http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/default_en.xml Updated every 5 minute of every day - FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY ar-ae Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:00:02 Asia/Riyadh(AST) Copyright: 2007, Alarabiya News Channel. http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/default_en.xml http://www.alarabiya.net/files/gfx/img/alarabiya.gif http://www.alarabiya.net/ Fighting spread to a second refugee camp in southern Lebanon on Sunday as Lebanese troops again pounded Fatah al-Islam militants holed up in Nahr al-Bared in the north. As the deadly standoff entered its third week, clashes erupted at Ein al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in the south of thehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/06/03/35105.htmlAt least 12 Islamist fighters, including foreigners, were killed in U.S. naval shelling and fighting with regional forces in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland, officials said Sunday, as U.S. top defense official refused to commen. The Puntland government said its forces crushed thehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/06/03/35119.htmlIsraeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told a government inquiry that she thought last summer's devastating 34-day war in Lebanon would last just hours, according to testimony released Sunday. "I thought we were only talking about an operation of a few hours that would be completed overnighthttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/06/03/35131.htmlAmid press reports of large-scale funds allocated by the opposition Muslim Brotherhood for the coming Shura Council elections, Egyptian authorities have detained over 50 members of the banned group, according to security sources Saturday. "Fifty-two supporters of Muslim Brotherhoodhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/06/02/35080.htmlAn Islamist group in Gaza sent shockwaves among female TV broadcasters after issuing a scary warning that it would “cut throats from vein to vein” if they did not follow the Islamic dress code. The threat was made by the Swords of Truth group in an E-mail message sent to news agencies in thehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/06/03/35116.htmlDozens of Egyptian citizens left homeless after a fire ripped through their makeshift homes in an Old Cairo neighborhood two months ago converged on the Attorney General’s office to file legal complaints against their municipality and to demand alternative houses. The move was the latesthttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/06/01/35050.htmlDutch television broadcaster BNN provoked an international uproar this week when it announced plans to air a live TV game show pitting rival kidney patients against one another in pursuit of a donor organ. But when the show ran on Friday, it proved to be a hoax. All along, the makers of the showhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/06/02/35085.htmlThe U.N. Security Council voted on Wednesday to set up an international court to try suspects in the murder of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri, raising alarm bells of possible dire consequences among some member states. The legally binding resolution sets June 10 as the date when a 2006http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/05/31/35020.htmlHeavy fighting killed at least two Lebanese soldiers and another 12 people Friday as the army appeared to make preparations to storm the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon. The deaths brought to 82 the number of people killed in the 12-day standoff between the army andhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/06/01/35046.htmlPakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz’s charm failed to work its magic on steely U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice according to a new biography of hers, the Pakistan based Dawn newspaper reported on Monday. The biography, entitled Twice as Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power,http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/05/30/35001.htmlThe Muslim Brotherhood is getting a wake up call from within, with the young generation of Brothers using their blogs to call on Egypt's most powerful opposition group to change. One young member of the banned Islamist movement even called on the group's leaders to scrap the slogan, "Islamhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/05/31/35028.htmlThe U.N. Security Council was expected to approve Wednesday a landmark draft resolution creating an international court to try suspects in Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri's murder, a move likely to heighten tensions in divided Lebanon. Late Tuesday, the Western sponsors circulated their finalhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/05/30/34987.htmlTop nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said on Wednesday Iran would not halt uranium enrichment, on the eve of talks with the EU foreign policy chief over Iran's controversial nuclear programme. "Suspension is not a logical way to resolve Iran's nuclear issue," Larijani told reporters athttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/05/30/34985.htmlU.S. President George W. Bush on Tuesday tightened sanctions on Sudan over the deteriorating human conditions in Darfur, but Khartoum bitterly dismissed the move as unfair and untimely. Bush further pushed for a tough new U.N. Security Council resolution to punish the Sudanese government, withhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/05/29/34973.htmlSyrian President Bashar al-Assad has won a second seven-year term in office after netting more than 97 percent of the votes in a referendum, Interior Minister Bassam Abdel Majid announced on Tuesday. Voters were called to either vote "yes" or a "no" for another seven-yearhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/05/29/34955.htmlIran said on Tuesday it has detained US-Iranian social science scholar Kian Tajbakhsh on charges of spying, the same accusation levelled against another scholar with dual nationality. Judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi confirmed that US-Iranian scholar Haleh Esfandiari, who was detained onhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/05/29/34948.htmlThe fact that some Iraqi refugees in the Syrian capital are selling sex or working in sex clubs to make ends meet is too difficult to ignore any more, a U.S. paper report reveals. “During the war we lost everything,” Umm Hiba (Umm in Arabic means mother of) told the New York Times, as shehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/05/29/34960.htmlFour Saudi members of the Fatah al-Islam militant group are reportedly among those killed in clashes with Lebanese soldiers, as Lebanon Sunday gave Palestinian factions until the middle of the week to negotiate a peaceful end to deadly fighting between the army and militants. "Thehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/05/27/34877.htmlHamas vowed to continue attacking Israel after the Jewish state said it would press ahead with its assault on Gaza, as a second Israeli died in Palestinian rocket fire this week. An Israeli man died on Sunday from wounds sustained when a rocket fired by Hamas's armed wing smashed into a car hehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/05/27/34900.htmlTitle-holders al-Ahly will have to be at their very best if they intend to realize an unprecedented third running African Champions League trophy this season. The group draw on Monday put the Cairo giants face to face with two tough Arab rivals and Ivorian giants ASEC Mimosas. The Group Bhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/05/28/34927.html