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 The Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Shri Kamal Nath, the Minister for Commerce & Industry of Oman, Mr. Maqbool and the Minister for Commerce of Saudi Arabia, Dr. Hashim bin Abdullah at the Gulf Cooperation Council 3rd India Industrial Forum in Mu
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Oman planning $390m fund to boost market
DUBAI: Oman is planning to set up a 150 million Omani rial ($389.6m) market-maker fund with the private sector to help stabilise the Gulf country's bourse as the financial crisis bites. The government... (photo: PIB)
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Plan for investment fund sends Oman stocks soaring
Muscat: A reported decision by the Omani government to set up a 150 million Omani riyal (Dh1.4 billion) investment fund to prop up the Muscat Securities Market (MSM) sent the stocks soaring by three... (photo: GFDL / Ian Sewell)
 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, speaks during a meeting with Iceland´s Minister for Foreign Affairs Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir, unseen, at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, July 19, 2007. In a d  NZ Herald 
Abbas advertises his plan for peace

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Photo / AP... (photo: AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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A demonstrator holds a poster depicting US President George W. Bush in Lima, Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. The protest was organized against Bush's expected arrival in Lima Friday to attend the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC, summ  The Australian 
'War criminal' Bush blamed for global crisis
PROTESTERS have demanded that US President George W Bush get out of Peru where he is attending an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, blaming him for the world economic crisis. "Bush... (photo: AP / Dado Galdieri)
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Mumbai: oil tankers in the Mumbai sea. 8 Business Day
Pirates in talks with Saudis on $25m ransom�

MOGADISHU — Somali pirates who hijacked Saudi oil supertanker Sirius Star yesterday demanded $25m in ransom and set a 10-day deadline amid mounting calls for... (photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang)
Government   Photos   Politics   Saudi   Somalia
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Saudi prince to lift Citigroup stake to 5pc

SAUDI investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal thinks Citigroup's shares are undervalued, but he doesn't appear to have much company. The prince said he will increase his... (photo: WN / daliam)
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 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left, at podium) speaks before presenting the 2006 Special Citation of the Habitat Scroll of Honour to Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa, Prime Minister of Bahrain at the opening of the High-Level Segment of the Economic and So Gulf Daily News
UN 'cannot help trio seized in Saudi'

A TOP UN official yesterday refused to help three Bahrainis detained in Saudi Arabia. Human Rights Council deputy president ambassador Alberto Dumont said he was not... (photo: UN /Eskinder Debebe)
Bahrain   Photos   Politics   Saudi   UN
President George W. Bush talks with U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Kevin Cosgriff, the commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/5th Fleet, during breakfast Jan. 13, 2008, with U.S. service members as part of his visit to Naval Support Activity Bahrain. The Times
Iraqi protesters give Bush boot over agreement for US troops to stay to 2011

Followers of Moqtada al-Sadr, the anti-US Shia cleric, hurled Wellington boots and water bottles at an effigy of George Bush today during a protest against a deal that... (photo: DoD / MCC ROBERT INVERSO )
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080520-M-3663L-008       U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Mathew J. Daniels from 1st Platoon, Alpha Company, 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Task Force Mechanized stands guard as fellow Marines conduct a meeting in the Salad Ad Din province of Iraq on May 20, 2008.  Marines with the battalion are conducting missions to hunt down and rid the northern part of Iraq of insurgents.  DoD photo by Sgt. Rome M. Lazarus, U.S. Marine Corps.  (Released) Star Tribune
US mil: American soldier dies of non-combat-related causes in Iraq

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military says an American soldier has died of non-combat-related causes in Iraq. A statement says Multi-National Division — Center soldier died... (photo: U.S. Marine Corps. / Sgt. Rome M. Lazarus)
Iraq   Military   Photos   Terrorism   Usa
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From Egypt to Jordan

Dissenting note Friday, November 21, 2008 by Dr Masooda Bano Despite the common feature of the region, each Middle Eastern country does has its own distinct feel, as I... (photo: GFDL)
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