IKEA Regrets Fatal Stampede
K.S. Ramkumar, Arab News |
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JEDDAH, 3 September 2004 — The management of IKEA has expressed its sorrow for the fatal incident that took place during the opening of its new showroom in Jeddah on Wednesday morning. “The management...
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Bahrain Beckons Expat Retirees
M. Ghazanfar Ali Khan, Arab News |
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RIYADH, 3 September 2004 — More and more expatriates working in Saudi Arabia are planning to make Bahrain their retirement home following the announcement by the Bahraini government to offer new residence...
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Not Just Another Pretty Face
Hadeel Shaikh, Arab News |
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Saudi society is defined by its own culture and beliefs. Morals, ideas and life styles may ebb and flow, but basically that is all Saudi society is. We comfortably move within the same hollow circle....
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Woman With a Vision
Abdurrahman Al-Shayyal, Arab News |
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On the second floor of Effat College, I had the opportunity to talk to an exciting lady with a vision for both Saudi Arabia and its women. In what is, by Saudi standards, a rather unimpressive office,...
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Kidnappers Kill Three Turkish Hostages
Naseer Al-Nahr • Arab News |
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BAGHDAD, 3 September 2004 — An Iraqi extremist group has killed three Turkish hostages, Al-Jazeera television said yesterday, adding it had received a video of the execution. Police and medical officers...
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Palestinian Prisoners End Hunger Strike
Roger Harrison, Arab News |
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BETHLEHEM, 3 September 2004 — A hunger strike among political prisoners in Beersheva Jail, that saw at least one 55-year-old mother of an inmate of Beersheva prison striking in sympathy die, has finally...
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Top Commander Wounded in Yemen Clashes
Khaled Al-Mahdi, Arab News |
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SANAA, 3 September 2004 — A senior Yemeni Army commander was wounded in fresh clashes with followers of the rebel cleric Hussein Badruddin Al-Houthi in the north of the country, military sources said...
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Some Debut for the Bush Twins!
Barbara Ferguson, Arab News |
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NEW YORK, 3 September 2004 — What were they thinking? More precisely, what was their speechwriter thinking? On Tuesday night the Bush twins made their debut on prime time TV — introducing their...
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