Nichols had ties to Philippine locales known to be frequented by Middle Eastern terrorists.
OPEC, which is dominated by Middle Eastern producers, owns three-quarters of the world's proven reserves (see chart), it currently produces only 41% of the world's annual oil supply.
It is a long way from last July when they were taken over by Middle Eastern consortium Munto, with the much-heralded plan of leading the league's oldest club to the top flight within five years.
In January 2012, the European Court of Human Rights blocked Britain from sending him to Jordan because of fears that evidence obtained by torture could be used against him at the trial planned by the Middle Eastern country.
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The Magpies, who were recently taken over by a Middle-Eastern consortium, and Eriksson's agent Athole Still are refusing to confirm his involvement.
Barclays ( BCS - news - people ) avoiding government assistance only by tapping its Middle Eastern investors and selling a lucrative part of its Global Investors division.
This drop may be related to any number of factors, including an economic slowdown and new caution by both Western and Middle Eastern investors.
While one emirate, Bahrain, has dodged such pitfalls by enshrining primogeniture, some Middle Eastern monarchies have altered rules so that the reigning king simply appoints his successor.
One of the most beloved pieces Matisse made during those last few years is an abstract take on "One Thousand and One Nights, " the famed collection of Middle Eastern folk tales relayed by the fictional Scheherazade each evening to avoid death at the hands of a murderous Persian king.
In some Middle Eastern countries, expatriates outnumber locals by as much as 6 to 1.
Venezuela has shown in the past that it listens to the Americans: during the Gulf war, when Middle Eastern output fell, Venezuela obliged by producing more.
It helps his war against terrorism, by potentially helping to wean America from its dependence on Middle Eastern oil.
One line of inquiry this week will likely be the so-called Phoenix memo, a missive written July 2001 by a field agent in Arizona who urged a broad review of Middle Eastern men taking flight lessons in the United States and raised the prospect that Osama bin Laden was involved.
Crown has differentiated itself from other U.S. container companies by expanding into underpenetrated overseas markets, like eastern Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
In Europe some avoided state cash by treating existing shareholders badly: witness the money that Barclays hurriedly raised from Middle Eastern investors last year.
He owns 7% of the voting shares of News Corp. (not 7% of the company, as other media outlets have reported today), as well a stake in Apple and Middle Eastern media and music group Rotana (which is partly owned by News Corp).
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Israeli government officials said Reid traveled to this Middle Eastern country for "around 10 days" in July before apparently heading by land to Egypt.
For example, a letter sent by Jeffrey Collins, the U.S. attorney in Detroit, to men from Middle Eastern and predominately Muslim countries in eastern Michigan, strikes a solicitous note.
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Joshua Landis, director of the Center for Middle East Studies and associate professor of Middle Eastern studies at the University of Oklahoma, said Alawites live "cheek by jowl" near Sunnis in Homs, Hama and Idlib province in the west.
That month, the phone hit European and Middle Eastern markets and then more broadly to other countries including the U.S. by July.
Stock markets around the globe were badly shaken by the potential spread of a credit crisis from the U.S. This was not lost on Middle Eastern markets which started selling-off Sunday, their first day of trading, and carried through Tuesday.
The Middle Eastern consortium have agreed to buy the club, but the deal is yet to be sanctioned by the Notts County Supporters Trust.
Mr Blocher was cheered by a crowd of middle-aged mainly German-speakers, stressing the support his People's Party enjoys in eastern Switzerland, particularly in the smaller, tradition-minded cantons.
It is the most populous of the Arab nations adjoining the Middle Eastern conflict zone, with an ancient tradition of Islamic scholarship, and a citizenry that is tempted by fundamentalism but also admires some things about the West.
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