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  • Gaza power plant shuts down due to fuel shortage

    GAZA (Reuters) - The Gaza Strip's sole power station stopped generating electricity on Saturday, causing blackouts throughout the territory after it ran out of fuel, officials said.
  • Sunni monarchy Qatar charts an independent course

    The following editorial appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Wednesday, March 12: U.S. relations with the monarchies of the Persian Gulf are complicated enough, but now three of them Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, joined by...

    UAE summons Iraq ambassador over Saudi 'terrorism' charge

    DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates summoned Iraq's ambassador on Wednesday to protest against his prime minister's accusations that its ally Saudi Arabia was funding terrorism, state news agency WAM reported, while Bahrain called the comments...

    Saudi listing of Brotherhood as terrorist group complicates Gulf ties

    DUBAI/KUWAIT (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's fierce campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood, already on the run in its Egyptian birthplace, has divided a Gulf Arab bloc, causing discomfort in some member states where the Islamist group is embedded in daily...

    Rachel Marsden: Obama late to the realpolitik table in Saudi Arabia

    PARIS -- Later this month, U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Here's hoping he decides to stay home and help his daughters with their homework instead. America's decreasing influence in the Middle East and Eurasia might be the...