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Although often compared to Las Vegas, Orlando, Hong Kong or Singapore, the sheikhdom is more like their collective summation: a pastiche of the big, the bad, and the ugly.

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The president responded by recalling Yemen's ambassador to Qatar and went on to accuse the oil-rich sheikhdom and its state-funded news channel, Al-Jazeera, of "funding chaos in Yemen, Egypt, Syria and throughout the Arab world."

Yemen's Crisis Mounts Amid Protests, Killings Tom Finn 2011

The tiny sheikhdom was one of the rebels' most robust backers throughout the conflict, providing aid, weapons and advanced communications gear, among other support, for the six-month rebel effort to oust Mr. Gadhafi.

Minister in Tripoli Blasts Qatari Aid to Militia Groups Charles Levinson 2011

Last year the United Arab Emirates awarded a South Korean-led consortium a $20.4 billion contract to build four nuclear reactors in the sheikhdom.

Shaw, Toshiba, Exelon Join to Pursue Saudi Nuclear Deals 2010

Dubai, the second-largest sheikhdom in the seven member federation of the United Arab Emirates, had forecast its first-ever deficit for its 2009 budget at 1.3% of its 2007 GDP.

Dubai Plans to Cut Spending by 15% Summer Said 2010

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her Iranian counterpart, Manouchehr Mottaki, gave competing speeches at a regional security conference in the Persian Gulf sheikhdom of Bahrain on Friday.

Iran Touts Nuclear Advance Ahead of U.S. Talks Jay Solomon 2010

Dubai, the second-largest sheikhdom in the seven member federation of the United Arab Emirates, had forecast its first-ever deficit for its 2009 budget at 1.3% of its 2007 GDP.

Dubai Plans to Cut Spending by 15% Summer Said 2010

Shahzad, a recently naturalized U.S. citizen living in Connecticut, was taken off an airliner bound for the Persian Gulf sheikhdom of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates about 53 hours after the attempted bombing, authorities said.

Times Square bomb suspect Shahzad said to implicate himself; probe expands to Pakistan 2010

The United Arab Emirates bans the import of pork products as a precautionary measure and several supermarkets in the sheikhdom yank them off the shelves.

Jamal Dajani: The New Terror in the Middle East: Swine 2009

And the sheikhdom still hasn't worked out how to reduce its $80 billion debt pile beyond going cap in hand to its oil-rich cousins in Abu Dhabi or international banks, which remain reluctant to lend.

Gulf Remains Between Dubai and Its Neighbors 2009