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Generalising Tunisia: Context overrides story

When faced with problems, most authoritarian regimes maintain a policy of rigidity when the appropriate response would be flexibility, political wisdom and concessions. This policy gives authoritarian leaders their ability to control their populations to serve the interests of a few individuals and political and military elites. It can also, however, usher their downfall, for populations can only be oppressed, controlled and punished to a point.

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Development guarantees security: UAE

MANAMA — Qatar’s winning a bid to host the World Cup in 2022 could mean that real security goes beyond buffer zones, fences and walls, UAE Foreign Minister Shaikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, said at the IISS Security Dialogue Forum in Manama on Saturday.

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Monsoons, naval forces chase pirates away

DUBAI - Pirate attacks have fallen in the Arabian Sea with the advent of the South West Monsoons, but are expected to pick up in August when the rains subside, according to the International Maritime Bureau Piracy Reporting Centre (IMB). The buccaneers, meanwhile, are turning their attention to other areas like the Gulf of Aden and the southern Red Sea.

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BP reported to halt fuelling of Iranian planes

TEHRAN - Iran complained on Monday that its planes had been denied fuel in Germany, Britain and the United Arab Emirates, and Washington said commercial firms were making the “right choices” by cutting business ties with Tehran.

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