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US Internet Hosting Company Stops Hosting PLO Office's Website

GAZA, (WAFA - PLO News Agency)- The National Office to Defend the Land and Resist the Colonization, a PLO body, said its website stopped working on the internet because of intervention from the hosting American Company. Taysser Khaled, PLO Executive Committee Member and Head of the National Office, said the website will remain closed unless the Office reaches a settlement with the hosting company. Khaled revealed that the American company subjected to Israeli pressures to stop hosting the Website after those Israeli organizations failed to hack it.

Insurgents kill dozens of Iraqis ahead of the constitutional referendum

Photo: US soldiers walk around at the scene of a suicide bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday.

BAGHDAD, Iraq- Insurgents determined to wreck Iraq's constitutional referendum killed nearly 50 people and wounded dozens in a series of attacks Tuesday, including a suicide car bomb that ripped apart a crowded market in a town near the Syrian border. U.S. and Iraqi officials had repeatedly warned that the insurgents would step up their attacks to undermine Saturday's referendum, a crucial step in Iraq's democratic transition...

Last minute efforts to win Sunni support of constitution face deep divisions

Photo: An Iraqi food distribution agent counts copies of the new constitution in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday.

BAGHDAD, Iraq- With U.S. mediation, Shiite and Kurdish officials negotiated Sunday with Sunni Arab leaders over last minute additions to the constitution, trying to win Sunni support ahead of next weekend's crucial referendum. But the sides remained far apart over basic issues - including the federalism that Shiites and Kurds insist on - and copies of the constitution are already being passed out to the public...Read the full article

Lebanon to Open Office for Syrian Workers
BEIRUT, Lebanon, (SANA - Syrian news agency) - Lebanese Minister of Information announced Thursday approval was made over opening an office to deal with Syrian workers at the Lebanese Ministry of Labor. In a statement, following the Lebanese cabinet session, Ghazi al-Aridi said "a decision is made to define number of employees at the office," saying such decision was a very progressed step to put an end to all debate and sayings that were made over the number of Syrian workers in Lebanon, their role, tasks and linkages. " This office is to organize these workers affaires in a way that will keep their security, dignity, and safety as will gives a gesture of respect and understanding of the Syrian worker. This must not be understood in any other direction," Aridi said. He said that " we are eager to protect dignity of those brothers who contributed and still are to activate our productive sectors," he added.