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    Abu Dhabi Bids for Spanish Oil Firm

    An Abu Dhabi sovereign-wealth fund offered to pay $5.48 billion for the 53% of Cia. Española de Petroleos it doesn't already own. France's Total agreed to sell its 49% stake.

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    Turkey Leaves Rates on Hold

    Turkey's central bank held its key interest rate at a record low on Tuesday, pausing its controversial policy of cutting rates as central banks in other emerging markets raise theirs.

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    Heineken, Unilever Resume Egypt Operations

    Companies including brewer Heineken, consumer goods giant Unilever, chemicals company Akzo Nobel and industrial giant Siemens said they had resumed near-normal operations in Egypt.

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    G-20 to Address Hot Money

    The world's economic leaders are expected to agree next week on the need for a new system to oversee international capital flows. But a decision on what exactly the guidelines should be, and how to enforce them, could prove a much thornier issue.

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    Investors Brace for Cairo Selloff

    The Egyptian stock market is likely to trade sharply lower when it reopens for trading Sunday, after a closure of more than two weeks.

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    Teva Profit Doubles, Outlook Disappoints

    Teva's profit more than doubled, but weakness in North America weighed on the results and its initial 2011 profit projections disappointed Wall Street.

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    Google Executive in Egypt Is Released

    Google Inc. executive Wael Ghonim has been released from government custody in Egypt after disappearing during the massive protests that have rocked Egypt for two weeks, ending a tense wait over the whereabouts of one of the rallying symbols for the anti government movement.

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    Egypt Market Reopens, Swiftly Falls

    The Egyptian pound suffered a sharp sell-off as international trading in the currency resumed, prompting measures by the country's central bank to stem sudden outflows of capital and keep prices from rising too quickly.

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    Egyptian Authorities Intrude on Mobile Operators

    Vodafone and France Télécom said Egypt's government forced its way onto their mobile networks to send text messages directly to the country's people.

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    Air-Travel Demand Rose 8% in '10

    Airline-passenger traffic in 2010 rose 8.2% and freight demand jumped 21%, as the aviation industry recovered from the economic downturn, the International Air Transport Association said.

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    Facebook Sees Egypt Usage Spike

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    Multinationals Keep Egypt Offices Shut

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    JGC Nears Settlement With U.S.

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    Infosys, Wipro Evacuate Staff From Egypt

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    Firms Pull Staff, Halt Operations

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    Hezbollah Leader Warns of Conflict

    Hezbollah's leader told his Shiite guerrilla group Wednesday to be prepared to invade northern Israel, a day after Israel's defense minister warned that the quiet along the tense border could erupt into violence.

  • Israel: Iran Sending Warships Through Suez Canal

    Iran is sending two warships through the Suez Canal en route to Syria, Israel's foreign minister said, calling the act a "provocation" that Israel cannot ignore.

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    Turkish Media Group Wins in Court

    Turkey's largest media company, the Dogan group, said it had won a significant court victory in part of a multibillion-dollar tax case that the company—and some analysts—say is politically motivated.

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    Gorbachev Warns of Egypt-Style Revolt

    Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said he is "ashamed" with the way Russia is run today and warned the Kremlin could face an Egypt-style uprising.

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    Wave of Unrest Rolls Into Gulf

    The Middle East's wave of popular revolts helped spur the largest street rebellion in years in a Persian Gulf monarchy, and the first to pit Shiite Muslims against Sunni rulers.

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    Clinton Seeks Internet-Use Standards

    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for common global standards to guide Internet use, while increasing pressure on countries like Iran and China to allow the free flow of information.

  • Online, Small Voices Spark Revolutions

    The most important figures in a Middle East undergoing historic ferment may well be people who were unknown until recent months. We now seem to have moved into the small-person era of history.

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    Iraq Plans Oil Licensing Auction

    The government plans to hold a new licensing auction later this year as it gears up for a major push to increase oil output and capture natural gas for electricity generation.

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    CBS's Logan Targeted in Sexual Assault in Cairo

    CBS News correspondent Lara Logan on Friday suffered a "brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating" after being separated from her crew in the midst of a crowd in Egypt.

  • [EGYPT]

    Strikes Worry Egypt's Military, Youth

    Eight representatives of the youth movements that led Egypt's mass protests, including Google executive Wael Ghonim, praised the military's initial steps toward a democratic transition after meeting with two top Egyptian generals.

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    Protests in Bahrain, Yemen Beset by Violence

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    Tunisia Shuns Italian Border Aid

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    Syrian Teen Blogger Gets 5 Years in Jail

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