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| FT.com - World, Middle East
FT.com - World, Middle East
Two car bombs in Algeria have killed at least 11 people, the day after an attack that left 43 dead at a military academy, the Algerian press agency APS said quoting the Interior Ministry
The race by food-importing countries to secure farmland overseas to improve their food security risks creating a 'neo-colonial' system, a UN official has cautioned
Food importers led by Saudi Arabia are trying to acquire land in poorer countries, striking bilateral deals that would ensure exports even in a crisis
To contribute to Iraqi stability – and reassure Iraqi Shia that this is indeed the intention – Arab governments' diplomacy has to be more dynamic and convincing. Cancelling the debt Iraq owes to its Arab neighbours, for example, is long overdue, writes Roula Khalaf
Saudi Arabia's CMA leads the way in repairing the reputation for market manipulation now that it discloses large shareholdings
Privatisation has worked for Bank of Alexandria, but Gulf institutions passed up Banque du Caire
Egypt agrees to supply Lebanon with electricity and natural gas to help alleviate its chronic energy shortage in a deal seen as support for the government of Fouad Siniora
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, has called those who have 'opened a business' and claim to have been connected to the holy figure Mohammed al-Mahdi 'liars'
The Iraqi government is likely to abandon plans to sign short-term contracts with foreign oil companies, negotiations over which have stalled, a senior US diplomat in Baghdad said
Border demarcation is on a list of agreements following the establishment of diplomatic ties between that two neighbours that pave the way for an easing of Damascus's reconciliation with the west
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