdulWahab have recently held a tour around Canada that was marked withremarkable success. The two singers had mesmerized their Arabaudience by singing a collection of their most popular songs. According to the London based ...
Cyprus business mission to arrive in Bahrain, Dubai
Dec 02, 2004 ... The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of the Republic ofCyprus, in cooperation with the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce andIndustry, organizes a visit of a Cyprus Business Mission to Bahrainand Dubai from 4th to 10th December 2004. "The Republic of Cyprus attaches great ...
EIB signs EUR 27.5 million agreement to develop Mauritanian mining sector
Dec 02, 2004 ... The European Investment Bank (EIB) and SNIM (Societe NationalIndustrielle et Miniטre) have signed a EUR 22.5 millionfinancing agreement for the renovation of the Guelbs power station. SNIM, a limited company established in 1978, is the only iron oreproducer in Mauritania and ...
Samira Said conquers number one spot
Dec 02, 2004 ... Moroccan singer Samira Said was able to conquer the number onespot in the record market with her latest album "Qaweeni Beek" (MakeMe Strong), after an absence from the scenes that lasted two years.The sales of Samira's album is considered the highest in most Arabcountries, like Lebanon, ...
$1 billion multi-faceted project to revamp key area in heart of Amman
Dec 02, 2004 ... A $1 billion, multi-faceted project to revamp a key area in theheart of Amman, Jordan, is being presented this week in Dubai todelegates at Cityscape, the Middle East's biggest internationalcommercial, architecture and property development expo. The massive 30-hectare Abdali ...
First Tunisian women's football championship to be launched
Dec 02, 2004 ... The first Tunisian women's football championship will be launchednext week, it was announced on Thursday in Tunis. According to thechairman of the Tunisian Football Federation, Mr. Hammouda Ben Ammar,competition will begin on December 11th ....
Palestinian presidential election: 10 candidates qualify
Dec 02, 2004 ... Palestinian election officials announced Thursday that 10candidates had qualified to compete in Jan. 9 elections to replaceYasser Arafat as president of Palestinian Authority. The qualified candidates included Mahmoud Abbas, the PLO leaderwho is considered the front-runner, jailed ...
Sharon vows to implement Gaza Strip plan
Dec 02, 2004 ... Israel will not launch attacks or raids against Palestinians ifthe situation remains "calm" and it is "not provoked," Israeli PrimeMinister Ariel Sharon said Thursday. However, Israel would act if it hadintelligence that armed groupswere planning attacks on Israel and would ...
Iran aims at cutting corn imports
Dec 02, 2004 ... Iran's average corn production is 32 percent higher than theglobal rate, said an Iranian official in charge of a corn cultivationproject. According to IRIB, Kamal Zabihi said that based on statisticsavailable, global corn yield is 4.2 tons per hectare ...
AL chief: "Islam is innocent of terrorism"
Dec 02, 2004 ... Arab League Secretary General Amr Mousa has stressed the need todistinguish between terrorism and resistance in order to not mixbetween the two terms. In a statement to the Saudi Newspaper Okazpublished Thursday, Mousa said that resisting the Israeli occupationis not considered as ...
Syria rejects Israeli conditions to renew peace talks
Dec 02, 2004 ... Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq a-Shara rejected on ThursdayIsraeliPrime Minister Ariel Sharon's proposal to renew peace talks due tohis imposition of preconditions on Damascus. Sharon said Thursday hewasready to meet Syrian President BasharAssad, but that formal peace negotiations ...
Mubarak: Barghouti damages Palestinian unity
Dec 02, 2004 ... Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Thursday described IsraeliPrime Minister Ariel Sharon as the "Palestinians' best chance forpeace.""I think if they (Palestinians) can't achieve progress in thetime of the current (Israeli) prime minister, it will be verydifficult to make any progress ...
FAR wins Throne Cup after dramatic penalty shootouts
Dec 02, 2004 ... Rabat's Royal Armed Forces (FAR) won earlier this week theirsecond consecutive Throne Cup after beating Wydad Casablanca. It wasthe eighth Throne Cup in FAR's history. After 120-minutes of 0-0deadlock, FAR won the title following a 3 2 dramatic ...
Several Iraqi policemen die in attack
Dec 03, 2004 ... Gunmen raided a police station in southern Baghdad Friday, killinga number of policemen,reports said. An injured policeman was quotedby Reuters as sayingthat up to 12 ...
Germany: Three Iraqis planned to kill Iraqi PM
Dec 03, 2004 ... Germany thwarted an alleged plan toassassinate visiting IraqiPrime Minister Iyad Allawi. According to The AP, German policedetained three Iraqis suspected to be members of Ansar al-Islam afterearly-morning raids in three cities, just as Allawi was starting aEuropeanvisit ....
Former president: Iran to join world "nuclear club"
Dec 03, 2004 ... Former Iranian president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said Fridaythat Iran is expected to join theclub of world states owning nuclearindustries soon.Making the remark before thousands of worshipers whohad gathered at Tehran University campus for the weekly ritual,henoted thatTehran is in no ...
Hamas official in West Bank indicates new policy towards Israel
Dec 03, 2004 ... Hamas will accept a Palestinian state in the West Bank and GazaStrip and a long-term truce with Israel, a topofficial said Friday.Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a senior Hamas official in the West Bank, toldThe Associated Press he sees a truce in which Israel and aPalestinian state "live ...
Samira Said struck by the eye of envy
Dec 04, 2004 ... Moroccan singer Samira Said has been struck with the evil eye ofenvy and was forced to remain bed rest for three days as a result ofa severe case of the flue. The singer has been under strictsupervision by doctors after she began experiencing a very highfever. According to the ...
Muna Zaki undergoes eye surgery
Dec 04, 2004 ... Egyptian actress Muna Zaki has received strict orders from doctorsto remain home and avoid exposure to sunlight for almost a week,after undergoing eye surgery. The actress had the operation done atthe Cairo Laser Center, and the operation is said to have been asuccessful one ....
Ruby gives Kooky her final warning
Dec 04, 2004 ... The latest addition to the music world Egyptian starting singerKooky, who is the younger sister of Egyptian controversial singerRuby, has managed to cut a deal with director Ahmad Yusry to directher first music video. Yusry is known to specialize in producing veryseductive music videos ...
Negotiations between Nawal Al Zoughbi and Rotana reach a dead end
Dec 04, 2004 ... Negotiations between Lebanese singer Nawal Al Zoughbi and theproduction company Rotana have reached a dead end after both sidesfailed to come to mutual terms. Both sides refused to meet theconditions of one another leading the possibility of theircooperation hopeless. According ...
Car bombing attack in Baghdad as another US soldier killed
Dec 04, 2004 ... Ahugeblast and machine gun fire rocked Baghdad's Green Zone onSaturday. The explosion reported at about 9:30 a.m. near a checkpointleading to the heavily fortified area. U.S. Embassy spokesman Bob Callahantold the APa car bombwentoffclose to a checkpoint, causing no casualties to ...
Hanan Turk Furious
Dec 05, 2004 ... Hanan 2004 Al ...
carol samaha
Dec 05, 2004 ... carol samaha 2004 Al ...
Israeli media: Egypt, Israel relations "warming up"
Dec 05, 2004 ... Israel's Foreign Ministry Director General Ron Prushor was of theopinion Sunday morning that Egypt will return its ambassador toIsrael in the "near future". Tiesbetween Israel and Egypt were improving in lighta visit toJerusalem last Wednesday by Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed ...
Ducab wins supply contract by UAE Federal Electricity and Water Authority
Dec 05, 2004 ... Ducab, the leading manufacturer of high quality power cables basedin Dubai has succeeded in winning an annual supply contract for theyear 2005 with the UAE Federal Electricity and Water Authority(FEWA), worth Dh36 million. The contract calls for supplying theAuthority with 33 kV single ...
17 Iraqis working for occupation killed in Tikrit as two US soldiers killed in Mosul
Dec 05, 2004 ... Attackers firing from two cars killed 17 Iraqis as they wereheading to work Sunday at a U.S. military facility in the northerncity of Tikrit while separate attacks killed four Iraqi securitypersonnel in nearby towns. Captain Bill Coppernoll, spokesman for the Tikrit-based U.S ....
Russia president makes landmark visit to Turkey
Dec 05, 2004 ... Russian preisdent Vladimir Putin headed to Turkey on Sunday forthe first official visit by a Russian president, looking tostrenghten a growing economic relationship that is turning a longtimefoe into a newfound trading partner. Putin was expected to have dinner in Ankara with ...
Mali hosts contemporary arts exhibition
Dec 05, 2004 ... A contemporary arts exhibition featuring artists from Benin,Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d`Ivoire, Kenya, Mali and Senegal willbe organisedin Bamako, MalibetweenDecember 5, 2004toFebruary 28,2005, according to official sources. The exhibition is organised by the national museum in ...
Musharraf admits: Bin Laden alive, but whereabouts unknown
Dec 05, 2004 ... Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said in an interviewpublished Sundaythat the search for Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Ladenhas gone completely cold, with no recent intelligence indicatingwhere he and his top lieutenants are hiding. Speaking to the Washington Post, Musharraf ...
Egypt reserves of natural gas total 66 trillion cubic feet
Dec 05, 2004 ... Egypt's Minister of Petroleum Sameh Fahmy has recently said thatEgypt has made a new offshore natural gas discovery in its deepMediterranean waters, about 120 miles off the North Coast. The discovery, at a depth of about 2,000 feet, was achieved ...
UAE: Illegal softwares found in training center
Dec 05, 2004 ... The authorities in the UAE recently raided a training center inDubai and seized 30 PCs uploaded with illegal software, as part ofongoing efforts to protect the intellectual property rights and theinterests of software developers. The raid was the result ofcoordination between the Police, ...
Germany frees Lebanese suspect
Dec 05, 2004 ... Authorities in Germany released a Lebanese man arrested inconnection with a suspected plan to attack Iraqi Prime Minister IyadAllawi during a visit to Berlin, the federal prosecutor's ...
Oman's Ministry of Education deploys wireless solution from Cisco Systems
Dec 05, 2004 ... Oman's Ministry of Education on Sunday announced it has deployed aworld-leading, wireless solution from Cisco Systems across more than200 schools in the Sultanate. The deployment was achieved over amatter of five months, helping provide 100, 000 expected students andother users with ...
Tunisia president expresses condolences on death of chief Rabbi
Dec 05, 2004 ... Tunisian President Zine El Ben Ali addressed his condolences tothe family of the country's chief Rabbi, Haim Madar, who died onFriday. The President also sent a message of condolences to the ChiefRabbi of Jerba in which he conveyed "to all members of the TunisianJewish ...
Dolphin Energy to sponsor 17th Arabian Gulf Cup
Dec 05, 2004 ... Dolphin Energy Limited, the UAE based energy company, on Thursdaysaid it is delighted to join in the fun and "play ball" with the foursport, 17th Arabian Gulf Cup, when they signed up as a main sponsor.Dolphin joins other important global and regional companies, keen todemonstrate their ...
Iran expresses concern over human rights situation in Europe
Dec 05, 2004 ... Iran is "seriously concerned" about the human rights situation inEurope, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi in TehranSunday, responding to an EU letter recently sent to Iran on itsalleged human rights violations. Speaking during his weekly briefing, Asefi told ...
Road safety management and improvements discussed in Saudi Arabia
Dec 05, 2004 ... The latest strategies to deal with road safety management andimprovements to transport infrastructure will be highlighted duringthe Saudi Traffic 2004 exhibition and conference, which opens at theHotel Intercontinental in Riyadh today (December 5). During the four-day show leading ...
Jordan king to visit Libya for talks
Dec 05, 2004 ... Jordanian King Abdullah II headed to Libya Sunday as part of afour-nation tour that also includes the United States, Japan andSingapore, where he is expected to hold talks with leaders on theArab-Israeli peace process, the situation in Iraq and bilateralrelations. According to ...
Syria, Cyprus discuss agricultural cooperation
Dec 05, 2004 ... Syria's Minister of Agricultural Adel Safar held Saturday with hisCypriot peer Thymios Efthymou a talk session concentrated on ways ofdeveloping the mutual cooperation between Syria and Cyprus. The twoministers stressed the importance of activating ...
EIB lending EUR 150 million to support investment by Turkish firms
Dec 05, 2004 ... The European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Union's financinginstitution, is lending EUR 150 million for development of leasingand lending facilities to support investment by Small and MediumSized Enterprises (SMEs) in Turkey. The funds, in the form of a global loan with the ...
Iran's shrimp exports to rise
Dec 05, 2004 ... Iran's shrimp export revenues wouldamount to26 million eurosbefore the termination of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2005),saidon Saturday, Arsalan Qasemi, the managing director of Iran'sAquaculture Cooperatives Union on Saturday. Each year, 95 percent of the shrimp ...
Human rights body: Israeli troops "executed" wounded Palestinian activist
Dec 07, 2004 ... B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in theOccupied Territories, said on Monday that Isareli soldiers"executed"Islamic Jihad activist Mahmud Abd a-Rahman Hamdan Kamil (A-Dab'i), inthe village of Raba, southeast of Jenin. B'Tselem's said that investigation at ...
Palestinian leadership meet Syrian Premier; plan to brief GCC heads on upcoming elections
Dec 07, 2004 ... The Palestinian leadership has decided to visit all member statesof the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) within the next two weeks. The Palestinian Charge D'affaires in Amman Attallah Kheiritoldreporters that the tour of the Palestinian leadership delegationwasprimarily aimed at ...
Official says Iran sentenced Al Qaeda fugitives
Dec 07, 2004 ... Iran has tried and sentenced fugitive members of Osama bin Laden'sAl-Qaeda network detained on its soil, the judiciary confirmed whilemaintaining tight secrecy over thematter. "The sentences have been pronounced," a Tehran justice departmentofficial told AFP, but refused to say ...
Three guardsman killed in attach south of Baghdad as U.S. marine killed in accident
Dec 07, 2004 ... A roadside bomb exploded near an Iraqi National Guard patrol southof Baghdad, killing three guardsmen and wounding 11, an official saidTuesday. The guardsmen were patrolling an area near Jebala, located some 40miles south of Baghdad, when the attack occurred, an Iraqi ...
Gaza Strip: Israeli soldier, two Palestinians killed in blasts, clash
Dec 07, 2004 ... An Israeli helicopter fired Tuesday morning a missile at a groupof Palestinians in the central Gaza Strip, reportedly killing amember of Islamic Jihad. Earlier, an Israeli soldier was killedwhen Palestinians activateda bomb northwest of the "Karni Crossing" in the Gaza ...
U.S. Secretary of Defense visits Kuwait
Dec 07, 2004 ... U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld arrived in Kuwait lateMonday, accompanied by a delegation, KUNA news agency reported. TheDefense Ministry said in a statement ...
Minister expresses Palestinian appreciation of Jordanian King efforts
Dec 07, 2004 ... The Palestinian National Authority highly valued efforts beingexerted by Jordan'sKing Abdullah II during his current visitto theU.S.to put an end to the Israeli aggression on the Palestiniansand toresume the peace process. In a statement to a Petra news agency reporter in ...
Report: CIA cable warns of deterioration in Iraq
Dec 07, 2004 ... A classified cable sent by the CIA's station chief in Baghdad haswarned that the situation in Iraq is "deteriorating and may notrebound any time soon", the New York Times reported Tuesday, citinggovernment officials. The newspaper, citing the officials, said that the cable, ...