http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/en_default.xml Updated every 5 minute of every day - FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY ar-ae Fri, 09 May 2008 22:30:05 Asia/Riyadh(AST) Copyright: 2008, 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 Iranian-backed Hezbollah group took control of the Muslim half of Beirut on Friday in what the U.S.-backed governing coalition described as "an armed and bloody coup". The United States accused Syria of "playing a much more active role in fanning the flames" andhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/09/49594.htmlThu, 08 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTThe main border crossing between the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and Egypt will be opened for three days starting on Saturday under a deal between the Islamist group and Cairo, a Hamas official said on Thursday. Hamas official Ayman Taha said sick Gazans would be allowed to cross into Egypt onhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/09/49612.htmlThu, 08 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTU.S. diva Mariah Carey and Black Eyed Peas star Fergie have both cancelled their performances at the 'Divas in Dubai' gig scheduled for next week, press reports said Firday. Thousands of fans were left disappointed and in need of a refund as event organizers released a statement saying: “Wehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/09/49614.htmlThu, 08 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTThe U.S. military denied on Friday earlier reports saying the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq Abu Ayyub al-Masri, known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, who carries a U.S. bounty of five million dollars, had been captured by security forces. "He has not been detained," a U.S. military official toldhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/09/49590.htmlThu, 08 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTAuthorities in Myanmar have given approval for a U.S. military aircraft carrying relief supplies to land in the country on Monday, the White House said on Friday. The White House announced the approval at a news briefing. A spokesman said, however, that Myanmar had not approved visas for a teamhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/09/49597.htmlThu, 08 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTNewly proclaimed Spanish league champions Real Madrid will travel to Riyadh in Saudia Arabia to face local side Al-Nasr in a friendly on May 20, the club said Friday. "The Saudi team will pay tribute to their most famous former player, Majed Abdullah, who scored 533 goals for them,"http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/09/49618.htmlThu, 08 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTEngland is an irritating and narrow-minded country full of overweight, binge-drinking, reality TV addicts, a new guide warned tourists on Friday. But in the new Rough Guide to England, the English are also hailed as a nation of animal-loving, tea-drinking charity donors who love nothing betterhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/09/49616.htmlThu, 08 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTFacing mounting calls for his resignation on Friday over a criminal probe into allegations he took bribes from a millionaire U.S. financier, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vehemently denied any wrongdoing but said he would quit if he is charged. "I was elected by you, the citizens ofhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/09/49598.htmlThu, 08 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTMuslim preacher Abu Qatada, a Jordanian described by Britain as a "significant international terrorist", was granted bail by an immigration appeals tribunal on Tasahursday, the Home Office said. The decision provoked a sharp response from Home Secretary Jacqui Smith who said she washttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/08/49574.htmlWed, 07 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTA teenage woman was jailed for 15 years in Jordan on Wednesday for murdering her parents and two brothers by poisoning their orange juice, a court official said. Hana al-Shamali, 19, was sentenced to prison and hard labor for the February killings in the city of Irbid, north of the Jordanianhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/08/49545.htmlWed, 07 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTIraqis employed at the British embassy in Baghdad have called for a government enquiry after staff members said they were sexually abused, the UK Times reported Wednesday. An Iraqi cleaning lady told British diplomats that a British contractor with KBR, a U.S. service company which oversawhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/08/49553.htmlWed, 07 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTA German court has ordered a 12-year-old Muslim schoolgirl to attend co-ed swimming lessons, despite the objection of her parents, press reports said on Thursday. The girl's parents had filed a case citing Islamic prohibitions against tight-fitting clothing worn in front of members of thehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/08/49561.htmlWed, 07 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTIsrael on Thursday celebrated its 60th anniversary with displays of military might and parties as Palestinians marked the plight of hundreds of thousands who lost their land to the Jewish state. Military air shows were among the crowd-pleasers with warplanes going through their paces in sunnyhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/08/49559.htmlWed, 07 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTA Malaysian Islamic court Thursday allowed a Chinese convert to renounce Islam in a rare decision for this conservative Muslim-led nation. Apostasy, or renouncing the faith, is one of the gravest sins in Islam and a very sensitive issue in Malaysia where Islamic sharia courts have rarely allowedhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/08/49543.htmlWed, 07 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTFierce clashes raged in Beirut on Thursday after the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah said the U.S.-supported Lebanese government had declared war by targeting its military communications network. Security sources said the fighting killed at least six people and wounded 15. The sound ofhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/08/49542.htmlWed, 07 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTRussia has signed into law United Nations economic sanctions that world powers agreed to in March, according to a presidential decree published by the Kremlin on Thursday. The United Nations Security Council imposed a third round of sanctions on Iran on March 3 for refusing to suspend sensitivehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/08/49557.htmlWed, 07 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTThe first Muslim member of the U.S. Congress, Representative Keith Ellison, has thrown his support behind Democrat presidential hopeful Barack Obama, press reports said. “It’s very important that the next president believes in dialogue, negotiations, opening up America, trying to buildhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/08/49554.htmlWed, 07 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTPresident George W. Bush said Wednesday he was extending U.S. sanctions against Syria following Washington's charge that Damascus had been building a nuclear reactor with North Korea's help. Bush announced his decision to continue for one year a freeze on Syrian assets and the ban on the exporthttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/08/49548.htmlWed, 07 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTA man who carried out a suicide attack in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul last month has been identified as a former Kuwaiti detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, U.S. military officials said Wednesday. Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi, who was released from Guantanamo in November 2005, is the first suicidehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/08/49544.htmlWed, 07 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTIranian scholars have told President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to stick to more worldly issues after he said the "hidden imam" of Shiite Islam was directing the country's affairs. Ahmadinejad has always been a devotee of the Mahdi, the twelfth imam of Shiite Islam, who Shiites believehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/07/49515.htmlTue, 06 May 2008 21:00:00 GMT