61.   Russia and France are mediating between rival Kurdish groups in northern Iraq following U.S. failure to reconcile the two sides, a leading Arabic newspaper reported Saturday.

62.   Sensing a threat to its unity, the brotherhood has fought a full-scale war against the party, waged in part through vitriolic exchanges in Arabic newspapers and magazines.

63.   Stall owners sat outside their businesses on small wooden chairs and read Arabic newspapers which called on all Palestinians to strike.

64.   Similar reports, also quoting unnamed travelers from Iraq, appeared in several Arabic newspapers Sunday.

65.   Sudanese security forces arrested a group of army officers who were planning acts of sabotage on the eve of elections Wednesday, a leading Arabic newspaper reported Friday.

66.   Syria has banned a major Arabic newspaper from entering the country after publishing a series of articles critical of Syria, its editor in chief said Tuesday.

67.   Stall owners sat outside their businesses on small wooden chairs and read the headlines in Arabic newspapers which called on all Palestinians to strike.

68.   The jailings, also reported by the Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat, could not be immediately confirmed.

69.   The Hamas letter was published Tuesday as an advertisement on the front page of the Jerusalem-based Arabic newspaper An-Nahar.

70.   The London-based Arabic newspaper al-Hayat said the officers were retried in December.