http://www.aawsat.com/english Asharq Alawsat English Edition is your insight into the Middle East en-us © 2005 Saudi Research and Publishing Sat, 06 Nov 2009 17:25:45 GMT 1 http://www.aawsat.com/english http://www.aawsat.com/english/images/aaaeng.gif 144 33 Asharq-e delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest stories, weather, entertainment, politics in the Middle East http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=18723 PARIS (AP) - France's foreign minister says Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' decision not to run for re-election is a "threat to peace" in the Middle East. Turkey's foreign minister says he hopes "the Sat, 06 Nov 2009 17:25:45 GMT http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=18722 ANKARA, (Reuters) - Turkey's President Abdullah Gul accused the European Union on Friday of "interfering" after the bloc asked Ankara to reconsider a decision to invite indicted Sudanese President Omar Sat, 06 Nov 2009 17:25:45 GMT http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=18721 HERAT, Afghanistan, (Reuters) - Two U.S. soldiers transporting supplies in Afghanistan were reported missing on Friday and the Taliban said they were holding the bodies of two drowned foreign soldiers. The Sat, 06 Nov 2009 17:25:45 GMT http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=18720 GAZA, (Reuters) - Hundreds of Gaza Palestinians set off for Mecca on Friday for the annual haj pilgrimage, after bitter rivals Fatah and Hamas set aside their dispute to agree on a list of 4,500 participants Sat, 06 Nov 2009 17:25:45 GMT http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=18718 (Asharq Al-Awsat and Agencies) - Saudi Arabia said Friday it carried out airstrikes against “infiltrators” from Yemen that were limited to areas inside Saudi territory, and vowed to press on with the Sat, 06 Nov 2009 17:25:45 GMT http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=18717 JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel said on Friday that a U.N. General Assembly decision to endorse a report accusing the Jewish state of war crimes lacked the support of the world's "moral majority." In a vote Sat, 06 Nov 2009 17:25:45 GMT http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=18716 BAGHDAD, (Reuters) - Iraq's electoral authorities called on Friday for polls due next January to be delayed after parliament failed once more to agree on how to hold the vote. If parliament insisted Sat, 06 Nov 2009 17:25:45 GMT http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=18715 LONDON, (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Friday he had told Afghan President Hamid Karzai that British support for his government will depend on him taking serious steps to fight Sat, 06 Nov 2009 17:25:45 GMT http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=18710 RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday he will not seek reelection in a January ballot because of the lack of progress in peace talks with Israel, Palestinian Fri, 05 Nov 2009 17:25:45 GMT http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=18701 JERUSALEM, (AP) – Israeli officials tallied up hundreds of tons of weapons seized from a commandeered ship Thursday as Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas denied Israeli claims that the arms were meant for Fri, 05 Nov 2009 17:25:45 GMT