BBC:
Israel orders construction work on an internationally financed football stadium being built for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank to be halted. (Read More)
Reuters:
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Conergy, Germany's second-biggest solar energy company, expects to generate a fifth of total sales from Asia-Pacific and the Middle East as sales volume doubles in 2010, a company executive said on Friday.
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Huffington Post:
George Mitchell's job as Middle East Special Envoy has got to be terribly frustrating for a man whose life story has been one success after another.But the Israel-Palestine conflict tends to be a career destroyer. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell was the most popular political figure in the United States when he went (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Real Estate:
BOUNDARIES: Logan Circle is in the Northwest quadrant of D.C., sandwiched between Dupont Circle and Shaw. It is bounded on the west by the middle of 16th Street, on the east by 10th Street, on the south by M Street and on the north, roughly, by S Street.
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Gideon Rachman's Blog:
By Roula Khalaf, the FT’s Middle East editorIt was a distinctly un-Saudi affair. The traditionally cautious kingdom, careful to the point where its diplomatic initiatives must be guaranteed to succeed before they are even launched, found itself militarily thrown into the internal conflict in neighbouring Yemen.In the past t (Read More)
Reuters: Private Equity:
SEOUL, Nov 20 (Reuters) - A consortium including a Middle
East-based fund and a South Korean investment firm has been
picked as a preferred buyer for a controlling stake in Daewoo
Engineering , a report said, in a deal expected to
fetch about $2.6 billion.
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Reuters: Private Equity:
SEOUL, Nov 20 (Reuters) - A consortium including a Middle
East-based fund and an investment fund was picked as the
preferred buyer for a controlling stake in Daewoo Engineering
, South Korea's MoneyToday reported on Friday.
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Crooks and Liars:
Gene Lyons in Salon on the myriad forces that insist we can't afford health care, but just as strongly assure us that $6.73 trillion for the war in Afghanistan is perfectly doable. (That's $1 million per soldier, per year.) Go read the whole thing:For all its brutality, the Taliban rebellion is mainly a localized, nationali (Read More)
Crooks and Liars:
Spencer Ackerman has done a yeoman's job digging into the details as to whether the 40-44,000 troop estimate by Gen. McChrystal is even realistic to consider, when one counts the number of troops still in Iraq and Gen. Odierno's glacially slow deployment out of that country, the number of troops who have just returned from (Read More)
www.ft.com:
Berlin has forced Emirates to raise the prices of business class tickets on flights out Germany as concerns about the Middle East's largest airline grow as it expands into continental Europe. (Read More)
BBC:
Israel's approval of 900 extra housing units at a settlement in East Jerusalem comes in for harsh criticism in the Palestinian, Middle Eastern and Pan-Arab press. (Read More)
CNN:
Almost 200 million children under the age of five in the developing world suffer from stunted growth, according to a new U.N. report. But surprisingly, in the Middle East, wealthier countries have more of a problem than some poorer nations.
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CNN:
Almost 200 million children under the age of five in the developing world suffer from stunted growth, according to a new U.N. report. But surprisingly, in the Middle East, wealthier countries have more of a problem than some poorer nations. (Read More)