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		<title>High class dining in Dubai</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Touted by developers in the United Arab Emirates as &#8220;the world&#8217;s highest restaurant&#8221;, the At.mosphere lounge began seating guests on Sunday on the 122nd floor of the world&#8217;s tallest building, the 828-metre Burj Khalifa. http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2011/01/24/dubai-tallest-restaurant360.html]]></description>
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		<title>Wikileaks hits Dubai &#8211; exposes Afghan money laundering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In one astonishing incident in October 2009 the then vice-president, Ahmad Zia Massoud, was stopped and questioned in Dubai when he flew into the emirate with $52m in cash, according to one diplomatic report. Massoud, the younger brother of the legendary anti-Soviet resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, was detained by officials from the US and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abdb.com/2011/01/08/wikileaks-hits-dubai-exposes-afghan-money-laundering/</link>
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		<title>The world&#8217;s (16th) most expensive city</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dubai has been ranked the 16th most expensive city in the world, out of 73 of the world‘s cities, according to the latest ‘Prices and Earnings’ study conducted by UBS Wealth Management Research economists that was released on Wednesday. http://www.emirates247.com/news/emirates/dubai-16th-most-expensive-city-in-the-world-2010-09-16-1.291411]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abdb.com/2010/09/18/the-worlds-16th-most-expensive-city/</link>
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		<title>Dubai World to liquidate assets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In late July, the company set out its debt restructuring plan, including a time frame over which it would consider selling assets to raise funds to repay lenders. Since then it has been holding a series of roadshows to explain the plan in detail to creditors. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c96aea94-b07e-11df-8c04-00144feabdc0.html]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abdb.com/2010/08/30/dubai-world-to-liquidate-assets/</link>
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		<title>Trafficking on the rise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Human trafficking cases in Dubai increased by 58 per cent in the first half of this year when compared to the same period last year, police have revealed. In the first half of this year, there were 19 cases of human trafficking with 54 suspects arrested and 35 victims rescued by Dubai Police, Major General [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abdb.com/2010/07/30/trafficking-on-the-rise/</link>
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		<title>Dubai&#8217;s economic &#8220;Dunkirk&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1940, the British snatched victory from the jaws of defeat and certain invasion by evacuating 300,000 troops from the beaches of northern France. As we all know, Britain with the help of its allies recovered from the near disaster to eventually defeat Hitler’s Germany and the Axis powers. The rest is history. Officials in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abdb.com/2010/05/26/dubais-economic-dunkirk/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;A strong &#8216;can do&#8217; culture&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dubai is still considering a bid to host the Olympics in 2020, said the ruler of the Arab emirate Sunday as leaders and executives from the sports industry gathered in the city for an international convention. Dubai has spent billions of dollars to build sport venues and host high profile golf and tennis tournaments. Sheik [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abdb.com/2010/04/26/a-strong-can-do-culture/</link>
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		<title>UAE death penalty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A sordid story on the human cost of prohibition laws &#8211; much more severe than what they are trying to prevent: A court in the United Arab Emirates has sentenced 17 Indian nationals to death for killing a Pakistani man. About 50 people were involved in the fatal attack in which the Pakistani man was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abdb.com/2010/03/29/uae-death-penalty/</link>
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		<title>Sammy is free!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A rare whale shark that was a hotel attraction has been returned to the wild, the resort said Thursday, following an international campaign against the captivity. The 4.2-metre female was returned to the Gulf waters where it had been &#8220;rescued&#8221; said the hotel, where guests pay up to $7,500 US a night for a top [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abdb.com/2010/03/20/sammy-is-free/</link>
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		<title>Unity among Emirates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some good financial analysis on the shifting economic power arrangements of the UAE since the devastating crash of last year: Abu Dhabi has pumped $15 billion into Dubai since last year, providing proof of the strength of the federation but also evidence of a power shift within the union. The Dubai Financial Market may have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abdb.com/2010/03/16/unity-among-emirates/</link>
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