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...says Russia gets nervous if China "sends as much as an economic research mission to one of the Central Asian countries." A marriage this may be, but it is one between porcupines. The Middle East is another area where Moscow is feeling revitalized - yet there again, within limits. Arab unhappiness with the U.S. invasion of Iraq and stagnation in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process have given the Kremlin an opening to revive the strong ties the U.S.S.R. had with many Arab governments - which are glad for a counterweight to Bush. Last year Putin made the first journey to Cairo...
...What's behind the tension? Hamas accuses Abbas's cronies of trying to undermine the democratically elected Hamas. One senior Hamas official told TIME that Fatah chiefs are boasting to the Bush Administration and Arab leaders that if the international boycott on funds and aid continues, the Hamas government will fall within three months. And the president's men, so the plot goes, will again grab power. One chain-smoking Hamas commander, hiding in a safehouse from Israeli hunters, says that his outfit had no gripe against Abbas, only against those "corrupted leaders of Fatah who have turned into agents...
...Number of boys repatriated last week from the United Arab Emirates?to which they had been smuggled as camel-racing jockeys?under a law requiring jockeys to be at least 18 years old 4 Age of the youngest jockeys...
...comes from Saudi Arabia. The strategic import of bin Laden's dictate was immediately clear to U.S. policymakers. His goal was never the untenable idea of engaging in a lasting struggle with America. It was, rather, to prompt the United States to withdraw its support for various Arab regimes, particularly Saudi Arabia, leaving them vulnerable to uprisings...
...Number of boys repatriated last week from the United Arab Emirates--to which they had been smuggled as camel-racing jockeys--under a law requiring jockeys to be at least 18 years...