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Flowers and soft toys on the ground at the main crash site of the Boeing 777 Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which crashed over the eastern Ukraine region, near Grabovo, some 100 km east of Donetsk, Ukraine, 20 July 2014. (EPA/IGOR KOVALENKO)

Ukraine workers find more bodies at crash site

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 21, 2014 | World

Hrabove, Ukraine, AP—Rescuers retrieved more bodies on Monday in the sprawling fields of east Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed, killing all 298 people aboard. The chaotic rescue effort, which was marred by an outage in the refrigerated train that...

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File photo showing an aerial view of Casablanca, Morocco, with the King Hassan II Mosque at the forefront. (Reuters)

Morocco real estate group to issue Kingdom’s first mortgage bond

by Lahssen Moqana | Jul 21, 2014 | Business

Casablanca, Asharq Al-Awsat—Morocco’s Addoha Property Group is planning to issue bonds worth 2 billion Moroccan dirhams (244 million US dollars) this week, in a bid to restructure existing debt. Issued between July 23–25 the new restructured debt will be secured...

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Bahraini Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Bin Abdullah Bin Hamad Al Khalifa attends the consultative meeting of interior ministers from the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), in the Bahraini capital Manama on April 23, 2013. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Al-Shaikh)

Debate: The Gulf states will find it hard to join the Iranian nuclear talks

by Dr. Antoine Safer | Jul 21, 2014 | Debate

Negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany) have been marked by years of wrangling, give-and-take, and mutual accusations of indirect subterfuge. Iran’s nuclear program will likely remain a point of...

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks with Kuwaiti officials during the second joint high committee meeting between Kuwait and Iran at the Foreign Ministry in Kuwait City, Kuwait, on December 1, 2013. (AFP Photo)

Debate: The Gulf states could participate in the Iranian nuclear talks

by Dr. Zuhair Al-Harthi | Jul 21, 2014 | Debate

Historically, conflicts between the Safavids and the Ottomans—the peak of which was seen in Basra—have created a sea of distrust and suspicion between the two sides that has only deepened over the centuries, easing at times and flaring up at others. Today, the two...

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File photo of Arabic-language newspapers taken on July 26, 2009.
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Mark Gregory Hambley: Coverage of the Arab–Israeli conflict is biased on both sides

by Mohammed Al-Shafey | Jul 21, 2014 | Media

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Thanks to the presence of a number of pan-Arab newspapers and media outlets (including Asharq Al-Awsat) in London, for the last decade the US Embassy in the city has played host to one of the State Department’s Regional Media Hubs which aims to...