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Shame on Arab Petrodollars
WORDPRESS Thu, 17 Apr 08
Is Arab oil more precious than Arab blood? This is a question that many Palestinians are asking these days in light of the oil-rich Arab states’ reluctance to help the Palestinians withstand the most ferocious onslaught ever being waged by Zionism against the Palestinian people’s very existence.
Nasrallah most admired Arab leader
PRESSTV Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:21:48 GMT
Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah is known as the most admired leader in the Arab world, a recently released poll has indicated.
Jordan, UAE sign $5 billion port deal
PRESSTV Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:59:40 GMT
Jordan's government has signed a USD 5 billion deal with a UAE group to modernize the Red Sea port of Aqaba and its surrounding areas.
Foreign labourers arrested in UAE
ALJAZEERA Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:22:08 AM
Police say more than 600 construction workers held after violent protests.
Massive blast at Dubai warehouse
BBC Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:18:14 GMT
At least one person is injured by a blast at a fireworks warehouse in a Dubai industrial zone, police say.
Dubai plans world's biggest mall
PRESSTV Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:53:10 GMT
The United Arab Emirates plans to build the world's largest shopping center next to super tall skyscraper Burj Dubai as early as September.
UAE plans not to revalue dirham now
PRESSTV Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:54:26 GMT
The United Arab Emirate's central bank governor says his country has no plans to revalue its currency against weak dollar 'at this time'.
UAE becomes third largest oil exporter
PRESSTV Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:00:37 GMT
IMF and US estimates show the United Arab Emirates was the third largest oil exporter in 2006 and expected to maintain that position in 2007.
France, UAE, Qatar end wargame in PG
PRESSTV Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:37:24 GMT
France, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar have ended military exercises in the Persian Gulf with troops repelling simulated attacks.
UAE may end dirham's peg to dollar
PRESSTV Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:01:46 GMT
The United Arab Emirates is mulling over ending dirham's peg to the US dollar as the greenback is losing value since two year ago.
Dubai loses interest in US investment
PRESSTV Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:57:09 GMT
A top official of Dubai International Capital says the investment agency may no longer invest in the US due to falling asset prices.
French make serious move into Gulf
BBC Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:04:27 GMT
President Nicolas Sarkozy has gone beyond France's traditional policy of selling arms to Gulf states by signing a deal with Abu Dhabi for a permanent French naval base, says the BBC's Paul Reynolds
The Gulf's wary path to democracy
BBC Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:35:18 GMT
Gulf leaders are likely to argue they have their style of representative government after President Bush's call for more democracy there.
Sarkozy to sign UAE nuclear deal
BBC Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:44:21 GMT
France's president is to sign a nuclear co-operation deal with the United Arab Emirates during a tour of the region.
Bush to visit Abu Dhabi on tour
BBC Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:34:17 GMT
US President George W Bush is due in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday as part of his Middle East tour.
Gulf states form common market
BBC Tue, 01 Jan 2008 06:53:39 GMT
A common market of the six states of the Gulf Co-operation Council comes into existence on 1 January.
Low profile but welcome: a Jewish outpost in the Gulf
INDEPENDENT Fri, 02 Nov 2007
Houda Ezra Nonoo is a pillar of Bahrain society. Her first language is Arabic and she was appointed by the King to sit in the parliament's upper house. It is only her middle name that gives away the fact she is a proud member of one of the Middle East's most surprising minorities.
Bahrain boom overshadowed by fear of looming war with Iran
INDEPENDENT Fri, 02 Nov 2007
Stuck in one of the seemingly permanent traffic jams on the wide highways of its capital, Manama, where the colourful mosaic of the Friday Mosque's minaret competes for attention with the extraplanetarily futuristic twin towers of the World Trade Centre, you cannot easily imagine the shadow of war falling over Bahrain.
UAE sheikh to stand trial for 'sexually motivated' assault
GUARDIAN Wed, 31 Oct 2007
Brother of UAE ruler to stand trial for alleged assault on man at exclusive Geneva hotel.
Two US sailors shot dead in Bahrain
GUARDIAN Mon, 22 Oct 2007
Two US navy sailors shot dead and another critically injured in the Gulf state of Bahrain.
US sailors shot dead in Bahrain - third critically wounded
BBC Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:30 GMT
Two US sailors have been shot dead and a third critically wounded at a navy base in the Gulf state of Bahrain, the US Navy has said.
Lawyers refile Dubai slavery case
BBC Thu, 13 Sep 07 11:11:11 BST
US lawyers refile a lawsuit against the deputy ruler of Dubai for allegedly enslaving boys for camel racing.
Burj Dubai 'world's tallest tower'
ALJAZEERA Sat, 21 Jul 2007 05:47:23 PM
Developers say under-construction building has surpassed all other skyscrapers.
Dubai ruler sets up 10 billion dollar Arab education fund
HAARETZ Sat, 19 May 2007 15:17:27 GMT
Ruler of Dubai and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum launched on Saturday a 10-billion dollar fund to promote human development and education in the Arab world. ...
Dubai's palm island hit by blaze
BBC Sun, 06 May 2007 19:30:52 GMT
A fire damages buildings and injures three people at a palm-shaped luxury island off Dubai's coast.
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