Middle East
Background
The Middle East is a historical and geographical region of Africa-Eurasia with no clear definition; it traditionally includes countries or regions in Southwest Asia and parts of North Africa. The corresponding adjective to Middle East is Middle-Eastern and the derived noun is Middle-Easterner.
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...will be available in both English and Arabic. Several Sony Ericsson handheld devices on the market in the Middle East and North Africa region will have an Al Jazeera RSS feed pre-installed. Owners of the devices can request daily international news updates...
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Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Latest news - About Middle East
Fueled by unrest in the Middle East and cuts in supply by OPEC, fuel prices continued to rise overnight, jumping 10 cents a gallon at some local stations.
The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded in the Asheville area hit $1.70.1 this morning,
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The Asheville Citizen-Times
...km from Baghdad. The Ashura ceremonies mark the holiest days for Shiites in a commemoration of the death of Imam Hussein in 680, grandson of the Prophet Mohammed. Coordinated suicide bombings in Baghdad and Karbala in 2004 killed more than 160 people....
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Deutsche Welle
...year, Over the five-year period of this study, illicit financial flows grew at the fastest pace in the Middle East and North Africa region (49.4 percent) followed by Europe (25.4 percent), Asia (15.7 percent), and the Western Hemisphere (2.8 percent). Flows...
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PR Newswire
...the dynamics of plastics and rubber development to visiting trade professionals mainly from all across the Middle East, North Africa and the Indian sub-continent." Arabplast and Tekno/Tube Arabia 2009 have attracted 900 exhibitors representing 34 countries...
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Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Pakistani Islamists torch an Israeli flag during an anti-Israel protest in Quetta on 6 January 2009, against the ongoing Israeli military offensive in Gaza. AFP
We bring you a short list of leading personalities who passed away during 2008...
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iAfrica.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama should seek tougher sanctions against Iran, which will be his biggest Middle East challenge, outgoing White House national security adviser Stephen Hadley said on Wednesday.
In a speech to be
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Reuters
...Save the Children, Care, Oxfam International, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, United Civilians for Peace, Christian Aid, World Vision and Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFAD). It structured its report by issues. Settlements The Quartet...
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Global Research
Will Gaza Fighting End?: Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies asks whether there can be a "meaningful strategic outcome" to the violence in Gaza or whether "it will simply be another peak of violence in a continuing
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U.S. News & World Report
...centre stage - attempting manfully to prise the warring parties apart," the paper, based in the north-western county of Durham, added with a dose of sarcasm. In the Middle East, correspondents said Blair's activities since he took over the job as special...
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Earthtimes.org
More than 2 million Shiite Muslims from across the Middle East have swarmed the shrine city of Karbala in central Iraq for the climax of the annual Ashura ceremonies amid tight security.
Weeping men and even young boys in flowing white robes marched
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ABC Online
Spice - About Middle East and Sony
...RSS feeds of its news content will be pre-installed on four models of its mobile devices in both the Middle East and North Africa. The new initiative is part of the news organization’s development Labs in an effort to reach out to more readers through new...
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Epicenter | Wired Blog
...RSS feeds of its news content will be pre-installed on four models of its mobile devices in both the Middle East and North Africa. The new initiative is part of the news organization’s development Labs in an effort to reach out to more readers through new...
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Wired
...The partnership will allow Al Jazeera to provide built-in AJ RSS feeds on Sony Ericsson phones in the Middle East and North Africa, according to journalism.co.uk. The RSS feeds will offer daily international news updates in both English and Arabic on certain...
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BlogNetNews - Newsinnovation
Last Week - About Middle East
...President Nicolas Sarkozy will fly to the Middle East "as of Monday" in a bid to "find a roadmap towards peace" between warring Israel and the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers, he said in a televised New Year message. "France will continue to be active in Africa,...
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ABC Online
...24 with wires - French President Nicolas Sarkozy will fly to the Middle East on Monday in a bid to "find a path toward peace" between warring Israel and the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers, he said in a televised New Year message. "France will continue to be...
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France 24
...- French President Nicolas Sarkozy offered Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek his "total support" as France prepares to hand over the presidency of the EU to the Czech Republic on Thursday. The two leaders spoke by telephone on Wednesday evening, his office...
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EUbusiness
... There was a day when we worried about the "Arab masses" – the millions of "ordinary" Arabs on the streets of Cairo, Kuwait, Amman, Beirut – and their reaction to the constant bloodbaths in the Middle East. Could Anwar Sadat restrain the anger of his peopl...
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The Independent
...Author's Website The United Nations this week asked for calm from the Israelis and Palestinians as the situation in the Middle East escalated out of control. Calm, is a funny thing to ask for when hundreds of people are dying and even more fear for their lives....
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To The Center
...a French proposal for a 48-hour ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, which was to allow humanitarian aid to be taken in. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says conditions are not right for a truce at the moment. Meanwhile, a meeting has been taking place in Cairo to discuss...
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Big News Network
...with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, and with Lebanese President Michel Sleiman, Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and the Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri in Beirut the next day. France has called for a 48-hour ceasefire in Gaza to allow humanitarian...
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Xinhua
...the way the Soviets used to speak." If Klaus is seen as having extreme anti-EU views, Poland's rightwing president, Lech Kaczynski, is similar. And with his populist dismissal of Brussels, Klaus strikes a chord with many Czechs who are pragmatically in favour...
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Guardian Unlimited
...Dec. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today launched an online petition drive to collect one million signatures urging our nation's leaders to speak "in favor of peace and justice for all parties in the current...
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PR Newswire
As my time zone eeks toward the turning of the year this week, the world seems to be set to start 2009 off on a very bad foot. Russia is swaggering its natural gas monopoly around (again) and threatening to leave some Ukrainians very cold this winter.
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Perceptive Travel Web Magazine
Last Month - About Middle East
Do you remember 'decoupling' -- the notion that emerging market economies China, India, and Brazil / Latin America, among others, could grow independently without needing U.S. consumption?
Well, decoupling is on pace to to go down in history with
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Blogging Stocks
...and polypropylene (PP), creating a new and transparent pricing mechanism specific to two regions - the Middle East and Southeast Asia. For the first time, plastic futures prices will incorporate local costs and regional demand-supply differences, enabling...
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Expressindia.com
...from Pakistan would remain buoyant in coming future despite the world economic downturn and global financial crisis as Middle East has still huge demand of cement. Oil producing countries of the Middle East would require massive housing and construction works...
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The News
...is a danger that the current economic downturn will further strengthen the shift in economies and financial power away from North America and western Europe towards the Middle East, Asia and Russia. What does this mean for our graduates? Major companies can...
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Guardian Unlimited
...take this opportunity to thank everyone who works at Qatar Airways for making the airline the success that it is today," Mr. Al Baker concluded. Qatar Airways operates a young and modern fleet of 64 Boeing and Airbus aircraft serving 83 cities across Europe,...
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PR-Inside.com
...Brian Bruce joins us now, the CEO at Murray & Roberts. Brian, a big announcement - R6bn worth of work for you at he Dubai International Airport. You have already done quite a lot of work for them. How much is left to do at the airport? BRIAN BRUCE: Well, this...
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Moneyweb
...and pays them a fee that covers labor, materials and a fair wage) is not locally owned, but it is the only location in Hampton Roads. Shoppers will find home decor and other trinkets from 30 different countries in Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle...
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Hampton Roads Daily Press
...extinguished in the sands of the Middle East. We’re that much closer to peace and harmony and living out the lyrics to John Lennon’s “Imagine.” What I read in that paragraph is that there is one more bad guy who is still free to plot against, wound, kill,...
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euphoricreality.net
...world into during the cold war have at long last crumbled thanks to the Mumbai terrorist attacks. No longer will we view South Asia as a region distinct from the Middle East. Now there is only one long continuum stretching from the Mediterranean to the jungles...
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Registan.net :: Central Asia News
... She says she’s qualified. “I’ve just been given the appointment of U.S. diplomat,” she said at a party for Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven at that restaurant on December 3. “My title is public diplomacy envoy for women’s health issues, and I just got back fr...
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Indecision 2008