UN conference adopts Minamata mercury treaty
A UN conference adopted a treaty on mercury control Thursday near the site of Japan's worst industrial poisoning, as Tokyo pledged $2 billion to help ... Oil Prices Down as US Shutdown Drags on Oil prices edged lower in Asian trade Wednesday with little progress made in ending the bitter US government shutdown that has sparked ... Mongolias eco-Nazis target foreign miners
A silver swastika hanging around his neck, Boldbaatar Gombodorj points out his targets on a map of Mongolia like a World War II commander: little ... Samsungs first curved smartphone hits S. Korea market
Samsung's first smartphone with a curved display screen entered the South Korean market on Thursday, as the electronics giant seeks to maintain its ... Indigenous protest shuts down BHP Billiton megamine in Colombia
The world's second largest ferronickel operation, Cerro Matoso in Colombia, run by BHP Billiton, was shut down by displaced indigenous people seeking ... Boko Haram hits the screen and censors hit back
A vicious would-be suicide bomber is heading for Nigeria's vast metropolis of Lagos and only a down-on-her-luck prostitute can stop a horrific ... KSA nonoil exports up 6% to SR51.5bn in Q2 Saudi nonoil exports rose by 6.3 percent in the second quarter of the current year compared to the same period last year to reach SR51.50 ... Malaysia Eyes $52.4 Billion Tourism Revenue by 2020 Malaysia estimates to US $52.4 Billion revenue from a projected 36 million tourist arrivals over the next seven years ... India's trade gap hit 30-month low The trade gap in India eased to its lowest in two and a half years, giving hopes to the government to reduce the account deficit and ease pressure on the ... Saudi - Lamb prices could hit SR1,800 a head
Livestock merchants in Hafr Al-Batin expect the price of sacrificial lamb to reach SR1,500. Other merchants expect prices to peak at SR1,800 in ... N. Korea-China Trade in 2013 Largely Unchanged from Previous Year North Korea's trade with China remained largely unchanged in the first eight months of this year compared to 2012, a government report ... Dubai Courts sets record in e-auction The Dubai Courts has entered Guinness Book for most expensive property sold via an e-auction conducted through smart applications. DUBAI- ... Dubai - Gitex Technology Week: 130,000 visitors expected
Middle East IT spend projected to reach $192.9 billion in 2013 posting 5 per cent rise DUBAI - The 33rd edition of Gitex Technology Week ... Beginning of new era: Digital industrial economy Worldwide IT spending is forecast to reach $3.8 trillion in 2014, a 3.6 percent increase from 2013, but it's the opportunities of a digital ... New Zealand clears up centuries-old map blunder
New Zealand on Thursday moved to correct a clerical oversight lasting 200 years that meant its two main islands were never officially ... Poles seek match made in heaven at singles mass
Glued to the wall, young men and women eye each other timidly as a priest circles the room and nudges neighbours together, encouraging them to mingle ... UAE -Tourist jailed for breaching woman's modesty Saudi Arabian man gets six months in prison for asking a woman he met in a lift to have paid sex with him. A tourist has been given six ... UAE - Man survives fourth-storey fall in Sharjah�An Indian national in his forties who fell from the balcony of his fourth floor apartment in Al Magara area, in Sharjah on Wednesday, ... UAE - Omani killed as car crashes into barricade A 27-year-old Omani national died after his car, which he was driving, collided against a cement barricade after the tunnel leading to ... |
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