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ARAB LEADERS UNANIMOUSLY REAFFIRM GOLAN HEIGHTS BELONG TO SYRIA  Arab leaders meeting in annual summit in Tunis tentatively set aside Sunday rivalries to condemn Donald Trump's recognition of Israeli sovereignty over part of the Golan Heights, taken from Syria in 1967 and then annexed by the state. Hebrew in 1981. At the opening of the meeting, King Salman of Saudi Arabia told the other monarchs, presidents and heads of government of Arab League member countries gathered in the Tunisian capital that his country was rejecting "totally" any measure affecting sovereignty Syria on the Golan Heights. Donald Trump on Monday acknowledged Israeli sovereignty over the Golan, less than four months after recognizing Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, a decision condemned in the Arab world and by the international community. Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi stressed that Arab leaders must make the international community understand the importance of the Palestinian ...

ALGERIA: THE ARMY MAKES AND UNDO Once again it was the Algerian Armed Forces that determined the fate of the president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, when he announced on Tuesday a statement by the Deputy Minister of Defense, General Gaid Salah, that the solution to the crisis calls for the application of the article 102 of the Constitution, which indicates the procedure of disqualification of the head of state when he is considered clinically incapacitated to assume his position. Buteflika will leave power without having been a history of the Algerian revolution. The native of Uxda (Morocco) was not part of the founding fathers of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN); it did not belong to the "sons of All Saints, who on November 1, 1954, unleashed the first murders and acts of rebellion against the French population; and he did not join the group of leaders that met in Congress in Sumam, in August 1956, to divide the country into six "wilayas" (Major States) in...