Eastern Province News
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LDK Solar Co., the Chinese solar- panel maker that has reported seven straight quarters of losses, said it agreed to provide 500 megawatts of wafers to Realforce Power Co.
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An Afghan policeman was killed and three were wounded in a five-hour gun battle with Pakistani troops along the countries’ disputed border, an official said.
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Iran and Pakistan were hit by a major earthquake centered on the region straddling their common border and felt as far away as Dubai and Delhi.
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People learn from catastrophes. Amid the grief and speculation over the Boston bombings, two things stand out to me: a refusal to rush to judgment in the U.S. commentary and the absence of schadenfreude in the Arab media.
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China’s eastern province of Zhejiang found four new cases of H7N9 bird flu, bringing the number of people infected there to 25, the National Health and Family Planning Commission said on its website.
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Brent crude fell below $100 a barrel for the first time since July amid signs global economic growth may slow, curbing fuel demand. West Texas Intermediate declined to a four-month low on speculation U.S. supplies rose.
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Rescuers suspended work at the site of a landslide that buried 83 people at a copper mine in Tibet owned by China Gold International Resources Corp. on safety concerns, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
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A Saudi Shiite was killed and one other was injured after being shot by police in the Shiite village of Awamiyah in the Qatif area of the oil-rich Eastern province, the Kingdom’s ministry of the interior said today.
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Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah appointed Prince Saud bin Nayef as the governor of the kingdom’s Eastern Province, home to the world’s largest onshore oil field.
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