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Arab News Wednesday 30 December 2009 RIYADH/JEDDAH: The Shoura Council has urged the government to review its crisis management system in line with those employed by advanced countries to deal quickly and properly with epidemics and natural and indus...
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MaktoobDec 30, 2009RIYADH - Saudi Arabia's market regulator said Tuesday it fined five local investors a total of 3.83 million Saudi riyals ($1.02 million) for manipulation and insider trading, a record amount to end a year in which the kingdom demonstrat...
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By Chris Watling The Financial TimesDecember 30 2009 The outlook for the oil price remains mired in much confusion. Peak oil theorists see production in terminal decline. Others, who expect the oil price to revisit its 2008 highs, argue that rapid demand ...
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Sudan TribuneWednesday 30 December 2009 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir will arrive tomorrow in Saudi Arabia for talks with King Abdullah Bin Abdel-Aziz, according to state media....
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By REUTERSThe New York TimesDecember 29, 2009 NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger security forces have arrested three people suspected of a botched desert hostage-taking that left four Saudi Arabian citizens dead, military sources told Reuters on Tuesday....
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By Sarah Abdullah Arab News Tuesday 29 December 2009JEDDAH: A row between the director of Al-Faisal Academy in Riyadh, the agent they hired and teachers working at the Girls Teachers College, which is under King Abdul Aziz University (KAU), has led to the...
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By Sean CroninThe NationalDecember 29. 2009 RIYADH // Saudi Arabia’s annual inflation accelerated last month as the Gulf’s largest economy emerged from a year of financial crises and looked forward to expansion next year....
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By ANDREW CRITCHLOW And MATTHEW CURTIN The Wall Street JournalDECEMBER 29, 2009It is hard to imagine a more sensitive new energy project than the Arab world's first nuclear power plants. But the United Arab Emirates shrugged off lobbying from Washington a...
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By Shaheen Nazar Arab News Tuesday 29 December 2009JEDDAH: Sugar price has risen twice in December and there are indications that it might continue to rise in coming months....
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The Daily StarTuesday, December 29, 2009KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia // Saudi Arabia’s domestic steel production capacity will rise by at least 50 percent within the next three years, a senior government official said on Monday....
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Al Jazeera.net Tuesday, December 29, 2009 Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the wing of al-Qaeda operating in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, is led by a Yemeni who was once a close aide to Osama bin Laden....
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By Md Rasooldeen Arab News Tuesday 29 December 2009 RIYADH: Malaysia and the Kingdom have pledged to boost cooperation ahead of an official visit by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak in January next year....
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Arab NewsTuesday 29 December 2009 Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, chairman of Kingdom Holding Company (KHC), has received a progress report on his charity project in Eritrea....
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By DALATOU MAMANE - The Associated Press Washington PostMonday, December 28, 2009 NIAMEY, Niger -- Unidentified gunmen shot dead three tourists from Saudi Arabia in an attack Monday in Niger's remote western desert, officials said. ...
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By Muhammad Humaidan Arab News Monday 28 December 2009 JEDDAH: More than 40 people including government officials, contractors and engineers have been detained for questioning in connection with the Nov. 25 Jeddah floods....
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Arab NewsMonday 28 December 2009 DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates has awarded a South Korean-led consortium a $20.4 billion contract to build four nuclear power plants, the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) announced Sunday....
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AME Info Monday, December 28 - 2009 The GCC continues to be a potent investment and business destination for a wide range of oil and gas projects, particularly with Saudi Arabia poised to spend up to $400bn for its own high-profile oil and gas projects ...
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By Muhammad Al-Sulami Arab News Monday 28 December 2009JEDDAH: About 18,000 employees of the Ministry of Education were either absent or came late to work during the previous financial year, the Control and Investigation Board said in a report Sunday....
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By Patrick Goodenough - International Editor CNSNews.comMonday, December 28, 2009The failed attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day sends the “chilling message” that al-Qaeda has not given up on its desire to attack the United St...
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By ERIC SCHMITT and ROBERT F. WORTHThe New York TimesDecember 27, 2009 WASHINGTON — In the midst of two unfinished major wars, the United States has quietly opened a third, largely covert front against Al Qaeda in Yemen. ...