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World’s Greatest Driving Road
Alistair Weaver says he has identified the greatest stretch of road for driving in the world. The Jebel Hafeet Mountain Road in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is the greatest driving road in the...
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Financial Times: The United Arab Emirates has impounded the cargo of a vessel bound for Iran after discovering that “hazardous materials” aboard contravened UN sanctions placed on the Islamic republic...
View ArticleSome Arab States Modernized and Others Did Not
Memri quotes an article in the Syrian government daily Teshreen, in which the former Syrian information minister Dr. Mahdi Dakhlallah asks some of the right questions. In the early 60s, if a person...
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UAE Seizes North Korean Arms Shipment
ANL Australia Wall Street Journal reports on a UN leak revealing a month-old event. The appearance of the news story is probably related to a more recent development. It may represent a warning to...
View ArticleUAE Rejects Pakistan’s Ambassador For His Name
The Jerusalem Post is having too much fun with this story which could have come directly from this 4:04 video excerpt from Monty Python’s Life of Bryan (1979). Hat tip to Norman Zamchek.
View ArticleSunday, August 1, 2010
The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia announced their intention to block Blackberry reception in response to Research In Motion (RIM)’s failure to facilitate government monitoring of transmissions....
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