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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 7, 1:29 pm ET
A baby and two women have died in Hamas-run Gaza after contracting swine flu, the first deaths from the virus in the densely populated Palestinian territory, officials said on Monday.
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HispanicBusiness.com - Tue Dec 8, 1:42 pm ET
The 32-team draw for next year's soccer World Cup in South Africa was held Friday in Cape Town. The U.S. Soccer Team is pleased with the teams it will face in the first round.
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Market Watch - Tue Dec 8, 4:36 am ET
Mark Mobius, the veteran emerging-markets investor, sees opportunities in several markets in the Middle East, including Dubai, where he may consider investing if prices decline to “reasonable” levels.
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Bloomberg - Sun Dec 6, 9:00 am ET
Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Citadel Capital Corp. shares surged to as high as 13.9 Egyptian pounds as the private equity firm with $8.3 billion in investments listed shares in Cairo today.
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Bloomberg - Mon Dec 7, 11:44 pm ET
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s envoy to North Korea won’t offer any incentives to entice the regime to return to disarmament talks seven months after the country tested a second nuclear device, a U.S. official said.
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EARTHtimes.org - Tue Dec 8, 5:16 pm ET
Amman - Jordan's cabinet on Tuesday endorsed a deficit budget for fiscal 2010, projecting spending of 5.46 billion Jordanian dinars (7.71 billion dollars), according to an official statement. The budget includes a deficit of 685 million dinars, or 3....
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EARTHtimes.org - Tue Dec 8, 5:16 pm ET
Amman - Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh on Tuesday welcomed as an extremely important attitude the statement by European Union foreign ministers envisioning Jerusalem as the shared capital of both Israel and a Palestinian state. The EU min...
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EARTHtimes.org - Tue Dec 8, 5:01 pm ET
Hamburg - Bayern Munich came from behind to hit four goals and send Juventus crashing out of the Champions League, but Italian rivals AC Milan reached the knockout stage along with Real Madrid on Tuesday. Meanwhile CSKA Moscow joined the qualifiers w...
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EARTHtimes.org - Tue Dec 8, 4:46 pm ET
Doha - The verbal war over Switzerland's ban on building new minarets on mosques escalated Tuesday during a talk show when an Islamic academic condemned a key backer of the Swiss referendum as the new Hitler of Europe. The director of the Institute ...
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EARTHtimes.org - Tue Dec 8, 4:31 pm ET
London - A portrait by Dutch artist Rembrandt (1606-1669) was auctioned for a record 20.2 million pounds (33 million dollars) on Tuesday night, Christie's said. The piece, entitled Portrait of a Man, first went under the hammer in 1930, when it sold ...
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PRWeb - Tue Dec 8, 9:45 am ET
More than 1,000 people make commitment to Christ in Alexandra, Egypt (PRWeb Dec 8, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/MichaelAYoussef/egypt/prweb3295514.htm
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PR Newswire via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 8:21 pm ET
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than 200 business, government and civil society leaders from more than 16 countries around world meeting here called for urgent efforts to integrate the Arab world into the global economy. "We need a dramatic breakthrough and for the Arab world to step up," Shafik Gabr, Chairman and Managing Director of ARTOC Group for Investment and Development ...
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CNN - Mon Dec 7, 10:43 am ET
Just because a woman covers up it doesn't mean she can't show off her individual style. That is the belief of a growing number of fashion designers in the Middle East who are cutting conservative clothes with fashionable flair.
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WPSD Local 6 Paducah - Tue Dec 8, 3:35 pm ET
JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) - Educator Luther Mercer II has announced he will run for the Democratic nomination to succeed U.S. Rep. John Tanner in Congress.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 7, 10:25 am ET
Army Spc. Tony Carrasco Jr.