Kalam to leave for Abu Dhabi to offer condolences
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New Delhi, Nov. 3. (PTI): President APJ Abdul Kalam is leaving today for Abu Dhabi to offer condolences to ruling family, Government and people of UAE on the demise of President Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan.
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Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has extended condolences to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the demise of its president Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahayan, the official IRNA news agency reported Wednesday.
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ABU DHABI: Arab and Muslim leaders joined thousands of grieving Emiratis on Wednesday to pay their last respects to Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahayan, president and founding father of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates.
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Ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was expected to leave his West Bank headquarters for Paris after doctors said he had a potentially fatal blood disorder which required more tests abroad.
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Egypt was preparing to bid farewell to Nobel-winning novelist Nagib Mahfuz, celebrated as one of the greatest writers in modern Arab literature.
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President Bush took a condolence call Thursday from U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who said he mourned the loss of more than 20 people in an apparent suicide attack at a U.S. military outpost in Mosul, Iraq.
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The flag-draped body of President Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan was carried Wednesday into a capital mosque, where dignitaries and relatives gathered for funeral prayers for the ruler who transformed his desert
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Indonesia&#39;s president left for war-torn Aceh Friday, where he will hold meetings with religious and government leaders in a bid to bring peace to the oil- and gas-rich region.
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The body of late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has arrived in Cairo from Paris for a military funeral which presidents and other dignitaries from around the world are due to attend.
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Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat&#39;s coffin is loaded onto an aircraft for it&#39;s flight to Cairo after being carried by a French military honor guard, foreground, at Villacoublay airbase south-west of Paris, Thursday Nov. 11, 2004.
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Ramallah: Supporters bade a tearful farewell to Yasser Arafat Friday, as the man who has symbolised the Palestinian struggle for statehood for four decades flew out of the West Bank for possibly the last time.
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The funeral of Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, who has died aged 94, takes place in Cairo.
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ABU DHABI, November 3 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - Arab and Muslim leaders converged on Abu Dhabi Wednesday, November 3, and joined the people of the United Arab Emirates in burying Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahayan, president and founding father
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Arafat's funeral is to be held Friday in Cairo. He will be buried at his West Bank headquarters.
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CHARLOTTE, NC -- A leader for an initiative to bring peace in the Middle East visited Charlotte Friday -- the same day Yasser Arafat was buried.
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DUBAI  - The death of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, president of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates (UAE), is not expected to have a major impact on already climbing world crude prices, experts said.
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The death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat a month ago appears to have created a new atmosphere for possible renewal of peace efforts in the Middle East.