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Etisalat gears for Egypt launch 
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The Etisalat consortium which won a bid for Egypt's third mobile network licence will begin operations towards the end of Q1 2007, Gulf News reported. A spokesperson told the daily a contract would be signed on 21 August. The third licence includes a right to run both 2G and 3G networks.Egypt: Months of Harassment Force Coptic Blogger to Censor Herself AllAfrica.com - Aug 14 12:25 PM
Reporters Without Borders has condemned the months of harassment by the authorities in Qina (near Luxor, in central Egypt) that forced Hala Helmy Botros to close down her blog, Aqbat Bela Hodood (Copts Without Borders, http://halaelmasry.blogspot.com/ ), about the persecution of the Christian Coptic minority and to stop writing on this subject for other websites.Ghana/Egypt: Al Ahly Hold Kotoko AllAfrica.com - Aug 14 1:43 PM
THE OBUASI Len Clay stadium yesterday witnessed one of its finest games ever when two of the continent's most respected clubs, Al Ahly of Egypt and Kumasi Asante Kotoko met.Gushing gas in arid desert fuels cash flow for Egypt and Apache BizJournals - Aug 13 9:49 PM
A remote and desolate corner of Egypt's Western Desert is turning out to be a valuable asset for both Egypt and Apache Corp.Egypt Praises Hizbullah Terrorist Guerillas Israel National News - Aug 14 5:27 AM
(IsraelNN.com) Egypt's foreign minister has praised Hizbullah terrorist guerillas and blamed Israel for the escalating of the war following the attack on northern Israel July 12 and the kidnapping of two IDF soldiers.Arab bourses advance, paced by Egypt s Case Gulf Times - Aug 14 3:33 AM
LONDON: Egypt s Case 30 Index advanced, paced by cigarette maker Eastern Co. Measures in Saudi Arabia and Jordan also rose, led by Al Rajhi Bank and Arab Bank Plc.Egypt, Iran urges for immediate ceasefire in Lebanon People's Daily - Aug 13 5:25 PM
Egypt and Iran called on Sunday afternoon for the full implementation of UN Security Council resolution on Lebanon and highlighted the importance of an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of Israeli troops there without any delay.Cairo: Iran and Egypt call for Lebanon truce to be respected Turks.US - Aug 13 9:19 PM
Iran and Egypt called on Sunday for a UN-backed truce between Israel and the Shiite Islamic group Hezbollah to be respected, hours before the ceasefire agreement secured by UN chief Kofi Annan is to come into effect.Pressure on Egypt to Curtail Relations with Israel Israel National News - Aug 13 4:27 PM
(IsraelNN.com) Public pressure in Egypt, particularly from groups opposed to President Hosni Mubarak, has been intensifying to persuade the Egyptian government to curtail formal relations with Israel.Iran's FM in Egypt for talks Islamic Republic News Agency - Aug 13 7:25 AM
Egypt - Iran - Mottaki Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki arrived in Iskandariyah, Egypt, Saturday night to hold talks with senior Egyptian officials.Posted: 15-08-2006 , 02:50 GMT Al Bawaba - 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
Egyptian Parliament member Radi, from the Islamists party, has withdrawn his request that Egypt ban both Lebanese singers Haifa Wahbi and Nancy Ajram from holding any performances in Egypt.Quiet as Markets Digest Reports Ag Report - Aug 14 8:18 AM
CHICAGO - Aug 14/06 - SNS -- International agriculture commodity markets are starting the week on a relatively quiet note, though Egypt and Taiwan were active over the weekend, buying wheat, corn and soybeans.Egypt's heavy metal scene emerging AP via Yahoo! News - Aug 12 7:50 PM
The music was loud and the tattooed fans were wild, dancing and swaying in flashing strobe lights to the crashing sounds of heavy metal songs. Suddenly, the music stopped. The band leader grasped the mike and announced: "It's prayer time."Gaza border crossing to Egypt opens briefly AFP via Yahoo! News - Aug 11 7:33 AM
The border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt opened for a second straight day for humanitarian cases, after weeks of closure, but was shut early again.Israel destroys tunnel from Egypt to Gaza, suspect it was used for arms smuggling Khaleej Times - Aug 12 7:17 AM
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The Israeli army said Saturday it found and destroyed a tunnel used for arms smuggling between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. The tunnel was more than 150 meters (yards) long and opened into a chicken coop on the Gaza side, the army said.US treachery and UN apathy Gulf News - Aug 14 4:23 PM
The next time the UN Security Council needs to come up with a resolution it should get in touch with me. My building's watchman and his streetwise pals from Upper Egypt could cobble together a far more effective ceasefire than that contained in Resolution 1701.Egypt's Intl Pharm Indus 1H Profit +29% To EGP95.5 Mln Zawya - Aug 14 7:04 AM
In the year to June 30, the company said net profit was 95.5 million Egyptian pounds ($16.6 million), against EGP73.9 million a year earlier. EIPICO produces about 200 different drugs, a third of which are under license from international firms.Egypt calls for immediate Israeli ceasefire Khaleej Times - Aug 12 3:47 AM
CAIRO - Egypt on Saturday said Israel should immediately observe a ceasefire following the adoption of UN Security Council resolution calling for a halt to hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah.Faisal Islamic Bank Of Egypt 1H Pft Down 2.2% To EGP35.4M Zawya - Aug 14 7:03 AM
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LINKdotNET, the leading privately owned Internet service and solutions provider in Egypt and the Middle East, is proud to announce that it has successfully completed its appraisal for Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) level 3 Staged Representation, based on the SCAMPI CLASS A Appraisal Method, on the 29th of June, 2006.News from around the web: ArabicNews.com - Aug 14 5:09 PM
Daily Arab News about the Arabic world, Arabic news for Country by country news coverage. Politics, culture, recipes, book reviews, weather, sports, arts. Covers Egypt, Egyptian life, pyramids, Lebanon, Iraq, the Gulf, its oil, Arabian horses & camel races.School referendum delayed Asbury Park Press - Aug 14 1:19 AM
Residents interested in helping to decide whether a 1,000-seat auditorium should be built between the district's middle and high schools, whether new classrooms should be built at New Egypt Primary School and whether the stadium field should be covered with all-weather turf will have until December to make up their minds.If a Magazine s List Doubles in Size, Is That Inflation? New York Times - 19 minutes ago
The paltry list of 50 has given way to 100, the number atop this year s People s Most Beautiful People, the annual Time 100, the Maxim Hot 100 and the new Esquire 100.Misr Cement Co. 1H 06 Profit Up 81.6% To EGP120.5 Mln Zawya - Aug 14 7:04 AM
CAIRO (Zawya Dow Jones)--Egypt's Misr Cement Co. Misr Cement Co. said Monday profit for the first half was up 81.6%.Egyptian FM stresses Iran's N-right Islamic Republic News Agency - Aug 13 11:10 PM
Egypt - Iran - Nuclear issue Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Sunday acknowledged Iran's right to access nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.Tourism's 'huge potential' Zawya - Aug 14 3:34 AM
Against a backdrop of escalating violence in the region, the number of tourists visiting Egypt continued to grow by two per cent during the first half of this year.Ten Infiltrators Caught Along Israel-Egypt Border Israel National News - Aug 13 10:27 PM
(IsraelNN.com) IDF troops caught ten persons who had infiltrated into Israel from the Egyptian border. The ten persons are suspected of entering Israel to work illegally. An Egyptian, who brought the suspects across the border was injured by IDF gunfire in the incident.Horton makes late charge The Trenton Times - Aug 13 9:12 PM
NEW EGYPT -- Other drivers have found out the hard way that once Jimmy Horton is on a roll, he's extremely hard to hold off. So it was Saturday night at New Egypt Speedway when he caught Sam Martz on the last lap of the 30-lap modified feature that shared top billing with the URC sprint cars.All Terror Roads Lead To Pakistan Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News - Aug 14 4:00 PM
Allies: Islamabad was quick to trumpet its help in foiling the sky terror plot. And by all accounts, it deserves some praise. But such cooperation seems to occur only when the West gets wind of another Pakistan-based plot.Al Ahly hold Kotoko The Ghanaian Chronicle - Aug 14 3:33 AM
From Albert Nana Asante, Obuasi. | Posted: Monday, August 14, 2006 THE OBUASI Len Clay stadium yesterday witnessed one of its finest games ever when two of the continent s most respected clubs, Al Ahly of Egypt and Kumasi Asante Kotoko met.Mideast peace vulnerable to provocations AP via Yahoo! News - Aug 14 1:03 PM
With no clear cease-fire line, any village or hilltop in southern Lebanon is a potential flash point that could bring down the truce between Israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters.Rockin' In The Islamic World CBS News - Aug 13 4:51 AM
Nine years after a government crackdown amid allegations of satanic worship, Egypt's heavy metal scene is making a comeback in the conservative Muslim society.John L. Bull, 92, an Ornithologist, Dies New York Times - 40 minutes ago
John L. Bull s definitive guidebooks to New York State birds led a generation of birders into the woods.Top 10 places to river cruise abroad AP via Yahoo! News - Aug 14 10:34 AM
Considering a river cruise abroad?Central Bank of Egypt leaves rates unchanged Gulf News - Aug 11 3:52 PM
Cairo: The Central Bank of Egypt said yesterday it was leaving unchanged at 8 and 10 per cent the overnight lending and borrowing rates which set a corridor for the interbank overnight market.Piraeus Bank Egypt Piraeus Bank Egypt Piraeus Bank Egypt Piraeus Bank Egypt Zawya - Aug 13 3:34 AM
said Sunday that its net profit for the first half soared to 13.4 million Egyptian pounds ($2.3 million), compared with EGP3.5 million a year earlier.Calyon Bank Egypt Calyon Bank Egypt Zawya - Aug 13 3:33 AM
The bank said profit was 35.3 million Egyptian pounds ($6.1 million) compared with EGP19.5 million in the first half 2005. The bank is capitalized at EGP500 million.Gaza-Egypt border crossing opens briefly The Daily Star Lebannon - Aug 11 11:29 AM
The border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt briefly opened Friday in order to accommodate humanitarian cases, the European Union Border Assistance Mission (EUBAM) said. The crossing - Gaza's only gateway to the world that bypasses Israel - was open for less than three hours.Ahly and Kotoko in stalemate BBC News - Aug 13 10:09 AM
Ahly of Egypt and Ghana's Asante Kotoko battle to a goalless draw in the African Champions League.Gaza border crossing to Egypt opens briefly AFP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News - Aug 11 4:57 AM
The border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt briefly opened in order to accommodate humanitarian cases, the European Union Border Assistance Mission (EUBAM) said.Gaza-Egypt border reopens, but briefly AP via Yahoo! News - Aug 10 7:56 AM
Israel ordered the Gaza-Egypt border crossing closed just hours after it was partially opened for the first time in weeks, European Union and Palestinian officials said Thursday.Ancient tomb may be discovered in Egypt ABC 7 Chicago - Aug 11 9:11 AM
Just months after archaeologists gleefully clamored over the first tomb to be found in Egypt's Valley of the Kings since 1922, there may be another.Iran call for world to respect UN Lebanon truce IranMania.com - Aug 13 5:45 PM
LONDON, August 14 (IranMania) - Iran and Egypt called for a UN-backed truce between Israel and Lebanese movement Hezbollah to be respected, hours before the ceasefire agreement secured by UN chief Kofi Annan was to come into effect, AFP reported.Egypt cops clash with pro-Hezbollah marchers Independent Online - Aug 11 12:13 PM
Clashes have erupted outside Cairo's most renowned mosque in Egypt as police tried to prevent worshippers from marching in support of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.Mubarak urges Iran to help war-battered nation Gulf News - Aug 13 2:38 PM
Cairo: Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak has told the visiting Iranian foreign minister that his government should help in world efforts to bring stability back to war-battered Lebanon, Egyptian official media reported yesterday.Gaza border crossing to Egypt opens briefly Khaleej Times - Aug 11 8:02 AM
GAZA CITY - The border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt opened Friday for a second straight day for humanitarian cases, after weeks of closure, but was shut early again, officials said.Gaza-Egypt border reopens after weeks AP via Yahoo! News - Aug 10 5:14 AM
The Gaza-Egypt border was partially reopened Thursday, allowing hundreds of people stuck in Gaza to leave after weeks of closure during Israel's military offensive in the coastal strip, a spokeswoman for European border monitors said.MJ Rosenberg: Diplomacy Speaks Louder than Arm-Chair Generals HuffingtonPost - Aug 14 1:33 PM
Not surprisingly, the horrific war with Hezbollah has not led the far right to have any second thoughts about its worldview. On the contrary, it has confirmed its view that negotiations with Arabs are always a bad idea. Overlooked, again not surprisingly, is that if it wasn't for the successful negotiations of the past several decades, Israel's situation would be infinitely worse. Imagine All Terror Roads Lead To Pakistan Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! Finance - Aug 14 4:00 PM
Commentary from Investor's Business DailyThree killed in Gaza on eve of pullout anniversary AFP via Yahoo! News - Aug 14 4:20 AM
Three Palestinians have been killed by Israeli tank fire as the military pressed on with its offensive on the Gaza Strip a year after it began a historic pullout from the impoverished territory.Bin Laden and deputy: Are they in command? International Herald Tribune - Aug 14 8:32 AM
Like some terrorist version of broadcast pundits, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri address the world by video or audio every few weeks, exhorting their followers to jihad, taunting their enemies and offering sometimes grandiose commentary on current events.Mubarak calls for immediate cease-fire in Lebanon based on UNSC resolution Islamic Republic News Agency - Aug 13 9:55 AM
Egypt - Iran - Mottaki Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in a meeting with Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Sunday called for the need to establish immediate cease-fire in Lebanon and implement the United Nations Security Council resolution.Iran's FM briefs reporters on his talks with Egyptian officials Islamic Republic News Agency - Aug 13 8:55 AM
Egypt - Iran - Mottaki Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Sunday briefed reporters on the outcome his meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit.Israel Closes Gaza-Egypt Border Crossing Muslim American Society - Aug 11 8:37 AM
GAZA CITY , Gaza Strip Israel ordered the Gaza-Egypt border crossing closed just hours after it was partially opened for the first time in weeks.Gaza-Egypt crossing reopens for humanitarian cases AFP via Yahoo! News - Aug 10 3:09 AM
The Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt has reopened for humanitarian cases after a seven-week hiatus, officials at the terminal have said.Arab League Criticizes U.N. Resolution Journal Gazette & Times Courier - Aug 13 7:46 AM
CAIRO, Egypt - Arab countries criticized a U.N. Security Council resolution for not clearly labeling Israel the main aggressor in the conflict with Hezbollah, but expressed cautious hopes that an end to the monthlong conflict could be nearing.El-Ahly hold Kotoko Ghanaweb.com - Aug 13 12:39 PM
Obuasi, (Ash/R), Aug. 13, GNA -- Kumasi Asante Kotoko failed to consolidate their lead in Group A when they were held to a goalless drawn game by El-Ahly of Egypt in their MTN/CAF Champions League match played at the Obuasi Len Clay Sports stadium.Orascom paces Egypt index fall Gulf Times - Aug 11 8:45 AM
CAIRO: Egypt s main stock index fell on concern that share prices have surpassed prospects for earnings growth. Orascom Hotels & Development, the Middle East s largest developer of leisure facilities, slid.Why Bush embraces Israel's hard line The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News - Aug 14 1:00 AM
In the long history of US-Israel relations, President Bush may rank as one of the staunchest friends in the White House that the tiny Jewish state has ever had.Lebanon conflict 'a proxy war' BBC News - Aug 14 9:26 AM
Jonathan Marcus explains why the Lebanon conflict can be seen as part of a proxy war. Hezb al-Shaitan, not Hezbollah! Zaman Online - Aug 13 7:26 AM
Governments known with their anti-Shiite views, especially Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan, are uneasy about Hezbollah s increasing popularity.General Dynamics lands $34M contract to help Egypt bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance - Aug 10 12:10 PM
General Dynamics has won a $34 million contract to provide manufacturing assistance to Egypt for the production of a battle tank.The Well Houston Chronicle - Aug 12 10:55 PM
Apache Corp. completed the sale of its 24.5 percent interest in China's producing Zhao Dong block to Australia-based Roc Oil Co. Ltd. for $260 million. Houston-based Apache has operations in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, the North Sea, Egypt, Australia and Argentina. Ceasefire, but conflict not resolved BBC News - Aug 14 7:42 AM
It is too early to say who will eventually emerge as the winners of the Lebanon war, says Paul Reynolds.Posted: 15-08-2006 , 02:48 GMT Al Bawaba - 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
Prominent Egyptian actor Laila Elwi has denied recent circulating rumors that she was secretly married. If she were to marry she would proudly publicly announce it, said Laila.How Booker list turned into an epic Times Online - Aug 14 6:37 PM
FIVE years ago the judges of the Booker Prize singled out Andrew O Hagan for his debut novel ignoring previous winners Salman Rushdie and Roddy Doyle although they eventually gave the award to J. M. Coetzee.A month later, there are few winners - but many different types of losers Times Online - Aug 14 6:37 PM
IN this month-long fight, there have been almost no winners, although many are jostling to claim that title. France has the best claim, followed by Israeli settlers on the West Bank and Binyamin Netanyahu, leader of the right-wing Likud Party.Gaza-Egypt border reopens in one direction AP via Yahoo! News - Aug 09 11:07 PM
The Gaza-Egypt border partially reopened Thursday, after weeks of closure during Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip, a spokeswoman for European border monitors said.Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Faces Tense Times Playbill Arts - Aug 14 3:44 PM
Even the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, co-founded in 1999 by Daniel Barenboim and the Palestinian-American writer Edward Said (who died in 2003) as a gesture of unity between musicians in the troubled Middle East, is facing tense times during the current conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, reports the BBC.Intelligence Officials Search for Links Between Al Qaeda?s Leaders and Latest Plot New York Times - Aug 13 9:21 PM
The arrests in Britain returned the spotlight to the top two leaders of Al Qaeda, who have evaded one of history s biggest manhunts.Academics dish the dirt on UN's worst New York parking violators Financial Times - 2 hours, 38 minutes ago
Diplomats from countries with high levels of corruption, and those from countries that have a poor opinion of the US, are far more likely to commit parking violations in New York, according to a new study from Columbia and Berkeley Universities.Gaza-Egypt Border Reopens, but Briefly ABC News - Aug 10 7:18 AM
Gaza-Egypt Border Reopens for a Few Hours, Allowing Hundreds Stuck in Gaza for Weeks to LeaveThe coming earthquake Salon.com - Aug 14 11:40 AM
Having failed on the battlefield, Israelis question their leadership and their national direction. Fallen peacekeepers remembered at memorial service CBC via Yahoo! Canada News - Aug 14 10:50 AM
Former peacekeepers, their families and supporters gathered in Calgary Sunday to pay tribute to Canadians who have died on peacekeeping missions and to those killed in recent weeks in Afghanistan.Yemen Sent Cargo Of Medicines To Palestine Via Egypt Bernama - Aug 10 7:45 PM
SANA'A, Aug 11 (Bernama) -- A cargo of aids left Sana'a for al-Araish region, Egypt, on way for the Palestinian territories, Yemen News Agency (SABA) reported Friday.Iran's foreign minister to visit Saudi Arabia ArabicNews.com - Aug 14 5:14 PM
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, who is on a tour of the regional countries, is to arrive in Saudi Arabia on Monday evening to discuss and exchange views on bilateral ties and developments in the region, especially Lebanon situation.Egyptian tomb digs up controversy USA Today - Aug 13 3:32 PM
Born from Napoleon Bonaparte's disastrous Egyptian military campaign, Egyptology has been marked by exciting discoveries, tedious spadework and controversy at every turn. The latest contretemps revolves around a suspected burial chamber perhaps located just outside the famed entrance to King Tut's tomb.Egyptian FM stresses Iran's nuclear right ArabicNews.com - Aug 14 5:14 PM
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Sunday acknowledged Iran's right to access nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. His comments were heard at a joint press conference with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki before winding up his visit to the Egyptian capital.(AFX UK Focus) 2006-08-11 08:14 GMT: Premier Oil says Al Amir-2 well in Egypt being plugged, abandoned Interactive Investor - Aug 11 12:45 AM
LONDON (AFX) - Premier Oil PLC said it has plugged and abandoned the Al Amir-2 well in Egypt.CA demonstrates regional leadership by investing in a three month training program for its partners in the Middle East AME Info - Aug 13 3:44 AM
CA (NYSE: CA), one of the world's largest IT management software companies recently conducted a series of successful training sessions in Dubai and Egypt, aimed at educating its regional partners across several CA solutions.Mubarak talks to Seniora, orders helping reconstruct electric grid ArabicNews.com - Aug 14 5:10 PM
Egypr's President Hosni Mubarak yesterday received a telephone call from Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora in the framework of continuing consultations on halting the Israeli aggression and putting into effect the security resolutions No. 1701.Premiership ones to watch BBC News - Aug 14 4:05 AM
Ten newcomers to watch out for in the Premiership this seasonToday's Headlines: ArabicNews.com - Aug 14 5:04 PM
We are looking for sales & marketing representatives in different countries. Apply now! Israel is supported by inhumanity Israel has shown its face to the world as a brutal entity, devoid of humanity.Third operator dials in from Gulf Zawya - Aug 13 2:33 AM
August 2006 After months of anticipation, an open bid on July 4 intimated the future of Egypt's mobile telecommunication network and if the reactions on the faces of senior government officials were anything to go by, it would be a good one.Lebanon- Israel ceasefire violated by Israel ArabicNews.com - Aug 14 5:09 PM
Israeli forces killed a combatant of Islamic Resistance, military wing of Hizbullah, in southern Lebanon today, violating the first clause of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 which calls for stopping war and hostile actions.Forward.com Forward - Aug 14 4:08 PM
WASHINGTON After British authorities broke up a plot to blow up 10 trans-Atlantic passenger planes, President Bush declared that America is at war with Islamic fascists. Al Jazeera took it from there.Hezbollah, Hamas wage proxy war in Mideast The Pueblo Chieftain - Aug 13 5:08 AM
Richard Hallock is a retired Army officer, educator and business consultant living in Pueblo West. The Middle East is once again in deadly turmoil. It has been teetering on the edge since the early '70s, when Israel last whipped its Arab neighbor attackers - both sides poised for war. Since then neighbor governments - Egypt, Syria and Jordan - have decided that discretion, in this Gazans see no end to Israeli occupation a year after pullout AFP via Yahoo! News - Aug 13 3:31 PM
"We had the withdrawal, but we don't have freedom." One year after Israel began its historic Gaza Strip pullout, Palestinians are bitter that the end of Jewish settlements never brought an end to occupation.Electronics dealers at Souq Harraj lament declining sales The Peninsula - Aug 14 4:47 PM
DOHA Falling prices of electronics and home appliances combined with the offer of easy installments by showrooms is slowly but steadily sounding the death-knell for dealers in the second-hand market, commonly called Souq Harraj.Manteca family on a mission Manteca Bulletin - Aug 13 2:07 AM
Terrorist hotbeds that travelers fear, such as Egypt and Syria? They ve been there. Places that make headlines on a daily basis, such as Amman, Jordan and Beirut, Lebanon? They ve called them home. Arms tunnel destroyed Gulf Times - Aug 13 1:31 AM
The Israeli army said yesterday it had destroyed a tunnel used by Palestinian militants in the southern Gaza Strip to smuggle in weapons from Egypt.From 'fat little kid' to Israel's worst nightmare Knoxville News Sentinal - Aug 14 12:48 PM
To Israel and many in the West, he's public enemy No. 1, head of an organization that President Bush says is on "the A-team of terrorists," the man running what Israelis call a "state within a state" in Lebanon, and posing a constant threat to Israel.Tottenham look elsewhere after Neill snub Times Online - Aug 14 3:51 PM
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR will have to renew their search for a right back after Lucas Neill, the Blackburn Rovers player who is wanted by several clubs as he enters the final year of his contract, decided against joining the North London side.WiMax Ramps Up Unstrung.com - Aug 14 3:07 PM
As primary partners in the build-out of Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S - message board )'s planned nationwide WiMax network, Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC - message board ) and Motorola Inc.Raya makes platinum partner grade with Symantec ITP.net - Aug 12 11:10 PM
Egypt-based IT giant Raya has been named as a platinum partner for storage and security software giant Symantec. Gaining platinum partner status is recognition of Raya s impressive performance, expertise and customer satisfaction levels.South Africa Bafana allow McCarthy to stay with Blackburn FIFA - Aug 14 8:55 AM
Striker Benni McCarthy has withdrawn from the South Africa squad for a friendly international in Namibia on Wednesday.Iran's foreign minister to visit Saudi Arabia Islamic Republic News Agency - Aug 14 12:25 PM
Iran - Saudi Arabia - Mottaki Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, who is on a tour of the regional countries, is to arrive in Saudi Arabia on Monday evening.Israel orders Gaza-Egypt border crossing closed just hours after opening it WLUC TV 6 - Aug 10 8:21 PM
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Just hours after it partially opened for the first time in weeks, Israel has ordered the Gaza-Egypt border crossing closed.Israel orders Gaza-Egypt border closed just hours after it was opened CP via Yahoo! Canada News - Aug 10 10:25 AM
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israel ordered the Gaza-Egypt border crossing closed Thursday afternoon, just hours after it was partially opened for the first time in weeks, EU and Palestinian officials said.Gaza-Egypt border reopens, but briefly Boston Globe - Aug 10 6:39 AM
Israel has ordered the Gaza-Egypt border crossing closed just hours after it was partially opened for the first time in weeks, EU and Palestinian officials said Thursday.