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In the name of democracy

Recently, Princess Haifa Al Faisal, wife of Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., was questioned for rendering financial help to needy Saudi citizens who are alleged to have links to the September 11 aggressors, implying that Princess Haifa's donations were meant to finance terrorists.

In the recent parliamentary elections in Turkey, the Islamic Justice and Development Party won a nearly two-thirds majority.

The Republicans scored a resounding victory in the recent mid-term Congress elections. This is a historic result since it is only the third time in a century that the party in the White House has gained seats in the midterm elections.

In line with the political reforms that Bahrain has undertaken, the country has proceeded with its municipality election.

More than one-third of the factories in Fujairah produce non-metallic mineral products that comprise mainly building material, according to the statistical yearbook of 2001 recently released by the Fujairah Department of Statistics and Planning.

Amid U.S. preparations for the strike against Iraq, Baghdad has accepted the condition set by Washington to allow inspection of the presidential compounds in search for weapons of mass destruction.

During the last two decades, with the government's increasing emphasis on diversification of the economy, the manufacturing sector has made significant progress in Dubai.

Arab League Secretary General, Amr Moussa, recently visited Iraq in an attempt to resolve the current state of affairs between Iraq and the Arab world and to open a new page in inter-Arab ties.

The U.S. president George W. Bush, in his State of the Union address, included Iran in what he called an "axis of evil", hinting that, among other countries, it would face an attack in a future phase of the U.S. "war on terror".

The air transport industry registered an increase in the total number of flights from 107,399 in 1996 to 141,281 in 2000, an average annual growth rate of 5.6 per cent, according to the latest Dubai Municipality Statistical Yearbook for 2000.

Dubai's air traffic has shown rapid growth with the total number of flights increasing 32 per cent between 1996 and 2000, according to the recently released Dubai Municipality's Statistical Yearbook for 2000.