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...the Pacific coast....
...The kingdom shares a border with the Jewish state and is the custodian of the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, which necessitates regular co-operation with Israeli authorities....
...seize an oil tanker off the coast of Oman....
...His name is Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan . . . He is one of the most powerful men on Earth, and yet the ruler of the United Arab Emirates maintains a relatively low profile on the world stage....
...It comes iced, nitro (cold brew made with nitrogen gas for an ultra-smooth texture) or hot, with all of the usual suspects represented: macchiato, cappuccino, cortadito et al....
...On Sunday, China’s foreign ministry released a scathing 25-page white paper entitled “The state of Democracy in the United States”, which almost exclusively cited American sources on money’s grip over US...
...“We had said before that we would sell our oil in any [possible] way,” he was quoted as saying by a state news agency....
...Iran has denied that the tanker was headed to Syria, despite Tehran being one of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s main backers during the Arab state’s eight-year civil war....
...A UAE investigation into the sabotage of four tankers off the coast of Fujairah last month only went as far as blaming a state actor for the incident....
...The average southern California longshore worker earned $131,000 in 2017, according to the Pacific Maritime Association, the terminals’ bargaining group....
...Saudi Arabia said two of its oil tankers came under attack off the coast of the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, describing the assault as a “dangerous threat” to the security of international crude supplies...
...He urged Gulf Co-operation Council states to work together to maintain security in the wake of what he called “criminal” attacks against four oil tankers off the United Arab Emirates coast and oil pumping...
...Arab state....
...As if on cue, four commercial vessels, including two Saudi Arabian oil tankers, appear to have been sabotaged or attacked just off the coast of the United Arab Emirates....
...Take it all in from the new Hotel Joaquin, a renovated mid-century motel on the Pacific Coast Highway....
...Saudi Arabia said on Monday that two of its oil tankers were among the four commercial vessels that were attacked off the coast of the United Arab Emirates over the weekend....
...The process was accelerated after the sinking of the tanker Erika off the coast of Brittany in 1999, an accident that was considered one of France’s worst environmental disasters....
...Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment on the new sanctions, adding: “It is the United States of America that needs to be asked about the arguments for these sanctions.”...
...The United States has surged ahead of us, though....
...“The game is probably going to be back in the United States,” he tells me....
...Energy Agency....
...United States of Japan, by Peter Tieryas, Angry Robot, RRP£8.99/$14.99 Sometimes you just feel the need for a story about giant robots, virtual reality and sumo wrestlers....
...“It is an extremely important counterterrorism platform for the United States; within striking distance of two active affiliates — AQIP [al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula] and al-Shabaab in Somalia.”...
...Angels Karlie Kloss, Doutzen Kroes, Lily Aldridge et al fly into London for the first Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on British soil (@victoriasecret)....
...The latest case, Google v Joffe et al, involves a class action suit stemming from the company’s illicit collection of snippets of information from WiFi networks in homes that its StreetView cars were passing...
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