“UAE is a perfect place to host this fair following the fast advancement it is witnessing and the extreme care it is giving to innovation and excellence”
From correspondents in Emirates, United Arab Emirates, 10:30 AM IST The United Arab Emirates would host the Alfred Nobel exhibition from March 30 to May 29, WAM news agency said Saturday. via India eNews
Qatar will host next Arab summit, Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa announced Sunday when reading out the Damascus Declaration at the closing session of the 20th Arab summit here. via People’s Daily
Li Changchun, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, has held talks with the President of the Moroccan Senate, Mustapha Oukacha, in Morocco’s capital city of … via CCTV
The father of a soldier listed as missing-captured in Iraq since 2004 says the military has informed him that his son’s remains were found in Iraq. via WSVN-TV Miami Beach
“Despite fears that the bubble might burst at any moment, business in the Gulf is still booming”
Total investments in projects across various sectors in the Gulf region have crossed the $2-trillion mark, according to a report. via India eNews
“What does Sudan have that China WANTS?…”
Posted on 03/30/2008 7:05:30 AM PDT by Flavius HONG KONG, China, China has shipped its latest-version FN-6 portable ground-to-air missiles to Sudan, video footage of that country’s 2007 Independence Day … via Free Republic
“President Mubarak apparently believes that the outcome of the elections cannot be left up to voters”
New York/Cairo - Police in Egypt have detained more than 800 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s largest opposition grouping, ahead of local elections, Human Rights Watch said in a statement on … via Earth Times
“President Assad will be in contact with Hamas and the Palestinian Authority leaders. He’ll follow up the dialogue and the proposals in order to end the status of Palestinian internal division”
” ‘President Assad will contact both sides, and will convey to Yemen what he gets to follow up the initiative. via Nerve News
“Our (the U.S.) preference is for many voices to be reflected in whatever Iraqi government emerges from five years of conflict”
The Iraqi capital locked down by curfew. U.S. diplomats holed up their workplaces, fearing rocket attacks. Nearly every major southern city racked by turmoil. Hundreds killed in less than a week.
A declaration Sunday by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to pull his Mahdi Army fighters off the streets may help bring an end to the wave of violence that swept Baghdad and Shiite areas after the government launched a crackdown against militias in Basra.
That will ease the violence which has claimed more than 300 lives. But it won’t bring an end to the power struggle between Shiite parties that triggered the confrontation. Read more
By Barbara Bibbo’, Correspondent Published: March 31, 2008, 00:09 Doha: Qatar’s first Science and Technology Park, which will open by the end of the year, is set to become the region’s largest research and … via Gulfnews