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placeholderId = "content_frame_placeholder"; (function () { try { // [RD] a hack to fix NDPress software on IE if (pdcore.isIE) { fixViewForIE(); } if (!frame) frame = pdcore.getElm(frameId); if (frame) { if (!div) div = pdcore.getElm(placeholderId); if (div) { var xy = pdcore.getGlobalXY(div); if (xy[0] != x) { x = xy[0]; pdcore.setX(frame, x); } if (xy[1] != y) { y = xy[1]; pdcore.setY(frame, y); } if (xy[0] === 0 && xy[1] === 0) { pdcore.setX(frame, 0); pdcore.setY(frame, 0); } var size = pdcore.getSize(div); if (size[0] != w || size[1] != h) { w = size[0]; h = size[1]; pdcore.setSize(frame, w, h); pdcore.setFrameSize(frameId, w, h); } } } }catch(e){} setTimeout(arguments.callee, 500); })(); var consentTypes = { cookies: "Cookies", emails: "PromoEmail", termsOfUse: "TermsOfUse" }; var handlerUrl = "Services/CookieWarningHandler.ashx"; pdcore.cookies = Cookies(consentTypes, handlerUrl); pdcore.cookies.init(); })(); </script> <div id="endlayer" style="display: none;"></div> <div id="PDStorage" style="behavior: url(/web/20191111155332im_/http://gulfnews.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx#default#userData); position: absolute; left: -1000px;"></div> <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20191111155332js_/http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> // this fixes an issue with the old method, ambiguous values // with this test document.cookie.indexOf( name + "=" ); function Get_Cookie( check_name ) { // first we'll split this cookie up into name/value pairs // note: document.cookie only returns name=value, not the other components var a_all_cookies = document.cookie.split( ';' ); var a_temp_cookie = ''; var cookie_name = ''; var cookie_value = ''; var b_cookie_found = false; // set boolean t/f default f for ( i = 0; i < a_all_cookies.length; i++ ) { // now we'll split apart each name=value pair a_temp_cookie = a_all_cookies[i].split( '=' ); // and trim left/right whitespace while we're at it cookie_name = a_temp_cookie[0].replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, ''); // if the extracted name matches passed check_name if ( cookie_name == check_name ) { b_cookie_found = true; // we need to handle case where cookie has no value but exists (no = sign, that is): if ( a_temp_cookie.length > 1 ) { cookie_value = unescape( a_temp_cookie[1].replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '') ); } // note that in cases where cookie is initialized but no value, null is returned return cookie_value; break; } a_temp_cookie = null; cookie_name = ''; } if ( !b_cookie_found ) { return null; } } var _acnt = Get_Cookie("_acnt"); if (!_acnt || _acnt == "") _acnt = '0'; var _gaPageTracker=null; var _gaPageTrackers=null; var _gaTrackDefault = true; var _gaTrackPending=[]; function PDUrchinTrackerIsLoaded(){ if(!_gaPageTracker){ if(typeof(_gat)!="undefined"){ try{ _gaPageTracker= _gat._createTracker("UA-2284411-19"); _gaPageTracker._setDomainName("gulfnews.newspaperdirect.com"); _gaPageTracker._setAllowLinker(true); 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