South Africa urgently needs more skilled workers, perhaps as many as 500, 000, says Iraj Abedian, chief economist with Standard Bank.
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Iraj Hassanzadeh, the deputy governor of Iran's Kurdistan province, told Fars the three were arrested in the western Iranian city of Marivan.
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Iraj Ershaghi, director of petroleum engineering at the University of Southern California, says only about a third of Los Angeles' available oil has been recovered.