<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Persian Gulf: News &amp; Videos about Persian Gulf - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Persian_Gulf</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Persian Gulf from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:11:12 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Persian Gulf: News &amp; Videos about Persian Gulf - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Persian_Gulf</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Persian Gulf from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Iranian military conducts 'routine' aerial exercises</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/23/iran.military.aerial/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/23/iran.military.aerial/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iran's military is conducting aerial exercises in the Persian Gulf, U.S. military sources said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. Persian Gulf forces cautioned on Iran</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/13/us.military.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/13/us.military.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>U.S. military commanders in the Middle East were sent a message reminding American forces to maintain discipline and prudence if they encounter any Iranian military forces during potential unrest surrounding Iran's presidential election, CNN has learned.</description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Navy sub commander relieved of duty after collision</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/04/14/navy.collision/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/04/14/navy.collision/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The commander of a U.S. Navy submarine that collided with another Navy ship last month has been relieved of duty, according to a U.S. Navy statement issued Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Military mortuary open to media for first time since 1991</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/06/war.dead.media.coverage/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/06/war.dead.media.coverage/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>For the first time since media coverage was banned in 1991, the return of the body of a fallen member of the U.S. armed forces was opened to news outlets late Sunday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. Navy vessels in Bahrain for evaluation after collision</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/03/21/navy.vessels.collide/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/03/21/navy.vessels.collide/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A U.S. Navy submarine and a Navy amphibious ship that collided Friday in the Strait of Hormuz south of Iran have arrived in Bahrain to be assessed for damage, the Navy said.</description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:26:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Republicans Block Heating Aid Bill</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1826876,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1826876,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Republicans on Saturday blocked the Senate from considering a bill next week that would nearly double federal aid to help the poor pay heating bills</description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sizing up Iran's oil threat</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/10/news/international/iran_oil/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/10/news/international/iran_oil/index.htm</guid><description>Iranian missile tests. Reports of covert U.S. operations inside the country. Israeli military exercises designed to simulate an attack on Iran.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:18:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. aircraft carrier moves into position for Afghanistan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/07/08/carrier.moves/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/07/08/carrier.moves/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has moved from the Persian Gulf into the Gulf of Oman so its warplanes can fly missions over Afghanistan, where attacks have been rising, the U.S. military said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. cargo ship fires warning shots in Persian Gulf, Navy says</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/04/25/iran.shots/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/04/25/iran.shots/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A U.S.-contracted cargo ship fired warning shots in the Persian Gulf at two small patrol boats believed to be from Iran, U.S. Navy officials said Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran denies confrontation at sea with U.S. Navy</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/04/12/iran.us/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/04/12/iran.us/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iran denied a report that several of its boats taunted a U.S. Navy vessel in the Persian Gulf on Thursday night, according to IRNA, Iran's official news agency.</description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. patrol craft fires flare over Iranian boat </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/04/11/iran.us/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/04/11/iran.us/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The USS Typhoon fired a warning flare during a confrontation Thursday night with three small Iranian boats in the Persian Gulf, a U.S. military official said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dozens of vehicles burn in massive Emirates wreck </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/03/11/emirates.wreck/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/03/11/emirates.wreck/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Six people were killed, at least 40 were injured and dozens of vehicles burned Tuesday when hundreds of cars collided on a fog-shrouded Persian Gulf highway.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A lower start for Wall Street</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/28/markets/markets_nyopen/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/28/markets/markets_nyopen/index.htm</guid><description>Stocks took a knock at the start of trading Thursday as investors fretted about continued weakness in the U.S. economy.</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:31:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>UAE goes CR4ZY over license plates</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/04/uae.plates/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/04/uae.plates/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>You expect a motorist to shell out a little extra cash for a vanity license plate.</description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:32:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Third undersea Internet cable cut in Mideast</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/01/internet.outage/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/01/internet.outage/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>An undersea cable carrying Internet traffic was cut off the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai, officials said Friday, the third loss of a line carrying Internet and telephone traffic in three days.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:18:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>India Racing to Restore Internet</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1709062,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1709062,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Bandwidth providers said they expected India's Internet service to be back to about 80 percent of its usual speed by the end of Friday</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Name game stokes U.S.-Iranian tensions</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/24/us.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/24/us.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The back-and-forth between Iran and the United States over an encounter between their naval forces intensified this week when Tehran rejected a message from Washington because it did not use the term "Persian Gulf," Iran's news agency said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:17:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush brings arms deal with Saudi visit</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/14/bush.mideast/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/14/bush.mideast/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Bush administration said Monday it notified Congress of plans to sell $20 billion in sophisticated arms to Saudi Arabia. The deal includes the proposed sale of 900 "joint direct attack munitions" worth close to $120 million, said U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.  </description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:05:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush: Iran threatening world peace</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/09/iran.boats/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/09/iran.boats/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iran has denounced video and audio recordings released by the United States of the two nations' confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz as "fabricated," according to statements carried by state-run television station.</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:21:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iranian boats 'harass' U.S. Navy, officials say</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/07/iran.us.navy/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/07/iran.us.navy/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Five Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats "harassed and provoked" three U.S. Navy ships early Sunday in international waters, the U.S. military said Monday, calling the encounter a "significant" confrontation.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:03:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. F/A-18 fighter jets crash in Persian Gulf </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/07/us.warplanes.crash/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/07/us.warplanes.crash/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Two U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets -- flying off the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman -- crashed Monday night in the Persian Gulf, U.S. Navy officials said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:14:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iranian Boats Harass Navy Ships</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1700826,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1700826,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats harassed and provoked three U.S. Navy ships in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, officials said Monday</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:25:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran's Revolutionary Guards patrol Persian Gulf, U.S. says</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/29/iran.navy/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/29/iran.navy/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has taken command of Iranian naval operations in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. military has revealed.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:46:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>A meeting of two business worlds</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/BUSINESS/09/26/gulf.show/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/BUSINESS/09/26/gulf.show/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>While U.S. and European markets try to gauge the bottom of the sub-prime lending crisis, government-controlled funds in the Persian Gulf have been on a spending spree, investing billions of dollars in companies around the world.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Official: $20 billion arms sale to Saudis in the works</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/28/saudi.arms/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/28/saudi.arms/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The United States is developing a proposed $20 billion, 10-year arms sales package for Saudi Arabia, a senior administration official confirmed on Saturday. </description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>US May Cut Navy in Persian Gulf</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1642018,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1642018,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>After a much-publicized military buildup in the Persian Gulf, the United States is now planning to have only one aircraft carrier in the region for part of this year</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Three Finns held in Iran released</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/06/iran.finns/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/06/iran.finns/index.html</guid><description>Three Finnish men, detained over the weekend by Tehran for allegedly straying into Irainian waters during a fishing trip in the Persian Gulf, have been released, a Finland foreign ministry official says.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Oil tumbles nearly $3</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/09/markets/oil/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/09/markets/oil/index.htm</guid><description>Oil prices plunged over 4 percent Monday, driven down by heavy fund selling and unwinding political tensions in the Persian Gulf.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>UK bans military from selling stories</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/09/iran.britain/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/09/iran.britain/index.html</guid><description>The British government has banned all military service members from talking to the media in return for payment following a storm of protests over interviews with the 15 marines and sailors who were held captive in Iran.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 06:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>UK sailors 'blindfolded, isolated'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/06/iran.sailors/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/06/iran.sailors/index.html</guid><description>The 15 British military personnel captured by Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf were subjected to "psychological pressure" and kept in isolation during their detention, the group's officers said on Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 08:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Persian Gulf hope may spur stocks</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/03/markets/stockswatch/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/03/markets/stockswatch/index.htm</guid><description>Indications of easing tensions between Iran and Britain - bringing oil prices lower - could be a positive factor for U.S. stocks when markets open Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Behind high oil and gas prices</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/30/news/international/pluggedin_schwartz_iran.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/30/news/international/pluggedin_schwartz_iran.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>All this week, the big factor behind rising oil prices has been the standoff between Britain and Iran over the fate of 15 British sailors seized by Iran in the Persian Gulf on March 23. But the steadily heightening tensions - British Prime minister Tony Blair now intends to take the matter to the UN Security Council - has camouflaged another factor likely to make this another long hot summer for American drivers even if the crisis is resolved and the sailors are eventually released.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>UK: 15 'ambushed' in Iraqi waters</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/28/iran.uk.0840/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/28/iran.uk.0840/index.html</guid><description>Satellite tracking data shows that a group of 15 British military personnel captured by Iran last Friday never strayed outside Iraqi waters, according to Britain's Ministry of Defence.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. admiral questions Iran's motives</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/20/iran.us/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/20/iran.us/index.html</guid><description>The White House on Tuesday emphasized diplomacy over potential military action against Iran -- just a day after a top naval commander questioned the intentions behind Iran's recent exercises in the Persian Gulf.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:15:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Officials: Iranian patrol boats probe Iraqi waters</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/19/iran.iraq/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/19/iran.iraq/index.html</guid><description>Iranian patrol boats have increased attempts in the last week to assess defenses near Iraqi offshore oil terminals, U.S. military officials said Monday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:03:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The insider's guide: Iran's nuclear tourism</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/09/insider.irantourism/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/09/insider.irantourism/index.html</guid><description>Iran has announced it will allow foreign tourists to visit its nuclear facilities -- a novel approach to calming the world's fears about its nuclear program. What could you expect from a visit, and should you take the kids or the Geiger counter?</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deadly boat accident: Two missing</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/04/01/bahrain.accident/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/04/01/bahrain.accident/index.html</guid><description>Two people were missing two days after a cruise ship carrying 126 people capsized in the Persian Gulf off Bahrain during a party, killing 57, a spokesman for the Ministry of Interior said Saturday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2006 12:34:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>At least 57 die in Bahrain boat accident</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/03/31/bahrain.accident/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/03/31/bahrain.accident/index.html</guid><description>At least 57 bodies have been recovered by Friday in the Persian Gulf off Bahrain after a cruise boat carrying 137 people capsized the night before.</description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:33:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Video of three Iraq hostages aired</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/03/07/iraq.hostages.ap/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/03/07/iraq.hostages.ap/index.html</guid><description>Al-Jazeera television has broadcast a 25-second, silent videotape showing three of four hostage Christian Peacemaker activists, and said that the men asked their governments and countries in the Persian Gulf to work for their release.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:02:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Lawmakers vow overhauls in response to ports deal</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/05/port.security/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/05/port.security/index.html</guid><description>Two U.S. lawmakers called Sunday for overhauling the rules by which the United States approves foreign management of facilities involved in national security.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2006 22:51:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>White House lists 10 foiled attacks </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/02/09/whitehouse.plots/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/02/09/whitehouse.plots/index.html</guid><description>President Bush said Thursday that the U.S.-led global war on terror had "weakened" al Qaeda and cited as proof international efforts that he said had thwarted a terrorist plot to attack Los Angeles.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2006 16:27:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Hotel Sheikh</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/08/01/8269676/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/08/01/8269676/index.htm</guid><description>Pity the ignorant executive who boards a plane for the United Arab Emirates bragging about his Ritz-Carlton reservations. Because even before landing, he'll spot the best business hotel in the Midd...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2005 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Persian Gulf pilots' dangerous mission</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/05/05/pilots.mission/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/05/05/pilots.mission/index.html</guid><description>The Defense Department has released the names of the two U.S. Marine pilots who died when their F/A-18 jet fighters apparently collided over Iraq. The pilots are Maj. John C. Spahr, 42 years old, from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and Capt. Kelly C. Hinz, 30 years old, from Woodbury, Minnesota.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2005 21:26:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A viewer's guide to the St. Louis debate</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/08/debate.tips/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/08/debate.tips/index.html</guid><description>Do address audience questions clearly, don't slouch and absolutely no smirking. What are the key "dos and don'ts" for President Bush and Sen. John Kerry in Friday's town hall-style presidential debate?</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2004 17:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>How America can free itself of oil--profitably</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/10/04/8186772/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/10/04/8186772/index.htm</guid><description>ENOUGH ABOUT THE OIL problem; now there's an oil solution. Within the next few decades the U.S. can end its oil dependence. </description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2004 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Australians to train Iraqi army</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/02/22/sprj.irq.australia.troops/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/02/22/sprj.irq.australia.troops/index.html</guid><description>Australia will send additional troops to Iraq to help train the nation's armed forces.</description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2004 00:24:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>CIA: Bin Laden tape likely authentic, recent</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/01/05/binladen.tape/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/01/05/binladen.tape/index.html</guid><description>A new audiotape broadcast on the Arabic-language television network Al-Jazeera likely featured the voice of Osama bin Laden and was recorded recently, a CIA spokesman said Monday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2004 07:05:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Purported bin Laden tape aired</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/01/04/binladen.tape/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/01/04/binladen.tape/index.html</guid><description>The Arabic-language TV network Al-Jazeera aired an audiotape Sunday in which a man purporting to be al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden referred to recent events, including the December 13 capture of Saddam Hussein.</description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2004 21:27:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>More drugs seized in Gulf - U.S.</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/01/02/drug.seizure/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/01/02/drug.seizure/index.html</guid><description>U.S. forces say they have confiscated nearly 3,000 pounds of hashish and detained 15 people in the northern Persian Gulf.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2004 18:57:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fantasy Island</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/11/10/352864/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/11/10/352864/index.htm</guid><description>There's no such thing as too much waterfront property, especially in Dubai. As part of the tiny state's drive to become a tourist hot spot, the government is working with a private developer to bui...</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2003 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The New World Of Oil All eyes are on Iraq, but new             sources of crude worldwide are reshaping the industry, says      </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2003/05/01/341272/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2003/05/01/341272/index.htm</guid><description>This past year it wasn't just the stock market taking us for a wild ride. As we moved closer to war with Iraq, oil prices jumped from $20 to nearly $40 a barrel. By late March they'd fallen to abou...</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2003 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rebuilding the oilfields Putting out the fires will be easy. Repairing the wells won't be.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/04/14/340900/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/04/14/340900/index.htm</guid><description>However long the battle for Baghdad lasts, one thing is clear: Reviving Iraq's oil industry will take months. U.S. contractors say the country has the most decrepit energy infrastructure they've ev...</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2003 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pyramid Schemes War? What war? Susan Hack checks out the Middle East's massive investment in tourism.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/04/16/301054/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/04/16/301054/index.htm</guid><description>It's 110 degrees in the shade, but you'd never know it inside the air-conditioned Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph whisking you from Dubai's new $550 million airport to the Burj Al Arab Hotel. Shaped like...</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2001 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>WHY THE ELECTRIC CAR IS RUNNING OUT OF ENERGY</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/11/13/207686/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/11/13/207686/index.htm</guid><description>Remember cold fusion, Corfam, and Tang? Well, electric vehicles (EVs) seem destined to join them on the trash heap of history: once-heralded technological breakthroughs whose time never came. </description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 1995 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Sir John's fab farewell picks </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1994/05/01/88817/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1994/05/01/88817/index.htm</guid><description>Mark Holowesko's famed mentor, Sir John Templeton, had already retired from day-to-day fund management when Templeton was interviewed for this column just before the outbreak of the Persian Gulf wa...</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 May 1994 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>THE GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/03/22/77670/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/03/22/77670/index.htm</guid><description>Here's a case where money does grow on trees. The sleepy lumber market -- as in sawing logs -- is looking like gold, circa 1980. Lumber futures prices recently rose to their preset limits -- up $5,...</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 1993 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>STAYING STRONG WITHOUT BREAKING THE BANK</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/02/08/77436/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/02/08/77436/index.htm</guid><description>Having won the peace, will U.S. policymakers now overreact and slash defense spending too deeply? Short answer: no. True, the five-year budget plan favored by Les Aspin, Bill Clinton's choice for D...</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 1993 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>PRODUCTS OF THE YEAR</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/12/02/75822/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/12/02/75822/index.htm</guid><description>One of the biggest events of 1991 -- the Persian Gulf war -- doesn't exactly qualify for our 11th annual roundup of hot happenings. But a related product does. The Gulf war dropped smart bombs onto...</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 1991 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>AMERICANS ARE DEMANDING A HEALTH-CARE CURE </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/08/01/86746/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/08/01/86746/index.htm</guid><description>Thank you for your May Editor's Notes about America's need for better health insurance. Our lack of a national program for meeting health-care costs for all our citizens is a true disgrace. I heard...</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 1991 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>six who dared and won</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/05/15/86581/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/05/15/86581/index.htm</guid><description>When God made entrepreneurs, He kept breaking the mold. That's why the ''I can do it better'' spirit shines through America's nearly 20 million small companies in so many varied and wonderful ways....</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 1991 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>TRADING UP With ''Desert Storm'' cards setting the pace, non-sport collectibles are joining baseball in the big leagues.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/05/01/86513/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/05/01/86513/index.htm</guid><description>Everybody knows the Persian Gulf war was good for stocks: the Dow Jones industrials are up 16.1% since Jan. 16. But the best wartime investment, up more than 7,000% in the past three months, isn't ...</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 1991 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>HOMEOWNERS LIKE YOU TURN HOPEFUL</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/05/01/86522/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/05/01/86522/index.htm</guid><description>Good-bye, subterranean homesick blues. A nationwide poll of 300 MONEY subscribers conducted by the Gallup Organization in March shows that people have become far more upbeat about the path of home ...</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 1991 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>OUR CONSUMER COMFORT POLL</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/05/01/86536/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/05/01/86536/index.htm</guid><description>APRIL -31 MARCH -39 YEAR AGO -13 </description><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 1991 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The case for stereotyping, Domesticrats uncork one, monopoly in the cockpit, and other matters. GENDER WOBBLES</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/04/22/74895/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/04/22/74895/index.htm</guid><description>American forces have prevailed in the Persian Gulf, and the question here in New York City is whether to have a victory celebration. Some say that penurious Gotham cannot afford one, but Mayor Davi...</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 1991 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>NOW HEAR THIS </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/03/25/74825/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/03/25/74825/index.htm</guid><description>-- YUTAKA OKUMURA, 65, president of Furukawa, a Japanese maker of construction machinery, on Saddam Hussein's decision to spill oil into the Persian Gulf: ''His strategies are beyond conventional c...</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 1991 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>THE PENALTY TO THE ENVIRONMENT </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/03/25/74815/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/03/25/74815/index.htm</guid><description>The burning of so many oil wells at once is a unique event, and it may be years before the full extent of the damage is known. Such fires put out hydrocarbons similar to auto exhaust, soot, and tox...</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 1991 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>LET'S ROLL UP THE YELLOW RIBBONS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/03/25/74835/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/03/25/74835/index.htm</guid><description>With bunting, flags, and barking dogs, the Matthews family of Pembroke, Massachusetts, will soon welcome son Scott back from the Persian Gulf. A truck driver with the Army's Seventh Corps, Scott wo...</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 1991 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>INCOME TAX RELIEF FOR OUR TROOPS IN THE DANGER ZONE</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/03/01/86433/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/03/01/86433/index.htm</guid><description>Five days after the Persian Gulf war began on Jan. 16, President Bush officially declared the Arabian peninsula and its surrounding waters a combat zone. The formal pronouncement triggered a number...</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 1991 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>WHAT COMES NEXT War taught the U.S. some things: High-tech weapons can work and a volunteer force can fight. Now, the first stop</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/02/11/74660/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/02/11/74660/index.htm</guid><description>THE QUESTIONS shot out of the Middle East as fast as automatic weapons fire. Will the Iraq war stabilize the Middle East or leave it more dangerous than ever? How will it affect the global economy,...</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 1991 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>DON'T LET HORROR HEADLINES SPOOK YOU INTO MISTAKES</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/01/01/86335/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/01/01/86335/index.htm</guid><description>If the daily reports of economic mayhem have you feeling panicky, you're not alone. According to MONEY's Consumer Comfort index (left) and other surveys, Americans are extremely gloomy about the ec...</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 1991 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>WOOD STOVES HEAT UP AGAIN</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/12/03/74427/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/12/03/74427/index.htm</guid><description>Thanks to the crisis in the Persian Gulf, the wood-burning stove is making a comeback. Homeowners scared by the high cost of fuel oil have been rushing to buy before winter sets in. The wood stove ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 1990 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>FORTUNE Magazine contents page DECEMBER 3, 1990 VOL. 122, NO. 14 </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/12/03/74438/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/12/03/74438/index.htm</guid><description>SELLING/Cover Stories 38 HOW TO DEAL WITH TOUGHER CUSTOMERS Today's consumers can drive a marketer nuts. They insist on quality. They pore over labels. Surprise! Satisfying them can be very good fo...</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 1990 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>IT'S TIME TO BE CAUTIOUS WITH BONDS AS INTEREST RATES             BOB, STAY WITH QUALITY AND MEDIUM MATURITIES.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/10/29/74275/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/10/29/74275/index.htm</guid><description>BONDS HAVE FARED better than stocks this year, but that isn't saying much. Total return has generally amounted to only a few percentage points, while prices have behaved like a yo-yo. Early in the ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 1990 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>WHY THE DOW IS HEADING TO 3100 -- OOPS, 2100 -- SOON</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1990/10/01/86112/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1990/10/01/86112/index.htm</guid><description>Shareholders lost a lot of confidence as well as money in the August stock market rout triggered by Iraq's takeover of Kuwait. Saddam Hussein's tanks crushed such investment canons as the oil glut,...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 1990 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>TOUR TACTICS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1990/10/01/86113/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1990/10/01/86113/index.htm</guid><description>After Iraq invaded Kuwait last August, my September tour in nearby Turkey looked like a total loss -- $2,100. The Turkish tour operator claimed it was safe to travel. I wasn't so sure. Yet I manage...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 1990 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>SEEKING SHELTER IN AN OIL-SHOCKED MARKET</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1990/10/01/86141/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1990/10/01/86141/index.htm</guid><description>For many mutual fund investors, August's financial tempest was uncomfortably reminiscent of the even stormier month of October 1987. While this year's version lacked the climactic one-day panic of ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 1990 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>MONEY Magazine contents page Volume 19 Number 10 </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1990/10/01/86163/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1990/10/01/86163/index.htm</guid><description>FEATURES 74 SMART MOVES FOR TOUGHER TIMES by Teresa Tritch and Marguerite T. Smith Saddam Hussein's tanks may have triggered what past oil busts and stock market meltdowns couldn't -- a U.S. recess...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 1990 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>WHAT TO DO IF WAR BREAKS OUT OVER THERE</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1990/10/01/86128/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1990/10/01/86128/index.htm</guid><description>The majority view among economists -- that any near-term U.S. recession will be a mild one -- hinges on the assumption that events in the Gulf crisis will stop short of outright fighting. Any nonvi...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 1990 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>NOW HEAR THIS </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/09/24/74110/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/09/24/74110/index.htm</guid><description>-- PATRICK LEAHY, 50, Democratic Senator from Vermont, in advocating a ''war tax'' to finance U.S. operations in the Persian Gulf: ''This would demonstrate to the world that we are in there for the...</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 1990 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>DEFENDING SAUDI ARABIA'S OIL FIELDS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/09/24/74120/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/09/24/74120/index.htm</guid><description>Since Saudi Arabia will increase its oil production to eight million barrels a day this month to make up for the lost flow from Iraq and Kuwait, the question is whether it can deliver if the bullet...</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 1990 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR OIL There's no longer any doubt that the Middle East cannot be relied on for petroleum. The world w</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/09/10/73997/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/09/10/73997/index.htm</guid><description>THE CONFRONTATION in the Persian Gulf conjures a host of horrible prospects: Shuttered factories. Gasoline lines. Blood in the sand. It might not come to that, of course. Iraq could yet withdraw fr...</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 1990 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>SCORECARDS ON THE OIL GIANTS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/09/10/73995/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/09/10/73995/index.htm</guid><description>The U.S.-led embargo of Iraq and Kuwait, which together produced 20% of OPEC's crude exports last year, will jolt some of the world's leading oil companies and enrich others. Starting on this page ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 1990 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>No flag, no convoy</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/12/07/69961/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/12/07/69961/index.htm</guid><description>-- While the U.S. Navy is providing escorts for Kuwaiti oil tankers plying the Persian Gulf, it is doing nothing to protect American-owned carriers. That's because most ships do not fly U.S. flags ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 1987 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Investments: A funny thing happened on the way to 3000</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1987/12/01/84229/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1987/12/01/84229/index.htm</guid><description>The October 1987 meltdown will be long remembered on Wall Street. Higher interest rates, combined with uncertainties about inflation, the dollar, trade and budget deficits, and the explosive Persia...</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 1987 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>STILL BULLISH AT THE TOP Though eager for Washington to ''do something'' about deficits, chief executives continue to expect hig</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/11/23/69879/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/11/23/69879/index.htm</guid><description>DESPITE the market plunge, chief executives interviewed for the FORTUNE 500 CEO poll, the second in a series, are mostly upbeat. They expect no recession next year, think company profits will excee...</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 1987 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>A FLATTOP IS BORN AGAIN By ripping apart and rebuilding the old supercarrier Independence, the Navy hopes to double its life and</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/09/14/69530/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/09/14/69530/index.htm</guid><description>ANYONE who has had a car rebuilt can relate to the U.S. Navy's overhaul program for aircraft carriers at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. 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But unbridled gaiety did not last through the next night's thoroughbred auction. The 64 year...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 1986 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>