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Iraq plans to relaunch Iraqi Airways as a major carrier
Fri, 18 May 2012 09:25:31 -0700
Iraqi Airways is waiting for the delivery of 40 Boeing aircraft. Above, Boeing 737 fuselage sections on the assembly floor at Spirit AeroSystems in the US. Daniel Acker / Bloomberg News
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Michael Winship
Mon, 21 May 2012 02:29:21 -0700
The weather’s getting warmer in Afghanistan and the war there is heating up again. That means – as it has meant every year for more than a decade – that the pace will quicken at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany.
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Laos as a Regional Link
Sun, 13 May 2012 09:13:45 -0700
Long one of the poorest countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has moved in recent years to capitalize on the region’s robust economic growth and increased integration by recasting itself as a “corridor country” able to facilitate cross-border trade across its land-locked territory.
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SGS Wins Inspection Contract For Gas Power Plant Project In Iraq
Mon, 30 Apr 2012 01:36:15 -0700
SGS has been entrusted by LANCO Group to provide independent inspection of equipment and material at vendor locations in E
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BSkyB launches Sky News Arabia
Tue, 08 May 2012 17:58:13 -0700
How will the new network fare in a region where independence is so bitterly contested? Once a barren media landscape, now awash with ways to receive news, as of Sunday the Middle East boasts another pan-Arab news network, after Sky News Arabia switched on its transmitters. Co-owned by BSkyB, the new arrival in the regional market will have the same pacy 24/7 approach as Sky News. It has spent ...
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Kurds boycott Iraq cabinet meet in disputed city
Tue, 08 May 2012 18:11:10 -0700
Kirkuk, Iraq (AFP) May 8, 2012 Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki insisted Tuesday that Kirkuk had an Iraqi identity during a cabinet meet boycotted by Kurdish ministers whose autonomous region lays claim to the disputed city. The meeting, the first of its kind to be held in the oil-rich and ethnically mixed northern city, came amid chilly ties between the central government and Kurdish authorities ...
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Afghanistan's neighbors view US influence with misgiving
Fri, 18 May 2012 04:19:22 -0700
As Washington and Kabul deepen their post-2014 cooperation, the neighboring states have certain misgivings about their own role in the resource-rich region.
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