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• Kuwait eyes increase in water, electricity capacity - Energy - ArabianBusiness.com

  Kuwait, named as one of the countries with the least secure water supplies in the world, plans to raise its desalinated water capacity by 75 percent in the next five years, a minister said on Tuesday.

   

• Palin skips Bethlehem in visit to Israel - World Wires - MiamiHerald.com

  **It's no surprise why. She prefers to think that Palestinians don't exist** Wearing a Star of David necklace, the Fox News Channel commentator and former Alaska governor met Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and right-wing politician and settlement supporter Danny Danon. She toured the Western Wall tunnels, one of Judaism's holiest sites, believed to be part of the biblical Jewish temple destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D. But she skipped a visit the adjacent Al Aqsa Mosque compound, the third holiest site to Muslims, and also canceled a planned trip to the West Bank town of Bethlehem, one of Christianity's most revered sites, though it wasn't clear why.

   

• CIA's 'Facebook' Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs | Onion News Network

  CIA's 'Facebook' Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs

   

• Qatar University set to begin Gulf Studies Programme | Education | AMEinfo.com

  Qatar University is to launch the Gulf Studies Programme, the first in the region and the second in the world, Gulf Times has reported. Set to begin in fall 2011, the undergraduate programme is designed to provide students with an interdisciplinary understanding of various social, historical, economic, and political developments that shape the Gulf states, their inter-connection between each other's communities, and their place within the global community.

   

• Burrito price hike leads to gun fight - U.S. news - Weird news - msnbc.com

  A Taco Bell customer enraged that the seven burritos he ordered had gone up in price fired a BB gun at an employee and later fired an assault rifle at officers before barricading himself in a motel room, police said.

   

• Violence in Syria after protester's death

  Hundreds of protesters set alight to the courthouse, other buildings and cars in the southern Syrian town of Dara'a on Sunday during protests. The violence came after at least one person was killed and more than 100 wounded, including two in critical condition, when security forces used live rounds against thousands of protesters on a third straight day of demonstrations in the city, rights activists said.

   

• GCC rail projects valued at $106.2bn

  The GCC countries are forging ahead with railway projects worth $ 106.2 billion, new research has revealed. Saudi Arabia leads the way with a total of 23 projects valued at $ 25.6bn, including the $ 6bn Makkah-Madina Railway Link which is currently under tender for construction.

   

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