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Defining moment: He opened his first store--a 100,000-sq.-ft., $20 million, 24-hour emporium in Kuwait City--in 2002. He opened in Dubai the following year and in Qatar last...
...main Islamic organizations in France were dispatched to Baghdad to attempt to contact the insurgents and negotiate a release. President Jacques Chirac launched an all-out diplomatic push too, sending Foreign Minister Michel Barnier on a whirlwind tour of Arab capitals. King Abdullah II of Jordan and the Qatar Foreign Minister called on the Iraqi Islamic Army - which is believed to have abducted and executed Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni last month after Italy failed to meet demands to pull its troops from Iraq - to free the hostages. Even Hamas, which earlier in the week claimed responsibility for a deadly double...
...says its patent stays in effect while it appeals, but Chinese firms are already clamoring to legally make the drug. Says Lu Xinyu, marketing manager of drug-maker Beautiful Pearl Group, "I can't imagine how vicious the competition will be." - Matthew Forney/Beijing Floating On Air Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based independent broadcaster, is weighing a public offering on Doha's stock exchange within two or three years. To bolster its appeal to viewers and investors, an English-language version is planned as well as new documentary and children's channels...
...midnight, Russia's NTV television station abruptly fired star newsman Leonid Parfyonov and canceled his flagship Sunday night show, Namedni (The Other Day), which had run for 11 years. Two days earlier, the program had carried an exclusive interview with the widow of Chechen separatist Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, killed in Qatar last February, allegedly by two Russian agents now on trial in Doha . NTV ordered Parfyonov not to rebroadcast the segment. Parfyonov complied, but daily newspaper Kommersant ran both the interview and NTV's written order to kill it. The channel didn't hesitate to cancel the show. "Parfyonov...
...Brahimi's plan picks up support, they might still be able to steer Iraq toward democratic elections by January 2005. "It's unrealistic to think that in one year everything is going to be settled," Abizaid told TIME in his low-ceilinged office at Centcom headquarters in Doha, Qatar, after the visit to Iraq. "Yes, there is still violence and still some instability, but ... there is a lot of progress that shouldn't be overlooked...