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Chevron close to offloading downstream assets in Egypt
Chevron Corp is in advanced talks to sell its downstream assets in Egypt and Pakistan, with the planned disposals seen raising around $300m for the US energy firm, Reuters has reported. The energy firm has received at least three non-binding bids for the assets from interested parties, which include regional and international energy companies, one of the sources said, declining to provide ...
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Oman warns firms against violating midday break rule
Oman's manpower ministry has warned of legal action against private sector companies who are found to be flouting norms regarding the midday break for construction workers during the months of June, July and August, Muscat Daily has reported. "Work should be stopped for three hours, from 12.30pm to 3.30pm, during these three months," said the director general of labour welfare at ...
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Jordan says Bobcats to become Hornets in 2014
A side-by-side look at jerseys for the Charlotte Bobcats (left) and Hornets. (Dan Lippitt & Andy Hayt / Getty Images & NBA E) Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan announced Tuesday that the franchise has officially submitted paperwork to the NBA to change its name to the ';Hornets'; for the 2014-15 season. ';Let’s bring the buzz back,'; Jordan said at a press ...
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Staying at the Burj Al Arab Enjoy a 24-karat gold iPad
iPad for the hotel last October in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. "The Gold & Co. London 24-carat gold iPad is the ultimate in luxury accessories, hence we wanted it to be paired with Burj Al Arab, the world's most luxurious hotel," Amjad Ali, CEO of Gold & Co. London, said in a release. "The symmetry is obvious, as both the gold iPad and the hotel are ...
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A Tunisian man died of SARS-like virus after Mecca pilgrimage
A Tunisian man died after a pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and two adults children tested positive for SARS-like virus, health officials say. World Health Organization officials said Tuesday the 66-year-old Tunisian man was the second pilgrim to the Muslim holy city to be sickened with the SARS-like virus novel coronavirus, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Tunisian man returned from a ...
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Car bomb other attacks kill 20 in Iraq
In this photo taken on Monday, May 20, 2013, Ali Karim weeps over his daughter's coffin before her burial in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq. A wave of car bombings across Baghdad's Shiite neighborhoods and in the southern city of Basra killed and wounded dozens of people, police said. (AP Photo/ Alaa ...
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Smit Tugs Move Crippled UASC Ship to Saudi Arabia
has been moved to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, by two tugs from Smit Salvage.Prior to the arrival of the tugs, UASC vessels Ain Snan and Jebel Ali had, in turns, extended emergency support to the vessel.Full power was restored to the generators prior to the beginning of towage on May 13, and towage operations began on May 15. The vessel was cast off by the Smit tugs at Jeddah on May 18, when four tugs ...
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Crime Rate Explodes in Post-Revolutionary Egypt
, saying the police inherited "this mess." According to the report, armed robberies rose from 233 in 2010 to 2,807 in 2012. Break-ins in private homes went from 7,368 in 2010 to 11,699 in 2012. There have also been increasing numbers of firearms coming into the country, Osman said. Human rights activists in Egypt said the thousands of criminals released during the revolution ...
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Bahrain Ambassador Receives Arab Parliament Secretary General
Cairo-May-21(BNA) Bahrain Ambassador to Egypt and Permanent Representative to the Arab League Shaikh Rashid bin Abdulrahman Al-Khalifa today received Arab Parliament Secretary-General Dr Abdel Nasser Janahi and discussed ways of enhancing cooperation between Arab Parliament and the Kingdom. The ambassador commended the crucial role of the Arab Parliament in addressing the regional ...
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Islamists in Egypt Threaten Copts and Judicial Integrity Says Ex-Court Official
Morsi Sheikh, former head of the Appellate Court and director of the Center for Justice and Democracy of Human Rights, stated that Copts in Egypt face continual threats and violence from ...
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Egyptian troops mistakenly fire on Sinai funeral in sweep against militants behind kidnapping
An Egyptian Army vehicle with a tank heads to the closed Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza strip, in Sheikh Zuweyid, northern Sinai, Egypt, Monday, May 20, 2013. Security officials said 17 military and more than 20 police armored vehicles were deployed in northern Sinai Monday as a response to the kidnapping by suspected militants of six policemen and a border guard there last ...
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Forklift operator survives collapse of New Jersey warehouse floor
A forklift driver in an East Rutherford, N.J., food warehouse escaped injury when a 40-foot-wide hole opened in the warehouse floor, witnesses said. Driver Danny Rodriguez was moving pallets with his forklift Monday afternoon when the hole, 30 to 40 feet wide, 6 to 10 feet deep, opened suddenly, The (Hackensack, N.J.) Record reported Tuesday. Rodriguez and the forklift fell into the hole and ...
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Oman to buy $2.1B Raytheon missile system
Raytheon Co. as part of a U.S. drive to install a coordinated air-defense system linking the region's Arab monarchies to counter Iran. Details of the contract, including the type of system involved, have not been disclosed, but Oman has been in the market for a medium-range surface-to-air missile system for some time. Raytheon executives are expected to sign a letter of intent -- the ...
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Arts of the Arab Spring
Jean-Pierre Filiu, a professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the School of International Studies, or Sciences Po. in Paris,was in Boston to lecture at Harvard University on the topic revolution, Islamism and jihad in North Africa. He stopped by our studio to talk with anchor Marco Werman about his other interest, hip hop, inspired by the Arab ...
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New Zealand Football confirm Jordan clash
Source: Neil Emblem New Zealand Football has confirmed that a New Zealand selection coached by Neil Emblen will play Jordan at North Harbour Stadium on June 4. Jordan - ranked 77 in the world - is set to play Australia in an Asian World Cup qualifier in Melbourne on June 11, and will use the match against New Zealand 'A' at North Harbour Stadium in Auckland as preparation for the ...
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Politics goes pop in ‘Arab Idol’ show
When speaking of Japanese art, people use words such as wabi and sabi, words that speak of a delicate sensibility and an ephemeral existence. Viewing the retrospective show of painter Toko Shinoda, the first word that comes to mind is ...
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Egypt Sends Troops Into Sinai
CAIRO [MENL] -- Egypt has begun sending thousands of troops into theturbulent Sinai Peninsula. Officials said the Egyptian Army was sending scores of combat units inSinai for another counter-insurgency offensive. They said the armyreinforcements were searching for seven officers abducted on May 16 near theborder with Israel and the Gaza ...
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UPDATE 1-Chevron nears sale of Egypt Pakistan downstream assets -sources
Tue May 21, 2013 2:59pm EDT By Dinesh Nair DUBAI May 21 (Reuters) - Chevron Corp is in advanced talks to sell most of its downstream assets in Egypt and Pakistan, three sources said, with the planned disposals seen raising around $300 million for the U.S. oil major. Chevron, the second-largest U.S. oil company, is conducting a separate sale process for its assets in both countries, the banking ...
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Kerry Visits Oman Seeking Syria Peace Consensus
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has held talks in Oman on his latest stop in a campaign to help arrange an internationally-sponsored Syrian peace ...
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Jordan Army Turns Back Syrian Refugees at Border
A girl wears a headband in the colors of the Syrian revolutionary flag and painted her face with hearts during a protest in front of the Syrian embassy in Amman, Jordan, May 17, ...
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Hunger poverty rates in Egypt up sharply over past three years - UN report
21 May 2013 – Poverty and food insecurity in Egypt have risen significantly over the last three years, according to a joint reports released today by the United Nations food agency and partners. An estimated 13.7 million Egyptians or 17 per cent of the population suffered from food insecurity in 2011, compared to 14 per cent in 2009, according to the report by UN World Food Programme ...
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Horse racing Purebred Arabian horses are racing onto world stage
Female jockey Marta Pisarek, right, rides Altesse Kossack to a win in the British leg of the HH Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies World Championship on Saturday at Newbury Racecourse in England. ...
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Hamas to close tunnels if Egypt will open border
Hamas said it would be willing to close all smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border upon opening of a commercial crossing, Palestinian news agency Ma'an cited Ghazi Hamad, Hamas undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as saying Tuesday. Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues Thursday by Islamist ...
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Bahrain Attends Arab League Meeting
Cairo-May-21(BNA) Bahrain Ambassador to Egypt and Permanent Representative to the Arab League Shaikh Rashid bin Abdulrahman Al-Khalifa today attended an urgent meeting to discuss the developments of the Syrian crisis, in the aftermath of the atrocities perpetrated in Al-Qassir . Egyptian delegate Amro Abul-Ata chaired the session in the presence of Arab League secretary-general Dr. Nabeel ...
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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 ...
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Saudi Arabia's massive infastructure drive
Saudi Arabia is in the midst of a major construction boom being implemented and supported by the national government in order to improve infrastructure and living standards in the largest economy in the Arab world.
It was recently announced by the director-general of the Saudi Industrial Property Authority (MODON), Tawfig Fawzan Alrabiah, that a new industrial city would be built in Taif in order to cope with growing demand for industrial land in Saudi Arabia. The Taif Industrial City will in fact be a ‘city within a city’ so to speak, but will measure 11 square miles in size and will function as a fully-fledged industrial city, providing all the infrastructure required in such zones. Read more
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