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Top US official in Oman for $2.1bn arms deal signing

US Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Oman on Tuesday for Raytheon Co's signing of an estimated $2.1bn arms deal and to consult on Syria and Iran, US officials said.Oman is expected to sign a letter...

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Posted by: Mark Z May 22, 2013 1:31 PM [UK]

What a WASTE of money by Oman?

cruise missile, drone or fighter aircraft attacks - All scaremongering by the West to sell their Arms.

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Saudi Arabia deports 200,000 workers in three months

Authorities in Saudi Arabia have deported more than 200,000 illegal workers over the past three months, it was reported on Wednesday.English language newspaper Arab News, citing the kingdom’s Passport...

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Posted by: Stephen Myers May 24, 2013 1:22 PM [USA]

Kudos to the Saudi's to thinking about thier own over illegals. Can they talk to Obama and reason with him about this?

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Turkey's TAV to bid for Kuwait, Bahrain airport contracts

Turkey's TAV Construction has said it will imminently bid for airport projects in Kuwait and Bahrain.Middle East director Yusuf Akcayoglu told Construction Week the company is waiting for the release of...

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Posted by: Just wondering May 23, 2013 8:21 PM [South Africa]

If work on Hamad International has already been completed with only "some final touches remaining", then why has the final opening date not been made public in the media ?

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Arabtec says workers have ended four-day strike

Dubai contractor Arabtec said on Wednesday that it had amicably resolved a labour dispute that resulted in a four-day work stoppage without clarifying whether the workers' demand for higher wages were...

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Posted by: Ametis May 22, 2013 1:33 PM [Dubai]

Looks like end of employment for "The Few " ??

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Dubai's TECOM shakes up real estate business

TECOM Investments, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dubai Holding, has announced a new operational structure it says will help it develop further its business parks. The company said in a statement that the...

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Posted by: max May 22, 2013 11:56 AM [dubai]

I wish they would plant a few palm trees, other plants and grass in the TECOM on the Greens side of SZR. So many empty sandy plots still look awful there. A badly planned / unplanned area.

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Abu Dhabi's Man City seals MLS team franchise

The New York Yankees and Abu Dhabi-owned Manchester City have formed a Major League Soccer (MLS) team to play in New York City from 2015, aiming to win over America's largest sports market to the global...

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Posted by: veronica chapman May 22, 2013 1:32 PM [u.a.e. and u.k.]

Congratulations your Highness, your dedication to sports is the best thing for the children of the world to inherit.
It teaches them for their role in life and so it goes on, handed down, generation after generation.

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Solar power brightens Oman oil output prospects

Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) and US GlassPoint Solar have commissioned the Middle East's first solar enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project, the project partners said on Tuesday.State-run PDO's first...

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Posted by: Patrick May 23, 2013 1:55 PM [nz]

"Using the sun to make steam to pump into fields to push out more oil, frees up gas for power generation, desalination plants"

No one else see the irony of that comment?

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Qatar should consider more flexible exchange rate

Qatar and other Gulf states should consider moving to a more flexible exchange rate from long-entrenched pegs to the US dollar, to better manage inflation risk in the next decade, a senior Qatar central...

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Posted by: RAH May 22, 2013 9:15 PM [Kuwait]

Kuwait unpegged from the US Dollar exactly 6 years ago and Qatar's QCB has no idea about this?

He talks how all GCC should do this when Kuwait did it 6 years ago?

Ignorance is still widespread in some places I see. It took Reuters to add the last paragraph in a way to sort of correct this guy's ignorance.

Sad.

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Turkish Airlines says sorry for flights mix-up

Turkish Airlines has apologised to an American couple after they were flown to the wrong city – on different continents – when it mixed up the airport codes.Sandy Valdiviseo and her husband Triet Vo intended...

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Posted by: Telcoguy May 23, 2013 4:44 PM [UAE]

Yes, it looks like that. It may have perfectly being an honest mistake from a new agent or a temp who got confused when issuing the tickets

This has happened before many times, this time it simply went undetected until too late. Usually this happens with more complex tickets, with multiple stops, but a combination of an inexperienced operator on TA side, some "exotic" destinations that he or she may have entered for first time, and inexperienced travelers could explain this

Honestly anyone who has been flying for a living has seen or experience situations that may have been like this, funny how people who fly maybe once or twice per year think they know what they are talking

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UK sold $874m of arms to Gulf in 2012 - report

The UK sold £575.7m ($874.5m) worth of arms to four GCC countries last year, despite concerns over human rights following the Arab Spring, according to an arms trade watchdog.The greatest fear was directed...

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Posted by: Steven May 24, 2013 2:01 AM [UAE]

I do wish these screaming liberals and their support groups would just shut up.
Would they prefer instead when these countries want to buy things from us to say "oooh no, we could not sell anything to you beastly people, so keep your half billion pounds we don't need it, and our workers don't need their jobs and our industry and economy is booming without your sales thank you very much"
Which planet do these people live on - because it certainly isn't the same one I do!

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