http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/en_default.xml Updated every 5 minute of every day - FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:50:09 Asia/Riyadh(AST) Copyright: 2009, Alarabiya News Channel. http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/en_default.xml http://www.alarabiya.net/files/gfx/img/alarabiya.gif http://www.alarabiya.net Lebanon's opposition has agreed to a proposed government line-up, Hezbollah said on Saturday, paving the way to the end of five months of tortuous negotiations following a June general election. Hezbollah, which heads an alliance of parties supported by Syria and Iran, said inhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/07/90475.htmlAl ArabiyaFri, 06 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTChinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao sought to reassure the world's Muslims about his country's goodwill towards them in Cairo on Saturday, at a time when Beijing is criticized for the treatment of its own Muslim minority. "The relationship between Chinese civilizationhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/07/90556.htmlAl ArabiyaFri, 06 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTIran's former crown prince backed a campaign of "civil disobedience and non-violence" Saturday to oust the government in Tehran and urged Western support, but warned against any armed intervention. "The end of the apartheid regime in South Africa, of militaryhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/07/90529.htmlAl ArabiyaFri, 06 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTYemen began exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its newly built LNG plant in Balhaf on the Gulf of Aden on Saturday, with the first shipment destined for South Korea. In a hillside ceremony overlooking the coast, President Ali Abdullah Saleh inaugurated exports by pushing a button givinghttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/07/90496.htmlAl ArabiyaFri, 06 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTU.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said late Friday that he would soon transmit to the Security Council a controversial report alleging that Israel and the Palestinians committed war crimes during the Gaza war nearly a year ago. "As requested by the General Assembly, I will transmit thehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/07/90490.htmlAl ArabiyaFri, 06 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTSaudi Arabia began vaccinating its population against swine flu on Saturday, with priority going to government employees working on the annual hajj pilgrimage that takes place later this month. Health ministry officials were the first to receive the inoculation against A(H1N1), the official SPAhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/07/90511.htmlAl ArabiyaFri, 06 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTThe grandfather of a U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of shooting dead 13 people and wounding 30 others at a base in Texas said on Saturday he found it impossible to believe his grandson had committed the act. "He is a doctor and loves the U.S." Ismail Mustafa Hamad told Reuters inhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/07/90518.htmlAl ArabiyaFri, 06 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTPakistan's military said Saturday it had killed 12 Taliban militants as government troops pressed a major offensive in the South Waziristan tribal area bordering Afghanistan. Some 30,000 troops backed by fighter jets and helicopter gunships launched a fierce air and ground offensive intohttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/07/90515.htmlAl ArabiyaFri, 06 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTThe website of the Saudi based newspaper al-Watan was hacked early Saturday by suspected supporters of a leading cleric who was recently sacked from the kingdom’s Council of Senior Clerics board. After the newspaper’s website was compromised, the hackers placed a picture of Sheikh Saad binhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/07/90528.htmlAl ArabiyaFri, 06 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTA Tunisian court has sentenced eight men to up to 12 years in jail on charges of belonging to a terrorist cell, a defense lawyer said on Saturday. Three received 12-year terms and five were imprisoned for between three and six years, Anouar Kousri toldhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/07/90532.htmlAl ArabiyaFri, 06 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTThe Saudi authorities on Friday detained 100 Yemeni Houthi rebels who have infiltrated into the kingdom wearing women clothes, as 40 Saudi soldiers have been wounded in the ongoing military confrontations on the border regions between the Kingdom and Yemen, Al Arabiya correspondent said. Yemenihttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/06/90400.htmlAl ArabiyaThu, 05 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTAmerican President Barack Obama urged Americans on Friday not to jump to conclusions on the motive behind the mass shooting at the sprawling Fort Hood army base in Texas. The U.S. military has earlier ordered bases across the country to tighten security after the shooting rampage which left 13http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/06/90387.htmlAl ArabiyaThu, 05 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTTurkey's President Abdullah Gul accused the European Union on Friday of "interfering" after the bloc asked Ankara to reconsider a decision to invite indicted Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir to an Islamic summit in Istanbul. The exchange underscores the risk for EUhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/06/90427.htmlAl ArabiyaThu, 05 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTThe World Health Organization on Friday called for close monitoring of farm workers and animals for influenza A viruses, following recent cases in a wider range of creatures than pigs. Although the WHO stressed that the cases were isolated and had no impact on the way the A(H1N1)http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/06/90431.htmlAl ArabiyaThu, 05 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTSomali courtship was different in Hassan Aden's day. When he was a teenager, you gave the girl's parents 11 camels and an AK-47 assault rifle as bride price and then waited respectfully. Now, the 55-year-old said, a mobile phone service that seems to be the only thing working in thehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/06/90397.htmlAl ArabiyaThu, 05 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTIn a move that angered Israel, the U.N. General Assembly voted early on Friday to urge the Jewish state and Palestinians to investigate war crimes charges leveled in a controversial U.N. report on the Gaza war. The Arab-drafted resolution is nonbinding and unlikely to lead to inquiries by eitherhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/06/90382.htmlAl ArabiyaThu, 05 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTHundreds of Gaza Palestinians set off for Mecca on Friday for the annual hajj pilgrimage, after bitter rivals Fatah and Hamas set aside their dispute to agree on a list of 4,500 participants from the strip. Israel also cooperated by allowing the transfer of vaccine to Gaza for the H1N1 fluhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/06/90413.htmlAl ArabiyaThu, 05 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTThe U.N. nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting the Islamic Republic's scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian reported in its Friday edition. The newspaper, citing what it describes as "previously unpublishedhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/06/90385.htmlAl ArabiyaThu, 05 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTDon't promote democracy, fire all women, don't take Sundays off and remove all logos from your vehicles: these are only some of the 11 new rules Somalia's Shabaab rebels want to slap on aid groups. According to a document obtained by AFP Friday and issued two dayshttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/06/90419.htmlAl ArabiyaThu, 05 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTTen-year-old Iraqi football fan Muntazer picked up his ball one day and walked to his grandparents' house. On the way, he was snatched by kidnappers, who murdered him and poured acid on his body to try to erase evidence of the crime. Then the thugs extorted $25,000 from hishttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/06/90393.htmlAl ArabiyaThu, 05 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMT