Syria

January 7, 2004

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Syria's President Bashar al-Assad received Wednesday at his residence in Ankara Turkish Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul. According to

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Kuwait Finance House (KFH) recorded a net profit of 58.16 Kuwaiti dinars ($197 million) for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2003 compared to KD 54.6 million earned in 2002, reported KSE. Earnings

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Syria has set up an online disaster management database in all 14 governorates and trained 350 government staff on how to respond to natural and man-made disasters, said the United Nations Development

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VoEx International, a provider of telephony services, has signed an agreement with GlobalNet Corporation to distribute satellite mobile phones and SIM cards powered by Globalstar network in Iraq.   Ma

January 6, 2004

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Israel's military chief Moshe [Bugi] Ya'alon threatened Syria again on Tuesday saying, "If Syria is to ignore messages sent to her by Israel, also fol

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Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, accompanied by his wife Asma, began his first state-visit to Turkey on Tuesday, which is to last three days.

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Yemen's ambassador to Muscat Abdullah al-Radhi met on Monday with Abdulaziz Bin Mohammed, the cultural affairs advisor to the Sultan of Oman. They dis

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Syrian President Bashar Assad has rejected U.S. and British demands for curbs on non-conventional arms, the British <i>Telegraph</i> newspaper reporte

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The Abu Dhabi Foodstuff Company (Foodco) has signed a distributor agreement with Malaysia’s Monsrose company for its range of Karkadeh products, reported Khaleej Times.  Established in 1979, Foodco’ m

January 5, 2004

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Syria's Foreign Minister Farouk al-Shara received separately on Monday new ambassadors to Damascus and accepted their credentials.

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Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Monday told a Likud Party convention in in Tel Aviv that his plan to disengage from the Palestinians was the b

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An additional budget of DA 5.31 billion for development has been granted by President Bouteflika to the province of Jijel, Deputy Interior Minister Da

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Syria opposes any attempt to carve up its neighbour Iraq and in particular to the establishment of an independent Kurdish state, Syrian President Bash

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Omar El Sherif revealed that he has two grandchildren, one Jewish and the other a Muslim, and that they have the freedom of choosing which religion they want to follow, even if his Muslim grandchild w

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More than 9.1 million tons of goods passed through the Port of Algiers in 2003. In the first 11 months of 2003, trade at the port reached 926.288 million Algerian dinars ($13.2 million), an 8.9 percen