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Father takes son to blow up bank’s ATMs!
By Rasheed Abou-AlsamhSpecial to Saudi GazetteSAO PAULO — A Brazilian man took his 8-year-old son along with him when he went to rob a bank in the town of Guaratinguet?, 187 kilometers from Sao Paulo, by using dynamite to blow up ...
Man with 30 kids wants state help to pay his child support
TENNESSEE — A 33-year-old man who has fathered 30 kids is asking the state of Tennessee to give him a hand with his child support payments. Desmond Hatchett is having a tough time making ends meet while working a minimum wage ...
Watanabe, 73, smashes own record to climb Mount Everest
TOKYO — Tamae Watanabe, who on May 16, 2002 at the age of 63 years became the oldest woman to climb Mount Everest, smashed her own record on Saturday, reaching the peak of the world’s highest mountain at the age of ...
Exams? Not before I get married!
JAZAN — A Saudi high school student here found a way to use his family’s desire to see him graduate from high school to his advantage. A local daily reported that the high school senior told his family he wouldn’t sit ...
G8 ‘ready’ to tap into emergency oil reserves
CAMP DAVID, Maryland — Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) major economies raised the pressure on Iran Saturday, signaling their readiness to tap into emergency oil stockpiles quickly this summer if tougher new sanctions on Tehran threaten to strain ...
EBRD appropriates €1b investment fund for ‘Arab democracies’ development
LONDON — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Saturday approved investment of €1.0 billion for expansion into North Africa and the Middle East under its first British president.After years concentrating mainly on investment in private-sector firms across the former Soviet ...
Deception exercise is the name of the game
ENERGY OUTLOOK By Syed Rashid Husain A cat and mouse game is on!On the center stage is the issue of Iranian output. How much is Iran producing and, more importantly, how much is being sold to buyers is an issue of extreme ...
World leaders vow to combat financial woes
CAMP DAVID, Maryland — World leaders backed keeping Greece in the euro zone Saturday and vowed to take all steps necessary to combat financial turmoil while revitalizing a global economy increasingly threatened by Europe’s debt crisis.A summit of the G8 leading ...
Saudi shares fall to 3-month low on concerns
JEDDAH — Saudi Arabian shares dropped Saturday nearly 2 percent to a three-month low, weighed by declines in the heavyweight banking and petrochemical sectors, after a fall in oil prices and global stocks.The stock benchmark Tadawul All Share Index closed 1.88 ...
IMO signs counter-piracy partnerships with UN, EU
Dierk Stegen from WFP (left) and IMO Secretary-General, Koji Sekimizu sign the joint commitment to a strategic partnership to combat piracy in the western Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden area.LONDON — The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has signed a strategic ...
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