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Emirates offers up to twenty five percent discount to Ethiopian travellers
Emirates, a global connector of people and places, is offering Ethiopian travellers up to 25% discount on Business Class and Economy Class fares to a range of exciting destinations around the world, the company said. The special fares will apply when booked between August 27th and September 6th 2014 for …
The Middle East’s three timelines
By Volker Perthes BERLIN – Three distinct timelines are shaping developments in the Middle East: the short-term timeline of daily struggles and politics; the medium-term timeline of geopolitical shifts, which is measured in decades; and the long-term timeline of sociocultural transformation, or what the historian Fernand Braudel called the longue …
Saudi Arabia’s first Ebola patient dies
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia’s first Ebola- infected patient died Wednesday in Jeddah despite being given treatment, a media report here said.