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US denies Mitchell offered resignation, but admits frustration

February 27, 2010
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US denies Mitchell offered resignation, but admits frustration

A US State Department official has denied as “rumours” media reports that Special US Mideast envoy George Mitchell had offered his resignation. “There appears to be a monthly rumour, story that George Mitchell is resigning. He is not, and he is on the job,” Philip J. Crowley, Assistant Secretary, said at the Daily Press...
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Police free Chinese men in Bahrain’s first hostage rescue operation

February 27, 2010
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Police on Saturday morning conducted the first ever hostage rescue operation in Bahrain’s modern history and successfully freed nine Chinese supervisors held by angry labourers at a resort construction site in the coastal village of Zallaq, 40 kilometres south of Manama. The operation followed an all night long siege of the site where the...
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Born August 3, 1960 in Monastir, Tunisia
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Media career:
  • ABC News (Tunisia)
  • Bahrain Tribune
  • Gulf News
  • Bahrain Television News
Teaching career:
  • Monastir (Tunisia)
  • University of Bahrain
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  • MA  Mass Communications, University of Leicester
  • BA  in English & US literature and studies, University of Tunis

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