News – 2012.07.05
July 5, 2012
ARABIALINK Daily News – Excerpts from International Media Reports</strong>
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The state-of-the-art GE Energy Manufacturing Technology Center in Dammam achieved a number of successes in the first year of its operations. The SR 1 billion center, popularly known in the energy industry as GEMTEC, was inaugurated in June last year. Since then it has helped serve more than 50 …
On Sunday a missile launched from a U.S. drone struck a house in Pakistan’s remote tribal agency of North Waziristan, killing eight suspected militants, most of whom were loyal to the Pakistani Taliban commander, Hafiz Gul Bahadur. Bahadur has reportedly overseen multiple attacks against NATO …
Saudi Arabia is approaching a food production crisis that is a major problem for its growing population that is consuming more food. “Local poultry production in 2012 is likely to be almost 800,000 tonnes lower than consumption, while wheat production will be deficient by around 1,800,000 …
Saudi banks can look forward to another year of healthy loan growth, albeit with diminished opportunities for boosting their profitability, according to Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services. Bank credit growth has rebounded markedly in the Kingdom over the past year and was running at 14.7 …
Women are significantly less likely than men to be employed at capacity for an employer in 38 of the 144 countries where Gallup collected employment data in 2011. The gender gap is at least 15 percentage points in 13 countries, but is as wide as 22 points or more in Ecuador, Saudi Arabia, and …
The GSMA has announced that greater allocation of spectrum for Mobile Broadband is vital for the economic and social development of Saudi Arabia. New findings from a report by Analysys Mason, commissioned by the GSMA, reveal that if the Saudi government was to release internationally …
Syrian opposition groups have agreed on a general plan for the way forward in the country at a meeting in Cairo that exposed their deep divisions. Delegates set out how a transitional period would work and what they would do if they managed to oust President Bashar al-Assad. But they …
One of the most serious criticisms of the U.S. invasion of Iraq was that it eliminated the last remaining nation in the Persian Gulf capable of balancing the power of Iran. The Taliban, Iran’s major enemy to the east, had been eliminated earlier, and the overthrow of the Saddam Hussein regime, …
Is it myth or reality that Iranians support the government’s policy of pursuing the enrichment of uranium that has brought the country severe sanctions and international isolation? In a country where the state controls all means of communications, and where anybody who challenges the state’s …
The whistleblower website WikiLeaks has announced the release of almost 2.5 million emails derived from 680 Syria-related entities and domain names. They are said to be “embarrassing to Syria, but it is also embarrassing to Syria’s opponents.” “It helps us not merely to criticize one group or …
A potentially explosive re-examination of the circumstances behind the death of Yasir Arafat, the symbol of the Palestinian national struggle, has galvanized Palestinian suspicions that he was poisoned and led the Palestinian Authority to agree in principle on Wednesday to an exhumation of his …
British police officials said on Thursday that six people had been arrested in connection with a suspected terrorist conspiracy in London. North of the capital, officers closed off a main north-south highway after reports that a passenger was behaving suspiciously….
Yemenis have sent an appeal to the Saudi Arabia to reopen its embassy in Yemen as to be able to visit the Holy sites during Ramadan. Every year, thousands of Yemen flock Makkah to perform Umrah, Following the kidnapping of the Saudi diplomat, Abdullah Al Khalidi in the southern port city of …
A group of women basketball players in Saudi Arabia has been defying stereotypes as one of the few female sports teams in the kingdom. Saudi Arabia practices an austere form of Islam in which women are forbidden from playing sport in public — as well as driving, or traveling without the …
State-owned Saudi Arabian Oil Co., or Aramco, Wednesday raised the price for most of its grades of oil for August term supply following increases in refining margins in recent weeks and the full implementation of the European Union’s embargo on Iranian crude at the start of July….
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