http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/en_default.xml Updated every 5 minute of every day - FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY en-us Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:45:10 Asia/Riyadh(AST) Copyright: 2010, Alarabiya News Channel. http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/en_default.xml http://www.alarabiya.net/files/gfx/img/alarabiya.gif http://www.alarabiya.net Middle East mediators condemned for the second time in a week on Friday Israeli plans to build new settlements in disputed East Jerusalem, but the United States suggested Israel was moving to address the issue. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in Moscow for a meeting of the Middle Easthttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/03/19/103468.htmlAl ArabiyaThu, 18 Mar 2010 21:00:00 GMTIranian opposition activist Amir Jahanchachi unveiled a new project on Friday to provide financial and logistical support to movements opposing the Islamic republic's hardline regime. The scheme, dubbed the "Green Wave," aimed to create organized "cells ofhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/03/19/103469.htmlAl ArabiyaThu, 18 Mar 2010 21:00:00 GMTEight years after the fall of the Taliban, who banned television and barred women from appearing in public without an all-enveloping burqa, the Afghan government is fighting a losing battle to keep female flesh off TV. In a country that remains deeply conservative and male-dominated, thehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/03/19/103477.htmlAl ArabiyaThu, 18 Mar 2010 21:00:00 GMTA heartbroken Saudi student has been arrested in south Lebanon along the border with Israel where he was seeking an "honorable death," Lebanese security officials said on Thursday. Lebanese security forces nabbed Mohammed Jawad al-Fahad al-Issa, 26, at the border town ofhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/03/18/103447.htmlAl ArabiyaWed, 17 Mar 2010 21:00:00 GMTThe U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on Thursday against two firms in Gaza -- Islamic National Bank and al-Aqsa Television -- for their ties to the ruling Hamas movement. The Treasury said the sanctions prohibit Americans from transactions with the entities and seek to freeze any assets theyhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/03/18/103433.htmlAl ArabiyaWed, 17 Mar 2010 21:00:00 GMTRussia said on Thursday it would start up the reactor it is building at Iran's first atomic power plant in mid-2010, prompting immediate criticism from visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced the startup, but Clinton said such a decisionhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/03/18/103429.htmlAl ArabiyaWed, 17 Mar 2010 21:00:00 GMTA hardline Saudi cleric called for demolishing the Holy Mosque in Mecca and rebuilding it in a way that would insure Sex segregation. Sheikh Youssef al-Ahmad told the Saudi-based Bedaya satellite television channel Wednesday that the mosque should be demolished and replaced with a new onehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/03/18/103406.htmlAl ArabiyaWed, 17 Mar 2010 21:00:00 GMTPrime Minister Nuri al-Maliki held on to his slim overall lead in the nationwide vote tally over his main challenger Iyad Allawi, updated results from Iraq's general election showed on Thursday. Maliki's State of Law Alliance led Allawi's Iraqiya bloc by 39,905http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/03/18/103440.htmlAl ArabiyaWed, 17 Mar 2010 21:00:00 GMTA foreign worker was killed when a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit a kibbutz in southern Israel on Thursday, the Israeli army said, while the European Union's foreign affairs chief was visiting the Hamas-controlled enclave. A Gaza group calling itself Ansar al-Sunnahttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/03/18/103401.htmlAl ArabiyaWed, 17 Mar 2010 21:00:00 GMTTurkish police on Thursday detained around 20 people in connection to an alleged plot to topple the Islamist-rooted government, and the detainees included retired and active military officers, state media said. The operation was part of an investigation into the "Ergenekon"http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/03/18/103450.htmlAl ArabiyaWed, 17 Mar 2010 21:00:00 GMTSudan's government and a Darfur rebel group, the Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM), signed Thursday a framework peace accord, as talks with a larger Justice and Equality Movement appeared to falter. The agreement for a ceasefire and talks was signed in Doha by Ghazihttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/03/18/103399.htmlAl ArabiyaWed, 17 Mar 2010 21:00:00 GMTSyrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday that peace in the Middle East was "impossible" because of the actions of the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "The establishment of peace in the Middle East is impossible because of the absencehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/03/18/103427.htmlAl ArabiyaWed, 17 Mar 2010 21:00:00 GMTIn the face of a diplomatic spat with Israel, the White House is weighing proposing a U.S. plan to form the basis of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, U.S. media reported on Thursday. U.S. officials are questioning the commitment of hawkish Israeli Prime Minister Benjaminhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/03/18/103384.htmlAl ArabiyaWed, 17 Mar 2010 21:00:00 GMTThe Middle East quartet on Thursday is expected to press Israel to show its commitment to peace talks with the Palestinians by halting the construction of settlements in east Jerusalem, in a two day meeting to be held in Moscow. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in the Russianhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/03/18/103388.htmlAl ArabiyaWed, 17 Mar 2010 21:00:00 GMTGaza's borders are closed and its economy in shambles, but the glittering alleys of the territory's centuries-old gold bazaar are packed with young brides to be. The market has experienced an unlikely renaissance in recent years as Gaza's Hamas rulers have championed weddings andhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/03/17/103335.htmlAl ArabiyaTue, 16 Mar 2010 21:00:00 GMTAn ally of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Wednesday alleged widespread fraud in Iraq's parliamentary elections and demanded a nationwide recount. Ali al-Adeeb's remarks came as the race between Maliki's State of Law Alliance and the Iraqiya bloc of his main rival,http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/03/17/103283.htmlAl ArabiyaTue, 16 Mar 2010 21:00:00 GMTIsrael counted the cost Wednesday after hundreds of Palestinians clashed with security forces across east Jerusalem, amid the worst diplomatic spat in decades between Israel and its key U.S. ally, as Israel's ambassador in Washington denied that he had said his country and the U.S. had hithttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/03/17/103287.htmlAl ArabiyaTue, 16 Mar 2010 21:00:00 GMTEgyptian archaeologists have discovered two red granite statues in Luxor, one of Tutankhamun's grandfather Amenhotep III who reigned about 3,350 years ago, Egypt's antiquities chief said on Tuesday. The second statue was of the ancient Egyptian god of wisdom Thoth, Zahi Hawasshttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/03/17/103302.htmlAl ArabiyaTue, 16 Mar 2010 21:00:00 GMTYemen has beefed up security around oil and maritime installations for fear of retaliation by al-Qaeda after several strikes against the jihadist network, the interior ministry said on Wednesday. "Yemeni authorities have increased security measures around oil and maritimehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/03/17/103309.htmlAl ArabiyaTue, 16 Mar 2010 21:00:00 GMTIran offered on Wednesday a one-shot nuclear fuel exchange on its own soil, edging closer to the conditions of a plan drawn up by the U.N. atomic watchdog last year as major powers mulled a new round of sanctions. Iran's atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi revealed the new offer inhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/03/17/103301.htmlAl ArabiyaTue, 16 Mar 2010 21:00:00 GMT