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Leaders' False Assurances Doom Kuwaiti Investors

As the global crisis built in September, Fadli sold his two electronics stores and mortgaged his house. He invested everything, $800,000, in futures contracts. "The minister of finance advised us investors to get involved. He said the economy is strong, ...

From ELLEN KNICKMEYER, The Washington Post,  31 Oct 2008

Rare whale shark held at Dubai resort making waves

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - One day this summer, a fisherman spotted a 14-foot shark off this high-rise Persian Gulf boomtown. The dots on the creature's back showed she was a whale shark, an internationally protected species. The fisherman had been ...

From ELLEN KNICKMEYER, Boston Globe,  30 Oct 2008

Syria Protests U.S. Raid To U.N., Orders Closures

Students leave Damascus Community School an American school, in Damascus Tuesday Oct. 28, 2008. The Syrian government ordered Tuesday an American school and a U.S. cultural center in Damascus closed in response to a deadly U.S. attack on a village near ...

From ELLEN KNICKMEYER, The Washington Post,  28 Oct 2008

Amid Economic Crisis, Middle East Financial Hubs Faring Well

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Fahad al-Deweesh, a vice president at a Persian Gulf investments firm, is getting e-mails from old finance classmates at the University of Southern California he hadn't heard from in years, asking what the job market ...

From ELLEN KNICKMEYER, The Washington Post,  26 Oct 2008

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