Saudi, Kuwait cut rates, UAE opts out for first time (Khaleej Times)
DUBAI/ABU DHABI – Saudi Arabia joined Kuwait and Bahrain in lowering interest rates to ease credit conditions and underpin their banking systems on Thursday while the United Arab Emirates made a shock decision for the first time not to match a US interest rate cut.
Optimism drives Bush peace push
Matthew Price sees a change in George Bush’s approach as the US president completes a long Middle East tour.
Activist ship docks in Gaza
A boat carrying pro-Palestinian activists reaches Gaza despite an Israeli blockade, the second such voyage in three months.
Three generations
Sixty years in exile for the Diab family
Currency Buying Rate Selling Rate (Daily News)
Bahrain Dinar 286.48 Kuwait Dinar 402.14 Oman Rial 280.52 Qatar Riyal 29.66 Saudi Arabia Riyal 28.78 UAE Dirham 29.40 The Average Weighted Prime Lending Rate (AWPR) and the Lowest Prime Rate (LPR) during the week ended 24th October, 2008 by all commercial banks was 20.00 per cent and 15.25 per cent respectively.
Splits behind Gaza medics strike
The factional fighting in the Palestinian Territories may have died down, but a new political battleground has emerged – the hospitals of the Gaza Strip.
Embargo eased?
Hamas-Israel truce brings little relief in Gaza
Palestinian peace camp
In the latest of a series on attempts to achieve peace in the Middle East and the main obstacles, Martin Patience looks at the Palestinian peace movement.
Qatar, Saudi in same Gulf Cup group (Gulf Times)
MUSCAT: Qatar have been placed in group B along with defending champions UAE, Saudi Arabia and Yemen for the 19th Gulf Cup to be held in January, 2009.
Sderot children feel relief
Heather Sharp reports from Sderot, as children in the rocket-hit southern Israeli town return to school ten weeks into the Hamas-Israel truce.
UAE Ready for AGCC Tourney (Khaleej Times)
DUBAI – A ten-member delegation of the UAE Tennis Association will leave for Riyadh on Friday to participate in the AGCC junior tennis championship which starts on November 1.
Focus on the Gaza Strip
Profile of the strip, including population centres, refugee camps and border crossings.
