Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, is to hold talks with his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah in Riyadh as part of efforts to improve relations between the countries. The leaders will hold talks in the Saudi capital on Wednesday, in the run-up to an Arab League summit expected to take part at the end of the month. "Bilateral relations ... and ways of strengthening them in various fields in addition to regional and international iss... Read more »