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Plan for investment fund sends Oman stocks soaring
Muscat: A reported decision by the Omani government to set up a 150 million Omani riyal (Dh1.4 billion) investment fund to prop up the Muscat Securities Market (MSM) sent the stocks soaring by three... (photo: GFDL / Ian Sewell)
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Business   Investment   Oman   Photos   Telecom		  Gulf News 
Nawras wins Oman TRA bid
Muscat: A top executive from Nawras, Oman's second mobile telephone service provider, was thrilled to emerge as as a successful bidder for full fixed line public telecommunications services in Oman.... (photo: WN / Geeta)
Central Bank of Malaysia headquarters  The Guardian 
Malaysia c.bank awards Islamic bank licences
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Malaysia's central bank has given licences to Kuwait's Al-Aqeelah and Bank Muamalat Indonesia to carry out foreign currency Islamic banking in the country, the... (photo: GFDL / Two hundred percent.)
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Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki  Gulf Daily News 
Maliki backs US troops pact
BAGHDAD: A pact allowing US troops to stay in Iraq three more years is Iraq's best option for restoring sovereignty, and its critics are making unrealistic demands, Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki said... (photo: AP /Sabah Arar, Pool)
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Ban Ki-Moon Daily Star Lebanon
Ban reports Israeli, Lebanese violations of 1701
By Nicholas Kimbrell Daily Star staff Friday, November 21, 2008 - Powered by BEIRUT: Violations of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 continue to take place and... (photo: AP / John Amis)
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Iran´s President, Mahmood Ahmadinejad salutes people who gathered to hear him speak at the Iranian Club in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday May 13, 2007. Ahmadinejad is in UAE for a two day visit. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili) (tmg1) Fox News
Ahmadinejad: 'Structure of Arrogant Powers Collapsing'

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that Tehran’s foes are no match for the Islamic nation, and they will soon collapse, the country’s... (photo: AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
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Lebanon Daily Star Lebanon
Water crisis drowning Souk al-Ghareb

Daily Star staff Friday, November 21, 2008 - Powered by The mayor of the Mount Lebanon town of Souk al-Ghareb, Nabil Salibi, said Thursday that... (photo: Public Domain / )
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Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama The Times
Barack Obama's election has raised hopes but the problems are still gigantic

When Imad Moustapha, the Syrian Ambassador to Washington, talks about America's President-elect, he can barely conceal his excitement at the prospect of an Obama... (photo: AP Photo / Darren Hauck)
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Mary-Kate Olsen /aaeh The Boston Globe
Dubai parties at hotel gala despite economic gloom
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Dubai developers threw a $20 million party Thursday complete with Hollywood celebrities Robert DeNiro and Charlize Theron and fireworks... (photo: creative commons / flickr)
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Technicians work at the reactor building of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, some 750 miles (1,245 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 3, 2007. Iran inaugurated two minor plants at its Bushehr nuclear reactor on Tuesday, showing International Herald Tribune
Government presses Iran to cooperate with U.N. watchdog

: The government accused Iran on Thursday of failing to cooperate with a United Nations watchdog and said this increased its concerns over Tehran's... (photo: AP)
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KLps1 - April07 - Royal Dutch Shell Gas - Petrol Station - Oil - Energy.(ps1) Turkey's Botas and Shell sign preliminary deal for natural gas exploration, marketing in Iraq Star Tribune
Mumbai: oil tankers in the Mumbai sea. 9 Ships diverted after Saudi oil tanker hijacked The Press Democrat
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, gestures as he speaks with Middle East Quartet envoy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair during their meeting at Abbas' office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008 (tmg1) Syria and Britain all ears now Asia Times
The Liberian-flagged oil tanker MV Sirius Star is at anchor Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008 off the coast of Somalia. The jolly life of a pirate ring Asia Times
SECURITY TALKS - U.S. Army 1st Sgt. Walter Navarro discusses security with a local Iraqi resident, Nov. 11, 2008, in the Hayy Jihad community of the Rashid District of southern Baghdad. Iraqis' debate on pact a debacle Philadelphia Daily News
A masked Kurdish demonstrator holds a poster of the Kurdistan Workers Party, PKK, the outlawed separatist rebel group´s jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan, as he shouts slogans during the Nowruz celebrations in southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir, W US, Iraq, Turkey in Baghdad for talks on PKK rebels Gulf News
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