The Global Cranes, Lifting and Handling Equipment Market – Key Trends and Opportunities to 2018 (PR Newswire)
NEW YORK, Feb. 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — SynopsisAsia-Pacific was the largest regional market, accounting for 45.7% of the global cranes, lifting and handling equipment market in 2013. It was followed by Europe and North America, with respective shares of 33.6% and 11.9%. Recovery in European and North American countries, andContinue Reading
UAE Suspended ISIS Airstrikes In December (International Business Times)
An EA-18G Growler launches from the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) in this U.S. Navy picture taken in the Arabian Gulf October 28, 2014. Reuters/U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class John Philip Wagner Jr./Handout via Reuters U.S. officials confirmed, late on Wednesday, that the United Arab EmiratesContinue Reading
Will to fight terrorism is still weak (Business Recorder (Pakistan))
Last week, a suicide bomber massacred more than 60 people many of them in their early teens or younger, like the boys killed in last December’s attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar at a Shikarpur Imambargah in Sindh during Friday congregation. This happened on the day Prime MinisterContinue Reading
Prince Charles to visit Saudi Arabia from Saturday during Mid East tour (The Balochistan Times (Pakistan))
Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, will visit the Saudi Arabia next week during his sixday tour of a number of Arab countries, a British Embassy official in Riyadh said. Salah Taha, press officer at the British Embassy in Riyadh, said during his visit to the Kingdom, Prince Charles will meetContinue Reading
Vine under fire for 'five-figure' speech to arms trade (The Independent)
Jeremy Vine, the Radio 2 host who will help to lead the BBC’s general election coverage, has been accused of damaging the corporation’s reputation by speaking at a gathering of arms trade executives. The former Panorama and Newsnight presenter gave the post-dinner speech at a £250-a-head gathering this week atContinue Reading
Is There Any Logic Behind The Islamic State's Barbarism? (Investor's Business Daily)
Charles Krauthammer Why did they do it? What did the Islamic State think it could possibly gain by burning alive a captured Jordanian pilot? I wouldn’t underestimate the absence of logic, the sheer depraved thrill of a triumphant cult reveling in its barbarism. But I wouldn’t overestimate it either. YouContinue Reading
UAE Stops Airstrikes Against Islamic State After Execution: Officials (Newsweek)
Planes belonging to the Jordanian Royal Air Force fly over the headquarters of the family clan of pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh in the city of Karak February 4, 2015.Muhammad Hamed/Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates has withdrawn from flying air strikes in the U.S.-led international coalition campaign against IslamicContinue Reading
Jordan pilot Islamic State execution video triggers Sunni outrage throughout Middle East (The Washington Times)
Top Sunni Muslim clerics in the Middle East on Wednesday condemned Islamic State extremists as enemies of God who deserve to be crucified for burning alive a captured Jordanian fighter pilot, breathing new life into U.S. attempts to increase Sunni Arab participation in the U.S.-led coalition against the extremists. AdministrationContinue Reading