KHARTOUM — Sudan and Chad have agreed to revive a security protocol to control joint borders and ban any activities by armed opposition groups in the two countries, senior officials of Sudan and Chad said on Friday.
“We have agreed to revive the security protocol through a joint meeting of military and security officials from the two countries, to be held in the Chadian capital of N’djamena in two weeks,” Chadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Moussa Faki Mahamat told reporters in Khartoum.
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JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has extended an invitation to opposition leader Tzipi Livni to join his ruling coalition, creating a vision of a government that would likely boost the stalemated peace process with the Palestinians, reported local news service Ynet on Friday.
“I am determined to try to expand the coalition base at this time in the face of the Palestinian refusal and the various threats,” Netanyahu was quoted as saying on Thursday. He stressed that he is serious about his intention and that the move is not a political maneuver aimed to split Livni’s centrist Kadima party.
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ANKARA — Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said Friday that prospects of stability and security in the Caucasus looked dim unless Armenian occupation over part of Azeri soil ended.
Speaking at a joint press conference with Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu in the Turkish capital of Ankara, Mammadyarov said, “The biggest problem for Azerbaijan in the region is the Upper Karabakh, which is under Armenian invasion and the situation of the displaced people.”
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CAIRO — Egypt on Friday reported three more death cases of influenza A/H1N1, bringing the nationwide death toll to 106, said the Health Ministry in a statement.
A 35-year-old woman in Cairo and another 21-year-old woman in Alexandria died of A/H1N1 virus, said the statement, adding that both suffered from pneumonia and dyspnea.
