 06/30/09 Kuwait's Hotels & Beyond Co has partnered with Burgan Bank to offer a host of exclusive summer holiday travel packages to the bank's credit cardholders in Kuwait and around the world.
06/30/09 Some 11.6 per cent of the global cigarette market was illicit, equivalent to some 657 billion cigarettes a year, the International Union against Tobacco and Lung Disease estimated in a report.
 06/30/09 National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) has been recognized as a 'Super Brand' by Superbrands, the independent authority and arbiter on branding, at an event held yesterday at the Intercontinental Hotel, Dubai Festival City.
 06/29/09 GENEVA (AFP) - Cigarette and tobacco smuggling finances militant groups such as the Pakistani Taliban and saps about 40 billion dollars a year from government budgets, a report and campaigners said Monday.
 06/29/09 Three newspapers have been ordered by a Moroccan court to pay Libya in damages for defaming its leader Muammar Gaddafi.
 06/29/09 Israelis and Palestinians question the credibility and effectiveness of 'unprecedented' public hearings about last January's attacks.
 06/29/09 GENEVA - CIGARETTE and tobacco smuggling finances militant groups such as the Pakistani Taleban and saps about US$40 billion (S$58 billion) a year from government budgets, a report and campaigners said on Monday. The claims were made as 160 countries resumed talks at the World Health Organisation on expanding an international anti-smoking treaty to clamp down on the illicit trade in tobacco.
 06/29/09 JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has angered Palestinians with a plan to expropriate plots of West Bank land between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea including areas exposed by the lake's receding water levels.
 06/29/09 JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has angered Palestinians with a plan to expropriate plots of West Bank land between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea including areas exposed by the lake's receding water levels.
 06/18/09 Everyone knows the economy's been a little rocky lately, with many houses going into foreclosure. Th...
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 06/11/09 News Corp. has agreed to form an external diversity council after meeting with civil rights groups about a New York Post cartoon that critics said likened President Barack Obama to a dead chimpanzee.
 06/11/09 Updated news from Balkans powered by www.seenews.com Thursday 11 June 2009, by Emanuele G. - 0 letture Business: Nokia opens production site in Romania Jun 11, 2009, 17:05 CET | Story | SETimes Romania gets a Nokia accessories production plant.
06/11/09 The Willamette University women's rowing team made its presence felt nationally this year.
 06/11/09 There is a new buzz word being used in the real estate world nowadays. That word is short sale. A sh...
 06/06/09 The first 100 days over, Obama is looking more and more like Bush, writes Hamid Dabashi
 06/05/09 June 04, 2009 | 11:14 AM Following the Georgia Gwinnett College Commencement Ceremony, Gen. Petraeus took a few minutes to answer media questions regarding our nation's military. Here are just a few of those questions Petraeus answered.
06/05/09 Damascus, June 3, 2009: Grameen-Jameel, a social business that serves the Arab microfinance industry, has announced it has facilitated a multi-million dollar credit facility for the First Microfinance Institution (FMFI) Syria, part of the Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance (AKAM), to help improve the lives of 2,700 underprivileged Syrians through credit, deposits and other financial services.
 06/05/09 The Sri Lankan government has battled the Tamil Tigers on two fronts for almost three decades: on the battlefield and in the arena of world opinion. No one thought they could win militarily, but they did.
 06/05/09 Two crucial decisions by President Barack Obama in mid- May 2009 mark a turning point in his young presidency when earlier signs coalesce and are driven home.
 05/20/09 Tenancy at will is a type of informal rental agreement that is similar to a month to month agreement...
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