Saudi Arabia shows Aramco attack site damage

    Khurais: Saudi Arabia on Friday took media to inspect oil facilities hit by attacks that Washington and Riyadh blame on Iran, showing melted pipes and burnt equipment. ### The kingdom sees the Sept 14 strikes on its Khurais and Abqaiq facilities — the worst attack on Gulf oil infrastructure since Iraq’s Saddam Hussein torched Kuwaiti…

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      Franchising could even extend to skyscraper windows

      Generally speaking, radiology, cooking oil and skyscraper windows aren’t exactly the first images that come to mind when one thinks of franchising. Yet, all three are the central theme of relatively new franchise models, and exemplify franchising’s wider untapped potential. ### And there’s plenty more where those come from. ### To the uninitiated, franchising might…

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        Is it finally curtains on the Netanyahu show?

        He was desperate, and he has come up short. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu bared his inner being in the run-up to the Israeli election — promising to annex much of the West Bank, inciting hatred against Palestinians in 1948 areas, railing about plots against him — only to find that Israelis may have had…

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          How to transform lives

          It is heart-warming to read stories about real-life angels who come to the rescue of those less fortunate and help them to make something of themselves and dare to dream big. ### I read with interest one such tale about an office boy (actually a man but this term seems to have become common usage)…

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