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Pentagon: US Navy will remain in Persian Gulf
The Pentagon on Tuesday answered an Iranian warning to keep U.S. aircraft carriers out of the Persian Gulf by declaring that American warships will continue regularly scheduled deployments to the strategic waterway.
3 Jan 2012, 1:12 pm | click here to read more
Pentagon: U.S. Navy will remain in Persian Gulf
WASHINGTON—The Obama administration on Tuesday brushed aside Iran's warning to keep U.S. aircraft carriers out of the Persian Gulf, dismissing its threats as a consequence of difficult-hitting American sanctions on the Iranian economy.
3 Jan 2012, 11:56 am | click here to read more
European Banks Said to Seek Buyers for Middle East Loan Books
European banks, led by those from France and Belgium, are seeking to sell Persian Gulf loan books to Arab banks to help lift cash as the sovereign-debt crisis drags on, bankers familiar with the offerings said.
29 Dec 2011, 7:47 am | click here to read more
European banks keen to offload Mideast loan books
EUROPEAN banks, led by those from France and Belgium, are seeking to sell Persian Gulf loan books to Arab banks to help lift cash as the sovereign-debt crisis drags on, bankers familiar with the offerings said. France's BNP Paribas SA and Societe Generale SA, Belgium-based Dexia SA and KBC Groep NV and Italy's Intesa Sanpaolo SpA and UniCredit SpA are among lenders seeking buyers for project ...
29 Dec 2011, 11:13 am | click here to read more
More home than home for Boulder's City Club
They arrive to the club for lunch and for talk, for lectures, investment strategy sessions and massages. And for some members of Boulder's City Club, the warren of oak and rock and Persian rugs makes it more than just another pretty place.
28 Jan 2012, 3:10 am | click here to read more
The Iranian oil embargo blowback
If the sorry parade of European poodles - or what analyst Chris Floyd delightfully dubbed Europuppies - had any understanding of Persian culture, they would have known that blowback for their declaration of economic war in the form of an Iranian oil embargo would be nothing short of heavy metal.
27 Jan 2012, 2:53 am | click here to read more
Books destroyed in heritage building fire
A flame broke out in a publishing home on the first floor of Agurchand Mansion, a heritage building on Anna Salai, on Thursday. There was no damage to the building, located at the busy Spencers jun...
26 Jan 2012, 12:52 pm | click here to read more
VIDEO: Pakistani's novel use for a rickshaw
A Pakistani man who lost his bookstore in the economic downturn now rides a rickshaw through the streets selling his books.
26 Jan 2012, 12:44 pm | click here to read more
Middle East Online
These days, with a crisis atmosphere growing in the Persian Gulf, a little history lesson about the United States and Iran might be just what the doctor ordered.
20 Jan 2012, 4:46 am | click here to read more
Ooh la la! French-American cuisine with a Persian accent
A world of flavor accompanies this story of exile in an Iranian-American cook's memoir.
18 Jan 2012, 5:10 pm | click here to read more