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<title>Qatar Grants Millions in Aid to New Orleans</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The nation of Qatar plans to announce today roughly $60 million in grants to benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina, including $17.5 million to Xavier University of Louisiana, the only historically black Catholic university in the United States.]]></description>
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<title>Bush Set to Approve Takeover of 9 Military Plants by Dubai</title>
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<description><![CDATA[President Bush is expected on Friday to announce his approval of a deal under which a Dubai-owned company would take control of nine plants in the United States that manufacture parts for American military vehicles and aircraft, say two administration officials familiar with the terms of the deal.]]></description>
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<title>Positively Incestuous</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Just when you thought you were done with the Dubai Ports World deal to take control of our ports, it rears its ugly head again.]]></description>
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<title>Dubai Port Company to Divest Itself of American Holdings</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) announced on the Senate floor shortly before 2 p.m. that Dubai Ports World would "transfer fully the operations of U.S. ports to a U.S. entity." Warner, who had been trying to broker a compromise on the issue, said DP World would divest itself of U.S. interests "in an orderly fashion" so as not to suffer "economic loss."]]></description>
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<title>State Dept. trashes UAE rights record</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The State Department's human rights report ripping the United Arab Emirates landed with near-perfect bad timing for the White House yesterday in the middle of the ports sale debate.]]></description>
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<title>House Agrees To Vote On Ports</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Efforts by the White House to hold off legislation challenging a Dubai-owned company's acquisition of operations at six major U.S. ports collapsed yesterday when House Republican leaders agreed to allow a vote next week that could kill the deal. Appropriations Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.) will attach legislation to block the deal today to a must-pass emergency spending bill funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.]]></description>
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<title>Court OKs Dubai Ports purchase</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Britain


s High Court on Thursday approved a Dubai state-owned port operator


s takeover of British shipping company P&amp;O.]]></description>
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<title>UAE warns of threat to investments in political row</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Economic Minister Sheikha Lubna al-Qassimi said, "There is no hesitation, this will not deter the UAE from investing further. This is a business deal that somehow got politicised. But when you have deals that are prolonged by interference of a political nature, it may encourage many countries to go into investments in other places." She said India, China and some countries in Europe would be the likely beneficiaries.]]></description>
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<title>U.S. Reviewing 2nd Dubai Firm</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Bush administration, stung by the public outcry over the Dubai port deal, has launched a national security investigation of another Dubai-owned company set to take over plants in Georgia and Connecticut that make precision components used in engines for military aircraft and tanks.]]></description>
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<title>Chron.com _ Sept. 11 Report Ties Bin Laden to UAE</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The United States raised concerns with the United Arab Emirates seven years ago about possible ties between officials in that country and Osama bin Laden, according to a section of the Sept. 11 commission's report that details a possible missed opportunity to kill the al-Qaida leader.]]></description>
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