Word: arab
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...Average monthly wage in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, one of the most prosperous countries in the Middle East $160 Average monthly wage for migrant construction workers in the U.A.E., most of whom come from South Asia...
Addressing a packed forum, Abizaid, who spoke without a script and sat throughout his talk, said the rise of Islamic extremism and the Arab-Israeli conflict were the major obstacles facing the region...
Abizaid also said that resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict was key to resolving the strife in the Middle East...
...peacekeeping force in south Lebanon. But beyond this, the government suspects Hizballah will try to further the interests of its Iranian and Syrian backers. Far more is at stake than just another round of Lebanese political infighting. The U.S. supports Siniora's government as an example of a budding Arab democracy and as a useful counterweight to Syrian and Iranian regional ambitions. But an anti-Western alliance that includes Iran, Syria, Hizballah and Hamas wants to roll back U.S. influence in the Middle East, using Lebanon as the pivot. "Lebanon will be the defeat point for Israel and America," Iranian...
...Murtha, who said he thought her reform measures were "total crap." It was bad enough that Murtha's candidacy turned the cable-news networks into a film festival of the grainy tapes from the Abscam sting in 1980, in which the Pennsylvania Congressman told an agent posing as an Arab sheik that he couldn't be bribed "at this point." But on ethics reforms or any other tough issues that lawmakers like to publicly support and privately fight, Pelosi might now lack the backroom clout needed to get results. "When key votes like the budget come around, this will make...