MIDDLE EAST: Palestinians call upon Muslims to come to their rescue

Palestinians have called upon all Muslims all over the world to come to their rescue and stand beside them as they are currently facing a real devastating war launched against them by the occupying Israel.

POLITICS-IRAQ: The Shields Are Only Human

The first 'human shields' from the West have taken up their positions at the Baghdad south power plant. In a fashion.

IRAQ: UAE reiterates its objection to war

Ismael Obeid Yusuf Al Ali, Director of the Department of Asian and African Affairs at the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Foreign Ministry, received here today Ali Sabti Mohammed Al-Hadithi, Iraqi Ambassador to the UAE.

IRAQ: UAE ship to depart with relief aid for children

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Red Crescent Society (RCS) announced today it would rush relief aid to Iraq as part of its effort to help the Iraqi people.

INDONESIA: Bomb kills three youths in troubled Aceh

A bomb killed three youths in Indonesia's troubled Aceh province, where a shaky peace agreement between the government and a separatist guerrilla force has been in place since December, news reports said Saturday.

IRAQ-OPEC: Measures will be taken if war breaks out, says UAE oil minister

United Arab Emirates (UAE) Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Obaid bin Saif al Nasseri said on Saturday that OPEC would take necessary action to cover any break in Iraqi oil supplies if war erupts, but he did not explain what measures will be taken.

IRAQ: Chief UN weapons inspector orders destruction of Samoud-2 Missiles

Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix has ordered Iraq to destroy dozens of its missiles with ranges that violate UN limits, and gave Baghdad a March 1 deadline to begin the demolition.

MIDDLE EAST: Israeli forces kill 68 Palestinians in less than one month

At least 68 Palestinians were killed at the hands of Israeli troops in less than a month (February) while 55 others sustained serious injuries, Palestinian sources said.

POLITICS: Arabs Divided Ahead of Crucial Summit

Widening rifts among the 22 member states of the Arab League threaten to derail their annual summit called in Cairo March 1.

TECHNOLOGY-UAE: Genetic research on cheetahs at Sharjah Breeding Center

The head of Virology and Immunology Division of the Zoological Society of San Diego, Dr Mike Worley, has arrived in Sharjah, one of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to conduct research on the immune system of North East African cheetahs at the Breeding Center for Endangered Arabian Wildlife, under a research cooperation agreement between the two institutions.

IRAQ: UAE daily warns Arab countries to act now before it is too late

A major United Arab Emirates (UAE) English daily today commented on the dangerous trend in the Iraqi issue, with the cloud of war gathering so quickly and the beating of war drums beginning to be heard loudly, as Iraq's compliance with Resolution 1441 seems to be incomplete and the US insists on resorting to war to settle the issue.

PAKISTAN: Air Force chief and 16 others killed in plane crash

Pakistan's Air Force chief Mushaf Ali Mir and 16 others were killed after their military plane crashed on Thursday in the country's North-West Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan.

IRAQ: UN weapons inspectors under heavy pressure to leave

Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said today that the UN weapons inspectors in Iraq have been subjected to heavy pressure to force them to leave Iraq or to present reports that justify war against Baghdad.

MIDDLE EAST: PLO executive arrives in Moscow to discuss crisis situation.

A Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) high-powered delegation arrived here on Thursday with a message from Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to the Russian leadership.

MIDDLE EAST: Israeli troops kill Palestinian during West Bank raid

Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian today during a West Bank raid on the Tulkarem refugee camp.

CONSTRUCTION-UAE: Dubai Skywalk longest footbridge in the world

The Union Properties PJSC Skywalk Bridge, claimed to be the longest footbridge between two buildings in the world, was finally hoisted yesterday, linking the 19th floors of the two 20-storey Marriott Executive Apartments (MEA), situated by the Clock Tower roundabout in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

ARCHAEOLOGY-UAE: Excavations on Iron Age site completed

The six-year excavations of a significant Iron Age site in Muweileh in Sharjah, one of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), were recently completed with the discovery of more findings that shed light on the great historic significance of this site which housed the first-ever evidence on the use of the Arabic script in the middle of the first millennium BC, a UAE newspaper reported today.

ARCHAEOLOGY-UAE: Excavations on Iron Age site completed

The six-year excavations of a significant Iron Age site in Muweileh in Sharjah, one of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), were recently completed with the discovery of more findings that shed light on the great historic significance of this site which housed the first-ever evidence on the use of the Arabic script in the middle of the first millennium BC, a UAE newspaper reported today.

IRAQ: UAE opposes military solution to crisis

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) told the UN Security Council of its rejection to any non-peaceful solution of the Iraqi crisis that could trigger a new war in the region and called for enforcing the weapons inspection system in Iraq as the sole alternative to war.

MIDDLE EAST: Sharon looking for an alternative motive, says UAE paper

While a team of Palestinians is in London, attempting peace talks based on the "roadmap" presented to them by the Quartet - the United Nations, the European Union, Russia and the US - Israel is wreaking its bloody vengeance upon innocent Palestinians in Gaza, a United Arab Emirates (UAE) paper said.

POLITICS-IRAQ: Voices Grow Louder Against Saddam

In unprecedented criticism of President Saddam Hussein's iron-fisted regime, Iraqis are beginning to say more and more that it is time for him to leave.