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Bahrain, home to the 5th Fleet, gets $10 billion Arab bailout
Bahrain, though the first Arab nation in the Persian Gulf to strike oil, had faced the specter of defaulting on a $750 million Islamic bond repayment due on Nov. 22.
By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press