It is expected that the USS Kearsarge and USS Wasp would move from the Gulf of Oman.

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Sharjah is the only emirate in the UAE that stretches along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman.

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Nearby bodies of water -- including the Gulf of Oman, Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden and Red Sea -- are labeled.

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It has also leased a 12, 000-acre land area to Chinese developers for a zone in Gwadar Port in Baluchistan Province, near the entrance to the Gulf of Oman.

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"A more general approach has focused on Combined Task Force 150 (CTF 150), a coalition naval task force covering the Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Arabian Sea, Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, " the report states.

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And Simon Murie, founder of niche tour operator Swimtrek, says the Strait of Hormuz (Oman-Iran), Gulf of Aqaba (Egypt-Saudi Arabia) and La Perouse Strait (Hokkaido, Japan - Sakhalin, Russia) are all waiting to be swum.

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Although the risk from Dubai is not systemically important on a global level, it is significant across the United Arab Emirates and the rest of Gulf Cooperation Council--Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar.

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What's new this past year is that five of the six-member states that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council (Oman being the outlier) are attempting NATO-like security cooperation despite their different agendas and historical antipathies.

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But Thailand is wavering over plans to import gas from Oman, and invest in offshore gas fields in Indonesia and the Gulf of Thailand.

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While the developed world, led by the U.S., staggered through a global credit crunch, China's gross domestic product grew 11% in the first quarter, and the Gulf Cooperation Council--the oil-rich federation of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates--averaged nearly 7% growth in the same period.

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It also would enable the USSR to attain unprecedented entree into nations like Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Oman nations that have traditionally taken a dim view of Soviet activities in the Gulf.

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It also would enable the USSR to attain unprecedented entree into nations like Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Oman -- nations that have traditionally taken a dim view of Soviet activities in the Gulf.

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