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Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh (L) addresses the parliament in Sanaa

Yemen president signals won't stay beyond 2013

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, eying protests that threaten to topple Egypt's long-time ruler, indicated on Wednesday he would leave office when his current term ends in 2013, after three decades in power.
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Dubai Shopping Festival kick starts

The sixteenth international Dubai Shopping (DSF) Festival is all set to kick start at the Burj Khalifa, Dubai Creek Park, Global Village, and the Dubai Outlet Mall on Thursday.
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Quake shakes Pakistan, tremors felt in Delhi

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.2 shook southwestern Pakistan early on Wednesday, jolting residents of cities as far apart as Delhi and Dubai, but the epicentre was far from major population centres.
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Political chaos casts doubt on Tunisie Telecom IPO

Tunisian state-owned Tunisie Telecom may not be able to go ahead with an investor roadshow for its planned listing in Paris and Tunis due to the political situation, investment and banking sources said on Monday.
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Gulf states, Saudi can withstand Tunisia effect

Saudi Arabia has taken in Tunisia's fallen strong man, but the oil wealth of the kingdom and its neighbours should ensure the poverty-driven unrest which ousted Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali does not follow him to the Gulf.
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Worst movies of 2010 up for Razzies

Burlesque gets five nods against it but does not figure in the worst film category. The honours here go to 'Little Fockers', 'Bounty Hunters' and 'Sex and the City 2' and others
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Stay overnight at world's tallest tower for $285

Travelers visiting Dubai can look forward to putting up at a private apartment in Burj Khalifa, world’s tallest tower, as an UAE based online company, mydubaistay.com, is offering to rent an apartment on the nineteenth floor of the 188-floor tower for $285 per night.
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Dubai ruler names Sheikh Ahmed Dubai World chairman

Dubai's ruler appointed a new board for Dubai World , the flagship conglomerate which struck a deal to restructure $25 billion in debt earlier, appointing his uncle and key adviser as chairman on Sunday.
Saudi under pressure from US for donor funds to Al Qaeda

Saudi under pressure from US over donor funds to Al Qaeda: Wikileaks

Saudi Arabia is under pressure from the U.S. to keep a tab on funds for Islamic insurgents, leaked diplomatic cables reveal. Washington claims that the kingdom remained a critical financial support base for Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Hamas and other extremist organizations. United States officials alleged that proscribed organizations have been managing to raise millions of dollars as funds from donors in Gulf, mainly during Hajj and Umrah pilgrimage and Ramadan month.
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Cargo-bomb plot cost just $4,200 : Al Qaeda

Al Qaeda's recent Cargo-bomb plots which were foiled by the Saudi intelligence cost them just $4200, according the group's propaganda magazine. The Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) detailed the plot it called Operation Hemorrhage in its latest edition of the Inspire magazine.
German 'flight bomb' scare, a security test : minister

German 'flight bomb' scare a security test: minister

A suspect package believed to be containing components of a bomb found at Windhoek airport on Thursday was only a security test, German officials said on Friday. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere stated that suitcase was only designed for security checks and no explosives of threat to passengers were found in the package.
German 'flight bomb' scare, a security test : minister

German 'flight bomb' scare, a security test: minister

A suspect package believed to be containing components of a bomb found at Windhoek airport on Thursday was only a security test, German officials said on Friday. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere stated that suitcase was only designed for security checks and no explosives of threat to passengers were found in the package.
'Suspect bomb' found on German Flight

'Suspect bomb' found on German flight

A suspect package believed to be containing components of a bomb was reportedly found at the Namibian Capital of Windhoek on Thursday. A suitcase checked on to a plane en-route to Munich Germany was intercepted during the loading of an Air Berlin flight. Initial reports from the Germany's Federal Crime Office suggest that the X-ray device revealed batteries that were attached with wires to a detonator and a ticking clock.
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Lawmakers seek enhanced security for air cargo

According to government figures, in 2008, merchandise shipped into the U.S. by airplane accounted for 20 percent of the nation’s imports, with a value of $417 billion. That’s a great deal of items and only one, or two, would have to explode to have, through terror, a crippling effect upon the nation’s economy, to say nothing of the nation’s spirit.

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