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• Qatar Foundation unit set to boost Arabic Wikipedia - Technology - ArabianBusiness.com

  A unit of Qatar Foundation has signed a partnership deal to reinvigorate the Arabic content of Wikipedia, the world's largest free encyclopaedia, it was reported on Sunday.Qatar Computing Research Institute is in partnership with Wikimedia Foundation to increase the quantity and quality of online Arabic contributions, Qatar's Gulf Times said.

  tags: technology MiddleEast arabic qatar knowledge

• Qatari Diar to invest $543.8m in Egyptian projects - Banking & Finance - ArabianBusiness.com

  Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company on Sunday said it had signed a contract worth more than $543.8m for projects in Egypt. The contract with with Consolidated Contractors Company allots $464.3m to the company's Nile Corniche project in Cairo and $79.5m to its coastal resort project in Sharm El Sheikh.

  tags: Egypt Cairo MiddleEast qatar swf

• Obama’s Re-election Model: Bush ‘04

  It was a bad economy, the country was thoroughly committed to increasingly unpopular military conflicts in the Middle East, and the president’s popularity was low.  No — we’re not talking about President Barack Obama, we’re talking about President George. W. Bush. Or rather, we’re talking about both, and because of that, the current president’s reelection team is looking his predecessor’s 2004 success very closely

  tags: obama politics bush politicians elections democrats

• Cantor Speech Canceled for Fear of Being Occupied

  It could have been a match made in heaven — Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor wanted to make a speech about income inequality at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and the people from Occupy Philadelphia wanted to be there.  But while both parties wanted to address the same general topic, they were on opposite sides of the political spectrum. So Cantor’s speech, in which he imagines what he would say to a “9-year-old, inner city kid scared to death, growing up in a life of poverty,” was canceled.

  tags: republicans poverty gini protest occupywallstreet

• UAE to give Egypt $3bn aid

  The United Arab Emirates plans to provide $ 3 billion in financial aid to Egypt but is still discussing the mechanism to deliver it, a senior UAE official said on Saturday. “The UAE has approved an assistance of $ 3 billion to Egypt, but the mechanism is still subject to discussion,” Obaid Humaid Al Tayer, Minister of State for Financial Affairs, told reporters.

  tags: UAE abudhabi Egypt revolution imperialism

• Port wine cherishes its past, looks for a future | The Associated Press | Food & Wine | Washington Examiner

  The syrupy after-dinner drink has long been a hallmark European product, like Parma ham, Greek feta or French champagne. The business has withstood foreign and domestic wars, economic depressions and a 19th-century plant blight that wiped out many of the continent's vineyards. The 21st century is no less challenging. Shifting consumer fashions and financial crises in places where port has always sold well have crunched earnings and cast a cloud over the trade's future. That is forcing producers to step outside their comfort zone and explore distant new markets.

  tags: port portugal europe alcohol drinks

• Could a Russia-US rail tunnel be built? - BBC

  Russian officials have backed the idea of a rail tunnel linking Russia and the US. It would run under the Bering Strait for 105km (65 miles) - twice the length of the UK-France Channel Tunnel. The tunnel itself has been estimated to cost $10-12bn and to take 10-15 years to build.

  tags: russia UnitedStates politics transportation

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