Middle East News

Middle East firms face weakening working capital performance
gulfnews.com
Dubai: Working capital performance remains a challenge for companies in the Middle East with working capital metrics weakening each quarter from the fourth quarter of 2014, according to audit and assurance, tax and consulting services firm PwC.

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Middle East Eye
Yemenis forced to choose between treating cholera and eating, says NGO
Middle East Eye
Yemenis are being forced to choose between treating cholera and putting food on the table, a new report from Oxfam says, feeding an almost inescapable cycle of poor health and poverty. There have been half a million suspected cholera cases in Yemen ...

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Middle East Monitor
Swedish activist begins one year trek to Palestine
Middle East Monitor
A pro-Palestinian Swedish activist started a 4,800 kilometre trek to Palestine to raise awareness of the ongoing Israeli occupation on 5 August. Benjamin Ladra started his journey ten days ago from the Swedish city of Gothenburg and will walk through ...

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Middle East Monitor
Kuwait looks to increase economic links with Sudan
Middle East Monitor
Kuwait is eager to improve its economic relations with Sudan, the state news agency KUNA reported the chairman of the Kuwaiti Chamber of Industry and Commerce saying yesterday. In a press conference held after meeting the head of the National ...

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Middle East Monitor
Calls for PA to stop arresting journalists
Middle East Monitor
The Syndicate of the Palestinian Journalists in Ramallah called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to stop arrested journalists and to abolish the electronic crime law, Quds Press reported yesterday. In a press conference the head of the Syndicate of ...

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Aljazeera.com
How to be a Palestinian supermom
Aljazeera.com
Manal Tamimi has been going to these protests for as long as she can remember. To her, to be a Palestinian parent is to be an activist. It's impossible to separate the two roles. Taking care of her children often involves protecting them from Israeli ...

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Middle East Monitor
Tunisia rebuffs Al-Azhar comments on call for gender equality
Middle East Monitor
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi has criticised Egypt's Al-Azhar University for its “interference” in his country's internal affairs after the institution commented on the proposals for gender equality in Tunisia. Responding to Al-Azhar's ...

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Middle East Eye
Jordan holds local elections in step to devolve powers
Middle East Eye
Jordan held local elections on Tuesday in a move officials say will help devolve some powers to larger cities and underdeveloped rural regions but which critics say falls short of promised wider political reform. The countrywide municipal vote - the ...

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Times of India
War room 2.0? US Air Force upgrades Middle East command centre
Times of India
The Combined Air Operations Center, known in military-speak as the "CAOC," is grappling with a dizzying amount of data and intelligence flowing in from sources like satellites, drones, radar and US aircraft flying over Middle East hot spots and bombing ...

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Bloomberg
Natural Gas Heads for Middle East Doldrums
Bloomberg
Conventional wisdom says that Middle East natural gas demand will continue to surge. In the 10 years through 2016, consumption rose by 25 billion cubic feet a day -- much more than in both the U.S., despite its shale boom, and China. BP Plc's 2017 ...

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HuffPost
Reducing Middle East tensions? Saudi-UAE moves hint at willingness to engage with Iran
HuffPost
The UAE, although much smaller in size and population than Saudi Arabia, has been a, if not the driver, of recent events in the Middle East and North Africa, including the ill-fated two-month old diplomatic and economic boycott of Qatar and ...

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Reuters
War room 2.0? US Air Force upgrades Middle East command center
Reuters
The Combined Air Operations Center, known in military-speak as the "CAOC," is grappling with a dizzying amount of data and intelligence flowing in from sources like satellites, drones, radar and U.S. aircraft flying over Middle East hot spots and ...

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kcentv.com
III Corps to deploy to Middle East to fight ISIS
kcentv.com
III Corps will be deploying to the Middle East soon to continue the fight against ISIS. III Corps Lieutenant General Paul Funk will be leading a team of 90,000 troops from 72 countries overseas in the war on terror. Funk said it is still a tough fight ...

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Middle East Theme Park Market 2014-2021
PR Newswire (press release)
This publication on the Middle East Theme Park Market provides a comprehensive analysis of the theme parks market in the Middle East. The report includes the cumulative revenue generated by the market players from theme park services in the region.

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Stars and Stripes
Genocide of Christians continues in Middle East, says new US report
Catholic News Service
The Trump administration has renewed its commitment to protecting religious minority groups threatened by IS in the Middle East, says a new State Department report on international religious freedom released Aug. 15. (CNS photo/Suhaib Salem, Reuters) ...
US decries Islamic State 'genocide' of Christians, othersStars and Stripes

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