Sanctions sink trade with Iran Gulf News | Sailor Mazher Hussain has lived through his fair share of stormy seas aboard the marred wooden dhows that ply the Gulf between Dubai Creek and Iranian ports. | In Deira, while loading his 170-tonne cargo vessel to prepare for a shipment to Kish island in Iranian waters, Hussain said dhows rafted i...
Afghanistan - paths to peace Al Jazeera | History is about to take a monumental turn in the rugged, desolate hills and dales of Afghanistan where the world's sole superpower leads an alliance facing defeat at the hands of the nameless resistance fighters of al-Qaeda and the Taliban. | The impact of this enormous defeat will be felt across...
GCC is only loosely united Gulf News | The European Union (EU) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) share a desire for close relations, yet have failed to achieve any kind of free-trade agreement (FTA) after years of negotiations. | Plans for an FTA were the centrepiece of the formali...
FPI Overnight Brief Scoop Tuesday, 27 July 2010, 11:51 am | Press Release: Foreign Policy Initiative | FPI Overnight Brief | July 26, 2010 | Special Announcements | FPI seeks college juniors or seniors, graduate students, or recent graduates to work as unpaid interns at its o...
Alleged cop killer speaks out from Seattle jail The Examiner Comments SEATTLE (Map, News) - When Christopher Monfort was arrested last November on suspicion of assassinating a Seattle police officer, detectives scoured his background, searching for a telltale record of violence. | Instead, they found little mo...
Is Al Franken really a U.S Senator? The Examiner | Last night in Vegas Al Franken delivered the keynote speech at a four-day Networks Nation conference by throwing bombs at the evil corporations and complaining about how lobbyists are destroying the country. I did not pay much attention to what he ...
UAE lining up with West over a nuclear Iran DNA India | Dubai: The United Arab Emirates is toughening its posture toward Tehran, worried that the risks of a nuclear Iran on its doorstep may outweigh the cost of a conflict between Iran and the West. | The US-allied UAE, like many Gulf Arab states that ar...
UAE lining up with West over a nuclear Iran The Star | DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates is toughening its posture toward Tehran, worried that the risks of a nuclear Iran on its doorstep may outweigh the cost of a conflict between Iran and the West. | The U.S.-allied UAE, like many Gulf Arab s...
World trade to grow 10% in 2010: WTO The Himalayan | GENEVA: The World Trade Organization raised on Friday its forecast for growth of global commerce to 10 percent this year, with its director general saying that even this might yet "turn out to be too low." | WTO chief Pascal Lamy said: "Our forecas...
Obama calls on Iran to release three Americans Deccan Chronicle Obama calls on Iran to release three Americans | Share ARTICLEURL | US President Barack Obama called on Iran on Friday to release three American hikers who have been held for a year, saying their continued detention is "unjust". | Saturday marks one year since Iranian authorities arrested Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal, who were hiking i...
