BRESCIA, Italy (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI made a one-day pilgrimage Sunday to northern Italy to pay tribute to Paul VI, his predecessor who made him a cardinal. Thousands held umbrellas or pulled jackets tightly about them as a...
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NEW DELHI - India has scrapped tenders to import rice, saying it has enough stocks to manage despite a harvest shortfall following the worst monsoon in almost four decades. A top-level cabinet committee on food cancelled the...
DUBAI - The ruler of Dubai has reshuffled the board of the Investment Corporation of Dubai, the state conglomerate that owns Emirates airlines, naming two of his sons as directors, a decree posted on his website showed.
BAGHDAD - Deals to develop Iraq's Zubair and West Qurna oilfields may not be on the agenda at the next meeting of the cabinet as there are still legal and technical issues to resolve, a government spokesman said on Saturday.
DUBAI - Economic Zones World (EZW), the global developer and operator of economic zones, technology, logistics and industrial parks has been awarded CIO Top 20 title for 2009 for its commitment to deploy new technologies to...