Word: dubai
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Hundreds of foreigners were evacuated from Tehran on Tuesday and most airlines have halted flights to the Iranian capital. Airline officials in Dubai on the Persian Gulf said Iran Air was still flying, but that flights had been restricted to daylight hours...
...Iraqi air strikes against shipping in the strategic waterway, Iranian jets rocketed the Indian supertanker Kanchenjunga, destroying the vessel's bridge. The crew was able to bring the resulting fire under control, and the 276,744- ton ship, laden with 1.4 million bbl. of Saudi crude, headed for Dubai for repairs. The following day Iranian aircraft scored two hits on the 238,959-ton Spanish tanker Aragon. Though damaged, the vessel continued its journey...
...diplomats heading for the Karachi consulate, as well as a team of three American auditors from the U.S. Agency for International Development, an American businessman and a handful of other foreigners. The takeoff proved uneventful, and the passengers settled back for the 530-mile, 1½-hour flight to Dubai...
...during this scheduled stopover that some of the hijackers probably slipped on board. Security officials at Dubai International Airport had spent a busy night ensuring that Britain's Princess Anne departed safely after her three-day visit to the gulf. So they were not overly thorough in checking passengers hurrying through to catch the plane to Karachi, which was leaving at about the same time as the royal flight. Several youths in their 20s who had arrived on a connecting flight from Beirut evidently managed to bypass a security check in the transit lounge and went directly...
Indeed, a slump by gulf standards might look like prosperity to much of the rest of the world. Signs of the downturn's unusual nature are apparent everywhere. "Recession!" shouts the ad in the Khaleej Times, a daily newspaper in the United Arab Emirates port city of Dubai. "Gold watches at half the actual price!" That is unlikely to mean a steal, however, since the Girard Perregaux timepieces normally cost...