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...Olmert has chosen Ofer Deker, an Arabic-speaking former deputy head of Shin Beit, the Israeli equivalent of the FBI, to handle the discreet bargaining. Israel is also contacting all possible mediators, including the United Nations, Egypt, France, Germany and Qatar - anyone who is willing and able to open up lines of communication with the two groups behind the kidnapping. Israeli and Arab newspapers are full of often contradictory reports about possible terms for the hostages' release. The latest, as yet unconfirmed, claims that Gilad Shalit, the 18-year-old soldier seized by Palestinian militants, will soon be freed through...
...paid directly into their bank accounts, bypassing the Hamas administration. U.S. Treasury officials have warned that any banks processing such transactions would face sanctions from Washington, and none dared risk being shut out of the international finance system. That blocked a plan by Middle Eastern governments such as Iran, Qatar and Saudi Arabia to provide the tens of millions of dollars needed to pay the salaries on which close to half of Palestinian households depend...
...Even before agreement is reached with Russia and China, the U.S., Britain and France will seek support from the remaining ten members of the Council - Argentina, Tanzania, Congo, Ghana, Denmark, Greece, Japan, Peru, Qatar and Slovakia. But absent any smoking-gun evidence of Iran maintaining a weapons program, and considering Washington's credibility problem after the Iraq WMD fiasco, the U.S. and its allies may struggle to maintain the momentum of efforts to turn up the heat on Tehran. Indeed, their best hope may lie in Iran rattling its own sabers so much that it actually alienates the two powers...
...already "done" Wafi Mall, which opened in 1991 and since then has virtually doubled in size, with a new subterranean "suq shopping experience" planned. We've stopped by the chic Emirates Towers Boulevard to mooch around Villa Moda, the designer emporium that also has stores in Kuwait, Qatar and Bombay. And Alanoud has taken me to the Village Mall, near her family home in the ritzy suburb Jumeirah, where the latest must-have accessory is a clutch bag made from a gutra, the checked head scarf worn by Arab...
...stone. "The gold is so pure the workers cannot touch it," Kasliwal says. He nods at a packet of uncut rubies. "Burmese, exceptional quality. They already have so much life," he says, valuing them at $1.5 million, and then he takes a call from the royal family of Qatar...