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Sheep sellers will have no more truck with cars
THERE should be no more Bahrainis throwing trussed Australian sheep into the boots of their Mercedes before next month's Eid al-Adha religious festival.
Gunboat diplomacy, Somali-style
AN INDIAN warship patrolling the Gulf of Aden has engaged in a gun battle with a suspected pirate ship and destroyed it, the Indian navy said yesterday.
Buckets of cash and seeking more wives
DHOWS rest on a sandy beach in front of a few ramshackle homes.
Australian miner paid rebels $9.3m
AN AUSTRALIAN mining company has paid millions of dollars in controversial fees to Somali rebels responsible for a surge in international piracy, including the hijacking this week of an oil superta...
Obama warms to reductions
LOS ANGELES: Barack Obama has sent an explicit message to international negotiators of a new global warming treaty that, under his administration, the US would move to greatly reduce its greenhouse...