ARABIALINK Daily News – Excerpts from International Media Reports
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News-2012-12-06
The good news is that, if you’re American (or British, Japanese, Russian, Canadian, Australian or Swedish), your country’s Internet infrastructure makes it almost impossible for a Syria-style blackout. The bad news is that much of the world is vulnerable, though Syria’s case is unusual….
Saudi Arabia plans to sign $4.5 billion in desalination and power contracts in the coming weeks, Asharq al-Awsat reported, citing an interview with Saline Water Conversion Corp. governor Abdulrahman Al-Ibrahim.The project agreements to be signed with unspecified companies in Asia and Europe …
Transparency International just released its annual Corruption Perceptions Index on the perceived level of public sector corruption in 176 countries around the world, and once again, Somalia, North Korea and Afghanistan rank as most corrupt, with scores of 8. (Burma, also known as Myanmar, …
The Egyptian army has begun clearing demonstrators and the media from outside Cairo’s presidential palace. It follows violent overnight clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi that left five people dead and 644 injured. Most protesters left the area by the …
The Obama administration has ordered significant cutbacks in initial plans for a robust U.S. civilian presence in Afghanistan after U.S. combat troops withdraw two years from now, according to U.S. officials. Learning from Iraq, where postwar ambitions proved unsustainable, the White House …
Today we provide for your consideration the first plenary report from the C3 Summit: Community, Collaboration, Commerce – A U.S.-Arab Global Event. The conference featured a keynote address by President Bill Clinton and luncheon remarks by former Saudi Arabian Minister of Commerce Abdullah …
Supporters of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi clashed with opposition protesters outside the presidential palace Wednesday in the fiercest violence of the country’s two-week-old political crisis, pelting each other with stones and molotov cocktails and intensifying the pressure on Egypt’s …
Egypt’s Prime Minister has signed a deal with Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to borrow three soft loans worth $230m with a view to supporting the Egyptian economy. The loans are part of an overall package worth $1.5bn being provided by the Saudi Development Fund to the Egyptian Government for …
As a 12-day international conference on Internet regulation kicks off in Dubai, critics are warning that the closed-door meeting could lead to censorship and even blocked access to the Web in certain countries. The World Conference on International Telecommunications — known as WCIT — runs …
Fluor Corporation has announced that it has been awarded a new project by Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) worth approximately US$199mnFluor’s scope of work will include providing project management consulting (PMC) services related to the development of the Umm Wu’al greenfield phosphate …Previous post: Special Report | Gen Lloyd Austin Named Next CENTCOM Commander
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