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BBC Monitoring Headlines From Pan-Arab TV 1 August 05

Posted on: Monday, 1 August 2005, 03:00 CDT

The following is a selection of Pan-Arab TV headlines from bulletins broadcast at 0400 and 0500 gmt on 1 August

Al-Arabiya TV 0400 gmt: Sudanese Vice-President John Garang missing, presumed dead after leaving Uganda for Sudan in helicopter ... Iran threatens to resume nuclear activities Monday, 1 August ... Britain asks Tehran not to take unilateral steps in nuclear sphere ... New Saudi ambassador to USA accuses Bin-Ladin of ordering supporters to launch attacks on Western targets in Saudi Arabia, says Saudi security are successfully dealing with terrorism threat ... Syrian, Lebanese prime ministers conclude talks, commit their countries to build relations based on mutual respect ... Armed elements open fire on convoy of Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi in Latifiyah, killing one guard, injuring three others ... Seven killed, 12 injured in car explosion in Al-Hillah ... Egypt stresses extraordinary summit at Sharm al-Shaykh not incompatible with Arab League system.

Al-Jazeera TV 0500 gmt: Fate of Sudanese Vice-President John Garang unknown after leaving Uganda for Sudan in helicopter ... Imam Husayn brigades claim responsibility for attack on Ahmad Chalabi's convoy in Latifiyah ... Iraqi president calls on committee in charge of drawing up the constitution to complete its work on time ... Iran decides to resume nuclear activities.

LBC TV 0500 gmt: Sudanese Vice-President John Garang killed in helicopter crash, UN official cited ... SPLA source says Garang still missing ... Syrian, Lebanese prime ministers conclude talks, to resume traffic movement between their countries ... British government warns Iran against resuming nuclear activities ... Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman says his country to resume activities to produce nuclear fuel today ... Armed elements attack convoy of Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi in Latifiyah ... Iraqi committee in charge of drawing up constitution decides to wind up work in mid-August ... US ambassador to Iraq expresses support for political process in Iraq ... Egyptian prime minister says no evidence found to implicate Al-Qa'idah in Sharm al-Shaykh, Taba attacks ... Scotland Yard arrest six men, a woman in a house in Sussex.

Al-Alam TV 0500 gmt: Sudanese Vice-President John Garang killed in helicopter crash after leaving Uganda for Sudan ... IAEA needs three days to call for emergency meeting on Iran's eminent resumption of nuclear activities ... Britain warns Iran against resuming uranium activities ... Iran sets 1 August deadline for Europeans to present proposals on its nuclear file ... Lebanese Hezbollah Secretary-General Huysan Nasrallah arrives in Tehran for talks ... Syrian, Lebanese prime ministers stress need to re- activate relations between their countries ... Washington preparing secret plant to reduce its forces in Iraq, Newsweek cited ... Iraqi President Talabani calls on committee in charge of drawing up constitution to finish task mid-August ... Iraqi National Assembly session adjourned over request to delay discussion of election system ... Eleven Iraqis killed in US shelling of school in al- Anbar ... Guardsman killed in attack on convoy of Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi in Al-Mahawil, south of Baghdad ... PKK opens office in Kirkuk ... People of Kirkuk suffer petrol, fuel shortages ... Solidarity campaign with Shaykh Al-Mu'ayyad organized in Yemeni capital.

Source: BBC Monitoring Newsfile

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