Arab News Portal http://arabnewsportal.com Arab News Headlines from Various Sources on the Net Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:00:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 en Syria - Syria sets Arab world record with at least five bloggers and cyber-dissidents detained http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/syria-syria-sets-arab-world-record-with-at-least-five-bloggers-and-cyber-dissidents-detained/ http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/syria-syria-sets-arab-world-record-with-at-least-five-bloggers-and-cyber-dissidents-detained/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:00:12 +0000 tony http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/syria-syria-sets-arab-world-record-with-at-least-five-bloggers-and-cyber-dissidents-detained/ MONTREAL, June 30 /CNW Telbec/ - Reporters Without Borders is worried by the lack of news about Hammam Haddad, a Damascus University student and author of magazine and Internet articles, since his arrest on 5 …

]]> http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/syria-syria-sets-arab-world-record-with-at-least-five-bloggers-and-cyber-dissidents-detained/feed/ Remarks by the President at Monticello’s 46th Annual Independence Day … http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/remarks-by-the-president-at-monticellos-46th-annual-independence-day/ http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/remarks-by-the-president-at-monticellos-46th-annual-independence-day/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:00:11 +0000 tony http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/remarks-by-the-president-at-monticellos-46th-annual-independence-day/ CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia - THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, and happy Fourth of July. I am thrilled to be here at Monticello.

]]> http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/remarks-by-the-president-at-monticellos-46th-annual-independence-day/feed/ Three years of reform and progress http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/three-years-of-reform-and-progress/ http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/three-years-of-reform-and-progress/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:00:10 +0000 tony http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/three-years-of-reform-and-progress/ JEDDAH. June 30. KAZINFORM Saudi Arabia marks today the third anniversary of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah’s ascending to the throne.

]]> http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/three-years-of-reform-and-progress/feed/ Conman in Valley of the Saints http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/conman-in-valley-of-the-saints/ http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/conman-in-valley-of-the-saints/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:14:21 +0000 tony http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/conman-in-valley-of-the-saints/ Ray Younan in Lebanon … “as soon as my doctors give me the all-clear, I’ll be there”. Jason Koutsoukis and Andrew Clenell July 5, 2008 RAY YOUNAN, the absent witness in the Wollongong sex-and-bribes scandal, …

]]> http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/conman-in-valley-of-the-saints/feed/ U.S. Soldiers in Iraq Mark Fourth of July http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/us-soldiers-in-iraq-mark-fourth-of-july/ http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/us-soldiers-in-iraq-mark-fourth-of-july/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:38:46 +0000 tony http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/us-soldiers-in-iraq-mark-fourth-of-july/ It’s Staff Sgt. Edgar Covarrubias’ second Fourth of July in Iraq. No family barbecue, no fireworks, but Covarrubias says he’ll call his mom, wife and kids to share the day anyway.

]]> http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/us-soldiers-in-iraq-mark-fourth-of-july/feed/ Joint Yemeni-German cooperation for high quality COCA Performance Audit http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/joint-yemeni-german-cooperation-for-high-quality-coca-performance-audit/ http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/joint-yemeni-german-cooperation-for-high-quality-coca-performance-audit/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:10:59 +0000 tony http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/joint-yemeni-german-cooperation-for-high-quality-coca-performance-audit/ The Central Organization for Control and Auditing is the state supervisory and control body for protecting public funds and property in Yemen.

]]> http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/joint-yemeni-german-cooperation-for-high-quality-coca-performance-audit/feed/ UN seeks increased access to asylum-seekers detained by Egypt http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/un-seeks-increased-access-to-asylum-seekers-detained-by-egypt/ http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/un-seeks-increased-access-to-asylum-seekers-detained-by-egypt/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:44:55 +0000 tony http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/un-seeks-increased-access-to-asylum-seekers-detained-by-egypt/ The United Nations refugee agency has interviewed nearly 180 Eritrean and Ethiopian asylum-seekers detained in Egypt to assess their claims for refugee status, and urged the authorities to continue to provide …

]]> http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/un-seeks-increased-access-to-asylum-seekers-detained-by-egypt/feed/ Correction: Picasso show in Abu Dhabi http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/correction-picasso-show-in-abu-dhabi/ http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/correction-picasso-show-in-abu-dhabi/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:30:39 +0000 tony http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/correction-picasso-show-in-abu-dhabi/ DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - In a May 27 story on a Picasso retrospective opening in Abu Dhabi, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of the organizer.

]]> http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/correction-picasso-show-in-abu-dhabi/feed/ ‘ Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/qatars-top-selling-english-daily-newspaper-2/ http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/qatars-top-selling-english-daily-newspaper-2/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:40:17 +0000 tony http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/qatars-top-selling-english-daily-newspaper-2/ US Defence Secretary Robert Gates went one step further on Thursday, saying: “The ability of the Taliban and other insurgents to cross that border and not being under any pressure from the Pakistani side of the …

]]> http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/qatars-top-selling-english-daily-newspaper-2/feed/ Syria returns stolen marble artifact to Iraq http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/syria-returns-stolen-marble-artifact-to-iraq/ http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/syria-returns-stolen-marble-artifact-to-iraq/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:11:41 +0000 tony http://arabnewsportal.com/2008/07/04/syria-returns-stolen-marble-artifact-to-iraq/ Syria has returned a marble artifact to Iraq that was stolen from one of the country’s archaeological sites.

The marble block roughly 4 feet tall and 1 1/2 feet wide contains an engraving of a bearded man kneeling in prayer and several lines of cuneiform writing.

Iraq’s minister of tourism and archaeology, Mohammed Abbas al-Auraibi, told a news conference Thursday that the piece was stolen from an archaeological site in Nimrud near the northern city of Mosul.

Nimrud, some 15 miles south of Mosul, became the capital of the Assyrian empire in 883 B.C., a role it retained for more than 150 years.

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