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• Numbers 

  3RD WORLD'S FASTEST GROWING CITY: SANA'A 13TH BIGGEST GLOBAL CITY BY POPULATION: CAIRO 16TH LARGEST POPULATION IN THE WORLD: EGYPT

  10/01/09 · More from publication

• The view from Islamabad 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I do not support Al Qaeda and abhor the attacks of 9/11 and the others that followed. I do not think violence is an answer...

  10/01/09 by Ajay Aloaud · More from publication

• In the name of democracy: the new head of the CIA, director Leon Panetta, has his work cut out as he settles into the new job 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Six months into his new term as head of the CIA, director Leon Panetta received a briefing that must have made the veteran...

  10/01/09 by Milan Vesely · More from publication

• Strength in adversity: the Middle East presents its annual listing of the region's top 100 banks 

  Our 2009 survey of the Top 100 Middle Eastern Banks has a familiar ring to it. Saudi Arabia's National Commercial Bank continues to occupy the top...

  10/01/09 by Neil Ford · More from publication

• Why Tunisia is Africa's most competitive economy: Tunisia continues to add to its already impressive collection of international accolades: in 2009 the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report has ranked Tunisia as the Most Competitive Country 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] These highly sought-after rankings have very significant implications even in the best of global economic conditions: in...

  10/01/09 by Anver Versi · More from publication

• SWFs suffer "reversal of fortune" amid market meltdown 

  The sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) of the GCC governments fuelled (until recently) by swelling external trade surpluses have aggressively raised...

  10/01/09 by Moin Siddiqi · More from publication

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