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Industry Week - Thu Dec 17, 3:36 pm ET
Cooper Industries, a Houston-based manufacturer of electrical components and tools, has opened a new manufacturing facility in Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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OfficialWire - Thu Dec 17, 7:12 am ET
Saudi Arabia will be one of the few places in the world where automotive sales will increase in 2009, with the report forecasting growth of 3.5%.
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redOrbit - Wed Dec 16, 10:21 am ET
NASA and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) have signed a joint statement that allows for collaboration in lunar and asteroid science research.
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UPI - Tue Dec 15, 3:18 pm ET
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency and Saudi Arabia say they've signed a joint agreement calling for collaboration in lunar and asteroid science research.
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New York Times - Mon Dec 14, 9:19 pm ET
Amnesty International called on Saudi Arabia on Monday to stay a sentence of 40 lashes against a 75-year-old woman for breaching a sex segregation law.
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Bloomberg - Tue Dec 15, 1:19 am ET
Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Amnesty International urged Saudi Arabia, a Group of 20 member, to stop the flogging and imprisonment of a 75-year-old woman and two younger men found guilty of being in the company of the opposite sex.
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PR Newswire via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 15, 2:00 pm ET
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) have signed a joint statement that allows for collaboration in lunar and asteroid science research. The partnership recognizes the Saudi Lunar and Near-Earth Object Science Center as an affiliate partner with the NASA Lunar Science Institute at NASA's Ames ...
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Sun-Sentinel - Thu Dec 17, 5:19 pm ET
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A former detainee who spent his teenage years at Guantanamo Bay said Thursday he is struggling to build a life in his parents' native Chad, a central African nation he had never seen before his release from the U.S. military prison earlier this year.
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Environmental News Network - Mon Dec 14, 10:57 am ET
This is something that would make Lawrence of Arabia turn in his grave: Recent studies are now showing that sand, once Saudi Arabia’s most common commodity (outside of oil) is now becoming almost as scarce as water. For those who are still fascinated with the 1962 Hollywood extravaganza starring Peter O’Toole and Omar Sharif, there seemed to be an endless amount of the yellowish grainy stuff ...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 18, 10:14 am ET
Saudi Arabia's oil minister called on Friday for any resolution taken at the climate summit in Copenhagen that could affect oil demand to include measures that "reduce the effects" on oil producers.
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OfficialWire - Mon Dec 14, 6:13 am ET
The latest Saudi Arabia Agribusiness Report Q110 includes the new outlook period 2009-2014 and features the improved Business Environment section.
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OfficialWire - Mon Dec 14, 5:57 am ET
The Saudi Arabian petrochemicals industry saw the beginning of a tentative recovery in H209 that should be sustained throughout 2010, provided the revival in Chinese demand is sustained, according to the latest Saudi Arabia Petrochemicals Report.
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San Francisco Chronicle - Fri Dec 18, 1:11 pm ET
After decades of military rule, coups and strong-armed elections, Africa's most populous nation now finds itself with a seriously ill, and absent, president. For weeks, President Umaru Yar'Adua has been hospitalized in Saudi Arabia for what staffers say is a... Nigeria - Africa - Saudi Arabia - Umaru Yar'Adua - Middle East
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New York Times - Thu Dec 17, 10:38 am ET
Prince Saud al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, said his legacy would be one of disappointment because he had failed to help establish a Palestinian state.
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Amnesty International - Wed Dec 16, 3:18 am ET
Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi and two younger men, face up to 40 lashes and imprisonment for being in the company of members of the opposite sex who are not close relatives.