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[caption id="attachment_55244690" align="alignnone" width="620"] Gazprom security men stand guard in front of a drilling platform at an oilfield near the Iraqi city of Badra, south of Baghdad, on…

[caption id="attachment_55244622" align="alignnone" width="594"] Apartment blocks line the edge of a field in the fertile Egyptian Delta region of Al-Menofeya. (Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images)[…

[caption id="attachment_55244083" align="alignnone" width="620"] View of Qatar Petroleum (QP), a state-owned corporation established in 1974 and responsible for all phases of the oil and gas industry…

[caption id="attachment_55243466" align="alignnone" width="620"] A Lebanese bank employee counts money at a bank in Beirut on July 21, 2009. JOSEPH BARRAK/AFP/Getty Images[/caption] Bankers are not…

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[caption id="attachment_55243065" align="alignnone" width="620"] cars on the bridge, connecting the northern and the southern parts of Tunis, in La Goulette near Tunis. FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images[…

[caption id="attachment_55243022" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (C) waves alongside Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs Elias Jaua (C-R) outside of the…

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