Guatemala has denied fugitive anti-virus pioneer John McAfee's appeal for asylum there, though an apparent hospitalization may delay his deportation, reports say. McAfee was rushed to the hospital by ambulance this afternoon, reportedly ...
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The annual summit of Arab monarchs in the Gulf opened in Manama on December 24th Monday with a call for closer economic integration and unity in the face of the turmoil which has swept much of the Middle East. Mr King Hamad of host ...
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Mr Asif Ali Zardari President of Pakistan is scheduled to visit Iran in the near future to sign a contract on Tehran’s investment in a pipeline project which is due to take Iran’s rich gas reserves to energy hungry Pakistan. ...
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His Excellency Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki attended the opening session of the Arab Council of Ministers of Housing and Construction in its 29th session in Baghdad, attended by Deputy Prime Minister Saleh Al-Mutlaq, Foreign Minister ...
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The U.S. is trying to erect a national regime of secrecy and obfuscation where any government employee revealing sensitive information to a media organization can be sentenced to death, life imprisonment, or for espionage, and the ...
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AFP & AP reported that an Italian engineer has been kidnapped in Syria along with two other workers from at the Hmisho steel plant in the port city of Latakia. Italian media named the engineer as Mr Mario Belluomo from Catania in Sicily, ...
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Austrian companies in Vienna heard about the investment and trade opportunities in the Kurdistan Region, at the first business lunch to be jointly hosted by the Kurdistan Regional Government Austrian Representation and the Austrian Federal ...
Tags: Austrian companies, KRG Investment Board Chair, investment
Trans Caspian gas pipeline project should be viewed within sovereign rights of Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. The negotiations on the legal status of the Caspian Sea are held in both bilateral and multilateral format within a special ...
PLANS to stamp out the importation of illegally-logged timber will not damage Australia's relationship with Indonesia, the federal government says. Draft legislation aims to slap fines and or imprisonment on importers who source ...
Tags: market view, timber imports, illegal