Marginalized Saudi city looks to U.N. for help
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Saudi Arabia is hoping  that the United Nations will step in to help save the historic  old city of Jeddah, whose unique Red Sea architecture is in  danger of disappearing.
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MANAMA, 21 December 2004 - Saudi Arabia yesterday called on Gulf leaders to strengthen their ties and unite their voices. âWe (the Gulf leaders) meet under one roof in Manama in disturbing regional and
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Saudi Arabia and other Gulf nations say they may arm if UN sanctions prove too weak.
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Saudi Arabia will seek to create a &quot;pro-business environment&quot; and foster investment opportunities in energy and other sectors, the oil-rich kingdom's investment chief said.
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U.S. ally Saudi Arabia said Tuesday it was working with Iran, America's top rival in the Mideast, to find ways to ease the crises in Lebanon and Iraq &#151; a departure from Washington's confrontational stance toward Tehran.
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With the Bush administration suffering a losing streak in the Middle East, it's called in the Saudi power broker to do some much-needed relief pitching
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Delegates from the around the world will spend four days discussing ways to combat terrorism at a conference hosted by a country some in the West blame for exporting terrorism, even as Saudi Arabia sees itself as the victim of such violence.
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DURBAN, South Africa  - Developing countries have pledged to band together to force the West to help tackle their problems, ranging from poverty to reform of the United Nations.
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International efforts to aid desperate victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster are picking up pace, said UN officials, who dismissed as unfair suggestions that the response had been slow.
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In a bold move, the United States is taking the United Nations Security Council on the road this week to help end the violence and terrible suffering in Sudan.
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The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees proposed autonomy for the troubled Darfur region of Sudan &#151; a solution the government has resisted but said Friday it would be willing to discuss anew in an effort to end the violence that has killed 50,000 people.
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MAYO, Sudan  - Hashim Khalil Osman peeks out from  the remains of his hut, partly bulldozed and then patched up  with plastic sacking, to see if help has arrived to alleviate  the misery of life in the slum suburbs of Khartoum.
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The United Nations urgently needs  international support to boost its presence in Somalia and  restore basic services, or the country could collapse into  chaos, U.N. aid officials said on Monday.
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WASHINGTON -- Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States said yesterday his country is working for a stable and acceptable price of oil and is concerned with poor countries unable to afford oil at $70 per barrel.
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Global efforts to assist victims  of the Indian Ocean tsunami are zeroing in on isolated parts of  Sumatra where hundreds of thousands of people may still need  emergency aid, the United Nations said on Thursday.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Palestinian factions on the brink of civil war gathered yesterday in Mecca, Islam's holiest city, in a last-ditch effort to end their bloody conflict. The Saudi-led push is key to any future peace talks with Israel -- and to Arab efforts to blunt Iran's growing power.
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The new U.N. envoy to Somalia made his first visit to the conflict-wracked capital on Saturday to discuss the humanitarian needs of the country with government officials.