The United Arab Emirates ’s Vice-president and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, also ruler of Dubai emirate arrived here on Monday, kicking off a four-day official visit to China. via Xinhuanet
KUWAIT CITY, March 28: Mubarak Sunaideh who is planning to contest the National Assembly elections from the fifth constituency of Al-Ahmadi and Al-Fahaheel and who was admitted to the Kuwait Oil Company … via Arab Times
“The latest oil product demand data out of the U.S. show a soft market.”
Oil prices fell to near $105 a barrel Monday as supply concerns eased on news that Iraq’s oil exports and refining operations in the south have been restored after attacks and power outages disrupted operations.
An official from Iraq’s South Oil Co. said Saturday that ‘everything returned to normal as of 10 p.m. Thursday’ after the bombing of a key oil export pipeline in Basra earlier in the day.
Word of Thursday’s attack had raised concerns that Iraqi exports would fall sharply and sent oil prices surging higher. Basra has faced fierce clashes since fighting broke out Tuesday between government security forces and Shiite militia fighters. Read more
TWO Cairo butchers have been arrested for allegedly passing off donkey, cat and dog carcasses as beef, a security official said today. via AdelaideNow…
An unexpected result of Silverjet’s popular new route from Dubai to London has been the increased interest in boutique airports such as London’s Luton airport, where the all-business class carrier’s exclusive … via AME Info
by Kaci Racelma our corespondent in Algiers Morocco which considers Algeria as a party to the Western Sahara conflict has already called for a one on one …
Israeli soldiers on Wednesday arrested the Hamas mastermind of the bloodiest suicide bombing of the Palestinian uprising, an attack that killed 30 people and wounded 143 others during a Passover dinner celebration in 2002, the army said.
Omar Jabar planned the attack and dispatched the suicide bomber to the hotel in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya, the military said. He was arrested early Wednesday in the West Bank, the army said.
The attack spurred the military to launch a broad offensive in which Israel retook control of West Bank cities from the Palestinians. Read more
“This view is sharply rejected”
DAMASCUS, Syria - Islamic and Arab leaders denounced a Dutch film Saturday that portrays Islam as a ticking time bomb aimed at the West, demanding international laws to prevent insults to religions. via KAAL-TV Austin
“Bashar Al Assad tried to present the divisions and criticisms as normal natural differences”
“There is nothing new to mention in this summit, it is like previous Arab summits,” Gaddafi said. via The Peninsula
Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses Iraq’s government and the U.S. embassy, appeared to be under rocket or mortar attack on Monday, Reuters witnesses said. via The Boston Globe