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US hits Chinese, other firms over Iran business
January 12, 2012
| AFP
Washington placed sanctions on three companies from China, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates Thursday for selling refined oil products to Iran. A day after US Treasury...
Top US lawmakers to visit France, Turkey, Mideast
January 05, 2012
| AFP
Top US lawmakers said Thursday they would travel next week to France, Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to discuss ways to pressure Iran.'' I look...
UAE delays oil pipeline to bypass Hormuz
January 09, 2012
| Reuters
ABU DHABI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates has delayed the launch of a crucial oil pipeline to bypass the Straits of Hormuz to mid-2012, which analysts said would add to...
Etihad takes 29% stake in Air Berlin
December 19, 2011
| AFP
Germany's second-largest airline Air Berlin said Monday that United Arab Emirates carrier Etihad Airways had become its largest shareholder with a 29.21 percent stake. A...
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The United Arab Emirates, often abbreviated as UAE or shortened to The Emirates, is a country situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman and Saudi Arabia and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and Iran. Termed emirates because they are ruled by emirs, they are Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm al-Quwain. The capital is Abu Dhabi, which is also the country's center of political, industrial and cultural activities. Before 1971, the UAE was known as the Trucial States or Trucial Oman,...
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