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Michele Dunne and Amy Hawthorne on US Policy in Middle East (NPR)
Hariri Center Director Michele Dunne and Senior Fellow Amy Hawthorne reflect on US policy toward the Middle East and North Africa in the two years since President Barack Obama promised to make it a top priority to support democracy and human rights in the region.
J. Peter Pham Speaks on Sahel Politics and Security in The Hague
J. Peter Pham, director the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, was one of four experts invited to address a high-level international conference on the crisis in the Sahel region convened today in The Hague.
Rudolph Atallah Testifies before House Panel on Crisis in the Sahel
Rudolph Atallah, senior fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, testified at a House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing on “The Growing Crisis in Africa’s Sahel Region.”
Mihaela Carstei on the US-Canada Keystone Pipeline Project (CTV)
On the heels of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s visit to the United States, Energy & Environment Program Associate Director Mihaela Carstei joins CTV to discuss the Keystone Pipeline project that would transport tar sands oil from Canada and the northern United States to refineries in the Gulf coast of Texas.
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U.S. Stocks Record Worst Ever Weekly Loss
Peter Cassata | October 11, 2008The Financial Times reported late Friday that the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 18.2 percent this week, marking the worst weekly loss in U.S. history. The FTSE 100 in the UK fell 21 percent this week to its lowest point since May 2003. Weekly losses also reached 22 percent for the FTSE Eurofirst 300 and 24.3 percent for Japan's Nikkei 225.
U.S. oil prices posted a record daily drop of $8.89 on Friday, closing at $77.70 a barrel. Oil prices sank 17 percent this week, and Friday was the first time in over a year that they have dipped below $80 a barrel.
Stocks fell 9.2 percent during the week of the Great Crash in 1929, with the Dow losing 23.6 percent at its lowest point that week.
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