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Where in the world is Ragheb Alama Fans worried he wouldn’t show for Friday’s Arab Idol
fight with fellow feisty judge Ahlam digging too deep into Ragheb Alama's skin to the point that he flew the coup and headed to the City of Lights to hide in the Eiffel Tower? This was the question some fans wondered when the superstar tweeted a pic from Paris last week.Ragheb didn't let his fans down, and made it to Friday night's episode of the hit talent show, only for the ...
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Guantanamo Prison Hunger Strike Puts The Eyes Of The World On Us
U.S. Guantanamo prison wasestablished by the Bush administration in 2002. Of the 166 detainees, over 100 are refusing to eatas a form of protest. Some simply want ...
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Former CEO Of Nestle Wants The World’s Water Supply Under Corporate Control
@GreenBiz Nestle’s former CEO has not only come out in favor of genetically modified food and fought vigorously against the labeling of such food by corporations, he has also expressed favor with the idea ...
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‘Buycott’ App Lets You Track Corporate Parenthood Of Goods Koch Bros’ Piece For Boycotts
Although it’s temporarily off the Android market (available on the iPhone still) while the creators attempt to handle the enormous amount of traffic put on their system due to their inability to foresee the utter awesomeness of their creation, a new app has been created that allows you to boycott the Koch brothers, Monsanto or, if you’d like, any company that has supported campaigns ...
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Stockton business customers robbed
The men entered the lobby of the business about 10:15 a.m., one armed with a gun and the other armed with a six-inch knife, police said. The man with the gun jumped over the counter and took money from the register and the safe, officers said. The other man robbed customers in the lobby, taking cash, wallets, cellphones and identifications, authorities ...
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Business calendar Week of May 20
Tuesday9 a.m.-noon Sacramento County presents a free workshop, "Doing Business With Sacramento County," at the Northern California SBDC-Greater Sacramento/Sierra, 1410 Ethan Way. To register, ...
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Developing nation’s share of global investment to rise by 2030
Hohoe (V/R), May 19 GNA - Seventeen years from now, half the global stock of capital, totalling 8 trillion will reside in the developing world, compared to less than the current ...
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Microsoft holds NGOs Connection Day in Accra
The event organised on the theme, "Technology for Social Good" was to help NGOs harness the power technology in the delivery of their social ...
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Microsoft poised to invest in promising ICT experts in Ghana
Accra, May 18, GNA - Microsoft is poised to invest in the young and promising Information Communication Technology (ICT) experts who are willing to transform Ghana through the power of ...
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GCC is 13th largest world economy says Bahraini Min.
WAM ABU DHABI: Gulf hydrocarbon producers emerged as the 13th most powerful economy in the world in 2011 while strong oil prices allowed them to become the fifth largest exporter with the highest trade surplus, according to a Bahraini minister. Hassan Fakhru, minister of trade and industry, estimated the combined GDP of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) at around US$1.4 trillion ...
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World UK PM losing control of party over EU
EU , there would be dire consequences for the country's global influence. The Tories said the PM's position on seeking to return powers was unchanged. Lord Howe's warning comes amid press reports that a figure close to the prime minister called grassroots Conservatives pushing for ...
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Most influential Brit expats in banking and finance
Rick Pudner, CEO, Emirates NBD Rick Pudner heads Emirates NBD, Dubai's largest lender. Pudner joined Emirates Bank as chief executive in 2006 before it merged with National Bank of Dubai a year later. He led ENBD through Dubai's boom years before the emirate's property market tanked escalating into a full blown financial crisis that required the restructuring of corporate and ...
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Working conditions in the fashion industry news and teaching resources round up
The collapse of a factory in Bangladesh has put sustainability in the fashion industry back on the agenda. Here are the best news stories and teaching resources to deal with the issues in ...
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Market to take cues from FIIs inflows corporate earnings
Fifteen touch-screen smartphones to consider below Rs 15,000 Within the huge list, we take a look at fifteen touch-screen smartphones that have been ...
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Business tycoon of Indian origin Vivek Ranadive to own NBA franchise
A software billionaire, Vivek Ranadive has brought smile on the faces of Sacramento Kings' fans after he along with his ownership group reached an agreement for acquiring 65 per cent stake in the Kings. He has thus become the first person of Indian descent to own an NBA ...
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Finance and media dominate Brit List rankings
A total of seventeen sectors are featured on the inaugural Arabian Business Brit List, showing the strong diversity of roles in which Britons in the UAE are now ...
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Weak yen helps drive Japan earnings but no cure-all
Japan's earnings season has drawn to a close with the sharply weaker yen helping inflate profits at some of the nation's top exporters, but, warn some commentators, the drop is not all good news. Sony booked its first annual profit in five years, Toyota more than tripled its earnings in the fiscal year to March and the head of rival automaker Nissan hailed the taming of the currency. ...
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Auto world shifts gears to emerging markets India to ride the high tide
Expressing surprise over S&P's threat to downgrade India's credit rating, India Inc termed the agency's affirming its negative outlook on the country as unfortunate and ...
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US business stockpiles flat in March sales fall
WASHINGTON — U.S. businesses left their stockpiles unchanged in March for a second month while their sales fell sharply. The Commerce Department says business stockpiles showed no increase in March on a seasonally adjusted basis. Businesses hadn't upped their restocking in February, either. Sales fell 1.1 percent in March compared with February when sales had risen 1 percent. A ...
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UPI Sports Calendar for Sunday May 19
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Feds call for East West Link business case
IF the Victorian government wants federal funding for the East West Link road, it needs to deliver its business case, the federal government says. Premier Denis Napthine says the Bolte Bridge crash, which halted Melbourne traffic on Friday and left a truck driver in hospital, highlighted the need for "more choices" for Victorian drivers. But Federal Infrastructure Minister Anthony ...
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China Southern Airlines or Hainan Airlines to have 1st Boeing Dreamliner
CHINA Southern Airlines or Hainan Airlines will receive China's first Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft within weeks, a senior official of Boeing China said ...
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Afghans seek WA advice on mining
The Afghan Government will push Australia to sponsor the training of geologists and mining experts at WA universities as part of efforts to kickstart the war-torn country's resources industry.Afghan Mines Minister Wahidullah Shahrani met State and Federal ministers and a number of small WA mining companies in Perth yesterday seeking investment for the fledgling Afghan resources ...
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Bring the charisma to your Real World audition
Saturday, May 18, 2013 | 8:19 p.m. This is the true story of multiple strangers, auditioning to live in a house, work together and have their lives taped, to find out what happens when people stop being polite -- and start getting cast on "The Real World." Before viewers ever meet the latest housemates of MTV's long-running "The Real World," the show has to get cast. A ...
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Three companies recall antipsychotic drug quetiapine Health Canada says
OTTAWA - Health Canada says three companies are voluntarily recalling all lots of the antipsychotic drug quetiapine. A Health Canada news release says it's due to potential contamination with the antibiotic product clindamycin during the manufacturing process. Health Canada says quetiapine is used in the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in adult patients. Health Canada ...
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North America's unknown potential disaster
North America is facing a potential ecological disaster that most people are not even aware of, according to scientists who have been studying the little brown bat (or myotis bat), the most common species of bat in the United States and the wider North American continent.
This is because the bat is under attack by a killer fungus that grows on the bats’ wings during hibernation and causes them to lose body fat and wake early from their sleep, which causes them to eventually die. The fungal infection is said by researchers to be capable of killing off the bat within the next 16 years when their current population, which numbers up to several million, may fall to just 0.01% of present levels. Read more
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