CAIRO- The Arab League has reiterated its commitment to the Arab peace initiative to end the Arab-Israeli conflict and establishing peace in the region.

ALGIERS- Several festivities and demonstrations have been organized Tuesday in Palestine to mark the 64th anniversary of the Nakba, showing Palestinian people’s strong determination to recover their legitimate rights, including an independent state, UN membership and the return of refugees to their home and land despoiled in 1948.

PARIS (France)- Socialist Francois Hollande was sworn in as president of France on Tuesday, taking over power from Nicolas Sarkozy in a ceremony at the Elysee Palace in central Paris.

COTONOU- Regional rotation principle for the heads of AU Commission may "help break the current blockade," Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia said Monday in Cotonou (Benin).

RAMALLAH (Palestinian territories)- Representatives of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and the prison officials and have signed Monday an agreement to end the weeks-long hunger strike of over one thousand Palestinian detainees, according to various sources.

"All of the Palestinian faction signed an agreement to end the hunger strike in Ashkelon jail," said Qadura Fares, head of the Palestinian Prisoners Club.