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Muscat and Riyadh were the preferred departure airports at the start of the conflict as the airspace and flight corridors were more predictable, although Dubai has since become more popular as the emirate is home to many people who are trying to leave the region, Vorster explained.
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Jack Guy, CNN Money, 12 Mar. 2026
Abu Dhabi Deputy Ruler Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed is pushing ahead with deals in the US to meet his emirate’s massive appetite for AI.
—Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 10 Mar. 2026
In Dubai, five-star hotels caught fire, explosions shattered the windows of apartment towers and the emirate’s international airport was damaged, injuring four people.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2026
But social media is full of videos of interceptors and objects flying in the sky, an unthinkable scene in the emirate.
—Dana Khraiche, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2026
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Jack Guy, CNN Money, 12 Mar. 2026
Abu Dhabi Deputy Ruler Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed is pushing ahead with deals in the US to meet his emirate’s massive appetite for AI.
—Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 10 Mar. 2026
In Dubai, five-star hotels caught fire, explosions shattered the windows of apartment towers and the emirate’s international airport was damaged, injuring four people.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2026
But social media is full of videos of interceptors and objects flying in the sky, an unthinkable scene in the emirate.
—Dana Khraiche, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2026
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This includes Russia and the tiny oil and gas sultanate of Brunei, said Indonesian Energy Minister Bahlil Lahadalia.—
Anton L. Delgado,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Mar. 2026
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This includes Russia and the tiny oil and gas sultanate of Brunei, said Indonesian Energy Minister Bahlil Lahadalia.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
30 Mar. 2026
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Monaco's population of 38,000 is heavily Catholic and multinational, with only a fifth of the population actually citizens of the principality.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2026
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Monaco’s population of 38,000 is heavily Catholic and multinational, with only a fifth of the population actually citizens of the principality.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
28 Mar. 2026
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Even so, the kingdom was facing a drop of more than 25% in exports last month.—
Gerry Doyle,
Fortune,
5 Apr. 2026
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Whatever efficiency may be gained from using the tool could easily be undone in the event a threat actor obtains the keys to a network kingdom.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
3 Apr. 2026
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This also marks the second-biggest domestic launch of all time for Illumination, the animation empire founded by Chris Meledandri.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
5 Apr. 2026
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Over the centuries, it would be conquered by empires of varying beliefs.—
Seth Doane,
CBS News,
5 Apr. 2026
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But right from the start of the republic, presidents have chosen close political allies to serve as attorney general.—
Austin Sarat,
The Conversation,
3 Apr. 2026
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Its Ten-Point Plan calls for a secular democratic republic, a non-nuclear Iran, gender equality, separation of religion and state, a free-market economy, peaceful coexistence with the world, and recognition of the rights of Iran’s diverse nationalities within a unified country.—
Kazem Kazerounian,
Hartford Courant,
1 Apr. 2026
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The Austrian archduchess Marie Louise, former empress of the French, who was granted Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla for her lifetime, preserved some of the Napoleonic administrative and legal structure in the duchy.—
Britannica Editors,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
12 Mar. 2026
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La Tour was born in Lorraine, a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire, in 1593, twenty-one years after Caravaggio, whose sensational combination of naturalism and theater, light and dark, formed him as a painter.—
Nicole Krauss,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
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Mamdani didn't take kindly to the Nassau County executive's incursion into his domain, CBS News New York's Marcia Kramer reported.—
Marcia Kramer,
CBS News,
30 Mar. 2026
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Technical fluency without domain fluency produces impressive demos and disappointing results.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
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The sovereign's sisters, Princesses Caroline and Stephanie, stood side by side.—
Séraphine Roger,
Vanity Fair,
28 Mar. 2026
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The hope was that the visit, the first by a British sovereign in nearly two decades, would help smooth fractured relations between the two nations.—
Harriet Marsden,
TheWeek,
18 Mar. 2026
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