http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/en_meast.xml Updated every 5 minute of every day - FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY en-us Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:10:09 Asia/Riyadh(AST) Copyright: 2009, Alarabiya News Channel. http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/en_meast.xml http://www.alarabiya.net/files/gfx/img/alarabiya.gif http://www.alarabiya.net Israeli President Shimon Peres on Saturday used a speech honoring slain premier Yitzhak Rabin to urge Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas to stay in power despite frustrations over the peace process. "We both signed the Oslo accords and I address myself to you (Abbas) as a colleague would:http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/07/90563.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 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 GMTLebanon'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 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 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 GMTIsrael kept mum on Friday on Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's announcement that he will not seek re-election, but officials said the Jewish state is keen on the moderate remaining in office. The government has refrained from officially commenting on Abbas'shttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/06/90398.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 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 GMTIsrael, irked by U.N. censure over its part in a Gaza war, said on Thursday the seizure of an alleged Iranian arms shipment to Hezbollah showed it was Israel's foes who should be the focus of war-crimes charges. Hezbollah, which fired 4,000 rockets into northern Israel during a 2006http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/05/90354.htmlAl ArabiyaWed, 04 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTEgypt said on Thursday that if Israel continues to reject a freeze on Jewish settlement, then any new peace talks should be on the basis of a U.N. Security Council requiring it to leave the whole West Bank. Egypt's remarks came a day after U.S. Secretary of State Hillaryhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/05/90351.htmlAl ArabiyaWed, 04 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTA Yemeni Defense Ministry official denied on Thursday that Saudi forces had struck targets inside Yemen, after Shiite rebels launched a cross-border attack into Saudi Arabia earlier this week. "Saudi Arabia did not hit targets in Yemen," the official told Reuters, but declined tohttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/05/90326.htmlAl ArabiyaWed, 04 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday that he had no wish to seek re-election at a presidential poll he has called for January and that he was not ready to debate the issue. In a speech broadcast live from his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, the 74-year-old PLOhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/05/90340.htmlAl ArabiyaWed, 04 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTSomalia's main Sufi movement, Ahlu Sunna wal Jamaa, on Thursday wrapped up an unprecedented conference in Nairobi to strategize its response to the rise and radicalization of the Shabaab group. Dozens of the usually quiet religious movement's leaders have in recent days converged onhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/05/90325.htmlAl ArabiyaWed, 04 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTPakistani security forces on Thursday arrested three Iranians suspected of planning a suicide attack in Iran's southeastern region last month which killed 42 people, officials said. Mainly Shiite Iran says the Sunni rebel group Jundollah (God's Soldiers), which has claimedhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/05/90295.htmlAl ArabiyaWed, 04 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTIran's nuclear program, which Tehran says is only intended to generate electricity, is an attempt to force the world to acknowledge it as a regional power, U.N. nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei said late on Wednesday. "They believe that the nuclear know-how brings prestige, bringshttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/05/90277.htmlAl ArabiyaWed, 04 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTIranian security forces arrested an Agence France Presse reporter covering Wednesday's rally marking the anniversary of seizure of the U.S. embassy, the agency said on Thursday. Foreign media have been banned from covering street protests since the demonstrations over the disputed Junehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/05/90292.htmlAl ArabiyaWed, 04 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTIranian police fired teargas and made several arrests during clashes with opposition supporters who staged demonstrations in central Tehran on Wednesday, witnesses said. The clashes took place in central Tehran's Haft-e-Tir square where groups of opposition supporters hadhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/04/90174.htmlAl ArabiyaTue, 03 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTUnited States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that Washington does not accept the legitimacy of Israeli settlement activity but believes that getting to talks is the quickest way to achieve a freeze. "We do not accept the legitimacy of settlement activity and we have ahttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/04/90187.htmlAl ArabiyaTue, 03 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTIsraeli naval commandos have boarded a ship carrying Iranian-supplied rockets destined for Lebanon's Hezbollah group and taken the vessel to an Israeli port, the government said on Wednesday. Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai told Army Radio that Katyusha rockets were found on thehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/04/90180.htmlAl ArabiyaTue, 03 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMT