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MANAMA: The Gulf Cooperation Council conference opens Monday amid an increasingly unstable security situation in Iraq and a trade disagreement between Saudi Arabia, its largest member, and
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Bahrain King Sheikh Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa gives the opening address at the Gulf Cooperation Council Summit, in the Bahraini capital of Manama, December 20, 2004.
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CHICAGO -- The Conference of Catholic Bishops, which aims to bring church leaders together, is once again riddled by deep division.
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The differences of opinion come as the community prepares to enjoy power for the first time in Iraq's history.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Dec. 15 -- Organizers of the international climate conference here presented an open-ended compromise proposal to delegates from 190 nations early Saturday in hopes of bridging disagreements over how to begin negotiating a new treaty to combat global warming.
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At a meeting in Riyadh, leaders of the two nations discussed Iraq's tensions and regional Shiite-Sunni mistrust.
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A conference on the integration of asylum seekers in Scottish society is to be held in Glasgow.
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Fox-hunting and the Iraq war threaten to overshadow the start of Labour&#39;s conference on Sunday - expected to be the last before the general election.
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DUBAI: The oil-rich Gulf states hold their annual summit next week amid a persistent threat from Islamic militants and growing differences between regional giant Saudi Arabia and its smaller neighbors.
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An international conference aimed at supporting the Iraqi political process begins in Egypt.
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U.S. Episcopal bishops began a conference on Thursday expected to be dominated by a schism over gay clergy and same-sex unions that threatens to split the global Anglican church.
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Established Shiite parties and powerful upstarts are feuding, causing their leading cleric to try to pull them together to ensure that the Shiites clearly dominate the new government.
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Manama (Bahrain), Dec 20 (PTI) Six Gulf countries began their annual summit here today amid growing differences on free trade deals with the US resulting in Saudi Arabia&#39;s Crown Prince opting out of the meet which is expected to discuss means to tackle
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Leaders of six Gulf Arab states began talks on Monday, facing a spat over a US-Bahraini free trade deal that diplomats say could threaten economic agreements between the members of the oil-rich bloc.
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Leaders of of the Gulf Cooperation Council have begun talks in Bahrain, overshadowed by economic differences between members of the oil-rich bloc.
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GCC members have decided to regulate all trade deals their countries forge with a third party, following the dispute between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain on the issue, a minister who attended the GCC meetings said.
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A deadline is raising tensions and upping the stakes in a UN-Khartoum showdown.