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North Africa

Biggest peace-time loss of Maltese soldiers remembered

Serving and retired officers and men of the AFM have held a memorial service to commemorate 17 Maltese soldiers who died in a crash in the Libyan desert in 1961, the biggest single loss of Maltese men in uniform in peace time....

Rebel leader moves to Libya

Bamako - Mali's main rebel leader has moved to Libya with his family, marking what may be a positive development in the West African nation's peace process, an informed source said on Sunday. "Ibrahim Ag Bahanga has moved to...

Gaza’s Underground World

Gaza, Asharq Al-Awsat - The truck driver did not show much patience as he wholeheartedly sounded his horn when a donkey carriage obstructed his route. As soon as the pathway was cleared, the truck driver

Letters show anger of Canadian terrorism suspect

TU THANH HA From Monday's Globe and Mail After he settled in Montreal from his native Tunisia in the 1990s, Abderraouf Jdey appeared outwardly to be successful, obtaining a university degree and gaining Canadian citizenship....

Algeria to spend millions on flood prevention

The map will replace this text. If any users do not have Flash Player 8 (or above), they'll see this message. Algeria has announced it will spend €500-million on protecting towns from flooding as the death toll from floods this...

Investors Buy Stake In Kuwait Invest Dar's Aston Martin-Report

BEIRUT (Zawya Dow Jones)--A number of strategic investors have acquired stakes in Aston Martin-Middle East and North Africa, a unit of Kuwait's Investment Dar Co., Kuwait-based Al Watan daily reports Monday. The final ownership...

= MIDEAST MORNING BRIEFING: Govt Intervention To Boost Markets

By Nikhil Lohade and Maria Abi-Habib Of ZAWYA DOW JONES DUBAI (Zawya Dow Jones)--Gulf investors are likely to react positively to government intervention in the local financial markets and a slight recovery in global markets...

To heal the rift

Both Fateh, the mainstream Palestinian faction, and Hamas, the governing authority in Gaza Strip, are now convinced that the best solution to their standoff is to form a national unity government composed of technocrats, before...

Petrofac issues Interim Management Statement for Q3 2008

Petrofac, the international oil & gas facilities service provider, issues the following Interim Management Statement for the period 1 July 2008 to 10 October 2008. As noted in the Interim Results announcement released on 27...

KITAB and Abu Dhabi International Book Fair host embassies and cultural institutions

KITAB - the joint venture company between the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage and the Frankfurt Book Fair - hosted a high tea social event this week to showcase the planned activities around the Abu Dhabi...

               

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Algeria , Egypt , Libya , Morocco , Tunisia