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			<title>It ain't over yet</title>
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			<title>Dubai house prices seen falling up to 30% in 2010</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[EXCLUSIVE: Gulf economist who called 2008 crash says 'nasty surprise' looms.]]></description>
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			<title>The problem with nature</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dr Mohammed Raouf, senior environment researcher, talks about golf courses, ski slopes and desalination. ]]></description>
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			<title>Eckart Woertz</title>
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			<title>“You can’t defeat nature”</title>
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			<title>Powering the pyramids</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Herodotus declared that Egypt is the gift of the Nile. But with growing demand, the Nile is now becoming a stretched resource. Peter Ward looks into the problems and possible solutions in Egypt's utilities sector.]]></description>
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			<title>Waste not</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Water is a resource we cannot afford to be free with.]]></description>
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			<title>The shape of things?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Damian Reilly catches up with Dr Eckart Woertz, the economist who accurately predicted the current global economic crisis.]]></description>
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			<title>Is this it?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Gulf Research Centre's Dr Eckart Woertz on how far reaching economic global uncertainty could prove to be.]]></description>
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			<title>Yemen struggles against multiple challenges</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Impoverished Yemen struggles against al Qaeda and African refugee influx.]]></description>
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			<title>Purchasing power</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The rise of sovereign wealth funds and how the balance of power in international markets is shifting. ]]></description>
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			<title>GCC-China ties hindered by culture</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Investment between two regions being held back by lack of cultural understanding, officials warn.]]></description>
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			<title>Delegates push for closer ties between GCC and China</title>
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			<title>Iraq invites oil bids from Iran</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[But the request to bid for at least four refinery contracts could be politically motivated.]]></description>
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			<title>Persian pipe dream</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Oil producers in the Persian Gulf are planning to build two oil pipelines that will bypass the Strait of Hormuz.]]></description>
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