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CAIRO, Egypt — An award-winning Iranian nuclear scientist traveled to Saudi Arabia earlier this year to perform a religious pilgrimage. He never returned.
The Saudi plans were revealed in Arabic on their Web site for the new Saudi embassy in Dublin. The Saudis hope to use the embassy to "further develop our political, trade and cultural relations with Ireland ."
Arabian American Development Co. today announced an update on the calculation of ore reserves for the Company's Al Masane Al Kobra mine joint venture in Saudi Arabia. Accumulated net cash flow is expected to be $282.9 million over a 12 year period, from 2010 - 2022, with the Company's percentage being 41% of this amount.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Dubai shares tumbled for a third day, erasing all of this year’s gains, as Dubai World planned asset sales and Moody’s Investors Service downgraded six government- controlled entities.
Concern over debts at Dubai's utility provider and losses at Nakheel, builder of the emirate's palm-shaped islands, hit markets on Wednesday, drowning out assurances by top officials that Gulf economies were sound.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- InterContinental Hotels Group Plc , the U.K.-based owner of the Holiday Inn brand, plans to open 18 hotels in Saudi Arabia during the next five years to tap rising demand for lodging in the Arab world’s biggest economy.
The attackers who carried out a series of co-ordinated bombings in Baghdad that killed 127 people were backed by groups based in Syria or Saudi Arabia, a senior Iraqi policeman said on Wednesday.
Beirut - Michel Aoun, leader of the Christian Free Patriotic Movement, arrived in Damascus on Wednesday for talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad, a source close to Aoun said. Aoun, whose movement has close links with the fundamentalist Hezbollah ...
Iran believes the United States is holding a former deputy defense minister who disappeared in 2007 and 10 other Iranian nationals, according to a list carried by the semi-official Mehr news agency on Wednesday.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Dubai shares tumbled for a third day, erasing all of this year’s gains, as Dubai World planned asset sales and Moody’s Investors Service downgraded six Dubai entities.
Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) researchers have determined precisely how the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) works at the molecular level to help plants respond to environmental stresses such as drought and cold. Their findings, published in the journal Nature, could help engineer crops that thrive in harsh environments around the world and combat global food shortages. The findings could ...
Muslims living in Germany don't believe a Swiss-like minaret ban is possible here, but they say they feel threatened by growing Islamophobia. "I was made a Turk," says Burhan Kesici, the vice president of the Islamic Federation Berlin, a group that represents 12 Muslim congregations in this city.
The lineup for the knockout stages of the East Asian Games football tournament bears a striking resemblance to Asia's World Cup 2010 competitors, at least on the surface. Japan and South Korea, which have both qualified for the finals in South Africa next year, face off in the semifinals on Thursday while North Korea -- which next year will make its first appearance at the World Cup since 1966...
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Standard Chartered Plc , the U.K. bank that gets most of its profit in emerging markets, said exposure to Dubai won’t lead to any “material” impairment charges.
Pakistani provincial minister Amir Haider Khan Hoti spends much of his time handing out envelopes containing checks. Some people suffering from shrapnel wounds limp to collect them.
The Iraqi economy is mired in old patterns: Most paying jobs are with the government, which is dependent on oil for revenue. Iraqi entrepreneurs say red tape and corruption make it difficult to start a private business; one economist argues the economy is on the brink of collapse.
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