al-Madinah Province

High quality services for UAE pilgrims in Medina

Head of the UAE Official Hajj Mission Mohammed Obeid Al Mazrouie toured accommodation complexes which house UAE pilgrims in the holy city of Medina this week, to get first-hand information about services provided by Hajj...

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State budget gap widens

An additional $760 million in hoped-for state revenue evaporated in the latest economic forecast, and lawmakers began talking up the pros and cons of tax increases to help plug a budget shortfall now estimated at $2.7 billion.

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Reality Check: The Hajj

It's the greatest yearly pilgrimage on Earth. BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | NOVEMBER 20, 2009 This month, hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims from around the globe are converging upon the Saudi Arabian holy cities of Mecca and...

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Delft Researchers Create New Metabolic Pathway in Yeast to Boost Ethanol Yield from Biomass Waste

Researchers from Delft University of Technology have engineered the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to increase ethanol yield from biomass waste by eliminating production of glycerol (glycerol production is essential to...

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Region's stocking full of ideas for those on the prowl for holiday gifts [Akron Beacon Journal,...

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Nov. 20--When Michelle Sahr was approached about expanding her My Little Red Wagon stores in Stow and Hudson to a third location in Kent, she was skeptical about selling toys in a college town. The...

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Couple charged with animal cruelty

Two others were euthanized. Conley, 58, and his live-in girlfriend, Jillian Medina, 25, both were charged after an investigation into their horse rescue shelter located off Tranquility Lane near Brooksville. Seven horses were...

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An Oath Violated

The Koran defines kafirs. The word "unbeliever" does not remotely carry the meaning of kafir. A kafir is less than human. The word "kafir" is the worst word in the human language. Kafirs can be hated, assassinated, deceived,...

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When columns collide: Domino's bread bowls

Con by Eric Herbert Henney I've put some awful, awful things in my stomach. Giant turkey legs, deep-fried Oreos-I've even had pork rinds. But I have never assaulted myself as badly as I did the night I tried a chicken alfredo...

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Charges filed in '03 triple slaying at Md. strip club

Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, November 20, 2009 Police in Prince George's County have charged a man in connection with a triple slaying that occurred more than six years ago outside a Landover Hills strip club,...

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Disasters for Ottoman “Soft Power” in 1579

From the luridly titled “Global Politics in the 1580s: One Canal, Twenty Thousand Cannibals, and an Ottoman Plot to Rule the World” by Giancarlo Casale in Journal of World History 18(2007):277-281 (on Project MUSE): During the...

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