“This concern has to be shared by all concerned parties because the problems of journalists are more or less the same everywhere”
GENEVA, Feb 26, : President of the Press Clubs worldwide Guy Mettan noted that Kuwait is playing a growing role in the media landscape of the Gulf region. via Arab Times
“Movenpick Hotels & Resorts is a strong brand in the Middle East and enjoys the loyalty of a broad clientele of highly satisfied customers.”
Movenpick Hotels & Resorts has taken yet another important step in its Middle East expansion strategy. via Hotel News Resource
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“He didn’t want the meeting to take place in the city but outside, because he knew it was dangerous”
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped the Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul on Friday in the northern Iraqi city and killed his driver and two guards, police said.
In Rome, Pope Benedict deplored the kidnapping of Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho as a “despicable” crime and urged the gunmen to free the prelate.
Provincial police spokesman Brigadier-General Khaled Abdul Sattar said Rahho was kidnapped in the al-Nour district in eastern Mosul when he left a church.
“Gunmen opened fire on the car, killed the other three and kidnapped the archbishop,” he said. Read more
“The debt waiver is meant for small and marginal farmers only and not for everybody. You need to include everybody in the growth process.”
The Union Budget for 2008-09 Finance Minister P Chidambaram presented on Friday is populist ahead of elections but has left overseas Indians out of focus, according to expatriate Indians in the United Arab … via Hindustan Times
“The Iranians are trying to make it clear to the U.S. and the Arab world that they are a force in the region”
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BAGHDAD | President Bush’s leading nemesis in the Middle East, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, begins a two-day state visit to Iraq on Sunday, attempting to highlight Iran’s role as the region’s major power and upstage Bush and the U.S. military presence.
Unlike Bush, who’s traveled to Iraq twice unannounced and on his last visit never left an American base in Anbar province, Ahmadinejad not only announced his trip in advance but also is planning to visit two major Shiite Muslim holy sites, Karbala and Najaf, at the end of a mammoth Shiite pilgrimage that was marred by a suicide bombing. Read more
Rabat, Feb. 7 - Moroccan manager Fathi Jamal was appointed as provisional coach of national soccer squad to succeed French Henri Michel, who was sacked following the early exit of Morocco from the 2008 African Cup of Nations.
“It’s a city of 120,000 people, with large facilities - a huge soccer stadium, and a basketball stadium, and a beach. No one is ready for this”
Israeli leaders warned Friday of an approaching conflagration in the Gaza Strip as Israel activated a rocket warning system to protect Ashkelon, a city of 120,000 people, from Palestinian rockets. via Lubbock Avalanche
“But 95 percent of people in Morocco had never seen the movie or even heard about it,” she said. A couple of taxi drivers had not heard of Rick’s Cafe and …
… men were sentenced for assisting terrorists. Most of those sentenced in the would-be plot, who were arrested in October 2004, are from Morocco and Algeria.