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EARTHtimes.org - Thu Nov 26, 9:11 am ET
Jeddah - Seventy-seven people were killed in flash floods as the annual hajj pilgrimage began in the desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Saudi government reported Thursday. The civil defence authority for the holy Muslim city of Mecca said that Wedne...
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EARTHtimes.org - Thu Nov 26, 7:26 am ET
Jeddah - Forty-eight people were killed in flash floods as the annual hajj pilgrimage began in the desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Saudi government reported Thursday. The civil defence authority for the holy Muslim city of Mecca said that Wednesd...
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The Pakistan Link - Tue Dec 1, 1:05 pm ET
LAHORE: The first special unofficial haj flight carrying 340 pilgrims arrived at the Benazir International Airport Islamabad from Saudi Arabia on Monday, a private TV channel reported. The annual haj concluded on Thursday in Makkah.
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Ars Technica - Fri Dec 4, 10:24 am ET
The infamous trove of documents hacked from the University of East Anglia's Climactic Research Unit (CRU) has now prompted the head of the group to temporarily stand aside as university administrators arrange for an independent inquiry into the matter. Penn State, home of another researcher (Michael Mann) whose correspondence was included in the leak, will apparently consider whether a formal ...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Tue Dec 1, 2:26 am ET
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Somali pirates have struck again, seizing an oil tanker loaded with $20 million in crude that was headed from Saudi Arabia to the United States, naval authorities said Monday.
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Orange County Register - 1 hour 47 minutes ago
COSTA MESA – One of four men believed to have been involved in the theft of a valuable watch at the South Coast Plaza was arrested in San Francisco, and police are reminding retailers to stay alert during the busy holiday season. Investigators...
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Melrose Beacon - Tue Dec 1, 11:05 am ET
Mathias Maier has move around quite a bit for somebody in his 11th grade of school. "I was born in Saudi Arabia," he said. "I lived there for six years before we moved to Germany."
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Newsweek - Fri Dec 4, 1:35 am ET
The most popular modern building in Beijing these days is not the "Bird's Nest" National Stadium built for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Nor is it the futuristic new titanium-and-glass opera house—known as "The Egg"—or the much-vaunted new terminal at Beijing Capital International Airport. According to a recent survey of Beijing citizens, the most popular contemporary structure in the Chinese ...
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The Wenatchee World - Tue Dec 1, 9:03 am ET
MECCA, Saudi Arabia — One of the main rites at Islam’s annual hajj centers on the bravery and determination of a woman. According to Muslim tradition, Hagar, the consort of the patriarch Abraham, ran between two hills searching for water for her dying young son after they were abandoned in the desert here. Then God brought forth a spring that still runs to this day. Every year, pilgrims at hajj ...
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Bloomberg - Thu Dec 3, 10:02 pm ET
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The Dubai development model has been seriously bruised and battered. It was predicated on a property play that turned into a bubble that burst. It was based on leverage aided by ample international liquidity during the heyday of the pre-financial crisis.
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The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 30, 4:00 am ET
Last week's flooding that left more than 100 people dead in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia's second-largest city, has sparked an unusual wave of citizen outrage on Facebook and in the state-run local press.
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International Herald Tribune - Mon Nov 30, 4:40 am ET
Somali pirates seized a tanker carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the United States, an EU official said Monday.
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The Week - 58 minutes ago
A batch of leaked e-mails among climate scientists is threatening derail the biggest global-warming effort since Kyoto
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Nasdaq - Fri Dec 4, 8:17 am ET
CAIRO (Zawya Dow Jones)—Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said Friday there is no need for members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to raise output when they meet this month in Angola.
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Detroit Free Press - Fri Dec 4, 3:31 am ET
I have watched for the past year as every decision President Barack Obama makes is called his most important. His decision to send more troops to Afghanistan will define his presidency. Whether he can institute a national health care system will define his presidency.