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    Friday Nov 20

    Playing the waiting game

    For four days Mick O'Reilly, Deputy Managing Editor, has witnessed the waiting game played by thousands of truck drivers trying to cross into Saudi Arabia at Al Ghuwaifat, where the E11 ends and the rest of the GCC begins. Parallel to this long, straight road for many kilometres on end, construction crews are building a new high-voltage transmission line to link the UAE grid with the rest of the GCC economies. When complete, power will flow between the countries’ economies. But there is also an irony in that the goods and materials needed to sustain those economies have been twice delayed at this border post in the last five months. Twice a tourniquet has been applied to this artery, clogging it for days on end. The power and the powerless...

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    Wednesday Nov 18

    Shaikh Mohammad attends Dubai Police Academy graduation

    His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, attended the Dubai Police Academy graduation on Wednesday morning.

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    Tuesday Nov 17

    15 of the best staff pictures: Nov 11 - 17

    The pick of the best pictures taken by Gulf News photographers this week.

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    Monday Nov 16

    Offbeat news: Nov 11 - 17

    We bring you a pick of the best offbeat news from around the world this week

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    Saturday Nov 14

    Comoros: The little-known Arab nation

    Few outside Africa have heard about the Union of the Comoros, a small island nation in the Indian Ocean, off the eastern coast of Africa. Certainly few Arabs know about that country although it is officially an Arab nation.

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    Wednesday Nov 11

    Palestinians mark Arafat death anniversary

    Palestinians living in the West Bank are marking five years since the death of their legendary leader, Yasser Arafat.

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    Tuesday Nov 10

    Man becomes first to swim around Palm Jumeirah

    A Dubai-based man became the first person to swim around the Palm Jumeirah on Saturday, in memory of his friend who died from bowel cancer last year.

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    Tuesday Nov 10

    15 of the best staff pictures: Nov 4 - 10

    The pick of the best pictures taken by Gulf News photographers this week.

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    Monday Nov 9

    Offbeat news: Nov 4 - 10

    We bring you a pick of the best offbeat news from around the world this week.

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    Sunday Nov 8

    Remembering the fall of the Berlin Wall

    They were called the Wall Woodpeckers - the thousands who had gathered around the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, to break it down for good. Take a walk back into history and travel around the erstwhile East and West Germany with Gulf News reader Veronica Scocci, an Italian national who flew into Germany to witness the event that reunified the country.

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