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  • Scramble to help Indians hit by Saudi work policy

    Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid is here to discuss matters of bilateral interest, including the Nitaqat law, as the Indian missions in Saudi Arabia scramble to help over 55,000 Indian workers leave the kingdom in adherence to its new stringent work policy. Khurshid, who arrived here Friday, was welcomed by Saudi Deputy Foreign Minister Prince Abdul Aziz Bin Abdullah. In his ...

  • Khurshid in Jeddah for counter-terrorism Nitaqat Law trade talks with Saudi leadership

    External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid arrived in Jeddah on Saturday for talks with the Saudi Arabian leadership on a wide range of issues, including the controversial 'Nitaqat law' and on counter terrorism cooperation. Khurshid, who is on an official two-day visit to Saudi Arabia, was given a warm welcome by Saudi Arabia's Deputy Foreign Minister Abdul Aziz Bin Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz soon ...

  • UAE OIC condemn killing of British soldier

    The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have strongly condemned the killing of a British soldier in Woolwich, London. "This brutal act is rejected by all religions and deserves every condemnation and denunciation," UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan said. Sheikh Abdullah also expressed the UAE's solidarity with Britain in combating ...

  • Air Arabia launches flight to Abha in Saudi Arabia

    Air Arabia, the largest low-cost carrier in the Middle East, has launched a flight to Abha in Saudi Arabia from the airlines' main hub in Sharjah. The new service marks Air Arabia's eighth destination in Saudi Arabia and the 85th worldwide. Air Arabia now offers two weekly flights to Abha. Offering 88 weekly non-stop flights to Saudi Arabia from Sharjah and another hub in Alexandria, Egypt, ...

  • Egypt to return taxes collected from Qatar bank deal

    CAIRO | Sat May 25, 2013 7:34am EDT CAIRO May 25 (Reuters) - Egypt will refund taxes collected from Qatar National Bank 's acquisition of National Societe Generale Bank to shareholders on Sunday, an official from a clearing company told Reuters on Saturday. The clearing company will return 10.2 million Egyptian pounds ($1.5 million) total in taxes it collected from NSGB ...

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Juliet of the Spirits (Giulietta delgi spiriti) [DVD]

Juliet of the Spirits (Giulietta delgi spiriti) [DVD]

After the masterpieces La Dolce Vita (1960) and 8 1/2 (1963), which found Federico Fellini moving deeper and deeper into his twin cinematic obsessionsautobiography and phantasmagoriahe directed Juliet of the Spirits (Giulietta delgi spiriti), a would-be feminist parable about an insecure Roman housewife who sinks deeper and deeper into her fantasy life when she at firs ... ...

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  • Qatars Nakilat set to enter luxury yacht business

    Qatar Gas Transport Company (Nakilat) is to diversify from its primary operation of overseeing the world's largest fleet of LNG vessels and start building luxury yachts, the company's managing director told Arabian ...

  • Qatar drops bid to host UN aviation body

    Qatar has dropped a bid to move the headquarters of the International Civil Aviation Organisation from Montreal to Doha, Canadian and ICAO officials said on ...

  • African dreams of Egypt-like revolt

    All over Africa, the dramatic events in Tunisia and Egypt are followed, with opposition groups and dissidents hoping the same could happen in their country. Mostly, these are only dreams, but some could come ...

  • Jordan king says extremism grown fat on Israel-Palestinian conflict

    SOUTHERN SHUNEH, Jordan - Jordan's King Abdullah II says extremism has "grown fat" off of the longstanding conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. "Good faith talks must get going," he said in Saturday remarks at the opening of a two-day meeting of the Geneva-based World Economic Forum on the shores of the Dead Sea. He pointed to an Arab peace initiative that ...

  • If Egypt can we can do it too - Swazi opposition

    "Tunisia and Egypt are a big 'we can do it too,' not just for Swaziland, but for the rest of the African continent and the repressed Arab world," according to the Swazi ...

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