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UAE possesses specific advantages from an academic standpoint. It hosts branch campuses of several dozen top universities: New York University, for example, has its Abu Dhabi campus as a full-service liberal-arts university. France's Sorbonne University has a branch in Abu Dhabi. Britain's Heriot-Watt, University of Birmingham, Middlesex, and other Western universities have similarly invested heavily in UAE campuses.
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India remains world’s fastest-growing major economy; Bangladesh to grow at 7.2 per cent; Sri Lanka’s economy will shrink
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Four kidnapped Indian-origin Sikh family members were killed in gruesome crime in US
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Connecticut General Assembly honors India on its 75th anniversary
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Pakistan, US launch health dialogue to boost cooperation
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