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WASHINGTON - US Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday pressed Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and the president of its autonomous region of Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, on the need for political reconciliation, his office said.Biden "briefed both leaders on h...
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An estimated 1.5 lakh Indian workers have come back home from the United Arab Emirates due to economic crisis and recession, the Lok Sabha was told on Wednesday.Replying to a question, Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi informed the House that ...
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KUWAIT: Kuwait''s Aref Energy Holding Co may sell a stake in its gas jointـventure in Texas next year in a scheme to diversify investments, the firm''s general manager said on Tuesday.In 2007, Aref set up DeWitt Tract Co, a fully owned unit with a 50 per...
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TEHRAN: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday sought to put the turmoil over the disputed presidential elections behind him and declared on national television that the contests were clean, fair and were the start of a new era. His speech came a...
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KUWAIT: President of the National Security Bureau Sheikh Mohammad AlـKhaled AlـSabah received at Seif Palace on Tuesday Iraqi Parliament Speaker Iyad AlـSamaraie.The two sides discussed issues of mutual concern and means of boost bilateral relations.Th...
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TEHRAN - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Western countries on Monday against interfering in Iranian affairs after its disputed presidential election, state television reported.Iranian authorities accuse the West, particularly the Unite...
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BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government imposed a ban on Monday on all organised visits to the grave of executed leader Saddam Hussein after some schools near his stronghold of Tikrit arranged trips for their pupils."The cabinet secretariat has sent instructions t...
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KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah AlـAhmad AlـSabah received with His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf AlـAhmad AlـSabah the Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, Iyad AlـSamaraie, at AlـSief Palace on Monday.AlـSamaraie and his accompany...
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KUWAIT: The Council of Ministers on Monday studied several proposals to tackle the growing number of Kuwaitis being laid off from their jobs in the private sector. Informed sources said the Cabinet tasked its financial committee to study and outline a mec...
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Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi plans to form a new political party aimed at reining in the power of the Islamic Republic's leadership, a leading reformist newspaper reported Sunday.Moussavi told supporters the party will be focused on upho...
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KUWAIT: The Parliament''s Legal and Legislative Committee held a meeting on Sunday to discuss a number of bills put forward by MPs. Spokesperson of the Committee MP Dr. Masouma AlـMubarak said that the committee discussed a proposal to amend some article...
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KUWAIT: Kuwait has prepared a plan to guarantee that Kuwaiti citizens and expatriates returning from summer vacations are examined for the deadly swine flu virus, a senior Health ministry official said on Sunday.Spokesman of the Kuwaiti Health Ministry Yo...
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JERUSALEM: An Israeli defence official says Defence Minister Ehud Barak is to hold a second round of talks with US special Mideast peace envoy George Mitchell next week in an effort to resolve differences between the two sides on Jewish settlements in the...
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Dubai: A total phase-out of plastic shopping bags in the UAE has been endorsed in a UAE Cabinet decree. Over the next three years, the Ministry of Environment and Water will educate consumers to use alternatives.Substitutes such as jute, paper or biodegra...
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Dubai's inflation rate slowed to 5.4 per cent in the first five months of 2009, compared to 8.7 per cent a year earlier, the head of Dubai Statistics Center (DCS) was quoted as saying on Saturday.Rental prices for residential units had risen 3.2 per cent ...
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KHARTOUM: Sudan said on Saturday its president was free to travel across Africa after heads of state of the African Union voted not to cooperate with the International Criminal Court''s indictment of him.The global court has issued an arrest warrant for P...
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Iranians worried about their loved ones detained in the protests that followed the presidential election got the ear of a former president, who wants the detainees released, an Iranian reformist party newspaper reported on Thursday.Former reformist Presid...
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JEDDAH - Kuwait’s markets remain dynamic two years since the outbreak of the mortgage crisis in the US, Kuwait-based Kuwait Financial Centre (Markaz) said in its latest report about the country’s investment climate.“The markets are exceedingly dynam...
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CAIRO (KUNA) - Egypt is stepping up arrangements and preparations for a major Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) conference due to be held in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh on July 11.Heads of state or their representatives from 118 NAM member countries ar...
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Dubai/Abu Dhabi: Many private schools will extend hours or open on Saturdays to make up for the loss of days following the Ministry of Education's decision to delay the reopening of all schools until after the Eid holidays.Schools will begin on September ...
