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Dubai is top target market for new retailers but London keeps crown as worlds retail capital
During the Eid holiday last year, Dubai malls opened around the clock for two days of the four-day weekend, with consumers flocking to the world's biggest shopping centre, the Dubai Mall, above. Sarah Dea / The ...
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Premarket World markets steady as investors weigh next Fed move
People under umbrellas walk by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Monday, May 20, 2013. Japan's Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.4 percent to 15,352.84 as evidence of a steady economic recovery in the U.S. helped push Asian stock markets higher Monday. (Koji ...
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Viettel eyes international sales of USD1.2bn
In an interview with Vietnam Investment Review, Viettel's deputy general director Duong Van Tinh said that the military-owned telecoms company is aiming to widen its international footprint to between ten and 15 countries by 2015, and has named Myanmar, Kenya, Venezuela, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, Argentina, Cuba and Swaziland as potential new markets. Viettel currently serves over 60 million ...
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Saudi Arabia has some of the highest mobile charges in the world
According to a survey conducted by the Saudi Consumer Protection Association (CPA), mobile call charges in the Kingdom are among the highest in the world, with a rate ...
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24 killed in rebel vs army battle in South Sudan
JUBA, South Sudan -; South Sudan's military spokesman says 24 people were killed and dozens wounded during a battle between government troops and rebels who had overrun a ...
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Egypt Security beefed up in Sinai after abduction
Egyptian border policemen shout at the closed Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza strip to protest the abduction of their colleagues last Thursday, in Rafah, Sinai, Egypt, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Rafah, the main crossing point into the Gaza Strip, was closed by policemen Friday, barring people from going in or out of the Palestinian territory. Scores of protesting Egyptian police have ...
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Correction Tunisia-Salafi Crackdown story
TUNIS, Tunisia -; In a May 15 story about the Tunisian government taking a harder line on preaching by ultraconservative Muslim groups ahead of this past weekend's conference by the group known as Ansar al-Shariah, The Associated Press reported erroneously that about 40,000 people attended the group's conference last year. About 4,000 people attended the conference in Kairouan in ...
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SKorea NKorea fires sixth projectile into waters
A mock Scud-B missile of North Korea, right, and other South Korean missiles are displayed at Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, May 19, 2013. North Korea fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast Sunday, a day after launching three short-range missiles in the same area, officials said. (AP Photo/Ahn ...
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Iraq hit by wave of bombings
Officials in Iraq say a wave of car bombings across Baghdad's Shi'ite neighbourhoods and in the southern city of Basra have killed at least 40 ...
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Interpol to aid search for missing Cape chef
Cape Town - The South African police have enlisted the help of Interpol to help trace a 30-year-old Cape Town chef who is believed to be missing in Dublin, ...
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Taiwan make history by claiming men’s doubles title at World Table Tennis Championships
May 19 - Taiwan's Chen Chien-An and Chuang Chih-Yuan claimed a stunning victory in the men's doubles final at the 2013 World Table Tennis Championships in Paris to take the country's first ever gold medal in the history of the event. The seventh seeds went in as huge underdogs against the Chinese top seeds Hao Shuai and Ma Lin but in a thrilling clash, the duo prevailed in six ...
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Ground control to Major Tim former helicopter pilot Tim Peake to be Britains first official astronaut for 20 years with International Space Station mission
A British former helicopter pilot will be the country's first "home-grown" astronaut after he was confirmed as one of the crew to fly to the International Space Station ...
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Iraq Wave of bombings kills scores wounds hundreds targeting markets and bus stops in Baghdad and beyond
New York Times cited officials as saying that the series of blasts began in the oil-rich southern city of Basra when two car bombs went off at a restaurant and a bus stop. Soon after, at least seven car bombs went off in Baghdad, targeting market places and crowded bus stops during the busy morning ...
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Worlds tallest Buddha statue finished
The construction of the world's tallest statue of Amitabha ("Infinite Light") was completed on Sunday in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, according to China Youth Daily. The 48-meter-high statue cost 1 billion yuan ($162 million) and used 48 kilograms of gold for gilding. Construction funds came from disciples and philanthropists around the world, the report said. ...
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Tourists die as balloons collide
Two tourists died and 23 others were injured when two hot air balloons collided in mid-air during a sightseeing tour in Turkey, causing one to ...
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Yahoo set to unveil Tumblr deal
Tumblr when he was just 20 in 2007.Yahoo declined to comment on the rumours, but has said it will announce "something special" at an event tonight in New York, where Tumblr is based.Best known for its clean, simplistic design, Tumblr claims to host more than 108 million blogs, including over 50 billion posts. Its roster of celebrity users features pop ...
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Syria fighting kills Hezbollah members near Lebanon
Syrians inspect the rubble of damaged buildings due to government airstrikes, in Qusair, Homs province, Syria. The town has been besieged for weeks by regime troops and pro-government gunmen backed by the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group. (Qusair Lens/Associated ...
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Iraq Bombs And Attacks On Police Kill Dozens
A wave of car bombings and attacks on police in Iraq has killed at least 58 people - including 24 officers. The large-scale bombings across Baghdad's Shiite areas and the southern city of Basra on Monday killed at least 34. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the blasts bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda in Iraq. In the capital, nine car bombs went off, striking at bus ...
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IHT Rendezvous Storm in a Dipping Bowl Over Europe’s Olive Oil Rule
LONDON — Even the most fervent supporters of the European Union would acknowledge that its bureaucrats occasionally display an unrivaled talent for shooting themselves in the foot. At a time of declining public enthusiasm for the pan-European project, Brussels has set aside time from tackling a chronic economic crisis to confront the pressing issue of how olive oil is served in the ...
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Corby loses another freedom bid
National Narcotics Agency official Benny Mamoto yesterday revealed he had recently written to Indonesia's Minister for Justice and Human Rights to declare the Australian drug smuggler should not be given parole.The development comes after her hopes of release were boosted in March when the Australian government took the unprecedented step of offering a guarantee to Indonesia that Corby ...
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Breaking Amish Brave New World Cast Doesnt Know Anything About Washington DC
Breaking Amish: Brave New World ." When they reached Washington DC on their road trip to Florida, they were unimpressed with most of what they saw. Sabrina compared the White House to a dollhouse. "Really? The President of the United States lives in that?" she said. "Like, I've seen Amish houses that are bigger than that." After they were done bashing the white ...
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Car bombs target Iraqi Shiites killing at least 43
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 20 people were killed by a series of car bombs in mainly Shi'ite districts of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on Monday and 11 others were killed by attacks in the southern city of Basra, police and medics ...
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China offers India a handshake across the Himalayas
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India and China will study new ways to ease tensions along their ill-defined border, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Monday in his first foreign trip since taking office, which comes just weeks after a military stand-off between the Asian giants in the ...
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Magnitude 6.8 quake strikes off Chile no tsunami seen
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Chile on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but Chilean emergency authorities said they saw no prospect that the tremor would generate a ...
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Former Pakistani dictator Musharraf granted bail
Pakistan's former President and head of the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) political party Pervez Musharraf salutes as he arrives to unveil his party manifesto for the forthcoming general election at his residence in Islamabad April 15, ...
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Louisiana's recovery might be brought to its knees
The six-month moratorium suspending all exploratory oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is another blow to an economy already reeling and could potentially undermine the state for years to come.
There can be no one left in Louisiana who has not heard about the Deepwater Horizon disaster and the oil spill that has resulted from the collapse of the rig, which killed eleven people in the process and is now threatening the livelihoods of countless communities along the state’s coast. Read more
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