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DESPARDES News Monitor — China’s crude oil imports from Saudi Arabia rose 43% last month, making the Middle Eastern OPEC kingpin once again the top supplier to the world’s second-biggest
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“The total number of children separated from a parent or guardian by immigration authorities is unknown,” the report said. DESPARDES News Monitor — The Trump administration may have separated thousands of migrant children
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Industry experts say energy imports is an emerging threat to economy. In their opinion, it is easier to displace billions of dollars in energy imports than to increase exports by
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The markets have been slow to recognize the high-stakes game that’s playing out on the world stage. Like the neoconservatives, Trump’s closest advisors have all identified China as the foremost
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Trump says Huawei could be part of trade deal; “This is is a new Cold War to determine who will be the hegemonic power, economically and militarily, in the years
PKONWEB Report — A prayer leader was shot dead in a suspected targeted attack in Karachi’s Sachal area on Friday morning, officials said. A senior police officer (DIG East Amir
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Saudi Arabia and other GCC countries have reportedly approved a request from Washington to deploy US military forces on their territories and in the Gulf Waters. DESPARDES News Monitor —
Continue readingPentagon Mulling Military Request to Send 5,000 Troops to Middle East
DESPARDES News Monitor — Canada has announced a $100 million humanitarian aid for the Rohingyas currently sheltered in Bangladesh’s refugee camps. Kamal Khera, Parliamentary Secretary to Canada’s minister of international
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“Suits us,” said the defense expert. Modi reminds me of The Thorn Bird. IRSHAD SALIM — A feat not achieved for decades in India, Narendra Modi’s party BJP is winning
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Jomo Kwame Sundaram — After the failure and abuses of privatization and contracting-out services from the 1980s, there has been renewed appreciation for the role of the state or government.
Saudi Arabia has launched initiative to build thousands of homes under PPP (Public-Private Partnership) model; The kingdom wants 60 percent of Saudis to own homes by 2020 AL-BILAD DAILY
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(UPI) — John Walker Lindh, the man who became known as the “American Taliban” as the first U.S. citizen captured for leaving the United States to join an Islamic militant group,
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