Word: kingdoms
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...named Macau's Banco Delta Asia a "willing pawn" in money laundering for Pyongyang, regulators in Macau agreed to freeze $24 million in North Korean funds held by the bank. Given the crackdown, it may well have been embarrassing for a potential heir of the nuclear-armed hermit kingdom's ruler to pop up in the territory...
...really “funny.” Also, the trailer (and the existence of the film, itself) seems to suggest that this series has no end in sight. “Shrek”: this generation’s “Police Academy” franchise? The Kingdom Trailer Trash HEY GUYS, DID YOU KNOW THAT TERRORISM COULD EXPLODE EVERYTHING AT ANY MOMENT AND ONLY JAMIE FOXX AND THE GIRL FROM “ALIAS” CAN SAVE US? This trailer isn’t exactly racist or jingoistic, but it basically relies upon every post...
...Hamas-controlled government and the various militias of President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party. But most agree that the fragile cease-fire put into place on Sunday has no chance unless the Palestinian leadership can pull off a near miracle in Saudi Arabia under the guidance of the Kingdom's last-ditch mediation effort...
...spasms of violence. In her book The March of Folly, Historian Barbara Tuchman argues that through the ages governments have shown a propensity to pursue policies contrary to their own interests. The first example of freely chosen disaster that she cites was Rehoboam's loss of the northern kingdom of Judea and its conquest by the Assyrians nearly 3,000 years ago. The story of the Middle East for years has been, in many ways, an endless pageant of the self-defeating. ''We were in a different time zone 40 years ago,'' says Sari Nusseibeh, a Palestinian professor of philosophy...
...Macau's Banco Delta Asia a "willing pawn" in money laundering for Pyongyang, prompting the territory's regulators to freeze $24 million in North Korean funds held by the bank. Amid that crackdown it may have been a bit embarrassing for a potential heir of the nuclear-armed hermit kingdom's ruler to pop up in the territory...