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  • Mohammed Alshaya to co-chair World Economic Forum 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
    ... attended by 12 heads of state and government, including: President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt; President ... giving alternative views on how the business, political and social environment might change between now ... and Khalid Abdulla-Janahi, Chairman, Ithmaar Bank of Bahrain. In addition to his duties as Co-Chair, ...

  • Bahrain plans $22bn construction projects 13 May 2008 08:50 GMT
    ... of construction projects are being planned for Bahrain in the coming months, it was revealed. ... being held under the patronage Premier's Court Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa. 'Reports ... Hotel. 'Topping all this is the favourable government policy environment driving growth and the private ...

  • Analysis: The Gulf booms but not all benefit 13 May 2008 08:15 GMT
    ... with liquidity as oil money accumulates in government coffers. Nominal gross domestic product has doubled ... populous states such as Saudi Arabia under political pressure. “The corporate sector is making money ... executive director at Nomura Investment Banking in Bahrain. “The big beneficiaries of this boom are ...

  • Gulf inflation to climb 3% this year 13 May 2008 07:59 GMT
    ... present policies. The GCC is a loose political and economic alliance that also comprises Saudi ... also comprises Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Oman, Bahrain and Kuwait. Kuwait is the only GCC ... to 9.5%. (Reuters) TOP IN MIDDLE EAST POLITICS & ECONOMICS ...

  • Arab League to Help Cease Crisis in Lebanon 13 May 2008 05:16 GMT
    ... fears of all-out war and hopes of political compromise as government supporters and opponents battled with rockets and ... General and the foreign ministers of Jordan, Bahrain, Djibouti, Yemen and Algeria, and this committee ...

  • UN: Reject Sri Lanka's Bid for Human Rights Council 13 May 2008 04:58 GMT
    ... Elections to the 47-member council, the United Nations’ ... Council ( ) noted that Sri Lankan Government forces have in the past two years ... the past two years.” Six candidates – Bahrain, Japan, Pakistan, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and ...

  • The PLO excluded from the Annapolis Conference 13 May 2008 04:52 GMT
    ... the Palestinian people! In addition, the elected government of Hamas is also not invited, of ... the United States will host Israeli Prime Minister Olmert, Palestinian Authority President Abbas, along with ... Palestinian Authority Algeria Arab League Secretary General Bahrain Brazil Canada China Egypt EU Commission EU ...

  • UN Israeli War Crimes' Vote Reveals the West is Isolated 13 May 2008 04:52 GMT
    ... membership is highly revealing. (27):Algeria, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Cuba, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, ... US is contrary to what its conservative government would have preferred. However, it’s government is ... different drooling-packs of big-business/finance men and top politicians – has begun. This is no ‘ordinary’ ...

  • The Pentagon's latest Big Lie 13 May 2008 04:52 GMT
    ... They build their stories on statements from government officials and don’t bother looking for evidence. ... nonsense that’s designed to advance the administration’s political agenda. If there had been an investigation, ... broken out in India, Pakistan, the Caucasus, Bahrain, Iran and other locations where there are ...

  • U.S.-Iranian incident: How the Pentagon Planted a False Hormuz Story 13 May 2008 04:52 GMT
    ... Senior Pentagon officials, evidently reflecting a broader administration policy decision, used an off-the-record Pentagon briefing ... could not be heard. That was a political decision, and Lt. Col. Mark Ballesteros of ... an official at 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain told IPS, it is common knowledge among ...

  • Bulgaria, U.S. Bases and Black Sea Geopolitics 13 May 2008 04:45 GMT
    ... south (America's 5th fleet is based in Bahrain) and will have a presence in the ... Sofia not joined N.A.T.O. and the E.U. Geopolitics and alliances with powerful nations are important, ... nations and with the United States. Every government has its own interests and it is ...

  • Arab League Divided on Hizbullah Clashes in Lebanon 13 May 2008 03:34 GMT
    ... Hizbullah Clashes in Lebanon (IsraelNN.com) Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo Monday were divided on ... "the use of armed violence to achieve political goals outside the framework of constitutional legitimacy and ... of all weapons from the streets." Egypt, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and the ...

  • UAE To Launch Joint Remote-Sensing Satellite With GCC Countries 13 May 2008 02:51 GMT
    ... 2008 A senior official of the Defense Ministry of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said ... added. Established in 1981, GCC is regional political and economic bloc that consists of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the ...

  • Families given cold shoulder 13 May 2008 01:12 GMT
    ... PLAN REJECTED: Bahrain has ruled out a plan to give ... of soaring prices in the kingdom. The government said the parliamentary proposal would be too ... buffer against inflation. TOP IN MIDDLE EAST POLITICS & ECONOMICS ...

  • Dubai creates $10bn Islamic investment firm 13 May 2008 00:16 GMT
    ... The lender is 25% owned by the government of Dubai and 25% by Dubai ruler ... Rashid Al-Maktoum, also vice president and prime minister of the UAE. Dubai Banking Group will ... Group will be competing with firms including Bahrain-based Islamic investment banks Gulf Finance House and ...

  • Round 13: Fight Moves from Ring to Ethnic Media 13 May 2008 00:16 GMT
    ... effect manny has on thye filipino people,excluding politics of course, to say that he is ... mag aabang na nman kami d2 sa bahrain,ngayon palang mag iipon na ako para sa ... He didn't even win in the congressional elections held in his district. pappus on Mar ...

  • Human rights groups denounce Human Rights Council candidates 13 May 2008 00:15 GMT
    ... Human Rights Council - Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bahrain, Gabon and Zambia - fail to protect ... an uncontested slate in the May 21 election. Hillel Neuer, UN Watch's executive director, criticized ... to replace the widely discredited and highly politicized Human Rights Commission, and one aim was ...

  • King Mohammed Zahir Shah 13 May 2008 00:08 GMT
    ... instituted a new constitution that guaranteed fundamental political rights, and created the first Afghan democracy, with ... first Afghan democracy, with elections and a parliament. He pursued economic modernization, advocated social tolerance ... or Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain, or Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, emir ...

  • GCC to meet on inflation, unemployment > 12 May 2008 23:19 GMT
    ... this week. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait are planning to set up ... as 2010. (Reuters) TOP IN MIDDLE EAST POLITICS & ECONOMICS ...

  • Christian evangelism in Iraq, and the rest of the Middle East 12 May 2008 23:16 GMT
    ... for Iraqis to make further progress toward political reconciliation or economic rebuilding, steps necessary for ... democratic society. "So with our help, Iraq's government is carrying out an aggressive plan to ... Saudi Arabia joined fellow church members in Bahrain. It was a time of spiritual renewal, ...

  • From CIO to battlefield techie 12 May 2008 23:06 GMT
    ... on a year’s tour of duty as deputy chief operations officer of a regional computer ... financial and management improvements that led the Government Accountability Office to remove two major housing ... taken her to Iraq, Afghanistan, Qatar and Bahrain to work on Army systems. She travels ...

  • Energy, infrastructure new bases of India-Gulf ties: Pranab 12 May 2008 22:46 GMT
    ... the Gulf region, according to External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee. Stating that India needed to ... important partner in this regard," he stated. Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the ... also capable of severely wounding the body politic of Pakistan itself". Concluding, he lauded the UAE's ...

  • Rights & Wrongs: Syria, D.R. Congo, Iran, and a Bahrain Film Festival 12 May 2008 22:18 GMT
    ... -- Human rights groups and Western politicians have united in the past two weeks ... past two weeks to criticize the Syrian government's latest efforts to crack down on dissidents. ...

  • Doha Calling: Al Jazeera English Could Change The Way You See The World--If You Ever Get to Watch It 12 May 2008 21:59 GMT
    ... for its less-than-flattering portrayals of the U.S. government--Al Jazeera English proclaims itself to be "the ... broadcast that claimed to be the only politically independent television news network operating in the ... Eastern states and nations, including Kuwait and Bahrain. According to the Center for Public Diplomacy, ...

  • Iraq tells Arab states it's not Iran's puppet 12 May 2008 20:54 GMT
    ... ambiguity of the picture in Iraq, the political picture,’’ Bahrain’s foreign minister, Sheik Hamad bin-Khalifa, told reporters. ... Iran. ‘‘We have never seen the Iraqi government as an arm of Iran,’’ he said. ...


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