http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/en_meast.xml Updated every 5 minute of every day - FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY ar-ae Mon, 12 May 2008 02:05:01 Asia/Riyadh(AST) Copyright: 2008, Alarabiya News Channel. http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/en_meast.xml http://www.alarabiya.net/files/gfx/img/alarabiya.gif http://www.alarabiya.net/ The army deployed across much of Lebanon on Sunday after Hezbollah ceded control of west Beirut but clashes raged on in the north and in the Druze mountains as Arab foreign ministers held crisis talks. Heavy machine-gun fire and loud explosions echoed through a number of villages in the districthttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/11/49667.htmlSat, 10 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTThe Gaza Strip faced new blackouts on Sunday after its only power plant shut down after receiving no fuel from Israel in four days, senior Palestinian officials said. "There is a very serious crisis with respect to electricity," Jamal al-Dardasawi, spokesman for the Gaza electricalhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/11/49701.htmlSat, 10 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTThe office of the Zaidi insurgency leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi accused the Yemeni government of hiring American commandos to crush his opposition group, a claim dismissed by security sources, Al Arabiya reports. In a written statement obtained on Saturday, Al-Houthi's office alleged thathttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/11/49671.htmlSat, 10 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTIran's Supreme Judiciary Council condemned a 28-year-old homeless woman to death for killing and dismembering her five-day-old baby. The woman, Suhayla, admitted to murdering her infant son, saying she wanted to save him from facing the same fate as her, Iranian daily Etemmad Mellihttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/11/49680.htmlSat, 10 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTIraqi and U.S. troops were on Sunday pushing ahead with their Lion's Roar targeting al-Qaeda’s last urban stronghold in northern Iraq to try to drive out militants who regrouped there. Lieutenant-General Riyadh Jalal Tawfiq, commander of Iraqi armed forces in Nineveh province, said thehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/11/49662.htmlSat, 10 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTHezbollah on Saturday began withdrawing gunmen from Beirut and handed control of the streets to the Lebanese army, after days of gun battles with supporters of the U.S.-backed government. Hezbollah, a political group backed by Iran and Syria with a guerrilla army, said it was ending its armedhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/10/49626.htmlFri, 09 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTThe U.N. chief "condemns strongly" the recent attacks by rebel forces from Sudan's Darfur province on the capital, and calls for an end to the fighting, fearing it could hamper regional peace efforts, as the government said it defeated the attack on Khartoum. Secretary General Banhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/10/49646.htmlFri, 09 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTThe movement of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Saturday it had struck a deal with the Iraqi government to end fighting in its Baghdad stronghold of Sadr City, after overnight clashes killed 13 people there. Sheikh Salah al-Obeidi, the spokesman for the cleric's office in the centralhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/10/49635.htmlFri, 09 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTAt least five Palestinians were killed and eight others injured late on Friday during two Israeli air raids that targeted two police stations in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian doctors and Hamas sources. The first raid, which killed two Palestinians near Rafah at thehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/10/49628.htmlFri, 09 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTLebanon'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 "fanning the flames" and said "we're seeing now somehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/09/49594.htmlThu, 08 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTThe Bush administration appears set to offer Israel a powerful radar system that could greatly boost Israeli defenses against enemy ballistic missiles while tying it directly into a growing U.S. missile shield. President George W. Bush is expected to discuss the matter during a visit to Israelhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/10/49658.htmlFri, 09 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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